DOOM without multiplayer is sacrilege

[Risenzealot]

This may or not be a popular take but I really don't care either way. As a middle aged gamer who grew up playing the original DOOM, a DOOM game without multiplayer is sacrilege.

I'm not discounting they have done a good job with the single player modes in the past 3 games now. It just doesn't matter though, this is DOOM. It needs multiplayer, I don't care if only 3 people play it throughout it's lifetime.

Look at the price tag as well. $80 bucks for a game people are able to 100% in less then 30 hours. No replay ability at all really. It's insane.

It doesn't even need to be anything special. Just a basic death match mode would be fine. I don't care if it even provides unlocks, in fact I'd prefer if it didn't. Don't even need it to keep track of your all time stats and such. Just a basic scoreboard in each match is more than enough.

If Bethesda/ID ever decide to resurrect Quake (God I hope they do) heaven absolutely help them if it doesn't have multiplayer. That would be the ultimate spit in the face of older gamers everywhere lol. What's funny is, at my age I don't even really play multiplayer games anymore. I basically stick with single player games as I don't have the time or desire to spend enough energy being able to compete with the young ones anymore. Still, this is DOOM. Shame on you devs.

[gordon freeman]

if we're lucky it might get added later

[Risenzealot]

Originally posted by gordon freeman:

if we're lucky it might get added later

Maybe but I really doubt it. If they did, it really could just be simple death match. Hell, throw it back to the old days and just make it cut up levels from the campaign I don;t even care. Doesn't even need to be fully new levels designed just for multiplayer.

[Lienhart]

Honestly...I don't care for it.

If they release Quake without multiplayer, that would be wtf. But DOOM since i first played 30 years ago was a single player blow ♥♥♥♥ up ♥♥♥♥ you game.

And that's what we got lol

[Royal]

I'm kinda okay with it because it meant that they could focus entirely on making the campaign a fun ride. Maybe they'll add it later but for me, the singleplayer demon killing is what I come to this series for and TDA gave me exactly what I wanted.

[PlutoniumX]

the original doom back in 90s did not have any multiplayer so you don't need it lol if they do decide to add it then great but does it need it NO lol

[azogthedefiler25]

I thought the game would be a little longer since they didn't include multi-player. They also left a lot of glory kills out, which didn't make any sense. The player is fully controlling when or when not to do a glory kill, so it made no sense to take most of them out. I've never played any DOOM multi-player but I didn't see anything in the main game that made up for less content. And this is coming from a guy that really enjoyed Dark Ages.

[Risenzealot]

Originally posted by PlutoniumX:

the original doom back in 90s did not have any multiplayer so you don't need it lol if they do decide to add it then great but does it need it NO lol

Uh, you are absolutely incorrect. The first DOOM did have multiplayer.. It's where and when the term Deathmatch was coined and it's widely credited as bringing multiplayer FPS to the spotlight.

[Quick☢420™]

Originally posted by Risenzealot:

Originally posted by PlutoniumX:

the original doom back in 90s did not have any multiplayer so you don't need it lol if they do decide to add it then great but does it need it NO lol

Uh, you are absolutely incorrect. The first DOOM did have multiplayer.. It's where and when the term Deathmatch was coined and it's widely credited as bringing multiplayer FPS to the spotlight.

+1

[KrO]

Originally posted by Royal:

I'm kinda okay with it because it meant that they could focus entirely on making the campaign a fun ride. Maybe they'll add it later but for me, the singleplayer demon killing is what I come to this series for and TDA gave me exactly what I wanted.

A different set of devs probably would have been assigned to create multiplayer, so what's happened is they have removed past features that were a staple of the series and genre and also charged top dollar. Not even extensive single player modes or co-op. Basically it's a scammy release and that's why it's flopped despite what some of the corporate slop gobblers want to say on forums.

[[Despised_Icon]]

Props for using the word Sacrilege

[ko]

I couldn't care less about multiplayer. I'm glad they went all in on the campaign and made one of the best FPS games ever made. Doom: The Dark Ages is crazy good. The tech, art and gameplay is top.

MP would be a waste of resources. Kids are playing COD and Frognite anyway, as well as all their other forver GAAS slop.

[Risenzealot]

Originally posted by ko:

I couldn't care less about multiplayer. I'm glad they went all in on the campaign and made one of the best FPS games ever made. Doom: The Dark Ages is crazy good. The tech, art and gameplay is top.

MP would be a waste of resources. Kids are playing COD and Frognite anyway, as well as all their other forver GAAS slop.

Fair enough that you enjoy it this way. Different strokes for different folks. In my personal opinion though this is Bethesda/ID with the backing of Microsoft charging $80 for a game. There is no way Microsoft couldn't have been able to easily afford a small second team tasked with implementing a basic multiplayer Deathmatch mode.

It's freaking DOOM. Most of younger folks probably don't care but DOOM ushered in the Deathmatch craze that would take over gaming for decades to come. It's absolutely shameful there isn't a basic multiplayer feature. DOOM has had it for over 30 years!?

[ZullDan]

Never played multiplayer in doom. It is useless part. If I want to play multiplayer, I will play Apex, Battlefield or Counter Strike.

[Berserk Slayer]

Maybe co-op pve comes later. Single player campaign's the most important part, they can always iterate once that's done, which it is.


Multiplayer would require slow mo to be disabled, but they have said we're probably getting that as a toggle for single player anyway, so that isn't impossible

[Grampire II]

MP hasnt been relevant to the franchise in almost 30 years. PvP in NuDoom has largely been a failure.

Doom didnt have competition dedicated to an MP experience in the 90's. And the MP formula Doom used back then is pretty simplistic and outdated compared to the competition (of which it had almost none of at the time).