Look at how they massacred my boy.

I'm an avid fan of the Doom franchise from birth. I literally grew up with a copy of Doom 2 installed on my computer and Chex Quest was my favorite game at the time. The dedication of it's fanbase, the sheer modular nature of the game, and the banger of a resurrection the franchise received in 2016 has made me such a die-hard fan that I day one purchased this game - Collectors Edition even.

If this is the direction the franchise is going with its gameplay, I'm done with commercial Id Software projects for the foreseeable future.

There are far too many little nagging sleights in how this game is designed that make the entire experience unfun. I can sit down and play this game for an hour and just give up because I feel demoralized and powerless.

There are mechanics in this game designed to solve problems that were created specifically by the developers to make you use the aforementioned mechanics, which feels rigorous and spiteful for the developers to design a game so rigidly. Ammo is scarce. Why is ammo scarce? To force you to use the chainsaw more! Why do they want you to use the chainsaw? Because it drops ammo now! Getting mad that you've been hit so much? Use flame belch more! It gives you armor! Wait, one hit by almost anything removes ALL your armor? Well start using blood punch! It gives you health! Enemies spawned behind you and OHKOd you even though you were at full health? Well, you should be having 1ups then! What do you mean the old Doom games realized that 1ups were an antiquated design decision and saves were infinitely more useful as a method of restoring gameplay progress?

And of course, why do mechanics like flame belch and chainsaw give you pickups now? Because the developers were lazy and didn't know how to place pickups around the level - something they seemed to be more than capable of in 2016. Why spend time and effort when you can make the game so that not having those pickups is the players fault instead?

I'm disappointed that this is the direction that the Doom franchise is going to go, a game with a ridiculous breakneck pace and extremely specific player requirements. It makes the game radically different from its predecessor in a way that makes it not fun to play for me personally. It's like the Super Meat Boy of FPSes, which is not what I expected when I purchased the game.