Hey i just found out cthulhu is public domain. lets add him to the game!

I don't know what this means I haven't played the game. Doom Eternal killed any interest I had in what these guys are making.
Is the witch some character from the game? My issue is cthulhu should be something creators revere as a created thing, it has pedigree if cheapened in modern times. Seeing cybershit on him makes me think the devs don't hold him in the high regard fans do. He's essentially got chains minding him.

is beyond the pale

personally, i'm just miffed that they are using more alien designs rather than demonic ones
sure, technically anything can be a demon but Cthulhu is firmly in the alien category

ID has lost the identity of Doom long ago. The same studio or guys programming and designing have been making mishmash soup of ugly abomination covered in tech for decades.

They might have forgotten Doom was the demon one. Lots of people say Quake and Doom are sort of melded now, for the worse.

The Witch is a high priest of the giant Cthulu god, and is clearly working for Ahzrak to get him freed. For some reason, she doesn't see turning her god into a glorified kaiju-sized cyberdemon as a little blasphemous.

Maybe the fucked nature of it all is intentional. Maybe me seeing him with cybershit on him is supposed to be sickening and I'm supposed to want to free him.
Feels weird in a doom game, but this is some open world shit. I'm guessing they had to go off reservation hard to find things to fill the game with.

It's called planting seeds for the inevitable Quake crossover / new game.

OP retard BTFO

absolute kino

HG Wells stuff is already public domain, where's my Time Machine Eloi Morlock game?

Cthulhu is firmly in the alien category

Lol no he's not he's a supernatural horror. Aliens are of the universe.

Doomguy kills him and Hell resurrects him and adds cybernetics because that's what Hell does. Your god being dead is worse than him being alive with metal attached to him. Besides, it's established both Hell and the Cosmic realm are just working together to further their own means and aren't really allies.

Besides, it's established both Hell and the Cosmic realm are just working together to further their own means and aren't really allies.

Which is why I kind of have a problem with her not even batting an eye at that shit.

Witch will be back. Her lore blurb states she's just got a physical body for interacting with Hell. Probably be a DLC exploring the Wraiths and how they're connected to the cosmic realm.

He's literally from outer space you retard

AIIIIEEEEE NOT MY HECKIN WHOLESOME CTHULURINO!!1!

sure, technically anything can be a demon but Cthulhu is firmly in the alien category

Depends on how you view it, most consider Eldritch their own kind of entity that are neither alien nor demonic just a third overwhelming supernatural force.
Cthulhu is "alien" but also a godlike entity that melts human comprehension, calling it simply alien is a huge understatement.

Mi-go, Yith and Elder Things are alien; Cthulhu is leagues above them.

Your god being dead is worse than him being alive with metal attached to him

No, they all consider them space aliens. The 'cthulhu races' are just various forms of alien life living on other planets (sometimes earth).They are described in all ways as alien. The Mi-Go are pink crustacean things that can fly in space, they are just aliens.

cthulhu doesn't even make sense in this setting. he is not a physical threat, he just a big monster here. his ability to induce madness wouldn't work in this world as everyone is already used to living in hell.

Lovecraft is public domain

still no Dreamlands CRPG

Life is suffering.

I never thought the best part of a Doom game would be the Lovecraft section but here we are.
youtube.com/watch?v=4TwAdC0OLeI

At the same time though, Cthulhu is like low to mid tier in Lovecraft Universe and something like Yogg, Shub or Nyarlathotep absolutely shitcans him and everything else nearby.

Fun fact, the Mayan gods are void beings in the Lovecraft Universe and are WAAAAY above Cthulhu in terms of importance.

Rhy'leh isn't even in hell, this shit makes no sense.

he died

HE CAN'T DIE THAT IS HIS WHOLE GIMMICK

eldritch gods can't diACK

cthulhu's whole schtick is

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

It is how the Call of Cthulhu starts for Christ's sake.

If you simply use blanket terms and don't consider it worthy of further scrutiny, then absolutely.
But do you not think that the difference in scale, ability and the way they crack human understanding by simply existing is worthy of more consideration?
Or would you consider Nyarlethotep, Shub'Niggurath or Hastur as mere alien life?

In the same way that advanced technology is akin to magic, advanced life would be indistinguishable from gods.

If I remember right big C himself is just the high priest of another godly being.
Humanity is less than dust to anything above a Deep One and even then, fish dudes mostly consider us food or breeding stock depending.

The Eldritch beings of the universe break human understanding a prove everything that we thought were true to be false, even the science we came to rely on as objective mechanics of the world mean nothing in the end.

Deep One and even then, fish dudes mostly consider us food or breeding stock depending.

Just normal human police managed to kick deep ones ass

Yeah, well, Lovecraft didn't account for angry dudes with nine inch nails.

Read the material anon, they are literally just aliens. Randalph Carter mindswaps with one. He also later becomes a Ghoul.

then tell me why it got ACKKED by a Norwegian fishing boat?

cthulhu is cool and he's public domain.

He didn't, he regenerated rapidly and went back to sleep because the stars weren't right.

Finally artwork that acknowledges the bunny belonged to his dead child and his rages comes from his dead family.

there was already lovecraftian shit in quake 1 you underage retard, it looked way better than this generic crap

Anon, the family photo is Ranger's.

It was a Gurren Lagann reference. Lovecraft confirmed for bro.

yeah, yeah; keep talking, tough guy

what actually were they thinking?

game becomes more of an mmo than ever

enemy design becomes mmoesque to match

pottery

Remove the shoulder canons and this is just a draugr lich from ESO.

So does it actually say in-game that this is Cthulhu? If not it's just a generic beast that looks like Cthulhu.

look what they did to the cacodemon

Looks based.

is this the modern version of "the monster's name isn't Frankenstein"

Did you not notice they redesigned everything to give it a medieval look?
This has an actual in-unverse explanation: cacos mixed with some cosmic shit to create hybrids.

/thread

Actually he probably would have. The author of the Conan the Barbarian series, Robert E. Howard, was personal friends with H.P. Lovecraft and they exchanged letters and drafts. Early versions of Conan the Barbarian are actually considered canonically part of Cthulthu universe because it had so many shared ideas from Lovecraft.

So this was supposed to be a Quake game huh. Glad it's not since the game is shit.

what's cthulhus pet cat called?

People are saying it's some benched hexen reboot grafted to whatever they had planned for nuDoom 3

Shub-Niggurathman

People are retarded. TDA is nothing like Hexen.

game’s monsters are redesigned to fit in with the visual theming

this is an issue because ????

that's his grandma

It's nothing like Doom either.

Isn’t quake 6 rumoured to be in development by Machine Games though? Makes sense why they’d want to reintroduce those Eldritch horror elements if they want to do that shared universe thing they’ve always implied

skipping quake 5

bodied that freak

quake champions exists

Also them putting this whiteboard in the Indiana jones developer trailer was 100% intentional it. This isn’t concept art on someone’s monitor in the out-of-focus background, it would’ve been obvious as hell for them to spot this footage and take it out

I legit don't see the issue with this and I think the people PRETENDING (because there's nothing wrong with this from any angle) are just looking to be mad

NEW BAD. The same people who were shitting on Eternal when it released are now praising it as god's gift to man. The same thing will happen with the next Doom.

fpbp OP absolutely rekked like a moron

They’re making it into a combination of connect 4 and battleship

Isn't Cthulhu a priest to ancient gods? If so, then he fits nu-Doom perfectly.

Machine Games making a new quake

man the end of days must be near when these cocksuckers work on a new quake game, I hope these swedes burn in fucking hell

OP is probably a grandchildren of Lovecraft

enjoy your residuals oh wait.

It's probably how his works managed to survive long past the man himself. Dude had a wide network of friends who were also writers who would also reference each others works.

aren't demons in nuDoom just aliens though? They dropped any and all religious themes, and just made them otherdimensional invaders.

quake 1 did

If we're being honest here, Doom demons being interdimensional aliens was a thing all the way back in the 90's with the Ultimate Doom pack and the TnT Evilution levels.

It's not stealing because.... the "law" says it isn't

we are not a serious country

fuck yea i love valiant

Antisemitism isn't allowed here

A chimp can mangle a human, anon. What's your point?

Eldritch beings summoned by Nazis

Quake guy is jewish

last boss is Hitler

Cthulhu is in the game???? i will unironically play your damn game now. (im not really a doom fan, i only liked 3)

Yes.

you free him

he eats you

you kill him from the inside

Hell resurrects him

you fight him in a giant mech