You’re not alone, I loved 2016, but I couldn’t finish eternal. all that platforming diluted the essence that made Doom fun IMO.
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jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I liked this game better than Doom Eternal
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Downpour@programming.dev 1 month ago
Tell me more, why for you is that the case?
I think doom 2016 does theme/story and just the over all ‘fantasy’ of being the doomguy WAY better. I really missed it in Doom:E. However I do really enjoy the way they built the gameplay loop into this frantic dance of violence.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.
Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
How is Doom 2016 better in that regard? Just because the options aren’t there?
You can still play Doom Eternal like the 2016 version. It’s gonna be harder, but I basically did in my first playthrough.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.
alehel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
My biggest issue with Eternal was that it seemed like keeping the story consistent wasn’t a priority.
Downpour@programming.dev 1 month ago
I always liked the idea of doomguy, an absurd character, being grounded in a little lore and just playing around with him decimating any kind of plot a villian was comming up with.
Doom:E seemed to build a bunch of lore that no one was really asking for. Does anyone really want to know “Who was doom guy?” I didn’t. I really enjoyed him being barely a character, more a force of nature trying to eridicate demons. Rip & tear!