DOOM

This is FPS Jesus. Not in the unfunny "ohuhoh doom is such a christian game cause they kill the demons" way, no like it's a genuine saint of a franchise that injected adrenaline into the veins of the FPS scene it practically invented and decided "every game is going to be so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fast and awesome now". Countless successes in the industry are owed to this franchise for its technology and incredible natural feel for action-based fun. It then repeated this glorious success in 2016, despite a complete public lack of confidence that Doom could ever be good again. It is better than good and better than ever. I played Doom II co-op with my big brother when I was maybe 6, and asked my dad to buy me DOOM(2016) when I was 8 years old because I saw Markiplier fighting the cool ass Cyberdemon. It has been the most important piece of media in my life ever since. I will never stop playing Doom games nor caring about any human works as much as I do this franchise. It is the ultimate in gloriously nuanced design, fun action gameplay, and kickass metal music, all running on the finest linear AAA game technology ever conceived. Doom is a progenitor to pretty much the entire FPS scene, but never actually managed to be surpassed by its countless children and grandchildren and grand grand grand whatever. I haven't even started on DOOM(2016) itself, which is the quintessential Doom experience of pulling up to Mars, being faced with a million million of the foulest creatures Adrian Carmack could conceive, and still being the biggest problem on the planet somehow. Gameplay's the most vicious and hateful digital work you'll ever touch in how it lets you dismember the demons from hell from the bible yes the actual ones from the bible like satan's goons cause that's the coolest premise ever. Music rocks more than a hundred concerts playing in the same room cause that would just be auditorily unpleasant but it's also really good. Play this ♥♥♥♥ it's like 4 bucks when it goes on sale cause id is the loveliest studio on earth.