DOOM: The Dark Ages

Painfully mediocre game, hard to believe we got this after eternal. Movement feels very sluggish and awkward. They really wanted to kill quick switching weapons in this one. I think its mostly fault of adding sprint... ???!!! Sprint in a Doom game? Wut? And that brings us to the main reason I don't really like this game, it doesn't feel like a doom game, especially through first half, so much boring cutscenes, the lore should have stayed vague and minimal, it was already not good in eternal. The mech, dragon sections are not good. Open map levels are just badly designed. Maps have doors locked behind a key that you have to get towards the end of the level and have to run through empty map again to collect stuff for upgrades, such a bad design. There is a lot of backtracking if you are trying to collect stuff. Mini map is bad, doesn't show doors, shows passages where there aren't any and so on. Areas are also way too big for no good reason. All guns feel very similar and don't really feel good to use. The combat basically revolves around holding fire button and waiting for parry windows with some dodging bullets, although projectiles are so big a lot of the times you are forced to block them. Sometimes when you chain and interpolate melee, parries and guns combat can feel nice, but its nothing like adrenaline rush of eternal or even 2016. Raytracing requirement is an obvious sellout to nvidia, there is no benefit to it, I'd argue it even worsens visuals since all lighting is so soft and blurry. I'd give this game so so review, but for mandatory raytracing it gets not recommended. Can't wait till its unplayable when nvidia discontinues raytracing gimmick just like physics. TLDR: Might be worth checking out on big discount, don't expect anything particularly good.

portal 2 XXX supermario in disguise. nothing to do with DOOM. DOOM died at eternal.

this game is assssssssssss

ID soft takes a bold swing with a new formula which starts off strong in the base game but quickly falls flat after the first few levels due to heavy focus on cut scene and story telling which really gets in the way of the action far too often. While you are given a vast arsenal of weapons, the base game is not very demanding in terms of skill ceiling as you can just spam rocket launcher and supershot gun your way through everything. THAT BEING SAID, THE DLC IS SOMETHING ELSE. The DLC demands utter mastery, impeccable timing, and delivers far better enemies, combat encounters and basically reminds you why DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal were so beloved. Also the OST in the DLC is far far better than the utterly boring, generic, and uninspired music of the base game

终于是把DLC通关了，从一开始的咬牙切齿到最后终于妥协主动适应长矛和盾牌的无缝切换。 玩这类游戏啊 每次最头疼到底该用哪个武器（1-9），选择困难症最痛苦的环节，到最后发现就无脑双管喷最爽了。 配连枷不怕没子弹，这游戏最克那些死磕到底不会迂回的玩家（说的就是我自己），总之，打不过就跑总没错，绕场一周回来之后又是满状态，像这类old school游戏 保持高速移动=大大提升存活率，别想着找什么掩体之类，疯狂地跑就行了。 DLC里面有几个经典战役很有意思，我还蛮喜欢那种老式游戏的画面，想必之后不介意专门去玩一款那样的老式FPS。 总的来说，还是很推荐DOOM，是手感很不错的一款经典快节奏FPS。选的噩梦难度，前期什么武器都不适应的我打得有点心情烦躁，但后来发现摸清武器特性和习惯之后还是很轻松，就像解密一样分清击破顺序就好。 这年代随便写点什么都可以让AI代劳，写论文尤其痛苦，感觉有时候图方便让AI代写一些片段结果最后发现它甚至剥夺了我写东西的乐趣，于是写点评测、写点日记算是最后的净土。顺带一提，在玩doom终局关卡之前本来就有俩个论文的deadline结果论文是一点没写doom 倒是通关了:( 感觉我会打一辈子游戏，热情无法消退，对一些游戏的操作习惯也几乎刻进了肌肉记忆。而且总是会有点期待的心情。下一款游戏witchfire（已经下好在库里）我很是期待，希望处理好现实中的事务之后我能再次沉浸式地去玩这款游戏。

Phenomenal game. Enemy variety, weapon variety, map layout, mech combat, and difficulty are all superb. I personally played the main campaign on Ultra Violence and the DLC on Nightmare and nothing seemed too unfair. Every encounter is very doable as long as you have determination. The main story ties heavily into Doom: Eternal with the Makyrs and the Night Sentinels being extremely prevalent throughout. The DLC also ties into Eternal and a little into Doom: 2016 which was seriously awesome, as that is my favorite entry in the series. Achievements were quite easy, with the only difficult ones being related to collectibles. Just follow a YouTube guide and you'll breeze through the grind of finding everything. I bought both the main game and the DLC for $32 which I think is a steal. I highly recommend waiting for a discount as no game is worth $70, unless it cures cancer.

В целом я не фанат игр DOOM. Для меня они даже душные...В предыдущих частях хотел делать жоские дропы под конец. Но Дарк Эйжд такая хорошая СДВГШКА, ПИУ ПИУ ПАУ ПАУ ЗЕЛЕНЫЕ ЛУЧИКИ ФИОЛЕТОВЫЕ ЛУЧИКИ. Щиточек, парированиями и рывки дали, лично мне, что то новое и чего не хватало в пред играх, а этот топот от костюма ну скааазка. НО Х1 - если бы добавили копье из длс в середине основы, то было бы круто очиин!! НО х2, уже от 8 главы это такая рутина....работа...прям думаешь " да когда уже конец". Враги одни и те же, да, иногда атлан и дракончик разбавляют, но ♥♥♥...эти чистки мега надоедают . И,на мой взгляд, но очень зависим дум чел от лутинга - прокачка, а лутинг тоже довольно душный, найти ключи, черепа, вернуться обратно и тд.... Думаю, что правда -растянули искусственно, если оставить уровней 10-12 - то хайповый крутяк. А так очень быстро душит, и просится дроп. Спасибо студии за хорошую оптимизацию, жалко уволили всех ♥♥♥♥♥,ну ниче...

As always, we see a great version with an even better story from Bethesda. The story of the game is so interesting that I want to go to the end and experience its new DLC. The game is optimized and has great gameplay. It is also fast and attractive. It is not even a single beat. Overall, it is a great experience. I recommend it to players.