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A New Doom Game. Hooray...?
8 years ago
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Much like every year, I was anxious to see what the E3 expo had in store mostly in hopes of new Doom announcements. This year, I was not disappointed...
Well, actually, I was, despite Doom showing up.
Doom VFR, which is a...quasi-remake of Doom 2016, but in VR.
...Kay.
I honestly have zero interest in VR games, and the point-and-click teleportation control method shown in the trailer -- common in most VR games -- seems completely inappropriate for Doom's heavily-movement-focused action. There's some FEAR-style slow-mo effects seemingly to help you get your bearings when things get frantic, but do we really wanna play Doom in slow-motion? Plus, with most of the assets simply being repurposed from Doom 2016, there's not even much new to see.
At this rate, an HD VR remake of Doom 2 RPG would be more tantalizing to me. At least that was built around turn-based combat, and is an obscure game that few got to play.
Oh well. At least Wolfenstein 2 was announced. (Not that I really care since I'm basically the one person that didn't like Wolfenstein: The New Order. Did we really have to take something silly like Wolfenstein and make it so freakin' morose?) And BJ Blazkowicz will be in Quake Champions, which is pretty sweet since he should've been in Quake 3 in the first place.
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Well, actually, I was, despite Doom showing up.
Doom VFR, which is a...quasi-remake of Doom 2016, but in VR.
...Kay.
I honestly have zero interest in VR games, and the point-and-click teleportation control method shown in the trailer -- common in most VR games -- seems completely inappropriate for Doom's heavily-movement-focused action. There's some FEAR-style slow-mo effects seemingly to help you get your bearings when things get frantic, but do we really wanna play Doom in slow-motion? Plus, with most of the assets simply being repurposed from Doom 2016, there's not even much new to see.
At this rate, an HD VR remake of Doom 2 RPG would be more tantalizing to me. At least that was built around turn-based combat, and is an obscure game that few got to play.
Oh well. At least Wolfenstein 2 was announced. (Not that I really care since I'm basically the one person that didn't like Wolfenstein: The New Order. Did we really have to take something silly like Wolfenstein and make it so freakin' morose?) And BJ Blazkowicz will be in Quake Champions, which is pretty sweet since he should've been in Quake 3 in the first place.
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I still haven't played any Wolfenstein games past the originals, so I dunno how the series works out. Though, honestly, I find the whole WWII/Nazis win scenarios to be boring. Gimme something interesting, like Nazis in space or something.
I honestly rather enjoyed the often-panned 2009 Wolfenstein. The stealth elements were mostly gone and it focused largely on pure action, but I found it to be rather amusing action, with you clicking on your slow-mo magic and decapitating all the Nazis in the room without them even realizing what's happening. The primary hub world that let you explore for hidden goodies and find extra missions, as well as the upgrade system that was bound to how many secrets you could find, were well appreciated by me too.
Though also -more- curious about being floating hands interacting with the Mars UAC stations with the floating claw-hands and whatnot; chucking water bottles at Imps and then ducking into cover to hide :D