in recent times is Shovel Knight. The only thing modern was that it was in a 16:9 resolution, everything else felt pretty much perfect. 

Good example. 

Devil Daggers, too. Although narrow in scope, it was very well executed, IMO. 

It still irks me that DD was "just" a score attack game. Everything about it was amazing except the game mode :P 

Indeed. Devil Daggers with proper level design would've been dope as fuck. 

Yeah I was super stoked for Devil Daggers hoping it might have had some levels in it.

The enemy design was superb. 

I've just been made aware of this 2D side shooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWOx0rNTr8
Looks fun! The name alone is a marvel of poetry... 

I might have to pick this up 

Butcher is very hard... I haven't finished it. 

https://club.ubisoft.com/en-GB/ubi30

Ubi 30th Anniversary Giveaway continues. In December they bring us Assassin's Creed III for free! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrOLr35S88 

So many shooters with hell theme announced. I have a feeling 2017 will be very satanic! 

 

Good spot. It seems horror / gore / gothic is one of the next big things??

This, like the other ones, doesn't quite hit the mark in that trailer. Great style and theme, boring path following. The last 5 seconds of actual gameplay don't really show a tactical shooter either.

But it's a cool style and as next big things go....a hell of a lot better than many other choices. 

Watched a bit of the Deathwing video that Shambler linked. Gameplay looks boring. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwE24fwZAOQ

Not sure what to think, maybe diablo-ish? 

 

Sandbox world.

Randomly generated missions.

Randomly generated maps from tilesets (that looked particularly dull when they were re-arranging the same damn times in 10 different ways).

No, I don't want 100s of hours like that. That's why I really enjoyed D3 single player campaign, did a few rifts for the lulz, and haven't touched it since. Give me an interesting, tight, stylish, spectacular SP campaign instead and the 100 hours of repetition can fuck off. 

"Procedurally generated" just translates to "much shitter than anything hand-crafted and in any case once you've seen one map you've seen them all". 

I agree, which is why I posted without comment. I think visually it looks pretty decent and the design is still good but I would prefer something hand crafted. 

isn't always a bad thing. I haven't played Diablo 3 but PG did add some replayability value to the first two games. I spent countless hours of fun in these games back in the day and I'm not sure I would have played them more than once or twice if they had fixed levels.