Which engine for original Doom?

Quartz · 17 Mar 2021 at 19:39

I've been watching a few videos of playthroughs of Doom WADs and have a hankering to play again. I of course have the original Doom WAD files, but which is the current best engine?

I've been to https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Comparison_of_Doom_source_ports and it seems a little out of date. And I'm hoping someone has experience to share.

Quartz · 21 Apr 2021 at 09:07

I'm not really a fan of slaughter maps.

Quartz · 21 Apr 2021 at 13:37

arc@css said:
Same here, although I do occasionally play something halfway in between, nevertheless, that's some impressive skills there.

One of the things I really like about the original Doom is that good levels reward intelligent play. You can set the monsters fighting each other and while they're fighting you can pick up the key or goodies or whatnot. And then kill off the survivors. Take E3M8 - the spider mastermind level - on a pistol start. Sure there's sufficient ammo for you to kill everything on your own but it's far more elegant IMHO to nudge right, activating the spider then run left so the demons infight, and if you're very lucky the baron will kill the spider for you. Similarly E2M9 on a pistol start: activate the barons, run through the door, then run around activating the cacodemons, then run back so they infight the barons, then pick up the goodies and kill whatever is left. Elegant.

Quartz · 17 Apr 2022 at 23:22

something daft already!! said:
I just installed this one and did a couple of levels. Looks very nice but could not run in 4k. Had to lower to 1440p and it still looks nice.

I brought up the help screen and got stuck. I also couldn't bring up a command line or screen to load other wad files.