One of the main things that throw me off about Doom Eternal is that (in my mind) it plays more like Metroid Prime than a conventional FPS (more emphasis on puzzle solving and platforming than combat). At least have the common courtesy to put in some good firefights.
I thought it was a massive step backward from 2016 in pretty much every way but I'm clearly in the extreme minority. Most people seem to love it.
Maat basically just decides at some point that he's going to win and that's all there is to it; he'll say something (I can't remember what) and then start cheating by doing Asuran Fists over and over without any need to build TP. If I remember right, it was based on time, so even though officially you had 10 minutes the actual time was somewhat shorter. So in other words the game lies about the time limit and chooses to enforce it by having the NPC slap you in the face with his dick over and over instead of the usual teleporting you out of the burning circle.
I believe there actually is a timelimit for the second part, it's just some absurd amount of time, more than 10 years in-game or so.
The ending is still also somewhat affected by how much time you take before you stop the Master; for example, if you take 230 days and haven't stopped him, Shady Sands will be destroyed.
Yeah, I played again after an hiatus. I concluded it was either unlucky matchmaking, bad aim, reflexes and skill. I have been getting better once I paced my shots, moved more methodically, used equipment and listen to my surroundings.
24 hours? Even Square-Enix changed FFXI after players fought Pandemonium Warden for 18 hours (and lost), and I have several other posts in this thread that show just how bad the bullshit FFXI can get. They didn't eat the entire time and then threw up after losing, and there were articles about "Final Fantasy XI makes players physically sick", and very shortly thereafter SE announced that Pandemonium Warden (and Absolute Virtue) were going to be redesigned to have a time limit of 2 hours and be beatable in that time. Pretty terrible when even the FFXI dev team would say, "Wow, that's too much".
GT4 had this too. The worst part IMO is a) due to the limitations of the time, it's always 3pm no matter how long you race for and b) the "old" Sarthe circuit without chicanes seems to have a glitch that fucks with the car's handling once it goes into the pit, meaning you can't just hand it off to the AI because it will slam the car into the wall on the Mulsanne straight.
Roy's our boy!
That gave me FFT flashbacks where you had to protect an npc and you couldn't stop him from running up in the bad guys' face and poking them with a stick.
It's infuriating when the character that needs to survive is a complete idiot that gets himself killed as soon as possible, like in an escort mission. It's also infuriating when the idiot turns out to be invulnerable because the devs threw their hands up and stopped trying.
