Doom The Dark Ages, Metroid Prime 4 (Gaming)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Monday, December 29, 2025, 12:26 (4 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Seems like for the last 8 years I only have time to play games from Thanksgiving through New Years and then I go into gamer hibernation.

The newest Doom was fun, I really enjoyed the gameplay loop and I especially liked the new uh, "biome" that they added. I liked it so much that I'd play a game with more of that please. It was over the top in all the right ways, 9/10. Story? It's doom. Man is literally too angry to die, fights god. Wins? You decide.

The newest Metroid? Oh what a mixed bag. Gameplay? Feels mostly like the classic Prime games, that is a good thing. Exploration is good, bosses are good, puzzles satisfying. Scans are a tad worse, dunno why they didn't do it like MP2 or MP3. NPCs? Not normal for a prime game but could have been implemented way better. Motorcycle? It just doesn't belong. It is neither fun, nor un-fun. Just feels incomplete and half-baked. Plot? I haven't been this disappointed in a bait-and-switch since Halo 5. From what came out in interviews, it seems like Retro studio got stuck with seeing through some story and gameplay choices that Bandai started and Nintendo didn't want to pay to change (not everything needs to be open world, they realized too late). Still, considering the constraints Retro had to work with they made a beautiful game on the freakin' switch and if there is a Prime 5 they'll nail it, I'm sure.

Both are solid if you rent or borrow.