Sinistkir13
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I was watching Civvie's video on Dark Ages, and while he was a lot more positive on the gameplay side, I thought I was on the verge of having a stroke when he attempted to explain its "plot" because it's painfully stupid.
I don't know what it is about creators in general who feel the need to explain everything that was a mystery, only to pull out the most retarded answers humanly possible.
You could tell me that this was supposed to be a completely new IP, but then some corpo marketing idiocy and iD's head manchildren went around and decided, "more sLaYeR!" There is just too much cosmic/Lovecraftian DNA to keep trying to call this Doom, and that's before the rythm game shield bashing or forced cutscenes to tell a retarded story.
You're dead on about the Doom Guy's role with how emblematic that is to the first person shooter genre, as well as how they managed to make that both an extension of his character and reflect on what the player was expected to do: Doom guy doesn't care because we don't care.
It's almost genius how Doom 2016, unassuming as it was, could present a tightly knit narrative and simultaneously setting the protagonists apathetic tone without him uttering a single world, while also accommodating the player's apathy - if they so choose. You can sit and listen to Samuel Hayden or the demon cult lady, or you can impatiently bounce around the room like a kid waiting for the school bell to ring. All of the world building is around you and further detailed in data logs, but that was the extent of it, allowing just enough for the full range of the game's audience in terms of story.
Id apparently did all of that on accident and learned nothing from the positive fan reception judging by Eternal and Dark Ages.
The cherry on top of the irony sundae is how accurately this part from Eternal summarizes both it, The Dark Ages, and The sLaYeR:
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