I haven't seen much combat info yet but the article I read on Push Square mentioned a "chainsaw shield".

I don’t think they have any idea where to go with the narrative.

In todays gaming culture even if it was great no one would be satisfied. I don't know how they can live up to the hype tbh.

Well the part I don't get is where is the coop part? I mean Doom 1 and 2 had full campaign coop back in the 90s.

Think Gears of War.

My best memories were playing coop and making deathmatch maps for me and my buds. I had a ton of fun doing Doom 1 and 2 as well as Quake with my friends.

At this time, Doom: The Dark Ages is single player campaign only. I really hope they add multiplayer later, but I don't expect it.

Doom 2016 had an amazing multiplayer mode. Including SnapMap that allowed you to design your own deathmatch levels. But it was actually not developed by id games who did the campaign. But I was a huge fan, and still play some Doom 2016 multiplayer to this day.

The follow up Doom: Eternal didn't have deathmatch multiplayer mode, but instead created a new mode called Horde mode. Which was a 3 player match, with 1 player being the Slayer, and the other 2 being a selection of different demons. It sucked hard, and nobody liked it.

Quake 2 was recently remastered, and has a cross platform deathmatch multiplayer mode that still sees quite a bit of action. Been playing that now and then. I still have some very fond memories of playing some big multiplayer CTF matches with a dozen other people. Everybody using the grappling hook to fly around the maps. Good times.

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Hopefully doom has an easy mode that is easy

So who's getting Civ 7?

I'm gonna keep my eye on it, but I just have a feeling that it might be worth waiting for a sale. AAA games aren't exactly made with much love these days with a few exceptions. The 5 days early access to a single player game for an extra $20 or 30 is a red flag IMO.

I guess the 5 days will give me time to watch a few reviews. I do not value the early access reviews, they are most likely just shilling.

I have to admit it looks cool but I'm not sure I'm $70 invested in it. I'll wait and see what happens, I've tried quite a few civ games with friends and they all seem about the same. This one looks quite a bit better, like they overhauled the graphics and such.

I liked Civ 6, but I wasn't that into it. I'll probably pass on Civ 7. I just saw their road map and it looks like they are doing the thing where they remove parts of the game and then sell it a month after release as DLC. I'll just wait a few years until it's all packaged together and buy it on sale or something.

If my buddy allows me I will do the same, but if he wants to play it right away I might have to become superfan and rob a bank! :)

I beat The Witcher 3 the other day. Amazing game.

I had never played any of the previous Witchers or anything so I was piecing together the story as I went. It seemed good enough to me.

Only issues I had with it:

1. I mentioned the problem with inactive quest markers being absent from the world map. Need that. It would have cluttered up the map, but at least having the option to toggle it on/off would have been nice.

2. Having to play as Ciri. Idk whyyyyyy game developers always do that. I didn’t spend 30 hours playing with ‘main character’, maxing out his stats, and customizing his gear for you to make me play as someone else!

3. The controls for the horse were absolute garbage. It was so bad that anything within 500 units was worth it to me to just run instead of ride.

4. Gear that’s locked by higher levels. Disincentivizes exploration. Why bother running across the map, raiding caves and other points of interests when you may not even be able to wear the sweet new gear you just found?

Get a PC and mod that shit, yo.

1. You can easily enable all quest markers with this: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/943

2. You can play the Ciri scenes as Geralt with this: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/3375

3. Improved horse controls with this: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7229

4. Remove all gear levels and requirements with this: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/3351?tab=posts