welp, after several hours and three campaign missions, i can officially say im not a big fan of the game. in fact, i find it to be extremely annoying and im hardly having any fun
what an utter disappointment. everything about this game looked amazing, until i actually played it and just... its just not fun. it's tedious, overwhelming and infuriating to play. theres a good game in here somewhere, but they lost it by trying to throw in everything but the kitchen sink turned up to 11. but i can admit and see that theres a good game in here somewhere, and a good DOOM game at that, and im happy for those who are enjoying it.... but whatever this is, it aint doom in my opinion, and its not very enjoyable.
ill try and address the negatives by saying something somewhat constructive...
if they removed weakness spots/faltering/staggers, glory kills, chainsaw kills, and all of the recharge bars, and just added pick ups on the maps for all those things (including ammo... LOTS of ammo, and also increased ammo capacity) the game would be 5,000 times better, and id be enjoying the hell out of it. id be okay with how fast it is and even the platformy they just did all that.
as it is now, im ignoring all of that stuff and just depleting all of my ammo on all guns for every battle. then i go for one chainsaw kill, and again deplete all ammo on all guns, then rinse and repeat. its actaully fun as hell just blasting away at them, and ignoring the glory kills entirely! it feels like old school doom especially with the plasma gun, fucking love that weapon! so i decided if i can get that infinite ammo floppy, then i can just play the game like that and voila! problems solved (well, some probelms solved, not all, but ill take what i can get lol).
im begrudgingly forcing my way to the infinite ammo floppy disk, at which point i will start the game over on normal with that and infinte lives activated, and proceed to actually (hopefully) start having fun with the game. wish me luck!