I got that Doom4 was set after 1, 2, 64, and possibly the Master Levels of 2, if they're canon, but man, the timeline's kinda gotten out of hand. Guess there've been some retcons since the DOS days, because one of the Keen games confirmed that Wolf3D-era BJ was Keen's granddad, so unless Doom1 was set, like, 30 years after the Keen games...

Fuck it, man, I'm just glad id's still around. There was a big-ass patch for Quake Champeens yesterday and it added in the Eternal Doom Super Shotgun and the Quake III Lighting Gun which I'd been hoping for... but I think they're both part of the bullshit-ass pay-to-grind system, so to hell with that.

This retroactively means that Doomguy has one or more siblings because the newest Commander Keen game is about his twin children. One male named Billy and one female named Billie. It's a mobile game that I'm not sure was released.

One of the books in Doomguy's bedroom is called "Why I'm so great Pt. II by Dork Norkem." Also since you missed it the big plot twist of Doom 2016 was that it wasn't a reboot at all. The Doomguy in Doom2016 is the same one as in Doom 1-2. 3 being either a clone or an alternate reality. But the events of Doom 1-2 have already happened and Doomguy was sealed away. The Doomguy you read about that fucked up Hell and became the boogeyman to the demons wasn't just the Doomguy from the OG Dooms he was you.

Keen is Doomguy's dad. BJ from Wolf 3D is Keen's grandpa. So BJ is also Doomguy's great grandfather. There is also a member of the family named BJ Blazkowski II and he was a space Marine. BJ himself fought and mortally wounded a demon that would be rebuilt as the Cyberdemon. This is all pulled from id literature and the Doom and Wolfenstein RPGs.

Wait, shit, who's Eternal Doomguy's dad? Because if memory serves, BJ from Wolf3D is the grandfather of "Billy Blaze," Commander Keen, right? And DOOM1guy is Keen's descendant, at an undetermined point in the future.

I mean, that's assuming any of the Classic id stuff is still canon and/or the same universe and characters now. Finding the Keen skull with the helmet and the minigun in DOOM4 brought a smile to my face. Would've loved to have seen some kind of shade thrown at the Douk, like a red tank top and steroids in a locker or some shit.

Also, Bitterman did nothing wrong.

Yeah Doomguy keeps his dad's skull in his bedroom and there's a bunch of Dopefish references. The Cultist Base level has 3 or so and they double as both a Dopefish and Lovecraft reference.

If we're lucky, there'll be Catacombs with the wreckage of Hovertanks. I mean, there's already Keen stuff and the Dopefish, right?

It's either where DLC will take place or they hid a switch or teleporter somewhere in the Fortress that leads there. One of the discs requires finding a target switch and shooting it to get to the cheat code. I suspect something similar or it's just going to be where you go to get stuff for one of the DLCs.

I guess that's some kinda DLC shit, eh?