"There is only one dominant lifeform in this universe, and it carries a steel-barreled sword of vengeance." is the kind of ridiculousness I crave.
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DOOM Eternal – Official Launch Trailer
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Honestly I don't really think there's anything spoiler oriented in it, which is cool. Everything has been essentially shown in some form already.
But I hear you, I'm already pre-ordered so it doesn't matter
I think above anything else credit needs to go to the writing and voice acting for making what could be the worst kind of lines ever sound awesome and bad ass. The fact that they salvage the old rip and tear joke and turn it into something pretty ominous and epic is a feat unto itself.
Absolutely. The lines are both written and voice-directed with confidence.
The original Doom has you trying to avenge your pet rabbit Daisy.
Wasn't that in Doom 2, as Daisy dies at the end of Episode 3 in Doom 1?
Edit: Ah, no. You go back to Hell in Episode 4 to avenge Daisy.
I love dumb cheesy lines like that and this one from New Vegas: "God sent us two angels, and at least one of them had a .308 caliber flaming sword of justice with a telescopic sight."
It's because they're playing it straight. The devs clearly know this stuff is ridiculous, but in the context of the game world it's taken super seriously. Dumb stuff can easily be ruined if the game winks and nods too much, but when it goes full serious the dumbness comes full circle and becomes awesome.
Just change the mob for demons and it's basically the same story.
A fricking Doot skin.
Just need an Isabelle skin for the Doom Slayer and we're in business.
"Your rent's due!"
Just need an Isabelle skin for the Doom Slayer and we're in business.
"Your rent's due!"
It's building on the mobility focused, push forward combat of the first game. It'll work really well for what they're going with.
Doom has always been silly. Doom 2016 was no different, it was self-aware, and quite funny at times.
If Romero is a hidden boss this will be my GOTF.
Can we at least get his head on a spike somewhere??
I know and it's why I did not particularly liked 2016. I did finish it, but I lost the story halfway through and I absolutely despised the gore nest mechanics/arena style/horde gameplay. So lame.
The old DOOMs are way more serious and grounded than this. I just prefer the Doom 3 way over this. I prefer more mystery and horror.
Also I don't really like all the platforming I see in Eternal. So on top of the unicorn suit there is a grappling hook, a dash, again a double jump and you can swing around poles, and then there are trampolines everywhere so you can jump really high. I'm almost beginning to question whether this is DOOM or Super Mario.
I'm sure the game is really good and fun to play and will get stellar reviews, but I'm just not feeling the setting and the direction they're taking.
Maybe they'll satisfy me with a Quake 2 remake in the future. With a 1:1 copy of the intro please. :-P
That's certainly fair, I also prefer some of old Doom games' style to an extent and the fact you are not forced to fight all the time, but they are different ways of doing it things. After all, there's a great community that created tons more levels of Doom-quality, in fact surpassing the original Doom probably, not necessary for id Software to retread those grounds. But to be fair, Doom II was already rather silly: it only didn't have jumps and such because they simply didn't have the tech for it yet, but stuff like The Chasm shows they were really into the advanced acrobatics shenanigans already, even though it made literally 0 logical sense from an organic building structure point of view.
Doom Eternal seems to be building up to a love letter to the Doom universe, the Doom lore, the Doom phenomenon, full of callbacks, quotes and taking its ultraviolent concepts to an ironic extreme. I'm personally excited about that but I can see why somebody would rather get a more serious approach.
What a stupid statement. DOOM 3 was also NOTHING like the original games. You are remembering things very wrong.
It's very difficult to trounce and make DOOM (2016) look stale but they've gone and done it. Also, I'm glad that this game got completed before the corona virus ruined the party. I'm automatically assuming that dev teams around world are affected by the current situation.
The wait for the Switch version's gonna suuuck.
Glad to see them delving into the mythos of the Doom Slayer. It was a neat element of 2016's storyline but unless you're one of those weirdos like myself that liked to delve into the codex entries you missed a lot of it.
Glad to see them delving into the mythos of the Doom Slayer. It was a neat element of 2016's storyline but unless you're one of those weirdos like myself that liked to delve into the codex entries you missed a lot of it.
Approach will be same here.
There is A LOT more story and lore, but just like in 2016 you have to want it and go looking for it. They want keep gameplay in front.
I guess what I mean to say is that we've finally shifted away from "Oh hey it's demons on Mars" and into something else finally.
Doom 2 technically got away from that, but the game was so limited in scope back then that it wasn't really apparent.
Yeah, exactly. The game knows how dumb it is, but wholeheartedly rolls with it with confidence because it's having fun with it.
It works so much better than a game that feels like it's constantly looking back at you to check if you're laughing, like a gearbox game.
Thanks for the compliment.
At least it's grounded, dark and had some seriousness to it without ADHD jumping around and unicorn suits. More like the originals.
Avoiding the trailer for spoiler reasons
but if the trailer as Doom's gate playing I will definitely watch it... can anyone confirm/deny?
but if the trailer as Doom's gate playing I will definitely watch it... can anyone confirm/deny?
Exactly how it was described in Doom 2's ending! Its body was enough to wreck an entire landscape as it died.