Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:10:35 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, that's my playlist this month. Did you play more games? Fewer?
Let's find out. Just answer the following question:
>
What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

DOOM 2016

I've gotten a bit further with it this time. It's an OK game.


DOOM Eternal

Mario Bros with guns some of the time. Resource management seems to be
the main focus. I find it quite boring after 10-15 minutes. There is
little flow to the game as ammunition is scarce at times, yet there
are often many demons to tackle. This is not my idea of an FPS in the
portrayed setting of the game.


DOOM: The Dark Ages

I'm still plodding on. The game gets better as it goes along. The
early chapters that force you to use the parry primarily are hard work
if your instinct is to play the game as a pure shooter. Later in the
game the parry mechanic still matters, but with upgraded guns and the
Flail for melee the gameplay between weapons and melee/parry feels
much more even and definitely more enjoyable. The game is entertaining
me enough that I deleted my first character at chapter 16 so that I
could start again and find more of the secrets. The gold and gem
stones mean quicker upgrades and a more satisfying gameplay
experience.

The Titan and Dragon interludes are as annoying as hell still. Each
map transition has me gritting my teeth in anticipation of being peed
off at the thought of grinding through another 5 minutes of stupidity.

Overall I give the game a thumbs up though. I would recommend it with
the caveat that the early chapters feel out of whack gameplay wise.
The pacing seems off due to the need to parry and finish so much
rather than just blast away. Be prepared to NOT be able to kill
certain demons with guns in the early game.

I dabbled with other games. Since taking early retirement, the days,
weeks, and months seem to flow into each other. Some of the games I
played recently may have been in April.

One that I definitely played this month is "Chambers"  which is a
janky, quirky shooter that reminds me of the Nitro Family and Call of
Juarez: Gunslinger. It's weirdly entertaining but is still in EA so is
a bit buggy. I got stuck in the first map a couple of times and had to
start again.

It has inventory management with a weight limit. It is very janky.

Here's a video (not mine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHqnox0VHIs

--
Rob