-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
DOOM Eternal Reveal - Information Roundup
- Thread starter AgentStrange
- Start date
It's not shit posting... The game is very similar to the first it isn't hard to figure out how this one will play.
Personally I find it nearly impossible to figure out how a game plays from five minutes of staged footage released several months before actual release, but I'm glad you were able to synthesize the fraction of the game they showed into a comprehensive analysis of the finished project and complain about it for us.
I have played DOOM on all difficulties (except Ultra-Nightmare) and I have never experienced the game getting easier over time. Some of the late game rooms and challenges are brutal
The only nagging complaints I have about this are:
1) There's loads of enemies around but don't seem to do anything. Hopefully this is just for the demo (not sure why you'd show off super slow DOOM, mind) and the full game has things actually attack you.
2) Why would Doomguy need a knife
1) There's loads of enemies around but don't seem to do anything. Hopefully this is just for the demo (not sure why you'd show off super slow DOOM, mind) and the full game has things actually attack you.
2) Why would Doomguy need a knife
Doom 2016 made Doom 3 completely irrelivant, if it wasn't already. It's a historical artifact of the progression of graphics, that's about it.
OP
OP
On Eternal or the 2016 Doom? Because Doom 16 has an X patch.
Bets on this being "heaven"?
I think this may be related to the DOOM novels. Don't want to spoil anyone, but if it is, then it's not "Heaven".
My only real problem with Doom 2016's campaign was that, imo, the level design took a hit as you progressed further and further into the game. The earlier levels just felt more satisfying to explore.
needs to be added to op:
-will still have to wait until nvidia benchmark video to see how the game actually plays because bethesda marketing loves the walk key
-will still have to wait until nvidia benchmark video to see how the game actually plays because bethesda marketing loves the walk key
Lol?
I suggest you pass on this then because actual gameplay will be at least 2x as fast if the DOOM 4 marketing cockpiddle to actual gameplay difference is the same here.
So they gave Doomslayer predator armor, a grappling hook on a shotgun, and a sword? I'm fucking in. The setting, new demons, everything looks awesome. Hope they nail the tone of the story stuff again. It sounds like they're leaning hard into the Verhoeven esque corporate speak, which I'm totally down with.
Mortally challenged lol
Mortally challenged lol
I know maybe it's not really a major gameplay component, but I'm definitely liking that there was a point about more "lore" as I did really enjoy the Lore entries in the first game that would accumulate as you progressed through the campaign. Looking forward to more of that for sure.
The literal entire point of Doom is to feel like an unstoppable killing machine, just like how Doomguy is portrayed in canon. Difficulty is not the defining factor of what makes a game good or bad, even then, there's multiple hard difficulties to choose from.
Glad to see the Archvile making a comeback. Summoners were cool and all, but that is just so much more what I wanted aesthetic-wise.
Also I'm starting to realize that making your main character in anything more like the Predator works out pretty damn well. More franchises should take advantage of that fact...
Also I'm starting to realize that making your main character in anything more like the Predator works out pretty damn well. More franchises should take advantage of that fact...
Dunno why
Being tethered to the old consoles means this was always going to be a highly iterative sequel. It's not like DOOM 4 left a ton of room on the floor hardware wise for them to squeeze things out of the system to do new things.
OP
OP
The multiplayer will be developed internally this time
https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom-eternal/doom-eternal-multiplayer?amp&tw=PCGN1
https://www.pcgamesn.com/doom-eternal/doom-eternal-multiplayer?amp&tw=PCGN1
Not really, no.
They need more RAM and CPU bandwidth to do basically anything people actually wanted out of DOOM 4 such as roving hordes, bodies on the floor, more elaborate enemy ai and encounter design, denser /and/ bigger maps, etc
At most we're gonna get a lot of half steps to them here. Especially if they're at 60fps across the base consoles.
The only thing I don't like is that the level still looks a lot like those of DOOM 2016, despite being on Earth. Could use a bit more visual distinction.
Otherwise, it seems like the DOOM II to DOOM 2016's DOOM.
Otherwise, it seems like the DOOM II to DOOM 2016's DOOM.
Human npcs, "doom universe" and invasions sound real iffy. What made the first game so fresh and special was that it eschewed so much standard modern game design.
Speaking of which, anyone sad that the chaingunners aren't back?
Because you're a god damned monster if so >=\
Especially UN runs there's a point in the game where it becomes a lot easier to go without dying. Most deaths in a UN run are at the first areas of the game.
Arcade Mode even, it is far, far easier to get UN Slayer medals like 5 or 6 levels in than the first few (and even then there's a very stupid scoring system where it's very easy to do it you understand how medals work). That being said, arcade mode has a more balanced difficulty because of what is required to get medals.
The actual campaign gets progressively easier over time and it's a definitive fact of poor campaign design.
I hope it doesn't follow them to closely, those books had some issues.
What is it then? Spoil me.
EDIT: Oh no. I think I know what this is now.
Last edited:
Hmm I can't fully agree. It's a good game for what it tried to do, which was something different. For what it was, I thought it worked pretty well.
Hell yeah, I'll second that! I got so incredibly hyped up seeing the OG plasma rifle. Having faithful variants of all the other weapons would be ace.
Exactly. Counter-Op was something Rare pioneered. It was a major mode in Perfect Dark, the greatest FPS game of all time, and Banjo Tooie featured a mostly functional implementation where another player took control of random enemies to attack Banjo, which was disabled in the final game but can be restored via gameshark.
I guess it's reflective of "everything was Dark Souls" gaming culture, but what Doom Eternal is implementing sounds like asymmetric counter operative where other players take control of enemies. It's wholly distinct from Dark Souls mechanic where you enter their game as a symmetric character. The asymmetry is very important. The main player has the position of strength, but as their opponent, you can keep coming back. You're cannon fodder, but savvy cannon fodder.
so Demon's check under their bed for this man at night?
Naw son. Demons don't sleep at all because of this man.
"The age of his reckoning was uncounted. The scribes carved his name deep in the tablets of Hell across eons, and each battle etched terror in the hearts of the demons. They knew he would come, as he always had, as he always will, to feast on the blood of the wicked. For he alone could draw strength from his fallen foes, and ever his power grew, swift and unrelenting."
"None could stand before the horde but the Doom Slayer. Despair spread before him like a plague, striking fear into the shadow-dwellers, driving them to deeper and darker pits. But from the depths of the abyss rose The Great One, a champion mightier than all who had come before. The Titan, of immeasurable power and ferocity. He strode upon the plain and faced the Doom Slayer, and a mighty battle was fought on the desolate plains. The Titan fought with the fury of the countless that had fallen at the Doom Slayer's hand, but there fell the Titan, and in his defeat the shadow horde were routed."
It's tiring to always be the last survivor in a bombed out hellscape. As long as Doom guy keeps his personality I welcome actual living humans in the plot
...said personality being "You assholes screwed around with Hell and fucked everything all to shit and I gotta clean up this fucking mess...
AGAIN."