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| | | | | | || | | | |\/| |   Doom series play order
| |/ /\ \_/ /\ \_/ / |  | |   by TheOuterLinux
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Last updated: 2023/06/15

First of all, you may have already noticed, especially if you are a
Doom fan, that the list below is not all of the games; I am going to
only list games that can be played easily on a GNU/Linux computer
using an emulator or source-port and NOT using WINE or Proton.

The order in which you should play the Doom games and watch the movies 
to get the most out of the experience:

 1. Ultimate Doom, The
 2. Sigil
 3. Doom II: Hell on Earth
 4. Doom II: No Rest for the Living; you can grab the "nerve.wad" from 
        Doom 3: BFG Edition and play using 'GZDoom' or just play 
        normally using the 'dhewm3' source-port.
 5. Final Doom: Evilution
 6. Final Doom: Plutonia Experiment
 7. Perdition's Gate
 8. Doom 64; make sure to either complete or beat the Hectic level to
        unlock the "Lost Levels" (MAP34-39).
 9. Doom 3: BFG Edition
       1. Play the normal game
       2. Play the "Ressurection of Evil" expansion
       3. Play "The Lost Mission" expansion
       4. Play "Scarlet Rivensin: The Ruiner"
10. Watch the Doom (2005) movie
11. Watch "Doom: Annihilation" (2019)

If you play one of Doom 3's expansions, to which you should be playing
Doom 3 using 'dhwem3', and you get no audio, try playing in windowed-
mode rather than fullscreen.

"The Ultimate Doom" is listed rather than the original Doom because the
original Doom only contains three episodes while the Ultimate version
contains four, the fourth episode being "Thy Flesh Consumed." Sigil came
out around 2019; however, it takes place after the fourth episode of 
Doom. "Doom III: BFG Edition" contains "Doom 3," "Doom 3: Resurrection 
of Evil," and some of the previous Dooms.

Also, you can "spice-up" Doom games by using mods like "Blasphemer,"
"Halo: Doom Evolved," or "XIM Star Wars."

And by the way, no one would fault you for skipping the "Plutonia
Experiment" part of "Final Doom," or at least I would not. On the 
easiest difficulty you will be using the rocket launcher most of the
time. The weakest monsters are the Shotgun Guys, but the amount you will
see in comparison to the Heavy Weapon Guys (the ones with machine guns)
are laughable and even then, the are waaay too many Hell Kights,
Revenants, Arch-viles, Arachnotrons, Mancubuses, Pain Elementals and
their Lost Souls, and etc. to make any sense at all.

There are also some Jave ME-based, Doom RPG games, but I would not
bother with them. However, if you do decide to play them, I suggest
either using the 'MicroEmulator' or whatever is available for RetroArch
to play J2ME games.