just get a beater with working AC for as little as possible, do your maintenance and run it into the ground.

Doing this right now, getting/learning manual makes it fun. Plus, at least for me, the used standards come cheaper.

Doom 16 feels way more like an arena shooter than infinite for me. I think my problem was I wasn’t invested in the story and relished each combat encounter.

It is up there in years but system shock 2 is an amazing example.