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DOOM.
The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.
Serious Sam.
The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that's why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.
I got back into doom in the last few years and there's a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn't even feel like doom because everything has been changed.
If anyone's looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacowards
My_House.wad has been making the rounds on YouTube semi-recently as an example of the sort of fuckery that has been made possible by the progression of doom modding.
If you're not familiar with it, do yourself a favor and go in blind for an hour or so and then only look up a video when you're stuck.
Look, if you are into it, play My House.
If you dont have days to spend, well I follwed a walkthrough. I'd have never figured any of that shit out.
Fantastic mod.
I've played a bit but haven't had enough time to really get into it. Did you see Romero playing it when it first blew up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIl_TqFJNO8
I just checked for the vid I saw and looks like he's got another one playing it from a couple months ago as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3dUZbJT5k