Doom Eternal (and Doom 2016)

[Darth_Uno]

Yeah, so I'm definitely getting Doom Eternal. I finally got Doom 2016 a few weeks ago after deeming my son old enough to watch/play. And it is a hoot. The graphics, and levels, and gameplay...this ain't yo daddy's Doom (and I'm now old enough to be the dad here).

Most of what I play is the Zelda series and similar RPG-ish games. You've got time to stand around and scope out the situation. Not in Doom - the monsters hunt you down like crackhead panhandlers, and there's plenty of 'em. If you stand around you get dogpiled. I had to adjust pretty quick to that.

[Baldanders]

I don't play much in the way of FPS anymore, but these look good.

I really need to finish Superhot first. It's been the better part of a year....stuck on a bad level in an elevator.

And I should really get my $$$ worth out of Civ VI first. But I'm usually too tired for that kind of brain effort.

[blues]

I think Doom was the first and only FPS I ever bothered to finish. Might have been one other War type that I did with my nephews in NH but I don't recall what it was called. It was about 2006 or so.

[ccmdfd]

Ah, the pleasant memories of staying up until the wee hours of the morning playing Doom and other FPS games.

Nowadays it's browsing internet forums during the daylight hours reading posts about people reminiscing the days of late night gaming.

cc

[Darth_Uno]

My son smokes me on any FPS. He’s good, he really is. I’m more of a Zelda/Final Fantasy type player. Breath of the Wild is outstanding.

But if you want to go around shooting demons in the face for a while, Doom is the way to go.


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[Baldanders]

Doom in 1993 was a revolutionary experience. Got the first levels free on trial floppy.

"Back in my day...." Oldies olding out.

I have to say one thing that really cut my playing shooters was being in the first dull hour of Mass Effect Andromeda, (loved 1-3) having trouble hitting a bad guy, and chucking the controller and realizing that getting frustrated at not being able to do a virtual task that I do OK with in real life was really silly.

Particularly when I can walk out my back door and open fire at will.

Never got back to that game.

I still love top down shooters. Assault Android Cactus is good fun for a few minutes here and there.

[Robinson]

Doom 2016 was crazy fun -- and really hard on the upper difficulties. Can't wait for Doom Eternal.

The only games I ever play any more are pretty much Doom and Close Combat.

[Darth_Uno]

I played most of it on the middle difficulty level. Every now and then if I got stuck I’d bump it down one. I just want to play and have fun, not get my ass kicked. But I still can’t bring myself to put it on easy mode.

[Balisong]

I never played 2016, but the OG Doom and Doom 2, hell yes!

But when it comes to FPS games, NOTHING drives me more crazy than when a character takes 13 minutes to work the pump on a shotgun while taking it off the target. Same goes for pistol or rifle reloads, but shotguns are always the biggest offenders in those games.

[JRB]

Wolf 3D started, but the first DOOM sank the hook in me for FPS gaming. I'd hid a copy of Doom II on my high school network and our teacher never could figure out how we playing that game all the time, it was really fun doing 4 player deathmatch gaming over the IPX/SPX local network after school hours. Our teacher even joined in a few times, but he only really got any of us with lucky rockets or BFG rounds.

Simpler times... I haven't had time to game really since Mass Effect 3 or so, but a new Doom title could bring me back :)

[Bucky]

I haven’t played Doom 2016 since it came out. I bet I’d look great on the new screen.

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[mtnbkr]

Funny timing on this. Nintendo just cut the price on Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 for the Switch, so I bought Doom II and Doom 3 to play on my kids' Switch. I played a Doom II deathmatch against Thing 1 last night.

Switch controllers are terrible for this though. We definitely need more appropriate controllers.

As for FPS, back in the late 90s we had a Quake server (multiple actually) at work and would have deathmatches after hours.

These days, the only FPS I play is TF2 on Steam.

Chris

[Default.mp3]

I'm ready for COVID-19 now:
https://i.imgur.com/5DtnrBBh.png

Played a bit of Doom Eternal today, feels a lot like the last one, and that's a good thing, so if you liked the last one, this one is definitely worth getting. There are changes in how the chainsaw and stunning of enemies works, making it more versatile, it feels.

Getting full 144 FPS on 1440p so far on the highest graphics setting, no dips in FPS that I noticed (though I stop looking at the counter during the fights, which is where its most likely to drop, but I don't notice any difference), running an i7-7700K and a Radeon VII.

[Darth_Uno]

I’ll be getting it this weekend, just for PS4 though. I’ve not ascended to the PC Master Race.

[Robinson]

Installed it on my PC yesterday. They've ramped up the difficulty in this one a bit over Doom 2016. Less ammo laying around too. The changes make use of the chainsaw and glory kills a necessity.

Graphically the game looks pretty darn good, and the Vulkan API is very efficient so the game will run just fine on a lot of machines.

[snow white]

I've been playing eternal, Its definitely harder than 2016. It's real good tho, I'm having a good time with it. When I'm taped out my wife docks the switch and I watch her play animal crossing so we got a whole yin and yang thing going on over here.

[Robinson]

Okay whoever designed these jumping/swinging/midair acceleration puzzle sequences should be drug out and shot.

[Darth_Uno]

Okay whoever designed these jumping/swinging/midair acceleration puzzle sequences should be drug out and shot.

They're ok. Haven't had a problem with them, it just doesn't seem like the right fit for this game.

I like the tweaks to the combat system though.

[Robinson]

They're ok. Haven't had a problem with them, it just doesn't seem like the right fit for this game.

I like the tweaks to the combat system though.

I wasn't having a problem either until the level where you are jumping and swinging across the lake of fire with sinking sky islands and spinning fire chains of death. You time five or six jumps in a row just right then miss one and have to start over. I cussed a lot.

Plus I agree that the platforming stuff doesn't really belong in a Doom game. I also agree about the combat -- you have to keep moving.

[Balisong]

That kind of platform stuff annoyed me about the new Duke Nukem game that came out a handful of years back.

[Bergeron]

This doesn't make me feel old, but it does make me feel how much I really am in my thirties now.:eek:

I played Wolf 3D, Doom I, Doom II, and Quake II in high school, with some Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament as an undergrad. I'd still be happy to play a bit of those some more, but I haven't yet found a reason to play any of the new stuff.

[MK11]

You want old? I played Castle Wolfenstein when it was white stick figures in a green PC screen.

[Bucky]

You want old? I played Castle Wolfenstein when it was white stick figures in a green PC screen.

On the Apple 2E, they were green stick figures on a black screen, IIRC.