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Sadly my enjoyment from Elder Scrolls, as was the case with Oblivion, is due to the modding community. On their own they are lousy games and my stance of "I would bet bored with Skyrim fast is not for mods" is one I'll stick by. I might enjoy the base game a bit more than Oblivion without them buy in 2-3 days I'd have done everything interesting. The MQ is a quick one and Alduin is designed to be an easy boss. The civil war is quick by design(most of the content was cut despite being finished- modders restored much of it) though killing Ulfric was enjoyable. He's a blowhard, selfish loon mad because he can't openly worship some god that never lifted a finger to help the Nords when they were in need(but the Divines will gladly punish the victim the second a vampire bites them). Companions is ultimately a letdown, the mage's college barely involves magic, the bard's college is 4 fetch quests... DB and Thieves Guild are practically forced upon players who don't want them, too, which got a lot of the game's content, but you have to be a despicable person. Bethesda not only got it in their heads that modders will "complete" a game but they let modders fix the bugs, too. Then they backstabbed those modders and later said only paid mods with an official backing matter(if you play SE with unofficial free mods, achievements are locked out and there is literally ONE online store that still sells LE). Fallout 76 is just the ultimate in how low they've sunk- and with TES Online being by a different studio they probably don't even count it as canon. Not as if I expect TES6 to ever come out, they don't seem interested in working on it. "But why would you give money to a company you frequently give a hard time to"? I decline to answer... also, the frequency and the specifics I criticize a company for seem to be rubbing people wrong and I've noticed more than a few e-stalkers following me online(they tend to say too much and give away they do this). I know too many sensitive people can't take differing viewpoints(and D44M has a nasty cult around the game) but after that crap Jeff Gerstmann got for his Fallout PS4 score and Todd Howard's flipping out on FO76 reviewers, I wouldn't be surprised if all Bethesda critics are being targeted. The company's going to fold by their own actions in a hurry and this will be exposed, damaging them further, if that really is the case. I'm not saying for sure it's true but it's not an act I'd put past them from observing past behavior(hell, Gerstmann all but directly accused them of paying people to insult him and he's been mildly critical of DE- that is to say, he didn't give the game a 100% and cited flaws- so just watch...) I'm done though. I've said what I said and I'm not apologizing or retracting. Don't cry "free speech" if you only like hearing what you agree with. I'll express it again if asked, if that upsets you I don't care. If you're stalking me over what I said then I'll just have to retaliate, I don't bend over and take that crap. I'm done being nice to idiots online. If I wanted peace I'd keep my mouth shut, and if I have to apologize for my views then I may as well not say anything. Funny how the side that goes on and on about free speech is the same one that expects my side to keep quiet if we don't agree with you, but it's what I expect from the DE fans crying about MK11's advertising. Now to lose my password to this board as I don't remember it and just let the browser store it. I've said all I have to say on any topic here, because it would be repeating myself to an audience that's heard it and I have no attachment to your community. I don't make WADs, I don't contribute, no one's going to miss a random stranger walking off and I have nothing to add nor will I in the future.

I haven't played Doom in about 2 months and I used to play it daily. Part of it is the new vid card and digging into Skyrim but... yeah... the cult surrounding 4 & Eternal coupled with the lame retcons to make it a sequel may have actually served to kill my interest in the originals or user-made mods. The franchise has become so infested with this trash it's like I don't want anything to do with the franchise anymore, not even the originals. 64 sucks, 4 sucks, 5 sucks, but they're being hyped heavily and the old games are being tarnished. Right now I'm teetering on being super close to deleting my GZDoom folder out of pure apathy to what I used to like. Hell, I only put up with Elder Scrolls because of the modding community. The default unmodded games are pretty bad and I do not care for official lore- which at this point is garbage that they retcon left & right. No I will not buy every single Creation Cub mod because Bethesduh claims they are official canon. The way they treated modders when SE came out too was horrendous. Half the mods I use completely go against lore choices pretty hard, honestly. Modern Id is just a subsidiary of Bethesda and it shows. Shame the whole company is going in a downward spiral.

Judge Rinder is a UK courtroom case series that posts a lot of clips on their YT channel. His show tends to have a lot of bizarre moments like this...

This is the nature of a cash grab. This could have been a new series under a new title, but like those crappy Michael Bay Transformers movies or Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica remake, they want a familiar name on a new property to hopefully sell it better. Then when the "Doom 3" type canon reboot wans't wining enough people over and they didn't hook quite enough angry racists in to solidify high sales with the trailer(I do believe they actively chose to coddle and suck up to those people deliberately), they pull another huge retcon, slipping the formerly non-canon Doom 64(Midway owned the game until now) into their timeline to push Doomslayer as being Doomguy and a lot of DA-tier bad fanfic writing plot excuses to get classic fans to buy the game. I haven't liked Doom 4 from the start. It looked like a bad game and the box art is just someone's bad attempt at drawing Master Chief. Eternal just kept finding more ways to make me dislike the reboot and no asspull retcon to pretend it's a sequel is making me change my mind. Maybe when Bethesda eventually crumbles(this won't counter the damage that Fallout 76 has caused, and come on... at this point it'll be 10 years minimum before Elder Scrolls 6 comes out, they aren't even working on it!) some other company can get the Id IPs and do a better job with the franchise. And frankly I don't care if I offend people who like the new games. I'm not going to like them, ever, get over it. Bigots who praised the trailer and the game only solidify that fact in the long run as I don't support trash they hype, but again, I didn't care for Doom 4 to start with. Or will you accept Disney's Star Wars as canon too? I didn't think so. PS the prequels had awful writing, the proposed Lucas sequels had bad ideas aplenty and Lucas can't make a good movie when surrounded by yes-men. He also treated David Prowse(the actor in the Vader suit) like garbage. Modern Id isn't old Id and Romero hasn't been relevant in years.

Final Doom not being released for free as the 2 WADs had been initially intended...

Confusing level design that becomes a slog to play after so many levels in, gimmicky lighting that was too dark, the ambient noise over music gets a bit grating and trying to play it on an N64 is an exercise in not throwing your controller at the screen. I've grown from hopeful interest to mild dislike to outright hatred of it every time I force myself to play it. I had a few fan ports for PC and since deleted all of them rather than try the game again, because if I didn't like it the first 4 times, the 5th isn't going to change that. I suspect had Midway sold it as an original title it would have been forgotten.

I'd pick Doom II only slightly over Doom, dropping Final Doom as it was a set of level packs with nothing otherwise new. Doom 3 was a canon reboot and while an okay game, isn't quite Doom to me. Anything else is crap made by companies other than the original Id so I don't care about them

Cabin Boy. It's an oddball movie with hints of Tim Burton all over it- as he was initially to direct but bailed last minute. It stars Chris Elliott with a secondary role by Andy Richter and a very brief cameo by David Letterman. A rich snobby "kid"(if you can call Elliott's clearly adult role as that) on his way home from boarding school mistakes a beat-up fishing boat for a cruise ship when he arrives to the docks late(after ticking off his limo driver, who does not care for the "fancy lad" attitude), tricks the idiot cabin boy into letting in onboard then setting course for Hawaii- right through a haunted patch of sea. Naturally, things go poorly. It failed despite advertising hype, but if Burton had remained on as director it would likely have been more successful.

I do and I can see why Id never bothered to obtain the rights or shoehorn it into official canon. The controls were poor but even the PC ports with better controls don't excuse the bad level design or the poor lighting. The lack of real music gets boring eventually as a lot of it is just sound effects- and unfortunately PS1 Doom had the same. It's interesting to a point but the novelty wears off. I've never got more than 1/3 through the game before I lose interest and only ever forced myself to beat it one time- on that awful Absolution port which locked out all "cheats"(apparently "mouselook" is cheating) until you beat it at least once. The only credit I can give are a few lighting effects and how it handled bridges or separate rooms(sectors moving instantly). The only joy I really got out of the fan ports was "D64 in Doom 2" with a couple new music tracks and that one level that had tiny sections of the map built beside switches, but even that I couldn't be bothered to play through. I genuinely felt that every time I did play it, I liked it less and less. Sure it's canon NOW but Bethesdoom is practically a reboot that's trying late-game to claim it's all a sequel to PC Doom, with 64 as their retconned bridge, and I do not care, nor will I ever care, about Bethesdoom. They already mostly lost me at 4 looking garbage and being an arena shooter. They lost me forever on "demons are like immigrants". No that's not a "joke", learn what a joke is. If they want that crowd as a fanbase then they don't need or want me t like or buy them. Go figure I've taken to flagging YT channels that discuss 4 or Eternal as "do not recommend" because the whole cult around it is obnoxious. It belongs in Bethesdoom canon. That retcon made me dislike a game I didn't like to begin with even more, TBH. Honestly everything about Bethesdoom just feels like a bunch of stuff I didn't like from day one, that somehow finds even more ways to constantly make me want even less to do with it thanks to BethesId's actions. I'd rather the franchise have faded than turned into this. I'm actually glad WB buried Blood instead of done a reboot, and I say that after also seeing the Shadow Warrior reboot(of which they tried to pretend was a prequel instead of a reboot, but come on...) turn out awful. Now for a bunch of people who disavow Disney Star Wars to scream "they own the IP, you have to respect their canon!"

I'm on my second playthrough of Skyrim, as some mods benefit more from a fresh start than being installed mid-point and some things I wanted to do differently. Even with unofficial patches though the sheer number of bugs is almost infuriating. Various home bugs have popped up this time that didn't show the first(and I suspect an adoption expansion mod broke them), meaning I'm using the console to upgrade houses because buying things doesn't work right. T feel if they spent more initial dev time making things work(sorry, Todd, "it just works" isn't being honest with us) these bugs would not be here. That time went into minute side quests, easter eggs, books you'll probably never read... they focused on world building but not making sure the world works properly. Even bugs supposedly fixed by the unofficial patches still affect me. Mod authors also get this and I suspect some of them aren't beta testing their content. I know guaranteeing full mod compatibility is impossible but too many mods failed to work right, and I'm positive that LOOT is doing more to break things than to make sure things work. I can go through comments on the Nexus and see others having the same issues with those mods. I wanted to try the Dragonborn alternate ending mod but over 50% of the comments are about how buggy it is. I only had to deal with one Oblivion mod that had such issues. I suspect random mod incompatibility is also what breaks the unofficial patches. The lack of underwater combat, the backwards magic & enchanting systems(taking apart existing equipment to "learn" the enchantments is worse than Oblivion relying on learned magic as a lot of enchantments are harder to find in the wild- still have yet to find a Soul Trap weapon at level 70 this time) and the useless state of dual-wielding also annoy me(2 swords are useless, and healing spell OR shield is a hard choice). It's a game I like, but I feel I only like it because of the amount of mods available, and only just enough to having to fight through the bugs. Plus the whole "we focused on making you play a selfish, evil character with few good choices" is an insult that's asking for yet more mods to fix. I REFUSE to join the Thieves Guild or DB just to get certain needed items or whatever! As with Oblivion, if I stuck to the base game I'd get bored with it quickly and at the base level I like Oblivion more. I'm also tired of "lore" as Bethesda retcons things frequently, 90% of a game's plot gets watered down into a few mentions in the next game, and at this rate with TES6 apparently not even being worked on, I doubt it's happening at all. I can't even imagine how they'll work around explaining the civil war without either ignoring it or ticking off 50% of the fans- and if they're just going to canonize stuff then there's no point in having choices.

Honestly most of their material before Waters went insane was good, and a lot of their good stuff never gets radio play. The Syd Barrett Era also had a lot of great material that unfortunately became obscure because it got no radio play at all, and Barrett's declining mental state meant that era would never come back. Waters going all Glenn Danzig ruined the band unfortunately, less him leaving and more him trying to control a band HE QUIT(just like Danzig). Warers' final albun with the band suffered because he wanted it to be just a solo project with his former bandmates being employees to play instruments and it really shows in how weak the album is. Waters ruined a decent idea with his lousy ego(and his own solo career barely managed to be as successful). Gilmour was already so key to the band that their own album after Waters left is still good, just lacking something Waters brought in before he went on an ego trip, but his constant litigation coupled with heavy touring meant it would really be their last good album. Division Bell was more of a Gilmour project at that point. Waters didn't even pretend to be sorry until Syd Barrett died and he did the reunion tour, but much like a Ghostbusters sequel, everyone was too old for the amends to have mattered much. Endless River reeks of "we're not dead" being more a collection of existing unreleased material, coupled with being another Gilmour solo deal, than anything new from what was just the leftover shell of the band. But that's how it often goes- nothing great lasts and fame tends to go to people's heads quickly. Time moves on and what used to be big becomes obscure as the artists who made it grow old.

If someone wants to use these 4 sprites as a basis to do further work, go right ahead. I have no intention of doing anymore work on these.

Tinkering with tweaking stock Mancubus sprites to resemble these shorts by Bowz. Larger eyes, nostrils, cartoony mouth and no blood around the arm tubes while sticking to the size limits and look of the stock sprites. Zoomed 3X for convenience. If pushed further the metal parts would be toned a bit towards grayish-purple to match the animation better. I don't know if I will do a full sheet edit as there are a lot of frames and am not too motivated to mess with it. Even in frames where I can copy the face I still have to manually edit out the red patches and I'm sort of "best guessing" what colors to use based on the surrounding pixels. Though if I ever do get around to doing the full sheet, or someone uses this as a basis to finish, it would allow for a "helper" Mancubus in the game that shoots at enemies and fires health-restoring cheeseburgers at you occasionally. Although Bowz did use the fan-made alternate death sprite as a reference, which are not on the stock sheet and I don't currently have copies of.

It sounds like they're giving only some enhancements to the original game rather than making something new. The "cut content" had better be worth it since the original runs fine on Windows XP and 7. If this is just a slightly prettier version of the same 3D models and the extra content is minimal, fans are going to be disappointed. I worry that will be the case though as they may determine "not enough interest" in a full modern remake, that's if Jim Shooter's current Valiant stuff doesn't interfere in rights to making a new game. Shadowman was a 1993 Valiant character long before the company folded and was bought out by Acclaim. Acclaim opted to hard reboot all the Valiant books often by just killing the original versions or starting fresh as if the old stuff never happened. Jim Shooter was brought on board in 1999 to fix the continuity mess, but his reboot after reobtaining the Valiant library when Acclaim went under(he was practically forced out of Valiant initially- a company HE created- by greedy shareholders, who proceeded to tank the company in short order, forcing their sellout to Acclaim to begin with) ignored the Acclaim versions completely. Seeing as Bloodshot just got a movie, I doubt Shooter is interested in the Acclaim versions when he'd want his own current version to get a new game. As it stands, Acclaim's old game is someone else's property but I doub't we'd see anything fresh based on it. I'm so sorry for you. That was the worst version released and the one time I played it, the constant disc loading sounded like the motor was being strained. N64 was quite playable but the PC version is the best overall.

Most Americans are clueless about the important laws being passed and it often happens silently. People are conditioned to ignore anyone who tries to talk about them. Remember how little news coverage that ACTA, SOPA and TPP had? It was either a media blackout or "this will benefit America" coverage. Protests were ignored. At the end of the day there's only one party that pretends to be two.

Yes. It was from a very badly-written promotional comic book that people only ever talked about because it was so awful AND related to a major video game franchise. Had it been for a more obscure franchise no one would have even scanned it. Doom 4 seemed to be made by people clueless to the franchise who just thought to pack in any random Doom-related thing they heard of on Google(while excluding a lot of major aspects of Doom because this was made with a Michael Bay mentality) and missed the point entirely.

You'll want Samsara EX(I think?) which is a continuation of the Samsara project. Caleb wasn't added in initially as it was intended to be a multiplayer mod and the creator wanted variety in player tupes, but others eventually took over and released their own expanded version with more characters later on. It's not 100% like playing Blood's weapons in Blood as some things are slightly off in the Doom engine, but it's about 95%.

For PC I'd go with Blood. I like it over any of the other Build games. Console, I'd go with the Metroid Prime series. Halo is too watered down to be on par with it- it's not bad but did give us "2 gun limit" and "regenerating health", 2 concepts that have poisoned the genre in a bad way, and introduced the concept of "hallway shooter" because Halo was an "accessible" game that was easy to pick up and play.

The current retcon pretends they are and his apartment has things like Commander Keen's helmet(I don't believe Doomguy being part of that lineage was even hinted at until Doom RPG- which funnily enough would make it part of 92 Wolf3D canon rather than the current Wolfenstein reboot), but it has to shove Doom 64's ending into canon to remotely make it work(a game that wasn't initially canon as it was Midway's property, it only got retconned in recently when Bethesda obtained ownership from Midway). However it was clear that Doom 4 was a canon reboot and they've only forced in a bunch of changes(the apartment, mentions of Daisy, the 93 Doomguy armor) to try and win over classic Doom fans(what? Didn't their "demons are like immigrants" stunt get enough racists to buy the game?). I don't count Bethesdoom as related to real Doom in any way nor would I ever dare install/play it(not even for free). I'll stick to the real Doom games. I won't even play WADs that include content from the reboot.

Digital re-releases of those old games have been limited to only a small percentage of the system's library. Nintendo has always had a habit of inflating the "damage" emulation does to them and often they will go after titles they don't even legally own let alone aren't for sale anywhere. Modern official emulators also tend to be borderline trash, on par with official source ports of PC games, and often running the unofficial port/emulator is better. I don't buy the "it's just not as good as real hardware" excuse as emulators have settings to tinker with, and expecting an onboard Intel chip to run PS2 or later titles is unreasonable anyway. Nor do I care if the sound is 1% different. The anti-emulation crowd also tends to come off as insufferable more often than not out of snobbery over anything else. I get it- you spent $20K on game carts that you have to own a house big enough for a family of 4 to keep them in. Good for you. I'm not impressed. Getting mad at people for playing the same games for free doesn't make you the better person. And if you think you need praise because you own Action 52 or Barbie to "complete the collection", sorry, but there's a hard line between enjoying video games and hoarding material goods. Buying stuff you will never play to fill a slot doesn't mean you're owed praise. I can't even buy their "ethics" argument as buying used games doesn't give the company a dime either- and in fact the entire push by the industry to kill physical copies and ban used sales has been due to that. So you buying used copies doesn't make you any better than me over what is essentially a non-issue. My point is, if you're one of the hardcore collectors who has to brag, don't act better than everyone else or come down on anyone else for not being a "collector" because in the end you're less about the games and more about showing off when you're packing your house with junk you don't even want so you can pretend to be an elitist. I don't play games or buy products to impress other people. Also, when the day inevitable comes, someone is probably going to be shoveling your collection to a charity shop or a landfill to get rid of it because they will either think it's worthless or won't want to deal with selling it, and that 'real hardware" inevitably fails. Disc media can degrade or peel off layers, PCBs oxidize, capacitors leak, EPROMs(all those prototypes or rare Asian cartridges collectors hoard and refuse to dump) wipe themselves after so many years... and newer consoles are far less reliable than older ones due to their disc drives, flash storage, more complex builds...

I feel Skyrim's biggest flaw is the devs spent far too much time on tiny nuances and pop culture reference easter eggs to the point that the major content suffered for it, and a lot of the tiny things went nowhere because those weren't finished either. Wiping out the DB should have been a lengthy fight with a lot of their members. Joining them has its own weird issues since DB assassins will randomly try to kill you before you do the initial quest- so they're perfectly willing to ignore a paid, unfinished contract on your life because you killed some random person in a shack when they told you to? And their random hitmen also stop bugging you when you kill 4 other people. On the plus side if you do kill them you still get access to the shout in their sanctuary. I'd suggest the similar mod for the Thieves guild if you want the skeleton key without joining them though. Mod-wise I'd suggest the Dragonborn Gallery, which gives you something to do with all that stuff aside from sticking it in a chest or selling it. There''s also Legends Of Hyrule which scatters Zelda stuff all around- kind of meta now that Skyrim Switch has Zelda content in an official capacity. Mods to restore cut content or one that pads out Solstheim with all the locations that were in Bloodmoon add something extra to do. There are lengthy quest mods to add in Bruma and other Cyrodiil locations I want to try at some point. There are also mods to give "good" characters options for most daedric shrine quests so you don't have to kill a friend or become a cannibal or whatever. There are plenty of DLC-scale free mods for the game I haven't yet looked into. Honestly I feel TES would be mediocre and forgettable if not for the modding communities- or barely playable thanks to the bugs that the modders fix. Oblivion save files become corrupted without a user-made tool to clean them. Daggerfall is finally in a playable state(before Oblivion they tried to treat these games as tabletop RPGs with a first person perspective and at times it gets annoying) thanks to the Unity port.

Skyrim LE. Because even with my new video card I don't think SE will run on this PC. While I find it better than Oblivion in a lot of ways- and out of the box it looks nicer than Oblivion's default graphics- the variation in locations is much less. It's mostly "forest", "mountain", "frozen forest" or "frozen mountain" with the occasional cave, run or whatever to break it up. Oblivion has a better variety of landscapes and the Oblivion gate segments to keep it from becoming bland. Entering the soul cairn during Dawnguard was the first major change of scenery. It feels like a game that needs fewer mods than Oblivion did... "fewer". You will still need the bugfix mods(the unofficial patches are essential) and all that and probably a body replacer(not essential, however) but the only overhaul mod I really used was an experience point add-on. I didn't need something like OOO to make things playable. You aren't bound to a class anymore, letting you level all your skills, and enemy scaling is nowhere near as bad as Oblivion. but the removal of the acrobatics perk means you can only walk, run or jump the same the entire game and removing underwater combat was a massive step backwards(and I'm not sure if any mods really fixed that either). I don't get as many crashes as I did in Oblivion though. Marriage is a weird system because none of the candidates are characters you will spend time with or even have much of a personality. Put on an amulet and that's it. Serana is the only one you will ever spend that time with, yet despite her getting flirty they opted to not make her a candidate for some very weird excuses that feel like they didn't have time to code "vampire marriage" or something. But the entire game and the DLCs all show signs of being massively rushed with modders adding in that content that was clearly never finished or fixing dumb decisions. No surprise the Serana marriage mod is very popular- and she's flagged essential so you'll want her as a follower regardless. You also need a mod to not makes the Blades angry at you if you don't kill Paarthurnax, and one so animals don't report crimes. It's also a shorter game as a lot of the major quest lines can be beaten fairly quickly. If you stuck to official content you can run out of stuff to do fast. They also seemed to balance the game to "evil" characters in a bad way- they almost favor you siding with the Stormcloaks(Todd Howard had to be talked into letting you join the Imperial side late in development) with much of the civil war stuff getting cut for time. You can kill the Dark Brotherhood but it's rushed and I can't buy that killing 5 members ended the entire group(hell, I think at least 2 characters from the DB quest don't show up if you take the "hero" route- definitely ONE doesn't as children can't be killed). The similar quest for the Thieves Guild was cut out(a mod adds it but it's a bit unfinished). Most of the shrine quests require you to be a despicable killer to complete them properly(there are mods to give alternate choices for most of them), as opposed to Oblivion where only one really forced that to be the case(which also had an alternate choice mod). Enchanting is a backwards system from what Oblivion had too. Oblivion based your eligible perks on magic learned, here you have to destroy existing equipment to "learn" the perks and a lot of things from Oblivion are missing. Even at a skill level of 100 you can only boost to 2 perks per item. I'm using mods to up that to 8 per and one that adds a lot of extra in-game items with unique enchantments to extend the pool(along with the unlimited rings mod- as with Oblivion I assume my character is hooking them onto equipment or whatever). Even so, despite being able to have a 100% resistance to magic or elements, there's no damage resist perk as Oblivion had so I can't just put all my damage resist onto rings and wear whatever armor from mods I like, I have to rely on armor for that protection. Overall I'd say it does plenty good, yet needs mods to be better than what you'd pay for at retail, but takes a few pointless steps back from its predecessor and would have had a huge benefit from another year of development because a gimmick release date wasn't worth losing a lot of content for. Just a shame that with Bethesda's current state and Fallout 76 being garbage that they keep trying to maintain despite the negative press(which seems to be a new controversy every 1-2 weeks), I question whether or not TESVI will even come out or be any good if it does.

Some sort of TES Oblivion/Skyrim style adventure set after Doom II where Doomguy deals with the rebuilding of Earth and smaller demon appearances popping up. Open world. Better sequel than Bethesda shoving Doom 64 in so they could pretend their reboot was somehow a sequel through the most convoluted "dimensional travel" means possible. Sprites would limit how new weapons or armor could be handled though. Honestly had Bethesda gone the Skyrim/Fallout open world route like that instead of what they did make, it might have been more impressive(and looking at their scrapped beta coupled with the sci-fi author they had onboard at one point, it may have been considered- not that I pretend modern Id isn't just a branch of them anymore). Shame no one's likely to do an extensive mod for one of those games, as it could take 5+ years to finish- though I do know Skyrim supports gun mods better than Oblivion did.

I wasn't won over by Doom 4 from the start. The armor being a very bad knockoff of Master Chief alone did me no favors. Screenshots looked bland, those really puffy gloves he wears would be a detriment to using your hands and the monster redesigns were hideous. That robot scientist looks like they wanted the Portal audience in a bad way even if it made no sense. Revenants are jetpack troopers from Metroid Prime. They were taking "inspiration" from things other than Doom, while they tossed their original concept sin the trash in a bad way. The closest to Doom was the fact he didn't talk and that's hardly a Doom-specific trait. Going for the Brutal Doom crowd with gimmick kills was pandering to Doom fans in the wrong way. I could play using Brutal Doom and Aeons Of Death and get the same feel of a game so mixed up it doesn't know what it is. The Eternal cult only drove me further away, because right after the first trailer, it was... ahem... a string of right-wingers super thrilled that the "jokes" were saying what they wanted to hear and going on about how the game was "owning the SJWs" because maybe 2-3 of them said anything remotely about it and happy over the comparison of demons to immigrants. Bethesda/Id/Zenimax/whoever seemed to embrace all that free word-of-mouth and did nothing to distance from it. Now they opted to try and get the classic fans on board with retconning him into Doomguy, sticking the original armor in, and that weird apartment where they confirm he's the descendant of BJ and Keen(of which the only "official" confirmation ever given prior was Doom RPG connecting to Wolenstein RPG), and since Bethesda got the rights to Doom 64 it's being used to explain how he's Doomguy- which the game was never "canon" to start with due to legal ownership issues in the day, being Midway's creation that was essentially just made under license with only some input from Carmack. And Daisy from the intermission screens is now his beloved keychain to try and tie it together harder. The new armor looks tryhard with the Predator shoulder cannon and busy on the eyes. The sword looks more dopey than dangerous. The gameplay looks like it wants to be Serious Sam. And the new TV spot was released... the rap used in it is making the people who swooned over the trailer's "jokes" furious. The constant hype and gripe over the reboots have done enough to put me far away, and I wasn't too interested to start. They haven't won me over into even playing for free. It's not a sequel, it's a "familiar name" cash grab at this point and the internet whining from either side has only made me want to know about this even less than before. Yes I am content to stick to the old games, source ports and user mods. I'm not going to give these a try and I've said well enough why that is. You want to buy and play them go ahead, but don't beg me to jump on your bandwagon like I'm expected to or constantly tell me how "masculine" it is.

Matt Groening went the same direction as Trey Parker & Matt Stone did, pandering to the same crowd for attention- and one guess which side is praising South Park these days. Now there's another show that lasted far too long for its own good and left the creators with inflated egos that think they're above critique or disagreements. Seth MacFarlane(who can at least tell decent jokes when he's not forcing a message) at least wore his politics on his sleeve from day one, these others seemed to switch sides the second they got famous enough to claim that they were above all criticism just to they could shout baseless accusations at their critics instead of perhaps listening or GASP even agreeing with them. Having a few million dollars in your bank account doesn't mean you're 100% right. Shame celebs can't understand that regardless of their politics(of which many don't even care about but flaunt for publicity, they'll switch sides for enough money) (on that note I will say that while I like Family Guy, it's to a degree... the smaller jokes are often funny but the show has severely inconsistent writing, MacFarlane's own politics can get as extreme as the other side and as time went on it suffered the same as the other shows- too "popular" to cancel, the ideas were used up and it's struggling to stay around. "Fresh" isn't part of the equation anymore for those shows. It also relies far too much on pop culture references, often to stuff the audience has forgotten about. Though Seth may have had a falling out with Fox recently as Orville is hopping networks)