Thread:AngryLance/@comment-39280634-20200322230159/@comment-25808351-20200323172939

Lance: Very fun, very intense, but I have a few complaints.

Positive: The combat is more fluent with your movement abilities and your arsenal is pretty sizable giving you plenty of options for crowd control. It’s brutal, it’s fast paced, it’s over the top.

Negative: The enemies are overcharged to compensate for your later abilities making many game sections a chore on first play through. Your lack luster ammo count (even with upgrades) helps further the grinding feeling of some battles. Doomguy will run out of ammo quickly dealing with larger enemies, some take more than 20 super shotgun shells. Because of this, the chainsaw must be used sparingly because it is crucial to ammo replenishment when you’re out of the ammo that’s laying around. If you run out fuel in a fight you’re screwed until it recharges, leaving you open and very vulnerable to Demonic blitzing. SO NO CHAINSAW RAMPAGING, sorry. Especially on higher difficulties.

There are also a number of sections specifically designed to eat up ammo, health, armor and extra lives. Essentially punishing you if you’ve been exploring and stocking up on these things. A number of times I was forced to do high rise platforms while dodging enemy fire from far off, causing me to fall and lose health.

Lastly, the story is a washout and obviously meant to sequel bait. In Doom 2016 the story was in the background, everything told through Doomguy’s eyes. This game has full cut scenes with Doomguy in third-person, forcing you into story segments with characters and plot. These segments raise many questions and excite you with the hope of understanding how this all ties into the old Doom games, but it ends not answering many of the questions.

Things never explained: The Doom Fortress (in anyway), The Seraphim, Doomguy returning to Earth after Doom 2016 and several others I won’t say because it will spoil story elements.

There are a few other things I want to cover but they would also spoil the story. I say again “There are a few other things I want to cover but they would SPOIL THE STORY” IN YOUR DOOM GAME.