DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two

The DLCs were for the MOST part worthy fun extensions.... but... Part 2 in Particular... Whoever designed the Dark Lord boss fight needs to be fired into space stapped to a rocket.

[h1]"...an incredibly overhated DLC, yet..."[/h1] While Doom Eternal: [b]The Ancient Gods 2[/b], has been the " worst " release of a Doom Campaign since Doom 64 or Final Doom Plutonia, it is still quite a fine experience. It offers what you would expect from a Doom Eternal DLC, though not all new innovations in that DLC are a total hit in my opinion. I personally disliked the [i]Cursed Prowler[/i] very much, as his curse restricts you of what is fun about the game and can easily turn into a dissatisfying death sentence. The other new demons, in particular the [i]Stone Imp[/i] and the [i]Screeching Zombie[/i] are kind of fine but a bit lazy. The [i]Sentinel Hammer[/i] is actually an incredible improvement over the Sentinel Blade of the Main Camapaing as it is enirching the combat loop, by being more than just an instant kill weapon, The Four Camapaign Levels are in terms of presentation and level design definitley weaker than The Ancient Gods 1 and the base campaign. I encountered several bugs which required reloading the save file. Also all the levels are severly lacking in exploration and collectibles. In terms of Story, this DLC concludes the Doom Slayer Saga, while doubling down on the comicy, [i]Marvel-Esque[/i], Storytelling (which I already considered inferior in the base campaign) and continuing the trend of abandoning the darker, grittier, indirect, Storytelling of DOOM 2016. Now to what is considered the elephant in the room by most players, the [i]Final Boss[/i]... So what do I think about him? I think... that fight is actually executed fairly well! Indeed its quite tricky to learn his pattern, but once you understood how he is to be defeated the fight can be won without dying, within a few minutes on Nightmare difficulty. In my opinion, [b]a worthy final boss to the Doomslayers Saga[/b]. To all those who whine about the difficulty in game and this DLC in particular: [i]"Git Gud lmao"[/i] So what do I think: [h2] Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods 2 is an incredibly overhated DLC, yet a flawed and weaker experience compared to its predecessors [/h2]

God that final boss was awful. The most fun I had with this dlc were the escalation encounters. Stick with pt 1 if you are going to play any of the dlc.

Doom Eternal is one of the best FPS there is. It is incredibly fun, awesome music, awesome map and everything good you have probably heard is true. With that said, this DLC is ♥♥♥♥. The first part was not so good but fine. This one is just BS. It adds more enemies that restrict what weapons you can kill demons (and also restrict movement), so it breaks the combat flow of the base game. And you know what? That would be fine. The worst part, however, is the final boss. It is the worst boss I have ever played. It reuses the Marauder mechanics so you can only attack it whenever it feels like it, but also adds other mechanics that are annoying; like spawning demons, and wolves and charge attacks. And you know what? Fine, I wouldn't mind that, the problem is that it also adds a new ability where it regenerates its health AND you have to fight it for FIVE phases! At that point, it is just wasting your time. Yeah, I get it "git good" and all that, but this is no longer fun. It's not like the base game. If you are wondering if you should get the DLCs, don't bother. You're not missing much.

It was fine until the horrible and tedious end boss. A souped Marauder (who's already an annoying as hell enemy) with 5 health bars? Pass.

final boss is legit a reskinned marauder but bigger and just annoying. i love spending 5 minutes waiting for the boss to even TRY to attack me so i can daze it. it overall was not a bad experience, but the final boss and some of the enemy mechanics just do not make me want to recommend this part. escalation encounters were the only hella fun part. this was nowhere near as good as the base game but it wasn't egregiously horrible. also has lore or whatever if someone cares.

The Dark Lord boss fight is so glitched that Todd Howard and Bethesda would blush. The amount of times the rocket launcher blew up in his face while his eyes flashed green and literally did nothing, I could be a millionaire.

Lazy Boss fight that reuses Marauder with the same spaghetti code + obnoxious enemies that just artificially inflate the "challenge"

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I think it's vastly overhated IMO it's way better than Part 1 But yeah, the last boss (the only boss) was bonkers Why the hell did he need 5 health bars? Would 3 not have been enough? I recommend it, it's fun