Well a couple things. Doom had some issues being capped at a lower frame rate (was it 48 I think? It was lower than 60, so doesn’t align with most monitors no matter how awesome your setup) and Doom 64 in particular solves a problem the PC versions of Doom 1 & 2 never changed - having maps with the ability to cross…

why should they have to? So they can be like other things that already exist? Why not just enjoy a thing and it’s differences? 

I will never play this game, and I will never stop reading every article about it.

DOOM 64 holds up though. Unlike the titles you’ve referenced. Hell, all the old DOOM games are still a pretty damn fine time, pun intended. 

Because DOOM fans love and have been waiting for a proper re-release for decades now? 

Seems to work out for Rockstar.

Yes:

That’s....it? Was anyone else expecting a lot more?

is it weird to anyone else that the reason people cited for engaging with streamers was the whole “it’s like hanging out with my friends” or because it felt more authentic than a professional media outlet but now that the big ones are so heavily sponsored and have such notoriety that they feel more like advertisers…

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

The entire Critical Role cast is in Pillars 2, and you can also download a Vox Machina voice pack for your custom characters, which is why Gilmore, among others, can be in your game. Matt voicing two of the main PCs at the same time is especially a trip, though. Sometimes he gets to talking with himself. Meanwhile,…

I never got through Pillars 1. It was so slow to start and dense that I’ve played it twice since it came out up and never made it past the Gilded Vale. Pillars 2 hooked me immediately with its non-traditional setting and quick plot pickup. I had a lot of fun with it in real-time mode, and I’m enjoying it again in…

I thought both were very good. I bounced off Pillars 1 pretty hard the first time I tried to get into it, but found Pillars 2 pretty approachable from the jump. Likely this was due to the welcome (for me) inclusion of turn based combat.

Personally, I liked Pillars 2 a lot better than the the first one. The setting is interesting, and one rarely seen in RPGs, with the vaguely Polynesian archipelago and pirates instead of a much more standard European-style fantasy.

I thought PoE2 was a lot better than the first game. It has a more interesting setting, more interesting characters and more refined systems. PoE1 was definitely more polished at launch, though.

I thought Pillars 2 was a huge upgrade on 1. The first game had a lot of pacing issues and the combat system was pretty rough, especially on release, being generally chaotic and with a lot of trap choices. The expansion was a big improvement but still ultimately kinda flawed.

I’d say yes. It starts off from where 1 ended and really delves into how many of the races actually live, and I thought the mechanics were great. Some people find the end of the story annoying, but I liked it; YMMV. 

The joke is that the fight with the marionette in FFIV was fairly iconic due to it actually being two fights in one; it starts with a droning, halfway innocent halfway unsettling waltz-like theme, and when you kill enough enemies during the fight the rest suddenly combine into a giant one whose properties depend on…

Using the title of a decade-retrospective listicle over a feature story collection of extremely personal anecdotes about the author’s life strikes me as a narcissistic bait-and-switch. Both genres of story are fine but readers going in expecting one won’t be happy to find the other.

This is hilarious. The gif in the end really makes it special though.