Some suck, some are okay, some are good. I love the Baron design, the Revenant is fine (I mean, they didn't mess up Skeleton). Cacodemon is okay, Mancubus is... eh. Hell Knight is fine. Pinky looks good in screenshots, but his wobbly walk like the dad from Dinosaurs, and the tail, is just stupid. Imp is dumb, Possessed and all the other dumb Lazarus Event enemies are so generic I don't even really have further comment for them.

But that Baron? Yeah, I like the Baron. 

Holy fuck. Those monsters are... cute. Pinky and Mancubus have those big, swoony eyes.
Might as well call themselves Walt IDsney software.

Baron is okayish, I suppose, but they're trying way too hard at mimicking th e original... 

I'd like if they had also included the pinky from the Doom movie (the one with a wheelchair as back legs). That was a badass design, and would work well with the D4 pinky's behavior, leaving room for the D4 pinky to behave like the classic one.

But, well, the melee-focused behavior of most D4 monsters is similar to the classic pinky behavior already. 

concept art

#14 is pretty sweet! 

Monsters shall be ugly.. else there are not monsters...

... said Captain Obvious 

About the "on classic Doom, demons on UAC were an accident while on Doom 4 the UAC is bringing them on on purpose" thing, in the Doom movie the UAC was also experimenting on them on purpose.

I still prefer the classic plot, though. 

I also prefer the "oh shit we stumbled on hell's legions by accident and they are mad at us" is cooler than "lets play nazi doctor on these demons and have it bite us in the ass" for what it matters to the game which should be not too much. 

That previously leaked trailer has been released as the official launch trailer. It seems they edited some things here and there, but it's mostly the same. 

Fuck yeah.

Was that purple lady the arch vile? Looks really barlowe-esque. 

Doom 4 automap feelings 

I saw a screenshot of a map made in SnapMap and guessed it was a recreation of exactly that map, turned out it was supposed to be Doom's E1M2. Then I saw screenshots of the automap from the singleplayer stream and they still remind me of that map-a bunch of quadrangle rooms and corridors that sprawl off into dead ends. 

I see they cut the shot of the Halo energy sword. 

https://youtu.be/f8aU4MYDsOQ 

 

Very cool. Moderately confused my mind, so clearly emulating Doom 4 and its trailer, but using the e1 intermission screen to show progress... 

launch trailer looks cool.
First Doom Hard Difficulty Gameplay looks promising considering it's the early stages of the game. It might end up being a fun game despite the well known and widely accepted shortcomings of the "masked" health and ammo regen mechanic. But surely it will be interesting to play through even if the challenge factor will be greatly reduced.


RE: Arenas. I don't have a problem with them when they are giant and filled with interesting fights against insane hordes ala Serious Sam 3 or Serious sam the second encounter. Even in painkiller most of the time they were interesting. Different than doom, but certainly a more impressive and interesting game play mechanic than most modern games. I will surely look forward to serious sam 4.

Hl2 is sort of different as the arenas are really cramped and filled with unchallenging combat against few weak foes. Only exception are probably the strider fights but usually you can maneuver so little that the fun factor is greatly reduced. 

doom using vulkan.

Looking forward to seeing how the gtx1080 ends up being. I bought my 980 dec. 31, feeling like a total moron right now... 

Now that's some nice gameplay. The monsters used more projectiles and the movement was at a good speed.

I wonder if they were using cheats, because the guy already had a lot of weapons and that area isn't too far away from the beginning of the game IIRC. 

Minimum:

Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions); Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better;
8 GB RAM; 55 GB free HDD space; NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better

Ace. I can do the 55GB install space....and none of the rest :D 

Killpixel you should feel like a moron for caring at all about the imminent release of the 1080 which will be hugely expensive and unnecessary initially when a recent 980 purchase is quite sensible. 

The 1080 is going to be $599 and the 980 is $540 (from amazon). Also the 1080 is more powerful than the Titan X, which is $1040 (!!!).

I've had my PC for a while now but I know family who recently bought a gaming PC that should have waited. 

Can't find that on amazon. 

As Fifth said, it's a fast card and aggressively priced. I even paid premium (over $599) for the SC reference version of the 980. I knew it was a bad move at the time and looked for any info on Nvidia's next series launch but didn't find anything. Meh, impatience has bested me once again.