In the initial whining he skipped around how many deadlines he'd missed, and how much leeway Bethesda had given him.
Walter B. Gibson believed the best stories were written quickly, and was the king of pulp in his time. Maybe it's true for shooter storylines too.
I can see it because one of the main problems I have with Eternal's story is that it seems like they really overthought it. In 2016 they barely had time to do more than "angry guy kills shit" and some background on Argent D'Nur. This time it seems like they had more time for the story but it resulted in a kind of a clusterfuck where it seemed like not even they could keep track of what was going on.
If you've got Doom II, I highly recommend Doom Zero. Its level design feels like a natural evolution of what you'd see in the classic games yet are arguably more intense and elaborate. It feels like an unofficial Doom 3 in a way.
What. Why the hell not? You're interested enough to name yourself after it, go play it. You can play doom and doom 2 in a browser window.
I finally got around to playing Doom Eternal and yeah, the story is completely fucking retarded. Doom 2016 felt like Halo CE, where the main story is a pretty basic sci-fi plot about killing aliens/demons. Doom Eternal felt like the later Halo games where the story just goes off the rails with different factions of ancient aliens influencing humanity's evolution. The structure doesn't help the story much either, because it's literally just Doomguy getting teleported to new POI's that we're told are important to basically go on fetch quests, whereas 2016's progression is a lot more logical.
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Something I've been meaning to ask the thread about: What port do you speds recommend for someone who can't play the older games without mouselook? God knows I've tried, but I cut my shooter teeth on Half-Life and trying to do that shit on keyboard alone just does not compute in my brain.
I like CrispyDoom; it's a nice halfway point between vanilla/Chocolate and GZDoom; it's technically limit removing, but it retains the old low-res look and feel. You can make it run at higher and cleaner resolutions, but at that point you might as well be using GZDoom. You'll have to monkey around in the configuration a little to get it exactly what you want, but you can get it to where you can comfortably use a mouse and it's not that hard to fix.
GZDoom is the best easily accessible source port. Just make you turn off shit like texture filtering/smoothing. Everything else can be adjusted to suit your preferences.
Going Down is good shit.
There is more story in Doom 2016 if you read the codex and find the Slayers' Testaments, but it's just enough to make the Alex Jones Doomguy memes funnier. Does Eternal try to explain why Hell is littered with ammunition for Doomguy to use (and which demons can't use)? You'd think if the demons dropped a temple on him they'd take some other precautions.
