Thats one of the games I was crazy about when it was released, but unfortunately that was a time when PCs would change from a great gaming machine to an useless piece of crap in a couple years. Which means my meager P133 had no chance of running it.
Only some years later I was able to play it and for some reason I can’t bring myself to like it.
I try playing it from time to time but the result is always the same: Bored after some levels.
Congratulations, though! Does the game get good at some point?

It's somewhat ok with FXE4 or Darkact mods, which fixed many bugs and atrocious weapon balance. But the game itself (broken or fixed) is just forgettable, there are very few interesting set pieces.

Congrats. Playing and finishing games from the 90s that i either missed or on, or did not finish, is something to live for.

Did you do it all in one session or play a few, leave it for a while and come back?
I've a few games on my want to finish list but I'll start it. Move onto a old favourite I've probably finished 100's of times then months/years later I've lost the savegame

This was one of those games where I endlessly played the demo, fantasizing about how great the full version would be. Of course it was a disappointment, but it also crashed quite a lot.

gaffa2002 wrote on 2021-06-28, 00:44:

Does the game get good at some point?

Let me put it this way: Unreal and Half-Life were released in the same year, and I still haven't been able to force myself to get all the way through either of those. It all boils down to the map design. Blood II's maps are just challenging enough to be interesting without being frustrating, and are just realistic enough to be relatable. Unreal's maps have a bad habit of being too random and abstract, as if they were spat out by a neural net, so Unreal gets very boring very quickly (a problem shared with Quake II). Half-Life's map design is so terrible that I couldn't get a quarter of the way through it without looking up the Noclip cheat, and by the time I had gotten halfway through it, even Noclip couldn't save me.

However, it's not as good as Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight or Blood 1, both released the previous year.

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-06-28, 05:39:

the game itself (broken or fixed) is just forgettable, there are very few interesting set pieces.

Its memorability is not helped by the fact that it copies and pastes the whole "evil corporation accidentally opens a portal to a hell-like parallel dimension and demons start invading" plot that was used in Doom, Quake, and Half-Life...

chinny22 wrote on 2021-06-28, 10:27:

Did you do it all in one session or play a few, leave it for a while and come back?

Hahaha. Oh my sweet summer child. This was a '90s game. Back then, you could never finish a shooter in one day... you might be able to do it in one sitting, but only if you stayed awake for several days straight hopped up on Adderall.

WDStudios wrote on 2021-06-28, 10:54:

Hahaha. Oh my sweet summer child. This was a '90s game. Back then, you could never finish a shooter in one day... you might be able to do it in one sitting, but only if you stayed awake for several days straight hopped up on Adderall.

Oh, I didn't mean in one go! That's not something I would even punish Civvie 11 with 😉
I meant have did you play it continually over say the past month or on and off again over the past year/years

chinny22 wrote on 2021-06-28, 11:41:

WDStudios wrote on 2021-06-28, 10:54:

Hahaha. Oh my sweet summer child. This was a '90s game. Back then, you could never finish a shooter in one day... you might be able to do it in one sitting, but only if you stayed awake for several days straight hopped up on Adderall.

Oh, I didn't mean in one go! That's not something I would even punish Civvie 11 with 😉
I meant have did you play it continually over say the past month or on and off again over the past year/years

Oh 🤣. Yes, all of my old saved games had been lost through a series of hard drive deaths and reformats, so I had to start all over from the beginning two weeks ago.