DOOM (2016)

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The game is realy fun to play and it's realy satisfying when we use glorykill

this game is very fun and very good shooter

This game reinvent the Doom saga with a fast and gory action sequences. Plenty of secrets and battle arenas for those who miss the good old days!

Before this popped up on GOG I didn't know it existed, and was surprised by the good reviews and high rating. I remembered Doom 3 to be the most bland and boring looking game in existence on the Xbox, so I was reluctant, but the rating turned out to be deserved. This is the first time I describe a game as "badass", because the atmosphere oozes of it. What it does (guns) it does to almost perfection, and it will make you close your actual fist in satisfaction. It actually has a decent default difficulty. There's just the right amount of variance in the form of equipment upgrades, weapon modes, melee (except I was used to the overpowered swings you can do in Halo, which caused a few deaths in the beginning), special abilities (runes), challenges, and the right amount of story and talking (not much) to make you not feel all alone. It stays interesting all the way though by rewarding you for the optional challenges, which gives you something to focus on, but you can turn your brain off most of the time if you want to. The gems in this game, for me, were: the chaingun (what the hell is turret mode? Oh... YES), the rocket launcher (designed to absolute perfection), and the assault rifle (most satisfying sound effects ever). The only bad things I have to say is that 1) my saved games were deleted because of the bad integration of GOG Galaxy services, courtesy of Id and GOG: If you're offline when you quit the game then say goodbye to all progress. That's just incredibly unprofessional. I disabled cloud saves immediately after that first level. 2) The handgun quickly becomes irrelevant, unlike all other weapons, and 3) the plasma rifle has that incredibly boring organic and soulless appearance that I associate with Doom 3, and its sound effects are underwhelming. Almost never used it except for completing challenges. 4) Each weapon shares ammo with another one, meaning you have to choose between them. Problem is, one is almost always more powerful than the other, and switching weapons unnecessarily during a fight is a liability so you'll mostly end up using the more powerful one. The game runs flawlessly and gives the impression of being the most optimized software I've run in my life. Except when I tried the Vulkan backend (crashes) or adaptive sync (sync loss, but I'll blame the Philips monitor there I think). I will play this again, at the next difficulty, some day.