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Sergeant_Mark_IV said:
Guerrila Warfare

War-themed.

So, Doom 4... this was gonna be Call of Resistance-life 2 Field with the demons.

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Sergeant_Mark_IV said
Guerrila Warfare

Jaxxoon R said:

War-themed.


That's like saying Starship Troopers and The Thing are exactly the same movie because both have aliens and guns.

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Sergeant_Mark_IV made some good points, and he clearly knows more about modern FPSs than I do...but I still don't think it looked terribly interesting. This was clearly supposed to be Hell on Earth, and it looked like it was trying to suggest as such, but a boner I did not get. This is Doom, for fuck's sake, and I was expecting Earth to look appropriate futuristic. Give us some kind of Blade Runner/5th Element/cyberpunk future with all kinds of crazy shit in addition to the demon invasion. What they developed was a more-or-less contemporary looking setting, including soldiers wearing already outdated gear. Outdated, 20th century looking, bulky gear, including gigantic fucking radios. It's stupid. Really stupid. Visually, I actually like what I was seeing (even if it was generic), but it did not convey that Doom-y feeling we were all hoping for.

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I really don't get the whole "let's make this obviously futuristic game look like the 20th century" aesthetic going on in those screenshots. Sure, Doom 2 had a lot of randomly archaic textures, but that is a flimsy excuse. It's like they didn't want to really put the effort into designing a unique looking world. If there is a Doom 5, I'm sure they'll have learned their lesson by then.

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Sergeant_Mark_IV said:

A game where you are a frontline soldier on the middle of the first wave of an alien/demon invasion was never made yet.


Hellgate London comes to mind, but seeing how that game got crashed and burned after the hype train made people play a broken game, I imagine nobody today even knows about it.

Also, Kotaku seems to be stalking us.

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I find it interesting that the teaser came out like a day after this thread was posted. Probably had nothing to do with it, but I think it would be funny if Bethesda was like "Oh shit! They found the shitty scrapped version! Quick, we gotta put out this teaser!"

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I hope Id is reading this thread. This is pure crap. If I wanted to see brown I'd stare at my shitter.

New teaser looks very interesting though. That riff reminds me of D_RUNNIN

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Those leaked videos and screens look and feel NOTHING like DOOM. On the other hand, it's amazing how much DOOM the 2014 and the new teaser evoke. It seems like they got their shit sorted out. I honestly thought those screenshots are about another Metro or about rebel squads fighting oppressive government and some aliens slapped on top of it.

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very hard to judge the game from a few screenshots but it does in fact look like a heavily scripted story in a urban, war like, environment. pretty much like cod, yea.

what annoys me most is the fact that there's not a single demon. no fucked up, twisted shit. no blood, no gore.

what's up with id? oh, yea, it basically doesn't exist anymore.

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As far as I'm concerned, this is the equivalent of SEGA cancelling Sonic 06 and then immediately following up with Generations.

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Game never finished, because Half-Life 2, Duke Forever, Legendary and Dear Esther want their tower objective back.

That wasn't Doom. Its too human. Wow they were way off the mark.

http://i.imgur.com/tVihlwb.png is the only screenshot not in pre-rendered cut scene?

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Judging by everyone's reactions I think the conclusion would be that my taste is horrible because aesthetics of those pre-rendered cinematics are exactly how I'd want Hell on Earth to be. It's funny, everyone's complaining about 'gritty and realistic' while to me games are not serious enough. Everything's trying to be goofy and exaggerated these days. I feel like the current version of DOOM4 might not appeal to me, if they made it too silly.

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I'm going to reiterate my stance: It didn't look like the future. It looked like the present, with a lot more debris. There was almost no effort to make you feel like anything had changed in what was probably supposed to be the 22nd century, if the game was following Doom 3's canon. The worst part of it is the stupid bulky gear on the humans. The U.S. military is already developing more compact tech and exoskeletal suits, while this canned version of Doom was more akin to something from the 80s.

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GoatLord said:

I'm going to reiterate my stance: It didn't look like the future. It looked like the present, with a lot more debris. There was almost no effort to make you feel like anything had changed in what was probably supposed to be the 22nd century, if the game was following Doom 3's canon. The worst part of it is the stupid bulky gear on the humans. The U.S. military is already developing more compact tech and exoskeletal suits, while this canned version of Doom was more akin to something from the 80s.


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This is the Doom that was supposed to run at 30 FPS on the old consoles because it had a ton of monsters.
Just because it looked like Homefront doesn't mean it also played like it.

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DooM_RO said:

I hope Id is reading this thread. This is pure crap. If I wanted to see brown I'd stare at my shitter.

New teaser looks very interesting though. That riff reminds me of D_RUNNIN


What the hell is with all of the games nowadays being brown and grey? We now have 32-bit colours, but we don't take advantage of that. All we get is 32 shades of grey, lel.

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Marnetmar said:

Hellstorm Acheron stumbled across a video of one of the cinematics:

https://vimeo.com/117437076

Apparently Doom 4 was going to be a war drama.

Anyone saved this video? It was around 2 minutes long cutscene from the game.

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Concept art points me to think it was a guerrilla-warfare against demons, but I get the vibe of more Metro, and less Doom.

This.. looks terrible.

Hopefully the rebooted version looks better. Stupid Bethesda, and not showing the game on the Quakecon streams.

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Eh, looked sort of Generic. Could've been a fine game on it's own, but clearly not an actual Doom title. I wouldn't mind seeing this thing remade or re purposed for some future project.

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