Quickplay - DOOM (2016)
Pretentious Game Ideas
English - July 01, 2019 05:47 - 28 minutes - 44.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Arts Design boardgames gamedesign games gaming videogames Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jon and Rob discuss how the developers of 2016's Doom reboot pursued a philosophy of 'push-forward combat', utilizing smartly-design systems and AI to give the player a sense of agency and empowerment.
(We also referred to Doom 2016 as Doom 5, thinking that there had been a previous, underwhelming Doom 4. No such game was ever release -- we were probably thinking of Quake 4 instead. Our bad!)