I just beat the game five minutes ago and felt the exact same way. To have the greatest power fantasy in recent video game history end with the antagonist taunting you uncontested from several feet away felt like it robbed all of the agency the game had built up so masterfully to that point.

The lore tablets you find in Hell throughout the story build up Doomguy to be the greatest force of all time in either realm, so to see him entirely restrained by some vague computer program seems to be pulling a complete 180 from everything they've told you up to that point.

Haha, for real. Like the collective forces of an otherworldly, inter-dimensional manifestation of evil can't beat you, but some computer chip in your brain leaves you utterly helpless. People compare the ending to Half-Life 1 but it doesn't work nearly as well - they never really play up Gordon's motivations or capabilities in the game, he's just portrayed like a member of the team who happened to be in the right place at the right time. G-Man sees that you're 'special', so he uses his crazy powers to lock you away until you can be useful again. In this case, it's the opposite; they explicitly say that Doomguy is this horrifying, unstoppable freak-beast scourge of Hell, and then you're just bested by some dude who hacked a computer.

@lackingsaint: Well, you kinda end the way the game started: being lured into a trap that leaves you imprisoned. So the ending is kinda fitting. Unkillable because hey, technically you don't die in the game if you complete it, but still restricted to the same game's story. Or more precise, restricted by certain characters.

I guess the Doom Slayer just isn't the smartest of the bunch. It questions to what he was before really. Maybe he was always the tool of destruction 'created' and directed by others and not really a regular being like for example William J. Blazkowicz from Wolfenstein. The codex/tablet entries suggest he was from Hell or at least his arsenal, but fought along side the forces that were invaded by Hell.

The ending did surprise me a little the first time bit after going through again recently I enjoyed a lot more.

I just really hope Doom 2 opens with Doom guy landing back in hell and throws you straight into the fight.

I could see Vega becoming your connection/plot device to get back to earth too. Who knows what madness will be going on at that point too.

I was expecting a showdown with the devil himself or that he'd atleast make an appearance ..so yeah I was a little disapointed about that.

@bson: actual satan was never really a thing in even the original doom games

The ending was perfectly fine, but maybe a little disappointing. I had the expectation that something really crazy was going to happen at the end based on some of Jeff's comments on the Bombcast.

Yeah I loved the crap outta this game, but I kinda hope they do some story dlc to finish up that loose end and not a full on sequel of just going after Samuel more. I feel like they should wrap up doom in a significant way then make a sequel. Also would the sequel be called Doom 2? Doom 2 20xx? Doom 5?

It definitely left me with a "Wait, that's IT?!" feeling, but everything up to that was SO damn good that I can't even be mad about it. I'm concerned they may've shot themselves in the proverbial foot, though, considering how quickly the game dropped in price. That doesn't exactly scream, "WE GOTTA MAKE ANOTHER ONE!" to me...

Then again, it IS Bethesda, they ARE putting up the kind of numbers where a risky passion project, especially after the critical acclaim Doom reaped, isn't entirely out of the question.

I love the ending. Hayden is like "well you're going to fuck everything up and there's actually no way to stop you, so let's teleport you as far away as possible to try to give ourselves just enough time to survive". That's awesome. It's cool.

Sequel bait.