It's a Shame That The New DOOM Won't Look as Nice As The E3 Gameplay Trailer

FreakOrama writes: "DOOM was announced some time ago, a teaser came out a little bit later and now we got the full blast with a new gameplay trailer, gameplay videos showcasing different levels, guns, fun executions and bosses alongside multiplayer game modes and content creation tools.

The push they’re giving the game is an awesome one. A lot of content, mod tools, gore, guns and a crazy world, plus it looks great too in terms of visuals, but it’s a shame that it won’t look at good, or even play as fun as what we’ve seen in those trailer and videos."

[BigBosss]

Game looks great what you on about, plus it comes out 2016

[Nitrowolf2]

an article like this is actually kind of good in my opinion people should lower their expectations and if the game comes out and it surpasses them great. I mean it was all pre recorded and I don't really expect the final bill to have that many particles even in the PC version, there has been several titles this gen alone that have already proved that you shouldn't expect what you see at first.

[DarkOcelet]

All i want from this Doom is

60FPS
Too Much Blood 5/10 ign
And sick ways to kill those creatures.

[DivoJones]

Those textures look a little too smooth/shiny and there's no UI, so it definitely seems to be a pre-rendered video in this post. The videos I saw yesterday seems to have low frame-rate as well. In order to get to 60fps, especially if that's a target for consoles as well, there's going to be some downgrades. Sounds like a PC platform buy if it's supporting mods and if you want superior graphics.

[Gazondaily]

The game actually looks exactly liek the trailer. Just throw in some different locales and different lighting and the author automatically thinks insta-downgrade??

[Ghoul]

agreed.

plus i think it looks badass (mainly the style)
but nothing i mean really nothing got me worried not beeing achieveable today (or spring16)

troll article

[donwel]

Because the trailers they show off at E3 very often do not represent the build quality of the final product.
Look at Watch Dogs for example, I believe The Order: 1886 also took a kick square in the graphics.
It's just a case of people are sick of being lied to for the sake of creating hype.
No doubt the game will be fun and look nice, but it's very unlikely that it will look as good as the E3 trailers.

[kraenk12]

@donwel The Order looked even better than the early trailers.

[ChronoJoe]

"but it’s a shame that it won’t look at good, or even play as fun as what we’ve seen in those trailer and videos."

The article itself seems like nonsense to me. Especially where he says the game won't look as great or 'play as fun'.

Not only is the latter remark a grammatical mishap, I think it's impossible to infer how enjoyable the game will be to play at this stage. Heck, it's not even clear how enjoyable the demo was to play. Personally, I got the impression that 'this will be more fun if I was playing it' while I was watching the show, especially because the demo made a lot of decisions I wouldn't have made. The freedom to use the weapons I prefer more frequently would inherently make the game more enjoyable to play, than it was to view.

Additionally, the author cites examples of games that featured graphical downgrades. People always cite Killzone 2 (this author just say's 'Killzone') and it's embarassing, because Killzone 2 actually made a considerable graphical boost from its initial E3 unveiling. Bioshock looked identical to its initial gameplay unveiling, unless they're counting the initial CGI teaser, which I think is really clutching at straws, as anyone viewing a clearly CGI presentation should be aware the released title won't quite live up to the graphical presentation of pre-rendered CGI.

Meanwhile, the only other games on his list that genuinely turned out to be somewhat unenjoyable were Watchdogs and Aliens Colonial Marines. However, Colonial Marines was not unenjoyable because of undelivered graphical fidelity, but rather fundamentally bad design and broken game mechanics. Meanwhile, the Witcher 3 is cited, but I don't believe many were disappointed with that title. While there are some graphical differences between the first unveiling and the actual game, especially on consoles, I think it more than lived up to expectations.

While it's always good to have realistic expectations. It's also a good idea to be informed about the content you're writing about, and present a strong argument when presenting your opinion. This article does neither of those well. Although it's possible Doom may not look quite as good as it did in the showcase, we have nothing to suggest that may be the case right now, and the game did not present unbelievable graphical fidelity, so we have reason to believe it may look just as good as presented. Additionally the suggestion that the game 'won't play as fun' is baseless speculation.

[T2X]

I completely agree. Actually, I'll be willing to bet it will look pretty much like the demo. Why wouldn't it. Has the author of this looked at some games which are out now? BTW, the Witcher looks beautiful. Also, their games nad not meant to be life altering experiences. LOL!

[christian hour]

He cites watchdogs and colonial marines as examples in his text. *facepalm* Totally different situations and company ideologies altogether.

This is ID we're talking about here. Doom isn't actually all that technically impressive if you pay close attention to the models and textures and rendering techniques, it won't take that much of a hit in terms of graphical fidelity come launch.

I understand where this guy is coming from, but this clearly isn't one of those cases.

He could write this exact same article for every game to come out ever. Baiting for hits.

[joab777]

It will look this good on PC, and close on consoles. We know the drill. It's fine though. Looks like a ton of fun.

But will I love it as much as I did when I was younger. I'm not sure.

[TimeSkipLuffy]

hmmm... games are more than just graphics... just like people are more than just looks.

[Perjoss]

Exactly. Have a look at this:

http://store.steampowered.c...

Overwhelmingly positive reviews from users from almost 530 different people. And it has ascii graphics.

[iTechHeads]

DOOM looked incredible dude. Stop with the downgrade whining.

[Blues Cowboy]

Oh come on, this "article" is barely longer than the text description.

[curtis92]

the gameplay is what excites me. The graphics look fantastic and as long as they're in that ballpark I'll be good.

[Tedakin]

I wish they'd put some death metal music in. Remake the classic doom themes.

[GusBricker]

It definitely looked like old school Doom, don't know if that's a good or bad thing by today's standards, though.

[Two-Face]

No it does not... slow-paced and level design reminds me of Doom 3.

[MWH]

I agree. there's more Quack3 and Doom3 reminders than there's original Doom. the game may still end up being good but if what we see is what we get then it isn't the Doom it once was.

we want the eerie satanic atmosphere, the sense of dread, secrets, good AI that challenges you and not only mindless shooting. these monsters where effectively intimidating back then we're not supposed to simply mow them down like grass.

I want to hear the laughter of the Arch-vile, the scream of the Revenant, the war cry of the Baron of Hell, the shaking ground under the Cyber Demon and run like hell for cover and think twice before I face these deadly abominations.

[Adexus]

I understand the skepticism because of the downgrades this gen, and while it did look very good it's not something that looks completely unreachable graphically, it (iD Tech 6) looks like a natural progression of iD Tech 5 which it should do really, not a ton better, but better nonetheless.

I think this is one of the games that will look very close, if not identical to what's shown here, I did notice FPS drops but I'll assume that will be ironed out before release.

[christian hour]

"the downgrades this gen"

Show me one game, out of any generation, that didn't take some hit graphically or otherwise (bar the 2d era of course).

People making big deals out of ports and downgrades like their some new arrival exclusive to this generation.

Stop making mountains out of mole hills people.

[Adexus]

Most games last generation didn't have a downgrade at all from what they looked like in the trailers, in fact most of them looked much better, there's far too many for me to name though!

[TheRaven476]

I'm usually at the forefront of the "It will never look this good" protest, but I actually think Doom can achieve this level of detail (On PC at least) for a few reasons.

1.) It's not open world......... the downgrade controversies generally come from the open world type games. The great overachievers in graphics come from more linear closed in spaces which this game is doing.

2.) honestly it looks like a reasonable step up from Doom 3 which was over a decade old....... If you showed me Doom 3 and Doom 4 side by side, and told me this was a decade of improvement, I'd believe it.

Of course, this will be on top end PCs running the next wave of video cards Nividia and AMD put out...... I agree consoles won't see that.

[Hold_It]

It will if you have a decent enough pc. It's very unlikely it will look this good on consoles and be able to maintain 60fps 1080p. If anything it will end up looking like Wolfenstien The New Order on consoles, which still looked pretty good, especially the moon level. Then again everyone thought RAGE was going to look like s**t, and it was one of the best looking and running console games we had in the ps3/360 gen.

[Baka-akaB]

I disagree , it looks good , the proper amount of quality graphics , but nothing that screams "omg it's impossible" .

Did people really forget Rage ? The game had tons of issues , but graphics , not really

[aerisbueller]

stupid article.

also, it looks cool as hell, but doesn't look anywhere near close to impossible. That looks like it could easily run on a high end pc.

[ox_ADRlAN_xo]

Stupid article because the author isn't confident about it not being downgraded and isn't on the hype train like you seem to be? Fanboys I swear.. At least they have you convinced to spend your money after 1 trailer

[aerisbueller]

stupid article because it has zero substance.

All he says is basically 'This game won't look like the trailer because I said so', only supported by a little bit of whining about how he's been disappointed by trailers in the past.

[darkoops]

Obv they showed the jaggieless pc version.ps4 will have they jaggies etc and xboned will be.....lol.this will be a buy half price wait and buy

[Jedislayer]

I have learned, not to give into hype.

[neoandrew]

Wither 3 is not downgraded but you need a powerful system + sfx + config mod

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[1nsomniac]

I'm not quite sure what point he is trying to make. The game looks OK with it's IDTech engine that we know can produce these graphics. Realistically the level geometry is some of the most basic we've seen in gaming for about a decade. I see absolutely no reason why it couldn't achieve those graphics on both consoles at 60FPS nevermind PC. To be fair I think that's the direction it's been designed in from the very beginning. It's not really going for fancy graphics but fast arcade gameplay of the old days.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Well since they are really pushing for 1080p 60fps on X1/PS4, I think it look very good if they can achieve those settings!

[ninjahunter]

I think id could do it.
They are very good at optimizing games. Heck RAGE looked pretty good and im pretty sure it could run on a mid range toaster set to extra crispy.

[noxeven]

I watched the trailer while graphic were could I really feeling the game. Maybe once more info comes out but atm is a no buy for me

[BongSmack]

Pointless article.

[Tzuno]

No way the final build is gonna look that good, these graphics are for E3 hype, look at other publishers who downgraded games aka Ubisoft with watch dogs and CDPR with Witcher 3, i doubt it will gonna look that good in the end.