DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
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Seeing how they screwed over Mick Gordon, the composer for the previous two installments, I'll vote with my wallet and skip this one. My backlog is big enough as it is anyway.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 20:46 last edited by prandom_returns@lemm.eeDoom Eternal is a beautiful album that includes a lovely mini-game.
Edit: a lot of "wooshing" in the replies, but I blame it on myself.
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Bethesda ought to just let the Doom IP go and give it to someone who actually cares.
I will never give a single red cent to Bethesda ever again and I sure as hell ain't doing it for this. Whatever this is has no business claiming to be a Doom game. They probably would have had slightly better luck if they slapped the veneer of some other IP over it rather than Doom.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 20:59 last edited byYou obviously haven't played it. The game is great and 100% worthy of the Doom name.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 21:10 last edited by demizerone@lemmy.world
I would have bought it if it didn't have denuvo. I'll wait til its stripped out.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 21:15 last edited by
On GamePass though, isn't it? Only people actually buying would be on PS5 and the neversub gang.
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 21:25 last edited by
Yeah no shit. My battlenet launcher wanted $100 for it.
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It's $70
wrote on 26 May 2025, 21:31 last edited byDepends on your location in the world. Which shows just how arbitrary the price actually is.
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You obviously haven't played it. The game is great and 100% worthy of the Doom name.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 21:55 last edited byI mean, it ain't bad, it's fun(I'm on mission 13-14), it's still a Doom game. But it's definitely the weakest of the last 3 games.
The Atlan is a cool concept but it's just slow combat, the dragon sections are okay I guess but not groundbreaking.. The overall combat itself is fun, but it's somehow less visceral than the other two games, glory kills are basically gone and you just do a melee attack most of the time... I honestly enjoyed Eternal much more, it's combat made you use the mechanics in a better way
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 26 May 2025, 22:25 last edited by
In this economy? I'm sure its worth it but $70 is $70.
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Doom Eternal is a beautiful album that includes a lovely mini-game.
Edit: a lot of "wooshing" in the replies, but I blame it on myself.
wrote on 26 May 2025, 22:59 last edited byDoom Eternal? The game with a soundtrack that was made up of butchered parts of Gordon’s work, welded together by a novice, at the command of an egotistical dickhead who slandered Gordon after the fact?
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce
Eternals original OST was very poor compared to Doom 2016. Big reason I never bothered with the game.
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Holy fucking shit! I live under the rock in the middle of nowhere so I've heard only some brief parts of "something wrong with DOOM Eternal music" but nothing factual. Now I gave the time to read the whole article and I'm speechless. 'Cause this is bad, really, really, REALLY bad. I feel sorry for people that have to work and live under such assholes like Marty obviously is...
wrote on 26 May 2025, 23:09 last edited byYea, I read that a few weeks ago and it convinced to not touch Doom TDA. I mean, maybe pirate it, but certainly not buy it.
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I tell ya I se 70 bucks for a game when everything is small and you get no value for your dollar and everything costs more. No thanks.
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On GamePass though, isn't it? Only people actually buying would be on PS5 and the neversub gang.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 00:01 last edited byIt’s also the game they’re giving away with purchases of the 50 series Nvidia cards.
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For me anyway, my loss of interest in the DOOM franchise began when they started dehumanizing the Doom Marine and started stacking fantasy/medieval elements to the main protagonist and his arsenal. They turned a futuristic space marine who just got punished for punching an officer into some sort of fantastic demigod thing. It got really bad in Doom Eternal already.
I like my DOOM games when it is a battle of sci-fi military forces against demonic forces. Human technology versus the hordes of hell. But now with Dark Ages Bethesda turned the franchise into a more violent and edgy Skyrim.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 00:01 last edited byHonestly I'd have been down for Doomguy turning into a literal demigod of demon murdering but I'd want his look to reflect it. Right now he's in this weird position where he's basically magic but they didn't want to get rid of his look.
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I'm one of the biggest fans of the DOOM franchise, I've played all the versions since the original one in 1993.
But I don't care if I play it now or in half a year. Or a year for that matter. Never really understood why having it first matters to anyone. I'll be here when the prices drop.I was stupid enough to buy Spacemarine 2, when it came out, at full price (mostly because I loved Boltgun so much) and that was a great lesson about how you should wait around a bit before actually buying a game. It would have been a fun game for 15 or even 20 euro, but it's not worth 70 euro. I Should have bought Helldivers, anyway
wrote on 27 May 2025, 00:05 last edited byI regretted buying HellDivers. I honestly think that it becoming as popular as it did is a damning indictment of the state of coop shooters.
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For me anyway, my loss of interest in the DOOM franchise began when they started dehumanizing the Doom Marine and started stacking fantasy/medieval elements to the main protagonist and his arsenal. They turned a futuristic space marine who just got punished for punching an officer into some sort of fantastic demigod thing. It got really bad in Doom Eternal already.
I like my DOOM games when it is a battle of sci-fi military forces against demonic forces. Human technology versus the hordes of hell. But now with Dark Ages Bethesda turned the franchise into a more violent and edgy Skyrim.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 00:06 last edited byfrom the gameplay I've watched so far it's just been turned into a completely different game now. eternal was barely hanging on to the ethos of it, and now theres throwing blades and maces and shit? that's not doom anymore.
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Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 00:58 last edited byYup. I would have bought Persona 5 Royale and SMT V on day one, if there was no Denuvo. I normally don't open my wallet for $60 games.
Super Robot Wars Y? Not on my radar anymore. Denuvo has cost the companies at least $300+, and I am not a rich dude.
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Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 01:18 last edited byI might create a VM to play it for $1 tbf. But yeah I think I'm drawing the line at $5 for anything with denuvo
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meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it's severely underperforming behind the scenes.
Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It's the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 01:22 last edited byIt's a bad game
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Let's see
- The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
- $80 price tag
- BDS boycott
- Denuvo
I'm shocked that it's not selling, absolutely shocked.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 01:29 last edited byAnd also, for some of us:
- Boycott due to Mick Gordon's treatment.
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I didn't even look at it enough to know if I'd buy it otherwise when I saw it has denuvo. Always online DRM is a hard pass for me. I haven't played the last 3 games Atlus released either and I've been playing almost every one since the ps2 era.
wrote on 27 May 2025, 01:29 last edited by yiddishmcsquidish@lemmy.todayBro I played almost everything they released on consoles and just didn't even cross my mind to play it on PC cause , like you, been playing since PS1/2 and the only time I pick one up is if I see it on sale at a brick and mortar store or the marketplace. Shame about this intrusion of denuvo into such great franchises, that would honestly benefit from some privacy considering the SMT current niche audience.