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DOOM: The Dark Ages Review - For DOOM the Bell Tolls - MonsterVine

MonsterVine: "The Slayer trades speed for strength in DOOM: The Dark Ages, a heavy metal epic packed with brutal combat and bold new ideas."

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Toecutter001d 14h ago

I've played this game. It's absolute trash. So boring. Feels like it was made by AI. Would never know it was a Doom game if it wasn't on the box art. Generic, watered down garbage

Yui_Suzumiya1d 3h ago (Edited 1d 3h ago )

And here I just bought a Steam Deck OLED for $600 so I could play it 😆 .. the first "modern" game I've bought since The Last of Us: Part II in 2020.

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The Pros and Cons of Doom: The Dark Ages' Glory Kill Changes

Doom: The Dark Ages makes a variety of changes to the franchise, with one of the most notable being its approach to Glory Kills.

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LordoftheCritics16h ago

Combat feels faster than Eternal at times

DefenderOfDoom25h ago

From the reviews I watched so for , they said Doom the Dark Ages is slower than Eternal but Doom Dark Ages is still a lot faster then most of FPS games today.

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Doom: The Dark Ages Launches to a Peak of 30k Concurrent Users

Doom: The Dark Ages has hit a peak of just under 31,000 concurrent players at launch, a figure much lower than both Doom and Doom: Eternal.

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Armaggedon1d 3h ago

I guess that means the game is trash?

PRIMORDUS1d 2h ago

No it's good but for $70 and Denuvo DRM on PC hard pass.

pwnmaster30001d ago

Don’t matter, if it’s not hitting 100k+ it’s considered trash and a failure.
That’s the new standard apparently

Levii_9212h ago

The game is awesome and EPIC, way more epic than the previous ones. The soundtrack is a heavy metal banger as well but yeah its clear why it’s struggling and i hope it’s going to be a lesson for Bethesda and for others greedy companies.

Be like more like Sandfall Interactive and Expedition 33 and your game will sell.

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Becuzisaid1d 3h ago

This game just didn't excite me like the last 2. I'm passing on it this time.

JEECE1d ago

Spin off vibe without the spin off price.

LucasRuinedChildhood1d 2h ago

Could be affected by:
- A percentage of people will play this on GamePass which the last 2 games did not launch on.
- A percentage of players bought the Deluxe Edition which included early access, reducing the peak as players will start playing it on different days.

PRIMORDUS1d 1h ago

Price most likely the issue, and while most don't know or care about Denuvo on PC, if you lower the price I'm sure it will sell more on all platforms.

VersusDMC1d ago

Well Clair obscure had the same situation(gamepass) and had a concurrent high of 150k and currently at 50k.

LucasRuinedChildhood21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

Sure, but those numbers are higher than previous Doom games' peak on Steam as well.
- Doom 2016 (44,269)
- Doom: Eternal (104,891)

It seems like the peak would at least as high as Doom 2016.

Bit confused on one thing. That graph only starts from May 15. They don't seem to have been able to capture data for the early access players who started playing days before that.

LucasRuinedChildhood21h ago

So basically, I'm talking about relative to the peak numbers of the prior games.

I'm not saying that a game that released on GamePass cannot have high numbers on Steam. But the effect isn't 0%. And Early Access also affects the peak.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 1 PC Gameplay

Skewed and Reviewed have posted video from the first chapter of the new game that was captured via a PC.