Isn't this the gameplay loop for most games these days? I sometimes just skip the dialogue completely. Just point me in the right direction and I will kill stuff until I get new instructions

That's true, and I have a feeling that this is how many people play Starfield

But, for me, if the game is boring to the extent that I want to quit, I'd rather just go off and...play something good, lol

And you get to do it all over again when the DLC comes out

Seriously tho, considering how big and stuffed the base game is, how huge is the final going to be?

I actually forgot about the DLC

I think I'm only like two trophies away from the platinum for TASM2 (on PS3.)

Put so many hours into those games

9/10 for me
Yeah, those scenes were
Maybe its a homage to the sex scene in the first movie

@KF500 - loved it on the X360 and totally worth another remastered playthrough. I've seen the Duke Nukem DLC go cheaply several times so will give that a go one day. Would love to see a sequel but they've apparently botched the VR version of the first game, so no idea if it'll generate enough interest any more.

@Teb - Always keen to support Spiders (albeit mostly waiting on Greedfall 2) but my tolerance for 'Souls-like games has waned with age. Is SteelRising fairly easy in comparison of on part with Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Elden Ring?

A LOT EASIER.

The two most powerfull weapons are given to you in the first stage (Nemesis claws - super fast with stagger and counterattacks and Charleville 1789 Shield Musket - Gun with freezing that can cheese 90% of bosses)

Apart from some dodgy hitboxes the combat is fun and fast.
I managed to finish it and some bosses could not touch me. Playing fast and staggering the enemies is way OP.

I wasn't a fan of the more linear opening, but I did like the changes from the Hospital onwards. Like the RE2 remake, it'll never completely replace the originals, even if Capcom has done its best to pretend those never existed since (why have they not come to PS+ as emulated PS1 Classics for the PS4/5 like the first game did?).

And yeah, this should have been 1/2 to 2/3rds the price but they bundled it in with that 4-vs-1 RE Resistance multiplayer game that I'm assuming is long since dead.

It does feel a bit like a tech demo. "This is what it could look like with today's graphics!"
But the game is terribly short and just feels half finished, especially after RE 4 Remake.

The pacing between sequences is jarring, taking you from running for your life, to just chilling in a room after slamming a door. The monster can go through walls, but eh, let's take a break. When suddenly! Spiders! Which we never see again.

Guess they assume you know the story?

Still working through the side content after going back to an earlier save. Most optional hauntings are intriguing and flesh out Red and Antea's relationship, but I wish they'd designed it so you could clear an area and move on.

It had such an excellent sense of momentum and the feeling of being on an epic journey eastward, and then when you hit the mid-point (where you can go either north or south) it unlocks new hauntings and collectible events all over the map, and you start bouncing back and forth so often it ruins any sense of immersion.

Had to go and check my own stats but forgot what compact open-world experience the first game and expansion offered. Been meaning to go back and replay them ever since finishing Dying Light 2 - which I felt drifted way too far into generic open-world design.

Harran felt so much like an actual place as you learned optimal routes and paths - especially when fleeing back to safety after dark. "The City" in the sequel has Ubisoft-style verticality, where there are so many traversal paths it might as well be flat for all the difference it makes.

The QTE battles were a sign of the times I guess, though at least the boss battle and infected Crane are presumably canon.

Have not played the new game yet.
The first game was a very well done open world zombie game.
But in the dlc, they did not accommodate for the different play style.
So the things that worked so well in the base game, got very frustrating on the new map.

This was hot garbage. Saints row 3 was the GOAT, but this felt unbelievably... dead. Just had no soul