What the fuck happened here?

Dark Ages Atlan and Dragon sections are universally reviled, and rightfully so. How do you fall for such amateurish mistakes? What was EXACTLY the idea here?

The Lair on PS3 market has been untouched for decades.

What was EXACTLY the idea here?

DUDE... WHAT IF DOOM... WITH DRAGONS... LIKE MY HECCIN GAME OF THRONES...???? WOAH SO EPIC

Everything about Dark Ages was a complete misfire.

God i loved that game when i was a kid

I have an important question: Is the dragon female?

This review actual has me more interested in trying it out.

Easily impressionable zoomercattle with fried brains saw the mech and the dragon in Doom Eternal and starting asking about it, like a child that doesn't know what's good for them, so ID gave them this slop. Anyone who knows about game design knew this was going to be a shit idea, but normalgroids were going to complain if they couldn't play their cringe power fantasies.

I was thinking the same thing my entire time playing because I am Drakengardpilled but I found his codex page and no, Serrat is male.

they thought the doom comic was actual lore and memed it into existence

I genuinely couldn't believe what i was seeing when i got to to the dragon section, straight up mobile garbage gameplay, uninstalled it right there and then, thank god for gamepass, i would have been pissed if paid full price to play that shit

because I am Drakengardpilled

So you know Angelus is male, right? Male VA in japanese and all, nevermind his male name.

no

Shit game then.

Angelus

lol

actual lore

boot up Doom Dark Ages

3440x1440, Ultra Nightmare, DLSS Quality

20 FPS

boot up Doom Eternal

3440x1440, Ultra Nightmare w/ added post-launch Raytracing ON, NATIVE RESOLUTION no upscaling

160 FPS

So id is just fucking done for I guess. Thanks Microsoft.

Is TDA the most critically panned AAA game this entire generation? Not even AC: Shadows had this much criticism.

Meanwhile, people will bash you over the head with a rock if you say the PS5 and Xbox have far fewer issues reaching 60 FPS at 1440p. We HAVE to play on PC, there’s no choice.

Not to mention the fact that audio mixing is absolutely FUCKED. I didn't even realize there was a soundtrack at all it was so infrequently heard over all the bullshit going on. It's not the greatest thing ever but fuck, man. I feel bad for the guys who made it lmao

nu doom always sucked, been saying this for 5 years now

le epic story

le chosen one

destiny tier artstyle

fucking forced camera animations chopping up the gameplay

reddit music

its just not doom and never was

mario galaxy ass boss fights

Onions watch Metalocolypse once and now Doom is full redditcore

Yes the mixing is bad, and it shares a lot of the issues Eternal's base game/DLC had with really poor mixes. Whoever is running that shit at id is a fucking amateur and/or moron.

It definitely doesn't help that the music is incredibly generic and nowhere near as good as the prior 2 games. I'm something of a metal snob I'll admit, but it sucks real fucking bad.

careful, neo Anon Babble will shit down your throat because most of them were still in diapers when 2016 released

The art style is identical to the early games, just higher resolution, hell Dark Ages is basically 1:1 with Hexen.

Hey you know what would be awesomesauce!? Dragons! CYBER Dragons! You ride a sick-ass dragon and blow shit up with it!

Approved!

Do we have anyone that knows how to do aerial controls or combat?

No!

2016 almost has none of that shit

This is genuinely just the step further after Eternal's awful new lore and story, even before the DLC it was trash

it's like what I can see a 7 year old thinks is "metal" and "badass". maybe the hugo fag has a kid and he made this game for him

How is the dynamic range of the soundtrack? Haven't played it yet but what I hear the music is brickwalled to shit and then played at low volume.

The music is all very muddied and the dynamic elements of it they're trying to mix in and out of combat make it much worse. You end up hearing the most generic, boring intro riffs over and over. The industrial, more electronic sound is completely gone so there's no real variance in what you hear at all. As far as "metal" goes.. it's more like very basic hard rock. The instrumentation is so boring.

it's "identical"? the imp, soldier, cacodemon, revenant, archvile look EXACTLY like the old games?

The only good and true dragon riding game, yet Anon Babble will never talk about it.

Yes?

inb4 no they aren't

They are close enough, nobody cares, stop being a killjoy.

Reminded me of the way Bayonetta games change things up, but executed way worse. There's no natural flow to them and both styles of gameplay are so clunky and slow.

What was EXACTLY the idea here?

That a lot of this game feels like it's just throwing its hands up and trying to placate complaints about the last game, and I don't know about you but I remember people LOUDLY complaining about not getting to play as the mech in Eternal

meanwhile anyone that's played more than five pve shooters is aware that vehicle sections blow chunks 9 times out of 10

They are close enough, nobody cares

okay so they aren't then. retard

This is why you get banned everywhere you go, being rude and pedantic.

Guys like Hugo Martin have kids, yes, but they aren't their biological children.

The game has such goofy, teen fantasy feel despite the "le dark" ages, combined with insanely repetitive gameplay.

You could say how the other games, or even every game is repetitive given that each one has its fixed design. But fuck me, the parrying, DESPITE being satisfying sometimes, creates this feel of absolute misery.
The previous 2 games simply didn't feel like the kiting and dashing overstayed their welcome like this mechanic does.
Shield would be cool, if it was just additional mechanic, instead of being the key focus of everything.

Gunplay is even worse. Shit look, shit feel, shit damage because the shield and melee is dealing so much damage to compensate. Worst BFG ever as well.

Also, watch them make that Boss Bitch, super special Wraith woman the new playable character in the DLC.
Id still isn't done jumping the shark, despite already flopping.

Putler has fused with Satan, thus creating SUTLER

Only Doomslaya and the Doomvengers can stop this threat to democracy

*shot during the battle*

*SphereHunter jumps on a demon and breaks his neck using her legs*

SphereHunter: Captain Zelensky, there are too many, we can’t hold them back!

Dave Rivera: My cyber forces are fading. Grummz must be behind this!

*Doomslaya and Isabelle rip through enemies using chainsaws*

RIP AND TEAR!!

*Sutler approaches the battlefield*

*Steve tries to attack him with his chickenjockey ability but is repelled*

Keanu: This is the end of democracy…

*A bolt of energy strikes from space*

Rick Sanchez: Ursula?!

Kojima: Hi, Ursula-san,I'm Hideo

Ursula Von der Leyen: Hi, Hideo. Do you have something for me?

*Ursula takes the Infinity Funko Pop*

*Sutler charges furiously at Ursula and they clash with equal power*

*Sutler uses one of his Infinity Funko Pops to attack Ursula and steal the final one*

*Doomslaya’s dragon tries to strike back at Sutler but is slain by him*

Steve: No!

BetterMan: murderer! You killed Dragorino!

Doomslaya: My friend…*furiously approaches Sutler* You killed my friend! Now how will I share his pics on r/chonkers?!!

*Doomslaya and Sutler fight brutally*

Sutler: This is your end, Slayah!!!

*Isabelle steps between Sutler and Doomslaya*

Isabelle: Slayah…forgive me.

*Isabelle is mortally wounded*

Doomslaya: NOO!

*Sutler takes the last Infinity Funko Pop*

*Steve jumps on Sutler trying to snatch the last Infinity Funko Pop but is easily defeated*

Sutler: I… AM INEVITABLE

*Sutler snaps his fingers but nothing happens*

*Steve looks at Sutler with a smile despite being badly wounded*

Steve: I… AM KYIIIIIIV

*Steve snaps his fingers, eliminating all the demons and thus saving democracy at the cost of his life*

It's a very pg13 feeling version of le dark hellmetal. Not surprising given Hugo Martin is a stupid fat normalfag who "wanted to create a DOOM my kids could play."

The issue here is that there is 0 interaction or relationship build-up with the dragon.

1. Slayer arrives
2. Slayer receives dragon
3. Slayer flies.
4. The end.

It is as sterile as vacuum. Riding cool dragon is only cool if there is some setting, backstory and a theatric value. But we didnt get any of that. That's why Serrat sacrificing himself at he end literally meant nothing.

And gameplay sucks because you have a tiny confined level where you can land on EXTREMELYT specific landing spots and you can do it only ONCE. It is the most retarded approach.

fans of classic Doom will enjoy similarities in the larger areas

What "classic Doom" is he talking about here? 2016?
Doom was about monsters ambushing you in close quarters while you navigated tight environments and had to be wary of specific assholes having line of sight with you while you fought off other demons. Not circle strafing in open spaces and locked room arenas until everything was dead.

what happened?

game is trying so hard to be cool but wraps around to being uncool because it's the product of people that were never cool

millennials happened.

Is there a term for something that tries to be metal and hardcore but doesn’t really commit to the bit?

Reddit?

Yeah, who in the world thought riding a cyborg dragon with machines gun attached would be fun. Crazy.

poseur

Poser, a term that was lost when it became cool to be a poser for online clout

other posters beat me to it with "poser". ironically, the metal band tee posers of yesteryear that couldn't name a five songs from the band they were wearing are the nugamers of today, that have completed less than 10 games in their lives (and on easy difficulty) and still insist on have strong opinions about them.

Yeah that describes this game perfectly.
Wears the facade of being like a playable album cover but look a little deeper and it’s all pleb mahvel shit.

they should have used these bits to break up a regular level in half and made them mostly just cinematic transitions with some minor interactions
they dont really work as the entire level

nuts.wad

Music Producer REACTS to DOOM: The Dark Ages Soundtrack:
youtu.be/ryL7cwaN_Fk

digibros we won

This describes like 99% of fans of anything ever.

Atlan is fucking retarded the dodge mechanic instead of a block with energy shield or the bot abrehands when you lok at them in the abckground moving like pacific rim not weigless ACs with dodges also the "empowered perfect dodge shooting" making a giant gatling useless

more funny anon the stupid dragon dies against the final boss in a clicheé of saving THE SLAYAH of geting speared and killed again by bad guy and that thing pissed of enough SLAYAH to revive and beat the bad guy like it was daisy 2.0

still mindbroken that the Eternal tortanic attempt didn't work, huh?