Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2

An anonymous reader writes: Bethesda kicked off this year's E3 expo by unveiling the new Doom game they've been working on and announcing a sequel to the popular fantasy action-adventure game Dishonored. They've posted a gory trailer (YouTube) for Doom, and shared several minutes of gameplay footage as well. The game is due out in Spring 2016 for Xbox One, PS4, and PCs, and it will include an editor that will let players make new maps and gameplay modes. Dishonored 2 has a trailer as well, though fewer details have been shared about the game. Bethesda also added details to their recent announcement of Fallout 4. It's been given a release date of November 10th (2015), and they did a live demo on stage at E3 (YouTube) with a bunch of game footage.

Comments

Poor summary

[Adriax]

How is the Fallout 4 stuff a minor footnote at the end?
I'd hazard a guess most of us watching the live stream just tuned in for the Fallout stuff.

Re:Poor summary

[bjwest]

It's a summary of an article, and two sentences at the end of a five sentence paragraph is not a minor footnote.

Perhaps if you'd get over the idea that what's the most important to you is not what's the most important to others, you might consider that they may have left the best for last to get you to read the whole summary?

Re:Poor summary

[dissy]

The games listed in the summary are in the exact same order as Bethesda announced them at E3:
Doom first, Dishonored second, Fallout 4 last.

The same order as the announcement makes quite a lot of sense if you are trying to keep your own biases out of things.
They are also coincidentally in alphabetical order.

As this is an E3 announcement panel, it would also not be fair to only speak of Fallout 4 and ignore the other games, as doing so would make it a Fallout announcement instead of an E3/Bethesda one.

Re:Poor summary

[rogoshen1]

New Vegas was fantastic btw. In particular the desert landscape just seems to lend itself more to a post apocalyptic vibe than DC. (insert snarky joke about fallout 3 improving DC over it's current state.).

It just seemed to be written at an higher quality, especially in the humor department.

Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh

[PopeRatzo]

Looking forward to these games, but the kill cutscenes in the new DOOM where they take control away from your character so you can watch someone's head explode will get very boring very quickly.

I kind of wish they'd have left DOOM alone and just created something new instead. I realize it's all about franchises, but still...

Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

Apparently you have to decide to do a gory kill just before it dies to see the gory quicktime kill.

No dynamic slices or severs, apparently, which would he a fun minigame deciding which way to cut.

Oh well. Maybe 20 years in the future they will have this tech, sometime around 2015. For now, mid 1990s, it remains a game engine sliding per-generated animations around a landscape.

Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh

[_xeno_]

Define "mod-friendly." My guess is "not very" but there's this:

The most interesting wrinkle? âoeDoom Snapmap,â an in-game level editor designed, says Bethesda, to let any player craft complex maps or fiddle with the game rules on the fly. When youâ(TM)re ready, you just push a button to play, or share your creation with anyone in the world.

The reason I say "not very" is that presumably that's intended to satisfy modders due to an otherwise complete lack of modability.

Of course, that may be designed to bring something like mods to consoles in a way that Microsoft and Sony will allow, so who knows.

Looks a lot like Doom 3

[coldsalmon]

There are a bunch of imps throwing fireballs, and it's too dark to see anything properly. Run up to them and shoot them with a shotgun. Strafe around the pillars and backpedal around the corners. The hardware is being pushed to the limit, so there are no large areas with lots of monsters; it's all close-quarters corridor fighting with very little room to maneuver. I guess there are some new visual effects if you look closely, but it really looks like exactly the same gameplay experience. Also, I am old and video games were better in 1994 and get off my lawn.

Re:Don't have or want Google account

[Blue Stone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's the link. Just replace the "watch?" with a "/" and then the "=" after the v with a "/" also.

ie. https://www.youtube.com/v/NteA...

Gives you full-screen 'embeddable' link that bypasses the censorship.