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[JobLeonard]

Context for an old fogey out of the loop?

[Kater101]

Doom 2016

[Schoq]

Context for an old fogey out of the loop?

In Sweden, where it first aired over TV 1 on 31 December 1982[3] the film's airing annually around Christmas-New Year has become a tradition.[4]

[JWK5]

[Raptor85]

Doom 2016

I thought the general consensus on this was that it was incredibly mediocre, fun combat but repetitive and got old fast due to the level design being a linear chain of monster spawning arenas connected by hallways, and the chainsaw/ammo mechanic making any pacing irrelevant due to the supply of infinite ammo and health at all times.

A solid Meh/10

[s0]

like i said, i think doom 2016 got a lot of hype because expectations were fairly low and then it turned out to be Pretty Good. the fact that it already isn't being talked about much anymore is kind of a testament to its lack of longevity.

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it won one of the steam awards , the steam “Boom Boom” award

[s0]

*500 crickets chirping the riff to metallica's "master of puppets" in unison*

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[halk3n]

Metroid Prime.

[Tanner]

i am enjoying doom a lot, idk. it's got good flow and is pretty ridiculous

[Schoq]

Pachinko

[Schoq]

the environmental design paradigm of "sloppy tubes or wires across the floor"

[s0]

the environmental design paradigm of "sloppy tubes or wires across the floor"

resembles the bedroom of the average game developer


ART IMITATES LIFE

[Photon]

I just recently played Axiom Verge and felt pretty underwhelmed outside of the presentation values. Combat is generally very boring (bosses are some of the most predictable/repetitive ones I've seen in a long while in a game of this complexity,) and the ambiguity of the game is so extreme that it felt like an upgrade and its corresponding "generic wall gate" could be separated by half the world map.

I don't blame people for getting excited about new metroidvanias or even enjoying them based on their merits, but it feels like sometimes the community is so starved for a proper "Metroid" that the game gets treated like its the rebirth of Metroid itself.

[Schoq]

I just recently played Axiom Verge and felt pretty underwhelmed outside of the presentation values. Combat is generally very boring (bosses are some of the most predictable/repetitive ones I've seen in a long while in a game of this complexity,) and the ambiguity of the game is so extreme that it felt like an upgrade and its corresponding "generic wall gate" could be separated by half the world map.

I don't blame people for getting excited about new metroidvanias or even enjoying them based on their merits, but it feels like sometimes the community is so starved for a proper "Metroid" that the game gets treated like its the rebirth of Metroid itself.

see also: symphony of the night

[Manuel Magalhães]

The first Max Payne is overrated. The game's mechanics and level design are great, and the stages look nice, but I never liked the writing. The misanthropic monologues from Max (which is a pretty much a 2D character), the other characters are forgettable for the most part, failed joke attempts, etc, 

Max Payne 2, on another hand, is underrated and the best entry of the series. It's pretty great, it improves everything from the original.

[Schoq]

Every game that doesn't have a co-op mode

[JobLeonard]

... or couch-multiplayer

[Raptor85]

I just recently played Axiom Verge and felt pretty underwhelmed outside of the presentation values. Combat is generally very boring (bosses are some of the most predictable/repetitive ones I've seen in a long while in a game of this complexity,) and the ambiguity of the game is so extreme that it felt like an upgrade and its corresponding "generic wall gate" could be separated by half the world map.

I don't blame people for getting excited about new metroidvanias or even enjoying them based on their merits, but it feels like sometimes the community is so starved for a proper "Metroid" that the game gets treated like its the rebirth of Metroid itself.

see also: symphony of the night

SOTN's combat system was awesome though, super responsive and no weapon/spell/etc was useless so you could play through the game the way you wanted.  Aria of sorrow then took that and ran with it and to this day is i think the best metroidvania type game ever made, it simply has the most unique and fun combat system ever, with literally thousands upon thousands of combinations of soul sets and equipment.

Axiom Verge on the other hand, has an amazing story and a great art style but the combat just wasn't that great...there was a huge variety of weapons (there's what, like 30 different weapons in that game? I forget how many i had by the end) but really only a few of them were even useful outside of 1-2 situations.  most of the early game weapons were just too OP too, so they basically ended up being your main weapons for the entire game.  Plus the enemies were just really not that varied, most just patroled and fired projectiles.  corrupting them into other stuff was neat and some had cool effects but it got old fast.