Doom The Dark Ages

its $1 on game pass you dumbass

What? People beat this SINGLEPLAYER GAME and moved on. What's the problem?

Companies don't know what gamers want. It's over.

so what's next for John Doom after Dark Ages?

people beat it and moved on

The MH Wilds defense I see.

hey guys whats the most hated part of doom eternal

uhhhh
the shitty marauder?

lets make a game around that

No one bought it, no one wants to buy it, let alone spend their time playing it. But sure keep telling yourself the sold millions of copies and those millions of players have finished it, retard.

The most tumblrtwitter choice would be a Steampunk setting.

All three are a parody of Doom.

Blatant rip off of international Karate+ on the commodore 64

based on the sales, retirement

Nah, 2016 was an actual attempt at making "Doom, but today."
It's not great, but you can see if if you look past the bullshit obvious "we need to add this because MODERN GAMERS" like the halo ass 'story' etc.

lol it has less than half the max concurrent players Failguard did
and we remember how that turned out

SHUTUP BIGOT
ITS ON GAMEPASS

which does nothing positive for the success of the game

Holy shit that's true. Kind of odd I don't see this being pointed out everywhere, I wonder why.

The thing that even id didn't understand was that 2016's "Halo ass story" was actually good. Everyone was pleasantly surprised by it (unskippable cutscenes are a technical problem, not a story problem).
But it's like id heard none of that praise so they decided to go all in on Marvelshit instead.

Gen Z doesnt play games, they watch people play games

good thing dark ages is boomercore slop for

*Cracks beer* YEP ME N THE BOYS DOIN MAN STUFF MANLY MAN YEAH WE BADASS *cranks dragon handlebars*

basedbeared millenials having their mid-life crisis

I feel this game came about from a misunderstanding of what people wanted out of nu-Doom.

Eternal felt like they had somewhat of an understanding of what people wanted and expected out of a Doom 2016 sequel, just that they went a bit too far in certain aspects and some of it didn't work. It coming out right at the start of the lockdowns, the Animal Crossing x Doom memes and good word of mouth about 2016 helped Eternal immensely in the sales department.

In an Xbox Direct presentation, I remember they mentioned the theme for the gameplay in Dark Ages was to "Stand and fight" as opposed to "Run and gun" and "Jump and shoot" of 2016 and Eternal. It's clear they designed a lot of the game around having a shield which might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it just leads to less interesting gameplay as opposed to just going around and shooting shit while avoiding attacks. I feel the decision to slow the game down and focus on blocking/parrying certain colored attacks made the game seem a bit boring and slow compared to the previous 2.

Doom Eternal felt like it went too far in taking what worked in Doom 2016 and amped it up in terms of the gameplay/combat at times. The Dark Ages feels like Id heard the criticism some had about Eternal and overcorrected and made a game that is far too slow and less interesting as opposed to something at the pace of Doom 2016.

It also seems that the developers wanted the game to be "epic" and "badass" but failed to realize that Doom 2016 and to an extent Eternal were already that, not because of setpieces and cutscenes, but from the gameplay itself. Doomguy doesn't need to do "epic" and "badass" stuff in cutscenes, you the player should be doing "epic" and "badass" stuff in the gameplay.

Should have added cooking mechanics

I actually like Doom TDA. On my third nightmare run, with modified game speed and parry window. Getting bored, but 2.5 consecutive runs is a good sign.

I do kind of want the game to fail because Id needs to be punished for forcing ray tracing. That single-handedly ruined the experience for 95% of players. All for some Nvidia shekels.

I still had a week of game pass left so I gave this game a shot. I forced myself to finish the first 10 chapters to see if it got better. It doesn't.
The parrying feels novel for a little bit, it reminded me of Cuphead in first-person. But the constant slow-mo ruins it.
The levels are too vast and the gameplay ends up feeling like a chore. It's like each objective is an invisible checklist. 0/4 portals destroyed. 0/40 demons killed. Be a good little slayer and kill all the mobs so the boss loses his invulnerability. It all feels like Diablo 4 or some shit, it's slop game design.
The kaiju and dragon segments are also braindead garbage. The game just doesn't have anything remarkable about it, there's no reason to play it.

so was Expedition 33 and Oblivion

This game is $120 AUD. Why? There have been a bunch of decent games this year <$90. What justifies this game being so much more expensive?

eternal also had denuvo cracked day 1 because of bethesda leaking the denuvo-less exe which made them remove it immediately from the official game which improved its performance and increased the buzz around it when pirates played it
well, here they have their denuvo-infected game with forced raytracing. I hope they enjoy their sales

make sure to download tunic and carrion on gamepass

I might try it when it gets on sale for 5 bucks. Is the parry window as big as it seems in some videos? Sometimes it looks like the green thing super far away and the guy still gets the parry.

The parry window changes based on the difficulty you choose

I might try it when it gets on sale for 5 bucks. Is the parry window as big as it seems in some videos? Sometimes it looks like the green thing super far away and the guy still gets the parry.

The default parry window on nightmare is huge. You can even parry things behind you.

muh le moved on cope

two friends tried playing this shit on gay-pass
they both quit at the dragon part
one called it busywork
one called it "gay faggot woke shit"
second friends kinda weird ngl but he prob right

Hopefully Hugo is fired and nu-doom/DA SLAYA is finished

I think this game is better than Eternal in literally every way. 2016 remains the best but this isn't too far off. The plot, which is an Eternal holdover, is primarily what's holding it back.

There's a retarded story involving some Stronk Womyn that keeps interrupting the gameplay.

At this point it probably is just some lefty's wanky writing taking too much oxygen (yet again) so may as well just call it what it is.

Wilds having only twice as many players as World is crazy to me.

people can't run this game because its an unoptimized piece of shit

Anons said the same about MHWilds and that got a peak of a million. That can't be it.

And what games are these 2 usually playing?

lol im still on 567.02 from april
game ran butter smooth compared to my two friends who updated their shit for the gameready drivers

Boku no Piko, Natsuyasumi, and Otokonoko Delivery
whats it to you

I don’t understand how it’s woke

lol im still on 567.02 from april

the fuck, drivers are the last thing you look at when you need a 50 series card for med 1080p

you couldnt see how spiderman 2 was woke either you manchild fuck
stop skipping leg day

bruh i played on high/some ultra or w/e at 1080 on a 4070ti 12gb
it ran at like 70-80 FPS (All the upscaling shit off, fuck that gay smeary shit)
dont underestimate how fucking awful nvidias last 2-3 driver releases have been
or youre a lying fucktard or something
idk

Wilds did well solely off hype (which TDA didn't really have), it tanked super-hard almost immediately

or youre a lying fucktard or something

no, i've seen their charts, thats where i m getting my infor. i m not giving nvidia any money.

I liked him better when he was just doomguy

or w/e

Everyone who says this is just a liar.

i forget if its called ultra or very high, OR W/E
niggerlet
was only two options anyway, everything else was high cept shadows
shadows turned down because nvidia has been faggots for 6 years about shadows shitting up the performance unreasonably

I don’t watch or play Spider man stuff though. How is dark ages woke?

microsoft game

is anyone actually surprised?

what freezes more
doom the shit ages
or the Anon Babble catalog

Too expensive?

It's "only" 70 for you thanks to regional pricing. In yurop it's 80€ which is about $90 of your american burgers right now.

sounds like your pc is ass

sounds like im a retarded faggot who doesnt get whats being said because autism stops him from picking up social cues

nice blogpost idiot

this was a filler game as is, it basically did nothing but explain muh wraiths and add an excuse to throw quake in it like a multiverse. they don't know what to do with their stupid setting they feel so indulgent on, they may as well just fuck off to a different IP

Not sure why so much of the story seems to be centered around that one dyke, who the hell plays a Doom game for some random stupid cutscenes showing characters no one cares about?

2016 was an actual attempt at making "Doom, but today."

Only two or three maps felt like that. 80% of the rest of the game is just Painkiller, especially the entire final third.

Does this get added to the "get woke go broke" compilation because of the difficulty setting thing?

i said attempt
i didn't say success

this game is just a excuse to try and revive quake again isnt it

The SLAYA riding the dragon like it was a Harley is possibly the only kino thing about that shit.

I'd rather take that over 100% Painkiller.

Obviously it's a pipe dream but can you imagine if GTA6 flopped? It would cement the collapse of the industry.

It really feels like it lacks the replay value of eternal but I don't know what it is

Eternal literally retired him, then they went the prequel route but didn't do the 2016/Eternal bridge that people actually wanted. Should've committed to a new Quake or something entirely new

Honestly? It just might happen. I know it sounds crazy, but with the cost of living shooting up everywhere, a completely insane dev cost, and cockstar wanting to price hike, it's very likely that it will under perform.

it sucks

What? People beat this SINGLEPLAYER GAME and moved on. What's the problem?

i said attempt

I know what you said. It was wrong.
I don't even dislike 2016, but you can tell the devs weren't fully confident in several different aspects of the game and its relation to the IP's roots (look up their initial intention of having the soundtrack being purely digital-sounding because the lead devs thought the metal sound would be considered "too cheesy"), instead only shoving in more classic Doom-esque stuff around the end of development. The final result is more of a happy accident than anything. This especially applies to the presentation, a lot of which is made up of carry-overs from the cancelled Doom 4 project. Hell, the plot itself kept being heavily revised until within a year from release

Makes sense Eternal and Dark Ages ended up skewing in different directions after the fact. Funnily, Eternal is where the devs actually tried to make a "Doom, but today" from the get-go, but even that mindset ended up changing at some point after the game's reveal. Pic related was even intended to be the game's main look for Doomguy before they fell back on using an altered praetor suit, and I believe is even present in the teaser cinematic.

Crossover with Wolfenstein to punch heckin nazis!

Total Bethesda death

I wonder how much of an impact the Oblivion remake's success is going to have on the industry, or at least how Microsoft is going to start handling releases going forward. Maybe it's something they only get away with for Bethesda games.
Probably helped that the game was only fifty bucks.

Those are all roleplaying games, which are already high in the replayability factor. They also take a long time to complete, and some of those games have a big modding community.

They'll do a campaign dlc that ties Dark Ages into 2016, and after that I honestly wouldn't be too shocked if they got a B-team to remaster 2016 as an "anniversary" thing, giving the main id devs time to create a new IP (which they've clearly been wanting to do since Eternal).
After that, nuDoom can sleep for a while as Machine Games demonstrates their attempt at whatever their Quake project is supposed to be.

Is there anything in this game I would like if I didn't like Eternal at all?

It's still Doom 1 > Doom 2 > 2016 >> Doom 3 for me.

It's possible since this game really isn't that much like Eternal at all. That said, you might not gel with the large parry/melee focus the game's built around. That's a big part of what's making people saying "this game's alright, but doesn't feel that much like Doom."

Nah, they won't do shit to close the gap. They intentionally do not want to close the book on the period between Doomguy getting brought in and his coffin seal that leads to 2016, because they want to make more story content in the period. It was a literal open interview mission statement that Dark Ages basically can't lead to the coffin burial because of this.
Which just tells me they have no idea what to do after Eternal and are too afraid to depict the shit the few people that care about lore actually want to see.

Do they still even do a $1 deal? I looked and it's $12 even on a new account

the worst part of Eternal is the movement leading to an overreliance on platforming

cut back on both of these, making a true blend between 2016 and Eternal

Autists hate it and are celebrating the game's "downfall"

Make it make sense, is it just blind anti-Microsoft/gamepass hate or something more?

Dark Ages was the Doom love letter to Quake, so the next one will be the love letter to Wolfenstein and we'll see Doom but WW2. There will be a promotional clip of Doomguy punching a nazi. Debra Wilson will return but this time she won't be merely a voice actor, she'll have an entire character modeled after her. The game will release before the Elder Scolls Hammerfell game drops. Screenshot this post.

the platforming was the the only good part of Eternal

all muti-hour rpgs

lol great point, retard

Nah, they won't do shit to close the gap.

After Dark Ages' somewhat tepid response I wouldn't be so sure. It feels like they tried to bet on the whole "people want to see more of Doom's cyber-knights! lots more!" angle, which didn't really work out. With that in mind, it's not hard to imagine the devs shuffling their initial plans and using the planned dlc to relatively close the book on all this night sentinel stuff, with any future nuDoom games focusing more on traditional Doom-like settings or even more cosmic-themed junk (which people seemed to resonate with more in comparison).

Probably helped that the game was only fifty bucks.

must suck for poorfags that 50 is the new budget price lmao

WORLD WAR DOOM

All these years and there are shitbads still malding over the fact they they were filtered by Eternal.

More like dark ages of Doom

OOF

World War 1 trench warfare but DOOM

Doom weapons styled as WW1 guns

Unironically sounds kino

Honestly I'm still trying to wrap my head around their direction in the first place or why they went so off the rails.

2016 is UAC, Mars and Hell places, nothing too much to talk about being too off the mark, though there's all this weird codex lore about Night Sentinels and Argent D'Nur that the Doomguy fought with that people scoured over at first, and the devs being coy about being a full reboot or a sequel since they weren't sure if it would land

Eternal triples down on being a sequel while quoting the comic directly for the memes, suddenly gets super indulgent on the Night Sentinels like they're the coolest thing ever and Doomguy's bestest buds for the ones that didn't turn traitor, the background lore is super important to shit making sense like this is 343 Halo writing, you get some sci-fi base and city stuff but half the game is Hell and fantasy planets of Sentinel hold-outs

Dark Ages decides clearly people want more of Doomguy's Sentinel buddies, and while there's still bits of sci-fi, it's like almost entirely fantasy and eldritch stuff and abandons the franchise aesthetic entirely in favor of being up its own ass about the Sentinel homeworld, Cosmic Realm, and being basically Warhammer-lite, both original and 40K

It feels like the more they "find a vision" after 2016 was a fluke, the more it stops being Doom and starts being an original IP with Doom stapled on top.