Doom Catch-All of Doom

Made it to hell last night. (Is that a spoiler? That hell is in a DOOM game?) Still enjoying this game, even after backtracking through the levels to find collectibles. Favorite non-gameplay thing is when the Doomguy finds the little action figure of himself and then does a little fist bump with it.

Glycerine wrote:
nako wrote:

If anyone's having performance issues and hasn't installed the latest nVidia drivers yet that came with optimizations for this game, definitely do that. On my 770 the game was basically unplayable - I got about 30-35 fps, settings didn't even seem to matter that much, even on low it didn't go higher. The drivers straight up doubled that, it almost never drops below 60 on medium now.

30-35fps is unplayable? I must be getting old.

Rented and played the XBone version, it's pretty decent so far. Can't say if I would think it's worth 60 bucks, guess that depends on how long the SP campaign is. Like others I really have no interest at all in multi.

Kids these days with their FPSes with fpses. In my day, we played at 29.97 fps and we liked it!

BadKen wrote:
Glycerine wrote:
nako wrote:

If anyone's having performance issues and hasn't installed the latest nVidia drivers yet that came with optimizations for this game, definitely do that. On my 770 the game was basically unplayable - I got about 30-35 fps, settings didn't even seem to matter that much, even on low it didn't go higher. The drivers straight up doubled that, it almost never drops below 60 on medium now.

30-35fps is unplayable? I must be getting old.

Rented and played the XBone version, it's pretty decent so far. Can't say if I would think it's worth 60 bucks, guess that depends on how long the SP campaign is. Like others I really have no interest at all in multi.

Kids these days with their FPSes with fpses. In my day, we played at 29.97 fps and we liked it!

29.97 fps?! Luxury! In my day we had to wait for the screen to redraw one line at a time, all the while hoping that the video driver wouldn't wobble and fall out of high memory!

Picked it up at the Redbox for three bucks to check it out. I really like the combat but the level design is driving me nuts. I've been stuck in the Foundry for like two hours now and it has totally sapped my enthusiasm for the game. "Where do I go now?" has always been a gaming pet peeve of mine and this is like torture. Map doesn't help at all.

Levelcap loves the singleplayer. The multiplayer, not so much.

AcidCat wrote:

Picked it up at the Redbox for three bucks to check it out. I really like the combat but the level design is driving me nuts. I've been stuck in the Foundry for like two hours now and it has totally sapped my enthusiasm for the game. "Where do I go now?" has always been a gaming pet peeve of mine and this is like torture. Map doesn't help at all.

Well, that's certainly one way to get around paying $60 for it.

Haven't played the new Doom, curious if I'm interested in the gameplay or if I'm just interested in the discussion surrounding it, but am not enticed to purchase it at launch price. However, I really enjoyed Noah-Caldwell Gervais' breakdown of it.

Lots of gameplay/weapon spoilers, story spoilers around the 15:30 to 19:30 minute mark, and a mild ending spoiler in the last 21+ minutes of the video.

Noah doesn't rely on video footage to get his point across, so if you can't do video then you can just have the audio play in a separate tab.

ccesarano wrote:

Haven't played the new Doom, curious if I'm interested in the gameplay or if I'm just interested in the discussion surrounding it, but am not enticed to purchase it at launch price. However, I really enjoyed Noah-Caldwell Gervais' breakdown of it.

Lots of gameplay/weapon spoilers, story spoilers around the 15:30 to 19:30 minute mark, and a mild ending spoiler in the last 21+ minutes of the video.

Noah doesn't rely on video footage to get his point across, so if you can't do video then you can just have the audio play in a separate tab.

You can get it from Green man Gaming for 20% off which is what I did. Not really sure if that's enough to get you to buy it.

Nope! Otherwise I'd grab it off Amazon or from Best Buy because I'm a filthy console peasant.

Crap I thought I could sell you on it had my power point ready and everything along with my 6 DVD or single Blu ray set on why you should get it.

Chainsaw blade is still mounted backwards, with the cutting surfaces pointed away from the direction of the cut.

THIS TRIGGERS MY OCD SO GODDAMN HARD!!!

I have been loving it. It feels like Doom did the first time I played it. Run into a room, kill hordes of monsters, then look for secrets, etc.

No story (or just the barest bones of one), no character development - just shooting, shooting, with some shooting tossed in to mix it up!

polq37 wrote:

Chainsaw blade is still mounted backwards, with the cutting surfaces pointed away from the direction of the cut.

THIS TRIGGERS MY OCD SO GODDAMN HARD!!!

It's a demon chainsaw. Meant to be...unnatural.

polq37 wrote:

Chainsaw blade is still mounted backwards, with the cutting surfaces pointed away from the direction of the cut.

THIS TRIGGERS MY OCD SO GODDAMN HARD!!!

Doomguy installs the chain that way because the dull part sprays more blood and it makes the kills look cooler.

Coldstream wrote:

29.97 fps?! Luxury! In my day we had to wait for the screen to redraw one line at a time, all the while hoping that the video driver wouldn't wobble and fall out of high memory!

Video driver?! Back in my day no one had a dedicated GPU and the game audio was splatty garbage emitting from a tiny PC speaker but that one rich guy in our dorm had a Sound Blaster and the shotgun sound and General MIDI Pantera rip-offs sounded sooooooo smooth

It's interesting to think that because it was General MIDI most people didn't hear the same soundtrack. Different manufacturers meant slight differences between the sound of "30: Overdriven Electric Guitar" on one machine and another. I feel like there is a form of personalization that was lost to CD audio.

gains wrote:

It's interesting to think that because it was General MIDI most people didn't hear the same soundtrack. Different manufacturers meant slight differences between the sound of "30: Overdriven Electric Guitar" on one machine and another. I feel like there is a form of personalization that was lost to CD audio.

You're telling me. I keep trying to find the theme music for Interplay's LotR: Fellowship of the Ring game, but every version I can find on YouTube just saddens me because the interpretation of bleep-bloops sound so off to me.

I paid full price for Fallout 4 and am waiting a while for this one.

I should have done it the other way around.

So I was playing this last night with the lights off and headphones on. During a really intense firefight with lots of explosions and gibbed demons, my screen started shaking and I was rocking in my chair. Turns out that my region of Japan had a moderate earthquake at that moment. Let me tell you, that added a whole new sensory dimension to the game, and freaked me out sufficiently that I ended up needing to walk away from the game fora bit!

Coldstream wrote:

So I was playing this last night with the lights off and headphones on. During a really intense firefight with lots of explosions and gibbed demons, my screen started shaking and I was rocking in my chair. Turns out that my region of Japan had a moderate earthquake at that moment. Let me tell you, that added a whole new sensory dimension to the game, and freaked me out sufficiently that I ended up needing to walk away from the game fora bit!

Not an earthquake, that was the portal to hell opening up in Fukushima.

I'm more interested in how you got headphones working. I cannot get sound through my bluetooth headset, and I have to play with the speakers instead.

This happens with a few games, and I've never been able to figure it out.

The SP for this is pretty damn good.

Playing through on Ultra-Violence and; some of the fights require real intense juggling of enemy types, movement, and weapons. Those shield bearers are my kryptonite.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

I'm more interested in how you got headphones working. I cannot get sound through my bluetooth headset, and I have to play with the speakers instead.

This happens with a few games, and I've never been able to figure it out.

Alas, I wish I could help. My method involved plugging in my old Plantronics via the headphone jack on the front of my PC, and no further set-up. I'm hoping to get my computer speakers set up today, so that I can play with 5.1 surround goodness!

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You guys are right. This game is fun.

My GTX 770 runs it great, goes from 200-1800 FPS.

You've gotta scale down that gui though. Missing several hundred pixels of action with all that panel stuff.

*Legion* wrote:

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You guys are right. This game is fun.

I tried to go back and play that one to warm up for the new game but couldn't get over the lack of mouse-look. I replayed Quake instead.

Just finished the sp last night and this game is everything I hoped it would be. Now to go back through and find all the secrets I missed.

gains wrote:

I tried to go back and play that one to warm up for the new game but couldn't get over the lack of mouse-look. I replayed Quake instead.

Play using GZDoom. That's what I'm doing. Mouselook turned on, autoaim turned off. It plays insanely well that way.

If you look closely in my screenshot, you'll notice I have a tiny crosshair turned on, that's precisely because I am playing it like that. (You have to hit the Options menu to flip these settings before you first play, as it will default to normal DOOM style).

GZDoom TL;DR for Steam installs: copy contents of GZDoom ZIP file into the Steamapps folder of your DOOM game. Rename dosbox.exe to something like "dosbox-steam.exe" (just to preserve it) and then rename the gzdoom.exe into dosbox.exe (as this is the .exe Steam will launch). Launch from Steam like normal. Enjoy playing, with full Steam overlay & screenshots support.

Or, if you want those features but without the GL-based rendering enhancements, then just do the same using plain ZDoom.

I'm not sure I'm fully comfortable paying $80 for a single player only experience* of relatively short length. This does look outstanding, though.

*won't be touching the multiplayer

Move to the US. Save $20. Problem solved.

You're welcome.