I agree that its probably not going to impact the experience much if you haven't played the previous games, but your comparison to Doom makes no sense. The ori

I agree that its probably not going to impact the experience much if you haven't played the previous games, but your comparison to Doom makes no sense. The original Doom games intentionally had almost no story. The new Doom was a complete reboot so even if the old ones had a story it wouldn't matter at all. HL:Alyx is a continuation of the story that falls between 1 and 2.