/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5342968
A note under the old KDITD novel suggesting there are three followups to it, but that they grow increasingly optional with each entry.
I mean I like them for what they are, imperfections and flaws and all, but by the last one the story isn't very 'Doom' anymore, feeling more like some of Team TNTs non-Final Doom stuff (I vaguely get pictures in my mind of parts of Icarus : Alien Vanguard, Daedalus, and Eternal Doom, by the end of the third book).

It feels like they did two novels based on the games, realized they ran out of game to write about (Final Doom might not have been out yet), and figured, they still had contracts for two more books, so uh, like spin them off into just some sci-fi adventure or something.
The authors wrote a lot of Star-Trek novels, so I imagine that both colored the stuff they did write around Doom, and also the stuff they didn't, in how they explore weird sci-fi ideas, and how they wouldn't be constrained by the characters, themes, and typical tropes of Star-Trek (because let's face it, Captain Kirk is an absolute chad, but him and Doomguy approach problem solving from usually pretty different angles, not to talk about Picard, who generally would always seek the most diplomatic solution at any time).
The fourth book gets oddly existentialistic.