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They seemingly had a few rules for bonfires:

-Beating a boss makes a bonfire appear
-There must be a bonfire at the beginning of a new area.

Those are pretty good rules, even if the close proximity between bosses and new areas make for weird placements, especially when you take into account that 9 times out of 10 it is good design to have a bonfire or shortcut before a boss as well. Even Demons Souls had a short route from the archstone to the boss most of the time (the major exclusions being in the shrine of storms). I think you might be mis-remembering how hardcore the older games actually were because you've gotten better at them.

The RPG progression shit is stupid, as is all the demons dropping phat loots.

Other than that, kinda looks like a video game version of the Robocop reboot. Not awful but ultimately destined to be a footnote attached to something greater and inherently obsoleted by it. Forever to be known not as its actual title: "DOOM" but instead as "Doom (2016)"

About as much as a Telltale game. So to answer your question: no.

Probably either Her Story or Life is Strange just because it has to be something that will annoy me

I played them for the first time in 2008 and loved them. Fallout 1 is up there with Doom for me.

Because hype is a thick, syrupy poison

Gee, you'd think Lynda Carter was married to the CEO or something. It's like the Fictional Opera Within Citizen Kane of gaming.

I think the game looks like junk and if I buy it at all it will be for $9.99 or less on a Steam sale years from now. I say this as a huge Fallout fan.

They really, really don't.

Creating worlds, that's debatable. Systems-- no.

I usually drop open world games after I finish the main story, except in cases like Bethesda's games where the main story is not the important part (and usually terrible).