story confusing !?

[Buurt]

i´m only in the second mission but i don´t get anything what the new doom story is trying to tell me. wtf is happening with some of the lore elements, do you need to read some doom books or ♥♥♥♥ like that for this game ? :D

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡]

Story is unnecessary in Doom games. It sucked in 2016 game and it sucks here too. At least it's not tiresome and pretentious like in Wolfenstein reboots.

[ButterStuffed]

I genuinely thought that maybe I had accidentally skipped something when I first started playing.

At the point I am at there is literally no explanation to where the hell this castle ship came from, how the Doom Slayer escaped from whatever Samuel Hayden did in Doom 2016, Vega's just back from the dead and is Doom Guy's personal assistant, and Earth is being completely annihilated and you have no idea what caused it to happen.

It's like the equivalent of starting a long series at season 3 instead of the beginning.

[nutcrackr]

It doesn't tell you anything at the start. It's one of the worst story openings in gaming history.

[Profile_Name]

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

I genuinely thought that maybe I had accidentally skipped something when I first started playing.

At the point I am at there is literally no explanation to where the hell this castle ship came from, how the Doom Slayer escaped from whatever Samuel Hayden did in Doom 2016, Vega's just back from the dead and is Doom Guy's personal assistant, and Earth is being completely annihilated and you have no idea what caused it to happen.

It's like the equivalent of starting a long series at season 3 instead of the beginning.

"how the Doom Slayer escaped from whatever Samuel Hayden did in Doom 2016"
He was just teleported to Argentina, there were probably some sentinel stuff around, its probably how we get the Fortress of Doom.
"Vega's just back from the dead"
Doomguy made a backup before destroying his core
"Earth is being completely annihilated and you have no idea what caused it to happen"
In one of the codex, its explained that the UAC divisions on earth were already turned and started the invasion. I thought it was Hayden, but apparently not.

I do understand how it feels like we skipped many things though. Us starting out in the Fortress of Doom was surprising. Was hoping they would should us how he really got back to earth. I guess this'll be explained in their planned single-player DLCs in the future.

[OofstinGames]

I dont know I found it quite easy to understand, atleast later in the game it made sense.

[Lemonchan]

Play the game and read the codex entries. Everything you want is in detailed in them.

[GermanMachine7]

This game is the Prometheus of video games.

[Kiaren]

The story is something about Angels being aliens, demons being other aliens, and Vikings getting recruited as enforcers for the aliens.

Angel aliens are mad at Earth because...the story has to happen. So Demon aliens get to invade because... the game has to happen. And the Vikings are ordered to stay out of it because... the main character needs to be the special chosen one that is on a first name basis with every demon lord in existence. Heck, he used to work for them! But he's the special chosen one so the rules don't apply to him. Look at him breaking the rules we don't know, isn't he just a bad ass?

It's like Half Life 2, Halo, and God of War had a baby. And we don't know who the father is.

I could ignore it and just play the game if the game would stop shoving cut scenes down my throat every 15 minutes. Heck, the protagonist from the first game would have shot both priests at the end of the tutorial level before they got to the 2nd sentence. Game over.

Remember Doom 2's story? "Demons killed your pet rabbit. Avenge Daisy. Here's a shotgun, GO" And it was awesome.

[buhtiaiem]

Originally posted by nutcrackr:

It doesn't tell you anything at the start. It's one of the worst story openings in gaming history.

That would be Doom 2016