WTMG's Leo Faria: "If it wasn’t for the excessive emphasis on a story I simply couldn’t care about, Doom: The Dark Ages would have easily, without a shadow of a Cacodemon-shredding doubt, been my favorite title in the modern Doom games. It perfected combat and exploration in ways I never thought would ever be able. By ditching platforming puzzles in favor of just letting you rip like a madman onto dozens of demons at a time, iD Software managed to create something truly spectacular. I won’t even say there’s no way they can follow up and improve upon this masterpiece, as I’ve been proven wrong already. Twice, in fact. I’ll just be enjoying myself up until that day arrives, as I won’t stop playing this wholesome demon murder simulator in the foreseeable future."
Doom: The Dark Ages makes a variety of changes to the franchise, with one of the most notable being its approach to Glory Kills.
From the reviews I watched so for , they said Doom the Dark Ages is slower than Eternal but Doom Dark Ages is still a lot faster then most of FPS games today.
Doom: The Dark Ages has hit a peak of just under 31,000 concurrent players at launch, a figure much lower than both Doom and Doom: Eternal.
Don’t matter, if it’s not hitting 100k+ it’s considered trash and a failure.
That’s the new standard apparently
The game is awesome and EPIC, way more epic than the previous ones. The soundtrack is a heavy metal banger as well but yeah its clear why it’s struggling and i hope it’s going to be a lesson for Bethesda and for others greedy companies.
Be like more like Sandfall Interactive and Expedition 33 and your game will sell.
Replies(1)
Could be affected by:
- A percentage of people will play this on GamePass which the last 2 games did not launch on.
- A percentage of players bought the Deluxe Edition which included early access, reducing the peak as players will start playing it on different days.
Price most likely the issue, and while most don't know or care about Denuvo on PC, if you lower the price I'm sure it will sell more on all platforms.
Well Clair obscure had the same situation(gamepass) and had a concurrent high of 150k and currently at 50k.
Sure, but those numbers are higher than previous Doom games' peak on Steam as well.
- Doom 2016 (44,269)
- Doom: Eternal (104,891)
It seems like the peak would at least as high as Doom 2016.
Bit confused on one thing. That graph only starts from May 15. They don't seem to have been able to capture data for the early access players who started playing days before that.
So basically, I'm talking about relative to the peak numbers of the prior games.
I'm not saying that a game that released on GamePass cannot have high numbers on Steam. But the effect isn't 0%. And Early Access also affects the peak.
Skewed and Reviewed have posted video from the first chapter of the new game that was captured via a PC.
This compared to Eternal or 2016 doesn't hold up. I'm really having a hard time understanding any score above an 8.