/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5754632
I'll say that Eternal Doomslayer still looks good, I just kind of fell in love with his 2016 look.

>>5530125

>>5348828
Not mindblowingly excellent, but by no means bad, it's fun and does a lot of things right.
I'm hoping Eternal improves on both what 4 did right, and what it needed to do better.

Some don't like that it isn't closer to the original game, and in some ways I can see it, but in other ways, I think that's better, given that Doom as it is (and what user made content can turn it into), is perfect, and I'd rather see a different take on the idea than trying to senselessly ape something that was already done really well. Think about when Hollywood remakes a really good classic movie, and the result is just painfully bad compared to the original.

There's a fair bit to criticize, but there's a lot to praise too, and the whole thing is generally put together quite well, which is astonishing if you consider what a protracted mess the game's development was, and how many times they tore everything down to redo it from the beginning, the kind of developmental wheel spinning which often can produce a rather nightmarishly bad game, à la Duke Nukem Forever.
Also noteworthy is that it's actually rather well optimized and can run and look pretty decent even on a toaster of a computer, which I should mention wasn't fully the case with the original Doom when it came out. You don't put in the effort to make sure the game runs well if what you're making is a cynical cashgrab, there's some skilled people involved who cared about what they were doing.

>>4969159
>Doom 1 goes into Doom II. After the events of Doom II, Doom 64 takes place
That's up to debate, after Doom 2, Final Doom also takes place.
I choose to think of Final Doom as one of the possible outcomes after Doom 2, just like Doom 64 is another possible outcome.

One could argue that Final Doom was made by a third party, so it wouldn't count, but so was Doom 64. Doom 4 kind of plays off of 64 with the "stayed in hell" thing, but it feels more supernatural than that honestly.

>I have no idea where Doom 3 fits into the timeline
I feel it's different enough to be it's own canon separate from the rest of the series. It doesn't really lead into, or get lead into, by any of the other games.

>>4969179
>You are buying into the heavy-metal-ish stories of the game that describe Doomguy as a being of legend
Yeah, and I love that. To me, Doomslayer is this larger than life superhero who is beyond a mere mortal and who's sole purpose is to Kill All The Demons (tm), he's almost like a force of nature.
He's just not human. He doesn't tire, he doesn't hunger, all he does is kill, he obviously doesn't age judging by how he's found, he's so much more beyond what original Doomguy can be in terms of a lifeform.