Recent reviews by Protocol7

Fun alone because of the incredibly good movement and stamina system.

Even more fun with friends.

Nothing more to say, really. If you like climbing stuff, and getting hilariously blown off the side of a mountain, this is the game.

I don't know who Don Ofwar is but his game is pretty cool

Every once in a while a game comes along that's just some good, plain ol' shooting bad guys fun.

Abyssus is one of those games.

It's not perfect, but it scratches the itch all the same

I threw a box at a guy and it knocked him out.

Probably not that dissimilar to what happens in an Amazon warehouse, just with more sci-fi and Hideo Kojima.

runs good, looks good, kicking demon ass feels good, you don't immediately implode if you don't move around like you're on crack ala doom eternal, think this is my fave of the three recent DOOMs but they're all goated

Doesn't really break the mold in context of 4X gameplay. But that's fine for me. It's visually impressive, has enough dials and whatnot to tweak your experience like you'd expect of a 4X game, plenty of customization with empires/etc which making empires is certainly part of the appeal of some 4X games like this and Stellaris for me.

The tactical part is interesting but can be skipped if you so choose. If you do skip it, you do miss out on one of the things that makes this series interesting, but it's also not really mandatory, in my opinion. The more interesting stuff comes from the overworld, which there are several "realms" I guess, which are all unique and present some kind of challenge, but because of procedural generation and the aforementioned dials and whatnot to tweak, there's still tons of replayability.

Also it doesn't cook my PC which is a plus

There's a lot more to juggle in Eternal than Doom 2016 during moment to moment gameplay, and I think that contributes to its difficulty. At least, I played 2016 and then Eternal right after, on the same mid-level difficulty, and Eternal is proving to be more difficult. Not impossible, I've unlocked the Unmaykr and I'm almost through Urdak, but it's tested all of my gaming abilities up until this point for sure. I wouldn't be able to play the harder difficulties, nothing but respect to the folks who can pull that off.

All that said, I still think Eternal is the better game to 2016. (They're both some of the best shooters in recent history.) Better fidelity, most of the weapons feel stronger or at least equivalent to their 2016 counterpart. Enemy variety is really good and there are more interesting heavy demons in Eternal. I enjoy the platforming stuff but I always enjoyed platforming in general.

i ate a man in 5501

rogue: genesiyeah 👍

idk what the complaints are about, it's a perfectly good RPG, great graphics, good gameplay, cromulent characters and storytelling. it was never going to move the needle the way some people apparently expected