HELL FREEZES OVER in DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations, an all-new campaign expansion that unleashes a brutal new chapter of the Slayer’s saga. Wounded and ...
It started as a sci-fi shooter. DoomMarine was just a human left behind to guard a ship with a pistol and ends up fighting the hordes of hell with an array of modern and sci-fi weapons. The only medieval elements you would see were when you were in the hell world. The back story was essentially he got assigned there as a punishment for punching an officer who was ordering him to shoot civilians. He was a human, representing humanity in a fight against evil.
Now with all the changes they made The Doom Slayer is a demigod being wielding medieval and fantasy weapons in an increasingly medieval-looking armor of alien origin with an insanely convoluted backstory of him being the twin brother of the devil or some BS I don’t know I just stopped caring at that point. He is completely dehumanized. The whole game looks and feels more like a fantasy game in a medieval world of magic than a sci-fi shooter.
IMO the creators of the Brutal Doom mod/campaign came up with a far better expansion of the Doom universe that stayed much more true to the source material. I’d love to see a high budget game made in that universe.
The whole game looks and feels more like a fantasy game in a medieval world of magic than a sci-fi shooter.
Isn’t that the point though? Doom The Dark Ages is a dark fantasy style Doom. You even get a flail and sword in this one. I liked the change of scenery as opposed to yet another set of sci-fi bases, it’s the opposite of what I’d call “milking it” because the simpler option would be to do the same thing again.
The more Bethesda milks the DOOM franchise, the more it looks like Skyrim
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It started as a sci-fi shooter. DoomMarine was just a human left behind to guard a ship with a pistol and ends up fighting the hordes of hell with an array of modern and sci-fi weapons. The only medieval elements you would see were when you were in the hell world. The back story was essentially he got assigned there as a punishment for punching an officer who was ordering him to shoot civilians. He was a human, representing humanity in a fight against evil.
Now with all the changes they made The Doom Slayer is a demigod being wielding medieval and fantasy weapons in an increasingly medieval-looking armor of alien origin with an insanely convoluted backstory of him being the twin brother of the devil or some BS I don’t know I just stopped caring at that point. He is completely dehumanized. The whole game looks and feels more like a fantasy game in a medieval world of magic than a sci-fi shooter.
IMO the creators of the Brutal Doom mod/campaign came up with a far better expansion of the Doom universe that stayed much more true to the source material. I’d love to see a high budget game made in that universe.
Isn’t that the point though? Doom The Dark Ages is a dark fantasy style Doom. You even get a flail and sword in this one. I liked the change of scenery as opposed to yet another set of sci-fi bases, it’s the opposite of what I’d call “milking it” because the simpler option would be to do the same thing again.