I want to go on a rant on these motherfuckers. It’s not that they’re difficult or anything, but it’s just that they’re SO DAMN DUMB.

They should be intimidating. They should be a threat. Instead, they’re a waste of ammo, especially in the later parts of DOOM. The problem with Demons is that their only means of attacking is biting the player. However, their bite is REALLY slow. It takes about half a second for the Demon to actually bite. They have multiple frames of opening their mouths and then closing them shut, and it doesn’t do any damage to the player until the mouth closes. This means that the player can simply step away from the Demon before it finishes biting, which is by no means difficult. Like I said, this is their only means of attack, so it’s REALLY easy to get away with simply punching them in their ugly mugs and stepping back over and over.

Not only that, but they have a tendency to simply WALK AWAY from the player. Some Demons will just take the knuckle sandwich, but others will take a few hits and then just retreat, only to come back a couple of seconds later. Did it suddenly realize it had something to do? Does it think it has regenerating health? Sometimes they will just walk in circles too, for no reason whatsoever. What is wrong with these things?

What’s wrong with them is that they’re just retarded. If they had the ability to shoot fireballs like Imps and Cacodemons, they would be more of a threat, but as they are, there’s no reason to not just punch them until they look like an undercooked sloppy joe on the floor. Sure, they have invisible variants, but aside from being a little harder to see, they are just as easy to kill. Even in numbers, they aren’t that much of a threat. If they gang up on the player, they can simply look at what is about to bite him and back away, or just lead them so that they are in an ordered formation. In DOOM II, the packs are much larger…but you have the Super Shotgun, and better weapons are found much earlier. They’re one of the quicker enemies in the game, but the player is still faster. Truly, these things are only a pest when the game is played in Nightmare! mode.

Fucking scrubby-ass Pinkies…