playing doom eternal...
can someone explain to me what in the SWEET NAME OF FRICK is happening in the story
wtf is happening
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playing doom eternal... can someone explain to me what in the SWEET NAME OF FRICK is happening in the story
RIP AND TEAR
XDDDD
UNTIL IT IS
DONE
XDD
who cares
just aim and shoot
>chainsaws for magic ammo
>shoots epic Arachnotron™ weakpoint after lining up shot for 5 seconds while dashing side to side because pro Quake™ skills
>moronic door opening cutscene plays
>"Mhmm....rip and tear.. looks like the Hell Priest™ is nearby.. I will rip and tear because I am the ancient Doom Slaya™
>"Come on, Vega™"
>follows Skyrim™ compass
>Picks up 10 epic fanfiction-tier lore dumps about how badass the Slaya™ is on the way
>Door locks behind the Slaya™ and demons appear
>cacophony of moronic monster noises while the fart synth kicks into action
>chainsaws for magic ammo
>"Rip and tear" >WUBWUBWUBBWAMBWAMDUUUUUNUUUUNUUHHHNHUHHH *Uses Flame Belch™ on a deliberately spawned group of Possessed™ and they become Staggered™, does a badass Heat Blast™ and Armor Shards™ fly into the Slaya™'s face*
>chainsaws for magic ammo
>switches weapons 75 times
>dashes aimlessly waiting for a Possessed™ to spawn
>chainsaws for magic ammo
>swings on monkey bars
>performs impse
>250 arena laps and 150 chainsaw uses later the Slaya™ is victorious
>Mhmm.. The Hell Priest™ is not here.. Better tell Samuel Hayden™ about this
>"Come on, Vega™"
>Walks two meters and Alien Queen™ appears in an epic cutscene
>"You will not defeat me, Slaya™, I am the Emperor of the Universe and you are nothing but a Usurper™, the Kar En Kuk™ Council of Elder Alien Space Sentinel Argent D' Nur™ has banished you from the alien kingdom and I will defeat you!"
>Cut to black and level ends before epic boss fight so player can process how epic this is and maybe make a Reddit™ post about it before carrying on
>DUNDUNDUNBWAMBWAMBWAM Mick Gordon farting BAM BAM BAM 50 ACTION POINTS 5 CRUCIBLE CREDIT SENTINEL SHIP ARGENT RECEIVED
i'm da slaya baby!
turtelli approved
Where did doomguy get this big frickin ship
The story is impossible to understand unless you read the codex entries (dumb decision, I know). Here's a summary:
>After Doom and Doom II, Doomguy spent his time killing demons all across the world/universe. A group of aliens found him and made him fight in a colosseum. After seeing how strong he was, the aliens accepted him as a fellow warrior (and that's how he became a Night Sentinel). He told these guys about the demons too. The Sentinels and their priests worshipped another group of aliens called the Maykrs (the ones that look like angels). The Maykrs then decided to use the demons as a way to harvest energy. They'd let the demons destroy planets so they could then collect the argent energy that resulted from said destruction. The priests and some Night Sentinels were influenced by the power of hell, and as a result they transformed into Hell Priests and Marauders respectively. The rest of the sentinel society (those who didn't agree with this, including the king) were betrayed by the Maykrs, and the demons attacked their planet too. Doomguy fought against them and one guy who was a "seraphim" (a type of Maykr) decided to help him. He put him inside a Maykr machine and gave him godly powers. Before he could actually defeat the priests though, he was betrayed by one of his Night Sentinel companions (the demons promised to revive his son in exchange of selling out the Doom Slayer). And like that, Doomguy was ambushed and sealed inside a sarcophagus. Said sarcophagus was then retrieved by Samuel Hayden at the start of Doom (2016). In Doom Eternal now the Maykrs and the priests are using the demons to harvest energy from all the murdered humans on earth and Doomguy must stop them. He is inside a Maykr spaceship from his past as a night sentinel (back when night sentinels and the Maykrs still worked together). The Vega backup he made at the end of Doom (2016) is also helping him.
That's it I think. I'm not sure if I got everything right.
Not a bad write up, assuming you actually typed all of that, but you stopped before the end of Eternal and its DLC, which is where the story really shits the bed
I did type all of that.
I don't remember much about the DLC except that:
>Hayden was the seraphim all along (terrible twist)
>VEGA was made with the essence of the Maykrs' lost god
>Satan looks like Doomguy for some reason
>he was the actual creator of god even though everyone says it's the other way around
Honestly, I think Doom Eternal's story just sucks compared to the previous game.
Doom (2016) was simpler and more interesting. A satanic cult wreaking havoc inside a company that was exploring hell's resources to solve the earth's global energy crisis. Doomguy waking up from his slumber to fight again, alongside a morally gray scientist.
Even though there's some dumb sentinel stuff by the end too, it was mostly a straightforward story that fit Doom. It was non-intrusive and also more immersive and even thought provoking than all of Eternal's capeshit mumbo jumbo (that you can't even understand unless you read the boring as hell text dumps)
Thanks for worrying about me anon. I appreciate your concern
holy cringe I feel sorry that you have that information stored in your brain with no way to remove it.
I remember thinking Doomguy was the Betrayer from the way it was written in 2016. That would've been so much cooler than the nonsensical fan service of him being the same guy from the original games, which implies the dude reality hopped seeing as the UAC have no records of him when they absolutely should, which only makes it all that much more dumb.
>Doomguy is actually a Night Sentinel, born and bred
>Betrays his duty to save his son's soul
>Instead, son is turned into Icon of Sin
>Doomguy's world and his people all die because of him
Frick Doom Eternal's mickey mouse lore. This is my headcanon. It gives his rage a hell of a lot more meaning than him hating demons just because.
The story is a worse mess then Diablo 3 was.
got most of it, but you still get to know other shit, while other shit gets retconned, while different shit you never get to know of.
As
said, it's better to just ignore the story.
The only thing I remember from the doom eternal campaign is when [/spoiler] your ai companion asks if he's God as you plug him into some computer and he dies or something which was pretty cool
Some of the most moronic bullshit in modern games, although FF16 looks to challenge for that title, but you don't need anyone to tell you that.
What might impact your experience is knowing that the story in Doom Eternal is not at all ironic or tongue-in-cheek at any point, and the DLC just further solidifies this.
Nu-id think this is all genuinely cool at face value. Doom's aesthetic was originally inspired by the likes of Aliens, Evil Dead 2, and the like. Take a guess what it is now. Pic related, the final boss.
Just ignore the story tbh, it's better that way. They basically made doomguy space jesus
If you just started the game and you're already confused, you're going to be COMPLETELY lost by the end. Also, do yourself a favor and skip the DLCs because they will probably melt your brain
so in doom 2016 you and fricked up a mars hell energy portal and there was a bunch of shitty scientists fricking with old shit they didn't understand
In doom eternal said old shit becomes a bunch of comic book comedy villains and there is 50 different factions of angels demons, ancient knights, robots, earth, and it's basically all for no fricking reason and also there's a spaceship for some reason because they wanted to sell comic books or something
>the story
Who the frick plays DOOM for the story lmao go play Halo you fricking gay
Here's the entire DOOM story:
Doomguy kills demons. The end.
I'm convinced this is the entire reason for the 2016/Eternal being such a convoluted mess - they wanted to troll the people who try to take the story seriously, as a throwback to Carmack never taking vidya stories seriously.
I wouldn't give any of the writers that much credit. I never knew anyone that talked about the story of doom or doom 2. I didn't even know there was a story until this thread.
Wanna bet?
The story in Eternal is so fricking bad, especially with the DLC. I think 2016 handled story well and I wish they'd kept that attitude.
i think a big fricking problem with what happened with eternal is they tried to escalate d44m across the board in strange ways. I'm not going to get into the 'controversy' over the ammo limits and weapon switching and weaknesses, both sides of the argument should be well understood at this point in time, and all of the overblown melodramatic talking points are known. But on the fricking story front lmao. d44m had kinda snippets here and there of side dressing in the same way as heavy metal album covers had some vague 'hardcore' imagery, but eternal basically went full blown fanfiction about gwar's on-stage personas and crossed the rubicon from cool to cringe
I think as far as gameplay eternal is nearly perfect, but everything else is grating. I absolutely sympathize with the ammo reduction, because in 2016 late game, all you need is the SSG and the Gauss Cannon
Eternal pisses me off because the lore was actually pretty interesting up until the moronic Black person-brain twist at the end of the 2nd dlc
I dislike it because in 2016, there was this sense that a lot of the lore about the slayer was ancient legends demons told each other, and it was ambiguous how much was true. Then in eternal it's all true and they double down on it
2016 was just an all around better game is every way. What tf were they THINKING turning it into bing bing wahoo trash
>can't even follow a basic "well we have to put something" tier story line
Lmfao talk about hopeless.
I just skipped all the cutscenes
Angels have a made a pact with demons for milennia to harvest energy for themselves to grant themselves immortality. The angels open portals to other worlds for the demons, the demons kill people and harvest souls, the angels harvest the demonic energy. Doomslayer was found ranting and raving about demons by this warrior tribe called sentinels, and it was he who first clued in the angels' leader "Khan Makhyr" to them in the first place.