DOOMGUY CANT JUMP: How Simplicity Leads to Strategy

TINNITUS WARNING AT 6:00 MINUTES IN

For such a simple game from the early 90s, Doom 2 (and Doom 1 to an extent) has incredibly deep strategy and gameplay. In this video, I talk about what makes Doom 2 so deep and I mainly focus on examples from community made maps.
If you like difficult games and found what I said interesting, I heavily implore you to check out custom Doom content. Even if you don’t like hard maps, there’s still plenty of WADs made for every skill level.

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Special thanks to Speedrunner and Mapper rd. Since I’m not a very good Doom player, nor have I played that many WADs, she helped me out on finding examples (Sunlust Map 19, Haste Map 06, Fractured Worlds 32).

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:37 Dodging
8:33 Monster Herding
12:15 Weapons
21:32 Enemies

WADs shown in this video:
Doom, Doom 2, Ancient Aliens, Sunlust, Preacher, Eviternity, Haste, Rush, Going Down, Stardate 20X6, SIGIL, Fractured Worlds, Valiant, Heartland, Embers of Armageddon
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Copper Mod: http://lunaran.com/copper/changes/
Nirvana Clip:    • An Evening with Nirvana [Episode 2 - ...  
Music:
Ancient Aliens: Garden of Lost Souls, Doom 2: Into Sandy’s City, jmickle: Take these pills and be who you are, Mark Klem: Midnight Call, Doom Eternal: The Only Thing They Fear Is You, The Secret of Evermore: The Hall of Collosia, Streets of Rage 2: Max Man, Doom 2: Between Levels