Doom The Dark Ages Review

5mins of flying in the second level is cancer

Oh the humanity...

Why is this game trying to teach me how to play? Fucking bullshit!

Is there a way to disable the visual dash effect? I have auto sprint turned on but I hate the sound effect and visual effect

Whats the point of the plasma weapons when that long range skull crusher exists?

When have plasma weapons ever been not forgettable

>Weapons are mostly fairly balanced

They were balanced to a fault, because I never felt a reason to use anything but my favorite.

>Easily has the best bosses of any Doom game

don't you lie to me, I've seen the final boss

There's a "screen effects" option you can disable.

Whats the point of the plasma weapons when that long range skull crusher exists?

Incase you run out of ammo for the skull crusher

Skull crusher is literally the least useful gun. The plasma guns do more single target dps and the other does a chain stun on everything when you kill a heavy demon with it.

What's wrong with the final boss? They throw out a ton of projectiles to dodge and you need to keep shifting attention between both.

Speaking of the plasma gun why does it sound so bad? Not like an energy weapon at all. I keep thinking I'm firing the shredder.

I think it's because without fast weapon swapping they designed every gun to be usable by itself but you usually still have enough ammo to last a whole fight. To "solve" this problem you would have to turn down the resources but I'm not toying around with that until next playthrough

Thanks for this review anon, you are one of the few people that play games, I don't even know why I keep coming to this board, everything is just regurgitated "opinions" and "jokes".

I never used the wide one, but the second skull crusher was great because you could just hold the trigger and keep getting health and ammo back.
I'd rather not turn down the resources, because that just nerfs all the map pickups like 2016 did on Nightmare. The weapons portion of the game just isn't well-designed.

I just finished the first level. So far it's fun.

it's shit and boring

Nah, it's fun.

I'm playing with all the difficulty sliders maxxed out: 100% damage to demons, receiving 500% damage, speed to 150%, etc. and the game is still too easy.

Exploration is rewarding

walk around

find funco pop

walk around some more find dairy entry

"rewarding"

eat shit

I lost count the number of times I died to some random projectile

I haven't played TDA but that just sounds like 2016 early levels in Nightmare with those bs imp charged fireballs

Soundtrack is fine you're being a faggot. You dont like metal you like brain rot electro with djent riffs

I like it so far, I'm glad I started on nightmare, I feel like I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I weren't fully engaged in the mechanics to stay alive

Disingenuous nigger post.

It has the most generic "metal" soundtrack I've ever heard. Every level sounded the same.

My main annoyance with the game is the constant enemies just spawning behind you. So you'd kill everything then look behind yourself just to see an entire army of shitters that spawned.

Faggot detected. There's a toggle to turn off tutorials that you would have seen on first-boot.

great thanks naono

LAMOW didn't read, TROOM sucks + ur a fag lol

>Possibly the most enemy variety of any game in the series

Why does it feel like I'm always fighting Revenants, Arachnotrons, and Pinky Jockeys? Where's the Arch-Vile and Pain Elemental?

But yeah, game is gud.

Weapons are mostly fairly balanced

combat shotgun,pulverizer, and shredder are dog shit
when will they learn?

combat shotgun

dogshit

Lmao

At least there's variants of Arachnotrons and Hell Knights that have different attacks. Everything else just have an armored version that you fight in the exact same way.

even if it gives armor on burn it still sucks when super shotgun one shots enemies and they share ammo

You'd hate dead space if you dont like enemies constantly spawning behind you

"Mecha and dragon levels are okay"

Doesn't even mention how the entire gameplay is build around a shitty parry system in the negative section.

You should kill yourself instead of putting out IQ lowering statements on internet boards.

Retardbro the basic shotgun is literally twice as good as ssg. Use the upgrade that makes it fire three times and you literally never have a reason to use the SSG over it.

You are a complete faggot if you need a tutorial to learn how to play a Doom game. The only thing more basic than that Tetris.

I beat the first level on Nightmare just now. I'm surprised how much I like the look of it. I thought the levels would be boring. Finding things like the weird fish, cults and this thing made retrying after dying more fun.

Are you guy playing with or without auto dash? I want to move faster but at the same time it feels wrong/annoying somehow. Should I be dashing all the time during combat?

I know this is just finding things to complain about but why the fuck does borderless windowed not actually act like the game is windowed
It's annoying

You can adjust the difficulty settings on ultra nightmare

Lol there's about to be a bunch of "I beat ultra nightmare" fraud posts on plebbit.

stop obsessing over stupid shit like that

obsessing

Strange projection. Struck a nerve, fraud? I just find it funny.

I would call imagining posts on reddit obsessed

Except those posts literally exist on plebbit?

I wouldn't know

Thank you for actually discussing video games anon, I know that took a lot of restraint.
All joking aside, I'm hyped to try this out. If Anon Babble hates it, it must be fun

2 levels

HOW EVER DID YOU MAKE IT THROUGH SOMETHING SO ARDUOUS ANON?!?!
Kill yourself, holy shit.

the last shield rune you get being leagues better than the others

bruh, daggers are much better

best bosses of any Doom game

not true, it's the same shit as TAG part 2 blunder x4 times

Idk, maybe the original doom games? You know, the ones where the plasma rifle violently fucks anything you point it at? Also the heckin BFGerino uses plasma ammo, so it counts too fuck you.

bruh, daggers are much better

BRUH, the auto cannon is literally the best

(it lasts for so long that you can just use it to break all the armored enemies around you, daggers only sometimes work that well)

I can't get over the shield
It seems to trivialize encounters. But I haven't played it so I don't know.

No its not lmao. The stun rune procs all the time and stuns everything including bosses.

NTA I used the cannon when doing campaign on nightmare, but I think daggers are better because of the damage to the demons around you, which will help killing everyone faster, the auto cannon melts whats in front of you, but by the time you get it, you are already capable of dealing high damage to your main target, so the cannon becomes useful only against 3 enemies (komodo, cyberdemon and Vagary, since they have a lot of HP).

Dagger distributes damage better so it's superior overall.

siege 1 is fucking kino
wish there was some kind of an arcade mode in a map like that with random objectives and score

auto-canon

target only one enemy

can't even kill mid-tier demons

bruh

chad daggers

swarm of blue birds killing anything on their way

The only bonus from canon is health pick-ups, but health is not an issue by the time you get canon. Especially if you use shotgun which generates shields on a fly.

why would you need stun that much when other tools already give you much better ground control?

Game is NOT slow, far faster than 2016 and can definitely be just as chaotic as Eternal

Fuck off shill. We've seen the gameplay. It's slow as shit. It makes Shiternal's walking speed, which is half of 2016's, seem like an Olympic sprinter. And the mech sections are even worse.

Considering there is an option to disable the tutorials you clearly need a tutorial to disable the tutorial.

Turn up the speed to 150%

2 levels

Out of 22

Shut your goofy ass up, bro. On God you dumb as fuck, almost half the game isn't even fucking DOOM so what are we talking about here?

Parrying is faggot shit that doesn't belong in doom.

0/10 game because you need a gaytracing gpu despite looking the same as eternal

120-130% feels nice honestly

So far I'm enjoying it more than Eternal. It's slower but it does feel a bit closer to Doom 1 and 2 while still having loot pinata ammo refills. Maps are still feeling 2016/Eternal as far as secret finding goes which is tolerably fun. Each one might take a second or two to find when you start looking at your map but there's a decent pile to be found. Nightmare's been good, enemy projectiles track way more than I'd like, and being able to change the holo-Doomguy to the regular Doomguy pleased me greatly. It feels like a departure from Eternal but it owns, Doom continues to have never had a bad game

cool
I'll pick it up when it's 10 bucks

I wish I could run it on the hardware that ran eternal

Best thing about this game is no stupid fucking glory kills. I hate glory kills so fucking much. Having to pause the game and watch a 3-5 second cutscenes EVERY TIME you kill an enemy is what makes me unable to replay Eternal.
As for your post I haven't gotten to any of the bosses but I agree with most of this. It's pretty fun. The soundtrack is extremely disappointing which is kind of unbelievable because I thought the music really elevated the previous two games. It has that bland video game background music feel to it. There was one track where there's an actual melody but it's toned so far down you can barely hear it, it's like they had no confidence in making the tracks. The first mech level was VERY easy and I'm generally not having a very hard time on nightmare, the weapons and shield are fun. It's weird that some of the slow moving projectiles are not parryable because there's no dodge, your only option is to block as far as I can tell which is kind of lame.
My biggest complaint is the visuals. The game performs well but I just feel like it looks worse than eternal. The medieval dark fantasy shit mixed with sci fi tech does not mesh for me.

it's like Zoom Eternal

skip it is

Having to pause the game and watch a 3-5 second cutscenes EVERY TIME you kill an enemy

now you watch 3-5 seconds of melee animation...

Having to pause the game and watch a 3-5 second cutscenes EVERY TIME

Doesn't the every 3 seconds slow motion bother you?

My pc is down. Can I handle nightmare on xbox?

I feel like the dynamic music undercuts the ost, it doesn't get a chance to build up into the better moments of some songs. Story and side characters are quite weak and I have no investment in it. Gameplay is okay, combats fine. Aesthetics or visuals is fine but I prefer the more future-tech look.

It seemed like the main focus of the music was to sync up with the gunshots, it's most obvious when you use an automatic weapon.

Frame Gen required

I don't want to buy a 5080ti, my 5070 should be enough, it doesn't even look good or special. Man what is this garbage husk of an industry even

Frame Gen required

but it doesn't, I have no issues with my 3080

Nice blog, now fuck off to reddit

What I wanna know is, is it like 2016 where I can use what I want, or like Eternal where I have to play Inspector Gadget? I've been looking for an answer to know whether or not to buy.

I only used Nailgun and basic Shotgun
I even forgot about other weapons

reddit is completely in denial saying that the game is perfect

ok retard, except i don't believe you.

This game sucks man, i did the first 6 chapters and it felt fucking boring even on nightmare

buy an ad

the combat is fully built around the shield

Doesn't bother me nearly as much. I think the slowdown parts would be better if they were like half a second in length maximum but I don't mind them as they are now. At least I still have control of the character.

ok, faggot

and this no context reddit screenshot proves?

that you suck cock on daily basis

no Khan

even in the end

fucking lame

but soislayer, the benchmarks say no

too busy voicing Ventres for new CGI Star Wars series

This game is extremely underwhelming. It feels unfinished. I bought 2016 and Eternal on deep sales but I regret paying full price. The game just doesn’t have a personality. All the humor and strategy is gone. Thira is hot and then they have her voiced by Debra fucking Wilson.

Hugo needs to be sent to the shed.

nice shill post, still not buying your shitty pozzed game.

don't know what to say, had no issues with 7800x3d and 3080 10Gb
TAA is trash in that engine tho. Whom am I kidding, TAA trash in general

Why post when you obviously haven't played the game?

It plays a lot different compared to 2016 and eternal than I thought it would. It's taking me some getting used to

Also the performance is kinda shit on my pc despite not looking that much better than eternal. maybe I need to upgrade or maybe this game just needs better optimization idk

There is literally nothing as good as the shield rune stun for cc, retardbro.

thinking glory kills were mandatory in Eternal

You're the reason why we lost them. Thanks, nigger. For being so shit and not bothering to learn how to play.

I was bored with the game until hell (which is the best level in the game) and then it immediately tanks again with the shitty lovecraft garbage.

Fucking hell ID how do you screw this up

I have a 3070 and the game runs like dogshit without framegen @ 1440p so I simply don't believe you

plasma doing much better job with much wider spread and it also jumps on nearby enemies

buzzwords are my personality

We never asked for a parry slop mechanic in the first place tho

3070

sucks to be you

i have a 5070 and the game runs like dogshit with and without framegen at 1440p

Game is NOT slow, far faster than 2016 and can definitely be just as chaotic as Eternal

lmao you clearly were not very good at playing eternal

You have to kill a heavy demon to trigger it and it doesn't work on bosses vs shield rune which just requires you to parry and works on bosses. Pretty clear which is better.

we never asked for [mechanic that takes more skill than LMB]

I know, shitter-kun. It's asking a lot from you.

Meh, runs everything else fine for me
Unfortunate

OP sucks cocks. Here's a real review:
youtu.be/twLkmiw98Wc

you are not le good enough at le pve games

zoomers are so pathetic

Absolute bullshit. I have a 3080 and I maintained 100+ fps at all times.

God, this board is exhausting with so many liars.

I don't understand why it runs so much more poorly compared to eternal

DLSS framegen status? I mean i can boot up the game if you want

lightning

stun first so you could kill them

daggers

they kill enemies for you, so while they doing it you could kill others, who are not effected by them at the same time

yeah, no shit

not to mention 30xx doesn't support framegen

NOOO NOT LE HECKIN MICK GORDON

Clearly you didn't play on nightmare. Tutorial mode gamers need not respond.

Forced ray tracing.

nah, music is trash in this one
I can't even remember one track, while I still remember and listen tracks from 2016 and Eternal from time to time

PS3 graphics

Parryshit

Need top of the line GPU for the game to work

No challenge

Racing sections (LMAO)

Worst enemy design ever

Slow Motion shit

Mobile game UI

Worst bosses of all time

No Mick Gordon

is this the worst game of all time?

bruh, I've played on Pandemonium

Wait no i apologize, the game is indeed running at a silky smooth 60 FPS at 1440p on a 5070, i thought it was running at 15 FPS because IT LOOKS LIKE IT RUNS LIKE SHIT but apparently it's not running like shit.

That is because Mick Gordon's music is hella epic!

Off topic post?

This is the tenth time I'm asking this. Please provide a webm proof of the gameplay of Dark Ages being fun and engaging.

Ontopic post

FPBP THREAD

Average Mick Gordon enjoyer post, the game is good nigga it's just not as good as Eternal but still the best FPS in years.

PS3 graphics

get a better gpu if it looks like shit to you, you people seriously need to stop being poor

I like the new enemy designs and some of their attack behaviors but the arenas are all grimdark shit and they disappear into the environment

Just another one step forward, two steps back with the game

designated jeet seething post calling someone poor

it's so fucking tiresome, looks like shit, runs like shit , plays like shit.

Much less railroading than Eternal. It seems like your weapon decisions are dictated by range more than enemy type, and your shield dash (with a generously speedy recharge time) lets you close range easily. Ammo, shields, and HP still have specific triggers but they're not as integral to the loop as Eternal which had you tied to Glory Kill/Chainsaw/Flamethrower.

>PS3 graphics

get a better gpu if it looks like shit to you, you people seriously need to stop being poor

It looks like a PS3 game on literally all setting tho

Mech/dragon gimmick levels are okay

This was the biggest lie in that whole list.

As someone who didn't like any of the gameplay footage, I'll just say it feels completely different when you're playing it.

Great, that must mean you have a clip you can share with us.

Just because you're poor and still trying to play modern games on a 960 doesn't mean the game runs or looks like shit, Pablo and Rajeesh.

bot?

Even if the combat was Eternal level (which it’s not) the game feels lifeless.

generic hero dialogue about the slayer being in the vicinity

generic villain dialogue about the demons being afraid of the slayer

all story dropped until final cutscenes

Wooooooow so deep.

post webm playing the game or you're a fucking faggot.

You can literally just look up a video of someone playing on nightmare you giant faggot, but here:

files.catbox.moe/88rix0.mp4

Based

the game has way more cutscenes than eternal but it doesnt have a single memorable character or moment like samuel hayden and shooting a hole in mars. honestly pretty pathetic.

lmao

STAND STILL

PARRY

PARRY

GLORYKILL

RUN

STAND STILL

PARRY

PARRY

GLORYKILL

RUN

great fucking clip, m8

You really call this shit 'fun'?

Actually yea that does look fun

Huh, why did I already know you were going to be disingenuous from the start no matter what was posted?

Small dicked , fat and brown. Best of luck on your next life re-roll

they should've listened to carmack

they also could have listened to themselves? eternal was the perfect game

Oh neat they were actually a couple glory kills on the regular enemies. Does that only happen if you're jumping?

I told you if feels completely different when you're playing. Also the SSG oneshots all of those enemies if they have a shield stuck in them so standing still was never necessary.

r0fl

the idiocy of this games gamedesigners stares you directly in the face when you realize that you just dodged/chased a enemy bullet to hit you for parry that would have missed you if you did nothing.

John kills three Cthulus and becomes a zombie. If anything it was trying too hard.

shit I didn't know you get the shoulder canon later on, looks cool

is that supposed to be good? why is he going into bullet time every 15 seconds. and why is there so much space in the level to move around in. the floor isn't lava or anything it's just a giant field for you to move freely in with 0 consequence.

This but DOOM2 and the Master Levels

shilling intensifies

WTF is that John zombie stuff? I've never been a fan of zombies and it sounds reddit as fuck

I haven't played it yet but you liked the dragon and mech levels? Every review I've read says they are boring and repetitive.

plays pandemonium at 50% speed

play on 150% and we'll talk

a doom game in which you deliberately run into enemy projectiles that would have otherwise missed you.. fucking peak retarded you actually can feel yourself becoming worse at shooter games "effectively", you can feel how you become dumber playing this game.

All settings look the same. It looks like shit. Eternal looked better.

Air Dash, meathook swing and weapon switch mods waiting room

BRO THE GAMEPLAY IS NOT SLOW, HERE, JUST RUN IT AT 3000% SPEED THAT FIXES IT

BING BING WAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO

Reminder pic related is why the brown turd worlders are seething at this game.
Denuvo + need pc at least half a decade old to run it.
Expect alot of schizo posting about this game in the next few weeks.

What does that mean?

jesus christ why is this 10 hour game so fucking expensive?!

Case in point.
System specs also keep out retards who buy steam account access for a dollar.

Denuvo just needs a token
I pirated it for free

Is this a serious argument or obvious bait?

Objectively not true but you're just shitposting like most of this board.

why are you seething so hard when people call out your game for being shit, you massive faggot?

I refuse to believe this shit is on nightmare difficulty, it looks fucking easy and not even fun.

Free on Gamepass. Game is shit, might attract people into playing actual doom (DOOM1/2) which is cool

where's the bait? the entire gameplay loop of doom is fighting tons of enemies in tiny ass rooms and hallways or in restricted movement spaces. the entire challenge of doom is dodging projectiles in restricted spaces. what's the point of the game if you can just go anywhere you want and dodge everything freely? this looks more like fucking serious sam where you just circle strafe in empty fields the entire game. brainless ass shit.

They are boring but they're very easy so there's no reason to complain. There's like 3 mech and dragon sections in the entire game.

I think it's ugly. Eternal still looks good.

the entire challenge of doom is dodging projectiles in restricted spaces

Labyrinths and dungeons. Newer levels have open spaces with shit ton of enemies.

Oh, so you're baiting. Gotcha. Just gonna pretend Doom 1/2 didn't have a ton of open space levels.

Serious Sam is far from brainless

Got bored about 10 seconds in, way too much slow mo and way way too often. God damn that soundtrack is ass. Shit was putting me to sleep.

I think you're a dumb nigger who doesn't even own the game.

im tired of mick gordon cultists

shouldve released the soundtrack on time

I'm playing it. Quit throwing a fit.

I guess nightmare doesnt look bad. Thats the first clip that actually looked engaging
Soundtrack really is bland as shit though

Inversely, they should have replaced him with someone better than diet Amon Amarth.

artist's vision should be compromised in order to meet a deadline and sell product

I know it happens all the time, but fuck you

Amazing how something this try hard can look so boring

They dont even know what they like

Dude where is the BIG RIFF that repeats 50 times?? this is fucking mid

holy shit shut up

The boss levels obviously don't count. Or are you just baiting and counting on other people not having played DOOM like yourself. 30+ levels each game and less than 15% are "open space" levels.

Weapon swapping is too slow

Weapon swapping autism is what makes Eternal so shit, this sounds like a good thing

making situations in his head to win artificial argument with himself

that's just sad

Skill issue.

Mt. Erebus was a boss level?

Notice how in Eternal every location was not covered in mysterious fart mist.

clearly you’ve never played the original games, or even wads. you poser shitter.

enjoy parrying your giant 'open-field' slop with 3 enemies. if that's what retarded zoomer shills think it's fun.