Current Events > One thing I don't like about the new DOOM Eternal

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Don't get me wrong, I love the game. That doesn't mean there aren't things I thing could have been done better. One of my biggest pet peeves? You can no longer have a good scrap with the super heavy or boss characters.

Think about DOOM 1. At the end of Knee Deep in The Dead you know there are 2 Barons of Hell waiting for you in the end of the level. So you get to the end and prepare for the fight. You stock on health items, rockets, etc. When you finally call the demons you're ready for a very fun and very hard battle with the boss. It will take your best reaction time, strategy and speed to beat these bruisers. It's so much fun.

The idea that there's a bad guy and it's going to be an epic 1 on 1, or close to 1 on 1 fight (2 barons, or a single cyber demon, or a single spider master mind, etc) is so satisfying. It's like other genres. You fight Akuma. You fight Goro. You fight Shao Khan. You fight Ganon. You fight Bowser. You fight the spliced-up end boss of Bioshock 2. You get the idea.

I just got to my first marauder fight and I was already excited and giddy for what I thought would be an epic encounter. So I began feeling out this guy and fighting and.... I suddenly get damage from somewhere. BOOM I AM DEAD!!! What the fuck happened?

Ah yes, the room was flooded with a shitload of imps and zombies with lasers. Fucking fantastic. Sure, in theory they're there because of the dumbass tAkE wHaT yOu nEeD mechainic, but it's still annoying as fuck. No, I can't concentrate on fighting the marauder. I have to maneuver around an endless legion of lesser losers, lesser losers who sometimes even act as meat shields for the boss. This is not a battle about whether I can beat the boss, this is a battle about whether I can beat the boss and other 20+ losers assisting him. I guess I don't get a fair boss battle. The "Doom Hunter" was the same way.

Fuck this idea.

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Those rooms flooded with a shitload of imps and zombies and lasers aren't supposed to be 1v1 rooms tho. There are still one 1v1s vs marauders and there will be some random zombies hanging around that do nothing. You can pretty much think of them as ammo pick ups

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Doom 2 pretty much killed those moments when they started spamming walls that lower and reveal a shit ton of enemies when you do basically anything in every map and it's been the staple ever since, especially in Plutonia, TNT, and custom wads.

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SoundNetwork posted...

Those rooms flooded with a shitload of imps and zombies and lasers aren't supposed to be 1v1 rooms tho. There are still one 1v1s vs marauders and there will be some random zombies hanging around that do nothing. You can pretty much think of them as ammo pick ups

I think that was the idea, but they still damage you and throw fire at you. I am my 1st Marauder encounter and I'd have beaten him already if it weren't for the dumbass imps