Bethesda's Hines 'surprised' by how much people liked DOOM's single-player

Bethesda's VP of PR and marketing has said that he was "surprised" by how much people took to DOOM's single-player campaign, revealing that he was concerned the game could attract some middling review scores for its more traditional, old-school approach.

Speaking in the latest issue of MCV, Pete Hines explained that he was "surprised a little bit by just how much folks liked and got the single-player.

"If you are at Bethesda and play the single-player, you might think it's really fun and different. But you don't know if you're drinking your own kool-aid... is it really fun? Or are people going to play it and dislike the fact there's no voiced protagonist, or the fact there's no real story, and will they say: 'id Software hasn't got out of the 1990s. Same old, same old. 6/10'. You never know which of those two scenarios you'll end up getting."

Bethesda launched a time-limited single-player demo of the game back in June, one month after the game's release. Prior to launch it had only released beta versions of the game's multiplayer mode to the public.

"We did the single-player demo after launch," Hines continued. "We had showed off the multiplayer, but we hadn't managed to show as much of the single-player. So giving folks the chance to try it… well it turned out to be a good idea."

I personally thought DOOM had one of the best single-player shooter campaigns in a while. Miller agreed.

A free update for DOOM's campaign mode introducing a brand new Arcade mode is set to release later this year.

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Yeah . We need more long campaign.

Well no shit. Now make Doom 2.

I actually enjoyed the SP campaigns of Doom 1 and 2 back in the day. A lot of companies have laid single-player content by the wayside at the expense of MP, not just FPSs.

It was good. Hopefully they add a bit more story in the sequel. Would definitely buy it then.

This guys is "surprised" because he out of touch with the more hardcore gamer.

I didn't play much games this year but for me it is the main Game Of The Year candidate

It seems more CEOs and higher ups are saying this about games. Sometimes I wonder exactly how much in the know/how right people like Jim Sterling are when he talks about how they (higher ups in the industry) thought consoles were on the way out or no one cared about single players games or people want a certain style of gameplay. This guy proves it, he was worried that a primarily single player game which plays like what the franchise is known for might not succeed. If the game is good it's good, no matter the gameplay style.

And that just goes to prove how out of touch the overall execs of the gaming companies are with the gaming community.I dont want to mean by that, that multiplayer is bad, but that depending on the game, it has as much appeal as it, if not much more.And as companies release these type of statements, and we get reports from Jim Sterling for example, it seems that companies are still stuck on the 'if the game has no multiplayer, it will sell bad' mentality.

Yeah, actually it would be better to have more single-player games. But from the business point multiplayer will bring more money. Especially now when all multiplayer games get packed with useless DLCs, skins and other stuff