Why has Doom remained so relevant +30 years in?

[Retro Doomer]

Well I may be a old timer at this point..

but I think Doom age rather well I can still play it and it still darn fun to do so.

Also to consider:
The Music slams and in the Ps1 Version the Ambience is just superb
Also the Level design was mostly good with the hidden areas in it making it worth exploring them.
And the weapon variety was quite good and its also simply put Iconic.

 

[Ikagura]

I don't wanna be a party pooper but there's also a Doom thread out there

DOOM THREAD

Some hot Doom modder drama this morning https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/many-developers-leave-gzdoom-due-to-leader-conflicts-and-fork-it-into-uzdoom/ tl;dr: Developer comes back to GZDoom after a hiatus, pushes a bunch of LLM-generated code without approval, told everyone to spin-off the...

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I don't mind seeing more than one Doom themed thread though.