Exclusive: Doom 64 Devs Reveal the Port Will Include a Brand New Chapter

USG asked Nightdive Studios about what's new with Doom 64, and whether the Unmaker is a better weapon than the BFG9000.

[NintendoNewsNexus]

That's pretty sweet !!!

[AK91]

I wonder if this will tie in to the more recent DOOM games since DOOM 64 ended with the Doom Slayer locking himself in hell to continue fighting demons.

[CorndogBurglar]

Its already been all but confirmed that Doom 2016 picked up where Doom64 left off. Which also means that the Doom Slayer in Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal is the same Doom Guy from the original games.

I mean, Doom 2016 started out with you waking up in a stone coffin with demonic symbols all over it and they explain that they pulled it out of Hell. It seems a little too on the nose for him to not be the same guy. And I don't think its any coincidence that they are re-releasing Doom64 right around Doom Eternal's release. Especially since Eternal is supposed answer that question.

But again, the evidence is pretty obvious that he's the same guy.

[AK91]

That just leaves us the awkward question is how does Doom 3 fit into all this?

[CorndogBurglar]

Yeah. Some people claim Doom 3 is its own continuity, and I tend to agree with that, only because its so different than the other games and it doesn't really fit in after Doom64, or even before it.

The only thing about Doom 3 is that Quake Arena (I think is the name?) has the "Doom Marine" in it as a playable character. Doom Marine is what he was called in Doom 3. But his biography in that game ties him to the original games too.

But I see that as something that's out of continuity. Its not even in a Doom game.

To me, Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Doom64, Doom 2016, and Doom Eternal are all the same continuity. I threw Wolfenstein in there because its been heavily hinted at in multiple games that Doom Guy/Doom Slayer is a descendent of BJ Blazkowitz from the Wolfenstein games.