>>3923156
The people I am referring to are my friends. Good people (they don't insult me, but they do dislike Thief, so our opinions do clash a lot), but their tastes tend to veer towards the early 90s, while I like Thief. I keep getting convinced to give Doom another try, it has been an on and off thing. Eventually I just find I dislike the game and go back to Thief, so I was hoping to find something that would convince me to stay based on my obsession for Thief.
I love Thief, regardless of my friend's opinions, where they criticize Thief. They have talked a lot about the limitations of Thief and how it must not be a great game because of all the mods for Doom, the latter showing its greatness by sustaining itself for 20 years. There are less mods for Thief than Doom, plus you cannot do half of what you can do in Thief that you could do in Doom.
I talk about how sprites bug me and hate the limitations of being unable to freelook, so I pretty much get lumped in as a new-school gamer. I try playing source ports, but then they break some older PWAD to the point I get frustrated. I also just find it monotonous to shoot a Baron over and over. Doom II took the limitations of looking up and down, then made then a lot more annoying. I tried Heretic, it took what I disliked from Doom and made it worse with enemies not being threatening but taking forever to die generally. Hexen and the respawning enemies meant I didn't find it fun at all. I try to be patient with the games, but fall into cynicism and end up disliking everything that isn't Thief. It gets to the point where, without Thief, I become a miserable person.
Where I am, most people look at Thief and dislike it due to its limited modding capabilities. They just find the game boring. I guess I just don't like being alone, so I keep trying to convince myself to retry games. You never hear about people who cannot genuinely get into Doom, so it becomes depressing when I can't force myself to like it.