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Doom Eternal previews
- Thread starter Theorry
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yup. me too.
i've seen enough to know i'm getting it. don't need to see more.
That opening was nuts. Like a demented Space Marine Batman prepping in his orbiting Batcave with "At Doom's Gate" back. lol I love it. Shades of Fury Road in the opening too.
They really throw all the weaponry at you fast and early too. This month is gonna be hell to get through so hopefully IGN throws more vids out through the month.
They really throw all the weaponry at you fast and early too. This month is gonna be hell to get through so hopefully IGN throws more vids out through the month.
The pacing in that intro is bonkers. They're throwing heavy enemies (Arachnotron) at you 10 minutes in, meanwhile in 2016 it takes until level 3 until you fight a Hellknight.
I really like the decision of throwing away the pistol and making the combat shotgun the default. It looks excellent but I hope they don't shoot their wad too early and the last few hours don't become a slog.
I really like the decision of throwing away the pistol and making the combat shotgun the default. It looks excellent but I hope they don't shoot their wad too early and the last few hours don't become a slog.
i guess it makes sense story/lore wise as in doom 2016, doomslayer was awakened from a long slumber and started his quest very far away from the main action (hell).
in eternal, i supposed the game opens not "long" from the end of doom 2016 (doomslayer getting 'robbed' by Hayden and being teleported away).
I think it makes sense to give the players alot of weapons early on. 1 it allows them more freedom to ramp the game up earlier since the players will have more tools and all the weapons will continue to evolve over the course of the game with mods
I do hope these bright green weapon pickups are purely for demo purposes, I thought it was awesome how you got the combat shotgun from a severed corpse or the entire segment leading up to the BFG in 2016. Although I am getting wary..
This game does not fuck around, you're in the action immediately with them double jumps, the shotgun and all the huzzah. I can't wait.
No, it's part of the game's aesthetic.
You might be able to toggle off the glow though.
Big respect for the IGN player, very skilled and entertaining to watch. Some missed shots aside it's almost like a developer demo.
It's good to see IGN assigning a skilled player to showcase new games instead of...you know. Anyways, props to whoever is in charge.
It's good to see IGN assigning a skilled player to showcase new games instead of...you know. Anyways, props to whoever is in charge.
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The way you acquire the Super Shotgun in this is way cooler than how you got any weapon in DOOM 2016. I'm hoping there's a lot of those kinds of little surprises or one-off sequences like that in the rest of the game.
I watched the IGN's video showing the first 10 minutes and my already-high hype skyrocketed even more. Nice skills from the player as well.
Nevertheless, I've got some questions about the story because the beginning looks a bit disconnected with 2016's ending
If the slayer got sent to an unknown location in the previous game, how did he end up in the fortress of doom? Did he spent the 2 years that separate the two games doing fuck-all while the forces of hell decimated the earth and its population? How did he end up with Vega installed in his suit and a sleeve-less armour showing his biceps?
Nevertheless, I've got some questions about the story because the beginning looks a bit disconnected with 2016's ending
If the slayer got sent to an unknown location in the previous game, how did he end up in the fortress of doom? Did he spent the 2 years that separate the two games doing fuck-all while the forces of hell decimated the earth and its population? How did he end up with Vega installed in his suit and a sleeve-less armour showing his biceps?
I was just complimenting IGN for putting up a decent gameplay showcase. For once they put someone skilled to demonstrate a game, as it should be.
Nah I feel like every preview Halo video from IGN et al has someone playing it who just doesn't get how to play properly, so nice to see Doom being played well.
The Slayer dowloaded a copy of Vega before destroying its central core (in order to open one last portal to Hell and close the Well in Argent D'Nur).
Yeah I knew that already, but
"I have many regrets"
didnt Vega require like a MASSIVE nuclear-powered facility in order to cool its core? How did the slayer manage to get it running in his Praetor suit? That was my question
I guess we'll have to attribute that to the magic of the Praetor suit. Didn't this thing get supercharged with Argent energy in the Well long before 2016 events even started, making the Doom guy into the Slayer?
Nanomachines son. Woops, I mean argent energy. I think it's mentioned in several codex entries in 2016 that the Praetor suit/Slayer can absorb plenty of argent energy. You can imagine that this might be enough to power VEGA.
All these spoiler tags are making me wonder if I should replay DOOM 2016 and actually pay attention to the story.
Well, I guess I already am replaying it, but on nightmare and it's... Pretty absurd. I don't expect to get much further than maybe a couple of hours in.
Well, I guess I already am replaying it, but on nightmare and it's... Pretty absurd. I don't expect to get much further than maybe a couple of hours in.
Those were my guesses as well. Hope its all clarified properly in the game!
It was probably a developer showcase. They knew the level already based on how well the movement was.
That'd be cool.
And since Hayden is present in some form, I guess we'll know what happened to the Slayer between 2106 and Eternal.
I never got further than the UAC on Nightmare. I'm not bad at the game, but it's way too hard for me.
You could replay the game on Ultra-violence and read all the codex entries. They're pretty fun and actually interesting to go through.
Yeah we go back, the first gameplay reveal and E3 2019 gameplay was on Phobos and Mars.
Yeah that was a bit off but then maybe they'll incorporate a flashback level? Or maybe the footage was edited to hide an actual prologue aside from the opening we saw, but I doubt it given the weapon drops.
His armor is explained on the Fortress tho. His 2016 gear is there in his den where he's obviously used it to work on and refine a new Praeter set.
nightmare gets significantly easier as you get more tools. the beginning few levels are the hardest.
The in-game story is extremely bare bones because they tucked everything away in the codex. You could catch up on lore by opening up an endgame save and just looking through the codex there.
The codex is surprisingly solidly written. Usually game codexes are just flavor text that have inconsistencies because they were obviously written by a few separate people in their spare time, but doom 2016 has a surprising amount of attention to detail there. The lore is internally consistent, and I didn't notice any glaring asspulls in its explanations.
I don't think downloading a copy of VEGA requires that much power, its just running him does. So maybe the Slayer's base in Eternal has some demonic/argent energy directly channeling or powering up VEGA. Since Eternal starts in media res, getting VEGA going will fit into the flashbacks or whatnot
That makes sense. Vega runs on the Slayer's desktop in the hub and serves as some sort of handler/informer from above, providing updates and support.
I bet Hayden built all that, again, as a fail safe for the slayer to take advantage
DOOM Eternal: 12 Minutes of Battlemode 2v1 Multiplayer Gameplay - IGN First
Game director Hugo Martin talks us through a match of DOOM Eternal's multiplayer called "Battlemode."#ign #doometernal #gaming
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Of course it was played in a controlled environment in ideal conditions, but this looks a lot better than it sounded. I like how tactical it seems to be with the delayed respawns, the mid-battle upgrades, the loot blocks and whatnot. My only fear is how it's going to clash with the reality of online gaming: your demon teammate leaving as soon as you lose a round, the lack of a time limit which will bore some players, and so on. I have the feeling you'll have to endure through a lot of toxic or bad matches before you'd get a good one every now and then. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong.
Thank Satan I'm not the only one who noticed this. It looks absolutely horrendous. Very basic and dated look about it.
Do they still have the in-game options menu as a black background with green neon boxes?
I've been playing doom 3 and I miss the creepy elements that were in this one,the new one isn't as creely,I hope eternal is more like it.