DOOM: The Dark Ages

I liked The Dark Ages when it came out, but was ultimately slightly disappointed because it didn't live up to the highs of the previous installments of this modern Doom trilogy. It couldn't match the elegant minimalist storytelling and heavy atmosphere of 2016 and neither the mechanical perfection of Eternal's gameplay. While I appreciated the classic Doom inspired weaving in between the projectiles, it always stayed just within the realm of me liking it, but never quite loving it. Dark Ages base campaign gameplay is in my eyes about the player achieving more by doing less. I actually noticed this by coming back to my old clips of doing the UN of TAG1 in Eternal which, barring master levels, is the most intense stretch of the game and compared them to my gameplay from some of the tougher Ripatorium challenges in TDA. And that way I clearly saw that I'm theoretically doing more in TDA, I juggle more enemies, rip and tear more demons. But ultimately the controls are so streamlined, simple and intuitive (which from a different perspective is a feat of smart design) it never quite rivalled the raw satisfaction of mashing half the keyboard at once in Eternal, nor the old school simplicity of 2016 imo. That all completely changed with the Revelations DLC. The increased mechanical complexity and introduction of new movement tech invigorates the game and makes it a delight to play. Starting out, you'll hate the spear. But as you slowly get accustomed, a new dimension of play opens up, with skill ceiling so high, it's impossible to get close to it unless you spend dozens of hours just figuring stuff out and building up the muscle memory. It's a damn shame that id's reward for perfecting their formula and making yet another modern classic of the first person shooter genre was Microsoft laying off half their personel. Shame on them.

I have played through the entire game and all i can say is, DOOM: The Dark Ages is easily top two for best DOOM games with DOOM 2016 as a close second. I highly recommend it to any DOOM fan.

9/10

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