DOOM 4 SKIP INTRO SOFTWARE

While DOOM went for something more akin to Half-Life (the plot is 'player directed' and keeps you in first-person the whole time), Eternal's switch to third-person cutscenes brings with it the best improvement over its predecessor: skippable cutscenes.

DOOM 4 SKIP INTRO SOFTWARE

By god, id Software nailed this aspect out of the park. If there was anything one component that DOOM Eternal could improve, this was it. RELATED: Doom Eternal: Every Weapon, Ranked You were forced to engage with a story that DOOM had thoroughly set up as unimportant. There was nothing you could do to skip that, either. As if cobbled together from different sources, the game would periodically grind to a halt to allow antagonists Samuel Hayden and Olivia Pierce a soapbox to sound off on.

What people leave out of that discussion is how for all of its brevity, there were some incredibly out of place moments where DOOM forced you to listen to exposition. 'Less talk, more killing' was the motto to live by. A disembodied voice would be talking to you and explaining all kinds of plot details, but then the Slayer would throw his fist into a monitor and derail that conversation. Throughout the campaign mode, the Doom Slayer simply had no time for anyone's nonsense. Out of all the achievements the game can claim, the one people seemed to enjoy the most was how brief the cutscenes were. id Software did the unthinkable and made an excellent game out of an incredibly simple plot. After a string of bizarre PR decisions, the game released and quickly became one of the most talked-about titles in recent memory.

For many, DOOM 2016 was an excellent return to form for a long-dormant series.

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