/vr/ - Retro Games

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It wont go back to doom's roots for a few reasons which ill list out:
--- Fast RunNGun with horde or slaughtermaps requires alot of enemies on the screen and if they're drawing everything in HD quality then it doesnt matter what kind of computer you've got it will be taxed out quickly (even 2 orders of magnitude isnt enough).
You need to be able to display at least 2000 enemies AND have their actions all cared for, and that's a CPU bottleneck right there which.
This could be achieved by being very careful with texturing, baking shaders into the textures so you dont have extra ones being processed, and lowering the polycount but artfully placing the lowpoly parts of the model in places where people are less likely to notice (kinda like sweeping dirt under a rug).
But artists and that goes for iD's artists these days are NOT trained in efficiency.

--- Nintendo Hard needs to be a thing too. Which means the big fireballs dont do 10 or 20 damage they do up to half your health (eat the noble fireball for 64 damage).
And rockets dont smack you for 20 or 40 they can blow your ass to pieces in one shot unless you're powered up.
And archviles dont just send a snake of fire across the floor they make you spontaneously combust and die.
You wont be able to do this because people have gotten too soft and that includes the kiddies, so the kiddies will cry and put the controller down and play something else - because something else is such an easy option these days.
Youll never see another Nintendo Hard doom game again (which is why I personally wont buy one).
The precident of games like Dark Souls you'd think would open this door again. But I can almost guarantee you it will not be done with D55M.

- Ammo commonality and making the Plasma Gun do heinous badass damage like it did in OG are necessary too. Pooled ammunition for some weapons.
Pistol/Machinegun casless ammo.
Cells for energy weapons.
Rockets are Grenades like quake 1.
...logistics difficulties...