I've been playing Doom Mods quite regularly recently and am really enjoying the new possibilities brought by source ports like GZDoom. I've started doing research streams where I give individual mods and Map Packs a quick try instead of giving them a full playthrough. That way, I can give them a try without the risk of mods interracting with each other and get a feel for them before attempting to get a bit more creative with them.

It's a nice casual way to give them a try and the results are easy to share thanks to stream highlights.

Watch Highlight: Doom Mod Research Night from TekAdvisor on www.twitch.tv

If the original Doom is too Oldschool for you; Zion brings several of Doom 2016's visual, musical and gameplay elements to the GZDoom engine. It's still in development, but it's already quite promising.

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Watch Highlight: Smooth Doom from TekAdvisor on www.twitch.tv

Doom's not exactly known for subtlety, but the animations can definitely be upgraded without altering the gameplay.

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Watch Highlight: Doom Neural Upscale from TekAdvisor on www.twitch.tv

And if Doom's low-resolution textures hinder your appreciation of this classic; an AI went through the process of upscaling the graphics. Plutonia Experiment might not have been the best iWAD to test it on, however.

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