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DOOM - One Year Later
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Von Krukru
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A bit too long, needed more environnement and ennemy variety, and a real metal soundtrack instead of this weak OST. Gunplay and movement was perfect!
Panajev2001a
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Variety yeah, it could have been better, but cannot agree on the game being too long and the OST not being the best OST to grace an FPS in years (which it is)
.Chip N Chance
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I know the multiplayer has its fans, but it would have been really cool if they had completely ignored that aspect of the game and just focused on the Snap Map stuff. Imagine if the other half of this game was just Super Mario Maker but for Doom 1, Doom 2, and Doom 2016. Being able to make Doom 1/2 singleplayer and co-op maps, and have it be fully fateful to the original games. That along with the Doom 2016 map making and i feel this could have been something that had some serous longevity in the community. What we got was sort of a half step into that and didnt really deliver on either making old maps or new maps.
peanutbutterlatte
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Going to get dem Arcade Mode trophies this Summer. Absolutely phenomenal game. There is no Satan if we don't get DooM II
Of course, i remember now. lol
It's worth it.
Thank you for the input. With everything else the game has going for it I'll likely crack next steam sale
(some demonic heads that is).
It usually gets a nice discount in the Steam sales. I bought it in one not long after release at 40% off.
Angry Fork
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Didn't end up getting it because I wanted something like Doom 3 again, a slower/atmospheric story based game mixed with action when necessary like Prey is but with more horror obviously since it's Doom.
Instead it looked like a return to the arena fast paced blow up enemies stuff that I'm sure tons of fans love but isn't that interesting to me. It basically just seems like horde mode level after level, I don't really get the appeal of that as part of a singleplayer campaign, like you can do that in multiplayer. Why not do a slow, narrative-driven SP and then have the beat-em-up stuff in MP? Oh well.
It was on sale lots of times last year. 67% off a couple weeks ago.
https://steamdb.info/app/379720/
Instead it looked like a return to the arena fast paced blow up enemies stuff that I'm sure tons of fans love but isn't that interesting to me. It basically just seems like horde mode level after level, I don't really get the appeal of that as part of a singleplayer campaign, like you can do that in multiplayer. Why not do a slow, narrative-driven SP and then have the beat-em-up stuff in MP? Oh well.
It was on sale lots of times last year. 67% off a couple weeks ago.
https://steamdb.info/app/379720/
I don't know what to say man. The game can be had for as low as 10 right now. Why even bother with the official Steam price?
It's been on sale more times than I can remember, usually for around $20 or so.
CDkeys are selling it for $11.69 USD right now - http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/doom-pc-cd-key-steam
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Because that's not Doom. The first game had atmospheric sections, but it certainly wasn't slow-paced, and Doom should definitely not be narrative-driven. And I definitely wouldn't call the game horde mode. Ideally the sequel will have fewer locked arena sections, but I've played 55 hours and feel like it's not as prevalent as people make it out to be.
Isn't that just how it is to play a shooter with a console controller?
That's how it would look if I tried to do that
Only if you completely stink at using a controller. I'm pretty sure I could do it better than that, and I'm not very good at all at playing FPS with a controller.
Memnoch
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Yup
Fancy Clown
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Some of the best FPS combat I've ever played, maybe the best. But it needed quite a bit more level and encounter variety to really push it into greatness though, as the arenas really start to blend together.
I H8 Memes
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That would be my main complaint would be some of the level design. Too many arena style areas and too many areas with a plain design. A station on Mars should look and feel a little bit more like a station on Mars. With the kind of combat they are going for the game is going to need some big areas just due to the size of the enemies, but it got a little too rote by the end.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Vega Central Processing has some of the best areas in the game. It's just that it comes after the weakest Hell section.
Krauser Kat
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I love this game. I have 3 levels left to get Ultra Nightmare Slayer rankings in for Arcade mode.
ThatStupidLion
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Doom was an amazing game, that seems to not have been played by enough people and fell into obscurity too quick. cant praise it enough.
biggest annoyance was that the big battles were set events in closed off rooms though. just felt like there were too many of those and too predictable.
last third of the game started to wane on me though, so i just lowered the difficulty and sped run through
biggest annoyance was that the big battles were set events in closed off rooms though. just felt like there were too many of those and too predictable.
last third of the game started to wane on me though, so i just lowered the difficulty and sped run through
Danny O'Dyer talked to Hugo Martin (DOOM creative director) and Marty Stratton (DOOM game director) for a Noclip Session
https://youtu.be/AWtcEJvHiTc
https://youtu.be/AWtcEJvHiTc
The problem is that the mp was mediocre, the modding support sucked and honestly the level design is still better in the original. I'll take thought out enemy placements any day over boxed in arena fights.
Still a really good game that revitalized some interest in doom but the real kicker is the modding. OG doom has a pretty vibrant community to this day considering it's age and it will outlive many games to come.
mcwizardry
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Great interview.