Is it really Hell?

[RonaldPlayerOne]

I apologize if I missed this in the story, but how did the Dr. Hayden and the UAC know that the place they discovered was THE Hell and not just some really weird planet? As people of science, wouldn't that be their first conclusion? Or do they think that it is some random planet and they named it Hell for fun without realizing it is THE Hell? Does anyone know?

[Tiny Trees]

The road to hell is paved with argent energy.

[Xilo The Odd]

i think science goes out the window when satantic rituals start yielding results other than a dead person/goat.

[rawWwRrr]

it very well looks like Hell to me, whether figuratively or specifically I would avoid it as much as possible.

[Bullett00th]

I would assume they didn't know from the get-go, but there was enough occult stuff for them to figure things out.

Either way don't pay too much attention to story details. They made the game first and then made up a plot to give you an excuse to run around kill demons. Which I'm completely fine with.

[Ragenti]

In Dooms story the first people lived on the mars than after civilization got destroyed by those "deamons" or creatures from an other demension, the last surviving people did flee to earth where they invented the concept of hell from the experience they got from the deamon attack. So our hell is based on this other dimension therefore it can be called literal hell.

[Micca]

Maybe they asked a priest and got official confirmation?

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Micca:

Maybe they asked a priest and got official confirmation?

nah it was probably a commitee, like with Dethklok.

[Zapek]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Either way don't pay too much attention to story details. They made the game first and then made up a plot to give you an excuse to run around kill demons. Which I'm completely fine with.

Actually the story itself is fine and doesn't have inconsistencies like many other games.

Olivia Pierce says at some point to Samuel Hayden: "more sacrifices will be needed", which I think has to be taken literally. Afterwards in the game you'll even find a sacrifical chamber.

The reason the scientists call this "dimension" hell, is because those sacrifice rituals appear to work (they use them after all). Those symbols like pentagrams and such have always been refered to hell by ancient literature.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by Zapek:

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Either way don't pay too much attention to story details. They made the game first and then made up a plot to give you an excuse to run around kill demons. Which I'm completely fine with.

Actually the story itself is fine and doesn't have inconsistencies like many other games.

Hey I'm not saying it's bad, but the devs themselves said that they designed the whole game first and then adapted a story to it, which was the right decision.

[Skankhunt42]

I'd say it is the lowest common denominator when it comes to the depiction of hell in a western popcultural context.