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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Not a big fan of the new Dooms, although I did like 2016. Nothing beats the ol' Doom II (via source ports).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Sooo as far as im concerned i personaly will buy it beacuse it looks fun buuut on discount . Right now its just too expensive. And i can buy claire obscure for 2/3 of the price and thats also on my list sooo guess which one will go first.

But to be fair i am not exatcly the most representative sample i basicaly never buy games for more than 40$ and mostly even cheaper. Previous doom games i bought for something between 10$ and 20$ soooo.

[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (17 children)
  1. It’s $80
  2. It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
  3. It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
  4. It’s $80
  5. (Edit) shitty DRM
[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seeing how they screwed over Mick Gordon, the composer for the previous two installments, I'll vote with my wallet and skip this one. My backlog is big enough as it is anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 week ago (24 children)

meant to mislead potential players into thinking the game is successful when, in fact, it's severely underperforming behind the scenes.

Why would a player in a single-player game give a tiny shit about how popular it is? It's the investor class that cares about that; stop treating their interests as a natural good.

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[–] mysticpickle 93 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Marty Stratton and his denuvo riddled pos game can kindly get fukt after what he did to Mick Gordon, the composer of the banger soundtrack for Doom 2016.

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy fucking shit! I live under the rock in the middle of nowhere so I've heard only some brief parts of "something wrong with DOOM Eternal music" but nothing factual. Now I gave the time to read the whole article and I'm speechless. 'Cause this is bad, really, really, REALLY bad. I feel sorry for people that have to work and live under such assholes like Marty obviously is...

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Let's see

  • The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
  • $80 price tag
  • BDS boycott
  • Denuvo

I'm shocked that it's not selling, absolutely shocked.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's also 80€ in Europe. Everyone I talked to is waiting for the price to drop, including me.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's £70 in the uk, that's $95 while in the us it costs $70, which is £50. Xbox did the same thing with the new call of duty, their regional pricing is so braindead.

Historically AAA games have been £10 less than the us counter part ($60 games were £50) and making this change is so stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don‘t buy any digital copy of a game for over 45 bucks, doesn‘t matter what it is… I also haven‘t finished DOOM 2016 yet and haven‘t even started Eternal. Not because they‘re bad games or because I don‘t like FPSs, but because I have so much shit to play and so little time.

Competition is fierce and asking 80 bucks when I got the predecessors for less than 5 each is just not happening. Just because games cost more to produce doesn‘t magically make customers have more money and time. It‘ll make release weeks stinkers outside of your GOTYs and makes more people wait or go back to 20+ years worth of other games that aren‘t 80 bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Forcing raytracing is a great way to close off a bunch of customers.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Game is 70$ on Steam US and has a very positive review. That is still too much money unless this is a game you were really looking forward to.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I would have bought it if it didn't have denuvo. I'll wait til its stripped out.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why does it need anti cheat? It's a single player game.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'm one of the biggest fans of the DOOM franchise, I've played all the versions since the original one in 1993. But I don't care if I play it now or in half a year. Or a year for that matter. Never really understood why having it first matters to anyone. I'll be here when the prices drop.

I was stupid enough to buy Spacemarine 2, when it came out, at full price (mostly because I loved Boltgun so much) and that was a great lesson about how you should wait around a bit before actually buying a game. It would have been a fun game for 15 or even 20 euro, but it's not worth 70 euro. I Should have bought Helldivers, anyway 😓

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not sure about hardcore Doom fans but the game looks uninteresting to me specifically. It's like a polar opposite from Doom 2016 judging by all the videos I've seen. Don't really care about the higher price, I'd get it if I liked it but it really doesn't click for me.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't even look at it enough to know if I'd buy it otherwise when I saw it has denuvo. Always online DRM is a hard pass for me. I haven't played the last 3 games Atlus released either and I've been playing almost every one since the ps2 era.

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