32.5 hours played
Written 4 days ago
Doom Eternal is a very good game, its a worthy sequel that improves quite a lot upon Doom 16.
While the gameplay loop for the most part is exhilarating, there are a few issues with the game too.
I quite disagree with many of the issues that most reviewers have-
- The swimming sections that I heard so much of, are like 2-3 mins long combined across all instances.
- The platforming is fine, it's not as bad as people say it is. (Although doomguy doing acrobatics is quite funny to think about)
- Maradauer for most fights in the base game are fun actually. They require all your attention and that is true, but it's fun for the most part.
- I like the cutscenes- they are cool, the story itself? it's alright, some cool lore. (Not as cool as Doom16 imo)
Now, here are the issues I have-
- Crashes after playing for long time, severe fps drops when using ice grenades.
- Maradauers are not fun at all in dlc missions, they break the flow of combat.
- Too many collectibles, too many upgrade items, too many unnecessary and grabage challenges- they are spread out very poorly, its like the game is limiting the player's own potential by not providing them with items and upgrades until the very last mission. We should've got atleast 2-3 missions without any upgrade, collectible or challenge to worry about. Just pure unfiltered combat.
- Fortunately, the first 2 dlc missions (TAG1) satisfy this itch. The game doesn't hold back and because you have no shitty side objective to worry about, you can focus just on the combat. The first 2 missions from TAG1 are really amazing for combat.
- The bosses for the most part suck, there are 2 or 3 real boss fights in the base game but only 1 of them is actually fun. The last boss in particular sucks ass. I just recommend turning down difficulty for that part.
- Speaking of difficulty, I played the game and TAG1 on ultra violence. It's fun for the most part, except, as I said- the last boss of base game and the 3rd mission of TAG1.
- Dunno if I'll finish TAG2. I'm quite exhausted tbh. But the experience was fun. Doom Eternal was unique in the way that it's one of those rare games that actually forces you to be better at the game.
Anyway, its a pretty solid game, I can talk hours about this game. But overall, its a pretty good game- 8.5/10
p.s. the dlcs have low ratings, I understand why but imo TAG1 is the actual doom eternal experience and a must play. Also, don't care about music that much, although some were good, but I actually remember D16 soundtrack much more fondly. But metalheads will probably like this.