Is this the most recent worst case of vidya marketing? It's an actual disaster that went by faster that the shitty Indiana Jones game

The "Stand and Fight" catchphrase and "you are a tank", convinced people the Dark Ages would be a complete abandonment of everything from Doom Eternal and that players would be going slow and fishing for parries in an HD version of classic Doom.

The game plays nothing like that most of the time but the trailers focused entirely on the trash dragon and mech sections and on boss fights consisting of parries.

The price and the slider shit was also a complete disaster. Imagine making a Doom game with max slider and on Nightmare way too easy.

What the fuck was Hugo smoking?

>>713421814 (OP)
It’s all because faggots and posers only care for Mick Gordon’s music. Dark Ages plays much better than Eternal and 16.

>>713421868
Think how short the Shart Ages would have been without all the filler.

>>713421814 (OP)
>make a game designed around using deliberate melee attacks alongside bashing, shooting and reverting attack
>but also let players fuck with sliders to the point that they can just max ammo count and parry frames and ignore most mechanics
>players fail to see any coherent design vision and archive the whole thing as a shallow barebones fps with 2010s staples
Almost like their attempt at casualization and make-your-own-fun design bit them in the asses

It's $80 ain't nobody gonna pay $80 for Doom

>>713421814 (OP)
It's up there. The actual game is fun though, much, much better than Eternal.

The purpose of marketing is to let people know about the product, no?

I've learned about the product and decided not to buy it

>parry shit
>mandatory goy tracing
I'm not a fan of the nu-doom games but they really fucked up this time around.

>>713421814 (OP)
Ahhh, yes. The first Doom game in existence that I'm actively never going bother finish playing.

It's THAT bad.

>>713421868
This kind of shit kills replay value of the game.
>hey ya know I think I'll do another run of dark ages... oh wait I have to trudge through those garbage turret, mech & dragon sections again

>>713422659
If you are a shitter maybe.

>>713422401
I doubt that was their choice, they have to follow microsoft's new esg rules.

>>713422629
But they did. Most of the people who played were the ones who paid for 2-days early access. It's when it was available for everyone where the number of people barely increased. First day of release over 30k. Weekend comes and goes and it only increase like maybe another 1.2k. That's why everyone was wondering what happened with how little it got when the weekend should be seeing a huge boost of players. Then they did the 3 million players announcement and then we got the graph where most of it's players were on gamepass. Sure, there are a lot of people on gamepass but we've seen games before and after still have a huge presence on steam even if they were also on gamepass if they were popular enough. It's just weird when Doom wasn't one of those.

Top expensive for my Canadian ass. Waiting for 50% off the complete edition.

>>713423386
Retard. 3 million players came from gamepass. almost no one bought pc and ps5 versions

>>713423386
The game looked horrible and I guess most people, like me, didn't care for it.
80 bucks is already steep and people especially don't want to normalize such price spike, and also the mech and dragon stuff and worse slider-shit gameplay sealed the deal.

2.2M on gamepass is absymal considering the gamepass base. The game did really poorly

Mick won. Mary lost.

>>713421814 (OP)
>marketing
I don't think that was the problem. It's more like dark ages continued the trend of eternal of pushing no boundaries. Usually ID games were always something that defined gfx for at least the next half decade. Dark ages won't. Combine that with kinda lackluster arena spawn in gameplay, all weapons and attacks feeling weirdly weightless for the "tankslayer" and a lot of green goo fps guitar hero segments and you have a game that's only just okay horribly bombing to people expecting something exceptional.

what happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKibRmWM2c8
https://youtu.be/x5Rbq3fYSJ8?si=2LRG_AB14l0gyWrw

why didn't you guys like eternal anyway? I thought it was good

>>713424336
/v/ got btfo by Marauders and ragequit

>>713424336
Some shitters don't get how to quick swap super shotty to ballista so they got BTFO back to hell by the fursona user with a shield.

>>713424336
The game is terribly designed, damage and ammo is tuned way too hard around enemy weaknesses so the game wants you to constantly switch weapons. It's also a slog and people meme about party's in Dark Ages but you can beat every enemy while ignoring parries entirely and just shooting them, shit like Maurader can ONLY be hurt by a parry. It's all the same problem, Eternal is a game that wants you to play its way or the highway.

>>713424140
Man... Andrew music kicks ass
It's so good

>>713425040

>>713425040
>every enemy while ignoring parries
Extremely bad idea on higher difficulties. All of the super heavy class enemies would just fuck you up

>>713421814 (OP)
lol

>>713426131
holy shit

nuDoom is gay

>>713426131
Trainwreck

>>713422695
Sucks to be poor I guess

Why not make the slider as an unlockable after beating the game at a certain difficulty?

>>713425040
I'm sorry you're shit at arena shooters

>>713422401
>but also let players fuck with sliders to the point that they can just max ammo count and parry frames and ignore most mechanics
I hate the stupid meme sliders, they make absolutely no sense. If you are too shit at the game to play on high difficulty levels, just drop down to normal or easy. If you just want to have casual fun there's no shame playing on easy, who is going to judge you anyway? Normally you can brag about beating the game on highest difficulty but what are you going to brag about now
>I beat it on {SUPER DUPER NIGHTMARE}
>but I turned my HP x10, enemy damage to 1/10 and turned on infinite ammo
Back in the day we had trainers for cheats instead of all this custom difficulty cope.

>>713425040
>people complain when games are button mashers
>people complain when games aren't button mashers
Gamers are just poorly disguised schizos.