Doom: The Dark Ages is a game that a lot of PC gamers are looking forward to. However, it appears that the game will be using the controversial Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
This comes as a surprise since Indiana Jones and the Great Circle did not use it. So, not only will Doom: The Dark Ages cost more than the previous Bethesda game, but it will also now use Denuvo.
id Software has also revealed the PC requirements for running the game at Ultra 4K with 60FPS. According to the devs, PC gamers will need an AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or Intel Core i7 12700K with 32GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 4080 or an AMD Radeon RX 7900XT. You can find the game’s minimum and recommended PC requirements here.
For what it’s worth, Bethesda is one of the publishers who has removed Denuvo from its older titles. For instance, the publisher has already removed it from Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Doom Eternal. Thus, a post-launch update – one year from now – will most likely remove Denuvo from Doom: The Dark Ages.
Bethesda plans to release Doom: The Dark Ages on May 15th. As we’ve already reported, the game will support Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing on PC. We can also assume that it will support DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Gen. Thus, it will be interesting to see whether it will be enjoyable on the RTX 5090 at 4K with Path Tracing and DLSS 4 X4.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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retchid is far superior to this game and that is closer to the original doom. this game guides your way with waypoint markers like halo and retchid doesnt.
Closer to Doom 3 by the looks of it, was curious but £30 for an early access game I don't think so.
doom3 is closer to the original doom. doom 1993 focused on darkness not to mention the creators of doom in the documentary ''FPS'' says original doom focused on horror and darkness like like aliens 1986 movie it had nightvision goggles and the original releases of doom 1993 you had to hold a button to run. ''constantly running/always run'' is a modification to doom not out of box settings with original release dosbox proves it and same with atari jaguar version having to hold A button to run its not a toggle button has to be held down if u want to run that was officially ported to jag by john carmack btw. by the way doom'3s PDAS ARE THE RED/BLUE/GREEN KEYS.
The horror aspect of the original Doom didn't age well, a couple of years after its release people mastered FPS games, controls got better and the atmosphere became cartoonish due to graphics constantly evolving, this made Doom an involuntary Run & Gun game. Doom 3 tried so hard to be a horror game but its gimmicky and cheap horror aspect only works for the first hours and we also end up running and gunning and enjoying it.
In the end id Software understood that the shoot part of a Doom game is the only aspect that survives the test of time and that's what people like about it, the popularity of Brutal Doom is also a proof of that, and they pretty much confirmed this with Doom 2016, all in all, saying that Doom is a horror game just because it has some blood and hell stuff is like saying Call of Duty is a tactical game because it has a military theme.
DOOM 1993 IS AN ACTION/HORROR GAME JUST LIKE DOOM3 IS YOU CANNOT CONNECT 2 AND 2 TOGETHER.
DOOM 1993 IS FILLED WITH MONSTER CLOSETS/JUMP SCARES AND AREAS WHERE LIGHTS ARE COMPLETELY OFF EXACTLY LIKE DOOM 3.
DOOM 1993 WAS MORE SCARY THAN DOOM 3 OR DOOM 2016 OR ETERNAL OR THE DARK AGES BECAUSE IT WAS ALL PHOTOGRAMMETRY REAL MONSTERS CLAY MODELS AND ITEMS BEING SCANNED/PUT INTO THE GAME.
BRUTAL DOOM IS A MODICATION AND A JOKE ANYONE SAYING DOOM ISNT A HORROR GAME MIGHT ASWELL SAY RESIDENT EVIL ISNT A HORROR GAME YOU ARE THIS RETARDED.
brutal doom is awesome.
voxel doom is awesome, brutal doom sucks and its a rip off another guys gib mod.
ahahahahaah
Lol, Resident Evil is a true horror game, no one can deny it, but Doom is not, it tries here and there but it never reached the horror profile and that's ok, i didn't meant that it's bad thing just that Doom doesn't scare anyone.
i played doom in 1993 it was more scary than resident evil in 1996 which i also played in 1996.
The fact you were scared doesn’t make Doom a horror game, i was scared by Bioshock and Half-Life it doesn’t mean they’re horror games, they just have horror aspects
THE CREATORS SAID DOOM IS AN ACTION HORROR GAME ABOUT MONSTERS POPPING OUT OF DARKNESS AT YOU. YOU ARE TRYING TO ARGUE WITH A FAN WHO PLAYED GAME IN 1993 WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT ON THE MARKET ONE OF THE FIRST HORROR GAMES EVER AND YOU ARE TRYING TO ARGUE WITH THE CREATORS YOU SIR NEED TO BE SMACKED IN THE DOME.
Dude the capital letters won't make you magically win a debate, there's a gap between what the devs target and what the end product is, Counter-Strike was meant to be a RainbowSix wannabe but it ended up being a bunny hopping fest once the player base mastered it, id wanted a horror game but in the end people made it a Run & Gun FPS and they even embraced that aspect of the game by making the sequels on par with what the fanbase wanted, you're maybe just a fearful sissy and that's ok, no problem with that i'm not judging you
wolfenstein 3D was not a horror game its an action game. doom 1993 was an action horror game and it will always be, resident evil is a survival horror game and doom 3 is an action horror game just like the orignal doom. surival horror games have limited ammo and doom 3 you were never limited on ammo or supplies and super slow.
the new doom games go against everything that is doom they're just mindless waypoint following shooters mindless action games.
doom is an action horror maze key hunting shooter they dumbed the franchise down for autistic f*ktards who have room temp IQ to be a mindless action game.
Dude, if you call Eternal a mindless shooter then you clearly have played it. Eternal is more or less a puzzle game, you can't turn off your brain if you want to engage with the combat.
mindless shooters guide your way like doom eternal.
doom is an action horror key hunting maze shooter go ask chatgpt or even look @ the wikipedia even list it as action horror. you people dont know the difference between survival horror or action horror lol.
the new doom games they traded action horror for ''action game'' mindless waypoint following shooter like HALO. its more halo than it is doom.
doom is about wondering aimlessly down spooky atmospheric hallways with traps and trying to find keys to open doors to get to the exit while encountering spooky monsters.
There’s not a single mention of the word “horror” in the Wikipedia page of the franchise LMAO, while the page for the original 1993 game has only one mention :
“His design was a science fiction horror concept wherein scientists on the Moon open a portal to an alien invasion”
That’s a horror theme for an action game, just like FEAR, Blood or Painkiller, the horror is more atmospheric than anything, there are only 2 games in the franchise that have a more accentuated horror atmosphere, Doom 64 and Doom 3, and in both games the action takes over the horror after 2 hours into the game.
“its more halo than it is doom”
Dumbest statement ever, Doom 2016 is far more Doom than Doom 3 ever was
“trying to find keys to open doors to get to the exit while encountering spooky monsters”
It’s like you’re describing f*cking Silent Hill FFS, as if we never did that while 90% of the time we were killing dozens of monsters using a heavy arsenal…
You have a certain opinion of this game, and your own experience with it, and your own experience isn’t a general fact, don’t tell about how the devs designed it because you’re also sh*tting on the same devs for cutting some fat on the formula and evolving it
the new doom games are closer to serious sam and painkiller and halo than doom 1993.
JOHN ROMERO AND JOHN CARMACK DOOM'S CREATORS SAID ITS AN ACTION HORROR GAME ABOUT DARKNESS THE 1993 GAME.
YOU CANNOT ARGUE WITH THE CREATORS AS TO WHAT THE GAME IS AND BESIDES EVERYONE CLAIMING DOOM ISNT ACTION HORROR ARE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DIDNT PLAY DOOM 1993 WHEN IT WAS THE ONLY GAME ON THE MARKET LIKE IT.
I CAN POINT OUT ALL THE HORROR ASPECTS OF THE ORIGINAL DOOM.
Death of the author, nobody really cares about original author's intent. The community forced Doom into becoming more like Quake and Duke 3D ever since the community made source ports started showing up in 1999.
I grew up with the FPS genre since Wolf 3D and IMO it became infinitely more playable when we had ZDoom adding the likes of mouse look, jumping and always run.
doom is still an action horror game
the new doom games are closer to serious sam and painkiller and halo than doom 1993.
JOHN ROMERO AND JOHN CARMACK DOOM'S CREATORS SAID ITS AN ACTION HORROR GAME ABOUT DARKNESS THE 1993 GAME.
YOU CANNOT ARGUE WITH THE CREATORS AS TO WHAT THE GAME IS AND BESIDES EVERYONE CLAIMING DOOM ISNT ACTION HORROR ARE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DIDNT PLAY DOOM 1993 WHEN IT WAS THE ONLY GAME ON THE MARKET LIKE IT.
I CAN POINT OUT ALL THE HORROR ASPECTS OF THE ORIGINAL DOOM.
DOOM 1993 IS MORE OF A HORROR GAME THAN SILENT HILL.
Whatever how they identifie it, only the final product nature counts, i can tell you that my shirt is blue but in the end if it’s black, that’s the only fact that matters, it won’t be blue because i randomly decided so, they wanted a horror game, they ended up with a Run & Gun game and even accepted it for the future instalments, you’re just stuck with your memories bro
just like duke nukem forever they made it for the halo generation retards born in the 90s. they didnt make that game before the people who were born in the 1980s or 70s and played duke nukem 3d in 1996 and its the same sh*t with the new doom games its not made for the original fans born in the 70s and 80s who played it in 1993 its made for the halo generation retards born in the 90s or later. neither games design has anything to do with the original games.
Grow the fxxk up. Having childish tantrums won't win anyone over to your side.
Nobody cares. It wasn't scary then and it's not scary now.
you didnt play it back then only people with expensive pcs or atari jaguar.
LMAO, look at mister rich McGee here. You could be a billionaire and it still wouldn’t be scary. Not back then not now. There’s a reason why doom is remembered as a legendary shooter and not a horror game. Your being such a scaredy cat doesn’t make it a horror.
no, doom 3 is a slow pacer survival horror wanna be, the maps are linear, no secrets, no, doom 3 is the world doom game.
doom 1993 is slow paced reason you have to hold the run button down to run and the control is sloppy when you are running.
the creators of doom said its an action horror game and if you played doom in 1993 you would of been scared shitless like me dipstick.
My hot take: BFG Edition is the best incarnation of Doom 3. It shaves off a lot of the lame attempts to make it a Survival Horror game and turns makes it more like a run & gun shooter, like the rest of the Doom series. Head mounted torch; a bit brighter environmental lighting; greater distribution of ammo + health pickups; nerfing of lame environmental suit segments.
BFG Edition was largely an excuse for Carmack to create a VR version, so I interpret that as Carmack endorsing the changes to the core game.
doom 3 alpha had a better shoulder lamp than the bfg edition and stupid hand light in retail release. likely changed it for handlight due to e3 2002 alpha leak.
okay retchid developer
weird opinion, my view is that retchid is doom 3 but done well, meaning not a doom game, but as much as i like sci fi and despite medieval fantasy, this isnt it. Rumors say the game is more open world now and you gotta grind for resources.
doom 3 is more like original doom i should make a video pointing it out to all the posers and so is retchid.
neither doom3 or retchid or doom 1993 guide you through the levels with waypoint markers like halo which new doom games do.
dumb
retchid is far superior to this game and that is closer to the original doom. this game guides your way with waypoint markers like halo and retchid doesnt.
Denuvo? Awesome. It will be much cheaper when I pick it up then…
how and nobody cracks denuvo again?
No, he means it'll be cheaper in a year or whenever Denuvo is removed. That's my plan. I can wait a year or two.
Yep. I want to support big games like this prioritizing SP, but I cannot as long as it has Denuvo.
Some "technical fault" will leak the pure exe & no one can do anything
You can only hope there's a based chud still working there…
Hugo is
the guy who turned the game into doom 64 and made the story and gameplay nothing like doom? Come on.
John romero is the actual creator and said doom is action horror game.
Who cares, it's on Game Pass!
game pass will be 20-30-40-50$ one day
I would have beat Doom by that time and even if I don’t, Doom would cost $5
Reeeeeally??! Wtf
Eagerly waiting how it will either destroy the game performance or the many issues it will have due to it
it wont, it was well implemented in eternal and 2016 and the game is already insanely demanding. You could argue that it already has destroyed it judging by the cpu requirements and dragons dogma 2.
honestly, if you can play this game at decent settings its rumored 80 bucks price is pocket change to you.
First it was alan wake 2, then starfield, then dragons dogma, then stalker 2 and now this. Which game will be the next impossible to run game?
ill just buy a ps5 and say fock you to people pushing insane specs for rigs almost no one has, myself included
i am not abandoning my 5700xt and buying a raytracing card until i have a mature enough product that can last me 4 or 5 years, not obsolete every 2 years as it is now (despite still costing a LOT)
sucks to play shooters with sticks though…
"Obsolete every 2 years". Oh please, this is console migrant fake news logic. I've have had a 3080 coming on half a decade and it still plays everything on the market which I've thrown at it.
Impossible to run? IdTech historically has had some of the best optimisation on the market. We have budget cards with RT and it's been about half a decade of RT cards being on the market. RT is very much a mainstream market fixture at this point, you're going to have make peace with that.
what?
Denuvo makes me Non-Buy-Nary
Johnny Greece sure as hell would know about Denuvo!
https://media0.giphy.com/media/l35H2vj7mMgVaYkA1s/giphy-downsized-small.mp4 Big mistake! Be gone Denuvo!!!
Well, that means we're… DOOMED!
Finally someone gets it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6r-1j1Gsw&t=0s
Doom: The Dark Ages will not get my money.
A year or two later it will be removed and maybe then I'd buy it. So far I managed without buying anything with denuvo (those persona titles be tempting though)
I bought Indiana Jones Day1 especially because of no Denuvo. This trash better be pirated hard.