Doom the Dark Ages Review, Stalker Trilogy’s Fallout, and Gaming Industry Woes

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how I am doing. But this week, we're talking about the

Stalker remastered trilogy, and, well, it's not going well for

them. Unfortunate. We also got the voice actor of

Geralt really trying to tell people how they

should feel about the Witcher four. Agree or disagree, this is his

opinion. Randy Pitchford apparently well,

he just keeps on stepping in it. He's the CEO of Gearbox, and

he keeps on stepping in about the price of Borderlands four

because apparently, Borderlands three did so well that they needed to

double the budget because that makes a better gamer

sense. Gaming development

in this day and age is just a weird space right

now, to be honest with you. Also, we got

Epic and Fortnite and Darth Vader and SAG AFTRA

going at each other or mostly just SAG

being upset about

whatever epic is doing. We also have one of the writers or

former lead writer of Dragon Age talking about expedition

33 and bolder's gate three and why

RPGs do have a bigger appeal than what a lot

of publishers think they do. Overwatch two's

new update or, basically, it's Stadium's

update. We also have

dubious numbers from Bethesda about doom the dark ages.

It's dubious because it's almost the same thing what Ubisoft's

doing. We also have Marvel rivals, a new

hero, and new update. We also have

some Warhammer 40 k. There's there's a huge sale going on Steam right now.

We also have the remaster version of

Warhammer 40 k Space Marine. We also have

new numbers from star Star Wars Battlefront two.

Apparently, it's been taking off so much. And then my review,

actually, Doom the Dark Ages. Yeah. I actually finished

it. Wasn't that hard.

Anyways, let's get on with the show.

That's good. Alright. I hope you're having

a fabulous weekend of full of playing your

favorite games. But first off is GSC Game

World released their remastered versions of the original stalker trilogy,

shadows of Chernobyl, clear skies, and call of

I probably totally butcher that. Well, I've played all

these games. I didn't really beat them, but I played them and they were they

were fun. They were very janky to say the

least. Well, they aren't doing very well. They were

released on May 20, I believe, and it is still

at a mostly negative review

score on Steam. Players have expressed a specification

with removal of the original Russian language, audio track, and various Soviet

era relics from the game, which is odd, but I also understand because they

are Ukrainian publisher, and I'm pretty sure the Ukrainian

government has stipulations. Also,

specific complaints include the deletion of monument signs outside of

Chernobyl that previously read

Chazzy in the name of I don't know. There's something

that people are upset about. Some players have reported issues with blurry

graphics, particularly with using FSR and anti

aliasing features. So

it's not going well. I still say that these games are fun, but, yeah, unless

they fix I think the blurry thing is the biggest thing. I don't I

don't really play the game in Russian language, so I don't really care. The weird

removal of Soviet era relics is weird, but

given the fact that they are Ukrainian, you kinda understand

why they don't really wanna put this stuff back in. I'm not saying

it's warranted,

but that's what you get when you have a war with

somebody or two wars with. It

it's just a mess. Alright. Moving on to

the voice of Geralt from the which are the video

games, Doug Cogol, he said supports the decision to make Syria the

protagonist of the Witcher four. Kogol stated

that the backlash regarding the choice being woke is stupid,

which is not. He emphasized that Ciri is a cool character from the

Witcher and that focusing on her is a positive move for the series.

Why is it a positive move? I have no idea.

You know that's Geralt's story has concluded particularly after the events of Blood and

Wine, so you can go back to, like, a prequel when he

was a new Witcher and do that. I mean, doesn't really make much

sense. I here's the thing. I get

it. But calling people Internet weirdos because they

just really don't want any more girl bosses in their game is not the

best way of helping the situation. I

get it. You may want

this to happen, but gaming

culture has has very much shifted to the right.

Specifically because it's mostly male dominated, as

I've stated several times in a lot of different episodes.

So we have kind of gotten sick and tired of

and it's it's mostly just Marxism and feminism. We we

put it under the tent of woke, but it's it's basically two

specific things, Marxism and feminism, and they go hand in hand. And we've

kinda seen for the past fifty years that feminism has basically just screwed over

men. And And so we're basically done because we don't really wanna

see girl bosses anymore because they're they we don't care.

Like, it's annoying to us because I've

kind of gone over this before in previous episodes, but

men and women are different. Surprise. And the

hero's journey is very male focused because males are being

brought up to, like, basically adapt and

control your environment and win and do all that stuff. So, like, the

hero's journey is very male specific. And so it's weird when

they try to implement it with females because it just doesn't work.

And so when they say Internet weirdos, I'm like, you're just talking about

regular dudes that just do not wanna play this, like,

girl boss thing of, like, fighting the injustice,

and it it just doesn't work. It's why people

flock to, like, doom or people flock to, like, things that

make sense to them and that are normal.

And when you have when you have, like, woke, it's just stupid. It's

not stupid because it's happened,

and it keeps on happening. And the gaming industry doesn't really understand

it or refuses to understand it. It's probably more of the thing.

They refuse to understand it. And then when culture goes, we're done with this.

Every time you do something like this, we're not buying it. They wonder why

they're losing so much money, and then they balloon their budgets

to chase the quote unquote modern audience, which is basically the same thing as

before. The audience hasn't changed. Your perception of the

audience has changed, and that's just bad marketing.

Like, you can be a terrible marketer and convince people that you're chasing

the moderate audience with not knowing what your audience is, and

that's what's been happening. Now I could say also that marketing has been

taken over by more women than men, and so that does not help

either because women do not understand men as we see on the Internet far

too many times. Now you could say men don't understand

women, and you're right. But at least we understand that

part. We admit it. You guys don't. You go, yeah. I

understand guys. And you're like, no. You really don't. And

so this is where we're at again.

Is that it's

usually actors, and actors really need to shut up, to be honest

with you. They just don't understand things. They think they understand

it because they're told that this is the way things are because they

kind of sort of watch the news. But

saying that, like, woke is, like, stupid

or, like, it's like it's like

a term that we just reject diversity. We don't reject diversity. We

reject ingestion of a terrible ideology.

You can have females in video games. I don't really care. But don't try to

make them masculine. It just doesn't work.

We don't like it anymore. It's just a terrible way of

trying to ram down our throat something that isn't really

true. And so when you have these actors doing oh, yeah.

And he's beloved. We we all love him as Geralt. Like,

we recognize his voice and everything, but when he does this, it's like,

why are you purposely trying to piss off a group of

people that love your work?

It just doesn't make any sense. And it's all about and they

and he doesn't understand the side that doesn't like this, which

is becoming more and more a lot of gamers

do not like it. And so when he keeps on saying this,

he's alienating, like, a big portion of his audience

because he's trying to, like, appease

whatever higher up or something like that. It just

it just read the room, dude. Like, it's over. We

don't like it anymore. We have been rejecting it for

probably four years now. I would

say probably after Marvel end games, that's

when we it really started to ramp up where we were just like, we're done

with this. We don't want it anymore.

But that's where we're at.

It's not great. It's not good, but

I just I I just wish they

would understand that we just really just

we just wanna play games. We just don't care. We just care

about things that are fun. And when you implement things that just

aren't fun, we just don't like it. Which speaking of what's

not fun is talking about Randy Pitchford again. Jeez. Like,

this dude does not know how to shut up. Like,

the PR people are like, dude, be quiet. Like, you're not helping the

situation. But

he basically stated that he does not know the price of the Borderlands four,

responded on x and regarding the potential price Borderlands four, which suggests

should should not be $80. Yeah. A lot of people are like, why?

But then he's like, oh, but if you're a real fan, you would pay for

you pay $80 for it because when he

was younger, he bought an $80 game in 1991, which is really

expensive back in 1991. Mind you, the game

he's talking about, star flight did not sell well.

It it's it's kind of a cult classic, but it didn't sell well because it

was $80. And 91, like, $20 was

expensive back then because your money went a lot longer.

And then when you add on to that, you're like, yeah. $80 for this game

in 1991, everybody's like, no. I'm good. So I don't

really understand this because it wasn't it

wasn't one of the top selling games on the Sega Genesis system. It was I

think Sonic's a hedgehog too, was it? And that wasn't $80.

So I don't understand his comment. He's like, if you're a true fan,

so we'll help. Like, why is it $80

again? But then he went back and he's and

you start talking more about it. He's he

just does not know when to shut up. He's

like, yeah. But because Borderlands four is more than twice the development

budget of borderline three, and everybody's like, why? Why is it? Because it's

successful. That doesn't make any sense. When did you wanna keep it, like, a good

budget so you could sell more games? You wouldn't have, like, that high,

like, standard of I have to sell this many units to actually break

even. Like, I don't understand the development or the publishers anymore.

Because it seems like they're just like, let's just throw 10 different

studios and have a $300,000,000 budget.

And then, hopefully, we'll sell breakeven

because it plus with marketing, it's probably half a billion

dollars just to get it to break even.

And that's my issue with all this. It's like, stop. You can make

games with small devs, small

units. You don't have to have 15 different

huge developers making one game. I mean, I'm looking

at Battlefield. I'm looking at Call of Duty. You guys are ballooned

so much that you almost lost the point of

these games. And this is where we're

at. Like, we need to really start going how

to make a successful game, not just throwing money at it, not just throwing more

people at it because then you start losing what made the game

special when you have too many people making one game.

I get that DICE hasn't done a really good job with Battlefield,

but that's just because you didn't have strong leadership, and then

the higher ups got, I think, way more involved than they should have.

But when you don't have a strong vision, that's what kills most games.

We're gonna make a game like this. What's it supposed to be about? I don't

know. We'll figure it out. And that's like, woah. Okay. That's not good.

Anyways, moving on to Fortnite. So Fortnite had

a Star Wars themed event, and

they reintroduced Star Vader, and they use AI generated voice based on James

Earl Jones. And they just can interact with Darth Vader in real time with certain

limitations. And, well, SAG AFTRA would well,

wasn't happy about this. However, the funny part is

is that Fortnite did give permission from the James Earl Jones estate to

actually use that. So it's not like they went,

like, rogue and just as well. Yeah. Whatever. We'll just use it. No. They actually

got permission from the estate to do this.

But then SAG is like, no. No. No. You didn't talk to us about it.

We're supposed to be a part of this. It's like, this is why I hate

unions because they really

do like, they don't innovate.

They really do just it's kinda like this protection of it, and they will not

innovate because of the because innovation a lot of times means less

jobs. And so what they will do specifically is say, like, nope. And

then you have the people that don't do very well that have to get paid

the same as the people that do do very well. And so it really does

hamper, like, a competitive competitiveness and trying

to be better at your at your profession.

So sag is mad because they didn't

inform about it. And I guess it's a violation

of labor laws, I guess. Like, I

it it it doesn't really seem like a solid argument

because and I'm not a big fan of epic, mind you.

I don't like Tim Sweeney very much. I think a lot of his arguments are

dumb, especially when it comes to monopolies because

he keeps on, like, being mad that Steam's a monopoly, but he forgets that

his own company is a monopoly with the Unreal Engine

because it is monopoly on the on the gaming engine side. It's

like unreal engine is the most popular engine. It wasn't like that about

twenty years ago because you had ID, and ID tech four was, like, the

most popular game for ID, and then they just didn't do anything, and then

epic took over. Now you have any other engines.

Dice has their own frostbite. You have

the cry tech engine. You have several other ones.

They're not just as big. Ubisoft has their own engine. Snowdrop, I think

it's called. You have your they have their own, but it just isn't

that popular. So with

this, I'm more on the side of epic because they did

talk to

the state of James Earl Jones and

they got permission. That's all you really should need.

So moving on to the former lead writer, for Dragon

Age compared exhibition 33 to Baldur's Gate three stating

that both games serve as love letters to their respective genres and

have broader appeal than typical typically expected.

Gator, I think, is it is is the last name, noted the

impressive sales of Baldur's Gate three, which he will use contradicts previous

assumptions about RPG audience sizes, specifically that it caps

at around 5,000,000. He mentioned that many good games

do not achieve commercial success for various reasons, including market

saturation. He highlighted that blowsgate three

benefited from extended early access period while

Expedition 33 faced challenges in getting approval from large

publishers like Ubisoft. Both games have received

overwhelmingly positive user ratings and are performing well on Steam.

Yes. I started finally playing Expedition 33, and it's a it's a

great game so far. I'm still trying to get the whole, like, Barry

and Dodge thing, but I'll eventually get

there. But he's right. I mean, you can't really

define the audience because it depends on what the game

is. I mean, Skyrim was popular because mostly

because of mods. I mean, it's a fun game, but mods has really

made it what it is. Ballersgate three was great

even though it already had a success from one and two because

Bioware originally created Bowls gate one and two. It was like their first big

successes was these two games. And then they went on to make their own,

and then, fortunately, they lost their pedigree,

but they were huge successes.

And then you had boulders gate three different studio, but still

recreated the magic of what boulders gate was and people loved it.

Yes. It did. It was an early access, and people were complaining

about early access. But all in all, it was a regret game.

Expedition 33 brought it back to turn based style

action with some real time action. I mean,

the Perry and the Dodge is real more real time.

So it was a hybrid, but it was still fun because no one was

doing anymore. Square Enix abandoned that or Squaresoft. I don't know.

They changed their name so many times. It's just, yeah, Square Enix abandoned it

for the Final Fantasy to be more real time, and they coulda

kept it. Especially for Final Fantasy seven, they coulda kept it and

kind of, like, looked at what exhibition thirty three did and be like,

this is actually a pretty good system. But, no, they went to more of a

real time system, which I mean, it's alright. You

just don't really like as much as what it used

to be. But, I mean, it's a testament to

even old things can become popular again, and maybe just

don't, like, hate on, like, genres because you just don't know the audience. You

can assume the audience size. But unless you create

a game and make it and see what the audience size is,

it's all speculation. If it's a great game, people will buy it. If it's

not, then, yeah, you don't have an audience. It's all about the perception of the

audience to your game and if the game's good or not. Because if the game's

good, it's accessible enough for people who wanna play it, then you're

gonna sell a lot. But if it's not and the writing's

terrible and it's just kind of like,

not what it used to be, I'm looking at you dragon age, then, yes, no

one's gonna buy it.

But that's the thing. I still think RTS is

should come back. I think tempest rising is a great game, and I think that

EA is sitting on a gold mine that they just haven't figured out

yet because they're too focused on first person shooters.

That's all they really wanna make. They're they're basically becoming Activision.

Because that's what all Activision makes now is Call of

Duty. And I stopped playing that game because that gave me

it's weird with all the with all the skins and stuff. It

just it's it becomes like Fortnite, and I'm

just not into that. Alright. Moving on to

Overwatch two and has released an update chain changes

to stadium mode. The update includes tweaks to the mercy rule

item, purchase adjustments, introduction of a new character named

Freya, and hero balance changes. The mercy rule previously required

a cash disparity of 15,000 between teams to trigger an immediate

win for the leading team after winning three rounds in a row. The cash

disparity required to trigger the mercy rule has been reduced to 10,000.

Blizzard has stated that they will monitor the changes to the mercy rule and may

consider further adjustments in the future. Hey. Look. Overwatch two

is having its heyday again because of stadium. People are really excited about

stadium. Marvel rivals have fallen off a little bit, but that does

happen. I mean, that's the nature of live service

games. They're, like, they're popular for a time, and then they're not.

New update comes, everybody plays it, and then they don't.

That's that is the vicious cycle of life service

games. Look at hell divers too. Fun game, excellent

game, but you always wait for the next update and see if the next

everybody is good enough to play the game. And if it is, then you play

the game. If it's not, you don't. So there

you go. All right. So

Bethesda has announced the doom. The dark ages is the biggest launch in

ID software, thirty four year history.

I don't know about that one. The game reached 3,000,000 players achieving

the milestone seven times faster than doom eternal.

Again, it's 3,000,000 players, not unit sold.

Bethesda did not provide sales numbers or details on development and

marketing expenses. Again, not a good sign.

And I'm not, I'm not doing a review after this. It's gonna be later, but

it's not a good sign. And I always say, show me the

numbers. Don't do the trust me, bro, because the trust me,

bro, is never a good thing to have. I

don't want how many players have, quote, unquote, played the game because I

don't know what your metric is and how long it like, they

booted up for ten seconds and decided to I'm

good. I mean, what do you want from

that? I mean, we can

check right now and see how

many players

are playing this. But, I mean, all in all, I've not

had a terrible time with this game. It's just

it's just annoying that they don't actually give

numbers. And it's like, I want numbers. Tell me the

numbers. Don't tell me how many players have played it. Right now

in game, as we speak, there's about 12,000 players playing it, which is not

good. For a new game to come out,

it's not good

because it it should be

a lot more.

But unfortunately, they're

using game pass numbers to kinda, like, shore up that. I mean,

it's it's gotten 85% review on Steam, so it's

good. I mean, the all type peak, unfortunately, was only been

31,000, which is not good at all.

So and that's steam numbers. That's the only numbers I can actually have.

So I don't think it's looking good for doom the dark

ages. It's unfortunate because it's probably

one of the least woke games from, like, a triple a

modern game that we've seen in a while.

But we'll see if there's more of an uptake, but, I

mean, there's over almost close to 15,000 positive

reviews and about 2,000 negative reviews.

So it's sitting pretty in a pretty good review, but we've seen that before

with assessment's creed shadows and

dragon age, veil guard.

Anyways, we'll see. We'll see if they actually give numbers, but

I I it's just marketing

speak. When you see them changing from units sold to

just players, you're like, oh, 3,000,000 players.

I don't know what that actually means. And it just it's a vanity metric

now. It doesn't mean anything.

Because if there's if

there's, like, three or more million players

for game pass, then you've really just said, hey, look,

everybody's playing on game pass. That's not

good because you really want units sold as well. And if they're not giving you

units sold means it's not selling very well.

Anyways, moving on to NetEase announced

details from Marvel's, two and a half season two and a

half set for May 30, which is in

about seven days. The update will

in introduce Ultron as a playable hero. A new

map named Rico will be added,

which has been taken over by Ultron. The update includes balance changes

and new team ups while also retiring some old team

ups. Ultron will be will have abilities including

the and cephleray

drone summons for healing abilities and the ultimate ability called

rage of Ultron, which apparently is just drones that can

either heal your your team or

damage the opponent. There's also six

new team ups will be introduced including community request in move

called Jeff Nato, which basically combined Storm and Jeff.

So it should be interesting. Four team ups will be removed including

the Venom, Penny's, Spidey team up using a

symbiotic bond. A new limited time mode called

Ultron's battle matrix protocol will allow players to assemble teams and

engage in auto battling chessboard like field.

Season two of Marvel rivals will end around mid July

as it is the last season to run for three months,

while season three transitions into a two month

schedule. And the executive producer has acknowledged the

need for harsher penalties for players who rage quit ranked matches, which is

fair. I mean, if you're gonna do that, yeah, you should probably have strict

penalties. I don't really care about quick play. If you leave, someone will join,

or if not, you lose. It doesn't really matter as much. But, you know, rank

play, yeah, if someone leaves, yeah, harsh better harsh penalties

is a okay with me on that one. Alright. We got some news

for the Warhammer 40 k series. There's a huge sale going on right now

in Steam. You can actually get which I download. I didn't know, but it looked

like it was a part of the bolt gun game, but it's not. It's a

typing game. Look. It looks like in the bolt gun game, which you could

download for free, which I think is pretty cool, to be honest with you. I

mean, it's always great to learn how to type faster.

But how cat games has revealed a news, new set

game set in the Warhammer 40 k universe. The game is titled 40 k

dark heresy. It describes as a party

based story driven CRPG, computer role playing game.

Okay. And it really doesn't find it was

probably it's probably more turn based than anything else. Players will take on the role

of a acolyte on the inquisition. The game will involve

leading investigation, uncovering conspiracies, mastering technical

combat, and waging a secret war against heresy. And there's no release

date. We also had bolt gun two being released. It's coming soon

as well because bolt gun was a really fun game. It's kinda like

doom and, like, the Warhammer 40 k series, first person

shooter type of a thing. So it's pretty fun. It's not that

expensive right now. And then Sega and Relic Entertainment announced

the release of Warhammer 40 k space marine mastercrafted

edition. The addition is a remaster of the original Warhammer 40

k space marine, which was first released in 02/11 on the PS three,

Xbox three sixty, and PC. The remaster will be available on

PC, Xbox series x and s on

June 10. There is currently no information on a potential release

for the PS five. The game will be available on Xbox game pass on its

launch day. So sorry, PS five players, you cannot play it for

whatever reason. Not really quite sure why, but the

original space for anyone was great. Relic was the

original developer on that one, and then it was transferred over to

saber interactive. But the first one was a fun game. People

loved it. So I'm all for it. They also

are is it remastering

the strategy game that relic made for Warhammer 40 k original one as

well? So look out for that. Should be fun.

Then moving on to something interesting that

didn't think would ever happen, but

Star Wars Battlefront two is popular again. Mainly because of

Andor, because that was actually pretty fun. And so

players have wanted well, they

want Battlefront three. Guess what? That's not really gonna be

happening anytime soon. What more likely happened from developer side, what he

said because most of the people that made

Battlefront two from dice have left. There's about three left from the

live team, and that's really all that remains. So what he actually stated

was if they actually remastered Battlefront two for

the modern consoles and PCs, then they can get

there. And it's a lot less of a lead time. If it's if it's

successful, they can make

Battlefront three, and that could actually help them understanding the

systems behind it and getting up to date with how to make Battlefront

games, or they just start over and just redo it. But,

anyways, for the time being, there's gonna be no

Battlefront three. One of the reasons why is because the CEO of

EA really doesn't wanna do Star Wars games, just expensive

licensing fees and all that stuff. So you may not see it

ever, or you may or if it gets really popular or if they

actually do a a remaster, it and that sells well. Like you

said, it could happen, but I would not hold my breath out for this.

Now I'm redownloading it because I'm like, I wonder how popular it is because

I mean, I enjoyed battlefront too. It was a fun game, but

don't expect battlefront three

anytime soon.

Alright. And so I have finished doing the dark ages

because I'm a fan of doom, and I actually thought this was gonna be not

very woke game. And I was I was mostly correct.

There's very little quote unquote woke in

there. I mean, it's it's it's a game

that still understands what its player audience is, which is

mostly men. And so the story is not

great. I would not even say it's

marginally good. There's a lot of plot holes. There was a lot of issues with

I had with it. I really don't understand why, like, the

Slayer is already the Slayer, but we don't really understand why. We get

kind of like here and there about why he became the

slayer, but there really isn't, like, enough

for me to go, oh, okay. Now I get why he did it. The

slayer actually talks. It actually says one word in

the game, which is interesting. But for the most part, this

helmet is on. They take a helmet off a few times, but for the most

part, it's on. Now

the combat is still it's not as good

as 02/2016, in my opinion, but it's better than doom

eternal. Sorry. I I just don't like the Mario

version of doom very much. I thought it was kind of annoying. We still need

to actually finish doom eternal. That's how bad it

is. But

the ground combat with the shield, I think that shield was a good addition.

I actually do think the shield kind of brings in a lot of interesting things

you could do with it, like blocking, like, stunning

big characters as long as they don't have armor or just killing a bunch

of them kinda like Captain America, but a little bit more bloody style.

Weapons are interesting. You got, like, you got, like, a nail gun and

there's, like, variations of it. There's not a lot of guns, but there's enough

to kinda like vary it. You also introduction of melee

weapons and you also have your, you have your fists. You also have

the mace and then kind of like a flail as

well. And then your shield there's upgrades to all this,

but your shield has, like, specific upgrades where additional

ones to, like, electrify enemies

through, there's an auto turret part of it. There's, like,

different types of things you could do with it. So there's replayability with

it, but

the dragon flight one is pretty fleshed out. It's

pretty interesting to play. It's still not as good as the ground combat, and the

mech one was probably the weakest out of all of them.

So that was kind of easy and not

as fun to play, but luckily, the mech combat,

it's it's not most of the game or I kind of not really be

enjoying it. So that's great. Now

it runs really well on my PC. I have

a AMD Ryzen 7,900 x. I have

a Nvidia thirty ninety. So I'm two

generations behind right now. Also, I have 64 gigs of RAM,

so it ran really well. I did not run into any

bugs while playing the game. However,

I did run into some weird bugs.

For example, every time I boot it up, I'm gonna I technically have three

monitors, but the Elgato prompter is kind of a

monitor. But it would switch. And I would have to switch back when

I booted it up, which is weird. And then

when I first was trying to get into it, it would not load at all.

It would crash every single time. So if you're running into

this and you have a Ryzen CPU,

disable the APU or the the graphics driver

within your CPU, and it will run fine. That's what I had I had

to search this out. I had to figure it out, but, apparently, it was trying

to run through that one and not my actual NVIDIA card, so it would

never run. It drove me nuts.

So that wasn't good. But I it seemed really

well optimized for me. I saw no slowdown whatsoever, and there was a

lot of different enemy or demons coming after me, and

I had no problems with it. Like I said, there's very little to

know, like, kinda like wokeness in it. It still very much

is doom guy, and he is the central part of the story. Yes.

There is a woman in there. Yeah. She's kinda part of

the story. She kinda helps you out. But without you, you

she would not know that she was what she was or anything

like that. Without you, the human race would die.

Without you, the demons would win. Like, this is

very, like, the Slayer is the central part

of the story. So when people say it's woke,

they don't understand it. It's not.

Now is it worth the price tag? Probably not. It took me about

fifteen hours to complete, which is not great

for like a $70.80 dollar game. Now mind you,

there is gonna be more single player stuff, but I kinda

wanted more. I know you can replay them. And I think

without multiplayer, it kind of seems like it's

not that great of a value. And I do

think what they should have done instead is do like a, like a type of

a co op thing, maybe kinda like a leadership board against your friends to

see who could, like, do it better or kill demons

quickly or something like that to bring kind of a community based thing together. Because

the multiplayer is the other ones never really lasted very long. No one really played

them very much. They kinda had their heyday for a while, and then people stopped

playing it. So I understand why they did they dropped the

multiplayer. It wasn't working. They couldn't find

what worked for doom anymore, and that's fine because doom

really never had a multiplayer. It was always a single

player specific game until doom 02/2016.

So it's not like they're going against what it originally was.

It's just I wish the game was longer

and wish there

was, like, a coop portion of it.

And I think that would actually have helped with the sales.

Maybe they'll add it later. Maybe they won't. I don't really know for sure.

But all in all, it's still a fun game. Like, I

still had a blast, like, throwing my shield, doing stuff, trying to,

like, block at the right times. Like, it it was fun.

People complaining about it. That's fine. I mean, most of

the complaints are about the price tag, and that's that's a fair assessment.

But it's still a really fun game. I had fun playing it. I had fun

playing the doom guy being the badass on

doom. So I'd say if you

actually have the money for it, buy it. If you don't, just wait for a

sale. But it's it's as close as you

can get to to doom 2,016 combat wise.

Story wise, I really

wasn't that impressed with it, but combat wise, I was,

and I was happy with it. So,

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