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Glory kills are not at all necessary (thank god). They're very good for casual players who are just going to play through the game once on a relatively low difficulty (i.e. Ultra Violence or below, since that's all that's unlocked on a first playthrough). They give some easy visceral thrill and encourage aggressive play, which is crucial to enjoying DOOM. However, on repeat playthroughs, glory kills, as fast as they commendably are, become tedious. Thankfully, by that point is also becomes apparent how unnecessary glory kills actually are because you learn the enemies so you can avoid taking damage (no hitscan means all attacks are avoidable), you learn the levels and secrets (so you realize how packed every level is with health and armor powerups), and you optimize your suit upgrades to get efficient free refills of health/armor. It also happens that on higher difficulties, glory kills will kill you as often as save you during a dangerous fight, since enemies can still launch attacks during your glory kill animation i-frames, and if an enemy attack is about to hit you as your control-free i-frames run out, you'll take unavoidable damage (often more than cancelling out whatever bit of extra health the glory kill just got you).

I finished the game 8 times, including once on Ultra Nightmare, and I rarely used glory kills after my first playthrough. I primarily avoided glory kills because it was more fun to shoot enemies while retaining full control than to keep watching the same control-free animations I'd already seen a million times. Playing fast (with a mouse and keyboard) and using the right gun for the job, you can kill enemies far more quickly with guns than with glory kills. Additionally, using glory kills would have also made the game harder on the highest difficulty settings by causing unavoidable deaths, which are not tolerable in a perma-death mode like Ultra Nightmare.

Actually, you can play all difficulty settings from the get-go, you just can't select it from the options menu; you have to select it when you start a new game. The font is red instead of white. Also, there is no new game plus, and you can't play through the game on the one file again, only go back through the same stages with all your equipment (so, yeah, kind of new game plus, but not really).

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I liked it, especially as the way to force you into combat, because it's the main way that allows you to gain more ammo, health, and possibly shield. Replaying on Nightmare last month, I came to love the game and saw that glory kills as an awesome way to make it more challenging and intense. It makes the combat stand out in the myriad of cover shooters today. You can't survive if you don't do glory kills, and yet going right up in dudes faces is also a good way to die, so it's cool. Very late in the game, you won't have to really use it anymore though, which was very rewarding as long as you have searched the world for upgrade collectibles. If you're looking at it from the animation perspective, I thought they were pretty good as they do it differently depending on where you aim at the body (or if you jump on them), but yeah there could have a wider variety of moves. When playing on Nightmare though, to be honest, the lack of variety on any one body part isn't an issue.

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Okay, I went ahead and got it. I have to finish Season Two on PS4 though before I can start A New Frontier. I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I am not expecting it to be bad, I'm just hoping it makes me more excited than I am right now. Right now, I'm more or less just feeling like I should play it because I loved the first two Seasons and want to see where Clementine's story is going, rather than entirely being stoked for this. I also don't necessarily feel I have anything else new to play, that I want to play that is. Alright, Season 2 is about done installing.

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@sin4profit: I have the feeling that wouldn't happen, unfortunately. I don't know, it depends on if TV differs to comics I guess in terms of what you can put in there. That was one of the comic stories that was banned when it was first introduced (but can now be read due to changes in the UK law). There's also a story in there that had the Jolly Green Giant and the Michelin Man with a bunch of other U.S. corporate characters. That said, one of the things mentioned when it comes to making the show is bringing the Cursed Earth story to the screen, and that's the story that has the Burger Wars and Soul Food stories in it.

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@pickassoreborn: I want a really good game. I mean, Rebellion is putting out (and what I consider to be a really weird choice) a remaster of Rogue Trooper, so it'd be cool to see them get a talented team together to create a new Judge Dredd game. I heard Judge Dredd vs. Death was a bargain bin kind of game when it came out, so I never tried it until earlier this year (because I just couldn't help it), and I surprisingly enjoyed it! I just wish it was a little longer and took time to really delve deeper into the world and the characters. A few different weapons would have been nice too. I'd actually buy a remaster of that game if they put some considerable work into it.

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Is anyone else here interested in such a show? As you might be able to tell, I'm a fan of Judge Dredd. I've been a fan of it before I actually started reading the comics actually (which I am doing a lot right now). I don't exactly know why it was I got into it, or when, but it was a few years prior to the film Dredd I believe. The Sylvester Stallone film does some aspects of the comic well, like the look of it all (minus the real-life advertisements in Mega-City One), but that film just wasn't good and I find it very hard to re-watch it. Dredd, on the other hand, looked like a fanmade, low-budget film from the trailer, so I wasn't optimistic about it, but it turned out to be one of the better action films in recent memory in my opinion (though it does still have that low-budget look to some degree).

It also, unfortunately, doesn't really do the look of the comics that well. I was disappointed by the very clean looking cityscape, for instance, the lack of robots and the multitude of other aspects missing or changed, but the lack of what it doesn't do similar to the comics didn't really bother me in the end enough to detract from what's an otherwise great movie. Recent news of Mega-City One the show is just talking about who will play Dredd (which may be Karl Urban, if he has the time and interest in the stories they have to tell). It will most likely be on Netflix if it happens too if it comes to fruition. The creators want or believe the show can bring about many episodes, and many seasons. Judge Dredd's stories in the comic go by yearly, so when a year passes in real life, a year passes in the comic, and so far it's been forty years. They have a lot to work with if they want to adopt some of the stories from the comics.

Are there any other Judge Dredd fans here that want this show to happen? What do you hope to see in it? From the announcement video they put out, they say they want to the grittiness of Dredd, but the silliness of the comic. Lastly, while a bit off-topic, I wanted to post this video. I've seen images of it on Google before, but never actually watched it until recently. This is an animated mini-series (but the video is the entire thing, so no clicking to other videos to watch it through), telling an alternate version of how Dredd meets Judge Death, and really many other aspects which differ from the comics, but it's pretty good and gets some of the tone of Judge Dredd down well. Enjoy!

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Just wondering about this again. I still haven't played it, and wondering what those that played it thought. Have any more people here played it? I still find it unfortunate how lacking the enthusiasm is. I'll probably still play it at some point, but I haven't to find the motivation to want to finish Season Two on the PS4, which I haven't found the want to do yet. I feel I have to see how Clementine's story ends... Aw, shoot, I should download Season Two and buy the third season.

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@luchalma: I mean of the console/PC type (that are actually very similar). The iPad or whatever version is too much compromised to even be mentioned! I don't even consider it. I don't have that version.

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Just curious, have you played Bioshock on anything other than the PS3? It's still great on the PS3, but it's the worst version, unfortunately just due to controls and mainly visuals. Anyways, I hope there will be another, but I don't know if there will be one. I believe they said that it won't be the last of Bioshock. Bioshock is also one of my all-time favorite games. I bought all the versions of each game (except for Bioshock 2 on the 360), so yes, I'd be very interested in another Bioshock. I just hope it's a talented team behind it. Lastly, it's not extremely well-written, but I fully recommend the Bioshock novel. I read it just before the remaster came out.

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@frostyryan: You're right, it's not HD. It's 480p. If it was HD, there wouldn't be a need to really ask this question. However, people can play it emulated on PC to make it HD. I wouldn't do it (my PC probably couldn't handle it), but I like seeing the videos of it on YouTube to get an idea of what it'd be like. I also wonder how it controls on the emulation.