Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
ID Software showed an impressive return to darker times with Doom The Dark Ages. From gameplay, scale, scope and technological improvements the demo showed us a good slice of what we can expect of the new IDtech 8 come 2025. I get back to my roots with a preview of what we saw, what it may mean and why the art, style and sound could be right off the cover of an Iron Maiden album.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction on games to come
0:39 DooM Dark Ages initial thoughts & Art style and musical inspiration
1:50 Image quality and TSSAA with comparisons to DooM 2016
3:00 Was it PC or Xbox Series X and performance testing including Vulkan
3:54 Texture quality improvements, geometry and weapons
6:10 Real gameplay examples, memory and other signs
6:40 Gameplay changes, combat, scale and tactical gameplay
7:42 Volumetrics increases, Ray Tracing and improving solidity
9:14 Size of maps, what this means, memory streaming increases
10:42 Summary of initial thoughts
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ID Software showed an impressive return to darker times with Doom The Dark Ages. From gameplay, scale, scope and technological improvements the demo showed us a good slice of what we can expect of the new IDtech 8 come 2025. I get back to my roots with a preview of what we saw, what it may mean and why the art, style and sound could be right off the cover of an Iron Maiden album.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction on games to come
0:39 DooM Dark Ages initial thoughts & Art style and musical inspiration
1:50 Image quality and TSSAA with comparisons to DooM 2016
3:00 Was it PC or Xbox Series X and performance testing including Vulkan
3:54 Texture quality improvements, geometry and weapons
6:10 Real gameplay examples, memory and other signs
6:40 Gameplay changes, combat, scale and tactical gameplay
7:42 Volumetrics increases, Ray Tracing and improving solidity
9:14 Size of maps, what this means, memory streaming increases
10:42 Summary of initial thoughts
As a full time Software/Hardware Engineer for the past 35+ years I run this channel as a side project to my full time job. As such I have and remain fully independent and always sim to deliver concise, accurate, factual review, news and data to inform you as much as I can. Aside my supporters on Patreon and the decreasing revenue from YouTube I also fund everything myself.
As such, if you do enjoy the content on the channel and site, then please consider Subscribing, Liking & sharing it where possible as all these things help increase my view, reach and play into the YouTube Algorithm, thank you.
If you can please support my work on Patreon:-patreon.com/user?u=2632056 Thanks For Watching.
Please Like & Subscribe and leave comments below
Chat with me on twitter :- twitter.com/N_X_G
Watch in 4K/60 for the best experience.
