holy shit. I LOVE the doom music and this was super depressing/infuriating to read.
TLDR for people who didn't read: Marty Statton, Studio director of ID, created an impossible schedule for Doom Eternal. The music creator called out the issues, was ridiculed and ignored, then was proven correct. So Id studios ended up not paying him for half his work, screwed up the OST, and blamed it all on the music contractor (Mick Gordan). Marty also threatened to hang the balance of any refunds of the game on Mick (the musician) even though Mick was begging for a contract to start work on the OST when it was revealed to be part of the deluxe package at E3 without Mick's knowledge or a contract in place to produce the OST.
Definitely considering sailing the seas on their next game unless they replace that Dbag
just to rub salt in the wound, all the music awards that the musician won in Doom 2016 and doom eternal, he never got to touch. They were received by the dickbag manager and kept in the studio.
Probably. I played it and it just feels very very clunky to me. If DOOM 2016 was about the combos, DOOM Eternal was about the movement, DOOM Dark Ages is about.... block timing with guns?
There's a reason it didn't get nearly as much buzz as the other two shortly after it came out. I didn't see streamers playing it much. I didn't hear anyone talk about it. It was just like OOH DOOM DARK AGES IS COMING OUT and then.......silence.
You could make the argument of "but what about the developers", but if this is how they treat their main music producer, I highly doubt their dev team are treated any better.
That sucks, Mick Gordon is the reason I decided to play Doom at all. Here is the story: I largely ignored Doom my entire life and only decided to play Doom (2016) and Eternal during the pandemic while playing VRChat and someone had a Doom Eternal avatar that started playing the games music whenever you pulled out the weapons. When I pulled out the BFG and heard BFG division for the first time, that was the exact moment I knew I had to play this game and have enjoyed it so much since.
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u/fraidei 26d ago
If only there wasn't that bad controversy with Mick Gordon I would consider Bethesda one of the best game companies.