Honestly, it looks great. The Alpha and Beta were a lot of fun and felt like a fun and unique twist on the familiar DM shooter many of us grew up addicted to. The Snap Map feature also looks absolutely incredible and providing it takes off, I can't see how this game can fail. The only real problem for the game is releasing in the middle of Battleborn and Overwatch which might hurt sales and then the fact it's going up against a GOTY contender in UC4.. probably not a problem for elitest PC gamers but for everyone else, I can see it getting overlooked for that reason alone.

I don't understand what people could be disappointed about... It's DOOM, guys ! DOOM ! It's all about shooting nightmarish hell citizens with oversized weaponry... How can you possibly fuck it up ?
It will be a good game, stop panicking. It's perfectly fine.

We did get the 15 minute video when the game was announced, and despite its slow pace it showed a lot of the over-the-top violence and action fans like me want out of the series. I honestly don't give a shit if it has crappy multiplayer, in DOOM my ultimate goal is to mow down hordes of creatures and gather some keys. I also don't need a direct recreation of the old titles, those are all still available and I'm interested in a modern take with classic silliness.

I hope its good dont think i can last until 23rd for overwatch

are you expecting the game to fail before release?

I'm not sure what gamers want...
you want them to re_release the classics with better visuals?

or a remaster?

the times have changed... the series needed to be modernized thus the reboot
The FPS genre possesses giants in it...
If doom wants to compete It'll have to bring its A game..

let's give the game a fair chance.. hot damn.

Does id still license out their engine? I remember that used to be a good source of revenue for them, but Unreal engine is the predominantly licensed one now.

Game looks sweet. Only ones that want doom to fail or the quake fanboys that wish doom would be more like quake so it can enjoy the 12 people playing it. DOOM is a compromise, but it's still at it's core DOOM.

This coming from a fan of quake, unreal and tribes. I want more like it, so a compromise is needed. And no overwatch and all those "You got your buff/ super ready?" FPS are not cutting it.

No fail doom is good yes?;)

It's interesting how the author mentions nothing about how awesome ID Software did on Wolfenstein: The New Order.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they lift the review embargo on release date for that game as well?

Well, regardless, I'm not worried at all. I have faith.

I've got my copy paid for & ready to pick up early Friday!

I loved the gunplay in The new order, the game for me that felt the closest to a classic ID shooter then anything else since painkiller, getting the weapons to feel right is 50% of what makes an ID shooter.

this game rocks rly badass. therefor, this news sucks rly badass and is written by a new wannabe newsposter.

Failure??
Maybe wait till it releases and see what's up before articles like this have any basis in fact.

Doom is a game that should be left alone

They will gather at a round table to be equal realizing that reinventing the wheel instead of improving it was a big mistake. No chairs for you no sir.

There's been gameplay of the single player shown. Most of the earlier stuff was with a gamepad, yesterday we saw the fast fluidness of a PC controls shown. We've seen it tried on a GTX1080 in DX mode and Vulkan.

We had a closed and open multiplayer beta.

So overall we know quite a bit about this game. I really don't care if reviewers get review code until launch day or not. It's crappy of course, as in a perfect world we could have reviews ready to go.

But I can tell from the single player videos that it's a game I want to play. I can tell from my experience with the betas that I like the multiplayer. I know it ran buttery smooth on my PC with whatever settings it was in the beta. I wasn't experiencing any bugs. Sure I have a GTX 970, but this sucker ran smooth, I had to be averaging about 100 FPS on whatever settings it was. Quick, responsive. Hell even with a controller it was pretty dang smooth.

So don't know much about it? That's literally insane. If you didn't try to play the betas, or search youtube for it... you're right, you might not know much about it. But that's on you, not iD. I haven't even been trying to 'find' much, and I've been inundated with material for this game.

It's possible lack of awareness (especially with youngsters) might harm it, but most people who played it and didn't pigeon hole it for being a copy of previous iterations tend to LOVE this game.

It doesn't help that Overwatch looks like it's going to blow up, as its beta really did it a solid and bumped hype up to 11 for it.

This article though, is more like taking the meme that any dev who doesn't allow for early reviews is 'hiding' the game, and thus we should be concerned. Of course the guy is someone who hasn't seen much of the game for whatever reason.

Oh no it's outsourced.... to former Halo devs... oh no. He then says the Doom Beta was not well received. Yes it was. There were complaints but the vast majority were NOT complaints, but were actually positive.

Meanwhile by outsourcing the MP, that means the could turn their attention fully to single player. So actually as long as the MP team didn't screw up (and they didn't), then it was a good decision. Whatever they wanted to make it, they made it well that way. You might disagree with the decisions to make it a certain way, but for the way they wanted to make, they made it GREAT.

There's no chance in hell this is an irredeemable mess. Anyone that thinks that simply hasn't been looking for material that is out there (or in the beta's case, was out there)

Might there be some quirks that we find out from playing deep into the campaign or from a thorough review? Sure, but everything I've seen an experienced shows this game to be solid. Solid single player, Solid multi player (from my perspective), looks good, plays well, >60 FPS support, Vulkan support (coming soon), lack of any bugs I could tell in the multiplayer. That doesn't mean there won't be some bugs, or some instability for certain setups. But for my rig it should run fine. Also there's new Nvidia drivers coming 365.19. Not out yet, but iD on Steam news said there will be a new one and that's the number it'll be.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau