Do you prefer vanilla wads or TC mods?

i lieK doom

Vanilla mods please, I don't need to see your distracting graphics or hear your shitty metal covers of Bobby Prince's MIDIs. 

I adore both. Sometimes I just want a solid set of old school levels, but other times I want to be swept away into something brand new. I love this game because it’s community represents such a vast range of gameplay possibilities!

I've said this plenty of times before, but basically, I like Doom to be Doom.  A few modifications are fine, but even though I primarily use GZDoom, I mainly do because of it's full support for looking up and down.  And I'm fine with jumping and crouching.  And I'm picky about what kind of partial conversions I play.  New textures are always fine.  New, Doom-based enemies are fine (or enemies based on the other wad file games), but I tend not to get into anything that has all new weapons.  

As for mods, I'll run them for a few minutes at most, just to see what they do.  And it's rare I do that.  Now when I was a kid, I imagine I would have loved to have something like Brutal Doom.  But as I've gotten older, I think I like Doom game play pretty much the way it is.

9 hours ago, Murdoch said:

 

It is definitely not a TC. TC means Total Conversion - new setting, new main character etc. If it's still in the Doom universe, it's a partical conversion at best.

I agree; calling it PC is much more accurate.

I like new monsters and weapons but not really when it changes everything to a completely different game.

I love that TC's exist and have a lot of appreciation for projects like REKKR, Action Doom, Golden Souls and Adventures of Square, but most of the time when I try playing a TC I just feel like....'Well...it's pretty cool but....it just isn't Doom....I want my SSG back!'

So Vanilla Wads tend to win out for me.

How about both. I like Vanilla wads and I like TCs. Both are pretty different in their own right. 

I've played vanilla long enough for it to become exhausting, TCs are always a welcome sight.

I always prefer vanilla wads, even if TC in question is vanilla. When I play Doom, I want it to feel like Doom, not anything else.

I like playing custom things, currently playing maps and main doom with Hard Doom )

The mod changes monsters attack, visual, few new guns and is harder (as expected when its name is Hard doom)

but vanilla is still great too.