The New DOOM Thread (2016)

[Haraldur]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

They didn't realized they actually were having fun playing original doom. Except for that girl who actually played the game. Probably because of her parents who weren't such pussies to hide good games from her.

 

[Alienman]

Looks like graphics don't matter. All the kids enjoy themselves.

Edit:

Oh okay, ending of the video...

 

[Riskbreaker]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to Death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men."

 

[ArchAngel]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

They let them play with a mouse, that is not how Doom1 was played :D

 

[sexbad?]

yes it is

 

[ArchAngel]

yes it is

maybe noobs like you, we all played it on keyboard only.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

They let them play with a mouse, that is not how Doom1 was played :D

yes it is

To be more precise, the mouse was usable but players at the time preferred not to use it in Doom, especially since it was a direct adaptation of the keyboard commands (mouse forward = move forward).

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

 

[tormund]

Edit:

Oh okay, ending of the video...

Well yeah, that video was meant as a a promo for the new game, so of course that is a "point" they were going for.
But even knowing that, it was pure cringe.

 

[Mustawd]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

Would date Asian chick....just stop saying "brah", and we're good.

EDIT: Never mind. She's a retard. Would only hit it and quit it.

 

[Astral Rag]

https://amp.twimg.com/v/b3b95066-45b4-49f3-94bc-fd8abbdcab31

 

[udm]

Brah she's not even hot by Asian standards.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Trailer starts off with super muscled Doomguy naked and in chains.

Clearly they were designing this with Sexbad in mind.

 

[sexbad?]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

Most of this video is actually kind of heartening. I was late to the party because I played very few computer games when I was younger, and I wasn't allowed anything with gore, but it isn't hard to find stories of people picking up something like the original Doom and just being astonished at every turn.

This looks like sort of the same phenomenon but from a retrospective point of view. Some of them seem fascinated at points that Gears of War does X, but this thing from 22 years prior did X, Y, and Z. Now it's only kind of heartening since it's an ad for a much less intricate game, but regardless it shows how introducing some child to a staple like Doom or maybe RollerCoaster Tycoon or Fallout can actually spark the child's imagination.

 

[Mustawd]

I was heartened until I saw their reaction to Nu Doom.

 

[Jaesun]

How do I aim up and kill those things?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

How do I aim up and kill those things?

To us grognards that grew up with Doom, this sounds retarded. But to someone who's never played the original Doom, this is the most basic thing to say. In fact, I knew it would come up somewhere in the video.

The fact that a 3D landscape is presented in a FPS, yet the game auto-aims for you on the vertical axis, is counter-intuitive. Back then it was due to a mix of technological limitations and game design decisions, but the possibility to aim along the vertical axis already existed before Doom was released, and became a standard of the genre less than a year later.

This is something that needs to be pointed out to new Classic Doom-players - but it's pretty much the only thing that needs to be.

 

[Makabb]

I think I found the target audience:



It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.

it's painfull to watch females play

 

[Mustawd]

But to someone who's never played the original Doom, this is the most basic thing to say. In fact, I knew it would come up somewhere in the video.

Back in the day it was called "figure it out by trial and error". What a concept.

 

[Astral Rag]

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-2...-an-eternity-what-are-you-most-excited-about/

 

[tormund]

So... how many of those 2016 Doomworld accounts are Codexian alts?

 

[CreamyBlood]

I don't know what the ultimatefighter@ thing is but it's obviously a paid ad even if the teenager one isn't cut to hell to be one too. How many times can you say, 'run and gun'? At least the kids were using their brains a some points and were able to articulate some of their feelings instead of mindlessly repeating the script that some PR shit gave them.

 

[sexbad?]

But to someone who's never played the original Doom, this is the most basic thing to say. In fact, I knew it would come up somewhere in the video.

Back in the day it was called "figure it out by trial and error". What a concept.

and um, thats exactly what they appear to do

 

[e-mailio estevez]

https://amp.twimg.com/v/b3b95066-45b4-49f3-94bc-fd8abbdcab31

It's really old-school, you know? Run-n-gunning. Kinda run-n-gun, kill a bunch of demons and shit. Kinda single-player. Kinda turn-based. Run-n-gunnin'.