Doom Hype Thread

all thier complain is about MP. lol

this is what happened you COD fan review an actual FPS game. it doesnot have aim down the sight and press F to pay respect so of course they wont give it high. i mean advanced "press f to pay respect" warfare got a 9.1!!!

I won't be bothered to read the full review, but I did read his review in progress the other day.

Can't say I fully disagreed with much of it as most of it was just "huzzah opinions!". He just disliked a lot of things that I do like, so whatever.

But it seems he has a significant misunderstanding of the weapons in the game and a complete misunderstanding of how the glory kill and chainsaw mechanics work to replenish health and ammo respectively.

If you're constantly scrounging around the map for health packs and ammo then you're doing something wrong, plain and simple. The only time I found myself seeking out health packs was when I was on my last leg and severely outnumbered in the bigger fights. Like my health is in the red and getting in for a glory kill against bigger enemies is a risk. During the general flow of the game though, this was never a thing.

As for the weapons, I do agree that the super shotgun does become the go-to weapon for mopping up many enemies at a certain point. It packs a good punch, especially once the double-tap is unlocked, and personally I enjoy getting in close proximity of the enemies so that makes it satisfying to me.

But is it so good that it makes the other weapons irrelevant? Nah. It's severely lacking in range for one, and furthermore it lacks an alternate fire. It doesn't make the regular shotgun irrelevant because the regular shotgun can be equipped with burst fire, or (what I went with) the grenade attachment. Once maxed out that grenade launcher is semi-auto. Then he went on to compare it to the rocket launcher. I do agree that the rocket launcher should pack more of a punch, but again, comparing it to directly to the super shotgun and calling it useless makes no sense. The rocket launcher hits hard from all the way across the arena and once you have that lock on multi burst shot it becomes a beast. And once you've leveled up your suit to handle explosions, you can get pretty stupid with it and decimate enemies point blank.

I could go on, but those were the main points that stuck out to me.

Just seemed like overall the game wasn't really his flavor, again that's fine, but he seemed to lose track of objectivity in the process.

Not sure if that stuff carried over to his full review though, he may have cleaned it up.

I just finished the story and man I just wanna go back in such an addicting game,

This is definitely a title where review scores do no justice. It's going to have mediocre scores, but players love it. Truly shows how pointless scores are at times. Either recommend the game or don't.

This game has been a blast so far. I haven't been into shooters for a while, at least since everything has become a clone of COD. This game has nothing in common with COD.

The level design is good, the action is fast paced, and it does remind of the old days of Doom. The glory kills get repetitive, but they serve a purpose so it isn't too bad. Overall I would score it 9/10. Haven't played a shooter this refreshing in a long time.

I'm pumped up to play Doom but I'm in the middle of playing Uncharted 4

Only read a few bits of some reviews and from what I've read so far I think I will enjoy this game a lot. I'll probably give it a 9.754694 out of 11.666523 but we shall see when I eventually play in a few years after I have got platinum trophies all round in bayonetta 1 & 2, maybe finish some backlog, I dunno. Game will be fun.

I expect it to review fairly well, though it would have likely been better to send out review copies before launch. Probably gonna land in the low-mid 80s when all is said and done.

But yeah I do agree on the futility of scores. It's a nice quick way to say "this is how much I enjoyed what I played", and nothing more.

Right on man, I knew a replay was in order before I even hit the halfway mark. It's just pure fun and that final stretch of encounters was some high octane shit.

@worknow222: When it comes to Battlefield and Call Of Duty's barely interactive 4 hour single player they seem to magically accept accept it as the status quo, while this gets hammered for a component nobody largely cares about. Very odd.

Almost like they are currupt hacks under the thumb of mega-publishers - who are evil.

You guys make me wanna play it.

So this review in progress was useless then I mean why does IGN even bother with this? With Uncharted 4 they first gave it a 8.8 but the full review was 9.0 and they only added 0.2 which was a waste of time and with DOOM the score stays the same. Anyways I don't care for their score the game looks awesome.

how long did it take you?

Ok , it seems once more im on point , barely AA as of now , no chance for AAA status and the score is currently at 79/100 ( i said game will end up 77 to 82 at metacritic almost 3 days ago )

I should be a reviewer , future teller or video games analyst ! I wonder ! haha

You really should, you'd fit right in with the rest of the hacks.

around 12 plus hours that includes looking for some secrets . also playing on the hard difficulty

I would , if my english were top notch and not sucky, haha !

I been playing old as Doom 1, because I'd want to binge game the shit out of Doom 4, but don't got the schedule for it, right now.

Yeah, I agree. Same will happen with Shadow Warrior 2 I think. First one didn't receive high scores from "critics" but the game was a blast and gaming community loved it.

It's a freakin 80 on Metacritic.

Nah, honestly the poor writing would put you on par. If you were good in that department, you'd be overqualified.

For now (PC version is at 77 already) and Advanced Warfare is also rated higher. BTW my comment was about addressing his statement that sometimes scores are pointless and I wasn't just strictly talking about Doom. I mentioned Shadow Warrior because it also received OK-ish reviews from critics but great from users. Opposite is the case when it comes to COD games.

And for every valid knock there is against CoD, there are plenty of shitty ones built around "I don't play this game, or even plan on buying it, but I sure as **** will bitch about it at every turn". PC version is also at 5 reviews, the PS4 at 17, that's a pretty big deal given that it's an average. Scores are perfectly fine, better mediums with better critics have had graded critiques. Gamers give way too much stock to the score, the number, and less to what the complaints/praise is centered around, and if that reflects what they want. Because, well that one is obvious.

You completely missed the point. But that's OK.

There is no point to actually miss sport, "scores do no justice", it's on the reader to address whether or not the complaints/praise actually speak to something they like/dislike.

If Half life would release today it would not recieve more than 7 or 8 by critics who claim modern warfare as revolutionary game

Horrible example for a variety of reasons

A: Given how much of Half Life's influence has played into modern shooters, and the cinematic nature of Half Life.
B: How shitty Half Life's story is, and how much gaming critics love gassing up bad stories, because gamers universally have bad taste in stories.
C: Half Life 1 and 2 are disgustingly praised and celebrated, pretty decorated games, ditto Valve as a studio. Dota 2 is one of the more complicated gameplay experiences on the market, and it's received pretty damn well. So a Valve game doing well review wise, not exactly unheard of.

If Half Life released and was just as revolutionary (time paradox, whatever) it would do perfectly fine, probably not a 96, not the least of which is because if anything the quantity of reviews out there means it's harder to get a 90 today (this is a fact by the way, not an opinion or conjecture). More to it, a 7 or 8 isn't exactly harsh, those are good scores. On this website and most that do a 10 point scale. That's usually "good" and "great". Phew, those harsh ass critics, are you fucking serious?

Funny you have to make a 44Gb update after you installed the game from dvd on pc ...:(

DVDs only hold like 8 GB. What were you expecting?

If i buy the game on disc i expect whole game be on disc, if 1 dvd is to small put it on 2 dvds and if that not enough put in on bluray...i am willing to pay for that yes

@aroxx_ab: and not many people have bluray drives on their pc, hell some don't even have a disc drive at all. PC is full digital now.

Played it couple hours ago. Straight 10/10 material. But yeah the title of the game isn't Doom: Uncharted.

Maybe majority yes, but people that buy physical version normally have a disc drive and do so because want to avoid big download files. I got a multimedia PC hooked to TV there i watch bluray movies/netflix/HBO whatever. But guess i just have to upgrade internet for better speed.

I thought it was a joke to be honest. One DVD? lol What a pointless disk.

Yes indeed, except the lower price i see no reason for the physical version to exist at all as it is now.

Half-Life would do poorly today because Half-Life 2 basically set the guidebook for how to make a AAA on rail shooter.. The game was great at release, but after dozens of big named FPS's basically copying the formula, it has become stale..

Physical media is in a weird conundrum these days.

Blu-ray didn't put a dent in the DVD market for a variety of factors, and streaming has simply taken over despite its exponentially worse AV quality.

And because of diskless streaming, trying to get people to install something through 7 DVDs is asking for a hiding. This isn't the 90's, we don't sell boxes with 250 page manuals and 10 discs anymore. If anything, we sell 15" statues with no physical game disc included, but a piece of paper where you can redeem it from the online store.

But yeah. Technological revolution does funny things.

Difficulty shouldn't be focus tested for a large audience. Publishers are probably getting 17 year old girls to play Doom, and the only game they ever played before was Candy Crush saga. And while that's an extreme example, they'll probably try find someone on their test list whose "never heard of Doom/never really played a FPS before", and record how he's a complete nicumpoop at the game and change it accordingly.

When your mission statement for the game is "we're gonna make it like the original Doom", you're essentially bypassing the lowest common denominator. You're there to please fans of the FPS, not necessarily find new ones. And it's a great tactic to use: get the evangelists praising your product, and the useful idiots join in later. It happened with the Souls series.

It's a moot point anyway because Doom is getting great reviews from FPS fans, and it's definitely going to get legs to fast track a sequel.

But yeah, movies and games have a mad problem with trying to cater to everyone. No, it's not good, because it sterilizes or skews what you intended to do. The worst bits are when 99 people give your movie/game a thumbs up, but the one silly sausage says "Yeah it's cool, but I think Black Widow should fall in love with one of the Avengers." You can bet it probably happened that way too.

Oh dmn the game is so good, it reminds me little bit of Metroid with the Map and find secrets here and there. Game runs ok at 60fps and looks ok on medium with my old pc.

So GS still hasn't reviewed the game lol, wow this site is such a joke XD. But hey at least they got Stellaris a review....

Peter was talking on The Lobby about how the review will be up later today. Given that there were no review copies I don't see the issue with them taking their time to do a proper review instead of rushing one out for a bit of traffic

So gamespot was doing the smart thing, good gamespot have a gold star

The game got an 8 here.

Only hardcore gamers at GS.

The game was out almost 5 days ago, the SP isn't even that long. If Doom was like 30 or 40 hours long I'd understand for the delay but the SP is barely 12 hours long.

yea but the game also has multiplayer and that snap map thing

@ghosts4ever - There goes your Hope for DOOM 2016 being best FPS ever. Got a 8 on GS. Could not even get a 9 and you were comparing it with UC 4 looool.

most of best games in history got 8s. so??

HaHa DOOM 2016 TEH BEST GAME EVER. There goes your Hype down the drain :P Its a solid Shooter, nothing exceptional as you Hyped it to be all these years. The Witcher 3, MGS V , Uncharted 4 are far superior games :)