So, I just beat the new Doom.
All I can say is the singleplayer is probably the greatest attempt at Doom worldbuilding we will ever get. I am half convinced they came up with it in a drug induced party when one guy just raised his head off his pile of white powder and whispered, “Dude, it is all canon…” Just gonna give short samples of what happened and what has been established:
-Story begins when Doom Guy wakes up, chained naked to a stone slab, only to discover that the UAC has once again fucked around with Hell and unleashed demons on Mars. That and the UAC Director’s only thing to say is “I’m sorry”. Yeah, I’d be pissed too.
-Doom Guy was put to sleep by the demons, after rampaging for over hundreds of years in Hell, in what can only be described as “Looney Toons tier shenanigans”
-Everything Doom related that has been and ever will be is now canon. That means Chex Quest is canon. Terry .wads are canon. /pol/wad is canon. It is canon that Doom Guy went on a sexy adventure full of she-imps hungry for his BFD-9000 (hDoom btw). Just trust me, they manage to make it work.
-Demons have whole scriptures and runes etched with stories of the “Doom Slayer” and his rampage through Hell before they could even manage to seal him and put him to sleep. Like we are talking absolute bloodbath that made every Demon tremble. When this game happens, you are the ancient evil in that whole “An Ancient Evil has awoken” trope.
-Best part of all of this: They don’t take this story seriously at all and don’t expect the player to ever pay attention to it. They crammed the game full of a fuck ton of lore and world building that means nothing except to players who may be curious as to why mankind decided to slap mechanical shit on a Mancubus. Like the world has a slight serious tone, but Doom Guy just wants to rip and tear so he can finally rest in peace and doesn’t give a fuck about who did what or why.
Also, this is fucking adorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5tvOZPUZc
That is the greatest thing I’ve ever read.
It’s like they just gave up trying to make it dark and serious like Doom 3 was trying to for and just went back tot he source for 90s era insanity.
not really a case of “it’s like”
they quite literally have said that’s the case, multiple times.
Doom, at it’s core, is about killing hordes of demons. you don’t want to be forced to pay attention to a story if you aren’t interested, you just want to kill stuff.
I personally paid attention to the story, but that stuff interests me, and am on my second playthrough right now to collect all the secrets. (having all the weapons in the start, = fun times)