The physical copy, doesn't actually come with a physical copy. What?
If you order the physical copy, you get forced into registering the game with Bethesda.net, Bethesda's cheap knock of steam. Not a cool move. Do yourself a favor and just order it on steam, actually do yourself a favor and just stay clear of the game all together.
After returning this and buying it on steam, I was sorely disappointed with this title.
When you die, you get forced back to before the last boss you defeated. I would expected better of this from an NES title, let alone a modern FPS released by a AAA publisher. Check points have been around since before half-life, learn to use them, and use them often.
As with previous games in the rebooted franchise, there is no manual save option. However, unlike previous entries in the rebooted franchise, there are just about no auto save points. You die on the boss, go back to the beginning of the level. If I was running Bethesda or Machine Games, I would fire everyone who knew about this and thought it was ok to release a game with just about no check points.
The life system would have been an extremely cool feature to offset the terrible use, or lack of use, of checkpoints. Except that when you come back, you come back in the middle of what ever killed you with nearly no health and no armor. This leads to frequently dieing as soon you come back up. All it really does is draw out the process of wiping. The game would actually been better without the life system. The 80s called, they want their game play mechanics back.
Enemies will literally re-spawn right on top of you, even the super soldiers. Not only does this break any sort of continuity, or lack thereof, it also serves as a wtf moment when a super soldier spawns on top of you while you are in the middle of reloading.
Why am I constantly getting video card is out of memory error messages, when the game is running smoothly? What is up with the insanely long load times? Why does the game keep playing when I go into the options menu to adjust the settings, the game should pause when you are in the settings menu. In fact, why is there a complete lack of a pause feature at all. What if I get an important phone call while playing the game.
Like New Order and New Colossus, this games continues the trend of including a maze like base that your supposed to chill out in between levels. I thought this "feature" was terrible in those games, and it is even worse in this one. Recent news seems to indicate that Bethesda is going to include this feature in Doom Eternal, which will be really sad, since part of what made Doom (2016) so fun, was the nearly uninterrupted action.
Why is there a world of warcraft style questing system, complete with quest givers with exclamation points on the minimap? This is a FPS, no an MMORPG, and it breaks up the flow of the action in a bad way.
Finally, and most importantly, where is Billy Blazkowicz? Who gets rid of the main protagonist in a FPS? I have nothing against having strong female characters in a computer game, but seriously who removes the main protagonist from a computer game franchise? This isn't showing how woke you are, it is showing how little respect Bethesda has for the franchise, and that same disrespect for the franchise is what led to an absolutely terrible game. Also the girls are soooooo annoying, especially the cuts scenes of them dancing in the elevators.
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