Dark Forces is a strain to look at, grating to listen to, and a headache to play.

It offers some fun cinematics and does do a handful of things that are admirably different for being a "Doom Clone" in its era, but the uninteresting array of enemies and weapons, and the not-very-well-conveyed level design makes Dark Forces a struggle to play in 2020.

LuciusXL's The Force Engine source port project is something to keep an eye out for, as I anticipate it being the most palatable way to play this game on its release.

An exciting racing game that steeps you into one of my favorite Star Wars sequences - The base controls are incredibly tight and satisfying, but I feel the game is let down from true greatness by some very incredibly long tracks with questionable design, and opponent AI that either dominates or is dominated without much in-between.

I can't put my finger on it, but something about the sound design of the PC port seems worse than the N64 version that I grew up with.

Despite its highly disappointing shortcomings, Episode 1 Racer is my favorite of the Nintendo 64 Star Wars titles and a series of games I would love to see brought back with the attention and care it deserves.

Shadows of the Empire manages to throw out most modern common game design sense (By way of predating it) in a clunky but ambitious action game that somehow ultimately has enough cool factor and atmosphere to make just fun enough to still keep playing.

Despite the loss of the more visually appealing still-cutscenes in exchange for chunky 90's CG cutscenes, the smooth framerate, customizable controls, and support for a number of resolutions makes the PC port the definitive way to play this in 2020.

Doom Eternal's gameplay is an evolution from doom 2016 that offers more depth and satisfaction, but feels less revelatory than its predecessor.

Perhaps most of its faults attributed to it are unfair - Doom 2016 was a huge surprise and it's hard to follow up such a strong first impression.

The visuals are incredible, and the music is solid, yet something about the game's presentation feels less intensely demonic. Chalk it up to the change in atmosphere, the different combat dance, or whatever you want, but despite Eternal feeling just so much better to actually play, it's a game that feels strangely unsurprising. It feels almost dirty to rank it below 2016's reboot.

A solid enough effort from a first-time studio, that suffers from not enough development time and a little bit of an identity crisis - Many of its flaws are inherited by Reach, but just as many are newly introduced. Not every level is solid, but a decent amount are. Halo 4's strengths are found in it's cinematography, voice cast, and human story, but doesn't manage a totally clean landing in most things Forerunner related: mechanically, aesthetically, nor narratively.

This game looks like how Mountain Dew tastes.

A very funny RPG with some ambition and vision - I love the ugly face models and whacky dialogue a lot.

I don't mind the more "generic" high fantasy setting on-paper, but for how big the world of Oblivion is, a lot of it feels same-y and lacks character. The main quest is mediocre at best, and some of the DLC, like Knights of the Nine, are even worse.

The best questline is da Dark Brotherhood, and any RPG gets points in my book for having a duel arena.
A neat game with ultimately a unique stank to it, though I don't think it does a whole lot that it's 2011 follow-up doesn't do strictly better.