Doom

degrassinoel

Cormac... wrote: »

I always find it a worrying sign when Review copies don't drop until Release day since it's never a sign of an Amazing game and is most often a sign of a sub-par one

I find it a worrying sign that it's being released on.. dun dunn dunnnn

Friday the 13th! :pac:

Generic Dreadhead

degrassinoel wrote: »

Friday the 13th! :pac:

Full intentional :cool:

B.A._Baracus

If anyone has over an hour to spare watch this:

It's an interesting documentary about ID software but overall it's how the first Doom came to be.

degrassinoel

Cormac... wrote: »

Full intentional :cool:

Doubtless yeah, could easily swing against them though if it turns out to be a flop

SolvableKnave

Have not been impressed with what I've seen of Doom so far, and to me, this looks better.

Is there much excitement or hype for the new game? Even at this stage in not seeing it

Certainly for a game with it's name and history there doesn't seem to be the levels of hype I'd expect.

Generic Dreadhead

Deleted User wrote: »

Is there much excitement or hype for the new game? Even at this stage in not seeing it

Certainly for a game with it's name and history there doesn't seem to be the levels of hype I'd expect.

I see a lot of adverts for it on TV (I think Sky Atlantic and Fox HD)

SolvableKnave

Cormac... wrote: »

I see a lot of adverts for it on TV (I think Sky Atlantic and Fox HD)

2 of THE MOST watched channels available. :rolleyes:

petes

SolvableKnave wrote: »

2 of THE MOST watched channels available. :rolleyes:

I've seen it on other channels that aren't the above (not sky channels either).

Dohnjoe

Doom PC + DLC €30.90

From cdkeys.com

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is there much excitement or hype for the new game? Even at this stage in not seeing it

Certainly for a game with it's name and history there doesn't seem to be the levels of hype I'd expect.

They are pushing it on TV to be fair.

Doom holds a special place in my heart. (Edit* funny when i read that back) I'm still holding faith in MachineGames to deliver a great campaign.
The one thing I can say is that when Wolfienstien: The New Order released Bethesda didn't send review copies until launch also.

Would like to add Marty Stratton from iD Software is directing this. He worked on Rage which is another one of my favorite games.

tinpib

The UFC event from Rotterdam last Sunday was proudly brought to you by Doom.

SolvableKnave

Watched this this morning on way in to work. Graphically it looks sooo much better than the multiplayer. I may change my mind on this yet.

Mr E

I have to say, that video does a good job hyping the single player. I'll definitely pick this up at some stage.

Xenji

Going to go with Overwatch instead of this, but more than likely pick it up later, players have been spoiled with Battleborn, Doom and Overwatch in the space of 21 days.

KilOit

Looks cool and fast paced anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrvBD4aTGY

Achievement/Trophy list looks surprisingly easy, and very few multi player ones.

johnny_ultimate

Every video I've seen of this seems to suffer from a terminal case of blandness in art design. Whatever about the gameplay - which seems unapologetically old school, for better or worse - the generic sci-fi backgrounds just look super dull, to the point where I'm already sort of fed up of the locales based on a few short videos :pac:. One would hope the more hellish stages have a bit more imagination.

I guess that's one of the curses of Doom - the sort of settings and art style it pioneered are now as familiar as can be. But even with that in mind, nothing I've seen suggests the sense of imaginative grotesqueries this sort of material needs.

Crann na Beatha

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murphyebass

Xenji wrote: »

Going to go with Overwatch instead of this, but more than likely pick it up later, players have been spoiled with Battleborn, Doom and Overwatch in the space of 21 days.

Yeah I was going to pick it up at launch but I think I'll wait till it's at the €20 odd price point.

I'm very tempted by Overwatch though. I watched a bit of footage around the beta and it looked like great fun. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to play it though.

A lot of quality titles out in general at the moment though you're right there.

Captain Chaos

murphyebass wrote: »

A lot of quality titles out in general at the moment though you're right there.

It's a nice change this year with all the delayed games coming out when the typical summer lull in games tends to happen. It's more like November.

JT26

JT26 wrote: »

Anyone else enjoying slaying some Demon?

From the readings here, Sounds like I will be only person slaying demons on Friday the 13th :P

Will let you know later how I get on.

SirLemonhead

Game wasn't ready to play by 1:15am so I'll be playing when I get home from work.

Can't find it on Argos as of yet which is surprising...

Smyths pricing is steep at 64.99

LOLStop @ 74.99 so **** that

Oafley Jones

M!Ck^ wrote: »

They are pushing it on TV to be fair.

Doom holds a special place in my heart. (Edit* funny when i read that back) I'm still holding faith in MachineGames to deliver a great campaign.
The one thing I can say is that when Wolfienstien: The New Order released Bethesda didn't send review copies until launch also.

Would like to add Marty Stratton from iD Software is directing this. He worked on Rage which is another one of my favorite games.

Didn't realise that MachineGames were developing this! Thought this looked like generic dreck from the bits I'd seen, but that was my reaction to W:TNO as well and that turned out to be the biggest surprise of 2014 for me.

biggebruv

anybody pick this up in argos ??

its not on the website

biggebruv

biggebruv wrote: »

anybody pick this up in argos ??

its not on the website

Was just checking myself and saw it wasn't on the website, have to pass it when I'm out with the wee one so I'll pop in and check the shop then.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Was just checking myself and saw it wasn't on the website, have to pass it when I'm out with the wee one so I'll pop in and check the shop then.

Get the catalog number if you can, think the same was done on when Uncharted 4 released Tuesday. It wasn't on the website on the day of launch.

Generic Dreadhead

Some anedotal stuff since theres no reviews out yet. Obviously plenty of bias in this

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/05/theres-a-fight-going-on-in-dooms-steam-reviews/

Cormac...

Cormac... wrote: »

Some anedotal stuff since theres no reviews out yet. Obviously plenty of bias in this

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/05/theres-a-fight-going-on-in-dooms-steam-reviews/

Steam Reviews are as bad as comments on n4g or metacritic IMO

Generic Dreadhead

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Steam Reviews are as bad as comments on n4g or metacritic IMO

I agree, it was just all I could really find today.

Sephiroth_dude

When are the reviews coming?

Generic Dreadhead

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

When are the reviews coming?

I guess whenever people have a chance to play like 8-12 hours of it.

So later today/tonight or tomorrow

Sephiroth_dude

Cormac... wrote: »

I guess whenever people have a chance to play like 8-12 hours of it.

So later today/tonight or tomorrow

So they only got review copies today?

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

When are the reviews coming?

Well review copies only dropped so I wouldn't expect anything until at a minimum tomorrow right through until next week.

Sephiroth_dude

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Well review copies only dropped so I wouldn't expect anything until at a minimum tomorrow right through until next week.

Hate that.

Generic Dreadhead

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

So they only got review copies today?

Yup.

Something to do with the game requiring live servers for the MP aspect :rolleyes:

To add to Total Biscuit, quotes from his live-stream this morning. Note: I haven't watched the live stream but info taken from reddit.

"I'm so ****ing happy that this doesn't suck!"

dunworth1

Still not up on argos? Strange

Watching a guy playing it on Twitch now
Looks kind of generic really i remember the old ones used to scare the ****e out of me but I was younger then so Im not sure

dunworth1

dunworth1 wrote: »

Still not up on argos? Strange

Watching a guy playing it on Twitch now
Looks kind of generic really i remember the old ones used to scare the ****e out of me but I was younger then so Im not sure

In what sense? No offense dunny but "Generic" is a very vague description.
Call Of Duty is generic, Battlefiled is generic....

dunworth1

M!Ck^ wrote:

In what sense? No offense dunny but "Generic" is a very vague description. Call Of Duty is generic, Battlefiled is generic....

None taken.

I'm watching the singleplayer btw
It doesn't look like a bad game

I just think that the art style is cartoony
Nothing stands out to me as great maybe just ok

While I'm saying the above the guy I'm watching keeps saying that the game is amazing so i could be way off.

It can be hard to judge from watching a guy on Twitch.

I'll probably still pick it up depending on the prices

Generic Dreadhead

Thing about scary stuff is it's different watching an playing it. Playing P.T. scared the living f**k out of me.... watching others play it, not so much. Guess it's do with the immersion of being in control

dunworth1

It's up on the argos UK site priced at 45.99 pounds

532/9384 is the stock code for the ps4 tried searching for it on the Irish site but nothing

dunworth1

dunworth1 wrote:

532/9384 is the stock code for the ps4 tried searching for it on the Irish site but nothing

OK i found it by searching the stock code on check argos it's priced at 65

Generic Dreadhead

I think I'm "Done" paying that much for a game.

Got Uncharted 4 for €55, physical copy, delivered by Amazon yesterday.

Between Uncharted 4 and the other games I've been playing I don't mind holding out on this.

As long as it delivers a ~18 hour single player experience on par with RAGE. I'll be happy

dunworth1

dunworth1 wrote: »

OK i found it by searching the stock code on check argos it's priced at 65

Cheers, I'm going to use the Permanent TSB thing also. 10 quid back so I'm happy with 55 Euro

Duggy747

Anyone see the Polygon video played by someone who seems to have never played an FPS before? Ratings & comments were soon disabled. :pac:

dunworth1

M!Ck^ wrote:

Cheers, I'm going to use the Permanent TSB thing also. 10 quid back so I'm happy with 55 Euro

Going to do the same and I've a 5 voucher so 50

biggebruv

its working out as 46 euros for ps4 from simply games thats not bad mught go with that will take a week to deliver but i dont mind

Gonzo

Picked this up on Instant Gaming for 30 euros (steam version). Played about 2 hours of the single player last night and really enjoying it.

Obviously it's not gonna set the world on fire like the original Doom did but its a pleasant change from most of today's generic call of duty games. Im really looking forward to later downloading user generated maps like back in the old doom and quake days.