History YMMV / BrutalDoom

** [=SgtMarkIV=] himself is often the main base breaker, as eluded to before. He put a racist joke using the n-word in the code once; told a depressed person to kill themselves, then told them how, then linked where to buy the stuff he suggested; he's made the standard sexist "kitchen" joke on Youtube comments before. He also at one point planned to enhance the gore using actual dead people pictures, but that ended up not happening due to a mix of the controversy and the fact that the realistic, pixelated images clashed with the rest of the graphics.

* CatharsisFactor: '''Yes'''.

* GameBreakingBug: No matter how many times it's been confronted and attempted to be fixed, one infamous bug still has a habit of reappearing at random. When the player kills enemies up close, they're technically hit by the blood particles the enemy releases to fake blood splashing on the camera and be able to create the effect of red on one's vision. For some reason, rarely this glitches out so the buckets of gore from your enemies can ''hurt you'', much less outright kill you altogether. Which is a problem with all close-range combat since this means just blasting an Imp with the Super Shotgun at point-blank may inexplicably cause you to die from blood aneurysm.

* GameBreakingBugs: No matter how many times it's been confronted and attempted to be fixed, one infamous bug still has a habit of reappearing at random. When the player kills enemies up close, they're technically hit by the blood particles the enemy releases to fake blood splashing on the camera and be able to create the effect of red on one's vision. For some reason, rarely this glitches out so the buckets of gore from your enemies can ''hurt you'', much less outright kill you altogether. Which is a problem with all close-range combat since this means just blasting an Imp with the Super Shotgun at point-blank may inexplicably cause you to die from blood aneurysm.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: With the incredible amount coverage and spread this mod has gotten, from simple gameplay videos by various [=YouTube=] users (including the likes of LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]), to online publications such as PC Gamer, and winning Cacoawards on Doomworld, there are those that consider it as a blight to the ''Doom'' community that overshadows other great mods out there.

** Whether or not Brutal Doom has ruined ''Doom'' and brought "COD kids" to the fanbase and ruins the balance and feel of vanilla ''Doom''.
** [=SgtMarkIV=] himself is often the main base breaker, as eluded to before. He put a racist joke using the n-word in the code once; told a depressed person to kill themselves, then told them how, then linked where to buy the stuff he suggested; he's made the standard sexist "kitchen" joke on Youtube comments before. He also at one point planned to enhance the gore using actual dead people pictures, but that ended up not happening due to a mix of the controversy and the fact that the realistic, pixelated images clashed with the rest of the graphics.

** [=SgtMarkIV=] himself is often the main base breaker, as eluded to before. He put a racist joke using the n-word in the code once, told a depressed person to kill themselves, then told them how, then linked where to buy the stuff he suggested, he's made the standard sexist "kitchen" joke on Youtube comments before, and somehow, the Nazis being more Nazi-like was also controversial. He also at one point planned to enhance the gore using actual dead people pictures, but that ended up not happening due to a mix of the controversy and the fact that the realistic, pixelated images clashed with the rest of the graphics.

** The BFG-9000 now deals splash damage to the player... unless the projectile hits an enemy instead of a wall.

* BaseBreaker: A sizable chunk of players have passed it off as a glorified gore mod with juvenile humor, not feeling it deserves the mountains of praise everyone else is giving it. The fact that [=SgtMarkIV=] isn't a very pleasant person to have a conversation with, who's also known to be racist and a cyber-bully, and has been accused of bad coding and plagiarism isn't helping the flame wars.

* UnfortunateImplications: [=SgtMarkIV=] is known to be a racist, and some ''Doom'' modders found a line of code that contains a racial slur towards African-Americans and burning them.

* BaseBreaker: A sizable chunk of players have passed it off as a glorified gore mod with juvenile humor, not feeling it deserves the mountains of praise everyone else is giving it. The fact that [=SgtMarkIV=] isn't a very pleasant person to have a conversation with and has been accused of bad coding, plagiarism, and racism isn't helping the flame wars.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: With the incredible amount coverage and spread this mod has gotten, from simple gameplay footage by various [=YouTube=] users (including the likes of LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]), to online publications such as PC Gamer, and winning Cacodemon Awards on Doomworld, many longtime ''Doom'' modders and fans of the classic gameplay consider it a blight to the ''Doom'' community that overshadows other great mods out there.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: With the incredible amount coverage and spread this mod has gotten, from simple gameplay footage by various [=YouTube=] users (including the likes of LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} and [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]), to online publications such as PC Gamer, and winning Cacaodemon Awards on Doomworld, many longtime ''Doom'' modders and fans of the classic gameplay consider it a blight to the ''Doom'' community that overshadows other great mods out there.

* BaseBreaker: A sizable chunk of players have passed it off as a glorified gore wad with juvenile humor, not feeling it deserves the mountains of praise everyone else is giving it. The fact that [=SgtMarkIV=] isn't a very pleasant person to have a conversation with and has been accused of bad coding, plagiarism, and racism isn't helping the flame wars.
** Whether or not Brutal Doom has ruined DooM and brought "cod kids" to the fanbase and ruins the balance and feel of vanilla Doom.

* FallenCreator: After the racism incident in a line of code (among many others), a mention of SgtMark in the DooM community is sure to invoke heaps of scorn on the man.

* BaseBreaker: A sizable chunk of players have passed it off as a glorified gore wad with juvenile humor, not feeling it deserves the mountains of praise everyone else is giving it. The fact that [=SgtMarkIV=] isn't a very pleasant person to have a conversation with isn't helping the flame wars.

* MostWonderfulSound: ''Brutal Doom'' adds to the ''Doom'' repertoire of wonderful sounds with the splatter of enemies as you paint the walls with their blood and guts, weapon pickups for specific weapons, and the shotgun blast sounds meatier than ever.
* ScrappyMechanic: The mod encourages players to brutalize suffering enemies, but in v0.19, some enemies like the shot gunners and Imps have a tenancy to [[ActionBomb explode]] and damage you ''severely'' for no apparent reason if you kick them while they're in agony.

* ScrappyMechanic: The mod encourages players brutalize suffering enemies, but in v0.19, some enemies like the shot gunners and Imps have a tenancy to [[ActionBomb explode]] and damage you ''severely'' for no apparent reason if you kick them while they're in agony.

*** It gets better than that - for all intents and purposes, the tracer is treated the exact same as firing a bullet. One that's [[CherryTapping slow to fire and deals next to no damage]], but it's still damage. This can lead to stopping a charging Lost Soul in its tracks by swearing at it, or even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yv8j7JmTw killing enemies with low-enough health by flipping them off.]]
** The BFG-9000 now deals splash damage to the player...unless the projectile hits an enemy instead of a wall.
* MostWonderfulSound: ''Brutal Doom'' adds to the Doom repertoire of wonderful sounds with the splatter of enemies as you paint the walls with their blood and guts, weapon pickups for specific weapons, and the shotgun blast sounds meatier than ever.

*** It gets better than that - the tracers actually deal damage. It's [[CherryTapping next to nothing]], but it's still damage. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_yv8j7JmTw Combine with an enemy type that only has one hit point, and...]]

** The invisible tracer spawned by the Offend command (used for "hit" detection when attempting to piss off demons) can trigger linedefs... which means it's possible to tell certain impact-activated doors and switches to go fuck themselves, ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny and they will work]].''

* MostWonderfulSound: ''Brutal Doom'' adds to the Doom repertoire of wounderful sounds with the splatter of enemies as you paint the walls with their blood and guts, weapon pickups for specific weapons, and the shotgun blast sounds meatier than ever.

* GoodBadBugs: The invisible tracer spawned by the Offend command (used for "hit" detection when attempting to piss off demons) can trigger linedefs... which means it's possible to tell certain impact-activated doors and switches to go fuck themselves, ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny and they will work]].''

* MostWonderfulSound: ''Brutal Doom'' adds to the Doom repertoire of wounderful sounds with the splatter of enemies as you paint the walls with their blood and guts, weapon pickups for specific weapons, and the shotgun blast sounds meatier than ever.

** The BFG deals splash damage to the player...unless the projectile hits an enemy instead of a wall.