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DOOM Eternal breaks franchise record for opening weekend sales
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It certainly deserves it. A fantastic sequel to DOOM2016. They could have phoned something in that would have done the job perfectly well, but they really went the extra mile to make it a proper sequel. It's absolutely brimming with new stuff and runs amazingly well to boot.
It's primarily a single player game. You don't need to worry about having a large player base for it's suceess. So how many copies sold is not as important as how much money it's making.
It rings better financially for the studio. Which is what's important.
I know, but sales numbers are cool to know.
Are they doing PR for the studio? Again, I understand it's a great result and revenue is more important than sales, but as someone that likes sales threads copies are more interesting metric.
People are more inside now. Wouldn't they buy more video games?
Not necessarily better. People are stuck in their houses with not much to do, so gaming is on the rise. We can also assume a huge rise in digital downloads which have bigger profit margins. Doom Eternal is also benefitted from the fact that it came out relatively early during the Coronavirus crisis (at least on western countries) while people are still ok financially. I'm not so confident about other releases such as FFVII and even TLOUSII.
Nice to see. Doom Eternal definitely could have used another year in the oven, so I'm super excited to see what they can do with the sequel after another 4 years of development
Glad to see this and I hope it continues to do well. I remember at one point it seemed Like 2016 didn't do too well and wasn't getting a sequel and I feared Animal Crossing might have really sucked the air out of the room a bit for it.
This is one of the rare times I'm utterly baffled by the negative opinions on a game. Usually I can see where people are coming from when they don't like something but this one feels like I'm playing a completely different game than them. Not discounting those opinions of course, they're perfectly valid, just can't wrap my head around them this time.
All in all I'm just glad there have been three huge releases in the last few days and all three seem to be doing great. It's a fantastic time for that to have happened.
This is one of the rare times I'm utterly baffled by the negative opinions on a game. Usually I can see where people are coming from when they don't like something but this one feels like I'm playing a completely different game than them. Not discounting those opinions of course, they're perfectly valid, just can't wrap my head around them this time.
All in all I'm just glad there have been three huge releases in the last few days and all three seem to be doing great. It's a fantastic time for that to have happened.
Ive had a couple bugs playing Eternal, but another whole year?
Very nice, playing through now and I am enjoying it, definitely some things I would have liked them to do differently but still a fantastic game so far.
UK Sales thread are so absolutely 100% useless to extrapolate anything from that literally their only purpose is to weed out the people who have no earthly idea what they are talking about when doing so anyway.
Yeah sales are more interesting. Though given this is Bethesda ... I dont even remember the last time they shared sales? I think maybe Fallout 4?
Makes sense. It is the best Doom game.
The game is so well optimised across all platforms and the only bug I've heard about (something about Doom 1 and 2 being unplayable on PC) got fixed days ago. Why did it need another year?
Performance is indeed rock solid through and through, but it's the game design itself that needed another pass or two. In the later levels you really get a sense of how they just had to wrap things up asap:
- Level design becomes much more constrained, and instead of secret areas for all secrets, they have fewer secret areas with like 2 secrets in each
- Encounter design becomes much repetitive where every single fight seems pretty much the same - it's just every enemy in the game minus marauder (usually)
- The bosses are... yeah
- Weird UI things like the Final Sin level having challenges, but the Mission Select screen not displaying them like it does for all of the other levels that have challenges
- And just other weird inconsistency things like how there are more collectible currencies (suit tokens, sentinel batteries, etc.) than needed to actually unlock things
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I'm really happy to see this news. It's a good game. It makes my heartrate go too high from being so intense, but it's a good game.
But UK physical!!!
Great news, very happy for them. Will definitely play it, loved the first one. But they're currently cutting our salaries - drastically - at work and the situation is shitty all around because of the virus. So no money to buy nice stuff in the near future :-(
Great news, very happy for them. Will definitely play it, loved the first one. But they're currently cutting our salaries - drastically - at work and the situation is shitty all around because of the virus. So no money to buy nice stuff in the near future :-(
On my PS4 Pro, I've had it bug out a couple times where I get to a location, enemies don't spawn and I have to load a checkpoint to continue. And it totally crashed on me once as well.
I don't think those final few levels were that bad but I can see where you're coming from. They definitely don't have the creative set dressing that the others had. It's not something that can realistically be fixed with a year delay though. If you want a full design than that can take years and that's not worth it when the levels as fine as they are.
Oh, yeah. I forgot I got a spawn bug too. That's still not worth a year delay though.
Well deserved. Such a challenging, stressful but thoroughly rewarding experience, and one that's utterly jaw-dropping to look at on PC.
This - people forget that the UK market has mostly migrated to digital for PS4/XBO. So looking at a physical-only UK sales chart and basing sales analysis on that is pointless and misleading. And it's only one country.