My YouTube feed is filled with nothing but overwhelmingly positive reviews. All I did was watch the trailer a while back, then a review with gameplay from some influencer that got early access.

I'm a huge doom fan dork, since the 90s. I'm old. But the trailer and gameplay had me thinking... meh.

I'll wait for a sale. But I'm curious if anyone else feels the same. Anyone normal play it? Specifically fans of 2016. Are these influencers getting paid to hype the game?

Anyone normal who bought day one, tell me I'm wrong and the hype is warranted. Just curious.

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[–] Paradox 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tbh it's more like quake 1 than Doom

Which isn't a bad thing, but I think everyone would have been perfectly happy with just Doom: Eternal 2

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Idk about that, I heard a fair number of folks who were less enthused with Eternal vs 2016. The general sentiment among those folks was that Eternal skewed too far into "combat puzzle" territory, where encounters felt like they had prescribed "solutions" that you needed to perform to succeed reliably. This iteration being less about resource management and high speed encounter flow seems to be a reaction to those critiques.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The general sentiment among those folks was that Eternal skewed too far into "combat puzzle" territory, where encounters felt like they had prescribed "solutions" that you needed to perform to succeed reliably.

Nailed it, that was exactly my problem with Eternal.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Doom 2016 wasn't exactly generous with ammo limits in the early game, but Eternal was a chore. Here's 20 enemies, 6 of them are cacodemons that will only die if you lob a shotgun grenade at their mouth. You have 12 shotgun and 50 plasma bullets, the latter enough to kill 1 caco.