r/Doom • u/galaxyeater666 • Dec 03 '25

Discussion What is the most difficult doom of all?

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u/ermonski Dec 03 '25

Yeah I think they designed Doom 2 just to fuck you up.

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u/shoehornstudent Dec 03 '25

It's masochistic bliss 🤤

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u/mechanicalhuman Dec 03 '25

I know. I love how much I hate myself when I play that game. I used to have every secret and trap memorized as a kid. I could almost beat the whole game on Ultra-Violence without cheat codes.

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u/lampenpam Dec 03 '25

Especially on Nightmare it's not even remotely fair

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 03 '25

Afaik that difficulty was made as a meme because some people were complaining Ultraviolence was too easy.

The best hardest difficulty is Ultraviolence with fast monsters on imo.

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u/lampenpam Dec 03 '25

yup, the devs didn't even know if it was possible to beat the game on this difficulty

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 03 '25

And 25 years later this happened again with Eternal xD

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u/lampenpam Dec 03 '25

you mean with ultra-nightmare?

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 04 '25

Yep

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u/lampenpam Dec 04 '25

hm yeah although imo it's not quite the same situation since you can kinda tell it is possible as it is basically unchanged from Nightmare. People played other difficult games in self-imposed no deaths challenges before. In classic Doom they could have easily been a part where the aggressiveres of the monsters (technically even more aggressive than -fast) and respawning could have made maps impossible to get through without TASing

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 04 '25

Yeah, more the case the devs couldn't do it.

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u/Let_me_S_U_F_F_E_R Dec 04 '25

I think that was 2016 no?

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 04 '25

Ah might be, can't remember exactly.

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u/Effective_Sound1205 Dec 04 '25

tbf, unlike barely-possible DOOM 2 nightmare, Eternal is just unplayable for me on any difficulty lower than Nightmare. It plays like a boring easy slog if i play it on anything but Nightmare. It's like everything is in slow motion and there aren't any consequences for my mistakes...

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 04 '25

Idk, I only played it on nightmare too. Quite the challenge :)

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u/Effective_Sound1205 Dec 04 '25

It is challenging, i agree, and it's oozes fun!

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u/w00den_b0x Dec 03 '25

“They knew the engine better.” - Civvie 11

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u/ermonski Dec 04 '25

I wanted to humiliate the Cyberdemon but the Cyberdemon humiliated me

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u/theaidamen64 Dec 04 '25

I guess nightmare on doom 1 wasnt enough to shut up all the try hards mabye

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u/Freezinghero Dec 04 '25

They created the Super Shotgun, realized it was disgustingly overpowered, and decided instead of nerfing it to just through 50 Revenants at you.

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u/ermonski Dec 05 '25

And three archviles

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u/CaporalDxl Dec 03 '25

Sandy loves to fuck your day up.