Poimandres
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DOOM Gameplay Demo (E3 2015)
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Oh how wrong I hope you are!
baphomet
Member
Then by all means do it, because you would make millions and millions.
LookAtMeGo
Member
You should start a kickstarter campaign.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
I think the weapon wheel would've been a perfect moment to show Doomguy's face reflection semi-transparent. Akin to Samus' reflection in Metroid Prime.
Except Doomguy could be slowly wetting his lips with his tongue - something You might expect in the original game's HUD!
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Smurf Yetti
Neo Member
After seeing that Brutal Doom, I would say do something like that. Blast some metal music, make it fast paced, let the player jump off walls, karate kick demons, and blow stuff up. Don't make it serious, make it fun. (Maybe this would suit Duke Nukem better though...)
I agree. The impacts that didn't result in dismemberment (which looked pretty good, and might even be slightly dynamic), were not very impressive. At most it resulted in stuns -- and the shader effect of being stunned would cover any superficial wounds we'd be on the look out for here in terms of a more interesting damage model.
That, and the animation/impact of it was certainly weak. Seemed unfinished. Hopefully over this year they're able to revisit those things and maybe tone down the stun shader effect -- it's really something that doesn't need to cover the whole body, though I noticed that it's probably for the context. In other words, if the top half if shaded yellow, and bottom half is blue, then probably aiming at either half when attempting the execution results in a different move. In that case I guess it's "ok", but I will still prefer it be more subtle.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
We saw a 13 minute presentation of a (possibly 12+ hour game if the Wolfenstein reboot is any indication) game that is a year out. I am sure they are not going to let you see all the eggs in their basket just yet.
The gameplay trailer sure was more reminiscent of that mode that did not gain it's cult following until later in Doom's life as well.
From what I saw personally, it looked like Doom on steroids. And offered everything I wish I had in the original when I was in High School daydreaming about improvements or "what ifs" 20 years ago.
I just recently watched some old Doom videos, and this new Doom doesn't look like Doom at all. Unless you can skip all those enemy rooms by just running past everything, then it might actually be something. But the level design so far looks awful, the finishing moves are stupid, the slowdown with the weapon change is stupid (actually the whole weapon wheel is stupid), you get like all the weapons in that first stage, everything looks so scripted... the list goes on, bleh....
PensivePen
Member
At least a good portion of my concerns would be assuaged if we just had some footage of the character sprinting for an extended period of time with no limitations on his running. I still have some other problems with the demo, but the speed never picking up enough is the biggest one.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
So much this. Still hyped though. Let's hope they nailed the exploration aspect.
soulassssns
Banned
Let me borrow your crystal ball because I have much better uses for it than you. lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I'm pretty sure executions are optional guys.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Looks great!!!
probably? did you expect them to play on one of the hardest difficulties the first time they shown it off?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I can get behind this. A homage to his hud animations should be added.
drotahorror
Member
That stuff is great but the gibs are weak. If they're gonna let you gib fools, then make it look sick. I'm sure there's more work to be done and maybe next thursday is gib-day.
Wiktor
Member
It looks dissapointing visually. Not that it's ugly, but it's a bit sad that that this is doesn't blow me away. id's games used to be huge leaps visually. Rage wasn't, but even that looked excellent on launch and it was designed for outdated weak consoles, so it was natural. Now came next gen and id just doesn't seem to be able to hang out with the best ones. As a pcgamer, this makes me very sad.
The gameplay looks very nice though. id knows how to make good combat systems and this one feels a lot faster, more frantic and brutal than the one in Doom 3.
The gameplay looks very nice though. id knows how to make good combat systems and this one feels a lot faster, more frantic and brutal than the one in Doom 3.
Uh huh...
Giolon
Member
I don't get it. People lost their shit over this? It looks like the same miasma of brown we've been looking at for decades. It's just in less shadow this time. Maybe all the streams are just shit but I wasn't impressed by the graphics either. It looks like RAGE.
Maybe it's time we just all admit that Doom was a product of its time and admit that that time is over.
Maybe it's time we just all admit that Doom was a product of its time and admit that that time is over.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Idk what you guys are talking about. That looked sick as FUCK.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
jim2point0
Banned
This was my thought when watching it. It looked so good.
Still not sure about the gameplay. I've never been a big Doom fan though. Hell looked bland as shit.
MichaelFassbender
Member
Bold claim. Anything that pushes the envelope in the face of such things is welcome.
Hopefully they take the feedback about the colour palette on board. The enemies in Doom were all very distinct and colourful. This presentation didn't have much of that, it also seemed to be hyping up the revenant more than we're used to. Part of the fun of Doom is opening a door, seeing that it has a horde of Revenants/Arachnotrons/Pain Elementals behind it and noping the fuck out. They might get that, just like they might understand a lot of the other things people are bringing up. But their demo didn't convey that very well.
There's not really anything wrong with their approach it just doesn't seem very Doom-like.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
2016? Son of a...
drotahorror
Member
Is there a different topic for the multiplayer? Maybe update the OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmXCgdDQNc
looks bonkers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmXCgdDQNc
looks bonkers
StaffyManasse
Member
Mixed feelings.
The teaser we got last month(?) got me pretty hyped, but now I don't know.
I mean what's up with all the focus to the gore and over the top, borderline comedic violence? I mean, the original Doom had gore and violence, but it was never just about that. At least not to me. In the originals, the level of gore was just right to make an actually scary atmoshphere. When I look at this and the various mods like Brutal Doom and such, it feels like they have turned this once scary and atmoshperic game into a splatter comedy.
Or maybe it's just me.
The teaser we got last month(?) got me pretty hyped, but now I don't know.
I mean what's up with all the focus to the gore and over the top, borderline comedic violence? I mean, the original Doom had gore and violence, but it was never just about that. At least not to me. In the originals, the level of gore was just right to make an actually scary atmoshphere. When I look at this and the various mods like Brutal Doom and such, it feels like they have turned this once scary and atmoshperic game into a splatter comedy.
Or maybe it's just me.
TBH, I think something like DOOM 3 with better level design and lighting would work just fine for me. The way the player interacted with the environment in DOOM 3 was really memorable for me. The enemies were all really unique and it felt like DOOM has properly been updated for the time.
What I saw today looked like they'd taken too many unnecessary elements from other modern shooters and shoved them where they don't belong. The executions, the lack of colour, the frequent cutscenes and animations that take away player control. They all just don't belong in DOOM for me.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I am with you on this one. I do hope they tweak the palette as well to have more of a throwback feel.
I didn't see any cutscenes. Do you mean the animations for picking up guns and ripping demons up? I wouldn't really call those cutscenes.
tiredheadcrab
Member
That level editor looks awesome. I cant wait to get this. Creating horde modes and such is always fun and with your own custom maps and enemy spawns and such sounds like fun. Plus multiplayer maps. Yeah i am sold. The first sp demo looked a little odd but the second hell part was amazing.
Fine, animations. Whatever. Look at when the guy picks up the chainsaw. What follows is about 2 minutes of insta-kill animations that take control away from the player for the duration. once the novelty of the gore wears off, the player will more than like stop using that weapon because it will then be "that weapon that takes away control".
cripterion
Member
I didn't like weapon feedback on the mobs and monster design is a bit odd. Do we know if there is co-op?
Controller controller controller. Consoles.
Play on PC to avoid this, most likely (with numbers like in old shooters).
I don't quite get the hatred. It's fast paced; it's about shotgun, demons, and gore; the combat is intense and stylish; the graphics is on par with other modern shooters; the added parkour and takedown actions from the showcase clips are Titanfall-level fluid; and we have a more friendly editor to boost user generated contents. I really like what I saw and I believe that it has the potential to fully revive the franchise just like what The New Order did to Wolfenstein.
Stage demos are always like this.
Sad but true, hope we can just press numbers and switch to the gun we want