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Starting point is 00:00:41 So Ryan initial impressions of doom so far? Bro, I am ready to rip and tear. I have needed this game for a long time, brother. This is, I'm pretty stoked. Yeah. It definitely feels like pure violence, man. I mean, I'm a kid in an arcade again, just blowing up bodies. Like it is, it is spin a blast.

Starting point is 00:01:10 That's a really good comparison. That's what this felt like is like an arcade game to me. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. You're in there. The music is fantastic. I want to run through a wall, which you can do, uh, which is amazing.

Starting point is 00:01:22 You just go through, it all syncs up together. It's utter chaos, utter destruction. Initial impressions are a crisp, clean combat with lots of energy and just crazy, crazy everything. Yeah, the game is extremely kinetic for sure. I gotta say, it's such a hard pivot for me going from something that is so narratively driven like Expedition 33 Yeah, hit this where it's like Okay, so you're like, uh, you're the Doom Slayer and just go kill stuff and I'm like, whoa, what's where's the story? No, don't worry about the story. Just go kill stuff. Yeah, you see it go kill. Yeah. Oh, yeah, by the way right away

Starting point is 00:01:59 There's like a hundred ways you can kill things Yeah, and then you just keep upgrading to more weapons and more ways to kill things Imagine if they had the Slayer against the painters, bro. Oh my gosh That's pretty funny, yeah, it would have been like laughed it off. What do you think about how far into the game? Are you so far? I'm through a couple chapters so far from a few hours in I'd like to take my time I did test out nightmare. It is a nightmare. So be ready for that buckle up if you want to get crazy Okay. Yeah, I'm on the basic difficulty right now Um what I got to tell you the only thing that I'm a little

Starting point is 00:02:39 It was a little unexpected if some of the character design feels kind of uninspired to me, man. Like the NPC good guys seem like generic vikings, sort of like space vikings. And then like the prince, whatever the evil, what looks like the antagonist is the prince, like devil guy just looks kind of basic to me, do you have any thoughts on that I can see that a little bit um I mean a pin my opinion though I'm the slayer so I don't care about any of them and I'm just like who are these scrubs like I'm just here to rip and tear so I didn't mind it too much but I do see what you're saying especially about the the Viking looking guys they just kind of look like generic soldier dudes, it looks like there was a

Starting point is 00:03:27 audible commercial or something recently where like they were like doing something where it's like vaguely supposed to look like a dune movie or something You're like, oh, there's like generic space guys. Like that's what that looked like to me. But aside from that Man, I don't know that I've played a game that made you feel so absolutely powerful and unstoppable like this. It is, you're like a juggernaut, bro. Absolutely. I love the weight they gave the character and as a Slayer, you feel strong without your enemies feeling weak. So it's not like these are just a bunch of marshmallows that you're smashing through. These are strong characters. You're just that much more powerful, which I loved.

Starting point is 00:04:10 That's a really good way to put it. I, it's been like, I didn't play a Doom Eternal. And so my, just based on the character design and stuff, my mental frame of reference was something like Halo. And I go, okay, so I'm going into this like Halo thinking that you're strong, you're obviously like the strong, willful protagonist, but you're like not gonna be a bullet sponge, man, you can't just go out there

Starting point is 00:04:34 and soak everything up. And so you're gonna need to like hide behind cover and be tactical. This game does a really good job of, like you said, making you feel like an absolute juggernaut, but with a tactical and that is completely different than like a halo. You know, it's very, very in your face, very, very violent. It nails that part for sure.

Starting point is 00:04:57 And one of my favorite parts of it too is, is when you're on low health, you're incentivized to attack. You have to be super hyper aggressive. Okay, I have five health. Let me go charge that enemy group of 15 and try to get some health orbs. Like I love that fact that it's just constant go, go, go, go, go. And you never stop just destroying. Yeah, I agree. I also like that they sort of queued up some of the different web, I also like that they sort of queued up some of the different web, uh, some of the different attacks to be Like to have specific advantages and specific

Starting point is 00:05:37 Yeah, what again specific enemy types and that kind of thing so that like if you're low on ammo You kill a guy like this and this is how you'll get some more ammo If you're low on health you kill a guy like this and that's cool I and yeah, some of the some of the enemy types have been actually pretty cool looking too, you know Like you're just like oh my gosh, look at this and then you recognize again how powerful you are It's so cool. They just smash right there. I love it. Even the Titans. You're like Shooting them down. I love it. I've been initial impressions You're shooting him down. I love it. I've been initial impressions. Solid.

Starting point is 00:06:06 I love it. Yeah. Same, same. A bit of getting used to just coming off Expedition 33, but probably what I needed. It's a wonderful palette cleanser. We just need a mod now where the Slayer can wear like the hat and this little scarf and his French outfit. Maybe carry a baguette, you know, just, ah,

Starting point is 00:06:27 yeah, love it. Love it.

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