Doom: The Dark Ages (PC Game Pass)

Medieval doom, and the origin story of The Slayer. Are you someone that liked the frenetic combat of Doom Eternal but hated the platforming? I wouldn't say I hated the platforming, but it was definitely annoying. Anyway, The Dark Ages gets it right and was a total blast. The combat is finely balanced...and pretty much no platforming! Well, it does have a little platforming but it's pretty much the type that you cannot fail as long as know the controls.

It took me 22 hours and that was exploring quite thoroughly for secrets and powerups. I enjoyed this one way more than Doom Eternal, not just because of the lack of platforming but the levels also took an occasional break with Dragon riding levels and levels where you pilot a giant mech. Those levels were spaced out just enough to break things up, without getting annoying in their own right. Also, the levels varied with their style as well, some were very linear, and some were open and allowed freedom of exploration.

Excellent game.

I have completed various replays in Action! PC Baseball 2024 and with PureSim Baseball. Anything that requires hand eye coordination, quick reflexes, and so on has not been complete. I almost never complete games because of a huge lack of skill. It really sucks.

I definitely have those 3 installed and I'm not sure about SoA, both BBF and LoX I want to finish. I particularly want to finish BBF out of the 3. Oh and I started Demonicon a few months ago, cause I got very curious about it and now it's another one sitting in limbo heh.

My biggest problem for games that have been shelved for so long, is that I will forget what happened up to the point of the last save. I find the only way to enjoy the games again, was to start over. I sort of dread that though lol. But if I don't do that, I'll always feel like there's a gap in my memory on how the story began or how I got to that point.

I think I need to find experts on the net and see how they keep focused on one game at a time. Cause I'm failing at it haha.
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P.S. Oops, I just realized this is a thread about games finished in 2025 and here I am filling it up with posts about games I didn't finish lol.
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Each person is different, of course, but in my opinion it shouldn’t be difficult for one to stick to one game, until completion, if that game is relatively short. Short as it can be completed in less than 70 h or less than 3 weeks, whichever comes first.

I, on the other hand, have a different problem. I can’t seem to stick to a series, if it consists of 3 games or more, no matter each game’s length. I try to, because I prefer seeing the overall lore of a series, before I start a totally different game (from another series or separate). For example, the Divinity games. In ’24 I completed “Divinity: Original Sin” and “Divine Divinity” back to back. I had started “Beyond Divinity” and next would be “Divinity 2: Developer’s Cut”, but I dropped Beyond Divinity, not because it was boring, but I guess I wanted to see something else.

70h in 3 weeks? I hardly ever played so much in so little time. There were some rare games that really caught me and I could play that much in less than 2 weeks, but you can pretty much count them on fingers, and most were when I was little, or at most in my 20s for the odd case. And not for lack of time, because I frankly had less then than I've been having since.
That one's trickiest for me since I now have a computer with an AMD CPU, and just the integrated graphics, so I have those glitches, and I don't bother with that fix.
At least I don't tend to have that issue. I may forget some details if you need, or I find that I need, to be overly specific in my approach, but generally I can get right back almost as if I never stopped.
You may want to create this year's games quit thread, since there doesn't seem to be one, like there was last year, or in some other previous years.

My personal record remains at 9 h 45 min in a day (it was Sunday). However, they weren't consecutive hours. It was about 6-7 years ago. I don't remember which game it was, but I'm sure it was a 3rd-person RPG. My other personal record is 115 h in a month, and it happened this year (Gothic 2 Gold). However, I postponed it, because I got a bit tired. I plan to continue it in August.

16.03. - Cats Hidden in Paris
16.03. - Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
17.03. - Martial Law
18.03. - HordeCore: Training Ground
18.03. - Song of Farca: Prologue
19.03. - The Life of a Magical Circle
19.03. - Death and Taxes Demo
19.03. - KAPIA Demo
19.03. - One Dreamer: Prologue
20.03. - Gothic 1 Remake - Demo (Nyras Prologue)
21.03. - Powers in the Basement
24.03. - Heir of the Dog Demo
24.03. - Scott Whiskers: the Search for the Golden Cat Demo
26.03. - Dark Fracture: Prologue
30.03. - Helium Rain
06.04. - Bloody Hell
11.06. - Vagrus - The Riven Realms: Prologue

Just beaten Thief Gold on normal and i played it for the first time. It's a good game, very fun stealh game that binded me in it, there is also some supernatural elements to the game. What i don't understand is why the videos sometimes would not work and i had to restart pc to make the videos work again.
Maybe but just assuming if i have gog galaxy running and i pressed on gog galaxy again to run twice maybe then the video don't work as i was measuiring the time and finished the game at 25 hours.
Now to play Thief 2.
Also only 2 more games until i reach 100 beaten gog games.

Also previously to this game i at least beaten mafia definitive edition the story, some changes in game but it's good only crashed once. No way to use the train, still liked it but wonder if i am gonna do the collectibles and i already got the free ride hidden cars but not the mission cars.

Made me curious to check. Just at 34, going by how they show up in library and including the 2 that I also ended up having on GOG but the versions that I played weren't the GOG ones.

This just means you need to play more games.

In Cavalary's defence, he spends his free time also by reading (more) books, than playing games, as his relevant thread indicates. I admit I don't. I have been thinking, really, many times of starting (I've got some books), but I can't find the will to it. I recently read a thread that In Greece, due to the bad educating system, many kids/teenagers/adults, etc. have connected, in their minds, reading books, with writing tests and taking grades. Unfortunately, that's it. Maybe this is tru in other countries too. It's difficult for one to break that connection and start reading, for his own fun. I want to start, really.

Well, since the way I "work" is with clear schedules and targets for everything, I do have very different ones for the two, true.
For books it's 12 / year, so averaging 1 / month, counting just proper books, if I happen to read 1-2 novellas or short stories in a year those get added on top, and I've been sticking precisely to that since 2015, even if it usually requires a push at the end of the year. Worst year probably ever since I started reading was 2011, a single small book in December just to be able to say I read something.
On the other hand, for games it's 4-5 / year, basically 4 proper games, averaging 1 / 3 months, and maybe a very short one. So it would be far fewer even if I'd stick to what I mean. But I usually don't. Last year it was 5 total, but just 3 proper ones. Last time I finished 4 proper games in a year was 2021, and the few years before that were the last ones when I met the full goal, but then if you go further back you get quite a stretch of "gaming-poor" years again.
Back to reading, I know what you mean. I never read a book I was supposed to read for school, not after I was told to I mean, though there were some that I had already read before they appeared in the school reading lists. And in fact what I was supposed to read in the early school years made me vehemently oppose reading, I wouldn't touch a book no matter what, until my parents gave me White Fang to read. Took some convincing, but once I started I dove right in and was inconsolable when I finished it, kept crying and said I wanted to only read that from then on. So it took some more time until I was persuaded to give something else a chance and gradually found what I liked and made reading a staple, there were years when I probably read 25-30 books or so, might have been even more at some point, not sure. But anything on a school reading list was out of the question, period, and I generally also steered well away from other "classics", plus basically any other well-known Romanian book in general, and if I happened to start one at some point it was basically certain that I was going to hate it.

But we're going way off topic...

Thank you, I'll search for that book. I saw that it was translated in Greek too.

Beat Elminage Gothic (main story) recently.

Question is: Should I attempt to complete the post-game, including Ibag Tower, which has probably some of the hardest and most unfair combat in any RPG I've played?

Huh. I remember you mentioning that game a fair number of times so far, assumed you had finished it, likely more than once.
Also assume the question's rather rethorical. You most likely will, probably find some ways to do things the game doesn't expect you to, and then probably complain too :))
Well, I'd say that works much better for a teen or even pre-teen, not so much as you age, but ymmv.