If you've played the first Dishonored you should already know what to expect. A highly replayable campaign, choosing between the stealthy, no kill-code approach or the Slitpipes McGee approach to tackling your problems, and constantly mashing quick save / quick load. It's all here but with 2 playable characters now. Performance has always been a hot topic when it comes to this game but I have had effectively 0 issues running this on my GTX 1060 3GB card. Plus it's now DRM free so there's less overhead there too (they did finally remove Denuvo from the Steam version too). Giving 4 stars because no overlay support. I appreciate that Bethesda actually went to the took the time to give the games proper platform-specific polish (achievements, cloud saves, etc.) but to not include the Galaxy overlay seems like an extremely odd omission. Not the end of the world but you don't know if you unlock an achievement unless you Alt+Tab out to Galaxy. I hope they patch it in a t some point.
There's really not much to say at this point that hasn't already been said. This game is amazing and quality and quantity of content on offer is some of the best value for dollar of any game in the past decade. Even coming in as someone who has never played a Witcher game before, I loved the story and even began reading the books. Definitely a landmark title in gaming history!
I want to start by saying that this remake is very well-made. The visuals are stunning and the cutscenes are a joy to watch. It truly invokes that feeling from back in the days of the early 3D consoles where the technology was just advenced enough to render these worlds but primitive enough to be slightly....ominous. In that your mind had to fill in the gaps with regards to the story. I think that element and spirit of the game was retained while still overhauling the graphics. You can tell the devs put a lot of passion into this project. However, the game is just too short to justify its full price tag. That isn't so much a fault of the remake as it is the original was short to begin with. There are 7 levels altogether and I was able to complete it in about an hour of play time. You can get some replay value out of it by chasing the achievements and higher score rankings but for the most part, it's over before you know it. I managed to pick this up during a recent sale for $8 and I feel that I got my money's worth. For the amount of content on offer, I would say that it is much easier to recommend during a sale. Watch out for the remake of Panzer Dragoon II coming in 2021!
I need to start off by saying that all the hate leveled at BFG edition over vanilla Doom 3 is overblown. Most criticism comes in the form that DOOM 1/2 are "censored", and that the experience is "consolized" (meaning limited options menu). Time to address these first. The "censorship" in DOOM 1/2 comes in the form of Nazi imagery (only found in some hidden levels) being removed and the red-cross on the medkits changed to a red and white pill. That's it. Both games are fully intact here and feature updated controls for a modern kb+m setup. DOOM 2 even has an additional level that was previously unavailable. As for the "consolized" argument. This is somewhat true. The options menu is far more limited compared to vanilla DOOM 3. However, the essentials are here. Rebindable keys, FOV slider, 60fps/120fps toggle, Vsync, antialiasing, etc. It doesn't really bother me as the game is set up to run well on most modern PCs and I'm not that picky with my graphics options. However, what did bother me is the lack of subtitles and the fact that the FOV only goes up to 100. There are some console commands available to get around these somewhat. My only other complaint is that the ports of DOOM 1/2 do not support rebindable keys. All this aside, these games are feature complete and most importantly feel good to play. This is easily the best looking and smoothest version of DOOM 3 available. BFG edition actually comes with some great features that vanilla DOOM 3 didn't have such as native 16:9 widescreen support and XInput controller support. Be warned that in the GOG version of DOOM 3 BFG, MULTIPLAYER IS DISABLED. So if that is a selling point for you, get the Steam version instead. LAN multiplayer can still be enabled through console commands though.
