DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies

My teenage nephew, fresh off of regurgitating talking points about how $80 Nintendo games were total ripoffs, happily bought Doom on launch for $70 (with whose money I do not know), beat it in less than a week, and then raved about it in a phone call for over an hour, eager to experience any upcoming DLC.

So, uh, that's the audience, I guess?

Can't even play the game.

I can spend as much time in the menu and settings as I want, watch the first cutscene just fine... but as soon as I enter the game it freezes within 1 minute every time.

Literally unplayable.

I've tried tweaks I found online, tried new drivers (the version mentioned in the launcher) and the previous driver version recommended on the official website and no changes.

Womp womp.

Installed Doom 2016 and enjoying it again.

Played and it was parry hell. And by that I mean just keep parrying super easy but like so often. If this was reskined as captain America game it would make plenty of sense but as a doom game meh. They took out what made the game fun. We literally just turned off the music it was so not engaging. Plus hardly any rip and tearing. Felt like someone's grandma edited the game to be less cool.

Had a lot of fun with Doom 2016, and I fucking loved Eternal. However, it wouldn't feel right to support id Software with the way they treated Mick Gordon, especially with all the work he put into the soundtracks for both of the games. Plus the dragon and mech parts looked really weird in Dark Ages. I have a friend who did play the game and he wasn't too impressed, and he said that the dragon and mech parts were basically really boring on-rails sections. I don't feel like I'm missing anything not playing it

Good. Fuck Microsoft.

I bought it for the Xbox X. Runs amazing but I get why people would skip. DRM and forced raytracing is pretty sucky. I’ve already beaten it and am on my second play through. I’ve been a Doom addict since childhood when I played Knee-deep in the Dead.

I have an Xbox s and x. If I had paid full price and only had an s, I would have rioted. It looks like Vaseline got smeared all over my tv screen to get it to run on that thing. The framerate is good, but it has to down res so much it looks awful and actually detracts from the experience.

Tbh, the x runs awesome and looks great, but you do need a decent system to run it.

I streamed it on Game Pass for about 30 min and was bored and quit after the first level. I'm not really the target audience, but I still expected more.

Game runs like shit so I'm not buying it.

Glad I bought doom 64 instead, night dive studios is the best. I never imagined how much gameplay value I would get out of it. I am checking steamcharts for dark ages and the death spiral has already begun. I don't know why it makes me happy.