Func_Msgboard: DOOM 4 IS GOLD (OMG)!

Posted by oh, that person on 2016/05/13 01:35:14

<Daz_> two minutes until were all DOOMed
<Daz_> and Marty Stratton can let out that huge fart hes been holding in during all the promo spots

Doom 4, aka DOOM (2016), is finally out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/379720/

Figured that a clean break might be a good idea, considering how the other thread has became monstrously huge and full of Bad Posting.

The questions at large:

- Is it a success for id, or the bitter end?
- Is the final boss a sprite of Marty Strapon's head? Or is it Willits?
- Will Friction spend another 12 years on a SnapMap?
- How many more words will it make Kinn add to his Trouser Thesaurus?
- Has than's wishlist for DOOM 4 from over 8 years ago come true?

*more enemies active at once
*better, more satisfying weapons
*COOP < most important thing
*larger environments
*more evilness
*more varied environments
*better level design
*no cutscenes
*heavier monsters used early on
*no shitty zombie commandos that can do somersaults and backflip behind cover. I don't mind the mutant ones with whip arms etc. but the regular z-sector ones were so annoying and not fun to fight.
*better AI on the more significant hellspawn creatures.
*mutant owl neck syndrome toned down
*monsters have finishing moves when they kill you, like in the first doom 3 leaked shakycam footage where the hell-knight eats the player's head. That kind of thing.
*the ability to use a flashlight and proper gun at the same time.
* No shit story involving an evil scientist. I can't believe they didn't realise how amazingly cheesy this idea was.
* Don't give it to Raven to develop.
* Properly fucking visceral weapons. Remeber the super shotgun in Doom 2? Fucks sake. Look at the weapons in Half-Life 2. Listen to the sounds they make. Take notes.

Anyway, discuss DOOM 4...

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#296 posted by Shambler on 2020/12/08 18:57:05

Played it, got used to the faff, marvelled at the graphics and amazing backdrops, wrote a guide to getting used to the bollox:

https://teamshambler.blogspot.com/2020/12/doom-eternal-real-talk-guide-to-dealing.html

Yes several months late. Apply for refunds at the usual address.

#297 posted by Strogg-Sothoth on 2020/12/09 11:49:26

"This is not the straight up action shooter you're looking for..."

Alec Guinness couldn't have said it any better.

You'd think a concept like "make a Doom game in a modern engine and add new monsters, environments, and backstory" would be a simple enough task, but no... Mission creep set in, and it became "fill an already cluttered FPS with every non-Doomy idea that comes into our heads."

OCRUD (Obsessive Customization Requiring Upgrades Disorder) is a disease of modern games which has no place in Doom. A Supershotgun should feel like a FRIGGIN' SUPERSHOTGUN from the time you first pick it up, not be nerfed to the point of useless until you purchase upgrades for it (though I did like the grapple hook thingy.)

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