Wariospeedwagon wrote:2: Doom Eternal (PC) 9/10 Posted in the Currently Playing thread about how, after a couple of hours, DE was getting too overwhelming - too many ideas, skills and systems. I couldn't keep up! This was at the time you get the flamethrower. Normal games give you a flamethrower and it's just a fun and different way to kill the baddies for when you want to mix it up from killing them with bullets. But DE isn't normal; the flamethrower has its own button and you use it to make the baddies shed armour pickups. You have to use it. On top of your switchable and upgradable gun mods, your different grenades, punching people for health, chainsawing them for ammo, double jumping, dash dodging, remembering how to kill the different enemy types quickly... I thought it was too much. Early on I couldn't remember which button did what. But it did all click shortly after! I never got good but I did get good enough to beat it on easy! All bets were off after the cueball demon was introduced. You shoot him and he goes flying and explodes when he comes into contact with anything. It's this sort of out of the box thinking that I will probably remember the game for - maybe it doesn't make sense but it comes together coherently to make a unique FPS. Love the heavy metal style too, it looks and sounds like Doom ought to. I THINK the story takes itself seriously (with bits of overt humour) but it's so over the top. I enjoyed the cheesiness. There is the odd winking at the camera but I didn't think there was too much of that. You don't need to follow it that closely but it seems like it's all there in the data pieces you pick up. Very impressed, will try the expansions when they're cheap, who knows maybe I'll turn the difficulty all the way up to medium.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Wario goes big with a 9. I enjoyed both recent games (high [9] and mid [8] for me), would probably play some Eternal DLC in a year or so. Some DOOM purists couldn't get on with the 2016 reboot (retroking I believe? vaguely remember him disliking the shift to close combat/executions), so I don't suppose they'd embrace Eternal. There's been a lot of 2016 vs DE chat on here recently and it's all been good to read.
Verecocha wrote:6.Destiny 2: Beyond Light - 6 Hours - 5/10 - Xbox Series X
Destiny just gets worse and worse for me. After worshipping the original and putting serious time in on this sequel it’s just become something else entirely.
Was it always like this and I just didn’t see it? The grind is beyond grind beyond grind. And it’s all just the same stuff it’s been for years. All this is of course well known but christ, just didn’t have any fun with that at all. The new sub-class was seriously awful and the only one I’ve ever immediately thought I don’t want to use this unless I have to. And I had to over and over again.
Yeah the same great gunplay is there, but most of the weapons are same old, same old as are the enemies, the environments, everything. Hope it’s the last time I get drawn in.
Verecocha wrote:I’ve done the campaign. I think I’ll live without the hidden away things I did for years and years before for things that are similar to all the things I already have or had. And I’ve not really enjoyed a single D2 Raid so I couldn’t be less interested in that either. I find it just so soul destroyingly boring now.
digi wrote:Verecocha wrote:I’ve done the campaign. I think I’ll live without the hidden away things I did for years and years before for things that are similar to all the things I already have or had. And I’ve not really enjoyed a single D2 Raid so I couldn’t be less interested in that either. I find it just so soul destroyingly boring now.
Yeh I keep bouncing off it for the same reason so I feel you there.
There's just so much more content after the story that is actually better than than the story.
(The lament quest, hawkmoon quest,) then obviously theres stuff you need a bit of luck for (cloudstrike quest).
I would argue that raids are destiny though and you haven't really played a destiny till you've finished a raid.
They are the pinnacle of destiny's achievement's and the best designed content in the game.
(And best loot and everything else).
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