I hope they fire whatever unpaid intern did the rune trials

[Sarnen]

Especially the death from above one. I really hate how games keep moving towards stupid gimmicks for "achievements" as the basis for the game.

[Hinsonator]

I agree, not just about achievements but gimmicks in general.

Granted some of them do help you such as the unlimited ammo if you have enough armour.

[arkngt]

Well, they are completely optional, so just skip them if you don't like them.

[Zephyr]

I had to redo that one around 7 times, but it was less annoying than I thought. Don't bother with the mini missiles, they won't help you, just shoot the hell knight normally trying to position them under the stairs on in them. Should do the trick. If the knight becomes weak in an inconvenient spot, just use the double jump beofre meleeing, should do the trick assuming you're at the apex of your jump.

[JaegerBane]

I enjoyed the first few and then just got royally sick of them. I really don't like how they've been jammed into the campaign - they muck up the pace like nobody's business and the challenges regularly cross the line into frustrating.

As for the argument about them being optional.... that's not really an argument. The entire game is optional, I'm not legally required to play it. It doesn't mean I can't point out where things don't work and flitting from Doom's awesome firefights into some stupid arbitrary arena where I can get one-shotted or have to play first-person Mario for no reason beyond just because is silly. The runes are such that the player is heavily penalised for not doing them.

[Super Pope]

"It's fine."

[Billcimus]

It's to break up the simplistic gameplay.

As someone said, you don't HAVE to do them.

[Johannes]

Everytime I see one Rune challenge i'm like "♥♥♥♥, not again..." But since I've done every single Rune so far, I couldn't stop doing them.

[Chubzdoomer]

Most of them aren't even that difficult, and they're all really short. The only one I think is remotely tough is where you have a Gauss Cannon and 1 HP and have to kill a bunch of enemies. The rest are more or less a cakewalk...

[Sarnen]

The point isn't that they're hard so much as just stupid and gimmicky, along with how you have ot do stupid stuff to actually unlock the power aftery ou beat the trial! Ditto with weapon "mastery" Like ok I finaly spent the points ot unlock super shotgun burst.... nope! now go kill 5 mancubi with it too!

[Cendrake]

They are so insanely annoying. All of them. I mean, ofc you want that boost. "They are optional, you can skip them" ... Ofc you want that reward. Ofc you HAVE TO do them...

So first of all I have to endure the loading times and then I have to go through these idiotic trials, no matter how stupid they are, no matter how much they don't fit and rip you out of the rest of the game ("break up the simplistic gameplay" my ass ... I'm playing DOOM ffs... that's what I paid for... not these retarded 1st person Super Mario interludes), no matter how much they frickin' annoy you and you would rather skip this ♥♥♥♥... some are easy (still stupid), but others you have to try over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ........ again and the whole time the stupid timer bleeping makes your ears bleed and you would rather go on with the game. Whoever thought that would be a cool feature...

P.S.: As you might have noticed... I'm just stuck with one of these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trials and PI$$ED OFF as the doomguy himself right now... ♥♥♥♥ the guy who came up with that ♥♥♥♥ idea. ♥♥♥♥ ruins the game... The game is otherwise awesome and I'd really like to keep playing the campaign, but I'm stuck with this crap now and ♥♥♥♥ now makes me have to take an unwanted break from the game before I start rearranging the furniture here...

[Phoenix]

The only trial I had trouble with was the one where you have to collect the floating polyhedrons and jump to the altar before the timer runs out. I'm not the best platformer player or trick jumper.

[Cendrake]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

The only trial I had trouble with was the one where you have to collect the floating polyhedrons and jump to the altar before the timer runs out. I'm not the best platformer player or trick jumper.

I already managed to finish that stupid trial. It was the one where you get the super shotgun and have to mario jump through the imps to the altar. Took me probably 20 runs to finally manage that crap.

Don't get me wrong... they are doable, but they simply suck, all of em, without exception - whether they are easy or hard doesn't matter. The hard ones just suck harder.

I have the feeling that they don't fit and don't belong in there. It feels so... blegh... it's just ridiculuous that this is in there. As its own game mode for the people who actually want this kind of stuff... okay (as that retarded Breach Mode in DXMD for example... but that was also a waste of precious development resources IMO) ... but forced into the campaign and with stuff as reward that you really want for your playthrough, because otherwise you feel penalized? ... No. Just no.

[TheMysteriousGray]

Originally posted by Chubzdoomer:

Most of them aren't even that difficult, and they're all really short. The only one I think is remotely tough is where you have a Gauss Cannon and 1 HP and have to kill a bunch of enemies. The rest are more or less a cakewalk...

my least favorite one was the one with the Unwilling and the barrels, because for some reason even if they were well within range of the explosion, only one would die out of an entire group, at best.

Then I tried it on Nightmare and won within 14 seconds.

Is life just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with me at this point?

[Phoenix]

Hell works in mysterious ways?

[Micca]

I liked all of the rune trials, except the one with rocket launcher. So rune-trial-guy should get a promotion from my point of view - if he manages to win the rocket-launcher-trial on ultra-nightmare 10 times in a row without getting crazy.