Doom Dark Ages completely destroyed by BASED legendary FPS designer

Who?

every game needs to be dark souls

we'll be hearing 'you didn't beat the game' for the rest of our lives

Grim

Anyone else notice if they watch the game being played that it keeps going "bzzzt" all the time? I think its when they pick up a bunch of armor scraps at once, sounds like when you're tired and nodding offf and get a burst of static in your head

I'm very upset that you can customize the difficulty

Thats the TL;DR for anyone interested.

thanks, im not reading that massive wall of text

Oh some bald faggot who has made 0 good games is giving his opinion. Whoop de dee

food analogy

it's burgers

Chmielarz always comes off as a very smart man in his posts, so that begs the question.
Why does Witchfire SUCK ASS?

The design mentality of nu DOOM is weird in general. Its like they dont give a shit about any kind of mystique or artifice and have fully embraced their status as a sensory flashing light toy. I find this approach incredibly lazy, Its like going to a cinema to see a film and them throwing an android tablet at you and telling you to sit on the floor and watch it.

Your last good game was 20 years ago.

Its a good argument in fatc, that a lot of the systems are vrey gamey and not immersive with the world. Eg, the deemons are shooting a number of red projectiles, but like giving you a chance by saying ok here's a green one you can reflect that back at us. Why doesn't someone send a memo to all the demos, yo this guy is reflecting all th green balls, stop using them just stick to the red ones. Its a world that doesn't makes sense within itself, they are trying to kill you but also giving you a chance to beat them with an arbitrary game meechanic

Game has gamey things in it

Shocking.

iirc you never even see those sliders unless you select a custom difficulty
at least that's how it worked in previous Bethesda game
i get what he's saying, it's ruining the mystique, but i don't get why he thinks it's such an illusion shattering thing

nigger just don't pick custom difficulty for your first playthrough

giant wall of text

twitter screencap

Die.
herbs btw

complains about weapon juggling

meanwhile witchfire

Increased damage against enemies with more than 75 % HP.

complains about unintuitive mechanics

Critical hits ignite the scope for a few seconds, causing enemies viewed through the fiery scope to BURN.

nigger how is

you have to hardscope after a critical hit

intuitive?

he's a veteran dev and he often posts about approaches to game design, this absolutely belongs here

i just think he's being a retard this time around

Busty fishwoman barmaid...

don't care. why is the game so dark and ugly though. and boring looking. the fucking original blows it out the water in terms of action.

and who care about these fucking cutscenes and maps full of useless npcs

That dude made Witchfire?
He really should shut the fuck up then, because that game was severely undercooked

legendary FPS designer

The legendary FPS where you hold s+lmb for eternity with level design worse than fucking Serious Sam, and a walking sim.
The designer that is currently making an early access rogue-whatever-the-fuck shooter.
He shouldn't say anything about game design.

it's still in early access
that said when i tried it the balance was beyond retarded

Inside doesn't offer freedom though? What a tard

Before people post retarded shit, guy in OP made the original Painkiller

Thanks for making sure I dismiss his opinion asap

tl dr

Fourth, laying out every option feels like the developers are waving a white flag. For fifty years, game creators delivered engaging challenges without extreme granularity — what changed? Saying “set it up however you like” shifts the responsibility for fun from developer to player. At least broad difficulty settings like Easy, Normal, or Hard are a compromise, preserving some of the magic.

He's 100% right. Devs are literally saying

We don’t know how to make it fun, you figure it out.

And retards are defending it.

He's probably overanalyzing it but he's right.
It is inherently different to play a specific challenge you're randomly tweaking than to have to play to a challenge which has been preset.
Games like FPS games need difficulty modes because players bring in different skill levels with them. They don't need it because customization is magically better, or even really because different people actually enjoy different levels of challenge that much.

There's other problems too; granular skill customization means that a player is disincentivized to say, improve in one area they're good at to compensate for another area they're bad at, compared to just changing the skill settings so that their weaknesses are no longer a problem.

oh god, will the meta for game dev switch to making it autistically hard and then giving you toggles or shit to make it easier rather than designing a good encounter? this is literally elden ring (or any souls for that matter)

bro just get this and that

this boss literally dies to X

did you try doing (very specific thing)

mimic tear

imagine spending days or weeks writing all of this over the monthly free game drop on Game Pass, what a weird flex, couldn’t be me y’all

Yes, and people will use some streamer playing blindfold to justify it. Because apparently the fact that it's doable means it's good quality.

tldr who is this guy and why does he cares so much? does he know videogames are for teenagers?

games should be a piece of art

lmao

I think it's annoying and pathetic that the guy has to add a "just my opinion :)" disclaimer at the end. He has to waste ink there because otherwise some brain genius twitteroid would jump down his throat saying UHHHH THIS ISNT A FACT YOURE NOT GOD ITS JUST AN OPINION MAYBE RESPECT OTHERS FEELINGS I ACTUALLY LIKE THIS SO UMMMMMM

*aerial shot of Kyiv*

"Mr. Zelensky.....THE DEMONS....ARE BACK"

Mr. Zelensky: "Call in the Avengers"

*explosion sounds, screen fades to black*

*shot of Tony Stark finding Zelensky under the rubble*

Tony Stark: "You are one though motherflipper Zelensky my friend!"

Zelensky: "There is no time for small talk Tony, we have to wake HIM up"

*shot of the Slaya™ waking up from cryogenic sleep*

Tony Stark: "Slaya™...we need your help"

Slaya™: "Sigh....here we go again"

*epic montage of the DOOM™ SLAYA™ gearing up*

Tony Stark: "Take this shield Slaya™, Steve always wanted you to have it"

*DOOM™ SLAYA™ steps in the Avengers HQ*

Tony Stark: "He is the Slaya™, he is a specialist in killing demons"

Black Panther: "AYO HOL UP, so u be sayin we are sum kind of a....doom slaya squad?"

*sound of a light saber turning on*

Tony Stark: "M-master...Skywalker?"

*epic montage of the Avengers and DOOM™ SLAYA™ slaying demons*

THIS SUMMER

*epic trailer music with random fartstep elements start playing*

*shot of the SLAYA™ performing epic glory kill on Arachnotron™*

Spiderman: "UH OH RIGHT IN THE INFINITY STONES"

ALL HELL

SLAYA™: "ATTACK THEIR WEAKPOINTS™"

*shot of Luke Skywalker cutting of Mancubus cannons*

BREAKS LOSE

*DOOM™ SLAYA™ shield bashes for magic ammo*

Tony Stark: "AVENGERS ASSEMBLE"

*epic still frame of the avengers fighting millions of demons*

SLAYA™: "MAKYRBART FORGIVE ME"

*shadowy figure walks in a room*

Zelensky: "Putin? It was you all along....!"

*screen fades to black*

*EPIC DOOM™ logo flies in*

DOOM: THE AGE OF AVENGERS soon in cinemas

@grok umm is this true?

Whoever thought white text on a black background was a good idea needs to be shot.

nearly every zelda

I think he's mad because Doom Dark Ages is a total Painkiller ripoff

another example of the extreme paternalism many game designers subscribe to

this guy is going to kill himself if the new Painkiller is a 6/10 game

Wait *ANY* FromSoftware title?

Hell yeah lads, I'm a hardcore gamer now.

He's right. Dark Age's difficulty settings are tantamount to a confession that Id doesn't know how to make a well-designed experience for the average player. It's just throwing your hands up and saying

Alright tough guy, why don't YOU decide how you want the game to play?

street fighter 2: art
street fighter 2 turbo: not art

Anyone who's beaten a FromSoftware title cherishes the achievement

This entire post is just Elden Ring's "you didn't beat the game" sentiment again.

xitter

blue check

opinion discarded

Game devs want their game to be playable and beatable by the average player

Hardcore players feed their ego on the fact that they play and beat games the average player can't

You literally can't please everyone, but the hardcore players complaining about options are really shitting the bed here. You're not going to get the hardcore games you're asking for. You're telling them not to cater to you at all, and make the only difficulty the easier one that the average player can enjoy. These options are here for YOU, not them, so you can make the game HARDER. If you didn't have the option to make it hard it wouldn't be hard AT ALL. Don't you get it?

I love Painkiller but I'm sorry it's designer can't talk about difficulty levels when his own game had a glaring fucking flaw in that department (you cannot play final chapter on highest difficulty mode, as in 'game ends after chapter 4, here's your ending, go away').

trying too hard

Danker herr docktor

doom is officially trooncore now

I would say his arguments generally support removing all difficulty options, not just extensive customization.

I never have and never will care about intended experience, and why should I?

I think while the arguments hold up, the reason this is done is to water it down for the broadest possible audience. Video games are an extremely compromised form of media, more so than many others.

It actually is since it means that there is no specific vision that the developers intended for you to experience. It's all just mush where the game's challenge is distilled into sterile damage variables and nothing more. This kind of game challenge communism is what lead to boring games where you just go through the motions and consume content without challenging yourself in any meaningful way.

why does he cares

good morning

If you can't create your own vision from the tools given to you, I don't know what to tell you. I see a game that offers choice from baby mode cinema gaming to reasonably demanding challenge, with the variables split instead of condensed into simplified options. I do not see a problem.

King shit, Lost Kingdoms is underrated as fuck

guy in OP made the original Painkiller

And let me guess, Anon Babble thinks that is a good game despite it being fucking trash that nobody liked back then. You contrarian fat morons need to stop shitting up the internet with your worthless opinions when it almost always turns out that you have terrible taste

They don't actually care about enjoying the game, souls fags have created an environment in which they have to brag about beating something. Customizable difficulty makes it hard for them to brag on the internet as if anybody but spergs give a shit about that

it's a ok game, definitely not as bad you make it out to be

GGRRRRRR CHOICES CONFUSE ME AND MAKE ME ANGRY! I'M UPSET AND EVERYONE ELSE NEEDS TO BE TOO!!!

tldr appealing to bottomfeeders makes games worse for average and above players

but muh handicapped people

they do not make these nu-difficulties for handicapped people, they say they do but its a lie

it's a ok game, definitely not as bad you make it out to be

All the shitters crying about Doom should read that

the way it is intended to be played is with the options available for you to set? are you retarded?

Custom mode should've been a reward for beating the game, or maybe even completing the game 100% with all collectibles and secrets, rather than being enabled from the start.

I agree wholeheartedly, to my surprise. Giving people the tools to do whatever they wish is a failure of design.

you see this panned shooter that wasn't even popular 20 years ago? Erm yeah it's actually great!

And here's why the ever-popular new game that the majority of people are enjoying is bad!

Kek

exposing parameters turns ferocious hellspawns into emotionally sterile bots with a basic set of instructions

This already happens if devs program scenarios to counter the player's knowledge of the game, which is pretty likely in bad games where the player's tools are fundamentally too powerful.

Wrong.

changing the difficulty on the fly means that the difficulty is just how spongy the enemies are and how fragile you are.

Literally just use one of the presets. Problem solved.

This is like complaining that a game has gtaphics options.

NOOOOOOOOOO I DONT WANT TO SEE HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE!!1! I DONT WANT TO SEE HOW THE TEXTURES AND SHADOWS ARE MADE!!!!!1!1 REMOVE IT !!1!1!1!

Just turn the difficulty sliders to max ffs, like LASO on Halo.
Why is this a issue?

Difficulty sliders are the same to me as 5 preset difficulties. If your game doesn't have a single difficulty that all players must play, then don't bitch about other games doing weird customization ones.

Then don't change the settings? Lmao?

Exactly, that's why they're retarded. I think for them it's just the gatekeeping that they enjoy more than the actual game

does the game give you anything for beating it on x y z difficulty setting without changing anything?

i said it's "ok", not "great" you dumb tranny
i know you're baiting, but take a (you) anyway

Yeah whatever you fat contrarian, funny how you call people trannies yet you sit there playing Nintendo troon games

"I watched a video on youtube, I've beaten the game"

NOOOO YOU'RE NOT PLAYING WITH THE TOY RIGHT NOOOOOO FUCK OFF

Lmao how pathetic

Minecraft, the most popular game of all time, gives the player absolute freedom. You and the failed game dev in the OP are retarded nigger faggots.

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asshurt tranny, i never said a thing about nintendo, take your meds
no (you) this time

fat pussy too big of a bitch to reply directly

Yup it's a Nintendo player kek

im not readin all that

mc is a sandbox therefore doom should be one too

?????? you don't even deserve a (you)

This

giving the playesr le options is le bad

Kill yourself immediately.

bottom right - league of legends map

Custom mode should've been a reward for beating the game

This rly

That's a settings menu to make it more entertaining, since it's entertainment. What a fucking stupid kek.

Absolutely 100%. The base product has to stand on its own rather than

we can't make fun shit anymore, you do my job for me

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The game still has preset difficulty options. The sliders are all extra.

you can just.. not do the custom settings. each difficulty is still pre-set on boot, you can just tweak it IF YOU WANT. i dont see the issue here. it feels like another variant of "difficulty options are for casuals". its annoying. also im gonna be a disingenuous faggot for a sec and mention that system shock 1 let you customize the difficulty of every core aspect of the game, and that game is still beloved.

Kek

lmfao returnal
inside
imaging playing leftist propaganda
its 1 thing if they woke up a old game
that shit is literally made by dykes and ballless men

freedom in how to approach challenges

nearly every Zelda

the intended experience

just ignore the menu and use the default settings :)

He didn't work on Witchfire

Funny thing is, I think the type of "broad audience" that needs granular difficulty sliders is also the type of audience least likely to spend time in menus tweaking those sliders.

Revealing too much of the game's inner workings ruins its magic!

That's gotta be one of the most retarded things I've heard today. I've used console commands and cheat engine to tailor difficulty experiences all the time and I still let myself be immersed. Literally a skill issue.

FROM SLOPWARE IS SOOOOO HARDCORE IM A REAL GAMER XD

AM I RITE GAMER? YOU REMEMBER THE HARD BOSS FROM DARK SOULS RIGHT XD?

Dark Ages sucks and fuck this faggot.

He's completely right.

last I checked Minecraft wasnt an AAA game.
It was an indie title that got massive on its own that Microsoft is terrified of messing with too extensively.
And uh no, it gave you 4 difficulty options.
Not absolute freedom.
You had to mod that in.

Elden Ring's "you didn't beat the game" sentiment

Elden Ring's

Mate, that started as soon as co-op summons where a thing. You summoned, you didn't beat the game.

my favorite games -- GTAs, nearly every Zelda, Red Dead Redemption 2, FromSoftware's action-RPGs, Monster Hunter Series, Portal 1 and 2, Inside, Returnal...

I'm always amazed when Western developers reveal their gaming "culture" and it's always the most mainstream and corporate stuff possible.
It would be like an aspiring filmmaker wanting to teach you about movies, and starting by saying: "my favorite movies are Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and MIB".
Or a writer wanting to teach you about literature, and starting off by saying "I'm a huge fan of Dan Brown, Stephen King and *some bitch writing modern feminist literature that I don't even know the name of to use as an example*".

I'd bet a lot of money that most the retards in here that are against extra customization options are console babbies. Been modding games to my preference for decades, whether that means making them harder in a game like Doom. Or making something like Crysis 1 easier (more fun) with extra suit power.
The fact that people are complaining about extra options is baffling to me, especially when it's not mandatory and they still have tailored difficulties.
Internet is nothing but cry babies who can't let 1 stupid thought escape their mind without telling everybody else about it first

This mirrors my thoughts about the sliders. That is the developers job, not mine as the player. They clearly could not get the game to a fun place and/or had so much internal pressure to make the game accessible that the design collapsed and this was the compromise.

When you buy a new car it doesn’t give have you set the gear ratios and throttle curve. The .01% of people who want that know how to do it, and the rest just want a well tuned car.

I’ll take someone who honestly enjoys popular well-crafted entertainment over some hipster who pretends God Hand for the PS2 is le hidden gem. Or all the tarantino wannabes who pretend to like grindhouse schlock.

Tuning is done with an app on most cars nowadays retard, what a shit analogy