E3 2015: Things Get Super Bloody and Splodey in Doom

Woot!

WEEEEEEEEEE way more hype than Fallout. Not that I don't like Fallout. Just think this made a WAAAAY better showing.

so excited for this. its bringing back what doom 3 lacked. emphasis on movement. plus co-op wave based modes are my jam in on foot only shooters.

F'ing amazing. I was expecting something good but this blew me away. This is exactly what I was hoping for.

Well now I have to listen to Murmaider a 100 times to get it out of my head. Thanks.

This > Fallout and I don't even like Doom that much. Looks like dumb, gory, fun.

I hope it's as fast and arcade-y as it looks. I'd love for this to be a high production value answer to modern arcade shooters like Serious Sam, Hard Reset, and the Rise of the Triad reboot.

everything is awesome except the monsters look kinda small?

@goreslinger: This was more or less the only real demo at the conference. It certainly was the best showing at the show even if you aren't interested in Doom.

cool

Still feels quite slow and not very hectic compared to classic DOOM. Looks pretty nice though. Might be good.

I'm a huge Doom fan (play episode 1 at least twice a year for the past 5-6 years now, rest of the game once every other year or so and Doom 2 every now and then), not quite sold on this. Liked a lot of the weapons and the idea of melee executions but wasn't the crazy over-the-top speed and violence I felt people were describing after Quakecon last year, also even after that 10 or so minutes at the Bethesda conference I was sort of tired of seeing the same melee executions every time (hopefully still early so there'll be more) so we'll see. I'd be incredibly excited if it's great but will wait a bit to see more.

i can live with this

Looks like it has potential, but I don't know how hard it gets or how much people want a raw-ass action game like this.

doom hype real

waiting on valve to announce something big so I can relive pre-2004 all over again

Beautiful.

I like it.

Either they announce that they got John Romero back, or I'm not interested.

Anyone who went to QuakeCon 2014 that can say if this is the same trailer or not? Sorry if this was explained in the press conference itself, I won't have time to watch that until tomorrow.

There's a 60fps version on youtube, and it helps the speed of the game a lot:

It still seems quite a bit slower than original Doom, but hopefully the mobiltiy will make up for the loss of running speed.

As someone who didn't play the original Dooms growing up this wasn't exactly that impressive to me. Lots of gore, crazy executions, and neat looking gun-play but it didn't seem all that exciting. Looked a bit sluggish for one and beyond the monster killing it seemed to lack much personality. Not that Doom had a lot of personality but this just didn't blow me away.

I loved things like Bulletstorm and the newest Wolfenstein so if they can pull off a game that is that fun to play even if it lacks the personality I'd love to give it a go.

This is way more impressive than the gameplay demo they showed off.

And the music is excellent-- a lot of the sound didn't come through very well on the live demo.

I don't know what it is, but this footage seems fake somehow. Like... not actual game play footage. Maybe it's just because it's not polished so there's still that oddity to the design and the animations (it reminds me of a game you'd see someone playing in a TV show or movie).

Seems interesting, but I'm a little worried there is no hook for this game. I'm one of those weird people that liked Doom 3, though. I feel like there's less atmosphere to this game as it looks in this footage.

The last part in hell for example just looks like a poorly designed arena challenge. I'm hoping that's just a boss fight and not how the game is going to be regularly. It's hard to say since this footage, for me, feels super rough (and again, not real somehow).

@hawk767: Don't worry, as someone who played all the games as they released I felt the same way about this. This is most troubling considering they had to start over at one point. I didn't think designing another Doom game would be that complicated, but apparently for them it is.

Dat Doom theme remix though.

Gimme.

I hope the game feels great. Everything around it looks awesome, now I just hope it plays at least as well as Wolfenstein. Just take their template and speed it up.

@kishinfoulux: lol no

Looks great so far.

fuck yeah sign me up

Needs larger levels, larger enemy population, and creative use of level design and enemy placement.

If I wanted tight shooting and quality gunplay, I would just play Wolfenstein: New Order/Old Blood again. Sorry to be so dismissive but this is the trailer people were hyped about? It's looks like it plays exactly like New Order except there are demons now.

The hype isn't real.

Somehow it still feels more like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare then a classic Quake or Doom game..

Doom guy has Witcher senses

From that trailer I feel it's missing the 'tone' of those original Doom games that made them so good. The originals felt like it had a fantasy meets sci-fi with a sprinkling of religious overtones thing going on. There was something incredibly twisted about the whole setting that made fighting those demons terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. This trailer kind of just looks like a gory Halo-wannabe.

Even though all that action looks SUPER fun and the game looks awesome, I.......just can't shake the feeling that whoever made that trailer doesn't get what Doom is. It's just a first trailer though so I'm not writing it off or anything.

Too slow, too many animation melee kills, they even managed to ruin the chainsaw.

PASS

The executions seem like they really slow things down. Design/atmosphere here looks closer to Doom 3 than the first 2, can't say I'm excited by this footage.

So maybe they actually slowed everything a bit down in the gameplay demo, but this seems A LOT faster than that one, to a point where this is either a much better representation of the game, or a complete misrepresentation of the final product. Really hoping for the former, cause that demo felt slow as fuck.

BulletDoom/DoomStorm? I'm into it.

Kind of looks like a Doom 3 mod. I might be the worst person for saying that but I dunno. What they have showed, so far, has completely unhyped (dehyped?) me about this one. We'll see how it turns out. The movement seems sluggish, but that could just as easily be because of the "trailer sickness" first person shooters have suffered from since Killzone was shown at E3.

Either way, the combat looks kind of dull to me and it doesn't really help that the game shares the name with the first game.

The multiplayer stuff in D4 looked surprisingly interesting to me though. I was not expecting them to jump on the "arena shooter revival" wave with Doom of all games. I guess it kind of makes sense - kind of doubt a new Quake Arena was even on the drawing board when they saw that a new Unreal Tournament was in development.

... Also, that is one brown-ass rendition of hell.

This makes my 90's teenage heart super excited. I loved some of the over-the-topness of the 90's era Doom, Quake, UT, and this looks to be scratching that itch.

"Oh gosh this is too violent. Won't someone think of the Demons?"

Also a CoD zombies mode? Yes, more of that type of gameplay.

I'm not seeing any goat horns or pentagrams in here.

Hell yes!

Yeah! So fucking ready for a new Doom game. Hope this turns out great.

As long as this doesn't attempt to be anything other than a dumb, fun shooter with a half-assed 80's action movie story I'm in.

On second thoughts no, fuck story on all levels, just give us the maps, monsters, graphics, gore'n'guns and leave it at that. Please.