I vividly remember the roaring sound they made in the 2013 game and think it'd be perfect for a creature I'm working on. By any chance, does anyone have a decent clip of the Berserker roar?

Shadow Warrior 2 is on a big discount right now on ps store and I wonder if I should get it. The price isn't really the problem as it's only like 3 bucks, but I'm not sure what level of enjoyment I should expect from the game as I never played a looter shooter before. I really liked both the first and the third one but my biggest complain with the first is that enemies were too bullet sponge and from what I heart, it's even worse in this one. Also is inventory management really just a chore and can it be ignored for the most part? Also for those who have played borderlands 3, would it be a better alternative for a looter shooter instead of shadow warrior 2?

Edit:Thank you all for your opinion. At this point I'm probably gonna go for both:)

Not sure if this has been a thing for a while...? I know that GOG gives away free classic games all the time, but I hadn't looked in a while, and just noticed that Shadow Warrior Classic is free there right now. Just letting the community here know in case anyone wasn't aware. Cheers!

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I have a question that's been bugging me. I know it's odd but for those who have played Shadow Warrior 3 and high on life, can you explain to me why shadow warrior 3 gets a lot of hate for it's humor while high on life gets a pass, even though I find em just as cringy? At the very least shadow warrior 3 had really good gameplay in my opinion, and I would personally prefer Hoji speaking to me than hearing Morty every damn second. And I do get that shadow warrior 3 is short, but high on life isn't all that long either and it's about the same price.

A while back, I bought both SW3 and Doom Eternal, but I wasn't able to play either of them immediately. They were on the backburner for a while, and I decided that I was going to play SW3 first, just to give it a fair chance, isolating it from the common outlook of "it's a Doom Eternal clone."

So, that's what I did. I played SW3 last year (twice all the way through), waited a while, and then finished Doom Eternal just last night (I replayed about half of the missions as well). I mostly 100%-ed both games, as far as collectibles/challenges/upgrades/etc, to try and get the most complete experiences from them.

After all was said and done, I found myself more conflicted than I thought I would be. First, I should mention that I am a huge fan of both franchises - both the classic and modern iterations of both. I've put countless hours into them. The thing is, I have an incredible amount of adoration for Doom because of its influence and staying power within the industry of FPS gaming. No doubt about that. However, something about SW just agrees with me on a level that's hard to express. I think it's that it never takes itself seriously. It knows what it is, and it knows its limits. There's a charm to it.

With Doom Eternal, the quality is absolutely there. Amazing framerates (for the most part), a mostly-crash-free experience, and the truly solid combat were all there. SW3 can barely compete when it comes to its awful game-breaking bugs, sometimes frustrating gameplay, and often dodgy performance. There were actually times when I almost stopped playing it.

However, with Doom Eternal, I felt like everything was trying so hard all the time. Everything needed to be a big deal. The nonsense lore of it and the multiverse wankery felt so forced. Comparatively, SW3 was light, and cohesive in its storytelling. It almost felt like Flying Wild Hog took what was good about Doom 2016's "story as a ride" approach. SW3 had the right attitude, as well. It knew it was the underdog from the start, and it went with it. It knew it was the class clown, and it proceeded accordingly, fart jokes and all. So, for that, I respected it. I found it refreshing.

No one (including myself) will say that SW3 is the better game, because it isn't, but it was never trying to be, and for that, I give it credit. Doom Eternal, on the other hand, took its franchise and doubled down on everything it had been doing previously, but in the process I think it became overbearing. I think it tried to be charming, but it forgot how to be, because it became too grand in the process.

So, my conclusive thoughts would be, I wish Doom Eternal had SW3's breezy storyline and simplicity, and I wish SW3 was built on idtech instead of Unreal Engine. I wish the two companies could learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses. I think Doom could have benefited from getting knocked down a peg in terms of its overconfidence, and I think SW could have been programmed and designed better. It's fun to imagine these possibilities, at least.

Anyway, if you made it all the way through, thank you for reading! I would be very curious to know if anyone felt similar things, especially if you played both games in the order they released (i.e. Doom Eternal first, then SW3). It would be interesting to know if anyone liked SW3 more than Eternal even after having played Eternal first.

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Just started playing this game yesterday and I already made a lot of progress with these grinds. :P Especially Demolition Man.

I have SWCC on GOG (and also SWCR, but I like VoidSW better). So I have two questions:

1. I copied VoidSW into the SWCC root installation folder and ran it. The launcher only shows Shadow Warrior and Wanton Destruction, but no Twin Dragon. I've tried locating the .grp file for Twin Dragon and copying it into the root folder so VoidSW could "see" it, but can't find it anywhere. Where is it?

2. I want to play Shadow Warrior '95, which is a fan-made TC mod that recreates the original, 1995 version of Shadow Warrior before 3DRealms took over development or whatever. I downloaded the mod, but I really have no idea how to run it through VoidSW. It does support DosBox, but I don't want to fiddle around with setting up its controls and such. So, how do I run it? I've tried copying the SW95 folder into the SWCC root folder, I've tried copying VoidSW into the SW95 folder, and I've even tried editing the .bat file for SW95, but nothing seems to work. Any help?

I bought this game full price because just from the trailers i could tell i will like this game, turns out i loved it! It's the only game i have played a 3 times in a very short amount of time. I like it because of great gunplay, controls, environment takedowns, sword, unique finishers, art, traversal and all that while feeling like easy to pick and play.

I didn't like doom because it just felt like going through the same arena map over and over again while this game feels like an story advanture game while also having arena's. I know i am in the minority but i loved this game.

There’s not a single thing I enjoy about this game. I think the characters are obnoxious, the sword is unintuitive to use, and gunplay is just okay.

I’m playing shadow warrior 2. And I am one of those people who likes to do side quests first. Right now however there are many of them and I’m unsure what to do. I’d like to unlock the ability to start using armor gems but I do not know when that happens. Do I just rush the story till I get the ability? Or do I go ahead and complete all side quests (bounties included) as I’ve been doing?

New player here and I just started playing shadow warrior 2, just wondering If anyone still plays this? I struggle like hell in trials, take random damage and idk if trials are co op

It leaves in six days. I am a fan of fast paced boomer shooters but not that good at them. Love Doom Eternal but I took my time to finish that game. I watched Under The Mayo's video when it came out that is why it interests me but I am afraid I will be stuck learning the mechanics and not being experiencing the game.

I just started playing Shadow Warrior 3 on Hardcore difficulty on Xbox cloud gaming.

I am at a point where you are attacked by a wave of enemies, but once they are gone there is nowhere to go, and the objective still says “kill all enemies”

I am at a loss. I’ve tried reloading the game and reloading the checkpoint multiple times but it’s the same problem every time.

Since SW3 is leaving game pass, I decided to try is game but there’s disk space error. How to fix this? Thanks

I played classic and enjoyed it a lot after getting a little too tired of the grind from Shadow Warrior 2. I don't necessarily dislike games like Borderlands but I don't really feel like sinking a bunch of time into another game where the loop is to collect better weapons and not upgrade my character and his abilities as much as my guns and other weapons. I much prefer upgrade trees to my character and a set catalog of weapons the game gives me, like how the Deadpool game does upgrades if that makes sense. Would I enjoy the reboot or should I stick to the classic game and play the 2 expansions?

I'd really love to watch.

And is a punch swap type tech equivalent something I discovered?

Yeah from an outside view you wouldn’t agree all that much. But the gameplay is simple but fun As hell. Unlike games like doom Eternal or DMC these games might be fun but they’re going break your fucking fingers for long hours of playing, the weapons and the Dialogue Lo gives out just makes it a wonderful game in my opinion

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