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DOOM Eternal - Review Thread
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What an awful review.Eurogamer. No rating
Doom Eternal review - the same orgiastic thrills with a creeping weight of story
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie," the original Doom's programmer John Carmack once wrote. "It's expect…www.eurogamer.net
yeah how dare they not share your opinions on the game you haven't played
3.5/5
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Doom Eternal review: "Screams at you to move faster and to fight harder, and you can do nothing but obey"
Doom Eternal is a smart iteration of what came before it that occasionally stumbles under its own desire to evolve
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I don't necessarily agree that a game that's basically, "The first game, but more," is a knock against any sequel. I don't sign up for a sequel for something different.
Recensione - DOOM Eternal
Dopo il sorprendente reboot del 2016, il leggendario padre del genere FPS ritorna in DOOM Eternal, un seguito che promette di far compiere diversi passi avanti alla sua divertentissima formula ma prendendo anche ispirazione dagli episodi degli anni '90. L'attesa è finita: DOOM Eternal è qui, e...
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9.0
Because they complain about the focus on the gameplay, and do an extremely rude conclusion.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one to love the game. (My review is the ign Benelux one).
Great job ID!
Great job ID!
Looks damn good. Friday cant come soon enough!My review for ACG
Doom Eternal Review "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch?"
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"... a campaign that, for all its breaking of Carmack's ancient maxim, has a shot at being one of the best you'll play this year."
I can finally talk about the game, hehe. I loved just about everything, personally. The campaign is longer, more varied, more exciting. The battle formula is vastly improved, and smart additions like the fast travel and the cheat codes make replaying levels and exploration much more fun. The hub is full of excellent callbacks to not just Doom but other id games as well. Why "only" a 9.0 then? Because the game feels somewhat safe in its execution. It teases you with giant mechs, enormous demons, massive lore elements that throw the classics into the mix... but it's all played fairly safely, never moving away from the Doom 2016 formula, it's basically the same game but more varied and polished. And that is fine. But in order to deliver all this, they also lost an Arcade mode, the underappreciated multiplayer and SnapMap, so it's not a 100% full plate. But I'd lie if this wasn't one of the best FPS campaigns I've ever played that simply makes Doom 2016 feel outdated.
My favourite new addition is the Dash feature. Sliding into a glory kill is so fucking satisfying with that.
Animal Crossing
Persona 5 Royal
Ori
and now Doom hopefully *crosses fingers*
Eurogamer. No recommended badge.
Doom Eternal review - the same orgiastic thrills with a creeping weight of story
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie," the original Doom's programmer John Carmack once wrote. "It's expect…
Crazy to not even give it at least a recommended, but I stopped taking their reviews seriously a long time ago.
Despite sympathizing with the feeling that current Doom can be a bit too self-aware for its own good at times, I feel like the Eurogamer review is a little too overburdened by the sensation of what Doom should be rather than what it's currently embraced itself to be for the better while. It's been clear since 2016 that we're never getting a return to "Doom 1" style Doom, and while that may be worse in its own share of ways, it's also proven to be better in a lot of others.
Our review over at USgamer is unscored, because multiplayer servers went live, but I vastly enjoyed it.
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Platforming and a greater story focus messes up the pacing a bit, but it's still great.
13 missions, I beat it in 18 hours. You could probably do 12-15.
Doom Eternal review - cathartic combat, passable platforming, and stupid swimming
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Platforming and a greater story focus messes up the pacing a bit, but it's still great.
13 missions, I beat it in 18 hours. You could probably do 12-15.
Already 89 Opencritic, 90 will not happen.
So is the game mostly just a series of arenas again?
So is the game mostly just a series of arenas again?
Not at all. There's still some arena encounters but it all flows much more organically than the last game did.
While not recommending it and claiming that it's biggest problem is that it's more of the same. More of what lots of people called one of the best FPS campaigns of this gen.
Find the problem.
While also saying it could turn out to be one of the year's best campaigns. Like, I'm sorry you don't agree with this person who has played through it. His opinion is his opinion, he still clearly liked it.
Any word on replayability? I found it really disappointing in the first game that there was no New Game+ option to play through it all again (on a harder difficulty) with everything I had unlocked. Arcade Mode came later but also wasn't really what I was looking for. I ended up just playing through again on Nightmare, but wanna start on Nightmare this time and have some reason to keep playing even after finishing the campaign. Not sure the multiplayer is what I'm after, either.
It's utterly contradicting to not recommend a game you very clearly enjoyed, but what do I know.
From a professional writing perspective, it could certainly be stronger (putting it very diplomatically).
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As someone who never touched the multiplayer or snapmaps this sounds really exciting to me. Do the new mobility options add a lot?
You're right man, even though "Recommended" is an actual rating that Eurogamer employs in place of a score. Maybe they should have only let people who thought Doom 2016 was one of the greatest games of the generation review Eternal, that seems fair.
I've been playing this for 10 hours and I'm probably not even halfway. I'm fully completing every level with all secrets and that takes a while. I do so because the level design is fantastic and finding those secrets is super fun, even if you can find some easier with the map. Fun addition is that you can fast travel in each stage once you're near the end.
Btw I don't think people are ready for how much of a
this is. That took me by surprise, but it's a lot of fun because of the mobility.
Most important: rock solid 60fps at 1080p on highest settings. Playing on a Ryzen5 with a 2070 super. Hasn't dropped below 60 once.
Btw I don't think people are ready for how much of a
first person platformer
Most important: rock solid 60fps at 1080p on highest settings. Playing on a Ryzen5 with a 2070 super. Hasn't dropped below 60 once.