Do you ever take breaks from Doom?

[nostalgia]

Not really. But to be fair, I don't play videogames on a regular basis. I only play Doom for an hour or two after all day schedule to take a break from everything. I take breaks from wad to wad, but that last until I find another interesting one. I think the appeal to the game is that is a relatively simple game easy to pick and shoot. Now that in itself would burn your out or simply bore you after a week or so, but the quantity of different kinds of wads that are there makes a hard task to find redundance. Still, nothing relaxes me more than BFGs waves of imps, punching revenants and circlestrafing hell knights, so I'm okay with that.

[BBQgiraffe]

yeah to go to work and take a leak

[jazzmaster9]

Sort of, I've been in an indefinite break from Classic doom mods and IWADs. from the past 2 years or so I have been focused on developing  mods that are very different from classic doom's gameplay.

 

The last IWAD i played was plutonia 1 year ago but that was only to attempt (and fail) to finish Map11.

[fufu]

No, doom is my only life source, if i stop playing it, i die.

[BluePineapple72]

Consuming something daily is. A great way to quickly become disinterested in that thing

[purist]

I always at least keep my nose in the community but I regularly have long gaps of inactivity in playing and mapping.

 

Last few years I haven't have a lot of time spare for it unfortunately. 

[Doomkid]

I actually want to take more breaks than I do. I'd like to take a month off here or there, but I sometimes get this weird combo of being burnt out and yet wanting to map more.

[pcorf]

Never. My life has been doomed forever! :D

[Eurisko]

I do. I think last year and up to and including when Eternal came out I played more Doom than I've ever done.

Though I've actually took a bit of a rest from it during this pandemic madness recently.

 

It's good to have a rest. Absence makes the heart grow fonder as they say.

 

[smeghammer]

8 hours ago, Pirx said:

picked up black mesa

Heh, yeah, the whole 10 year+ Black Mesa saga right from back when it was a fan-made thing has probably been my biggest Doom break. It was all I played for a long time. I still play the pre-Steam version for preference as it's much more lightweight in terms of system reqs.

[mrthejoshmon]

I usually release something and then leave Doom alone for months.

[Chezza]

For sure. I take many breaks, but I end up going back to Doom one way or another.

[unerxai]

All the time. Right now in fact I'm taking a break from it because I'm in the mood for other type of games. I know eventually I'll go back to it.

 

I've always been sort of impressed by people who can stick to a game for so long non stop without ever getting bored. It's something that I've never been able to do.

[D4NUK1]

Yeah, i like to make different's things, and try to learn some thing before make my skills in doom go higher

[Mara]

I like to play a lot of different games, so I tend to take a break very often.

[Hellektronic]

I'm burnt out with Doom Eternal right now... I've played the campaign way too much and battlemode doesn't appeal to me.

 

As for oldschool Doom? Yes, I do. Occasionally I just want to play something... different. I can't say I PREFER like... a military shooter or something over Doom, but I just enjoy a bit of variety.

[wallabra]

I'm not decino.

[Jayextee]

Long-term, no.

Short-term, all the damn time. I'm on one right now. I shall elaborate.

Basically I picked up DOOM in late '99 when it was already unfashionable; not yet having my own computer, I'd use my then-girlfriend's to create WADs. I did wanna make Quake maps, but ended up with WadEd and it kinda spiralled from there until like about 2002/3-ish when I just burned out HARD with depression and did something else entirely for a while; namely college and university. I think I picked it all back up (but this time switching to DOOM Builder) about 2011/2-ish?

DOOM never really goes away. Or we don't, kinda like Hotel California: you can check out at any time, but you can never leave.

Shorter term though, yeah I have 'tides'. Only thing that has appealed to me of late has been The City of Damned Children, which is a very unique and excellent WAD. But when I get the 'urge' again, I have three previously-started projects waiting for me to complete. Or make like a map and get temporarily-burned-out again, who knows?

I come and go, but like a lot.

[Pirx]

2 hours ago, Jayextee said:

DOOM never really goes away. Or we don't, kinda like Hotel California: you can check out at any time, but you can never leave.

Shorter term though, yeah I have 'tides'. Only thing that has appealed to me of late has been The City of Damned Children, which is a very unique and excellent WAD.

 

Nice post and thanks for pointing me to that wad. 

[Weisser]

Not really. While it does get a bit tiring overtime, i've never found myself getting burned out. I've yet to conquer Doom 2 on Ultra-Violence (currently in Refueling Base) and Doom never fails to entertain me. 

[Doom_Dude]

I get burnout from level designing, not from playing Doom. The worst burn out for me lasted many months. That being said, I've not had any long breaks in well over a year or more.

[Stabbey]

Long, long breaks of many years, often. There are a lot of good games out there besides Doom.

[snapshot]

Yes, it can go anywhere from months to years, until I inevitably get an itch to mess around with mods, UDB and Slade a bit more.

[Phobus]

I often have breaks. In fact, I've been slipping into one for the last couple of months, which will probably see me through until near the end of the year when I finally succumb. They always start with the general feeling that I don't feel like mapping, and then I start feeling like I don't like playing Doom any more. Finally, I get bored of monitoring the community and then that's it. Gone for an indeterminate amount of time.

[Deadwing]

1-2 years break every once in a while

[Scrumpee]

huh, with other games, I can clearly tell when burnout sets in, but thats usually with multiplayer shooters like team fortress two, or minecraft when I get way too sick of my castles.
I find doom to be really comforting compared to other games, less of a job and more, "huh, had a bad day, go smack some demons around for a few hours"
I also find the single player aspect of it to be refreshing and always nice to come back to, games with people trying to grab your attention and hold a convo are, a bit too much.
so aside from sad periods where I have no effort to play, or periods when I get a new game? doom nights are the best nights!
//oh and it helps that I have all the ports on my switch so I can just curl up in bed and play until the sun rises!//

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

For me, each WAD provides a totally different experience, so no, not really. I look at DOOM as a totally different experience.

 

Let me relate it to music: I might get burned out listening to one band, but there are other bands out there that provide different experiences, so I never get burned out on music.

 

Same with DOOM. With each author being another band.

[Misty]

I'm thinking to take the longer one, but I want release couple of projects before that. I end up taking small breaks lasting few weeks, especially if studies or life events gets on my way. 

[printz]

Right now I'm away from Doom, because I play Diablo. Also I'm more excited right now about riding my bike and kick scooter every day, than about continued sitting at the computer.

[Vic Vos]

I play a bit of Doom Eternal every week and maybe some wads every now and then, but I'm effectively on a break. Maybe I'll come back in a few months or so.