Doom (2016) Discussion

[DrunkenSano]

Will wait until it's under $20, will only be playing campaign. Multiplayer looks retarded.

 

[james1701]

Preloaded the open beta and it would let me launch it. It would only give me 3 resolution choices in a 16:9. Unless there is another patch, I will not be able to play at my native resolution. The servers are not up yet until midnight. It did get a patch, but that may be part of the DX update some have reported Steam releasing today.

 

[Tweak155]

I pre ordered the CE. Suck it!

 

[zink77]

it's about being savvy to the general negative industry trend of trying to get people into the habit of making an endless unthinking string of uninformed purchase decisions (pre-orders) vs informed purchase decisions (wait for reviews). Out of all the possible entertainment products, PC games are by far the one with the consistently worst technical quality control issues (by a very large margin), and it's generally a bad idea to feed the BS machine even more as it encourages further negative behaviour by publishers in future. If publishers get paid only after they release a working game, that acts as a financial incentive to actually polish the game a bit better for launch day, which has a positive impact on everyone whether they pre-order or not.

Dude the last 20 years of gaming have proven 1000% that the average gamer is a moron, it began with Ultima online and everquest, why would you pay a monthly fee for a game you never own? The first DRM'd subscription rpg's lead to the rise of steam/always online/f2p nonsense. That newer generation of gamers is downright tech illiterate.

Markets are myth and generally don't work for anything that is non trivial in complexity, can anyone really judge the true price of the average hard drive? How would you know if you were being ripped off or not since you have no knowledge regarding when you're being price gouged? The same applies to videogames, the average gamer has no real direct knowledge of how modern computers work. That's why we see the rise of league of legends, heroes of the storm, overwarch - all games for the retarded generations of humanity that pay for always online drm'd game. Like a giant wtf. You're paying to have your rights removed.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I tried it out, but there was no "wow this fun" factor to me when playing MP. I had no expectations anyway.

 

[shortylickens]

Steam has over 11 thousand reviews and most of them are negative.

Hopefully they can WOW us on release day, but I went ahead and cancelled my Collectors Edition from Amazon. I dont need the little statue that badly to put up with a game I might not enjoy.

 

[Rakehellion]

I absolutely HATE those in-game cutscenes after every kill. I hope there's a mod that lets you turn them off.

 

[Rakehellion]

Steam has over 11 thousand reviews and most of them are negative.

Hopefully they can WOW us on release day, but I went ahead and cancelled my Collectors Edition from Amazon. I dont need the little statue that badly to put up with a game I might not enjoy.

Is the game even out yet?

 

[Tweak155]

Is the game even out yet?

Yeah it depends if you're buying for single player or multiplayer I guess.

 

[DrunkenSano]

Is the game even out yet?

I believe this weekend was open beta. Multiplayer was boring.

 

[clamum]

Will wait until it's under $20, will only be playing campaign. Multiplayer looks retarded.

I might pick it up soon after it's out but I agree, I'm only interested in the single player myself. While I don't play that type of multiplayer FPS (I guess I call it "competitive") anymore, I am interested in another competitive FPS (Battalion 1944) so it isn't just that. But I'm weird, cause I really liked Doom 3 single player, lol.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Well from what I know DOOM's development is split among the following:

Campaign - id Software
Multiplayer - Certain Affinity
SnapMap - Escalation Studios

Escalation studios is sort of like an extension to id (I think they share the same building?) and the head of that team was one of the guys behind final doom + known as a veteran doom mapper.

Certain affinity on the other hand is a company that developed multiplayer and DLC content for CoD/halo + consoles. Maybe they have tried to cater the game to the general masses and its seeing some serious negative feedback. I guess many negative feedback is better than none at all.

Im more hyped about the single player to be honest and snap map based content.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I tried the beta, didn't know it was solely multiplayer, was really disappointed. The campaign looked really promising, but team deathmatch, jesus, that is just boring crap.

 

[Igo69]

I bet this game is going to be sold like hot cakes. It's almost 2 weeks left before release

Live Campaign game play soon:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-doom-single-player-livestream-with-the-devs-/1100-6439187/

 

[blake0812]

I watched a bethesda stream last night, they were covering the single player for Doom. Here's the highlights:

-Huge maps with a map system built in
-secrets
-Everything from the HUD to death kills glows can be disabled
-music ramps up when fights start
-Ultra Nightmare mode (if you die you must start over from the very beginning)

That's all I can remember off the top of my head but for me that's pretty good already

 

[Shmee]

Don't forget to look out for your cacobuddies! Does anyone else think they are adorable?

 

[nurturedhate]

Am I the only person that enjoyed the multiplayer beta? I only played TDM as I could never get a warpath session to matchmake. It felt like old school Doom2 DM mixed with similar to Q3A style maps. I thought it was a blast. Give me a rocket launcher, a shotgun, camp the armor and power up spawns and kill everyone.

 

[Raduque]

Am I the only person that enjoyed the multiplayer beta? I only played TDM as I could never get a warpath session to matchmake. It felt like old school Doom2 DM mixed with similar to Q3A style maps. I thought it was a blast. Give me a rocket launcher, a shotgun, camp the armor and power up spawns and kill everyone.

I enjoyed it too. I thought it was fun in a way multiplayer hadn't been fun since UT'99/Quake3.

I probably won't play much of the MP once it hits retail though, I'm buying it 99% for the campaign. And the statue.

 

[CuriousMike]

I'm hoping for a 20% off coupon closer to release... hope springs eternal for me and this game.

GreenManGaming has a 25% off coupon - made it $45.

I didn't try Beta.. I'm just hoping for a good single player campaign.

 

[Igo69]

cdkeys has it for $35....

 

[2is]

Steam has over 11 thousand reviews and most of them are negative.

Hopefully they can WOW us on release day, but I went ahead and cancelled my Collectors Edition from Amazon. I dont need the little statue that badly to put up with a game I might not enjoy.

This is about par for the course in terms of steam reviews for an unreleased game. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it.

 

[Ranulf]

I enjoyed it too. I thought it was fun in a way multiplayer hadn't been fun since UT'99/Quake3.

I probably won't play much of the MP once it hits retail though, I'm buying it 99% for the campaign. And the statue.

MP didn't wow me in the beta. It was too much like COD/Halo. Limiting you to two guns is lame.

 

[clamum]

This is about par for the course in terms of steam reviews for an unreleased game. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it.

That, and gamers are notoriously a bunch of whiny bitches. I'd take those reviews with a dumptruck full of salt.

 

[CuriousMike]

That, and gamers are notoriously a bunch of whiny bitches.

This needs to be repeated. Frequently.

 

[Captante]

Last time I pre-ordered a game was ME3 .... need I say more?