Cult of the Lamb maybe?

Seconding Yakuza. There’s about 10 games in the series, all are pretty great to amazing. The older ones are all dirt cheap and often go on sale by 50%

Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami or Like a Dragon are all good starting points

Totally agree with you. I was a huge fan of Doom 2016 but couldn’t get into Doom Eternal. Will reserve judgement until this is released, but I get the feeling I won’t like this one either.

Remedy bought back the rights for Control from the publisher earlier in the year. There’s hope that they could do the same for Max Payne!

https://www.ign.com/articles/remedy-has-taken-back-control-of-the-control-series-from-505-games

Most 1st party Nintendo games are pretty solid at launch