Good to know. If I get more into Doom an non-official stuff, I might look at those, but for now the batch file will do.

True, how easy it is to get into the games with this port, along with the mod browser, definitely outweighs the few minor issues.

I've actually downloaded Woof myself for my Final Doom playthrough. It takes a few minutes to read up on how to create a batch file to make launching the game more user friendly, but once you're in, it's has everything you'd want.

I really enjoyed the first game years ago, but never really got into the sequel the few times I tried, although I never disliked it.

I finished Doom II and some levels were an absolute pain. I gotta say though, this re-release (Doom + Doom II) is a bit disappointing. There are a bunch of glitches, although pretty minor, that are just annoying. The most frustrating one for me was, when you have the Pistol Start option activated (to automatically start all levels with just the Pistol), the Backpack is bugged and doesn't give double ammo capacity. Once you die and restart the level it's fixed, until the next level. I don't know if it ever made the difference with me dying or not, but it just sucks.

Today I started Final Doom, specifically TNT:Evilution, which I've never played before. Just like before I'm trying UV, Pistol Start, no mid-level saves, but depending on how it goes I might start using saves. I'll probably try a different source port though, since this KEX engine port isn't the best.

I also played through Horizon Forbidden West: The Burning Shores DLC, although only the main quests and almost nothing else. It was kinda meh. The story was fine, but the final boss fight was complete garbage. The romance part also felt really rushed, especially since I went through everything over just two days/seven hours in total.

Then, I'm also kinda in-between games right now, since I'm waiting for the Diablo 4 expansion release in a bit over a week. There are a bunch of games I want to play, but probably won't finish in time, so they have to wait. I tried Ace Combat 7, played through the first mission, but it didn't really grab me (KB+M is definitely more playable than the Steam forums made it seem). I'll probably play through one of the dozens of metroidvanias I bought, but never played.

We need that Cosby Suite back!

I finished Doom in the most recent re-release (Doom + Doom II), Ultra-Violence, Pistol Start and no save scumming. The base game isn't too difficult, but still one level per episode gave me some trouble. The fourth episode is a massive step-up in difficulty though. E4M6 took me a lot of tries, but it got a lot easier, once I found some secrets with extra weapons.

After Doom, I continued with Doom II, still on UV, Pistol Start, no saves, and the first few levels are no issue, but it got tough real quick. Basically, just like E4 in the first game, it's often about finding the best path to more weapons and ammo. The levels are also more open, so you usually have a few different paths to choose from, so figuring stuff out takes a bit. Depending on how it goes, I might start looking at the wiki to check out secrets and pickups and kinda plan a route that way.

I also finished Lies of P. It's a good game and I had fun, but the there are definitely some weird decisions by the devs, although they were pretty minor. Weapon durability felt pretty pointless, I think only for two or three boss fights did I have to sharpen during the fight. Same with the jump, which is only needed a few times. However, since it's like Dark Souls, so you need to sprint to be able to jump, any more would have sucked anyway. Might as well put in a dedicated button like Elden Ring and make it better, or just remove it. The weapon system was pretty neat, even though I basically just used three different heads and handles. I loved the perfect block mechanic, especially if it also destroyed the enemy weapon. Too bad it doesn't work on the monster enemies, I guess, since they don't really carry a weapon. The story got pretty lame in the end, but it's whatever. I disliked two boss fights, the first Black Brotherhood fight since it was a gank fight, and the penultimate boss, because the hitboxes were just really weird, and I was constantly getting shoved around. Even on a perfect block I was a mile away from the boss, so a follow-up really sucked

Finally, I started Horizon Forbidden West: The Burning Shores DLC. I played the base game earlier this year, when it released on Steam, but I'm not really feeling the huge 3D open world right now. I'll still finish the story, since it's pretty short, but will probably only do the critical path and little to no exploring.

I played Tunic last December and loved it, and while I found a lot of stuff, I definitely needed some help to get the good ending. I was definitely glad to have done so though.

~250 games testet, about 90% worked without issue.

Some games were hard coded to avoid Intel graphics and would use the AMD iGPU by default (even a newer title like Alan Wake 2 did this), but after disabling the iGPU, most of those were fine.

I think like 10-15 games didn't work at all or had basically unplayable performance, maybe a few more with graphical glitches, some minor, some more noticeable.

DD1 already was full of microtransactions, but in the sequel they "ruin" the game? What changed for you?

I'm generally having fun with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, but unlocking and upgrading all the weapons is a huge chore. Also, every time I'm finally blasting my way through all the bugs, the run is basically over, so I wish there was an extended or even endless mode, so I can just mow down everything for a while.

Then I played some more Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, tried out a few different builds, but nothing really stuck with me. I'll give it a bit more time, but I might take another break soon.

Finally, I picked up Dyson Sphere Program again. I'm still really early, and the beginning in these types of games is always a bit slow for me, so it takes me some time to really get into it. However, if I get over this hump, I'm usually really addicted for a while, so let's see how it goes this time.

It also stinks that the first PC version will almost certainly end up being on Epic before steam.

Square is super inconsistent with this stuff, that it's pretty hard to tell what's going to be an Epic Exclusive and what's not. I do hope there's not going to be a second exclusivity period, before it's coming to Steam though.

It was just a short reply about the top played games on Steam (by playtime), but of course it has to be expanded to a whole, useless article, along with a clickbait headline.