Painkiller: Overdose playthrough Part 1
3I have a sense of deja vu here. As if the previous time I tried to play Painkiller I had to reset it on an easier difficulty. You see, the problem is Painkiller relies on recovering health at checkpoints. You hit a checkpoint, you get your full health back. But that doesn't apply to hard. On hard, they're just checkpoints. Now, that in an of itself wouldn't be so bad, except that the enemies also hit a lot harder on hard. So the devs double dipped on extra damage on hard. Not good design, at all.
Couple that with levels that really, really resource starve you. I am constantly running out of ammo, for all the weapons. There just isn't enough available in the maps. I've mentioned before that you should budget about 1.5x the enemy's health in ammo for the map. And in this game, weapon damage seems extremely inconsistent, making it even worse. All in all, this is not impressing me so far, at all. And that's not even getting into some of unclear things the game throws at you early in. And the story that sounds like it's written on an emo high schooler's notebook.
Just... yea... Maybe I'm too critical anymore. But this is not amusing me. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/the_nametag
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