It's wrong to say Doom looked bad. It looks competent, well designed and everything, but where is the connect? Where is the umpf? It's a weird thing to say, but I felt the same sort of passiveness going through Wolfenstein The Old Blood (3 hours into it). It's fine.
But we keep going back to the same thing: dumb enemies, make for a unchallenging experience. A predictable experience. If you took the context sensitivity execution kills out of that Doom demo, there is little left.
ID are legendary, but there was nothing progressive about Doom. It's not wrong to go back to basics, but I remember when everyone shit their pants when Quake 2 came out. "dude... the enemies they sometimes wake up from when you think you killed them attack you from behind. always watch your back!"
We're talking about fucking demons here. Why would they just fuck shit up? I feel like they just made a random Arena of clueless demons who got descarted in robot wheels and started their own fandom exhibition to try and get demon cosplaying chicks. Shit is gross.
And Rage looked the same. But at least Rage looked like Mad Max in its visual identity. It had outstanding art. I don't know what Doom is. It looks like it has no personality, charm or wit. It's well build, well crafted, but it looks like it was made by programmers with nothing to say. They literally have nothing to say besides: "Look guys! We made Doom many years ago!".
