{"id":5172,"date":"2026-03-01T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/doom-the-dark-ages-dlc-is-so-big-its-basically-like-a-sequel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:30:23","slug":"doom-the-dark-ages-dlc-is-so-big-its-basically-like-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/doom-the-dark-ages-dlc-is-so-big-its-basically-like-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom: The Dark Ages&#8217; DLC is so big, it&#8217;s &#8220;basically like a sequel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Doom: The Dark Ages&#8217; DLC is so big, it&#8217;s &#8220;basically like a sequel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Talking on the Slayers Club livestream, game director Hugo Martin said that while he understands that &#8220;it&#8217;s been a while since we shipped the main game&#8221;, players will be rewarded for their patience with &#8220;a ton of new stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Launch Trailer (4K) | Available May 15, 2025.Watch on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s massive. It&#8217;s so big,&#8221; he said (thanks, GR+). &#8220;I know it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve shipped the main game and you&#8217;re waiting for the DLC, but just know that it&#8217;s freaking huge. It&#8217;s basically a sequel. That&#8217;s what it feels like. It&#8217;s just ginormous. I love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for what&#8217;s coming in that update? Well, Martin was a little more coy about that, but we did learn that the DLC is &#8220;nothing like&#8221; the main game, and could boast a spear-like weapon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DLC is nothing like this,&#8221; Martin said as he played the main game on the stream. &#8220;I can&#8217;t say too much, I&#8217;m just going to say that what I&#8217;ve been playing\u2026 I haven&#8217;t been playing like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doom: The Dark Ages was the &#8220;biggest launch&#8221; in id Software&#8217;s history, with three million players making their way into the fiery pits of hell since the game&#8217;s release. To put that into more context, Bethesda says Doom: The Dark Ages reached this number seven times faster than Doom Eternal.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a parent, the game I&#8217;m most concerned about these days is probably something like Roblox. By contrast, Doom feels like an entirely known and understood entity. Let&#8217;s savour it,&#8221; we wrote in Eurogamer&#8217;s Doom: The Dark Ages review. &#8220;Here&#8217;s a slice of pure gaming charisma that has come to us, unfrazzled, from a more innocent time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doom: The Dark Ages&#8217; DLC is so big, it&#8217;s &#8220;basically like a sequel&#8221;. Talking on the Slayers Club livestream, game director Hugo Martin said that while he understands that &#8220;it&#8217;s been a while since we shipped the main game&#8221;, players will be rewarded for their patience with &#8220;a ton of new stuff&#8221;. DOOM: The Dark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5074,5075,159,1859,614,5073,5076],"class_list":{"0":"post-5172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-ages","9":"tag-basically","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-dark","12":"tag-dlc","13":"tag-doom","14":"tag-sequel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}