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Originally posted by nanofever
Every enemy starts out as really hard but if you use the right strategy they are easy to take down.
The game starts with a single imp and it seems really hard. Then, you learn how to easily kill imps so it starts tossing several more at you. I learned that killing an imp, or four, is pretty easy. Dodge fireball, sprint into the imp's face before it can toss another and blow a single shotgun shell into its torse - one shot, one kill. If you use that type strategy, you will have no ammo problems for 9/10ths of the game. The other 1/10th is when you first get the shotty and have your weapons stripped.
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Just to set the record straight, I'm doing pretty well. I tend to be good at fps games as a rule. I only died once so far playing in normal mode, and that was the first time those spider things swarmed me. I can handle four, five, six imps at a time, it's just... different from original doom. Mainly it seems the weapons do a lot less damage. Back in the day, a medium range shotgun blast would put down any imp, but now, you gotta stick the damn barrel down the thing's throat to down it in one shot. It takes 13 pistol shots to kill it, original doom it took 5. Now, it's 6 plasma rifle shots, then it was 2, etc. The player can also take a hell of a lot more punishment too. It seems that the weapons are pea shooters basically. And then they go ahead and tell me that the chaingun fires 30mm shells and I need to fire about 15 rounds of that into an imp? Yeah, ok id...
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Originally posted by Halx
of course you can't see the monsters clearly in the dark! Think about the atmosphere! Think about realism! Think about the mood!
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I disagree with your sentiment that is is realistic. My above comments basically deal with the weapon damage being highly unrealistic. Then there is the idea of demons attacking a base on Mars, etc. But the biggest reason why I don't think it's realistic: You are a marine of a corporate giant that specializes in military hardware, so why the fuck do they only give you a handheld flashlight to see with? They know you are going to Mars, they know the facility is dark as night, where the hell are the night vision goggles, the infrared goggles, the shoulder lamps, the miner helmet lamps. anything! Hell, why can't I take some damn duct tape and tape the fuckin flashlight to the end of my gun! AUGH!