Heavy Metal posted:

(edit: Remember when I said I wouldn't play the beta? I LIED. (John Matrix, Commando 1985) How does one not click on a free steam game.)

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...and like Microsoft's reaction to the Xbox One (which was to virtually plead with the public to call it "The One" over the popular "X-bone") or George Broussard's attempts to dismantle DNF's "Duke Nukem For-Never" nickname, Bethesda is finding itself at odds with a community polarized by the upcoming Doom game.

"Unforgivable," Bethesda exec T. Howard weighed in on his personal Twitter. "There's no reason why anybody should be calling this 'Retard 4'."

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Yet other figureheads seem to have cooler opinions about Doom's growing reputation. Doom brainchild and former-iD CEO John Carmack was quick to criticize Bethesda's first foray into the Doom universe: "The whole thing [Doom] has clearly regressed. We tried to re-imagine it seven or eight years ago and it didn't work then...it's not going to work now. No amount of technology is going to save it from itself."

"These people should be embarrassed over this whole thing," Howard later commented. "Doom is going to be a polished triple-A title, and for somebody to give it associate a word like 'Retard'? 'Retard' is the worst word in the world. It's worse than the n-word, and it doesn't belong on a Bethesda product."

PrincessWuffles posted:

Yeah. Wow. That would be awful. The closest I could stomach for a sidekick would be a way-too-psyched murderbro buddy like in Brutal Doom. Doom Guy should absolutely be Gordon Freeman silent apart from grunts and a death rattle. At the same time, there was something in the SnapMap stream about demon allies.

I'm not saying we should definitely have a wise-cracking lost soul or imp buddy who tugs at our heartstrings when he inevitably dies, but I'm not saying I wouldn't play the poo poo out of that map.

Stuntman posted:

I almost forgot about the part of that stream where even id loving Software got gaslighted into believing that locking off an arena and filling it with monsters you need to kill before progressing is "Doomy." They honestly should have just made DOOM4.WAD, would've been miles above this crock of poo poo.

T. Howard posted:

"I think one of my fondest gaming memories is playing Doom on a 386--you had to launch everything in DOS, which was like Evil Windows. And I can't remember the exact level, but there's this part where you find a Yellow Key sitting in the middle of a large warehouse. Trap. You pick it up, the doors lock, and monsters just start spawning in. You must've needed to kill a hundred of them before the room unlocks and you can progress, and I remember thinking, I made it, I'm in the clear! But then there's this long hallway and you can just tell from the layout that you're going to need to exterminate six or seven waves of Demons before you can move on.

"That's probably the defining Doom memory for me: A constant series of hurdles to overcome, room by room. And every time, that reptile part of your brain thinks, I've made it! only to be rebuffed by additional challenges. I don't really think Doom would have been special without that constant emotional rollercoaster."

Clevermuldoon posted:

Retard 4 is loving doomed.

Zaphod42 posted:

Which one of you made this?

http://i.imgur.com/qyaesNz.gifv

Al-Saqr posted:

yeah it's easy to put 80 demons made of 8 frames of JPEGS on a single screen than it is to put the same number of enemies but each with hundreds of thousands of polygons/texturemaps/rigs/lighting/rendering/ambientocclusion/normal-bumpmapping/animation and AI in the same area, no decent computer would be able to handle that much, and as it is it still seems like your being attacked relentlessly so I dont mind the numbers about right now.

Buca di Bepis posted:

the Doomworld community is just flippin out over the lighting in the secret levels

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MisterBibs posted:

Everyone knows Doomguy is Flynn Taggart, and if you want to understand his character, you read the books

One of the Doom Books posted:

"Twenty-three ska-DOO!"

Demon-killer extraordinaire Flynn Taggart drop-kicked the flaming skull like a football; it rocketed off into an echelon of imps and exploded. KER-BLAM! The thunderclap was deafening.

Flynn caught a smoldering limb as it sailed overhead--it was the browned forearm of a hellspawn. He held it up to his lips and pantomimed playing a flute with it.

"I'm Yankee Doodle DANDY!"

One of the Doom Books posted:

Albert imagined Arlene nude, with a babe in her arms. This was what the prophecies foretold: Epic battle with hellspawn, and a desperate race to repopulate the earth thereafter. He studied her hips sensually. They were not yet accustomed to the duty of child-bearing, yet they were broad, as a woman's should be. He smiled faintly.

"Who would'a thought the mormons'd be right?" Arlene snarled and shook her head in disbelief. She tongued something tucked behind her lips. A secret? Albert wondered. But then a thick rivulet of brown drool oozed free of her lips and dripped to the ground; she pried loose the remaining chaw and her tongue forced it out, dejected, onto the floor of his bedroom.

Would he suffer the same fate at the hands of this U.S. Marine?

DisDisDis posted:

Don't kiss a girl who dips

Tony Montana posted:

You are having a discussion with people that read Doom themed booked. Keep this in mind.

One of the Doom Books posted:

He stepped into the spaceship. Or, perhaps more accurately, they: A creature that bore a passing resemblance to a Captain Caveman, except with two heads.

"Sears and Roebuck," Flynn snarled. Was this what it had come to? Untold billions dead and they were left working with the enemy?

Sears and Roebuck spun around, visibly startled by Flynn. "Mr. Taggart! The Stardrive is fully charged and ready for interface! All it requires is your verbage!"

"Verbage? You drat demon scum can't even speak English properly." For a brief moment he felt the ping of an unfamiliar emotion...pity? But then the adrenaline was pumping again--God's fuel injection for his lean, mean, Marine machine--and the weaker emotion quickly retreated. "Let's go back to hell."

MisterBibs posted:

Every few years I go back to them and read them, because I have such fond memories of them from when I was a kid. Not at all ashamed about it; the last two books are just weird and I wonder why they were written, but overall I can't not enjoy them.

One of the Doom Books posted:

The Freddies seemed to be deliberately engineered to prey on common fears: Bloated, fleshy jack-o-lantern heads atop the emaciated and impossibly frail bodies of holocaust survivors...skin like a waterlogged corpse...a smell that singed the hairs in his nostrils. It poked through his helmet with a single slender finger--a finger terminating in something that shared more in common with a chopstick than a fingernail--and the nail punched a neat hole through the side of his cheek.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Taggart screamed. Then he found himself biting down on the nail, molars grinding bone to dust, and suddenly felt the nail snapping off in his mouth. "poo poo!" A word built for clenched teeth.

He blew the nail out of his mouth and the vacuum of his suit's breach did the rest of the work; it shot out like a railgun and punched through the Freddy's head, collapsing it. Crimson pulp and orange flesh flopped around weightlessly. "YOUR HEADS REALLY ARE MADE OF PUMPKINS, HUH?"

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

LISA was a way better game.

Kazvall posted:

They should have bucked the trend and done ultra high res 4k sprites.

Deakul posted:

Doom 3 did have an incredibly sexy plasma rifle reload sound, I'll give it that.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

and it actualy had a sex scenes that were pretty tasteful. Some people think thats whats ID will do with DOOM. its obviously not. but i am sure the lore will be sorta interesting.

One of the Doom Books posted:

Flynn was covered in blood and guts. The miasma surrounded him like a warm blanket. Almost...getting sleepy... He searched the satchel for another needle but came up empty. This jarhead's got nothin' but crumbs left in him.

But then he saw Arlene: Fox company's finest for more reasons than one. And his very own inferno started to stir inside of him.

"I'm gonna gently caress you, Arlene," Flynn blurted, suddenly drunk on some inexplicable sensation that wasn't simply hatred or bloodlust. Well, lust, maybe... "I'm gonna gently caress you until the end of days."

Arlene smiled impishly. "I think you're all outta time then, cowboy."

Dapper_Swindler posted:

wasn't that written by some weird mormon dude?

Heavy Metal posted:

Stretch goal, new enemy Taffy from ClayFighter (bout time I shot that maniac)

Zaphod42 posted:

I assume everybody knows at this point that the cacodemon was literally stolen from a D&D monster manual



Still pretty cool lookin though

Don't think we've seen any pain elementals in the trailers? Hope they look significantly different as well.

Zzulu posted:

Haha, Retard 4? What a strange moniker

Pablo Gigante posted:

No Retard Left Behind

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

You make movie references like old people gently caress, Private Plenty.

Meaning bad and wrong

Heavy Metal posted:

I'll make a Mario 64 inspired SnapMap with a lot of jumping on blocks okay everybody happy, also barrels for DK. Everybody settle down now

*read post in flustered southern mayor character voice* (that's a character in the DOOM leaks)

widespread posted:

If you're buying for Consoles, highly recommend the Xim4, which I know gets touted a bit in the CoD thread for PS4 users. It looks like a controller will gently caress you.

Capn Beeb posted:

I have a very important question:

Can you fire the super shotgun one barrel at a time? Some of the Doom wads I've been playing lately do that and I really like it for some silly reason.

I LIKE TO SMOKE WEE posted:

There are several different themes, and right when you think you've seen everything, they take you to an entirely new area. They even managed to get a snow area in !

KaiserSchnitzel posted:

Still won't unlock. Grr.

Orv posted:

Five minutes of watching the first campaign level sold me more than any of the utterly garbage marketing they've done could have, looks good.

7c Nickel posted:

But that's litterally an updated Doomguy helmet.



It's got the vents on the top, the horizontal vents on the mouthpiece and the kinda mandible shaped vents on the side.

nnnotime posted:

Will I have to do that here: make the enemies' fireballs go faster? I don't care for respawning enemies, just want to make them shoot faster and perhaps tougher to kill.

Samurai Sanders posted:

This game is really loving good. It is giving me actual feelings.

widespread posted:

Is option placement really gonna make you choose the worse product over this.

I mean, granted BethSoft should have condensed the amount of devs on this to just iD and maybe Ascension but why the gently caress would you give up a better game for that poo poo.