So I got inspired by some guy who made a post about blood and was hating on the game. Here is a response to his rant.Blood my retrospective.I played blood like in 2003 or something far after it was released. I loved Duke 3D and I decided to try it I think it was the DOS game running in windows 98 or something.I tried it and I did not like it. I seriously never liked the blood aesthetics since all looks brown and like crap. That stupid brown 1920s or whatever is ugly as fuck and all looks the same. I did stab some zombies and shot some and quit the game.Year later I did give it another try, I still do not like its aesthetic and never will. However I finished the game and I remember killing all the bosses or even looking up charnobog on a wiki after I killed him. He looks very interesting.I liked the gameplay and I remember (this was the end of act1) even getting dreams based on the cool mechanic of throwing dynamite and how satisfying it did feel.And this was that for over a decade. Then this guy made a raging comment how blood sucks because hitscanners or somethingI wanted to respond however I decided to play the game once more to refresh my memory, I did go for the gog remaster or whatever(can this have consequences?) and I spammed ENTER to start the game fast(I have no idea on what difficulty I did start) and I did mover forward and kill zombies and cultists however once I entered the mausoleum on the first level a problem started to show itself. I was running low on ammunitionSo I decided to restart(probably got killed) and use the pitchfork more. This was not fun especially that I did not remember that the zombies resurrect like 3 times after you kill them in a normal way. On the train station level a problem started to show itself that I have very little HP and there are no MedKits and the enemies are not drooping life essence. I remember trying to enter the train station (save scumming at this point) with like 10 or 8 HP and it was fucked1/3
>>12919170Trying to kill the cultists was not fun and the problem was not le hitscanners the problem was that the level did not have med kits or life essences enough or the enemies did not drop life essences enough(like 1 time on 1 map in every run max) you can kill the cultists by peaking over the corner and 2 tapping one with a shotgun however they react often fast and sometimes it is a game of randomnessAnd the game was objectively not fun I either waste my time by pitch fork killing these stupid zombies who resurrect to often or I am in a life and death struggle to kill these cultistsI tried a restart and found the same problems. This really confused me since I literally remember killing the final boss no cheats no nothing and having fun. Is there a difference in the gog remaster and the old DOS game??? I tried the game again this time I did not spam ENTER ENTER ENTER to start it however carefully selected the difficulty and I did finish the 1 act no problem and also did have fun with the zombies at the end by throwing dynamite at them and zombies are perma dead from explosions, also them getting thrown around from the explosion is fun. I do not know what difficulty this was however that play of the game was really not fun. Maybe the game needed to include more TNT all over the place so the player can use it to quickly kill zombies instead of playing a waiting game before getting to the main fight with cultistsAlso the flare gun is a super weapon no it really is. I normal shot into a zombie and he perma burns to death. I did not expect this and this kind of invalidates most of the gameShotgun for cultists and flare gun or TNT for zombies. It make more sense if the normal gun was weak and what the flare gun is was some burning crossbow bold or something that has limited ammunition because how absurdly powerful it is, and this is no joke I can kill gargoyles by shooting them with 2 flares and then some running in a circle and shotgun to the face2/3
>>12919187What surprised me was that the rats(yes fucken rats) are an annoying enemy, you think some shit you can step on would not be a problem however they bite you and in my first run I did have a problem because I did not want to waste my precious shotgun on them. Dynamite solves them however I did take some time before I did the crouch and pitchfork combo to remove these shits.There where also these eye balls with wings that did fly around in 1 map however they literally did no damage.The game is OK however there is little variety and I think the game should have a dedicated TNT button. Not switch to TNT as a weapon I mean hold to charge the TNT and then throw while you auto return to your previous weapon. Any reason for that insane difficulty spike by choosing a harder difficulty (I play my games on normal)? In contrast duke gives you shitloads of MedKits and(I did not know this before 2026) you can literally regenerate 100 HP if you spam the use key on any source of water like a fountain or broken hydrant. What are your thoughts on blood as a game?Maybe it should have a big >WARNING this game mode is very hard if this is your first time play the other ones insteadBox if a first time player selects a more difficult setting? Especially in the remasters etc.
