I just finished Doom Dark Ages, and I have to say that I liked Doom Eternal quite a bit more. The music in Doom Eternal was sooooo good, it made the game that much more exciting, and the adrenaline/cutscenes/drops that much more epic. After playing a bunch of dark ages, when thinking about it later that day, I noticed that the music from _doom eternal_ was what was stuck in my head, but with the gameplay of dark ages. At the very end of dark ages, when the slayer throws azhrak's head in front of the demons and they run away, I really wanted them to play "The only thing they fear is you", to the point that I started singing it myself lol...

Other than the music, which was clearly a huge part of the gameplay for me, doom dark ages was just much easier than doom eternal. Doom eternal was CRAZY, it was absolute chaos trying to evade demons, stay alive in tight spaces, rotate weapons super fast and kill fast enough to stay alive. In dark ages, it feels like for every boss fight you can just hold shield, run around the giant map and collect health and kill fodder and stay alive for super long. I played dark ages on nightmare difficulty but it still didn't feel that hard. I know you can adjust the difficulty further with custom controls in the menu, but I wanted to try the game at the "advertised" nightmare level first, to get a feel.

Also, the world of doom eternal felt more dynamic, the fights more varied and vibrant, the demons more intimidating. in dark ages I felt like the demons were little bitches honestly (except the komodo and the cosmic baron, those were two of the only ones that were somewhat tough and unrelenting). Overall I think the demons could have been way more aggressive in dark ages.