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The entire reboot is for casuals. The git gud crowd is doing pistol-start UVMAX runs of Plutonia.
I might be misinterpreting what you're saying so correct me if I'm wrong, but the git gud crowd has no idea what legitimately good players of a particular game are able to do (I mean someone like asmongold who is a talentless clown probably thinks theyre in the serious gamer category). Not that being good at a game is particularly valuable, but these people seem to think so. Just play the game for entertainment is my take. Which is why I absolutely love single player games (with personal preference for genre). But yeah too many games are live service slop now. It is what it is but financial incentives actively disincentivize making the sort of game that imho is art. Modern art, but art nonetheless. Say a game like Nier Automata.
I'm just calling the tourist a casual who would have their ass handed to them if they tried playing the original WADs and that the bar where the OG Doom community considers you decent as Doom (beating the Plutonia Experiment on Ultra-Violence) is far higher than what the reboot has to offer. There's also bullshit like E4M1 from Ultimate Doom where you get dumped in a level full of hitscanners with no real health pickup.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with that. The Plutonia Experiment was developed by two brother mappers who purposely made it harder by the standards of the burgeoning Doom community at the time while the reboot is a AAA game tailored towards a mass audience. E4M1 didn't have the health pickups because id fucked up and flagged the health pickups to only show up for multiplayer.
OG Doom is a fucking hard game, especially when you factor in Nightmare difficulty. Meanwhile, this loser tourist is crying about the reboot being too easy while OG Doom is right fucking there.
Ok thanks for explaining but that's more or less what I understood you to mean. I just think a lot of the git gud crowd aren't actually good at the game and this poster probably thinks they're good at the game lmao. Other than that I did go on a bit of a side point haha but it was somewhat related