Elder_Moloch

Monthly March-November 2024 Report on progress



Doom 2016 was beaten - SnapMap and 2 MP achievements left.
The Town of Light was completed for "Play in March" event.
I didn't play many games outside of these. Also playing GTA V and GTA Online with my best friend currently on EGS. Started new Silent Hill, but never returned.


Status: Beaten. SnapMap and 2 MP achievements left. Enormous time is due to modding game, since February.

About: Reboot of famous first person shooter about fighting demons on Mars. Extreme violence in a bundle.

Pros:

  • Very good graphics. Some physics.
  • Interesting, but mostly linear level design with few exceptions.
  • 13 relatively long levels.
  • Plot is present.
  • Immersive.
  • Gory. Good dismemberment system.
  • Fun gameplay. Loop "shoot, glory kill, restore health and ammo" is very good.
  • Enough different enemies, which mix with each other well. Aggressive AI. Melee and ranged enemies. Infighting is well present.
  • 3 fun and interesting bosses.
  • Great upgrade system. Rune system, which grants different effects. Weapon upgrades and suit upgrades.
  • Glory Kill system, which allows to perform different finish moves and restore health.
  • Enough weapons with different niches
  • Arcade Mode, which is basicaly New Game+. Snapmap ala custom maps+modding for it. Single player mods, which I work on.
  • A lot of secrets wth very good system to search for them, including upgrades.
  • Took me some time to finish it.
  • High dynamic action. Requires quite a bit of tactical approach on high difficulty.
  • Amazing soundtrack.
  • Great performance/optimization apart from few minor cases. Medium requirements.
  • Quite polished.
  • Cheap, especially during sales/with bundle.
  • Achievements. Most achievements are story based.
  • Has Cards/Badges.

Mixed:

  • Plot mostly in log files.
  • Game has better balance without upgrades.
  • Checkpoint system.

Cons:

  • Graphical issues.
  • Some level design is confusing. Also it's basically corridor like. Physics is present, but just a bit. Physics bugs.
  • No destructible objects apart from barrels.
  • Could be more enemies and could be more variety for those.
  • 2 out of 3 bosses are weak.
  • Some upgrades/Runes are overpowered/underpowered.
  • Platforming isn't fun, since may lead to instant death. Enough instant death areas.
  • No melee weapons apart from melee attack and chainsaw, which is more like ability.
  • Weapon niches aren't very good and some weapons are overpowered/underpowered.
  • Kinda too easy on Easy/Normal/Hard.
  • Difficulty on hardest difficulties is based on damage taken and perma death.
  • Felt bored, when I played it first time.
  • No cheats or anything by default. Only with mods. Mods aren't supported.
  • At least 2 achievements require to play barely alive Multiplayer.
  • There are places where you get stuck. Sometimes you fall through map to death due to a bug.
  • Enemy bodies disappear short after being killed, which I assume for performance purposes.
  • Only 3 save slots.
  • Alt Tab leads to crash, with Vulkan API, if not in borderless mode.
  • Less polished than Eternal.

Misc:

Summary: Among my favorite games, even with all cons.


Important sidenotes: Already forgot most of the stuff about it.

Status: Completed.

About: Walking simulator about insane lady in facist Italy with some bugs.

Pros:

  • I found story interesting and it relies on reality. Quite sad story.
  • Feels like a good looking walking simulator.
  • Few interesting characters. Main character is very interesting.
  • Surrondings, notes and recodings, which give info and trigger characters thoughts and give info about world.
  • Mostly good quality of stuff in general.
  • Liked design of a place.
  • Different routes for plot.
  • Requires some thinking.
  • Autosave checkpoint system.
  • Areas get unlocked after being finished.
  • Relatively short.
  • Nice graphics with atmosphere.
  • Good sound and liked music.
  • Mostly stable and only few bugs encountered.
  • Medium weight.
  • Cheap, especially during discounts or/and with bundle.
  • Achievements. Most of them related to natural progression.
  • Cards/Badges.

Mixed:

  • No DLCs or other content.
  • Facist Italy part is just there for sake of being there.
  • No cheats or other bonuses.

Cons:

  • Story, while being interesting has boring implementation for me due to length factor.
  • I'm not sure I like walking sims based on this game.
  • Basically no mechanics.
  • You trapped in one place.
  • Different routes for plot are mostly same thing.
  • A bit too long with all routes.
  • Relative issues with performance and may have long loadings.
  • Few painful crashes and freezes.
  • Weight is a bit too high for such small game.
  • Some stuff isn't obvious enough for my taste.
  • Very repetitive after 1 playthrough.
  • Movement is slow.
  • A lot of corridor-like design.

Misc:

  • No Workshop.

Summary: Fine for 1 playthrough, if you won't get issues with performance and crashes/freezes. I'm not big fan of sad stories, but it's good in my opinion.



Mostly testing and modding.



Plan to play something of this later.

  • Blood Omen 2

    2.8 Hours playtime

    No Achievements

    Started - never continued.

  • Hard Reset Redux

    4.1 Hours playtime

    10 of 115 Achievements

    Got few achievements and don't really want to return, but still want to get achievements.

  • Max Payne

    2.8 Hours playtime

    No Achievements

    Started - dropped it.

  • Thief: Deadly Shadows

    7 Minutes playtime

    No Achievements

    I finished it few times before Steam and liked it a lot, but still want to replay it on Steam.

  • Rolling Sun

    89 Minutes playtime

    No Achievements

    Never played it. Want to check.