DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One

Саме важке длс в серії Doom.

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In short: a huge nothingburger of an annoyingly lengthy DLC, recommend only if you beat eternal's base campaign a long while ago and forgot some stuff. In detail: I highly doubt anyone plays the modern doom trilogy for the narrative, neither did I, but Eternal's base campaign had an efficient combat/platforming/story exposition loop that kept me excited enough to keep going after each level; left me wanting for more after each level. That was not the case for me with Ancient Gods Part One. It felt like going for some McDonalds right after a fine-dining experience when you've already left the last place plenty satisfied, just looking for some dessert. Where each tiered combat encounter in base eternal lasted 2-3 minutes, in AG:PO a combat encounter is like a couch-surfing bum friend who overstayed his welcome, you're used to the 2-3 minutes and now you're treated to 7-10 minutes of lengthy over-tuned combat where you're not having fun anymore, neither are you trying to survive, you're just trying to finish the damn thing faster to get over with it. Each level has some gimmick to pad out "play" time, collecting cards for access, following dogs and fighting small combat trials in foggy zones and the new enemies are not only annoying in how they disrupt the gameplay flow, they're also not fun to kill due to the gimmicky nature of how you're supposed to kill them. WHO DECIDED THAT TO KILL ONE ENEMY TYPE, IT SHOULD BE RESTRICTED TO ONLY ONE SPECIFIC WEAPON'S UPGRADE PATH. I'm hoping Ancient Gods Part Two is better than whatever the F**K this was

I had very limited knowledge of Eternal when I played it, and was very surprised to see that the DLCs had mixed reviews based on my experience with Eternal. I didn't mind Ancient Gods 1. To be very brief general with my opinions, the levels are very inconsistent with the length and difficulty. The overall designs of the objectives were less interesting to me. The new mechanics introduced were overall good, apart from making it so enemies can be randomly powered up by some blue ♥♥♥♥ which triples their health pools and makes them immune to staggering and all status effects, that can move to a new target even after you kill it, and that can only be stopped with a single mod on a weapon so you better hope you have enough ammo. I had no real gripe with the new enemy types, apart from the aforementioned blue piece of ♥♥♥♥. Unfortunately the end boss was just poorly designed in my opinion and not very fun to fight. This due to the boss revolving around the less interactive mechanics established previously in the DLC. This is not to say I think this DLC is bad, it unfortunately doesn't hold up to the standard of the base game. Which is fine, they tried new stuff out and they should be commemorated for doing so. Some stuff worked out better than others. And at the end of the day the DLC is well made, enjoyable and certainly worth your time and money. An optimistic 6.5/10 imo

games are supposed to be fun :(

The continuation of the greatest first-person shooter of all time.

These reviews are wack, this DLC kicks ass from top to bottom. Only downside is that this is when id started to pay for what they did to Mick Gordon and the music is just nothing. You'll be doing the hardest encounter in the game (up to this point) to an ambient track. Went back and replayed Cultist Base just to feel something after. But yeah the DLC is really good, it's just hard as ♥♥♥♥ which I imagine is why no one likes it.