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Kinda trip down memory lane there; hard to believe been digging into these games for a decade now... and still want more.

On a side not, for series vets, just a fun fact in case you were curious. Miyazaki brought back the Maiden in Black's voice actress for the Doll (and i believe Maria) for Bloodborne. Just thought that was awesome of him to bring back such an iconic characters voice actor to have one more go - and end up being a boss in the DLC as Maria of the Astral Clocktower, who I think rightfully earned her place on your list

@big_denim: I think he is just mixing up studios. He was unsure if Sekiro was an exclusive and that released on every platform besides Switch. Pretty much like 99% sure Elden Ring is gonna be on every console + PC at this point

@mightyduck: Oh ya - one more thing. If youre playing with a controller; go to the options and check the different layouts. There should be one that puts the jumps and dashes on your bumpers (or if you have an elite controller, you can map them to your paddles) and also puts your "melee/glory kills" on your right stick. This way you dont have to move your finger from the right stick to do those actions by pressing a face button. If you have bumpers I would say you probably want to put your dodge/jump/grenades/flamethrower on those, whichever you feel like flows best for you.

if youre play mouse/keyboard, this wont be an issue. But if youre on a controller, check the options and mess around with them a bit in the first level to find one that feels best for you - but I definitely recommend getting jumping/dashing to the shoulder buttons or paddles, if you have them. Melee on the right stick worked well for me, but that is up to taste, you might be able to put grenades or the flamethrower on them instead and that might be more efficient for you.

Sorry for the multiple posts, just wanted to point that out cause I dont think the 'default' control scheme was necessarily the best, in my recollection... but it has been months and months since I played it, so my memory on that stuff is a little foggy.

Go kill some Demons, Slayer. Rip and Tear. Hope you find winning a fight as rewarding a feeling as I did, just was absolutely satisfying.

@mightyduck : one tip before you 'jump in' - at the conclusion of each level you will get the ability to 'fast travel' around the level to certain spots. If you were trying to get to a collectible and couldnt figure it out on your first pass; or you skipped a Slayer Gate (youll find out what those are) because it was too difficult on your first pass; before you 'exit' the level, you can go to the map screen and jump around to anywhere you want.

If youre finding yourself banging your head against the wall on how to reach a certain collectible and you really want to be a completionist... Dont beat yourself up over it, just look it up on Youtube. I had probably 5 collectibles I genuinely couldnt figure out how to get to and just youtubed them to find them out. It aint a big deal to get a little help. But ya, the environments just get crazier and crazier as the game goes on, so you should enjoy that.

Hope you find it fun! Again, stay safe, world is a crazy place - but you might find Eternal to be a little cathartic in these trying times :) lol

just get it - its an 'angel' to some, 'demon' to others in comparison to 2016.

For me - its the single best FPS campaign ever made. On Nightmare it took me like 50 hours, got more than my money's worth and planning on doing another full playthru once both DLCs are out

Fact is : Reading about it, as you have done diligently wont answer the question of whether or not you enjoy it. You just need to jump into the Slayer's armor yourself and see if it clicks for you or not. Plan on getting pummeled pretty hard to begin with; but the important thing, if you're going to enjoy it : Embrace all of the Slayer's abilities. His double jump, his double dash, the flamethrower, the regenerating chainsaw, all of your weapons (and eventually their alternative modes once you get them) and his grenades.

Its a dance with a Hell's army like no other shooter has managed, in my opinion. I think its absolutely glorious, even though I loved 2016 - this is the "upgrade" i didnt realize I wanted. Its the most intense game I've ever played, it demands your undivided attention and wants you to learn everything about it.

This narrative that there is only "one way" to play is BS though, to be clear. You can use every weapon to kill anything. The Super Shotgun is monstrous, even on Nightmare against any demon. The plasma rifle, rocket launcher, machine gun, standard shotgun - all have their uses against every demon. You can choose to disable a Demon's turret with a Snipe shot from you machine guns alternate fire, or you can lob a freeze grenade at him and shoot a grenade from your upgraded standard shotgun to do the same - or just unload your plasma rifle at him and use the alternate fire "Shotgun shot" it builds up and basically blast most demons away in one shot, without even disabling his turret.

The folks pretending youre FORCED to play a certain way are, imo, misleading here. You ARE forced to learn all your weapons because ammo is a scarce thing, that is true - but every weapon can deal with pretty much every situation; as long as you are utilizing his abilities : again, his double dash, his double jump, his freeze and frag grenades and chainsaw all need to become a part of your utility belt if you want to really beat Hell's armies into submission.

You can absolutely kill super heavy demons with primarily your machine gun, then swap to another weapon of your choice to get the rest of your shots in, or, turn around, dash around and double jump to avoid incoming fire and chainsaw some poor sob small demon and get more ammo for your machine gun and keep going with that . The options are absolutely there, again, this narrative that it 'forces' you to play a certain way is purely relegated to : It wants you to learn to use the mechanics of the game. The guns, the flamethrower, the grenades and his maneuvering.

Unfortunately reading about it or watching videos does not do it justice, you need to jump in and just play it to know if its 'for you' or not.

If you do get it, I hope you end up enjoying it - but if youre this interested, id say just get it and find out for yourself. Reading walls of text like this arent going to give you an epiphany about it, you need to get your own hands on it :P

Hope you have fun if you get it though! Take care and stay safe

Really, I love GB, have been Premium for i think over 5 years now; I didn't discover the site until I watched some Quick Looks and realized "wait a second, these are some funny sons of bitches".

I watch GB for primarily comedy. The games are massive plus to it; I kind of view the site as a "variety show"; like those that have been on TV for decades, but instead of Celebrity and Political guests - the backdrop is games.

I know the transition to work from home and getting everyone's systems up and running was difficult... but Among Us yesterday just had me cracking up the entire time.

Just wanted to say - Thank you, GB crew for doing the work to get these kind of streams back up and running. You guys have absolutely nailed it during this hard time for many of us and you are a source of good-natured fun while many of us are looking at a pretty grim reality.

I am still open to single person streams - but thank you, to the entire team, for trying to get more group streams going because I truly feel like the site is firing on all cylinders when the staff can play off each other's friendship and personalities to create either ridiculous situations; or just go down ridiculous lines of dialog.

Thanks to the team! Hope for more streams like this in the future and I appreciate the hard work of getting this whole system up and running in a work at home setting, I can only imagine the logistical nightmare that was

Doom Eternal was enough to make 2020 a great year in gaming, for me. Never seen a game with so many systems and expectations from the player coalasce into a total frenzy of twitch and on the fly strategizing.

I truly recommend, anyone who hasnt played Doom Eternal on Nightmare - Really, give it a shot. You will die, but the game was built for this difficulty and once you spend some time getting comfortable in the Slayers shoes, youll see its an amazingly detailed and intricate dance of combat that kept me glued to the fight with 100% focus the entire time.

That being said - itll kill you alot, like alot alot. I think most people who played on the normal modes finished it in like 20ish hours... Nightmare took me and my friend over 55 hours to beat. I never expected it to have the longevity of an RPG, but it did.. and every moment was glorious.

I played with controller and if you decide to play it; get a controller with paddles. You want to map your "Dash" to the paddles so you can continue aiming while dashing around. I think the controller preset you want is "bumper jumper" if i recall correctly; it also puts the Glory Kills/Melee on a Right Stick Click; so again, you dont have to stop aiming to pummel a Demon in the face.

But ya, Eternal made 2020 for me. Everything else is gravy at this point and youre right - its some good damn gravy

Hey everyone,

So since Lockdown 2020 is probably going to go on longer than any of us imagined; I just wanted to remind the team - if there were some Coop games, like Children of Morta or Cuphead, or well - anything really; that is limited to "Couch Coop".. you can invite friends into those games on Steam now and could do coop streams of non "online coop" games.

Its not perfect, there is some latency - but my friend and I managed to get thru alot of Cuphead (still working on it) despite the added latency for the second player. I doubt this would be an issue for most games considering Cuphead is so fast paced.

Just wanted to remind the team, there might be some content to be had here if they had games that were "Couch coop" they had been avoiding due to Lockdown.

Take care everyone and be safe!

@zombiepie: Take the good Castlevania with the bad. We've had good, Rondo, Draculas Curse, SotN... and weve had bad, Simons Quest and Bloodlines.

I believe they said this was about a historical tour of the Castlevania franchise, we must continue on and hunt down Dracula in every great and horrible piece of code he is hiding in :P

Just tossing this out there, might be me being crazy... but I feel like the Belmont clan has rested long enough and, given quarantine, we need to vanquish SOMETHING evil.

Vinnyvania 64 sounds like a perfectly beautiful thing to bring us together in this difficult time... perhaps with lockdown we could reunite the entire clan and Austin will 'chime in' and we can bring the whole crew back together to drive the vampire back? :P