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[evilromero]

Are the ears of both of you guys from an alternate universe? The Doom 3 theme is totally different.

On-topic, I wouldn't say this concept as a game is terrible - after all, we'll never get to see exactly how it plays - but I agree that this definitely is not a Doom game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVygDd_BUNw
The Doom 3 menu theme. Give it time. It goes into the trailer bit at about 0.44.

 

[Ixion]

How so? It is the same piece of music from the 30 second to 50 second mark. Or at least a cover of this track, or some alternate version of it from some beta build of Doom 3.

Dude, it's a crappy cover of the E1M1 track from the original Doom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw

Did you even play Doom? C'mon son.

 

[jem0208]

I feel like I'm the only one who thought that looked pretty cool. Hardly doom but still pretty awesome. I love the gritty apocalyptic style.

That I also loved Doom 3. Even though it terrified the shit out of me.

 

[MMarston]

How so? It is the same piece of music from the 30 second to 50 second mark. Or at least a cover of this track, or some alternate version of it from some beta build of Doom 3.

It's actually a (shitty) cover of the original Doom theme man.

 

[evilromero]

Well that looked next to nothing like a Doom game. I think Hell On Earth would be great if they could do a modern version of it, but that was definitely not it.

How would Hell on Earth look then? Because how it looks in that shot of the portal opening up in the sky over the city is pretty much how I imagined it back in the 90s.

 

[MMarston]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVygDd_BUNw
The Doom 3 menu theme. Give it time. It goes into the trailer bit at about 0.44.

lol whatever you guys say

Spoiler

It's not

 

[evilromero]

Dude, it's a crappy cover of the E1M1 track from the original Doom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw

Did you even play Doom? C'mon son.

That is NOT the song playing over the trailer I watched. I think there are several versions floating around. One of them was linked on DOOMWorld from Dailymotion and featured the Doom 3 Menu Theme. Have you played Doom? C'mon son. Stop it with that crap btw.

 

[Ixion]

How would Hell on Earth look then? Because how it looks in that shot of the portal opening up in the sky over the city is pretty much how I imagined it back in the 90s.

I think Hell on Earth would work better if it was both set in the future and Hell began terraforming Earth to give it a more unique look. This version just looks like a present-day apocalypse with demons.

 

[MrCunningham]

It's actually a (shitty) cover of the original Doom theme man.

I think we are watching two different videos:

https://vid.me/70wz - I didn't even notice this one as I instantly clicked on the higher quality video.
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2015/05/footage-of-cancelled-version-of-doom-4.html - This is the video that I am referring too.

 

[evilromero]

lol whatever you guys say

Spoiler

It's not

Jesus fucking christ. THIS is the video we're referring to: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qm8r7_videogames

It is. No stupid spoiler tag needed.

 

[MMarston]

I think we are watching two different videos:

https://vid.me/70wz - I didn't even notice this one as I instantly clicked on the higher quality video.
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2015/05/footage-of-cancelled-version-of-doom-4.html

Ohhhhh there we go.

Now this totally makes sense now.

 

[Ixion]

I think we are watching two different videos:

https://vid.me/70wz - I didn't even notice this one as I instantly clicked on the higher quality video.
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2015/05/footage-of-cancelled-version-of-doom-4.html

Ah, my apologies then. Should never doubt a Doomie.

 

[EBE]

looks cool. would like to have played this.

 

[MMarston]

Jesus fucking christ. THIS is the video we're referring to: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qm8r7_videogames

It is. No stupid spoiler tag needed.

Well, you could've just said so.

My apologies either way.

 

[evilromero]

I think Hell on Earth would work better if it was both set in the future and Hell began terraforming Earth to give it a more unique look. This version just looks like a present-day apocalypse with demons.

So you see how two Doom fans have two different versions of how Hell on Earth would look? I'm sure lots of people had the same feelings about how Wolfenstein was updated from W3D (or even the 2D predecessors).

To me Doom can be many things. I don't mind seeing it expand the universe. I want to see the initial invasion on Earth. That very moment when the shit hits the fan. Doesn't mean one way is wrong. There can be both. Fortunately, games have the ability to produce sequels for this very reason.

 

[MrCunningham]

Ohhhhh there we go.

Now this totally makes sense now.

I thought I was losing my mind too. That E1M1 cover is hilariously bad.

 

[ViolentP]

I don't think it was that bad. I'm a sucker for a story and I like the idea of getting invested in the Doom universe.

 

[Ixion]

I want to see the initial invasion on Earth. That very moment when the shit hits the fan.

That would still be present in the idea I laid out, since the terraforming could happen over the course of the game, almost like the War of the Worlds film. Perhaps that even happened in the cancelled version, but we just haven't seen it.

I would just have the time period set further in the future, since hi-tech environments and weapons are part of the unique Doom aesthetic. We could still see the initial invasion, it would just happen in the year 2048 for example.

 

[evilromero]

Well, you could've just said so.

My apologies either way.

I think someone needs to post a direct link to the video. I'm kind of surprised it's not there considering that's what the central discussion is about.

 

[mtm5925]

edit: too late

 

[Shredderi]

Yeah not what I would expect from DOOM. I think I could take it as a new IP or something.

 

[daveo42]

I think Hell on Earth would work better if it was both set in the future and Hell began terraforming Earth to give it a more unique look. This version just looks like a present-day apocalypse with demons.

Exactly. It looks far too much like a traditional urban setting that's been shelled to hell with demons coming out of a gate and seems pretty safe in terms of making the setting feel way more unique.

 

[Stevey]

NVM

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Eh, I would play the hell out of that, just don't call it doom.

 

[NervousXtian]

That wasn't even a real trailer.. it's just hinting at what's about to come.

 

[Rockk]

Wow, that's even worse then I thought it was going to be.

 

[G-Fex]

Doom 1 would have been militarized ass if smarter heads hadn't prevailed!



Cutscenes inspired by Alien, boxy brown and gray hallways based on real military bunkers because Carmack thought they were "more efficient" and "more realistic," it was all there in the earliest versions. Look what happened after Romero left. Quake 2 was a military action game starring gung-ho space marines following objectives, then Doom 3 was a game filled with gray corridors because it was more efficient for the engine.

glad things didn't end up that way. Or we'd never get the Chasm or Dead Simple

 

[Buttonbasher]

There was also that leak of like 170 pieces of concept art back in 2012. This leak is more or less just that stuff in motion.

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2012/02/doom-4-more-leaked-images.html
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2012/02/rumor-doom-4-cancelled-leaked.html

 

[The Lone Courier]

It would look good if it were its own game.

 

[Diablos]

It would look good if it were its own game.

I disagree with this. It looks extremely bland and uninspired. Gears of War with more polygons and slightly better lighting. Snooze.

 

[jerry1594]

Gears of Killzone: Modern Duty

Pandering hard to the dudebro audience.

Yeah, the other Doom seems like it's more refined and suited for the sophisticated neogaffer.

 

[The Lone Courier]

I disagree with this. It looks extremely bland and uninspired. Gears of War with more polygons and slightly better lighting. Snooze.

Ehh opinions and all that.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Agreed with some others here. I think if it didn't have the DOOM attached to it and got released as something seperate entirely, it might've been pretty fun. I would love Call of Duty to enter a Doom-like world mixed with Homefront.

 

[kd-z]

I'm not surprised, but still a little bit baffled by the reaction this kind of news often gets. Mind you, I have no nostalgia or attachment to Doom whatsoever, I'm just too young for it. So I kind of understand people who miss a game in a style they haven't had a chance to play in a long time.

On the other hand, I like there being more new games, not just more of the same. It's a bit like the people who responded to BioWare's cancellation of that co-op modern day thingie with "yeah, they better get back to making Mass Effect 4!" Yeah, let's have less new games and more old ones! Admittedly the situation here is quite different, it just reminded me of that.

An interesting thing is the idea to start a game as one thing and then reveal that it's actually something completely different. Like you guys've been saying: start it off as a CoD-like and then BAM, it's actually DOOM. I'm not sure that's at all possible with games these days due to how news, reviews, streaming, marketing and budgeting works, though. Would be rad, that's for sure!

 

[Ixion]

Yeah, let's have less new games and more old ones!

It was new for Doom, but not new for gaming. An evolution of the classic Doom formula would actually be much fresher than something like this.

 

[gabbo]

An interesting thing is the idea to start a game as one thing and then reveal that it's actually something completely different. Like you guys've been saying: start it off as a CoD-like and then BAM, it's actually DOOM. I'm not sure that's at all possible with games these days due to how news, reviews, streaming, marketing and budgeting works, though. Would be rad, that's for sure!

That would be an interesting take on the Doom story. Hell opens up, those people go to fight, bam lone survivor is Doom marine