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Are they going to explain why they butchered Doom with the Unity engine? It's not like there is any shortage of programmers eager and able to create yet another proper Doom port.

It really feels like Bethesda threw some young intern at the project who lacked cultural context for Doom and therefore didn't treat it with respect.

Edit for source: https://mobile.twitter.com/noteinso/status/11548092916411514...

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Either way, they definitely managed to somehow _decrease_ the graphical fidelity of a 25+-year-old game -- the original featured some basic lighting effects (notably, the floor and ceiling would shade further from the player) that have been removed in this remake.

Wait, what? Where do you see that Doom was ported to Unity for this?

https://twitter.com/BasedDrWorm/status/1155153230038540293

Switch games have been dumpable for a while and it's immediately apparent when looking at the internals: https://twitter.com/noteinso/status/1154809291641151488?s=09

Yuck. This is more egregious than requiring the login, imo.

I don't see the inherent issue with using Unity to create another Doom port. As long as you get everything right, it's cross-platform and should play identically.

In theory they could get everything right I suppose, but in practice? They didn't even manage to get the audio right, lots of people report performance issues, and the lighting has been botched. What are the chances they got the rest of it right? I suspect more discrepancies will be uncovered as people dig deeper.

What's the big uproar about using unity for this?

Doom has its own characteristic 2.5D rendering engine, which may be difficult to replicate in Unity unless you write it as a two-triangle shader.

Yes, that seems to be the main reason

Though I would be tempted to think the original sw renderer would run just fine on Switch hardware with minor fixes (it worked in PCs much slower than the Switch). Now I don't know if the hardware (video) would behave well with that. No reason in principle why it wouldn't, but who knows...

It does run fine on the switch hardware a homebrew port has been out for quite a while. Chocolate Doom was ported last year.

I'll bite - is there some reason you're calling the switch the "stitch?"

It was a mistake - thanks for pointing it out

Oh ok sorry didn't mean to come off like jerk, I thought this might be one of those "micro$oft" things

It was Experiment #626 inside Nintendo.

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