DOOM: The Thread

Betruger. Who becomes the Maledict. And that would be weird as he's destroyed in that timeline.

Oh, and Betruger > Olivia, obviously.


But yeah, I liked the Soul Cube. The concept was fascinating, the design was adequately alien, and the mechanics were fine. I'm also fine with the sword being a mystical replacement of the chainsaw. But as long as you have the requirements met(ammo? souls?), it should be at will. Contextual would suck ass.

The "wretch"? Wondered about that, too.

I barely remember the music in Doom 2016. This on the other hand...



Right up there with

Doom 2016 has one of the best credits rolling I`ve ever seen.

Here's a thread close to my heart, because I'm currently playing the original Doom 2, on the Doomsday source port with all the high resolution models and texture packs, on the Ultraviolence difficulty (and now I'm sounding like Big Mac Davis ).

I've never actually managed to complete The Plutonia Experiment on Ultraviolence, despite having had the game since the mid 90s, and so my next task after vanilla Doom 2 is to have a go at this. It's going to be tough, rough and nasty but someone has to do it.

Before setting off for work this morning I left Doom Guy standing at the entrance to Map 28 - The Spirit World, after just completing Monster Condo, which is the hardest original Doom 2 map of all in my opinion.

I have a bit of a problem with Doom 3, in that I just cannot kill one of the bosses, no matter how hard I try - and can only get past it by cheating.

I'm talking about 'The Guardian'. For some reason it just doesn't sync with my playstyle. I've watched a hundred Youtube videos of others killing it, I've practices and practiced and practiced - I know the required method, but knowing it and doing it are different, and I end up having to use God mode. There's some fundamental aspect of the fight that I can't seem to grasp. Maybe it just comes down to the fact that it requires quite fast reflexes, you must constantly move and carefully target the little scanner things at the same time? I dunno.

It's really frustrating, and none of the other bosses cause me trouble - even the final boss of Resurrection of Evil (considered the hardest) is fine.

Doom 3's Guardian is my video game nemesis.


Doom 4 I absolutely hate. After trying it for around two hours I simply uninstalled it as I could bear no more of it. It ranks among the worst game purchases of my life.

Sorry, but there it is.

You'll rarely find people who are just 'well meh' about Doom 2016, it's very, very divisive, you'll either love or hate it - and I'm a hater. I'd rather suck on the exhaust pipe of a lorry than play Doom 2016 again.

If we break it down, we'll see that the people who like it are often the ones who naturally play games quickly and aggressively as a matter of course. They'll blast through maps and levels, running and gunning constantly, strafing around obstacles and never standing still.

The ones who hate it are often more like myself - they prefer to take maps and levels very slowly and methodically, sneaking round corners, sniping enemies from cover, setting up ambushes and killing grounds etc. Doom 2016 actively punishes anyone who tries to play it in this manner - which is why I personally don't like it. Doom 3 was far more my cup of tea.

Fail at what? Not playing games quickly? OK, you got me, I fail at that.