DOOM: The Dark Ages

DOOM: The Dark Ages

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Game design is a joke
chapter 14, no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ single Sentinel Shrine since chapter 11, are you kidding me?
I have almost 1k of gold and don't have any opportunity to upgrade. Any other similar game allow you to buy upgrades at least at the very beginning of every chapter.

Also in some points of game you just don't know where to go. No waypoints on radar, nothing, just wandering around like an idiot. It's just pure inconsistency of game design.
Or you rely on waypoints and never strugglign with "where is the next objective" or you fully rely on intuitive exploration, no way you should mix this kind of fundamentals in DOOM.

For example in chapter 13 after clearing first portal you just have 0 clues where to go. After flying around for 20 minutes I finally found that you have destroy one more tentacle that is located in the basement somewhere very very low without any map pin-points. You know, game would be more fun if you didn't waste my playing time on such things.

In DOOM Eternal there wasn't a single moment when I was about to complain on game design.
Last edited by 鳳凰院 凶真; May 25 @ 9:26am
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Nihil May 25 @ 9:28am 
You can always use the map. Which shows you were you haven't been. But the objective marker is always visible on it. If not, that's a bug.
Originally posted by Nihil:
You can always use the map. Which shows you were you haven't been. But the objective marker is always visible on it. If not, that's a bug.
Always using map when I stuck, but all that times when there wasn't any objectives on radar - map didn't showed me any useful information.
Last edited by 鳳凰院 凶真; May 25 @ 9:30am
There are shrines on chapters 11 and 12, so you must have missed 'em.
There are sentinel shrines in every chapter. It's on you for missing them, given they show a graphic when you're near one and always appear on the map.
Nekros May 25 @ 2:29pm 
We are now ironically complaining about lack of yellow paint telling us where to go.
ayrone May 25 @ 2:29pm 
just press H and it will show you every waypoint in the level
Doomguy May 25 @ 2:41pm 
you're missing your shrines. And even if there wasn't any, you could always go back to previous levels and spend your gold on past shrines.
We should be able to upgrade whenever we want tbh. It's funny watching people defend the shrines and also the one complaining that Eternal didn't offer them enough "freedom" but... ight, go off I guess.
Almost like someone never played the original Doom / Doom II and never spent hours lost in those games and yet somehow thinks they are a fan of the game.

This game has an incredibly easy to use map as well.

Game design can't help attention issues.
Last edited by ChubbiChibbai; May 25 @ 9:33pm
Lippeth May 25 @ 9:54pm 
Press tab to look at the map, it's the first panel.
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