"Instead they are wasting years trying to do the perfect doom game- eventually they will just start from scratch and rush out a game that will have nothing to do with the prototypes"

Hey it worked for Quake! :P

I don't really get what the fuck is so difficult about it, Doom is purely a scifi action shooter. So do that.

Perhaps they're trying to scratch the assholes of all the critics who will rip it apart if it's JUST a great action shooter, because that's apparently not good enough anymore you need all sorts of other shit like non-linearity and rpg'ness. But fuck them, I'd just make it a wicked action game, awesome visuals, and at least tell a good damn story with characters you care about. And of course a good multiplayer. It won't sell like COD, but it doesn't need to.

id tried to cater to the audiences' needs in Rage and it backfired. They tried to make doom3 a different game to doom1/2, and it backfired. 

but that worked out pretty well... They also did something very different with Orcs and Elves and that was really good too IMO.

The problem with Doom3 was that the neat horror stuff at the beginning devolved into just a backspawning every-room-looks-the-same pile of garbage. Rage was pretty good for the first half of the game, the game felt like it should have kept ramping up in action but it seem to plateau after the big boss in the middle and then get steadily worse. It also has the worst final level in any game in recent memory. 

I cannot figure out what they were thinking there.