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I remember there being a rather huge controversy over the soundtrack for Doom: Eternal.

Apparently, the composer for the game got screwed over in incredibly petty ways by Bethesda. This wasn't known for a long time either, and so the composer's career suffered, since the development team behind Doom: Eternal had publically lambasted the composer for his supposed unprofessionalism. It turned out that it was the other way around.

I bought the Doom reboot of 2016 back when, and found it to be alright, but hardly anything as spectacular as the reviews would have made you believe. I haven't played Eternal yet, and I'm in no hurry to play this next instalment.
With Bethesda being a legitimately shitty company with shitty practices, I'm surprised people are at all interested in this upcoming new instalment.

Just boycott companies with shitty business models. How hard could it be?
 
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Vulpes Mulpes said:
Apparently, the composer for the game got screwed over in incredibly petty ways by Bethesda. This wasn't known for a long time either, and so the composer's career suffered, since the development team behind Doom: Eternal had publically lambasted the composer for his supposed unprofessionalism. It turned out that it was the other way around.
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It's in the thread here if you look through the thread highlights. Eternal was still pretty good, but I really don't want to get my hopes up for this.
 
anyone here played the RAMP wads (it's a yearly mapping project from 2021 until now)? The 2024 one is being made rn and looks AWESOME. I LOVE WADs where you can choose to tackle the levels in any order you choose, so IMO they are cool (some of the maps even use the trickery found in that myhouse WAD).
 
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anyone here played the RAMP wads (it's a yearly mapping project from 2021 until now)? The 2024 one is being made rn and looks AWESOME. I LOVE WADs where you can choose to tackle the levels in any order you choose, so IMO they are cool (some of the maps even use the trickery found in that myhouse WAD).
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stop promoting trash collection wads hosted by a furfag
 
augment said:
The old gods DLC for eternal didn't have Mick Gordon and that music also slapped.
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That because Andrew Hulshult composed the DLC's music, when Gordon said he won't cooperate with Beth/Id Software anymore. And Andrew is a talented composer, i would imagine he could compose the music for the Dark Age, with a little help maybe. Who knows, maybe Mick will have a song or two as a cameo or something, depends how pissed he still is on Hugo and co.
EDIT. Hulshult's wiki page includes Dark Ages in it's Works table, so it's confirmed, that he will be composing the soundtrack:
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augment said:
The old gods DLC for eternal didn't have Mick Gordon and that music also slapped.
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It was fine, but there was nothing in there I would want to go back and listen to the way I did with some of Gordon's tracks.

Your Spiritual Liege said:
Hulshult's wiki page includes Dark Ages in it's Works table, so it's confirmed, that he will be composing the soundtrack
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There's no citation for it, so it could be some random yahoo just making an edit.
 
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doom 3 had great multiplayer just because of all the mods I played so much coop back when it was still played.
 
Mac Monster said:
I really enjoyed Eternal, but I didn't care for the DLC. I hated how they forced you to use the shittier weapon mods by making the new enemies immune to everything else.
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I generally like Eternal’s dlc but think there are different problems in each part:

1 takes what is already an extremely hard game with almost too many moving parts at higher levels, adds more shit on top of it to a degree that is kind of unreasonable (the devs clearly agreed with this assessment considering they nerfed shit in the leadup to Part 2), and didn’t have anything to replace the single target nuke that was the Crucible when something like it might have helped them balance around the direction they wanted to go in.

Part 2 is arguably a more stable experience, if a bit rushed and easier than it feels it should be for people that finished Part 1. The new enemies in this one are generally even worse about using the shitty altfires. At least the ghosts had the excuse of the microwave beam looking like a proton pack, but I have no idea what the point of the stone imps were, or the stalkers that took away your dash forced you to blood punch them. At least the hammer was cool.

To summarize my idiot ramblings Doom Eternal is a far more complicated game then some people mught think, with a lot of moving parts, and adding and removing shit when you’re clearly on a time crunch with possible staffing issues due to the wuflu caused problems.
 
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I wish there was an option to play Eternal's DLC 1 pre-patch, with the janky exploits and harder enemies. Not because I feel like an elitist but because The overall experience was radically different. Think of it as a beyond nightmare mode.
 
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augment said:
I wish there was an option to play Eternal's DLC 1 pre-patch, with the janky exploits and harder enemies. Not because I feel like an elitist but because The overall experience was radically different. Think of it as a beyond nightmare mode.
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I mean... you could always pirate it. If not, I hear you can download older versions of games through some Steam console fuckery I haven't tried.
 
It was confirmed by Andrew Hulshult and David Levy they aren't working on the music for TDA. If I had to guess it is probably Geoff Day which is a 10/10 pick. I know people like to suck off Mick Gordon ( I would know, I'm one of the five people who know him from the Killer Instinct reboot instead of Doom) but frankly I wouldn't want him back if he was producing subpar shit like he did for Atomic Heart.

Geoff Day and Mick both worked on Atomic Heart. Micks shit was so mediocre and Geoff is so good at doing what people expect of Mick half the OST videos misattribute Geoff's work to Mick. Micks stuff was all forgettable ambient/synth shite.
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It was confirmed by Andrew Hulshult and David Levy they aren't working on the music for TDA. If I had to guess it is probably Geoff Day which is a 10/10 pick. I know people like to suck off Mick Gordon ( I would know, I'm one of the five people who know him from the Killer Instinct reboot instead of Doom) but frankly I wouldn't want him back if he was producing subpar shit like he did for Atomic Heart.

Geoff Day and Mick both worked on Atomic Heart. Micks shit was so mediocre and Geoff is so good at doing what people expect of Mick half the OST videos misattribute Geoff's work to Mick. Micks stuff was all forgettable ambient/synth shite.
Examples: Day
Examples: Gordon
 
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FieldPiece said:
I know people like to suck off Mick Gordon ( I would know, I'm one of the five people who know him from the Killer Instinct reboot instead of Doom) but frankly I wouldn't want him back if he was producing subpar shit like he did for Atomic Heart.
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IMO the biggest appeal of Mick Gordon is all the subtle ASMR electronica noises he works into otherwise intense music. Little details like that add depth, and while his ambient stuff is generally pretty solid he's at his best when he's doing combat music, because he has that kind of sonic contrast down to an art. Whether or not KS/NuDoom were lightning-in-a-bottle moments remains to be seen. He can product great music but he has to have a project that plays to his strengths, which Atomic Heart clearly did not.
There were some NuDoom ambient tracks I love the hell out of(no pun intended) but whether that was all on Mick Gordon or partially due to oversight from people like Chad Mossholder is an open question to which we will likely never have a conclusive answer.
 
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Your Spiritual Liege said:
That because Andrew Hulshult composed the DLC's music, when Gordon said he won't cooperate with Beth/Id Software anymore. And Andrew is a talented composer, i would imagine he could compose the music for the Dark Age, with a little help maybe. Who knows, maybe Mick will have a song or two as a cameo or something, depends how pissed he still is on Hugo and co.
EDIT. Hulshult's wiki page includes Dark Ages in it's Works table, so it's confirmed, that he will be composing the soundtrack:
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FieldPiece said:
It was confirmed by Andrew Hulshult and David Levy they aren't working on the music for TDA.
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I stand corrected, some "fan" must have edited this beforehand, although Hulshut have made official statement about this just yesterday:
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