i have never played doom but i am a fan of Bethesda, just wondering if it is worth my time to play and also, is it scary?

Doom 1 and 2 (and the "Final Doom" expansion packs) are classic action-shooters, they are all about shotgunning and blowing up monsters to bits, with metal playing in the background (well, also nice ambience music to even it out).

Doom3 is a survival-horror game, it is about walking through dark, bloody halls and having monsters around you, preparing to "hunt" you.
It is quite scary your first time playing it, but only if you have a good PC, the game relies on realistic graphics and lighting to be scary.
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Now, I'm guessing since you're a Bethesda fan you like having quite the hours of gameplay. No problem! The classic DOOM has so many mods you'll never play them all. Doom3 also has a nice chunky list of cool mods!

The worse you are at FPS games, the scarier it becomes. As a child playing the original doom games, I found myself incredibly scared because i had no idea what the hell i was doing.

Fast forward a couple decades and I feel like in order to have a horror aspect, things like the monsters, environment and all around survival come into play.
DOOM 3 does not dissapoint on the enviornments -- I still think their rendition of hell is one of the best i've seen. (beats the diablo and dantes inferno in my opinion) however the whole survival aspect is really lacking...which i believe is the ultimate aspect of a scary game.

Theres nothing scarier than being completely helpless and vulnerable.

Agreed. Pretty much all of the DOOM3 demons were pushovers. How can I be scared when all of the enemies are not a threat?

I'm sure he meant scary as in SCARY.
Not scary as in "omg, i am low on ammo and theres a big fat flame throwing blob in front of me!"

The monsters aren't scary, in either game. The classics look funny and cool, and the new ones just badass (except for some [censored] ones, like the Trites and the new lost souls).

Doom3 is scary because of its ambience, the whole way its put together.
The classics aren't scary at all, and they're not supposed to be, they're just action packed badass games. I really don't like when people define scary as a feeling you get when you're surrounded by Imps in broad daylight. I think they confuse scaryness with adrenaline.

thank you so much for your help, im gonna pre-order it on amazon

None of the Doom games were scary, save for the originals all those many years ago when they were new and interesting (although to be fair, I got my first taste of the game when it was already on its way out, and I was four )

That said, I agree with imp1979. You can't be afraid of something if it doesn't seem threatening to you. Doom 3 was occasionally startling, but never scary.

That happens when you play a game at lower settings

I guarantee, had you played the game the way it was meant, as well as when it was new (makes the difference), you would've found it quite scary here and there, though it also wasn't meant to scare the hell out of you, they weren't tryinh to make an Amnesia.

Doom 3 won't be that much scary in this day and age but if you do want to get immersed in this game. Turn of the lights sit alone in a room, wear headphones blast them all the way up so you don't hear anything but the game and play!

Also don't use and flashlight mods. The game is dark but pulling out that flash light and switching between weapons is what makes the game intense and atmospheric.

OMG NOW THAT I'M PLAYING AT 1600x900 WIDESCREEN THE GAME IS HORRIFYING

Seriously, that has nothing to do with it. I played the game at moderate settings and it still wasn't scary. Besides, 80% of the immersion is simply found in the smoothness of the animation - and at my settings I maintain 60 FPS easily throughout the game, so that's not an issue.

If you want to be scared of something, you need to feel constantly threatened and unsafe. Stuff like a foreboding atmosphere (blood on the walls, pentagrams, demonic whispering) can help, but on their own they become remarkably un-scary after just spending an hour or so around them. Therefore, in order for the game to remain scary, the horror must be maintained by the monsters themselves. And this works at first when you only have a pistol and you're not sure what all you're being put up against, but once you realize how exploitable the gameplay is and how easily the monsters fall under your onslaught of weapons, there's nothing left but cheap scares and startling encounters. Which, ironically enough, are ultimately not very scary at all.

Same goes for Dead Space - that game is fairly scary and unnerving at first because you're weak and unfamiliar with your surroundings, but after a few hours you actually become quite comfortable with the gameplay and effectively escape all feelings of tension.

Absolutely! Doom 3 will always be my fav game of the last decade. Countless nights were spent just like this.

I loved to just drop down in some part of the base and just listen to the sound of the UAC machinery going on all around me. I would close my eyes and just imaging that I was really there on Mars. Still the best ambience I have felt in any computer game.