DOOM Eternal + The Lost Gods (PC)
Ya know coming back to this was not what I thought the game would be. I know this one spawned alot of games like Ultrakill aiming to copy its style and now I feel like I should be playing those intentionally retro games instead. Because for all its awesomeness and variety, this game remains outdated to me most likely because its Not My DOOM.
The base game left me a little tired of it all but I loaded up the extra story and it was even more of that. Even more arenas. Even more ways to kill demons. But fundamentally speaking I have a problem with the system itself, like how it encourages you to quickswap because of the low ammo count. Now that I've had to play this on a real machine that can run it, I grew bored of it real quick, so much that it took me a week to get past the 2nd part of the extra story because I was falling asleep at having to repeat the arena loop every two minutes or so.
The base game had environmental storytelling; the world around you was alive and framed your goals and actions. The Lost Gods was just I dunno. It was just Serious Sam---it was just one area after another of horde mode while and I laugh at this part; exposition regarding artifact macguffins that must be found. It's kinda weird but I expected that kind of lame exposition in a Serious Sam game. I expect DOOM to have none of that bullshit at all which I mean both have their shallow styles but DOOM is suppose to be simple rip and tear idk. If I wanted SS, I would've just loaded up Siberian Mayhem not this crap. Also, since you're playing as the best version of yourself (all upgrades), there was barely anything to collect so there were barely any secrets. It was just a linear challenge that tested your ability to arena and it got old real quick as no new enemies were introduced, just variants of existing enemies that gave you the illusion of variety.
It was a slog, but its finally done. Not coming back to this again.
It's not so cliche anymore when it's happening to you.