Re: DOOM: The Dark Ages

On 5/17/2025 7:07 PM, PW wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2025 11:07:57 +0100, Mr Rob
<noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
 

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Early impressions:
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It's DOOM and it looks very, very nice. It runs smoothly at high
settings on my system (i5 12600k, RX7800XT Nitro, 32Gb DDR4) at 1440p.
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It's frenetic, just like DOOM should be.
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I really like the Shield  Bash. It's extremely powerful, but that is
balanced by pulling you towards the target which is normally bunched
up with other targets. The bash is on a cool down so you can't just
spam it. Being right in the midst of a bunch of demons is obviously
risky and you have to melee or use your gun to survive as the demons
hit surprisingly hard,
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Melee is through the use of a power glove that you find very early on.
Weapons in the early game come via weapons drops which seem to occur
each time you enter a new map. I'm not far enough in yet to know if
that is how weapons collection is always handled.
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Ammunition comes from slain demons providing that you use the Glory
Kill. There is also ammunition, armour and health scattered around the
map.
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Minor gripes:
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In some encounters the game really REALY wants you to use melee to
kill an enemy via a 3 hit combo. Failure to do so means that the demon
will respawn right where it fell after you 'killed' it with a gun.
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Likewise with the Glory Kill. Some encounters require the player to
use it to finally dispense with an enemy. I'm not 100% sure on that
yet, but it does seem to be a deliberate mechanic.
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I accidentally set fire to myself. A lot. There are flames all over
the place. Kiting during combat results in multiple episodes of
accidental combustion which eats away at your health.
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So far, the game seems more engaging than the last two modern
installments of DOOM. There are limited saves in the form of
checkpoints. That could potentially put me off. I had to just quit in
the middle of an arena. I have a feeling that I may need to replay
several minutes of the game just to get back to where I left off.
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Time will tell.

*--
 I am enjoying it but will quit when it turns into another jumping and
jumping puzzle game like the last one. 

I was considering trying the new DOOM again on easy instead of normal or whatever it was I was trying it on, but I don't like jumping puzzles.

I am playing it on the easiest
level.  A message told me that my drivers are outdated and it needs
the needs the 576.31 drivers for my RTX 4070Ti.  I updated them and it
started constantly crashing and so was Oblivian Remastered. So I did a
clean install and went with the previous 576.28 drivers and was again
told that I should update my drivers. Instead, I clicked Play and not
a single crash in the last 15 minutes with these older drivers!
 I haven't tried Oblivian with these older drivers yet.  I was getting
crashes quite a bit when I was on my horse and heading up mountains
and other crazy places.

 From what I'm hearing Oblivion remaster is still buggy as hell, as is normal for a Bethesda game.  Supposedly a lot of the old mods/fixes still work for it.
I'm not buying it, because from what I've seen of the play, all the things I hated about it are still there, with the exception of the faces mostly no longer being in the uncanny valley for me.
I've read there's mods on the original that make it look better than the remaster too, so no reason to buy it since it seems that's about all that was actually done.
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