I recently played and finished Doom 2016, and thought it was good in terms of challenge vs reward. Then I started Eternal on Hurt me Plenty difficulty, and it feels much harder. Enemies are faster, more aggressive, and there's way more of them. Meanwhile I have less ammo and feel weaker. Yet I see some people saying that Nightmare is the "proper" difficulty and the game is too easy otherwise. Am I missing something?...

new to doom, got eternal and 2016 on sale; played 2016 on ultra-violence, the game was fire. i felt powerful, guns felt powerful, ammo/armor galore, fast pace smooth vibes with little to no interruptions or dumba** gimmicks - just pure run n gun gameplay and action, and the simplicity of the game was chefs kiss. i beat it and wish i hadnt. playing eternal rn and this game is garbage; they changed s*** just for the sake of changing it and it didn't need to be changed, some guns that were good in 2016 feel ...

The game is more fluid and some new things like kills, armor, health and ammo recovery things are good... buuuuuut there's a lot of platforming puzzles. A few are ok but there's a looot. I prefer more the Doom 2016 approach than the Eternal on that. I hope Dark ages doesn't have that much platforming....

i need one person for now to do achivments on doom eternal

Doom 2016 was pretty much a gauntlet game to me. You walk into an area, get shut in, have to kill a bunch of baddies, get let out. That's all it seemed to be, which is fine and was a lot of fun for a while, but got old. Is this how Eternal plays out, or is more like Doom 3 which was a little less linear. In #3 you could leave areas and come back without having to kill everything there, be it to find ammo, armor, etc....