"Doom: The Dark Ages' Designers Think You're Dumb" : Best TDA yt video, so far. 💎💎💎

[BlackSunEmpire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2vQO_BHC0

[Dooum]

Rude but not quite wrong. The game is good , but it feel like it's the less Doom of all Doom games in my opinion.
I would enjoy Mick G. to be back on the game and more difficulty ...

[>-FISH-D]

Spot on. Modern AA and AAA games have been dumbed down to a degree that even the secrets, yes the secrets, are displayed on the mini map.. It truly is pathetic.

[ULTRA]

The DOOM: the Dark Ages designers probably think you're the kind of person that would spam multiple threads with this Youtube video without first doing a search to see if it had been posted already

[SH41TAN]

Originally posted by >-FISH-D:

Spot on. Modern AA and AAA games have been dumbed down to a degree that even the secrets, yes the secrets, are displayed on the mini map.. It truly is pathetic.

And you caant miss 90% of stat upgrades lmao

[Mord]

Yes, the developers think the majority of us are dumb. We are. They are educated and employed. 'We' are on steam forums whining like little plebs.

[Abu Brandino]

Yeah honestly it's such a let-down. I miss 2016...gonna go play it after finishing this one.

[Dinosaurs_Are_Friends]

Doom 2016 is obviously the best by some distance... but I'm surprised there is so much crying about this game. Yes, they obviously think we're dumb based on what they tried to pass off as humor and writing in Doom Eternal, but apparently they're not wrong since so many of us ate that up.

And in any case the gameplay is still best in class. The last time I can remember thinking a shooter flowed this well was in March 2020, and the last time before that was 2016.

Is it perfect? No. Is it seriously ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good? Yes. Yes it is. And that's enough for me.

[CorporateHammer]

Well, I think there is enough dumb in the world to be an excuse. Just the other day saw a video of someone claiming the moon is bigger than the Earth. How about the massive amount of people who can not calculate proper change or read a clock?

[sBuckler]

I loathe it, but I blame Sony for making this a standard. Their games since the TLoU, especially God of War (2018) and games like RE remakes with their yellow paints are downright patronizing. In other words, dumbing down the design is now the new developer meta. Why tf do we need the bright green demon spit paint and glowing scratch marks on climbable surfaces in TDA when DOOM: Eternal had none? Casual appeal.

The amount of players that completely missed the Combat Shotgun in DOOM (2016) was a stat I never knew was a thing, but people are...well, have varying levels of smartness.

[BlackSunEmpire]

Originally posted by >-FISH-D:

Spot on. Modern AA and AAA games have been dumbed down to a degree that even the secrets, yes the secrets, are displayed on the mini map.. It truly is pathetic.

Already in Eternal you had tooltips popping up in front of a bossfight, literally telling you where the weak points of a boss are and how to beat it.

In older games, finding out the weak points of bosses was part of the fun.
And now they literally spoil everything.

It has gotten to a point where they let the playable character narrate puzzle solutions 10 seconds after you encounter the puzzles, like in Forbidden West 🤢 or Ragnarok🤢🤢.

Why would you build a puzzle into your game and spoil the solutions the moment the player encounters said puzzle? How insecure of a game designer do you have to be ?
Or why make puzzles and parkour sections that are so easy that you beat them on the first try in 10 seconds........

Modern gamedesign makes zero sense. 😅