I'm only on the third mission, but isn't the beginning of this game really strange?
The Demons have already invaded Earth?
Doomslayer has an orbital base outside Earth?
Didn't the first game end with the robot guy stealing the sword or something?
Why does it feel like I'm in the middle of the story?
cause they have to sell planned story DLCs
The game is also throwing characters at you left and right, without ouch introduction:
>The Betrayer
>Some Ghost King Guy
>Angel named Chaka Khan
>story in Doom
Fucking zoomers
Don't think about it. Just enjoy your hyperviolent family friendly demon slaughtering game.
Yeah, I was confused by the intro. I thought I skipped a cutscene or something but I guess not. Straight to the floating rock in space and killing demons.
MAYBE I'M IN THE MINORITY...but I would have welcomed the same sort of deathmatch gameplay from 2016.
Just drop the loadout concept for weapon pickups (you can still set your Runes before the match) and replace them with onsite procurement in-game.
Can you buy the game digital already?
It's fucking stupid
They wanted to tell a story and didn't want to force it on players at the same time
So you're presented with a bunch of bullshit without being given any context
Gamestop started selling it today because of the Rona
And yea, it feels like the third game in a trilogy.
And also slaughtering fake Gods: The Game
>Doom 2016
>Who cares about story. Punches away the exposition screen the moment it starts trying to tell you shit
>Doom Eternal
>The Knights of Light shoved the Ancient Dunur Pole up each others asses. This created the elron space of defiance
Seriously quite literally NO ONE CARES about the story and it’s all just fun window dressing. What the fuck is wrong with you people
Not that I have played it but... Maybe the problem is that the game is really hard trying to have a story? When in DOOM 2016 it was just "oh hey I woke you up would you please return this one artifact for me please"
It isn’t though. It’s just fun window dressing for fans. If you take this stuff seriously you’re fucking retarded.
I bought it on Xbox today, I know
2016
>story shrouded in mystery
>characters are simple and motivations/traits shown naturally with minimal "stop, look at me" exposition
>essentially a satire of human greed mixed with some supernatural lore in the background
Eternal
>Multiversal alien angel politics
>Slayer goes from silent monster to tryhard edgy growling dog
>a million named characters introduced throughout the game, each more forgettable than the last
What a disaster
>Slayer goes from silent monster to tryhard edgy growling dog
this is canonically correct
It's not about the story, it's about continuity.
And it's retarded
Is "Doomslayer" still a snail in this one?
the story is literally just there to make excuses for you being an inexplicable badass, dont think about it too hard
>Doom 2016
>unskippable first person cutscenes
>Doom Eternal
>you can skip every cutscene
Yes.
Fucking Bethesda unlocking bullshit, never been more mad for a 20 minute wait in my life
If you don't care about the story, you should be able to enjoy the game even if you skip the plot. But if you do care about it, they should actually fucking try to tell it.
Can kill npc like you could in doom 3?
>Yas Forums upset that the best shooter released in the last ten years has a bad story
You people are impossible to please and nobody should ever listen to anything you retards have to say. What you want from a game is a shifting metric of "what can I complain about so I get to dismiss this without giving it a fair shot." If the game had no story at all you'd be complaining about that. If the game had too much story you'd be complaining about that. If they ditched the new resource management system for something more like old Doom you'd be pissed about that. You literally do not care about having earnest opinions, you just want to bitch because you're so depressed that everything filtered through your senses has to be rationalized as terrible. You're barely even humans.
No the game fail states you if you kill a NPC
Doom 3 looked better and was a much faster paced shooter than zoom eternal
love it so far but the story just seems like a disjointed mess so far, you just go to whatever location you feel like
Well that sucks, it was kind fun that you cut off anybody you meant with no punishment.
>Yas Forums upset that the best shooter released in the last ten years has a bad story
Titanfall 2's story is fine, I don't know what you're talking about.
The discussion surrounding this game have made me realize just how much I've grown out of this board. Fifteen years ago when I was an edgy teenager in high school Yas Forums was the cool way to feel like I was a part of something secret and subversive, but now I realize what this is: A bunch of really sad miserable idiots who don't actually know very much about video games complaining about anything and everything you can just because you've allowed your capacity for any positive emotions to atrophy entirely.
You love to shit on reddit, but what exactly do you complain about? You complain about them formatting their fucking posts into paragraphs so they're readable. You complain about them being positive, for sharing jokes, for enjoying themselves. You've become so pathologically cynical that anyone enjoying anything or expressing any kind of passion makes you cringe. You've burnt out your ability to feel anything. All that's left is a blackened pit.
This game is fucking awesome. It's everything you could ever want in a fast paced, difficult, hyper gameplay focused shooter. It's masterfully crafted and still you shit on it because of what? A couple "cringe" moments in skippable cutscenes? Are you fucking kidding me? You aren't criticizing this game, you're just projecting the misery of your lives onto everything you infect with your presence.
Spend the money you'd be spending on this game on a fucking therapist.
UHH BASED DEPARTMENT???
Literal redditor shill in flames lmao
So they're doing the Dark Souls way of inserting in Lore?
Is the game running like shit for anyone else? I'm getting 10 fps in full screen, and if I go to windowed I'm getting 40fps. I've got a 1080
post spoilers
why is my dang game stuck on controller bindings, can't do shit to switch it. No way tio continue after starting a new game because it wants me to press A
Holy fuck
This game is boring as hell nigga
First game also was boring as fuck
Speaking as someone who also loved 2016 deathmatch, you are very much in the minority. Loadouts or not, that mode died on arrival, and even though the 666 update made it a lot better it was already too late. That and people don't really "get" arena shooters anymore where you have to pick up weapons around the map.
I'm running it on medium / high on a laptop 1050 Ti and getting about 50 FPS.
A 1080 should be running ultra at 60 FPS no problem.
There's something wrong with your system bro.
Unplug your controller.
Imagine if pirates didnt exist
We would have games faster without having to protect them
>Pre-loads the game
>YOU HAVE TO MAKE A BETHESDA.NET ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO PLAY THE GAME
Fuck these Talmudic Kikes. And FUCK JEWTHESDA.
it is, I have no clue whats going on. Even disabling controller in the settings and disabling all controller compatability on steam does nothing
Titanfall 2 is a fucking mediocre shooter especially compared to Doom 2016 and Eternal
I'm updating my drivers, to see if that helps. I think it's something with the game being unoptimized. Because going into full screen immediately drops the game down to 10fps
i agree with everyone itt, it's fun though, i'm expecting we'll get caught up at some point, the fact that you go around collecting history pages of what happened suggests it's all going to come together at the end.
How do you bypass the bethesda account thing?
Dude that is the same question i am asking. All it does is say "U NEED BETHESDA ACCOUNT" and there is no switch option.
>Didn't the first game end with the robot guy stealing the sword or something?
You quite literally fought your way out of hell and killed hundreds of top-tier demons. Pretty sure they're going to run-the-fuck-out of hell at the first moment to escape rather than you having to fight your way out again.
Attention: Turn off steam overlay. It lags the game whenever theres a popup or if you have steam fps display
Graphics are underwhelming, textures are complete ass even on everything maxed out.
nvidia just released a new doom driver like 2 hours ago, this game is taking almost no power. my cpu and gpu are near idle temps and the power output is too. i've got a i9-9900k, 1070ti, but it runs ridiculous good for me with almost everyhing maxed.
The game is insanely well optimized. There's something wrong with your system.
It looks way better than it has any right to on budget systems.
Looks fine on One X
Hopefully the new drivers fix it. There's nothing wrong with my system, I've been running everything else perfectly fine
Does melee not do damage anymore? I punched one of the basic zombies literally 20 times and nothing happened. Am I supposed to waste the limited ammo for the one weapon I have on chaff, instead of just punching them?
What happened with Sam Hayden is explained in a later mission which connects what happened between the two games. Or you can just ignore it all
>reddit spacing
lmao
Titanfall 2 makes DOOM look like the worthless pile of repetitive poorly designed mediocrity that it actually is. The only reason you think it's of any value is because there aren't other big budget arena shooters (and, if you're 11 years old, you fell for le rip and tear meme). TF2 has a great campaign with varied , imaginative level design, movement tricks that make the """Slayer"" look like a paraplegic, and extremely smooth gunplay. It is by far the best shooter released since Halo 3 and absolutely dabs all over NUUM.
Yes but actually done right.
Dark Souls it's apuzzle with alot of missing pieces that people have to fill with "imagination™"
this instead is an actual complete stoy with all the pieces.
You and me both. Catering to faggots who LARP as Da ReAL DoOM fANS who unironically excuse Bethesda from removing more content from a game was a mistake, they will learn. Price drop when...4 months? Games without multiplayer in 2020 are dead in the water.
it appears so, i did the same thing playing boxing in the very first area of the game, you're supposed to shoot them because the chainsaw has 1 tier of gas on a cooldown, so basically you always have one charge on the chainsaw for most arenas. and you get a shoulder grenade launcher soon which is also on a cool down. so there ya go. it's pretty different from 2016 and ultra violence is kicking my ass unlike 2016.
That's retarded. Chainsaw kills are good and all, but if they want me to "rip and tear" like the opening crawl says, why do I have to use a machine to do it? This zombie is half my fucking size, why can I not just tear him in half?
>(and, if you're 11 years old, you fell for le rip and tear meme)
Where'd that "haha zoom zoom rip and tear!" stuff even start, the meme's as old as the fucking original game is since it was from a low-budget tie in comic and Doom 2016 was inspired in large part by Brutal Doom which was itself inspired by the memes.
run shortcut with this option:
DOOMEternalx64vk.exe +com_skipSignInManager 1
haven't tried it yet so can't confirm if it works
>Starts game
>Greeted with Bethesda account registration
>Can't bypass this.
does this game think i'm retarded or someting
why is there so much fucking chainsaw fuel
Unironically thinking this can hold a candle narratively to Dark Souls is a straight admission that you're retarded
why is this game so slow. I want to move fast damn it. Like brutal doom.
It's designed around you being able to chainsaw for ammo regularly instead of rarely when you're backed into a corner like in 2016.
i'm guessing it's a balance thing, those things are so fucking annoying now when you're trying to fuck with some of the harder demons like cacodemon. the game tells you they're fodder for the chainsaw essentially. but their just pawns that will claw health away from you if you get anywhere near them. having to shoot before glory kill is pretty stupid but i imagine there will eventually be upgrades
Honestly seems like they've tried to make a story but also keep it irrelevant to the game, which just ends up pleasing no one. Might as well have either gone all one way or all the other.