As A Gamer... · 10:37am May 14th, 2016
I have absolutely no qualms about eating my hat when my preconceptions about a game wind up being false.
Doom launched yesterday, and while my initial plan was to wait over the weekend, the Steam reviews were so overwhelmingly positive, so very different from the beta impressions at 92% slowly making its way to 93%, I decided to pull the trigger. It took 18 hours to download, so I pulled out my large DVD booklet and stayed off Netflix and Youtube while it downloaded, fully ready to put in a request for a refund if I had any problems launching after half a day of downloading, as thousands were reporting in the forums. But except for some hanging in the intro screens the first time, everything started up fine. Except for shadows, I cranked everything up to max settings, and the 970 continues to impress, even with the 1080 on the horizon.
So allow me to say that there have been very few other times where I have been happier to have been wrong. So far, the single player campaign is everything I wanted it to be. I was afraid that Glory Kills would just be a gimmick and get stale after just an hour or two, but there's actually a bit of strategy to be had with it. Never before have I seen a shooter encourage you so strongly to be insanely aggressive. When I complete it on Hurt Me Plenty, I'm looking forward to finding out if you can take your upgrades with you to the next difficulty, because I'm looking forward to Ultra Violence, and if I'm really crazy, Nightmare.
In short, the campaign is incredibly respectful to old-school Doom, it's nostalgic as hell (pun absolutely intended), and the violence and gore are so intense and unforgiving that I'm looking forward to a school shooting being blamed on it in the future.
Now you're tempting me to play Doom mate...
I felt the same way when I downloaded it on Xbox. It was ready to play the Campaign at 58%, and the only things that were troubled by the incomplete download were a few textures on the edges of the maps.
The action was just to satisfying, the item descriptions don't feel too long (and are sometimes hilarious), and DOOM Guy is just so f^cking MAD at everything that it just feels so good when you rip out a demon's heart and feed it to them in a shower of gore, ammo, and health packs.
The only thing I feel bad for in this game is the Upgrade Drone.
So... are you saying you... doomed yourself?
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Like I said in the last blog you posted about this, I thoroughly enjoy the game. Just like Wolfenstein: The New Order, Bethesda's insistence that the developer take mind to pay respects to the game's roots and to capitalize on that instead of doing stuff 'completely new and flashy' like some of their former sequels really worked out. :D
3943608 Poor drone. It just had to let go.
One thing I´ve seen, and these could be my earphones, but it seems, at least the punching Glory Kills don´t seem to have much...impact, like you don´t hear the fist crunching against bone, maybe a nice little Star Platinum ¨Gunshot¨ style sound effect, but I love the other kind of GK´s.