Doom: The Dark Ages

 

           I finally finished a video game this year that I literally liked from start to finish, and there's no if, ands, or buts about it. Doom: The Dark Ages, is one of the few first person shooters of modern day video gaming that I can actually sit down and play to beginning to the very end and holy crap if you want to find a video game to shop for this Black Friday then this would most certainly be the video game to play from start to finish along with the Madden games as well. I'm also going to say this, and I hope everyone else is offended but the Doom series is still the greatest first-person shooter game of all time. 

           Basically, your typical prequel to the first-two Doom games from the PS4 era as well as PS5 generation. Only this time is it set in the Dark Ages in what may be a Medieval time? Oh, hell it doesn't matter we got a shield, look like a Viking, moreover, kill every demon we come across, and we have a Dragon to fly around moreover kill more demons than the Targaryen's did in Game of Thrones. But more importantly we can drive a big transformer or Jaeger to fight bigger demons.

           When I look back at the many times I've played Call of Duty and Battlefield on the PlayStation 3 and 4, they were all great games and had great times playing them from beginning to the very end but then when we pushed to PlayStation 5 and all of the Call of Duty games are trying to invent themselves with more tactical strategy, as well as stealth mode at times, moreover just trying to me more of a special operative on the field and sure it's at times fun but when you do the same thing for the next games and focus more on the multiplayer, it just becomes less fun for the gamers who are older like me and despise the fact of a twelve year old kid beating you as well as not wanting to accept their better than you. But almost nineteen years ago when ID Software reinvented the franchise with Doom, this was like a breath of fresh air and scary at the same time because all those demons were coming after you moreover, Hell was invading Mars? Which again feels bewildering but deep down this was a mindless action movie where you can have a great time playing and replaying again because all they ever did was just go back to basics and just tell the gamers to just play the game and shoot demons that's all. Now with some of these recent Battlefield and Call of Duty games, they care way to much of the multiplayer experience and me at my old age I just can't continue on with that whole aspect especially with games like Fortnite, where it's only multiplayer and yet again, I don't want to play with against obnoxious twelve year old's that play the games all the time, and yet discussing my hatred of the recent Call of Duty and Battlefield games are good reasons why I don't play any of the recent games because how much I hate multiplayer moreover I tried it once and don't ever want to play multiplayer ever again. So, doom despite all its gore and scariness, it's still fresh to me and now that I downloaded all the past Doom games as well as having the last two Doom games I do want to go back and re-play them again and have a great time playing them. For good reasons, whenever I had to deal with pre-Madonna's and obnoxious family members, I always come home and pull out Doom: The Dark Ages and have a great time playing the game as well as relief a ton of stress and that's always the beauty to the Doom series as well as the classic Doom series, basically explains why Mortal Kombat and Doom are my favorite video game franchises of all time because they stay true to what they truly are as video games and why most fans play them even to now. So, parents or adults if you’re having Thanksgiving or Holiday stress disorders, then I would highly recommend spending your hard earn money on Doom: The Dark Ages and have your kids play Doom so, if you ever want to get them out of awfulness that is Call of Duty and Battlefield.