blood - fresh supply

Apparently the port is a little borked here and there (according to blood-autists on youtube, at any rate). I haven't noticed anything wrong with it, but being anally retentive is a problem certain people struggle with.

Also, episode 2 is one giant fucking bush. Seriously. It is made entirely of hedge and spiders.

The killing is magnificent, both the enemy roster and the weapon selection is top notch. The main problem I'm having is that there simply isn't enough shooting; I'm playing on the second lowest difficulty setting becuz this is my first playthrough and this game is a fucking *hard* motherfucker.

The levels are vast and I'm getting lost / key hunting a lot, which means there are long swathes where I'm killing jack shit. Once I know where I'm going then I'll be able to crank up the difficulty and get some truly magnificent running and gunning going.

One aspect of the port that I am super-impressed with is the difficulty sliders. You can set up a game with Ultra-violence equivalent enemy spawns but they deal I'm a Pussy weapon damage. There are a lot of hit-scan fuckheads who will ruin your day if you don't know exactly where they spawn, so it's uber-useful if you want to learn how to play at higher difficulties without having to spam the quicksave key.

Go read the description on GOG.  The new engine offers a ton of new stuff.  I can't comment on how well it's been executed though because I haven't played yet.

Blood has indeed some gameplay flaws, like the fact that it's extremely difficult with hitscanner cultists that react too fast especially in harder difficulties. I can select the hardest difficulties in Doom and go through it forgetting save spamming, but I can't say the same about Blood even in the lower difficulties. However, since it's based on Build engine, it becomes fun because of all the other elements, the interactivity, real life inspired levels (like a carnival with lot's of games), the original weapons and two firing modes, great levels for exploration, underwater, jumping over ledges, some verticality and walls to break, easter eggs, etc. It has all the good elements of previous games like Duke Nukem 3D but with a brilliant horror theme, atmosphere, oh and the ambient sounds, and the player voice!

I played Blood GDX and then I purchased this one too. After Doom, this is the oldschool FPS I am so big fan of.

welp, that's the main campaign finished. Worse than Duke Nukem, better than Shadow Warrior seems fair. Port is pretty solid, no idea what the bitching is about (although there is a patch already out so hurrah I guess).

Blood is actually better than DN3D

Thank you, I agree 100%

I honestly feel like Duke Nukem is over rated. I can appreciate what it did for FPS games at the time, but it's just kinda meh. The interactive elements are nice and the levels are designed well, but none of the weapon are all that interesting (save for the shrink ray and the freezer), which personally I don't find them satisfying to use save for the explosive weapons. And Duke's lines/character gets really cringy at times. The game is just kinda meh (but I'm not saying it's not or can't be enjoyable).

Everything Duke Nukem 3D did with it's interactivity and realistic locations and such, Half Life did better, and as build engine game it's just not as fun or memorable as Blood in my opinion.