Re: Is it that time again? Half Life 3

Mr Rob <noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> writes:

Unless I have forgotten about any imminently upcoming games, my next
day one purchase will be Borderlands 4. I am genuinely looking forward
to that one.

I'd like to say the same but I'm not sure, BL3 was already a somewhat
mixed bag. Streamlined faster combat, even worse writing than before (or
maybe I'm even further away from the target demographics), powerful
characters and event-added superweapons presumably to power through the
tedium. That part worked, I think my second playthrough wouldn't have
happened without. Third playthrough was with the soldier, her mech
turned out to be superweapon enough. The robot guy was even more OP
pre-nerfing. Playing with the operative at least had more challenge but
he too gets his impenetrable shield going almost all the time pretty
fast.

I wondered before if they'll just automate the fights for BL4? Or just
have a parkour button and a fight button for controls? Or maybe that's
going too far. There were some pretty cool character skills and skill
interplay in BL3, one skill boosting another, but you needed a guide to
figure that out.

Doom: The Dark Ages is on Gamepass, but I have very little appetite
for it. Doom 2016 was a shock for me because I thought it would be my
'go to' game for a least a few weeks. I got bored with it after around
6 hours cumulative over a few weeks. I really thought I liked it, and
then, I didn't after a while.

After the 2016 Doom I felt pretty much Doomed out. I would've really
liked a new game+ with all the weapon upgrades but it wasn't there. I
watched some gameplay video of the whatsit sequel between 2016 and Dork
Ages and wasn't impressed so didn't bother. I guess it'd work for some
senseless mayhem but it also feels like maybe I'm getting old and
getting through the hectic battle arenas and challenges in 2016 already
felt taxing.

I tell myself that I would really like to see a Half-Life 3 soon, an
Unreal 3, or a Tiny Tina's Wonderlands sequel.

You played Wonderlands? I tried but it just felt kinda like Borderlands
but too much the same old and too much silly stuff. IOW, what sorta
kinda mostly worked as a largish BL2 DLC didn't seem to scale well to a
full game. Tiny Tina works in small doses but gets old quickly.