Games used to be by gamers for gamers. It was a lot more niche of an industry and not considered as much of a “marketplace.” Hopefully the industry will go back to that mindset one day but the culture of gaming has permanently shifted I fear because of greed and market capitalization.
After the 2008 worldwide recession, things that are considered "nerdy" would end up being considered serious business for the entire industry by releasing unfinished products and add in trendy modern identity politics among others
I hope and spray to God and Sneed that Sweet Baby's writers spontaneously combust before they get their filthy troon hands on DOOM.
People are dumb. DOOM 3 was fire. It was id Software's passion project. John Carmack and a bunch of other developers literally went to the executives and threatened to quit if they didn't let them do a DOOM remake. The executives naturally had the same concerns players had with a remake of DOOM.
Xbox is involved now and they're pozzed as fuck. If they were smart, then they'd maintain the hands-off approach. But you have to realize that Xbox executives are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on planet Earth.
This is based on personal preference so you may or may not enjoy some of these, and also I'm terrible at reviewing things, but I'll still put em out there:
Doom's had multiplayer since 1993, what are you talking about?
The real problem with nuDoom Multiplayer is not listening to what their fans really want, which is just traditional multiplayer modes without modern stuff, and mainly, a proper co-op mode, 2016's multiplayer was disliked because it was made by an external studio who only had experience making Multiplayer content for CoD and Halo, so elements from those bled over into the mode, and the movement in general felt off compared to the singleplayer's gameplay, id eventually took over it post release and tried to make it better by adding bots, more modes, and eventually making the DLC maps free, but it was too little, too late.
Doom had co-op and deathmatch since launch, and people were playing it online since the mid 90s.
I don't think it's outright impossible for Doom to have good multiplayer but given the nature of AAA game development splitting their efforts between PvE single player and PvE multiplayer is never going to be worth it. I can only assume classic Doom's multiplayer was easier to implement due to the relative simplicity of the engine. Unfortunately for corporate developers like id Software, simple game engines are a thing of the past. I give them credit for developing Eternal's multiplayer in house but it clearly came at the expense of mod support, which would have made the game much more replayable and far more profitable in the long run.
Don't bother, I deleted that post because I was full retard
I'd say it's anyone's guess at this point. I'm on the optimistic side and don't think they're going to try and fix something that isn't broken. My guess is in the short run they'll have Bethesda expand upon the skins/multiplayer/FOMO shit that Doom Eternal had, and if they don't get the profit margins they want they'll do a hostile takeover and completely run id into the ground.
Looks like Mick Gordon is working with them. Wouldn't be surprised if his treatment caused a mass exodus.
he did the soundtrack for doom 2016 and eternal as well as some of the newer wolfensteins and killer instinct 2013.
All I see here are excuses. No wonder the Doom Eternal soundtrack was ass. Your DOOM 2016 score wasn't that good either, Micky.
My reaction to this article:
I'm inclined to believe that Martin had to deal with other shit and this guy was a massive pain in the ass. What he should've done was send in the fucking tracks on schedule without issue.
There are very, very few musicians out there that would turn down SIX FIGURES to stay mum about a video game soundtrack, even with all that drama. Holy shitballs.
Marty clearly wanted to reconcile their differences and work together in the future and that's not at all what an unreasonable employer would do. If DOOM Eternal's production was so difficult for the soundtrack guy, then imagine how difficult it was for the executive producer. He didn't have time to babysit Mick or address all of his concerns.
