It's a lot tighter of an experience and everything felt more polish, if eternal was a stand alone game, my recommendation to the team would have been to play 2016 to see how to improve their game. But eternal isn't a bad game at all, its a fun game, like solid 7/10.
I know that this is a "he said, other he said" situation from my perspective, but Bethesda has a far longer confirmed history of fucking up video games than Mick Gordon does of fucking up music.
I'm not a fan of how arcadey Eternal is, and something about it gives me headaches. I quit playing a couple of hours in and I honestly regret buying it, but I've had it too long to return it. Dumb thing is, one of the reasons I got it was to make Let's Play videos for it, and now I don't even do videos anymore.
That part doesn't bother me, and even Doom 4 had it there. There is even an arcade mode in Doom 4 that came as a free update. My main problem is the worst and tedious platforming, and that stupid purple sludge that slows you down for some reason. None of that is fun, nor belongs in a Doom game. I rather just get Prodeous, because that plays like a better Doom title by comparison and isolated.
That sure as hell doesn't help anything, yeah. First-person platforming is seldom done right, and Eternal is no Mirror's Edge.
I have no idea why they put that in there. Nobody plays a Doom game (except 3) to go slow.
Yet the Marine in Doom 3 and The Engineer from Ressurection of Evil both move faster than the Doomslayer walking on purple sludge. Doom64slayer moves faster than Doomslayer in purple sludge.
Even with my bad knee acting up, I'm faster than the Doomslayer in that sludge.
I like how she focuses on the general incidental stuff during gameplay. It fills in the gaps nicely from the other real history series by Real Pixels. The gameplay was also mod-based which was neat.
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