

Having said all of that, Hines may slightly be missing the point here. It should also be noted that much of the work on that game’s multiplayer mode was done by an outside studio.

Doom 2016’s multiplayer was also fairly fun in its own right (at least for a little while). We’re always going to be champions of studios pursuing original ideas ( especially as it relates to multiplayer modes). To play what will likely be a bit of a devil’s advocate position regarding these statements, Hines does raise a few fair points. “That’s as opposed to, ‘I’m a badass demon slayer in single-player, but when I go over to multiplayer, there are no demons, and it’s just deathmatch.’ I don’t know what that has to do with other than that, well, a couple of decades ago we had that, so we should just have that again.”
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“Whether you’re playing by yourself or with others, we want it to feel like you’re all playing the same game,” Hines says of a conversation with id Software team members Hugo Martin and Marty Stratton. Hines elaborates on the relationship between single-player and multiplayer by stating his desire to see elements of the Doom campaigns transition into multiplayer such as what we see in Doom Eternal‘s main multiplayer option I’m playing the game from a very different angle.” But it’s super-fun to play as the Pain Elemental I gravitate toward that demon in particular. I’ve only played as a demon, in part because as I mentioned, I get really motion-sick as the Doom Slayer. The first time I played, I was instantly hooked. I loved the idea of what they were doing with Battle Mode. “We want to make sure we’re doing stuff that’s interesting and that resonates. “We don’t want to do something just for the sake of doing it, or because something has always been a certain way,” Hines says. In an…interesting interview with Shack News, Pete Hines defends Doom Eternal‘s lack of a traditional deathmatch multiplayer mode by saying that the deathmatch mode is “eons old.”
