Where Doom 5 should be set ?

[Freaklore1]

So i just wathed this video recently and it made me wonder about where Doom 5 should be set.



After thinking about it,i came up with this response for the video and the question.

I wouldnt mind seeing more maps set in Hell,especially if they give us more variety like different colored skies and different hellish environments,but i dont want to see Mars again because it as become redundant,im tired of seeing that setting.

At the same time i dont want to see another setting set on a different planet or moons,unless the setting look completely different from Mars.

The problem with the earlier version of Doom 4,is that the Earth that the developpers created for the beta looked too much dull and not futuristic enough,it looked more like the kind of setting that Rage had,post-apocalyptic locations with not enough vivid colors.

For Earth to be interesting,i think the devs should take inspiration on settings like Ghost in the Shell,Blade Runner,Perfect Dark and the Neo-Tokyo level from Timesplitters,we need a futuristic city to represent the advancements in technology that the humans made,Doom 4 is supposed to be set in the future,so it need to show that.

If Doom 5 is set in a cyber-punk futuristic city with lots of vivid colors wich just got recently invaded by the forces of Hell,i think peoples would be more interested.

Heres what i would do,the game start where the previous game ended with Samuel sending the Doomslayer to a location where he wont bother him,like maybe an abandoned installation in Antartica on Earth,this woud be the tutorial level where Doomslayer need to bring back energy to the facility so he can use the teleporters inside that installation,then when he use them he find himself in a city on Earth where a demon invasion as just begun,as you progress trough the city you see less and less peoples,more and more buildings in ruins + in flames and more and more demons,then near let say half or 3/4 of the game you go to Hell again,the game end with a climatic battle against either Samuel now demon powered or some other demon boss like the icon of sin i guess.

[Jeimuzu73]

While not necessarily a full installment, I'd like an expansion pack (like Doom 3: RoE) set before the events of the original game. Like how the Doomslayer got into that sarcophagus after killing the Titan, and maybe touch on his backstory as a leading member of the Night Sentinels battling the forces of Hell after the fall of Argent D'nur. As for level aesthetics, the multiplayer DLC levels such as Empyrian, Argent Breach and Offering could lend a few ideas on what Argent D'nur could look like.

[insightguy]

The fact that the timeline implies that this is the same marine from the first 2 games, earth might not be the route taken here.

If they do, I wonder what interesting things they can do with his personality, like interact with earth things like he's going down a nostalgia trip. Hell doesn't usually have chips or even nice food.

[Freaklore1]

The fact that the timeline implies that this is the same marine from the first 2 games, earth might not be the route taken here.

If they do, I wonder what interesting things they can do with his personality, like interact with earth things like he's going down a nostalgia trip. Hell doesn't usually have chips or even nice food.

I dont remember seeing something in the game that implies that Doom 4 is set in the same timeline as Doom 1+2,what was it ?

[Reactor]

I would love to see a Hell on Earth remake in a much more advanced environment. Not to mention it featured lots of non-linear levels, which would be great to see.

[Freaklore1]

I ve Been wondering if the next Doom should have more npc interractions like Doom 3,but at the same time still have the action paced flow of Doom 4.

Like keep action fast of course but maybe give us secondary objectives you can help someone who is in a dire situation and you get a reward for it,like they give you a access to a room by unlocking it for you with things inside it.

Would it slow down the gameplay or not ?

[Gollgagh]

Whatever happens, I kind of want a 10 second flashback of him frolicking in a field with bunnies.

[Caligari87]

I would love to see a trailer that announces "DOOM: HELL ON EARTH" and then gives us 30 seconds of boring slow cover-based military shooter vs demons, aka "Call of Doom".

Of course that's a red herring and Doomslayer rolls up in full rip and tear mode just as the marines are about to get overwhelmed.

[wildweasel]

I would love to see a trailer that announces "DOOM: HELL ON EARTH" and then gives us 30 seconds of boring slow cover-based military shooter vs demons, aka "Call of Doom".

Of course that's a red herring and Doomslayer rolls up in full rip and tear mode just as the marines are about to get overwhelmed.

So basically the intro to the MGS4 trailer except way more violent?

[Gez]

It should be set on Tamriel.

Doom 5: Oblivion With Guns.

[Zen3001]

what I want is more old looking guns and demons that actually look like demons
doom 2016 looks like a game where you shoot aliens with toys

[Reactor]

what I want is more old looking guns and demons that actually look like demons
doom 2016 looks like a game where you shoot aliens with toys

Hehe! The weapons were actually toys in the old Doom AFAIK plastic toys were used to modell the old Doom guns.
As for aliens, Doom 2 refers to the demons as "aliens" in the story blocks. Sick irony, but you're 100% right

[Zen3001]

Hehe! The weapons were actually toys in the old Doom AFAIK plastic toys were used to modell the old Doom guns.

yeah but they atleast put effort into making the guns look kind of scary and not like some nerf gun, I know the bfg was some kind of a nerf toy but they made it look much more industrial.

[BloodShot]

Idk man, the shotgun always looked like a toy to me, i had a cap gun as a kid that was pretty similar.

And the plasma gun looks like an accordion. Awesome, but not exactly gun like. Although the firing sound is oddly musical so it kind of works

[NeuralStunner]

A small island off the coast of Switzerland.

("We must neutralize this threat.")