According to Matt Hooper, id Software’s design director, Doom 4‘s development is going great. In fact, id Software believes that Doom 4 will please fans of the storied franchise. While little is still known about the in-development game, id has said the game will be distinct from its other shooters.
This means that gamers should not expect Doom 4 to just be a re-skinned or slightly tweaked version of Rage. Seeing as how Rage itself has yet to hit store shelves it is hard to know whether that is a good or bad thing. But really, it is hard to fault a studio for wanting to bring more than one top-tier FPS to the market and to have each be unique and stand on its own two feet.
With so little known about Doom 4 at this point it is a little hard to know exactly what is meant by id saying Doom fans will like the game. Are there still a lot of Doom fans out there? Sure, there are people that loved Doom and Doom 2 back in the day but are there fans of the series out clamoring for a new sequel? Likely yes, but that is not the tough part. The tough part is figuring out exactly what those fans want and expect from a game like Doom 4.
Some early fan reaction and some early hands-on impressions of the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever might illustrate how gamers may still hold an old franchise fondly in their heart for nostaglia purposes but also how they don’t really want that kind of game again now. It might serve as an example of how games have progressed since those early FPS days. Then again, it might not.
Perhaps Duke Nukem Forever will launch to much critical and commercial success and Doom 4 will come out and blow long-time fans out of the water while bringing new gamers into the fold as well. Hopefully that is the case. There can never be too many good games.
What is your take? Do you think Doom 4 will deliver the goods? What would you like to see in Doom 4? Anything you think they should leave out of the game that was a focus in past installments? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Eurogamer
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Doom 3 was ok, something resembling the original games would be great though.
I’m a Doom fan, and wouldn’t want a simple remake or rehash of doom. Doom1 great, doom2, ok, doom3 pretty cool but I remember thinking other than having an alien pop out around every corner it was rather dull. The reason it’s dull is because what was amazing 18 years ago isn’t today. There was a day when all games were 2D and fairly dull. Not saying 3d is everything, but I remember the first day I played doom and I could run into a virtual world and blow these aliens up. I was so impressed and was so hooked that I would go to bed at 4 in the morning because I wanted to see the next level. And many people wondered how Id pulled this game off on the slow hardware of 1994 etc. It was just never seen before and amazing. It had this raw feeling that drew you in.
But once you play so many games after that and all the dooms, it’s now not so great. And if you want a death match, there are tons of games that do this. Id was also about always having the latest eye candy etc.
So what would it take to impress me? Certainly not another game where you are trapped inside a closed maze. It was amazing in 1994, but not today. Id made over 30 million and they are rich. What I want to see is the game developers create a much more open space. Kind of like Grand Theft Auto 4, but even better than that because that’s the way Id would have done it back in the day. The world would be much more complex with much more to do, along with more game interaction. Not just blowing apart stupid aliens!
This means them getting very organized so they don’t waste time, then spending a lot more money on development. If I play a game with a virtual world, I want to have things to do. In the original duke nukem forever there were lots of amusing things to do. In GTA series I could do tons of things. In Doom, I can simply find a weapon, go down a hallway and shoot some alien. THAT’S BORING! And it felt like all they spent their time on was art work for the aliens.
It’s been nearly 20 years, so I expect something more ground breaking from Id. I want something more elaborate that shows they are now cutting edge, new technology. Perhaps something unexpected and amazing in the game engine would help. Perhaps more of a story line etc. If it’s not any of these things, then it will just be another doom. And I will be like so what. Hopefully they do something great even though I figure they won’t. Game developers get lazy after they get rich. But if Id doesn’t, there are new games on the horizon that will be cool I can buy.