Doom: The Dark Ages is a (Shotgun) Blast

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Doom: The Dark Ages is a surprisingly bold departure from the formula of its predecessors. It’s also quite fun — if you can vibe with its slightly slower, parry-heavy gunplay. In the back half, the boys pick some letters off the top of the mailbag. Plus, Plante launched his Patreon for Post Games, and subscribers can listen to new episodes right now!

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0:00.0	So he's not the Doom guy. He's the Doom Slayer or the Slayer?
0:04.6	Yes. Okay. But he's not ever Dr. Do...
0:10.0	That's true. Speak on that.
0:13.3	I just feel like if you can earn a doctorate for kicking ass, then he should be, at this point, Dr. Doom.
0:25.4	Oh, so you think he studied Doom so extensively that people would come to him?
0:29.5	It's an honorary, whatever he's doing.
0:32.2	Yeah.
0:32.6	I think he probably has it.
0:34.2	He just doesn't want to be like a jerk about it.
0:36.9	He doesn't be like honorary.
0:39.3	Like after every like honorary, sorry, honorary doctor.
0:42.3	Sorry.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:44.3	Like it's like, you know, you have a doctorate in world history.
0:47.3	But if you say that your doctor world history, it seems a little weird.
0:52.3	Yeah, this is a good point is you don't, typically when you become a doctor
0:55.9	and you should know this because you're married to one,
0:58.0	you don't, you typically
0:59.9	just append doctor to the beginning
1:01.8	of your name, and I don't think his name is
1:03.8	doom. As cool as that would be
1:05.9	if they would be like, what is his name?
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