DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
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Honestly, Doom Eternal really soured me on the franchise. I loved the original Doom games, loved 3 and played the absolute shit out of Doom 2016.
Then Eternal turned into a fucking frustration fest with all its platforming. I still haven’t finished it. Now the new one reinvents Doom yet again. And there’s somehow dragons?
Man, I’m fucking done. Give me more of that 2016 Doom or don’t bother.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 15:12 last edited byI also liked Doom 2016 and it worked well on Linux. I’m sad to hear that the later ones weren’t as good.
Do you know of any games similar to Doom 2016 that you’d recommend? I liked how it didn’t waste time trying to tell a story, usually I’d watch a movie or read a book if I want a good story. Doom had enjoyable steady action and I felt like I could enjoy it for half an hour at a time without needing much time to get into it.
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DOOM 16 was fantastic, but eternal felt gross. It was a huge step back from 2016, and didn't feel fun. I'm not bothering with the newer games since they essentially are going off gimmicks.
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Microsoft owns id's parent company these days, and Microsoft provides services to the Israeli military.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 15:21 last edited byAh cool, yeah fuck microsoft. Free Palestine.
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What is the BDS link here?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 15:49 last edited byBDS put Microsoft on their list of companies to boycott, and Microsoft owns the studios that made DOOM TDA
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I watched a few levels of it. This game has already been made. It's called Painkiller and I beat it 20 years ago.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 15:51 last edited byNo fps gun has ever been as satisfying as that stake launcher.
Here's hoping the painkiller remaster/remake doesn't suck.
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Sooo as far as im concerned i personaly will buy it beacuse it looks fun buuut on discount . Right now its just too expensive. And i can buy claire obscure for 2/3 of the price and thats also on my list sooo guess which one will go first.
But to be fair i am not exatcly the most representative sample i basicaly never buy games for more than 40$ and mostly even cheaper. Previous doom games i bought for something between 10$ and 20$ soooo.
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Honestly, Doom Eternal really soured me on the franchise. I loved the original Doom games, loved 3 and played the absolute shit out of Doom 2016.
Then Eternal turned into a fucking frustration fest with all its platforming. I still haven’t finished it. Now the new one reinvents Doom yet again. And there’s somehow dragons?
Man, I’m fucking done. Give me more of that 2016 Doom or don’t bother.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 16:20 last edited byI'm on the same page as you re: Eternal. The first hour out so was fun, and the graphics are neat, but it stops feeling like a Doom game pretty quickly. It doesn't even feel like a Quake game, which would at least be tolerable.
Will probably give this one a shot eventually when it's on discount, but not in a hurry.
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This is the same "argument" that says "literally" can mean "figuratively".
Not a particularly interesting argument to point put that common misusage can alter meaning.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 16:27 last edited byOh no, language is evolving! Best be angry.
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Not a big fan of the new Dooms, although I did like 2016. Nothing beats the ol' Doom II (via source ports).
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Depends on your location in the world. Which shows just how arbitrary the price actually is.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 16:38 last edited byBecause of the tariffs that only apply to the US, see, they have to charge more for digital goods in other countries because reasons.
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The DRM kept me from buying it
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Well they added a mandatory "parry" system to a doom game, what did they expect?
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After Eternal, I’m not interested in this one. 2016 was fantastic, but Eternal felt all over the place. It tried to tell a story but skipped the entire second "book" between the two games, making it feel unfinished trilogy.
Then there’s the difficulty, easy was too easy, and normal was too hard. I shouldn’t have to choose between surviving 10+ hits (easy) or dying in 3-4 (normal). That’s not balance. And I don’t have the time to ‘git gud’ when the difficulty jump is this extreme.
Considering they already had to tweak difficulty in The Dark Ages, it looks like they’re still struggling to get the scaling right
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After Eternal, I’m not interested in this one. 2016 was fantastic, but Eternal felt all over the place. It tried to tell a story but skipped the entire second "book" between the two games, making it feel unfinished trilogy.
Then there’s the difficulty, easy was too easy, and normal was too hard. I shouldn’t have to choose between surviving 10+ hits (easy) or dying in 3-4 (normal). That’s not balance. And I don’t have the time to ‘git gud’ when the difficulty jump is this extreme.
Considering they already had to tweak difficulty in The Dark Ages, it looks like they’re still struggling to get the scaling right
wrote on 27 May 2025, 16:53 last edited byIn the dark ages you can customise the difficulty to a great degree.
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Oh no, language is evolving! Best be angry.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 16:58 last edited byWhat a weird reply...
Do you think I'm angry?
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What a weird reply...
Do you think I'm angry?
wrote on 27 May 2025, 17:18 last edited byI know I'm not offended by a language changing. Dunno about you
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I know I'm not offended by a language changing. Dunno about you
wrote on 27 May 2025, 17:25 last edited byDo you think I'm offended by it?
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Fewer than. *
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I also liked Doom 2016 and it worked well on Linux. I’m sad to hear that the later ones weren’t as good.
Do you know of any games similar to Doom 2016 that you’d recommend? I liked how it didn’t waste time trying to tell a story, usually I’d watch a movie or read a book if I want a good story. Doom had enjoyable steady action and I felt like I could enjoy it for half an hour at a time without needing much time to get into it.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 18:18 last edited byI honestly don’t mind some story in games. Heck, I’ve got hundreds of hours in Skyrim and other RPG’s. Doom to me is run & gun. Doom 2016 had the perfect amount of story for a Doom game.
Honestly, I don’t think there’s anything else quite like it. If there is, I don’t know it. Most other shooters are either COD, SciFi, retro FPS or stuff like Borderlands that leans into comedy.
If this was ‘back in the day’, closest recommendation to it would likely be something like the Quake series. That’s id’s own successor to the original Doom. Sadly also long dead.
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I'm on the same page as you re: Eternal. The first hour out so was fun, and the graphics are neat, but it stops feeling like a Doom game pretty quickly. It doesn't even feel like a Quake game, which would at least be tolerable.
Will probably give this one a shot eventually when it's on discount, but not in a hurry.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 18:20 last edited byGod I miss Quake. That was such a great series. Can you imagine what they could do with that on modern tech? I’d love to see a quake reboot a la 2016 Doom. That would be fucking awesome.