Talking to Doom: The Dark Ages sport director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for the duvet story of PC Gamer’s upcoming print situation 408 (396 within the US), I needed to ask what they thought of “the prequel drawback.”
Doom 2016 begins with the Slayer locked in a coffin with all his mates long-dead, and Doom Eternal goes into higher element sketching out how heroically tragic the Slayer’s Night Sentinel buddies have been. Won’t this story wind up being a giant ‘ole Halo Reach-style bummer?
But Stratton and Martin have been prepared to disclose a stunning element about The Dark Ages’ ending: It will not conclude with the Slayer locked in that coffin, and will go away the door open for future prequel tales.
“Not but,” Martin stated of the Slayer getting locked away. “I imply, that will finish the Dark Ages, the medieval chapter of the Doom saga. This is sort of just like the Chronicles of the Slayer.
So if we took all of it the way in which to that time, then that will imply that we could not inform any extra medieval tales. And I’m not saying initiatives or something apart from to simply say it is higher to go away it open.”
Martin might not have dedicated to saying Doom: The Darker Ages, however he made it clear that id on the very least has follow-up story DLC deliberate alongside the traces of Doom Eternal’s The Ancient Gods: “We do have a DLC and issues like that, so it will not—I’m not making a gift of spoilers—however it does not finish with him [in the coffin].”
“The story is that they collapsed a constructing on high of him after which put him inside that sarcophagus that we discover him in firstly of 2016,” stated Martin. “And this sport does not finish that manner.”
Whether or not id needs to do one other full-fat Doom sequel on this period of the timeline, we would not be enjoying that sport till the 2030s given trendy growth lead instances.
But the studio sounds dedicated to this imaginative and prescient of medieval, darkish fantasy-infused Doom as greater than only a one-off. Now that I understand how The Dark Ages does not finish, it truly actually opens up the chances and stakes of its story.
Doom: The Dark Ages will launch on May 15, however earlier than that, you’ll be able to try my full interview with Martin and Stratton in situation 408/396 of PC Gamer’s print journal, coming quickly. We additionally mentioned the sport’s arsenal and the way it follows up Eternal’s notorious Marauder.
