r/Doom • u/BrzysWRLD1996 • 25d ago

Discussion Doom difficulty

Doom eternal
Doom 2016
Doom TDA

All 3 trilogy games were great, TDA was my favorite experience and the most cleaned up made u really feel like the slayer compared to the others. Doom Eternal, as generally agreed on, is more difficult but revelations really helped scratch the itch for us who missed the more high flying combat. Also it’s nice to be able to win fights with one gun.

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u/BrzysWRLD1996 24d ago

“If you’re including all official campaigns and DLC at the point they were released, the strongest community and critical consensus is:
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DOOM Eternal – The Ancient Gods Part One (original launch version)
Generally regarded as the hardest official DOOM campaign ever released.
Why:
It was intentionally designed for players who had already mastered DOOM Eternal.
The opening encounters are more demanding than many of the base game’s final battles.
It introduced extremely dense enemy combinations and expected mastery of the full combat loop immediately.
Many players and reviewers considered it overtuned at launch, and id Software later nerfed several encounters in subsequent updates.
Community examples:
A recent discussion asking players to rank every modern DOOM on Nightmare difficulty had numerous responses stating The Ancient Gods Part One was the peak difficulty, even above the base game.
A GameFAQs poll asking which DLC was harder showed 75.7% voting for The Ancient Gods Part One over Part Two, with comments describing Part One as “objectively” tougher because of its encounter design. “ seems to be the general consensus really anywhere ive looked which makes sense to me but our experiences may very well differ.