Renzatic on 14/5/2016 at 07:42
Yes, damnit. I bet I'm gonna have to start selling my blood just to afford all these damn games coming out this year.
Starker on 14/5/2016 at 08:02
I watched most of the 4 hour stream and my impressions of the game have improved somewhat. On one hand, it looks very dull visually -- drab industrial environments that will probably start to feel very samey after a while. On the other hand, I like the fast paced mayhem in the gameplay. At its worst, it feels like the worst parts of Half-Life without all the meticulously crafted setpieces and encounters, but at its best it feels like a frantic music video and it actually looks fun. Maybe not 60$ worth of fun, but at least enough for a playthrough.
Judith on 14/5/2016 at 09:12
There was a sale on CDkeys for 31 EUR that almost made me buy it... Almost.
Volitions Advocate on 15/5/2016 at 23:04
They brought back invisible Pinkys....
Renzatic on 16/5/2016 at 05:05
Okay, so I bought Doom. GreenManGaming had a 20% off voucher, so I took it.
...didn't even manage to make it to next week. :P
I should add that I'll be playing the game with the Steam Controller. Like here!
[video=youtube;Bwq2btaPio0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwq2btaPio0[/video]
Starker on 16/5/2016 at 07:50
I honestly didn't think the game was going to be any good, and all signs seemed to be pointing to it. I thought it would be something like Doom 3 at best -- not exactly bad, but entirely forgettable. But I was wrong and I'm glad that I was.
I think it all boils down to one simple thing -- it's a Doom game. A modern Doom game with some substantial changes, but a Doom game nevertheless. It's fast, it's responsive, it's metal and it's gamey. Instead of blue flasks you get glowing health pickups, but the idea is the same -- you're in a level filled with demonic hellspawn and you need to run and dodge and blast away while managing your health and ammo and searching for hidden away goodies to top off your arsenal. And it seems to stick to that basic idea, for the most part. It doesn't keep you away from the action with overly long cutscenes and it doesn't skimp on neither weapons nor enemies.
Now, all that said, it still locks you in barely interactive Half-Life style cutscenes occasionally, the levels feel kind of smallish, and the art direction still rubs me the wrong way somewhat, but the fun parts are genuinely fun, as far as I'm concerned. Even the glory kills actually kind of work as a health pickup mechanic or at least they are not nearly as annoying as I thought they would be.
Neb on 16/5/2016 at 16:40
Gonna have to pick this up at some point. I'm seeing a lot of people pleasantly surprised at how it turned out.
[video=youtube;AOAGjzyrp80]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAGjzyrp80[/video]
Renzatic on 17/5/2016 at 05:04
Whew. Holy shit.
That's all I have to say.
Matthew on 17/5/2016 at 08:05
Argh, I really want this one but am not convinced my Radeon 7850 + i7-2600k combo will be able to manage it without falling over.
faetal on 17/5/2016 at 23:49
It's a Doom game alright. I don't see many ways they could have got it more right.
