vodka-bull
Member
Fuck the Goty awards, ever since God of War became GotY 2018 instead of RDR2 I can't take them serious anymore.
phant0m
Member
Good game. Not GOTY IMO but absolutely underrated and overlooked this year
simpatico
Member
33 isn't my type of game, but it looks amazing and is a worthy GOTY from everything I've seen. I don't have a list of release dates in front of me, but I prefer AtomFall pretty greatly over anything listed.
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asdasdasdbb
Member
Entirely possible that I don't end up buying/playing any 2025 game this year.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Doom dark ages
What a game
What a game
Hudo
Member
On paper, the gameplay changes they've made sound interesting. In practice, I found them to be boring after a couple of levels (blocking/parrying differently colored blobs), I found the encounter design to be weaker and less exciting than in Doom 2016 and Eternal. The "story" or "plot" was slowing down the overall pacing of the game. And I'm sorry, but the "story" is Marvel-tier garbage. Not interesting and not really what I want out of a Doom game. And for all their marketing about the melee part of the combat, it really feels underbaked. Melee is more of a reactionary thing. I imagined it more to be an offensive thing that you could go to down with, a bit like Dark Messiah (maybe that was my mistake, but I got the impression in the marketing that Melee was going to be a bigger thing). In general, I found myself swapping weapons far less to fit the situation. I remember that choosing the right weapon for the problem to be a far bigger thing in Eternal. And fucking hell, the soundtrack was a letdown, I am sorry to the composer of The Dark Ages, but I don't remember any track. Also, why isn't there a fast travel option? It makes exploring and hunting for secrets kinda annoying, especially later in the game, with levels being bigger for whatever reason. I also found them to be less interesting. Yes, they are bigger, have bigger open spaces, but they also feel more generic in a way as a result. The Dark Ages is solid but I walked away being disappointed, especially for the price they sold it at. I first refused to buy it. It's certainly not worth 80€.Biggest disappointment?
What went wrong?
Hmm, I take it you played through to the end? With the new update doing some encounter rebalancing, adding a slow-mo slider for melee and parries, adjusting the audio mixing and such, if you'd find it to be a bit better in its current state?
Robb
Gold Member
Reporting back: It knocked my socks off.
I'd be shocked if anything else I play this year will come close to this one.
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Hudo
Member
Yeah, I played through it, but I haven't touched it since. And I don't really have the desire to go back to it again. I can see why people like it, I am just not one of them. It happens.
I do hope ID will do not another Doom game as their next project again, though. I think it's time to go back to Quake 1 and see if they can lift it into the current gen, like they did for Doom with Doom 2016. But I don't know if I want Hugo Martin to direct it.
Edit: Hugo Martin was TDA's director, not Marty Stratton (mea culpa).
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vaibhavpisal
Member
Its a very strong year.
Still its a contender for me. Top 5 probably. Winning it will be hard though.
Stuart360
Member
Oh yeah its never going to win GOTY, even if i thought it should. I just meant it deserves more love in general.