February 03, 2026

(Thoughts on Demmo; Eternal)

i knew Doom 2016 - Demmo Eternal, you sir are no Doom 2016!

See my SteamProfile? It says I played it for ~35 minutes to form this opinion. I’d like to play more of it someday and have my mind changed … but I doubt I’ll get around to that.

Pro;

it run smooth, even on my steam deck
it have some pretty render effects
the world feels elaborate and developed
jumping into the decapitation missions (he hee) with the priests is … okay, yeah; that’s a good way to start this

Con;

/look what they did to my boy!/ (the Mick Gordon thing)
didn’t Vega die? did I skip something?
despite disabling controller, the game insists on using controller buttons in tutorials and i can’t get it to stop
i have a 1920x1080 monitor connected; the game insists on running 1280x720 … and then down scaling it? maybe? i can’t see controls for that
you can only hold < 20 bullets
i’m bored
there’s a deluge of loreslopexposition - something about 2016 we all loved was that it avoided that, and, you could workout how weird and edgy the writing was because of things people said and left behind; not because some kneckbeard got between you and the exist sign and wheezed at you for 60 lines
launching the application trickles in popup ads. not selling anything, just interfering with me playing the game. maybe they were selling something?
the main menu was confusing
the controls in settings only (AFAIK) list the multiplayer controls. not the single player ones. i can’t rebind the single-player controls?
did i mention that i’m bored?
first map powerup reveals a (secret?) item earlier in the level that i’m quest-locked out of retrieving. yes - this allows a big dramatic jump, but, yoouuu guuyyyzzzz - are you telling me i already should restart?
also; it’s easy to get lost when everything looks the same (gimmie a giant blue or orange pillar of fire in the sky that i’m walking towards!)
aiming felt … off … hard … maybe it was the low-res? i had trouble seeing the weird lilGubbins i was supposed to shoot?