Same. Then the game starts having people talk in your ear and it’s cute for a bit for them to go ‘Hey Doomn, got turn off that stupid scifi space bullshit,’ and then he would break it and they’d go, ‘Ugh, stop breaking things!’ and then by the end they’re just doing normal video game ear talking and I was 
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I posted about the boring joke on Twitter and now I’m getting people all I’M GOING TO BUY TEN COPIES JUST FOR THAT JOKE!! in my mentions now lol
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I didn’t think the exposition was all that bad really, but where a certain amount gave some decent sci-if grounding they eventually tethered too much conventional (now) noise.
Stripped down some of the logs files or whatever gave some pretty amusing insights, not quite the same thing but reminding me of good Metroid Prime stuffs
I really liked the exposition in the first game, weirdly? Like, I was a pretty big fan of the log files and encyclopedia entries too. I really dig the idea of a corporation recklessly exploiting energy from literal Hell, and inspiring a cult-like dedication to the company itself. It’s a decent parody of the sorts of Tech Savior garbage we see in real life, and there’s all sorts of COOL BLOOD.
I honest-to-god want to know if Samuel Roboto thinks he’s a savior or is just trying to summon hell for no dang reason.
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Also not like he needs more reason but giving the guy a little rationale in the second half then screwed over might work well for the upcoming outburst
I am so 1000% into this criticism, you guys feel me
The Avatar of Rage, so obviously pissed at the so obvious Tech Savior Hell-Exploiting Asshole opening hell portals and ruining human life AGAIN in the pursuit of easy energy and cash money AGAIN, I’ve heard this shit a hundred times, fuck you where’s my shotgun I’ll kill them AND you…
And then halfway through the game you’re like, yes daddy, implant the leash in me.
I just want to make clear that this is deep cut cribbed from a line from the awful Dafydd ab Hugh’s wonderful Doom novelizations, which I would recommend to literally anyone geek-adjacent
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I, on the other hand, would NOT recommend those novels. Maybe if they were half the length.
The Corps, the Corps, all glory to the Corps!
I listened to IDEOTV episode about that book!
I read the summary of the episode and they’re citing the painstaking detailed descriptions of every single Doom map as a negative for some reason
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What’s bad about it is the extremely avoidable detail that they give Doomguy his weapons back in the same room that the cyborg is in, and then do that thing where your gun auto-lowers if you aim at an NPC. That’s the only time the game implies they’re actually collaborating, as opposed to Doomguy simply killing everything in sight (and only demons happening to be in sight).
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he mentions he gave you a software update to install the tether, i always assumed that also fucks up your ability to shoot him
also you can shoot him with the super shotgun and he says “save your ammunition” sooooo
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Replaying Doom 2k16 again, this time on Nightmare, and having a really good time with it so far. Just got to the first Hell level.
I, uh, how do I put this? Somehow I’ve gone this far playing the game this whole time the past two years without realizing that I can play the classic stages from the main menu. I thought it was just the rooms you found in the regular levels but actually those unlock the entire stage in the main menu. The game even tells you this! Repeatedly!
I am apparently as brain dead as an Unwilling.
Realized exactly the same thing on my second playthrough actually
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Played this for the first time today due to it being on Xbox Game Pass now. It’s neat!
Also hi, I’m the one the “rip and tear” memes and goofy continuity jokes are for. It me, the fun liker.
Also I love how they abandoned the idea that the doom marine is Just Some Guy, and made him into some kind of ubiquitous cosmic force of nature. He’s like the langoliers but for demons instead of time. I like that. Beats him being Lt. Corporal Davefromaccounting
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I read the "earth is the melting pot of the universe and “call them mortally challenged” jokes
as
pretty lame puny dad jokes. earth os the melting pot of the universe, because earth is now a firey lava hell world.
but more of a joke about how massive corporatioms will co opt the language of social movements to push their own version evil discretely. there were a ton of jokes like this in the last doom game that came out.
the other thing ove noticed is that even though our reaction to the jokes being relatively mildly critical is basically shared by left people everywhere, neckbeard gamernerds are falling for believing we’re all shitting our pants over it, there are dozens of articles and yt videos about “the new DooM is ANTI SJW!!” which os untrue
and even more hilariously probably an example of a massive corporation using language to get free press for their product
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