Doom: The Dark Ages director says the upcoming DLC is 'basically like a sequel': 'It's just ginormous'

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Game director Hugo Martin seems to think so, as he mentioned in the Slayers Club Live stream that went up on YouTube yesterday. While playing through the base game, Martin took a beat to say “I’m not gonna lie, the DLC is nothing like this. I can’t say too much. I’m just gonna say that what I have been playing, I haven’t been playing like this.”As reported by Gamesradar, Martin had a lot to say, albeit in extremely vague terms: “It’s so big. Look, guys, I know that it’s been, ultimately, a while since we shipped the main game and you’re waiting for the DLC, but just know that it’s freaking huge. It’s basically like a sequel. I mean, that’s what it feels like, it’s just ginormous.”There’s also another bit where a viewer mentions they’d be interested in seeing a “perfect dodge” system introduced to replace the parry system introduced in Dark Ages, to which Martin looks purposefully at the camera and says “Interesting. That’s all I’m gonna say.” Not really a confirmation of anything concrete, but notable that he pointed it out. Related articles Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software’s 35th anniversary celebration Total Chaos, the survival horror based on one of Doom’s best mods, is getting a New Game+ mode featuring an Alien: Isolation-style persistent enemy: ‘It does not patrol. It does not f