I recommend Zdoom or GZdoom because of their user friendliness, and because they come with all the bells and whistles that most newcomers expect. That's the most important part of the purchase, cause that's what you'll need if you want to play with a source port. Other than that, it's a pretty mixed bag of some good and many bad levels.Īll of the games that you can buy from Steam (except for The Master Levels) come with what's called an IWAD. Ty was a member of team TNT, and was arguably one of the most important figures in the evolution of the community. It's gained a lot of attention from the Doom community recently because of the recent passing of Ty Halderman, a community legend who pretty much single handedly maintained the /idgames database for the last 20+ years. Plutonia is infamous for being really really hard, almost too hard for most people to have even finished it back in the day.
Final Doom is a collection of two megawads (a megawad is a full set of 32 new levels for doom 2) called The Plutonia Experiment and TNT Evilution. Those people are objectively wrong, of course, but that's a conversation for a different time.
Doom II is Doom II - it's probably the most controversial amongst the official games because a lot of people don't like the level design. Yes, even TNT.Īs for the difference between each of the games - The Ultimate Doom is basically a 1995 re-release of Doom 1, packaged with a new fourth episode called "Thy Flesh Consumed". It's worth having all the IWADs though, just because they're worth playing through at least once, and there are great mapsets out there for each one of them. It's also got a much wider set of monsters than Doom, as well as the SSG.so most level designers generally target their WADs for Doom 2. That's pretty much because most level sets are made for it, as it's kinda the de-facto blueprint for a 32 map megawad. If you want to play most of the wads that are out there, you're gonna want Doom II. I have come from the Doom community to help you!