Last year I really enjoyed playing DOOM Eternal despite it’s numerous annoyances. Yes, it was as likely to be enjoyable as it was to be stressful, if not more the latter. Yes Marauders were terribly designed enemies. Yes, the story was weird and couldn’t really be enjoyed seriously or ironically. And yes, despite the really cool huge levels and awesome platforming abilities, the exploration was always limited via invisible walls and death planes. But despite all of that, it was really really fun, inventive and had an awesome soundtrack by Mick Gordon.
A year later a few things have been tweaked, numerous “live service” crap elements are still being fed into the game, Mick Gordon cut all ties with the publisher and the game leading to a disappointing official soundtrack release, and he is, of course, also absent from The Ancient Gods DLCs, the two-parter DLC/expansion that finishes the Doom Slayer story started in 2016. And it’s not enjoyable.
