Doom: The Dark Ages' Designers Think You're Dumb | Design Delve
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I'm enjoying Dark Ages a lot more than Eternal, but I've enjoyed food poisoning more than I enjoyed Eternal so that's not saying a lot. Completely agree that it would be a better game if all the fluff missions and mechanics had just been cut, and absolutely no idea who they expect to give a single damn about the story. Doom should be about combat puzzles - a diverse but manageable set of weapons to acquire and learn and a series of encounters where you have to work out which weapons to use to take out an overwhelming set of enemies in a particular environment. 2016 understood this. Dark Ages shines when it remembers it too, and falls flat on its face when it does literally anything else.
Simon Booth
2025-05-21 16:57:14 +0000 UTCI haven’t really touched Doom since 3 but … what’s with all the laser lights? Every video I see of this it’s all neon particle effects over everything. Especially with how grimy and gory the rest of it is, the effect just seems really visually jarring to me.
Davsau
2025-05-21 16:01:44 +0000 UTC
