Yeah I think you're right that they maybe missed the mark with this. I know I'm certainly not the target market (my only experience of Keen was killing him in D

Yeah I think you're right that they maybe missed the mark with this. I know I'm certainly not the target market (my only experience of Keen was killing him in Doom II) but it looked a bit odd to me. Resurrecting a franchise has to be done with a great deal of care - there has been success with id software games before (Doom and Wolfenstein are good examples) but I guess you're walking a pretty fine line when you try it and there will always be a vocal (minority?) crowd telling you that you're fucking it up. I don't know if the Keen games was popular or interesting enough to warrant a reboot, but I certainly wouldn't envy the team tasked with the purpose of developing it for exactly the reasons you stated.