Still better than whoever composed some stock music bullshit in that godawful Doom Annihilation
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Retconning Eternal's lore would actually be better for everyone. They had a good thing going in 2016 only to turn it into whatever that was.
They could set it as a sort of prequel and make a Doom set in the past before Argent D'Nur was taken over.
They could set it as a sort of prequel and make a Doom set in the past before Argent D'Nur was taken over.
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It worked much better than I ever expected and I certainly don't mean to denigrate his abilities, but now that he's gone and not coming back replicating his style at the level of quality he offered is an exercise in futility. It doesn't have to be classic Doom style; my point is that whoever they end up hiring to replace him should not be pigeonholed into replicating Mick Gordon. If getting comparable quality means a stylistic departure, they have to be willing to work with that.
Besides, trying too hard to sound like Mick Gordon is only going to remind their customer base that he's no longer working for them because they allegedly screwed him over. Given how badly they lost that PR battle it may be in their best interest to move on.
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People praise unity Doom and thats all fine and dandy, I personally stick with GZDoom but my real pet peeve with it is the mind boggling lack of a co-op/deathmatch server of any kind. All you get is local co-op and thats really it (and that works better for consoles than PC).
And you cant say that it wasnt a deliberate choice because Quake Remastered did bring the Co-op/Deathmatch servers back and they work pretty well.
To this day, your only choice to play co-op/deathmatch doom today is to download a bunch of programs and hope to DoomSlayer that it all somehow works out. Bethesda had the unique opportunity to simplify all of that and they just...didnt.
At this point you might as well bring Bobby Prince back
And you cant say that it wasnt a deliberate choice because Quake Remastered did bring the Co-op/Deathmatch servers back and they work pretty well.
To this day, your only choice to play co-op/deathmatch doom today is to download a bunch of programs and hope to DoomSlayer that it all somehow works out. Bethesda had the unique opportunity to simplify all of that and they just...didnt.
At this point you might as well bring Bobby Prince back
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Toxic huwite male and strong independent womxn of color, fighting against internalized demons of misogyny and racism. Season 1 ends on a "No John, you are the demons" cliffhanger.
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Again? Various Doom media spinoffs have been repeatedly panned (including their best shot when they had both Karl Urban and The Rock), and they're still on this wheelhouse?
As if Doom Annihilation wasn't bad enough. Fuck everything!
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It already survived two shitty movies, what's a tv show gonna do? I hope it will be good for a laugh at least, unlike the irredeemable Doom Annihilation."Okay. So what is the most manly and awesome thing we can destroy to further fuel the crumple of western culture?"
"OH yeah, doom!"
The last of us series being a hit will be a disaster for us all, just you wait
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Don't get me wrong, I do actually had a soft spot for the books for the pure insanity which the writers injected in the later books. Definitely a fucking trip to read. (I often wonder if they and the guy who made the Doom comic were on the same drugs). But definitely deserved to be panned regardless, in terms of merit.
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They can't make a Doom movie/TV show because the whole appeal of Doom is making the player feel like a badass. That's not possible outside of a game because you're just watching, not participating. Plus, just like those two movies, the TV show, I am 99% sure, will take most of its influence from Doom 3, the least relevant entry in the series.
I'm so fucking sick of prequels.
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It could theoretically work if the human cast spends the series struggling to survive in a tense horror-esque setting occasionally broken up by the actual Doomguy occasionally popping in, absolutely wrecking the demons' collective shit and disappearing without a word, leaving the humans ambiguously reassured that someone out there is scarier than the demons and he might be on their side. You could even show the human cast thinking creatively to survive in the face of overwhelming odds as a way to make them look badass in their own way. Honestly a good Doom series would probably play out a lot like One Punch Man, where the Doomguy is a walking resolution and the drama comes from everything in between his brief appearances.
But that would require someone on the production to actually give enough of a shit to think about this creatively. Wouldn't hold my breath.
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I had the exact same idea for a Half-Life movie. A few scientists and security guards trying to get to the surface. Occasionally that new guy who was in the test chamber when it happened crawls out of a vent, gibs all hostiles with a crowbar, and crawls back in with a glazed look in his eye.
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Honestly, it's probably the best way to adapt a game where the protagonist is a one-man army. Especially if you care for things like stakes and character. By it's nature, a FPS (silent) protagonist has none, so it's always a losing move to try and inject some.
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It would be about Eli and Kleiner discovering their gay love for each other while avoiding death from Trump's HECU and you know it.
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The problem is you then lose the appeal of the game's protagonist. It's not so much a Doom show/movie at that point as it is "a show/movie set in the Doom universe." You'll get the "Agents of SHIELD" but Doom. Add in the usual woke bullshit, and it'll be unwatchable dreck.
That said, I could imagine a fun way to do it would be to make it sort of an anthology series, where each episode or maybe story arc focuses on a separate story but each one revolves around a different person or group's experience with Doomguy. A little like the "Almost Got 'Im" episode of Batman the Animated Series, but normal people instead of supervillains.
Which was weird, because the 2005 Doom movie with The Rock and Karl Urban was this mighty close to actually getting the recipe right, but things were missing and I felt like it already wasn't supposed to be adapted into a 90-minute feature. Annihilation failed spectacularly and the upcoming Peacock series is about to fail spectacularly as well because not only was Doom wasn't suppose to be adapted to anything else other than games (except for literature and comics, maybe), but adding in more manipulative politically woke shit already makes your products much worse than they already have