I dont know if its just me, but saying a game is soulless really is a damning and negative thing to say. I feel that mindless is a much better term for fast paced, relatively silly shooting. Soulless, by definition, is quite the opposite of Doom. Doom is bright and colorful, fun and fast paced, which is pretty much the opposite of soulless. Battlefield 4's singleplayer is, soulless, but Doom certainly manages to be more than just a lost soul (huh huh). I can see that this looks phrased as almost negative, but I was just voicing a particular nitpick. The video ( as most of Worth A Buy's content ) was interesting and enjoyable, I guess that one thing just rubbed me the wrong way.
The executions were actually added due to it being a widely loved feature of Brutal Doom, something only on PC, so assuming they were only added to please the console audience would be completely ridiculous
Mack I must say I don't agree with your points. Doom wasn't a story driven experience because of hardware limitations, it was made to be a fast past action game. I still go back and play it today due to the fact it has aged so well. I don't play Doom 3 anymore because I find after a couple of hours it becomes a boring slog with slow combat and constant jump scares. The new Doom is a corridor shooter, and you don't have to ration your supplies and locate them around the labyrinthine maps of the Dooms of old. I think this new game tried to capture the evil dead style of dark humor that the older dooms had but went a bit far and turned into a comic book affair (even uses lines from the Doom comic).
But it isn't like the original dooms at all. Start a level of Doom1/2 and your likely to quickly come to a few branches in the path that wind around the level in different ways, and often you can grab keys and supplies in different orders. In the new doom its a line ---- room --- room --- room like all modern shooters. And the way ammo/health and combat works is a lot different.
CanadianCombatWombat On the spectrum of FPS games, Doom 2016 and Doom 1 couldn't be further apart. That is like saying Dune 2 is like Total Annihilation, they are totally different.
Mac seems to miss the point that Doom 3 was an anomaly in the series that was not well received. Doom fans have been crying out for a return to the gameplay of Doom 1 and 2. Don't get me wrong, I like Doom 3 because I like linear story shooters but Doom should never have become that.
***** Sorry mate you're wrong. I was around too and reception was mixed. I like the game but you can't pretend their were a lot of fans that were not happy the direction the series took with Doom 3.
main complaints I remember were the constant spawning of demons behind the player (cheap shots), the weak level design (coridoors galore) and that torch, dear gods that torch was worthless, a candle would have been more use that that god damned fucking torch. Otherwise decent.
ok Since everyone is asking, here is a link to the old Doom 3 reaction video ua-cam.com/video/zHaH5FMJQZA/v-deo.html This one is a much better one ua-cam.com/video/rmuHHdzAUCw/v-deo.html
+Worth A Buy Mack, you and Mesh were the dream team and so underrated. I still watch the amnesia and nightmare house playthroughs for a laugh. Good times!
+Worth A Buy Lights out headphones on and turned way up. There I was creeping along with my flashlight out when my wife put her hand on my shoulder..........I leapt out my seat and almost put her lights out. Shame its not Doom 4 I may have been tempted to fork out the outrageous $110au they want for it.
"Glory kills suck" - pretty much what I thought 10 minutes down the road in this game. Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't leave you open to attacks. Btw, this game still doesn't hold up to the first Doom, it had much more impact and atmosphere at the time.
+ZLau13 But are the secrets relevant like in the old Doom or are they all just gimmicky things like finding little dolls that look like you? What secrets should include: -Guns you wouldn't unlock that early otherwise -Ammo and health (shouldn't been spread around the way it is and not dropped out of the exploding assholes of demons) -If they insist on having perks, these things should be hidden as well This would make the game a little more interesting. At least to me
I don't know, if you want my opinion I feel like we've had too many games similar to Half-Life, and going back to a simple shooter is a good thing. Doom purists were clamoring for a game like this, too.
My only issue with the new doom are the glory kills, over than that I love the new doom! It does everything that doom 3 failed to do in my opinion (I love doom 3 to death but it's not really a doom game). Doom 3 is a good half life cross over with doom but this new reboot is a glorious return to Doom's fantastic, fast paced, explosive combat!
Hah, I enjoy the hell out of Doom 4 for the very reasons Mack doesn't like it. I want the badass fucking kill everything at high pace murder murder MAIM KILL FUCKING DIE DEMON SCUM FUCKASJDKASASDAS... Etc. I love the fact that there's barely any story in it, I just want to shoot the shit out of demons, just like I did back in 1995. I like that they brought back dodging projectiles like in the first Doom games. I think the weapon modification system works well. It's not in the way, you can surely finish the game without using any of the mods, but they still provide a sense of progression. While you're getting better at the game as a player, your weapons are also getting more powerful at the same time. While this happens you get harder enemies, bigger hordes of demons, eviler evil, etc. It's just fucking lovely. I also love the graphics and the soundtrack. The sound effects are great too. The weapons feel meaty as fuck and the demons sound like I imagine demons would sound. Personally I thought Doom 3 was a piece of shit. Slow paced, boring combat, a story that was as retarded as a straight-to-DVD sci-fi horror. It was amazingly beautiful but that was it. If you wanted an FPS with some depth back then you played Half-Life 2.
+Simon Johansson That's kind of how I feel about racing games. I wish they would fuck off with all the ridiculous bullshit stories they throw in. Idc if it's something minor but like the latest need for speed game, I can't even believe a game like that was released. It's unbearable. But for fps games I do like the story driven games. Fear is probably my favorite fps, and for me that had the perfect amount of story I would want but wouldn't mind a bit more. Custom map editor and multiplayer is what is the most interesting to me about this doom game so far.
For those of us who only use a PS4, this was a godsend, shit game after shit game, then this came out and it does what it says on the tin! - Doooooom! It does what Doom back in the day did, which is what they promised.
"It's rewinding time and going back 20 years to the original." Mack that is a good thing. Half Life is a brilliant game, but Doom should not be the game that tries to replicate it. The new Doom is great, it's not supposed to be a thinking game just a fast paced FPS, which it is. BTW How the hell do glory kills ruin t the game? They are great fun to perform, but if you don't like them you don't have to use them so how they come in for criticism from you is little perplexing.
My preferred difficulty level is Ultra Violence. Nightmare has gotten too frustrating ever since they added target leading to the enemy AI, but that same addition made Ultra Violence more enjoyable for me because it used to be a bit too easy. This review was made before the AI was modified, and medium difficulty was a complete cakewalk. If you aren't in your forties with terrible reflexes and eyesight, you owe it to yourself to play this at a higher difficulty level.
I am really enjoying this game and I agree with Mack that it is mindless shooter but it does exactly what it says on the tin and it does that very well. I am glad you relaxed your opinion of the game Mack.
I like you're reviews, but disagree with this review. It was refreshing to play a game where you don't have to wait 30 minutes to use your gun, or listen to dialogue you don't really care about. The combat had great flow and glory kills were great (I was worried it'd get old fast, but it never did.) And hell, the soundtrack was amazing!
As someone who never got to experience the more simple, less story driven era of FPS, I'm glad that there is a new game that takes that simple approach. It's also interesting to see how the younger and older generations have such differing opinions on what this game should have been.
your forgetting doom isn't half life. why should doom reinvent it's self to be that type of game. It's a great reboot. modernising graphics and gameplay in meaningful ways. rag on the mp all u like. It's what doom should be.
Doom is super violence with insane guns, you're killing Demons with shotguns, it's fun and fast the multi-player is similar, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. That's the point of Doom fast and violent
Actually, glory kill system and chainsaw is a brilliant idea - if you kill demons brutally - you can continue to kill demons brutally because they give health and ammo. It keeps pacing up and glory kills are fast to execute, so the flow isn't interrupted. As for upgrades, or "perks" as mac calls them ,they are to to empower you along with guns and while increasing the difficulty, actually give you a challenge and give a sense of progresion, that you started weak, just 100% badass, and at the end you're 10000% badass. iWeapon upgrades are good because they keep early weapons relevant to the end, unlike old doom there if you got rocket launcher or bfg, that was all you needed to play and go forward. well, to each his own, but i must say not every game must be half life ( coming from a huge half life fan) , because half life is half life and it's best at being half life and it's no use to copy it if you don't understand it properly ( like doom 3 did, which made for annoying first half of terrible horror part which didn't fit the doom franchise at all)...
I enjoyed the classics as well as Doom 3, I can say I'm loving the new one. Perfectly fine with it being a mindless shooter like the originals. I see they tried adding to the universe through codex's and holograms, I'll probably check them out after I'm done with my senseless massacre.
Personally, I LOVE the Glory Kill system, however I can see why others might not be as fond of it. At the very least, they could have put in an option to turn the Glory Kill system off.
This is one of the best games I have played in a long time. I'm so happy with the speed of the single player. Not played Multi player yet but looking forward to it. Mac do you remember the UKCCL in Q2?
"Story in a game..", Mack. id finally made a game that their fans wanted. I guess you just don't like id games then. You want games for escapism, while some want games for pure interactive fun.
OK, while some valid points are made about the glory kills and the weapon wheel, drops etc. Some of them are necessary for one reason. Ultra-Nightmare you HAVE to use glory kills to get back health and ammo. And the weapon wheel is necessary on console because there's not really another way to do it on consoles. I personally play on a PS4. The drops have to be there in UN or you would not even stand a chance of making it. If you don't want the glory kills to be as noticeable you can turn off the blue and orange effect and just shoot everything.
I love the intro. You explained everything and i agree with you. You did not just mindless rekt the new Doom. Like i said, i didn't liked the third Doom and i enjoy the new one, but this is a good review. Mack, you got my "like".
Love WAB but this is like complaining Mad Max: Fury Road (DOOM) isn't like The Dark Knight (Half Life 2). Yeah TDK is better, smarter, more admirable, but that's not what we need right now. Mad Max came in like a bull in a china shop and went 'SICK OF ALL THIS HALF-WAY SHIT? HAVE SOME OF THAT!!!' Pure. Brutal. That's what DOOM is.
I don't know why anyone would think that Doom needed to continue in the direction of Doom 3. Doom 3 wasn't a universally loved title. A lot of people hated it and even described it as this reviewer describes Doom 1: a moronic shooter. People said that Doom 3 was stuck in the past, that it was boring, repetitive, too dark, etc., etc. There were people saying that its gameplay was too much like the originals where all you do is go down a linear path, kill monsters, and collect keycards in order to move on. Only in Doom 3, you collected PDAs instead. So considering all the criticisms that were thrown at that game, I don't why anyone would think that it would have been wise for Id just to make a remake of Doom 3. Although, I do agree with the reviewer that they should have kept a few more elements from Doom 3 than they did and that they should have tried to make Doom 2016 more immersive. I don't think they should have gotten rid of reloading, nor should they have made the demons spew out health and ammo upon dying. And the armor and health pickups should have blended in with the environment like they did with Doom 3. Other than that, I think that Id actually did a pretty good job with this latest iteration of Doom and made the right choice by going more down the action route rather than the horror route because that's what really made the original Doom games so awesome: the hard, fast, brutal, and bloody action. This game is a lot of fun and I would recommend people to buy it.
In my opinion Doom 3 wasn't really a Doom game, absolutely loved Doom 1 and 2. Just mindless fast paced fun killing lots of monsters and solving a few basic puzzles on the way.
+Alfred Stampe yeah I thought Doom 3 was a huge buzzkill. I can appreciate id trying to create a more "highbrow" game but when something dons the "DOOM" label I expect brainless challenging combat and room crawling. On the other hand I absolutely adore Dead Space. Sort of a double standard
Doom 3 was pretty controversial when it came out. I know a lot of people weren't happy with the direction that the series took. Instead of fighting scores of demons en masse, you only fought a few of them at a time. Personally, I liked Doom 3 and I would have been pleased had Doom continued in Doom 3s footsteps, but I'm just as pleased as this direction. That said, one correction Mack -- Doom 3 was released before Half Life 2. If anything Doom 3 influenced Half Life 2 instead of vice versa.
Lol, I dig your honesty. "Hard" is a subjective term, it means different things to different people. To me, hard is something like contra, castlevania, super ghouls & ghosts, or games like UFO defense/XCOM & devil may cry on must die mode. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, I really want to be challenged. So far doom on Ultra-nightmare is scratching my itch, I've started over several times now, one of these days I'm gonna make it. Wish me luck ;/.
By the looks of it, it does not look like you are playing on Nightmare mode. You don't have to unlock it, it's just have red colors next to locked Ultra Nightmare.
It's funny how you dismiss Doom as a "dumbed-down, moronic shooter" where you have to "disengage your brain" - and then you complain that you can't just mindlessly rocket everything in sight like you can in some other shooters. Sorry, in Doom you have to actually pay attention to your surroundings and use AOE weapons with care. Also, you didn't play on Nightmare, which *is* the highest you can select for your first playthrough. On Nightmare enemies don't come to you and wait for you to kill them; they just do everything they can to *finish you off*. You get health from them when you Glory Kill them, but not *nearly* enough for you to play recklessly. And while you can't be killed during a Glory Kill, executing it in the wrong place will leave you completely exposed (after which a single powerful hit can easily kill you), so you have to be smart about when you do it and when you don't, because Nightmare absolutely punishes you for your mistakes. It's tough, but it's also fair. You also didn't say anything about the chainsaw having limited uses. Against the biggest demons you can only use it once without having to re-fuel. And yeah, it replenishes more or less of your ammo - depending on the enemy type you use it against - which is half of it's purpose. But in Doom you're not meant to struggle against running out of ammo - the point of limited ammo is that it encourages you to alternate between different weapons, and with different weapons having very different properties (in particular with their upgrades) and different demons having different strengths and weaknesses, there's a complex dynamic where it's actually beneficial to think and plan which weapon to use in any given situation - while allowing personal perefences and playstyle. Doom isn't *nearly* as mindless as you seem to think. It's telling that when you "disengage your brain" while playing it, you enjoy it the most when you tone down the difficulty. Many, many others enjoy it the most while cranking the diffculty up and playing it with mindfulness.
+Aedolon ofc it's mindless, I streamed it today, took 2 phone calls while playing, ran around like a prick and never died once, it's mindless, just a big pew pew fest but it is fun.
+Worth A Buy And are you saying a good player can't do that with all these more cerebral shoothers out there? Sounds to me like just about any other game.
+Worth A Buy I don't have the time to invest in a game these days. My Sunday afternoon is now a once a month Sunday afternoon. Tasks like blowing up a Zeppelin in Wolfenstein - when I work out what to do - I 'get it' - the game mechanics - but don't have time to fukk about doing it 100 times. These days I enjoy the experience rather than the outcome, so to say.
My thoughts exactly with Doom 3, and I am also on the same page with Doom1,2 quake and then Half life. The way you explained all those is spot on. Remember half life when you had to sneak past that giant tentacle weed? Make soo much sound and you got skewered. But back on Doom 3, thats where Doom should of headed, FPS horror survival. If I recall the pretense to doom 1, you were the last survivor of a marine squad. It just felt like Doom 3 did something with that pretense. So Doom(4?) just went back to mindless demon killing.
I think you should review the gaming industry over the last 10 years, i could see it being very entertaining, to see it go to absolute bantha piss lol keep up the good work you've saved me a lot of money.
+HerculezGaming Haha yeah I remember watching one of those "if quake/doom was done today" videos. And someone said osmething spot on in the comments section. Was something about how he despised Quake 4 when it came but after being fed the dumbed down console ports the latest years it has now become good.
They should add a classic mode where you can't melee, limited pistol ammo, ammo map drops (enemies don't drop health or ammo), you get rewarded for finding secrets and stuff. The doesn't look optimized for level of gameplay but they should add that just for fun.
+wongoli wongo Well to be fair enemies dropped ammo in the original Doom games, at least the Zombiemen, Shotgun Guys, and Heavy Weapon Dudes. And you can just refrain from meleeing if you want to. I guess the only thing that's completely new is the fact that enemies drop health, but that's such a minor issue imo, it just makes the gameplay more fluid.
Hey Mack, I know you don't usually focus on narratives in your WABs, but I would love to hear you talk a little more about how the gameplay contributes to the story (you know, how a GAME should).
Dude this has to be the most spot on review you've done lately. Where are the damn rocket jumps! You're making me dream of quake multiplayer days, rocket jumping, flying at 300 mph flames and sparks coming off my character, exponentially increasing in speed, breaking the sound barrier, switching to the rail gun, railing the enemy with the flag about to score a point, that announcer "HOLY SHIT!!!". Feels good man. This really sums it up. I'll wait for it to go on sale to at least $40 or so. Still looks great! I can let it sit for a while. Thanks! keep it up.
This game makes me happy. It really is id's return to form, it's mindless, silly, and I love it to death. It's the fastest game I played this side of the original dooms, the bosses are actually challenging, and it just stupid, unpretentious fun. It makes no pretentions about being high art, it's protagonist makes no pretentions about growing as a human, he probably came from the womb sawing a demons head off.
Question Mack - (I apologise if this has been answered before on previous videos). As a game reviewer, was it your choice to use a mid range gaming rig for your reviews? As seen here you have medium settings in Doom due to your gpu. Is this a deliberate choice to simulate the performance of the majority of pc gaming machines out there? Or is it because you never sold your soul to the devil (gaming publishers) to enable you to build the best rig money can buy? I must try mirror your settings to see if there really is a difference, but everything maxed, it does look juicy on a Titan X
+Chris B Yes I had the option to upgrade a year ago but thought it was better to emulate the majority. Now however I must upgrade as this rig is falling apart, even to boot up I have to enter the bios lol
Thank god this is not like doom 3. If I want to play horror scripted games with very bad combat, I would like doom 3. But how crap that game was, its great news they are actually going back and making a game where combat is so fun, fast and complex, compared to doom 3 an half life 1.
Also, one honorable mention in FPS genre would be FEAR1. I challenge you to play it if you have not. Amazing AI. Ohh the story and and wait past the ending credits - major story twist. A masterpiece.
+Juhan Voolaid Interesting, I played Fear 1 and enjoyed it much, but I got to the final part when I was just about to meet the final boss girl, But I Bought a new computer at the time and so I never finished it
IDK< I hate pretty much all FPS games except ones like this. PainKiller was the first FPS game I played with a big stupid grin on my face the whole time.Way I see it if you want drama, story etc the market is flooded with options.Sometimes it is nice to just jump in and wreck shit just for the sake of doing so.Fun is and always will be the top priority in games and if this delivers it has done its job.
He's right in that it is a dumbed down moronic shooter but it is a very well made and great looking moronic shooter that can be satisfying fun. The sounds in this game are great along with the music which fits perfectly. It isn't the best game ever made but it is great for some fast paced no brain required shooting
I'm perfectly happy with the game. I'm only on the fourth level and I am having the best time. This is Doom. It's exactly what I wanted out of a Doom game. I enjoyed Doom 3 and I'm appreciating the similar aesthetic but the gameplay is so fast paced and frantic, it takes me way back to my childhood. I am playing as you put it; a complete prick and it's an absolute blast. I can see myself replaying on a higher difficulty when I'm done and check out that survival mode.
I dont agree that its a mindless shooter. play on a hard difficulty and you have to constantly strategize on the move or youre dead. that and it is the most fluid and well designed shooter I have ever played
I've come back to this review two years later. I revisited Doom 3 again late 2017 early 2018 and I have to say that I'm glad Mack thinks Doom 3 was a step in the right direction. Since first playing Doom all them years ago, I've bought it three more times, played it start to finish on the hardest difficulty once every few years and I must admit, enjoyed it more this time round than any other. Doom 3 is a terrific step forward in Doom narative and is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion. The lore, the voice acting and the scares are phenominal. I haven't reinstalled this Doom since completing it when it came out, and I can't see myself reinstalling it. It's a fantastic fun game don't get me wrong, but I don't think it will stand the test of time like Doom 3.
Over all a spot on review, the single player game is still a ton longer than and more fun than most FPS's, and the MP does stand a chance of being greatly improved when you consider the company behind it.
The glory kills were taken from the Brutal Doom mod, which is only on PC. So your point about them only being there to please console players, is kinda stupid.
I felt the game did get better after about the half way point. The difficulty ramps up, the map design improves and you start to get the old Doom feeling coming through when you move on to the hell based content. The story (what there is of it) is quite interesting too, you need to read the logs to see most of it though.
Bit confused how he says its basically 'Doom1. Sure I recognize some of the creatures but everything else is different. What I think would be amazing would be a faithful level by level remake of the original, the same maps, same weapons, just updated to modern graphics standards. To be able to play those old maps that we all knew so well but with modern graphics and sounds would be incredible. Also, if it's Doom 1, wheres the music?
love the sentence " ... not like doom 3... not scary story.. i have a room full of demons so lets engage quake mode and kick the fuck out of them " that's exaclty my opinion!
I've been eagerly awaiting your WAB for this one, Mack. Excellent review. I loved your insight into DOOM's history and your personal experience over the years.
This is just a serious sam knock-off disguised as doom with bad modern gaming cliches. I mean for FFS unskippable pointless cutscenes where you look at stuff you turned on for 5 seconds or that near 30 second long segment where you're locked in a room even though you have a Helmet with a HUD so the transmission could just play on that. Oh and weapons are found only when the game decides you need them, no possiblities to find them early or anything to actually reward finding secrets. Classic Doom was maze-like levels with demons, this is just mind-numbing arenas.
I don't know why you'd want yet ANOTHER generic shooter... How many do we need? Do we really need another game that has a 30 minute opening scene before you finally get to shoot your gun, followed by following an NPC walking at a snails pace for 10 minutes, followed by a turret scene, followed by a vehicle chase scene? I love Half Life. I also love Doom. I love Deus Ex. I enjoyed Doom 3 too. Doom 4 is basically filling in the void that has been left in gaming for far too long. Sure, we've had the occasional Shadow Warrior and the Blood Dragons that are basically a giant "fuck you" to the AAA gaming industry, but to see a real, bad ass classic style FPS with this sort of marketing hype is freakin' awesome. Maybe we'll FINALLY see a rise in popularity of arcade FPS again thanks to this.
60 bucks (or 20% less with MACK's code) for 10 hours of singleplayer, and a failed CoD 'class' multiplayer game where you can't even pewpew like Quake 3/UT and you're held by a caring mommy the whole match through playing with 10 year old kids. No, god no. 0 out of 10. I get nostalgia, but this is horse.
+Aab Baab www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/doom-pc-cd-key-steam I got it for £21.99 before it released. I'd call it worth it for 10 hours of single player. The Multiplayer does suck balls though.
On the plus side Mack you can turn off the prompt for glory kills and unbind your melee key. Hoorah for PC players. Also I'm honestly surprised you thumbs upped it. I'm happy you did too because legitimately it does feel like old Doom and I'm really happy about that. I can understand wanting Doom 4 but I REALLY wanted Doom 2! I miss those old kind of games and I think there's room in the market for Doom 2, Half Life, Arma, Battlefield and yes... even COD. So I'm glad you thumb upped it and maybe you and I can get some survival mode goin sometime!
Mac!! Seriously.... seriously... thank you for this review!!! I am a huuuge Doom fan, ever since Doom 95, Doom 2, and Doom 3. Ever since playing this game as a child through today, has shaped me into a great first person shooter. I have competed online in Quake 3, to know EXACTLY what you meant in your comments of your video about being a fanatic/flamboyant shooter by adding style to your skill shot. The Game Grumps gameplay made me realize that I have to give this one a try, but I just had to check in with you to see an "honest" review of the game. I love you Mac. I really... REALLY hope you read this review and respond ( It would mean the world to me as much this game name has meant to my childhood). Thank you, I feel I will now appreciate the game more knowing what you've shared. By the way, congrats to the UK to breaking away from the European Euro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Away with socialism and long live capitalism ;)
There's 2 cutscenes in Half-Life 2 I think In Nova Prospekt when you're in the little pod thing At the ending when you're also in the little pod thing There's 1 cutscene in Half-Life 1 When you get dragged by the HECU people into the garbage disposal part But even then, they're rendered ingame They're not videos, they're actual scripted events in the game Your graphical quality won't go up to ultra during a cutscene, it'll stay the same.
In my view Doom 3 was the stale, jump scare ridden and boring one from the series... It's all a matter of perspective and what one wants from the game. When you compare new Doom it to Doom 3, you're comparing it to the one game in the series that was different from all the rest. This is really a breath of fresh air in a FPS genre that's been staled to "Call of Duty" mould. It's fine, it's your _opinion_ and luckily we as consumers can watch different reviews and come to an over all conclusion based on multiple reviews instead of trusting one "authority" over all else. :)
+Religion LOL No it wasn't, Doom 3 didn't even feel like a real Doom game. It was slow and boring and the story was crap. DOOM 2016 is the true sequel we should've gotten back in 2004.
I recommend always having anisotropy at max. It costs very little and makes a huge difference. It shouldn't even be an option these days. Some graphics settings are obsolete on current hardware.
I dont know if its just me, but saying a game is soulless really is a damning and negative thing to say. I feel that mindless is a much better term for fast paced, relatively silly shooting. Soulless, by definition, is quite the opposite of Doom. Doom is bright and colorful, fun and fast paced, which is pretty much the opposite of soulless. Battlefield 4's singleplayer is, soulless, but Doom certainly manages to be more than just a lost soul (huh huh). I can see that this looks phrased as almost negative, but I was just voicing a particular nitpick. The video ( as most of Worth A Buy's content ) was interesting and enjoyable, I guess that one thing just rubbed me the wrong way.
The executions were actually added due to it being a widely loved feature of Brutal Doom, something only on PC, so assuming they were only added to please the console audience would be completely ridiculous
I swear you think console players did 9/11
that because they did`
...you think they didn't??
Planes can be easier to fly with a controller ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mack I must say I don't agree with your points. Doom wasn't a story driven experience because of hardware limitations, it was made to be a fast past action game. I still go back and play it today due to the fact it has aged so well. I don't play Doom 3 anymore because I find after a couple of hours it becomes a boring slog with slow combat and constant jump scares.
The new Doom is a corridor shooter, and you don't have to ration your supplies and locate them around the labyrinthine maps of the Dooms of old. I think this new game tried to capture the evil dead style of dark humor that the older dooms had but went a bit far and turned into a comic book affair (even uses lines from the Doom comic).
But it isn't like the original dooms at all. Start a level of Doom1/2 and your likely to quickly come to a few branches in the path that wind around the level in different ways, and often you can grab keys and supplies in different orders. In the new doom its a line ---- room --- room --- room like all modern shooters. And the way ammo/health and combat works is a lot different.
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On the spectrum of FPS games, Doom 2016 and Doom 1 couldn't be further apart. That is like saying Dune 2 is like Total Annihilation, they are totally different.
Mac seems to miss the point that Doom 3 was an anomaly in the series that was not well received. Doom fans have been crying out for a return to the gameplay of Doom 1 and 2. Don't get me wrong, I like Doom 3 because I like linear story shooters but Doom should never have become that.
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Sorry mate you're wrong. I was around too and reception was mixed. I like the game but you can't pretend their were a lot of fans that were not happy the direction the series took with Doom 3.
main complaints I remember were the constant spawning of demons behind the player (cheap shots), the weak level design (coridoors galore) and that torch, dear gods that torch was worthless, a candle would have been more use that that god damned fucking torch.
Otherwise decent.
ok Since everyone is asking, here is a link to the old Doom 3 reaction video ua-cam.com/video/zHaH5FMJQZA/v-deo.html This one is a much better one ua-cam.com/video/rmuHHdzAUCw/v-deo.html
+Worth A Buy That takes me right back. I still have them all saved on my hard drive from when I originally downloaded them 12 years ago!
+Worth A Buy whats your oppoin on Brutal Doom
+Worth A Buy Mack, you and Mesh were the dream team and so underrated. I still watch the amnesia and nightmare house playthroughs for a laugh. Good times!
+Worth A Buy Should have copyrighted reaction video's......
+Worth A Buy Lights out headphones on and turned way up. There I was creeping along with my flashlight out when my wife put her hand on my shoulder..........I leapt out my seat and almost put her lights out. Shame its not Doom 4 I may have been tempted to fork out the outrageous $110au they want for it.
"Glory kills suck" - pretty much what I thought 10 minutes down the road in this game. Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't leave you open to attacks. Btw, this game still doesn't hold up to the first Doom, it had much more impact and atmosphere at the time.
Doom is the best FPS I've played in a very long time.
I would argue that Doom 1 and this new Doom are not just soulless shooting. Mobility: exploring the maps and finding secrets is a part of it as well.
+ZLau13 But are the secrets relevant like in the old Doom or are they all just gimmicky things like finding little dolls that look like you?
What secrets should include:
-Guns you wouldn't unlock that early otherwise
-Ammo and health (shouldn't been spread around the way it is and not dropped out of the exploding assholes of demons)
-If they insist on having perks, these things should be hidden as well
This would make the game a little more interesting. At least to me
I don't know, if you want my opinion I feel like we've had too many games similar to Half-Life, and going back to a simple shooter is a good thing. Doom purists were clamoring for a game like this, too.
My only issue with the new doom are the glory kills, over than that I love the new doom! It does everything that doom 3 failed to do in my opinion (I love doom 3 to death but it's not really a doom game). Doom 3 is a good half life cross over with doom but this new reboot is a glorious return to Doom's fantastic, fast paced, explosive combat!
Hah, I enjoy the hell out of Doom 4 for the very reasons Mack doesn't like it. I want the badass fucking kill everything at high pace murder murder MAIM KILL FUCKING DIE DEMON SCUM FUCKASJDKASASDAS... Etc. I love the fact that there's barely any story in it, I just want to shoot the shit out of demons, just like I did back in 1995. I like that they brought back dodging projectiles like in the first Doom games. I think the weapon modification system works well. It's not in the way, you can surely finish the game without using any of the mods, but they still provide a sense of progression. While you're getting better at the game as a player, your weapons are also getting more powerful at the same time. While this happens you get harder enemies, bigger hordes of demons, eviler evil, etc. It's just fucking lovely.
I also love the graphics and the soundtrack. The sound effects are great too. The weapons feel meaty as fuck and the demons sound like I imagine demons would sound.
Personally I thought Doom 3 was a piece of shit. Slow paced, boring combat, a story that was as retarded as a straight-to-DVD sci-fi horror. It was amazingly beautiful but that was it. If you wanted an FPS with some depth back then you played Half-Life 2.
+Simon Johansson That's kind of how I feel about racing games. I wish they would fuck off with all the ridiculous bullshit stories they throw in. Idc if it's something minor but like the latest need for speed game, I can't even believe a game like that was released. It's unbearable. But for fps games I do like the story driven games. Fear is probably my favorite fps, and for me that had the perfect amount of story I would want but wouldn't mind a bit more.
Custom map editor and multiplayer is what is the most interesting to me about this doom game so far.
Yup. Some people just don't get it lol
I love when you talk about your history in the gaming scene, Mack. I'd like to hear more
For those of us who only use a PS4, this was a godsend, shit game after shit game, then this came out and it does what it says on the tin! - Doooooom! It does what Doom back in the day did, which is what they promised.
"It's rewinding time and going back 20 years to the original." Mack that is a good thing. Half Life is a brilliant game, but Doom should not be the game that tries to replicate it. The new Doom is great, it's not supposed to be a thinking game just a fast paced FPS, which it is. BTW How the hell do glory kills ruin t the game? They are great fun to perform, but if you don't like them you don't have to use them so how they come in for criticism from you is little perplexing.
My preferred difficulty level is Ultra Violence. Nightmare has gotten too frustrating ever since they added target leading to the enemy AI, but that same addition made Ultra Violence more enjoyable for me because it used to be a bit too easy. This review was made before the AI was modified, and medium difficulty was a complete cakewalk. If you aren't in your forties with terrible reflexes and eyesight, you owe it to yourself to play this at a higher difficulty level.
I am really enjoying this game and I agree with Mack that it is mindless shooter but it does exactly what it says on the tin and it does that very well. I am glad you relaxed your opinion of the game Mack.
I like you're reviews, but disagree with this review. It was refreshing to play a game where you don't have to wait 30 minutes to use your gun, or listen to dialogue you don't really care about. The combat had great flow and glory kills were great (I was worried it'd get old fast, but it never did.) And hell, the soundtrack was amazing!
Mac, you didn't compare this game to wow. Is everything okay? ;)
As someone who never got to experience the more simple, less story driven era of FPS, I'm glad that there is a new game that takes that simple approach. It's also interesting to see how the younger and older generations have such differing opinions on what this game should have been.
your forgetting doom isn't half life. why should doom reinvent it's self to be that type of game. It's a great reboot. modernising graphics and gameplay in meaningful ways. rag on the mp all u like. It's what doom should be.
I'm not mad at you mack. I'm just disappointed
Doom is super violence with insane guns, you're killing Demons with shotguns, it's fun and fast the multi-player is similar, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. That's the point of Doom fast and violent
I have loved all the Doom games. This one was just so much mindless fun that I loved it.
However if you come home from a long days work and just want to kick some ass, this game is the fucking balls!
Actually, glory kill system and chainsaw is a brilliant idea - if you kill demons brutally - you can continue to kill demons brutally because they give health and ammo. It keeps pacing up and glory kills are fast to execute, so the flow isn't interrupted. As for upgrades, or "perks" as mac calls them ,they are to to empower you along with guns and while increasing the difficulty, actually give you a challenge and give a sense of progresion, that you started weak, just 100% badass, and at the end you're 10000% badass. iWeapon upgrades are good because they keep early weapons relevant to the end, unlike old doom there if you got rocket launcher or bfg, that was all you needed to play and go forward. well, to each his own, but i must say not every game must be half life ( coming from a huge half life fan) , because half life is half life and it's best at being half life and it's no use to copy it if you don't understand it properly ( like doom 3 did, which made for annoying first half of terrible horror part which didn't fit the doom franchise at all)...
I enjoyed the classics as well as Doom 3, I can say I'm loving the new one. Perfectly fine with it being a mindless shooter like the originals. I see they tried adding to the universe through codex's and holograms, I'll probably check them out after I'm done with my senseless massacre.
In the end it´s all about having fun. And it looks to me like the new DOOM is just that. Looks awesome, or at least the campaign does.
I love the parts in the video where you put on a childs voice and shout to 'mom' or 'Dad', really cracks me up haha
first day purchase for me. It's great great fun
Personally, I LOVE the Glory Kill system, however I can see why others might not be as fond of it. At the very least, they could have put in an option to turn the Glory Kill system off.
I enjoyed Doom 3 and ROE, but I like the way they approached this Doom by taking it back to its roots with a modern touch. My goty so far.
This is one of the best games I have played in a long time. I'm so happy with the speed of the single player. Not played Multi player yet but looking forward to it. Mac do you remember the UKCCL in Q2?
+Gareth Ayres Yes but back then we played Jailbreak which was not in that league so I never played in it.
"Story in a game..", Mack. id finally made a game that their fans wanted. I guess you just don't like id games then. You want games for escapism, while some want games for pure interactive fun.
Sounds like the game for me, thanks for your review! Your reviews are one of few good left
dead space is for scares doom is for blowing up monsters endlessly so i think the new doom is better
hodor, hodor hodor?
Dude you should upload the footage of your first video game reaction.
It's gaming history man!
OK, while some valid points are made about the glory kills and the weapon wheel, drops etc. Some of them are necessary for one reason. Ultra-Nightmare you HAVE to use glory kills to get back health and ammo. And the weapon wheel is necessary on console because there's not really another way to do it on consoles. I personally play on a PS4. The drops have to be there in UN or you would not even stand a chance of making it. If you don't want the glory kills to be as noticeable you can turn off the blue and orange effect and just shoot everything.
I love the intro. You explained everything and i agree with you. You did not just mindless rekt the new Doom. Like i said, i didn't liked the third Doom and i enjoy the new one, but this is a good review. Mack, you got my "like".
+Romando Kraus evilquest!
+toot1231 Wow, someone actually knows what that is :D
Frank Castle Nah i think its total opposite of Doom 3. It's not even scary.
you do know doom has strategy just whatch what can we learn from doom game makers toolkit
Love WAB but this is like complaining Mad Max: Fury Road (DOOM) isn't like The Dark Knight (Half Life 2). Yeah TDK is better, smarter, more admirable, but that's not what we need right now. Mad Max came in like a bull in a china shop and went 'SICK OF ALL THIS HALF-WAY SHIT? HAVE SOME OF THAT!!!' Pure. Brutal. That's what DOOM is.
I've played this on the ps4 and I love the glory kills and I love this game! This guy hasn't a clue what he's talking about!!!
I just realized when u said it.. YOU ARE MACK, from Mack and Mesh's channel, omg I watched u back in the days, it was like 2006 or something!!!!
I don't know why anyone would think that Doom needed to continue in the direction of Doom 3. Doom 3 wasn't a universally loved title. A lot of people hated it and even described it as this reviewer describes Doom 1: a moronic shooter. People said that Doom 3 was stuck in the past, that it was boring, repetitive, too dark, etc., etc. There were people saying that its gameplay was too much like the originals where all you do is go down a linear path, kill monsters, and collect keycards in order to move on. Only in Doom 3, you collected PDAs instead. So considering all the criticisms that were thrown at that game, I don't why anyone would think that it would have been wise for Id just to make a remake of Doom 3.
Although, I do agree with the reviewer that they should have kept a few more elements from Doom 3 than they did and that they should have tried to make Doom 2016 more immersive. I don't think they should have gotten rid of reloading, nor should they have made the demons spew out health and ammo upon dying. And the armor and health pickups should have blended in with the environment like they did with Doom 3.
Other than that, I think that Id actually did a pretty good job with this latest iteration of Doom and made the right choice by going more down the action route rather than the horror route because that's what really made the original Doom games so awesome: the hard, fast, brutal, and bloody action. This game is a lot of fun and I would recommend people to buy it.
Or actually Doom is close range Serious Sam with way more blood and dark theme :D
+WorasLT ...and slower gameplay. Can't wait for SS4! I heard it will be open world with tons of variety.
WorasLT I meant original Serious Sam, and I've spoken with the team and they said SS4 is returning to it's roots but it won't be out before 2017.
MarkaN Why SE was better than FE is that it had more level and enemy variety - so yeah - HYPE :D
In my opinion Doom 3 wasn't really a Doom game, absolutely loved Doom 1 and 2. Just mindless fast paced fun killing lots of monsters and solving a few basic puzzles on the way.
+Alfred Stampe yeah I thought Doom 3 was a huge buzzkill. I can appreciate id trying to create a more "highbrow" game but when something dons the "DOOM" label I expect brainless challenging combat and room crawling. On the other hand I absolutely adore Dead Space. Sort of a double standard
Doom 3 was pretty controversial when it came out. I know a lot of people weren't happy with the direction that the series took. Instead of fighting scores of demons en masse, you only fought a few of them at a time.
Personally, I liked Doom 3 and I would have been pleased had Doom continued in Doom 3s footsteps, but I'm just as pleased as this direction.
That said, one correction Mack -- Doom 3 was released before Half Life 2. If anything Doom 3 influenced Half Life 2 instead of vice versa.
Lol, I dig your honesty. "Hard" is a subjective term, it means different things to different people. To me, hard is something like contra, castlevania, super ghouls & ghosts, or games like UFO defense/XCOM & devil may cry on must die mode. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, I really want to be challenged. So far doom on Ultra-nightmare is scratching my itch, I've started over several times now, one of these days I'm gonna make it. Wish me luck ;/.
By the looks of it, it does not look like you are playing on Nightmare mode. You don't have to unlock it, it's just have red colors next to locked Ultra Nightmare.
"This game is not like the old games I liked, it's shit"
this is basically the channel from what i've seen
But he said this is very much like an old game he liked.
It's like 15 hours if you find all the secrets
It's funny how you dismiss Doom as a "dumbed-down, moronic shooter" where you have to "disengage your brain" - and then you complain that you can't just mindlessly rocket everything in sight like you can in some other shooters. Sorry, in Doom you have to actually pay attention to your surroundings and use AOE weapons with care.
Also, you didn't play on Nightmare, which *is* the highest you can select for your first playthrough. On Nightmare enemies don't come to you and wait for you to kill them; they just do everything they can to *finish you off*. You get health from them when you Glory Kill them, but not *nearly* enough for you to play recklessly. And while you can't be killed during a Glory Kill, executing it in the wrong place will leave you completely exposed (after which a single powerful hit can easily kill you), so you have to be smart about when you do it and when you don't, because Nightmare absolutely punishes you for your mistakes. It's tough, but it's also fair.
You also didn't say anything about the chainsaw having limited uses. Against the biggest demons you can only use it once without having to re-fuel. And yeah, it replenishes more or less of your ammo - depending on the enemy type you use it against - which is half of it's purpose. But in Doom you're not meant to struggle against running out of ammo - the point of limited ammo is that it encourages you to alternate between different weapons, and with different weapons having very different properties (in particular with their upgrades) and different demons having different strengths and weaknesses, there's a complex dynamic where it's actually beneficial to think and plan which weapon to use in any given situation - while allowing personal perefences and playstyle.
Doom isn't *nearly* as mindless as you seem to think. It's telling that when you "disengage your brain" while playing it, you enjoy it the most when you tone down the difficulty. Many, many others enjoy it the most while cranking the diffculty up and playing it with mindfulness.
+Aedolon ofc it's mindless, I streamed it today, took 2 phone calls while playing, ran around like a prick and never died once, it's mindless, just a big pew pew fest but it is fun.
+Worth A Buy And are you saying a good player can't do that with all these more cerebral shoothers out there? Sounds to me like just about any other game.
+Worth A Buy I don't have the time to invest in a game these days. My Sunday afternoon is now a once a month Sunday afternoon. Tasks like blowing up a Zeppelin in Wolfenstein - when I work out what to do - I 'get it' - the game mechanics - but don't have time to fukk about doing it 100 times. These days I enjoy the experience rather than the outcome, so to say.
My thoughts exactly with Doom 3, and I am also on the same page with Doom1,2 quake and then Half life. The way you explained all those is spot on. Remember half life when you had to sneak past that giant tentacle weed? Make soo much sound and you got skewered. But back on Doom 3, thats where Doom should of headed, FPS horror survival. If I recall the pretense to doom 1, you were the last survivor of a marine squad. It just felt like Doom 3 did something with that pretense. So Doom(4?) just went back to mindless demon killing.
I think you should review the gaming industry over the last 10 years, i could see it being very entertaining, to see it go to absolute bantha piss lol keep up the good work you've saved me a lot of money.
+HerculezGaming Haha yeah I remember watching one of those "if quake/doom was done today" videos. And someone said osmething spot on in the comments section. Was something about how he despised Quake 4 when it came but after being fed the dumbed down console ports the latest years it has now become good.
They should add a classic mode where you can't melee, limited pistol ammo, ammo map drops (enemies don't drop health or ammo), you get rewarded for finding secrets and stuff. The doesn't look optimized for level of gameplay but they should add that just for fun.
+wongoli wongo They have classic maps if you unlock them in the secrets
+wongoli wongo Well to be fair enemies dropped ammo in the original Doom games, at least the Zombiemen, Shotgun Guys, and Heavy Weapon Dudes. And you can just refrain from meleeing if you want to. I guess the only thing that's completely new is the fact that enemies drop health, but that's such a minor issue imo, it just makes the gameplay more fluid.
The glory kills are the best part, I love watching them.
Hey Mack, I know you don't usually focus on narratives in your WABs, but I would love to hear you talk a little more about how the gameplay contributes to the story (you know, how a GAME should).
If a developer one day will make a game similar to Half Life and Doom 3, then i will throw money on my screen!
Dude this has to be the most spot on review you've done lately. Where are the damn rocket jumps! You're making me dream of quake multiplayer days, rocket jumping, flying at 300 mph flames and sparks coming off my character, exponentially increasing in speed, breaking the sound barrier, switching to the rail gun, railing the enemy with the flag about to score a point, that announcer "HOLY SHIT!!!". Feels good man.
This really sums it up. I'll wait for it to go on sale to at least $40 or so. Still looks great! I can let it sit for a while. Thanks! keep it up.
What do you think about Brutal Doom?
This game makes me happy. It really is id's return to form, it's mindless, silly, and I love it to death. It's the fastest game I played this side of the original dooms, the bosses are actually challenging, and it just stupid, unpretentious fun. It makes no pretentions about being high art, it's protagonist makes no pretentions about growing as a human, he probably came from the womb sawing a demons head off.
"Souless & lifeless"? What game has soul and life to you? Just so we know where your measuring stick is.
Question Mack - (I apologise if this has been answered before on previous videos). As a game reviewer, was it your choice to use a mid range gaming rig for your reviews? As seen here you have medium settings in Doom due to your gpu. Is this a deliberate choice to simulate the performance of the majority of pc gaming machines out there? Or is it because you never sold your soul to the devil (gaming publishers) to enable you to build the best rig money can buy? I must try mirror your settings to see if there really is a difference, but everything maxed, it does look juicy on a Titan X
+Chris B Yes I had the option to upgrade a year ago but thought it was better to emulate the majority. Now however I must upgrade as this rig is falling apart, even to boot up I have to enter the bios lol
+Worth A Buy A great time for you to maybe grab a GTX 1080. I am even tempted me to retire my Titan for one.
Thank god this is not like doom 3. If I want to play horror scripted games with very bad combat, I would like doom 3. But how crap that game was, its great news they are actually going back and making a game where combat is so fun, fast and complex, compared to doom 3 an half life 1.
Also, one honorable mention in FPS genre would be FEAR1. I challenge you to play it if you have not. Amazing AI. Ohh the story and and wait past the ending credits - major story twist. A masterpiece.
+Juhan Voolaid Interesting, I played Fear 1 and enjoyed it much, but I got to the final part when I was just about to meet the final boss girl, But I Bought a new computer at the time and so I never finished it
IDK< I hate pretty much all FPS games except ones like this. PainKiller was the first FPS game I played with a big stupid grin on my face the whole time.Way I see it if you want drama, story etc the market is flooded with options.Sometimes it is nice to just jump in and wreck shit just for the sake of doing so.Fun is and always will be the top priority in games and if this delivers it has done its job.
He's right in that it is a dumbed down moronic shooter but it is a very well made and great looking moronic shooter that can be satisfying fun.
The sounds in this game are great along with the music which fits perfectly.
It isn't the best game ever made but it is great for some fast paced no brain required shooting
I'm perfectly happy with the game. I'm only on the fourth level and I am having the best time. This is Doom. It's exactly what I wanted out of a Doom game. I enjoyed Doom 3 and I'm appreciating the similar aesthetic but the gameplay is so fast paced and frantic, it takes me way back to my childhood. I am playing as you put it; a complete prick and it's an absolute blast. I can see myself replaying on a higher difficulty when I'm done and check out that survival mode.
I dont agree that its a mindless shooter. play on a hard difficulty and you have to constantly strategize on the move or youre dead. that and it is the most fluid and well designed shooter I have ever played
I've come back to this review two years later.
I revisited Doom 3 again late 2017 early 2018 and I have to say that I'm glad Mack thinks Doom 3 was a step in the right direction.
Since first playing Doom all them years ago, I've bought it three more times, played it start to finish on the hardest difficulty once every few years and I must admit, enjoyed it more this time round than any other. Doom 3 is a terrific step forward in Doom narative and is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion. The lore, the voice acting and the scares are phenominal.
I haven't reinstalled this Doom since completing it when it came out, and I can't see myself reinstalling it. It's a fantastic fun game don't get me wrong, but I don't think it will stand the test of time like Doom 3.
Over all a spot on review, the single player game is still a ton longer than and more fun than most FPS's, and the MP does stand a chance of being greatly improved when you consider the company behind it.
Amazing video dude, i was like ah, hmmm, nah to DOOM but this change my mind, now i am going to buy it!
The glory kills were taken from the Brutal Doom mod, which is only on PC. So your point about them only being there to please console players, is kinda stupid.
Excuse me but did you even attempt to look into story itself in this installment? I suppose not when you're bashing it as a 'moronic shooter'.
I felt the game did get better after about the half way point. The difficulty ramps up, the map design improves and you start to get the old Doom feeling coming through when you move on to the hell based content. The story (what there is of it) is quite interesting too, you need to read the logs to see most of it though.
10 min of complaining
Bit confused how he says its basically 'Doom1. Sure I recognize some of the creatures but everything else is different. What I think would be amazing would be a faithful level by level remake of the original, the same maps, same weapons, just updated to modern graphics standards. To be able to play those old maps that we all knew so well but with modern graphics and sounds would be incredible. Also, if it's Doom 1, wheres the music?
Mac I'm going to just say I love this game way more than you do.....that is all
love the sentence " ... not like doom 3... not scary story.. i have a room full of demons so lets engage quake mode and kick the fuck out of them " that's exaclty my opinion!
I don't care for the aesthetic, the demons look more like aliens.
I've been eagerly awaiting your WAB for this one, Mack. Excellent review. I loved your insight into DOOM's history and your personal experience over the years.
He want's a sequel to DOOM 3, that game was 90% pitch blackness and 10% audio logs?Thank god the developers didn't go for
that...
yes thats what made it great the idea of chosing to have your flashlight or your gun out
This is the best looking FPS game ever. The shadows and light reflections are so gorgeous and dark
+James Friedman I have to be honest.....The best looking FPS out there is EA Battlefront.....even if the game is SHIT it looks great
wow didnt expected reaction like this (I was on the stream where you had a rage)
+Leumas レオ Meh he always does it :) He probably was hangry and haven't had a cup of tea before stream.
Hungry* but never mind and it is kind of true
Mate, remember that first time you pressed space bar on a a Nazi poster to reveal a secret room!?
Mind = Blown
This is just a serious sam knock-off disguised as doom with bad modern gaming cliches.
I mean for FFS unskippable pointless cutscenes where you look at stuff you turned on for 5 seconds or that near 30 second long segment where you're locked in a room even though you have a Helmet with a HUD so the transmission could just play on that.
Oh and weapons are found only when the game decides you need them, no possiblities to find them early or anything to actually reward finding secrets.
Classic Doom was maze-like levels with demons, this is just mind-numbing arenas.
You can never tell by how he talks if he's being sarcastic or serious, but that laugh at 1:08 sounded so genuine.
I don't know why you'd want yet ANOTHER generic shooter... How many do we need? Do we really need another game that has a 30 minute opening scene before you finally get to shoot your gun, followed by following an NPC walking at a snails pace for 10 minutes, followed by a turret scene, followed by a vehicle chase scene?
I love Half Life. I also love Doom. I love Deus Ex. I enjoyed Doom 3 too.
Doom 4 is basically filling in the void that has been left in gaming for far too long. Sure, we've had the occasional Shadow Warrior and the Blood Dragons that are basically a giant "fuck you" to the AAA gaming industry, but to see a real, bad ass classic style FPS with this sort of marketing hype is freakin' awesome.
Maybe we'll FINALLY see a rise in popularity of arcade FPS again thanks to this.
Isn't there a rune that reduces splash damage to yourself, or an armor upgrade that reduces or even removes it?
yes.
60 bucks (or 20% less with MACK's code) for 10 hours of singleplayer, and a failed CoD 'class' multiplayer game where you can't even pewpew like Quake 3/UT and you're held by a caring mommy the whole match through playing with 10 year old kids. No, god no.
0 out of 10. I get nostalgia, but this is horse.
+Aab Baab www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/doom-pc-cd-key-steam
I got it for £21.99 before it released. I'd call it worth it for 10 hours of single player. The Multiplayer does suck balls though.
the invention of the shovel was a truly groundbreaking moment
"Sadly Glory kills ruin" aaaaaand Im done watching
they are shit
+The Dark Night You can disable them lol. Plus they were in brutal doom as well.
Ave true to Caesar i didnt say you cannot i said tgey are shit
On the plus side Mack you can turn off the prompt for glory kills and unbind your melee key. Hoorah for PC players. Also I'm honestly surprised you thumbs upped it. I'm happy you did too because legitimately it does feel like old Doom and I'm really happy about that. I can understand wanting Doom 4 but I REALLY wanted Doom 2! I miss those old kind of games and I think there's room in the market for Doom 2, Half Life, Arma, Battlefield and yes... even COD. So I'm glad you thumb upped it and maybe you and I can get some survival mode goin sometime!
Thankfully it's nothing like Doom 3, that was terrible. This Doom was brilliant fun, something the third one forgot about.
Mac!! Seriously.... seriously... thank you for this review!!! I am a huuuge Doom fan, ever since Doom 95, Doom 2, and Doom 3. Ever since playing this game as a child through today, has shaped me into a great first person shooter. I have competed online in Quake 3, to know EXACTLY what you meant in your comments of your video about being a fanatic/flamboyant shooter by adding style to your skill shot. The Game Grumps gameplay made me realize that I have to give this one a try, but I just had to check in with you to see an "honest" review of the game. I love you Mac. I really... REALLY hope you read this review and respond ( It would mean the world to me as much this game name has meant to my childhood). Thank you, I feel I will now appreciate the game more knowing what you've shared. By the way, congrats to the UK to breaking away from the European Euro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Away with socialism and long live capitalism ;)
Pretty sure this is the only honesty review of doom. Really respect your views and opinions thanks for the videos man.
PC also has that weapon wheel. Hold Q by default.
Its great loving it for what it is.
There's 2 cutscenes in Half-Life 2 I think
In Nova Prospekt when you're in the little pod thing
At the ending when you're also in the little pod thing
There's 1 cutscene in Half-Life 1
When you get dragged by the HECU people into the garbage disposal part
But even then, they're rendered ingame
They're not videos, they're actual scripted events in the game
Your graphical quality won't go up to ultra during a cutscene, it'll stay the same.
In my view Doom 3 was the stale, jump scare ridden and boring one from the series...
It's all a matter of perspective and what one wants from the game.
When you compare new Doom it to Doom 3, you're comparing it to the one game in the series that was different from all the rest. This is really a breath of fresh air in a FPS genre that's been staled to "Call of Duty" mould.
It's fine, it's your _opinion_ and luckily we as consumers can watch different reviews and come to an over all conclusion based on multiple reviews instead of trusting one "authority" over all else. :)
+Religion LOL No it wasn't, Doom 3 didn't even feel like a real Doom game. It was slow and boring and the story was crap.
DOOM 2016 is the true sequel we should've gotten back in 2004.
I recommend always having anisotropy at max. It costs very little and makes a huge difference. It shouldn't even be an option these days. Some graphics settings are obsolete on current hardware.