Doom the Dark Ages

turret and vehicle sections

Just why
Why bringing dogshit 7th gen elements into your franchise.

I just hope I can turn off the shield on screen because it takes up 50 percent of it. Maybe only see it when I parry.

Looks like fun
to me.

Yeah, thats why id has tried to distance themselves as far away as possible from Eternal.

I'm still playing Oblivion. They should have released their 8 hour game before their 300 hour game.

Oblivion

Still can’t believe Todd managed to create nostalgia over such a piece of shit.

I'll try it because I have game pass but I don't really like FPS games these days

If they're distancing themselves from Eternal, why are they including every lore element from Eternal in Dark Ages?

This nu doom lore is lame as fuck

All main Doom games are good

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Damn there really is no hype

a fellow Doomhead, I see

I agree with the except eternal

n outlet that I work for already has their review ready for publication. They gave it a 7

If they're distancing themselves from Eternal, why are they including every lore element from Eternal in Dark Ages?

because Hugo mistakenly thinks his lore is good and misinterpreted people not skipping the cutscenes in Eternal as player approval

id is distancing themselves from Eternal because all of the promo videos are directly addressing the complaints about Eternal and touting Dark Ages as a return to form after the disappointing Eternal.
I get the feeling that id puts a lot of weight into player statistics and I get the feeling that the player statistics for Eternal must have sucked

Personally speaking, I was really hyped for Eternal, but bounced off it hard. I even paid extra at launch for the edition with the future DLC included. I didn't end up playing that DLC.

First Doom I am not excited about. The constant slowdown during the combat and I watched 10min of gameplay by some random streamer retard they gave it to and the "open world" you traverse is mostly fucking empty and boring.

No thanks, maybe when it's $5.

and touting Dark Ages as a return to form after the disappointing Eternal.

I get the feeling that id puts a lot of weight into player statistics and I get the feeling that the player statistics for Eternal must have sucked
Embarrassing headcanon

Yeah I forgot it releases 3 days early if you buy the Rape My Face Edition. I'll be avoiding much of the internet starting next Monday.
Have you tried crying about it in every single thread yet? You've probably missed at least one.

Is this one going to have a buttfuck ton of little cooldown buttons you have to manage? I hated that shit.

He’s probably right though. id has access to player statistics across all platforms that we don’t. Reactions on video game forums and boards is not the real world.

probably

LMAO

This honestly. The worst part of any Doom game is just that game's specific fanboys that are anxious about their game not being the best one. Every Doom game has fans like this.

previously on ZOOM RING: THE EBONIC AGES

doomfolk! You can't beat me! So... I rebelled against Heaven!

*doomguy breathing heavily*

doomie, can you hear me? To your left.

*a portal opens*

*Volodimir Zelensky, Isabelle and Dave Rivera join the battle*

*another portal opens*

K-Kojima-san?!! And…Suzi?!

*SphereHunter performs a bayonetta-like flip while wearing his Eve cosplay from Stellar Blade and lands epically in front of doomguy*

*Another portal features Anthony Fauci, Keanu Reeves and Better Man*.

We must be better...

*from a portal in the sky appears Doomguy's dragon who was thought to be dead and in comes Rick Sanchez*

Who is a good boy? You you are a good boy! Wubba lubba dub!

*Minecraft's Jack Black and Jason Momoa fall from the sky doing a waterdrop*

I... AM KYIIIIIIV

*Satan watches in bewilderment*

You can't beat me!

I'm surprised that a fella like you is hurting people, come to your senses, you're behaving like Grummz! -says dave rivera

You can be better than this...- says better man

*Satan orders his army to attack*.

*Captain Zelensky moves into attack position*.

I've dealt with tyrants like you and Putler before!

*Doomguys looks seriously*

DOOMVENGERS!

ASSEMBLE...

*Avengers endgame battle theme metal cover by ROYAL BLOOD*

*Everyone races in an offensive that will decide whether good or evil will win*

*Dave rivera orders his followers in Xitter to overload hell's defense systems*

*Isabelle violently attacks the infernal forces*

I may be wholesome but I'm also tough!

*Anthony Fauci throws syringes like kunais*

Try this, chuds!

*Kojima attacks a giant demon using his epic mecha*

Just like evangeliom! -says keanu reeves

*doomguy and satan jump in front of each other ready to finish this epic battle*

Melee has 3 hits that recharge but* those can be used without cost depending on the enemy's falter state, essentially as the GK replacement, and melee charges are granted out instantly with parries.
Jury's out on certain other things. Trailers show this shoulder-mounted automatic gun like Eternal's flame belch but I've never heard devs talk about how that works or what it's even called.

Cringe
YWNBATW3P

Doom The Slop Ages

0/10
Meds now

Doom is one of my favorite series. I like every game in the series and that will likely include this one.

no anon, you are supposed to tribal fight and shit on everything and complain that they aren't just printing the same game but with a different number/sub-tittle and remember that fun is a meme made by normies.

Kek

DONT HAVE STANDARDS JUST CONSOOOOM

It doesn't really look like it has to be, or even really should be a DOOM game.
It looks more like a spiritual successor to Painkiller, which would be really cool. It's a shame we're getting a new painkiller game, because this would be a pretty cool painkiller game.

Not him but get a grip. Standards have been through the floor ever since high speed internet. Zero franchises have escaped the ensloppening of all culture and that includes whatever shit you're thinking of that totally doesn't apply. You're making the best of a bad situation just as much as anyone else.

basedslop parry dodge garbage

Are yiu tourists ever gonna get tired of this?

WHAT!? A MILD OPINION!? NOT ON MY WATCH!

fat people are... le evil???

f*ck this fatphobic game

You guys are going to playing on controller like real gamers right? I know you guys aren't hand cripples

DAH UMA THURM FIGHTING FOR LA RAKKA BARAKKA SPACE DEMONS FOR THE HELL KNIGHT WAFARTIAN SWORD OF DESTINY. DOOMSLAYER WILL REIN UMBRA THUMBA ON THE UNWASHED.

why is the “lore” like this?

I beat eternal on nightmare with a series x controller. It was not easy.

Doom is a PC game. It was designed for kb+m.

(You)

SLOWER AND SAFER

RIP N TEAR (SAFELY)

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them, now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.

John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships, daddy."
Dad said "NO! YOU WILL BE KILL BY DEMONS!"

There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
"This is Joson," the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US," said the demons!
"I will shoot at him," said the Cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the demons," he shouted!
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons."
And then, John was a Zombie.

It looks like it could actually be fun, glad it's on goypass though because I won't get $70 worth of enjoyment out of it

That puts you ahead of 90% of doom players.

You know NU-DOOM are bad games cause they can be beaten with a controller.

you can NOT beat this argument, don't even try it.

You know NU-DOOM are bad games cause they can be beaten with a controller.

I beat doom on a 32X, playstation and super nes. I beat Doom 3 on Xbox.

2016 felt like a good balance of fun and gameplay. Probably the best doom game from a pure gameplay perspective.

Ironic that you post that

Probably the best doom game from a pure gameplay perspective

arenaslop with trigger laying in the open

dogshit level up systems

dogshit rune leveling up

guns are shit

punching bag enemies

useless equipment

resources getting reduced value on higher difficulties

No

Don't forget the crouch button, lol

they don't look very "in form"

Dark Age mancubus being pushed to the side after jumping down the ledge

Doom 2 being set to either 70% or 80% speed

I appreciate effort to try to equal them, and the invis on the supershotty, which puts that 70% game-speed right in your face while still hiding it. While we all know the SS reloads slow, seeing it at that speed would have given up the game too easily.

OG doom does not have better gameplay than 16 and eternal

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Not sounding good... its gonna be another cooldown-spaghetti fest it sounds

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It's trying so hard it's just embarrassing

He didn't say it did. But now that you mention it, yes classic Doom has better gameplay than 2016.

I'll be honest, it looks like shit but I'm still gonna try it on goypass

Why did Doom become such a forgettable franchise
I'm not seeing anyone talk about this game. I wasn't aware it was releasing in a week.

Nah

Why did Doom become such a forgettable franchise

Over-saturation. We’ve gotten 2016, Eternal and 2 big dlc campaigns and the dark ages in less than a decade.

Not on Nightmare with its 80dmg imp fireballs and 20hp medkits

They're forcing that gaytracing into the game. So kiss goodbye the great performance of the previous entries.

DOOM is eternal

SoiDOOM is already forgotten cause it catered to redditors that still use a shitty Anon Babble comic from 20 years ago as a design philosophy

It will never top Eternal, but I'm sure it will be a great game.

Kinda weird how muted Doom Dark Ages hype is. I don't even know it's coming out this month.

I'm not seeing anyone talk about this game

Anon Babble has had consistent nudoom threads for over 5 years.

oh man the cape looks so retarded, so sad

thats it, my only problem, the fucking cape, unlike every retarded contrarian in this thread saying eternal is a bad game, there isn't a single bad doom game.
but i hate how modern game artists seem to stick to the same asthetic retardation, how does a cape make sense in a futuristic kind of game HOW, i can get a shield a future advanced shield but WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE CAPE its not even in the cool edgy way its just cringe. thanks for reading my blog.

You WILL parry when it flashes green
You WILL run out of ammo
You WILL press X to "awesome"
You WILL ride the turok evolution dragon
You WILL collect the funkpops
You WON'T skip the cutscenes
You WON'T shoot things until they die

I like eternal and 2016 but why are eternalfags so rabid?

I like both too and i'll probably enjoy dark ages. The rivalry is retarded and forced

It doesn't really look like it has to be, or even really should be a DOOM game.

You could say that about 2016 and Eternal too.

It doesn't make sense. They probably just felt compelled to make something "new" and "different"

Fat people are evil, just stop eating

do you only use Anon Babble?

Someone thought it looked cool. That's all of DOOM.
Why was there a sawed-off double-barrel on a futuristic Mars base? Someone at ID watched Evil Dead 2 one too many times and thought it was cool.
Why was there a minigun in Wolfenstein 3D in WWII? Someone at ID thought miniguns were cool.
Why did the nail boxes in Quake have NIN logos on them? Someone at ID thought Trent Reznor was cool.
Someone thought the cape looked cool. That's what DOOM is.

This and also RTX required for weapon hitscan, for some reason. Can’t play Dark Ages even if I wanted to, which I don’t.

The Trent Reznor thing was two-way. He liked Doom(and got an easter egg in Thy Flesh Consumed), and id hired him to do the sounds and music for Quake.

well you would be right if i was complaining about a gun or a game mechanic but i m not making a case for immersion, the cape you won't even see gameplay wise is not cool it looks stupid, imagine i made a game about deep sea diving and i made the diver wear a clown nose that can squeak, its underwater so it can't squeak. i m complaining about the retarded asthetics choice doom guy shit guns and suits or whatever doesn't look good with a cape simple as.

god of sóy fur faggot cape

captain amerifaggot shield

iron man mech

Hugo Martin is a sòy guzzling faggot redditor too busy adding gay faggot he-man references instead of making proper quality for the dlc in eternal.

My negro, what the fuck are you talking about

DOOM: The Dark Ages will feature a boss as challenging as the Marauder. Sekiro-like Elements.

The 'Agadon Hunter' will require you to parry a series of attacks in sequence. "The Agadon Hunter is the new Marauder, he's not based on the Marauder. He's not like, 'Big Marauder,' it's Dark Ages, so it's very different. But he's similar in that a lot of the bosses they'll challenge you in different ways."

He makes a memorable impression, a big, beefy demon dude with a fur cape, shield, and Darth Maul-but-analogue double-ended sword. He's Capra Demon-coded, looking like one of those non-plot-critical bosses who still manages to traumatize the player base.

"We take everything that you've been doing in the game up to that point. It's like it's exam time, everything else is a quiz. When you get to the boss, it's the final exam."

Martin described the Agadon Hunter as having combo attacks that we'll have to parry in sequence with the Slayer's fancy new shield. Martin expressed a love and admiration for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in our conversation, and The Dark Ages' parry system sounds very similar to that game.

Hold up your shield to block, and if you time it to within the first few frames of the animation, you'll execute an enemy-weakening parry move. To continue the metaphor, the way Martin described the Hunter's moveset reminded me of late-game Sekiro bosses like the Long Arm Centipedes or Lone Shadows.

Hugo Martin is a fromnigger and he doesn't want to make DOOM, he wants to make Dark Souls: the FPS

hes right, hugo martin took too many marvel sepositories up his ass and made the eternal DLC dog shit with gimmick enemies and worse boss fights than the original doom some how

plays sekiro once

maybe he should try playing doom so he can make an actual doom game

Personally speaking, I was really hyped for Eternal, but bounced off it hard. I even paid extra at launch for the edition with the future DLC included. I didn't end up playing that DLC.

same wtf. I loved 2016 and did a bunch of playthroughs of it but I only completed eternal once and got bored of nightmare difficulty. I thought the mechanics were retarded and once I learned that the dlc doubled down on the retarded mechanics I didn't even bother.

Someone thought it looked cool. That's all of DOOM.

true but the folks at id now think redditsoy capeshit is cool

Deliberately use normal walk speed instead of running in the classic footage

If you're a long-time fan, you'll notice this immediately and call it out for the disingenuous bullshit it is. Why did they even bother?

They're not using running in the Dark Ages footage, either.

It looks too SLOW
Hard pass

Platforming is a big part of old doom, not like, a load bearing structure, but dealing with the enviroment has always been important as those games are almost more exploration that combat.
Giving you the ability to jump arround was inevitable. If the old games weren't 2D in disguise, they'd have you jumping arround all the time

don't need to balance when all your health and ammo come from glory kills and don't forget armor is just a second health bar!

Do people actually belive Eternal is bad?
Not even being a contrarian here, it was a fun game, great even. It has it issues, yes, but anything but a metaphorical 7.5/10 sounds stupid.
I do agree the writers were sniffing their own farts a bit too much with the story, Specially the DLC

If I could commission mick Gordon I'd literally hire him to make his own version of the dark ages osf cause I know it won't be as good

nobody is arguing that it isn't a quality product
the design and gimmicks I hate for a doom game

Unfathomably based schizo

it's a return to form!

So then why wouldn't I just return to the original games and their near-endless amounts of fan content instead?
At least Eternal etched itself out a different style of play, even if I don't prefer it over classic Doom. This is looking like it'll be one of those "the devs tried to please everyone, and thus pleased nobody" cases.

Honestly, the worst part about modern Doom is how it should just be a new IP entirely. Instead we get Hugo trying to shove cyber-knights, blatant MCU shit, and Cthulhu into games that just happen to have a Doom-themed skin lightly draped on top. Also putting an heavier focus on story when that was the worst part of Eternal is laughable.

I'll pass until it's heavily on sale, if ever.

It's an incredible game but you can tell there were choices that didn't make sense in regards go the levels, you get the plasma rifle at the start basically yet doomguy takes that guards gun on the bfg10000 level which narratively doesn't make sense, then hugo stated in the showcases before release that eternal would explain what doomguy was doing between 2016 and eternal which it never did nor did it explain why he had that castle, then you have the dlc which simply use recolors for enemies and in the case of immora some of the enemies don't even have a kill animation and just fall to gibs which shows lack of quality. Not to mention how the loooooorrrrreeeeeeee is backwards and makes no sense, you can tell they rushed to get the game out before the pandemic and in turn caused the debacle with mick Gordon cause they needed the music mixed for the good goy shit in my mouth edition.

Eternal filtered too many shitters, so they had to largely tone down the intensity of gameplay.

It looks more like a spiritual successor to Painkiller

nuDoom is already a spiritual successor to Painkiller.

The furfaggot cape would be better as a cloak or poncho

where are the leaks, bros? eternal had leaks by now.

It's not bad, but for me personally it's too clusterfucky. That said, classic FPS games are pretty well-represented now. Why bother trying to recreate Knee-Deep when so many other recent games target a similar objective? I personally think a big-budget take on classic Doom would be pretty cool, but I can see why they went the direction they did.

a lot of retards thought since they could play other doom games on nightmare they could do the same for eternal, causing many ego driven retards to bounce off of the game as opposed to dropping the difficulty or gitting gud