#daniel does gaming

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So I Just Played: Fallout New Vegas - Old World Blues DLC

This DLC was definitely...not what I was expecting. But I loved it!

I've always liked when games that seem not too focused on technology go full sci-fi, and that's exactly what this DLC did. It's like in Dying Light when you're going to meed Dr. Camden and you go from a semi-destroyed city into a pretty functional science lab, except you go from a destroyed Mojave Desert to a scientific complex in a crater (which was originally the base of a mountain that got blown open in a failed experiment, fun fact!).

I was pretty intrigued by the story. Why did Dr. Mobius harass the Think Tank? What's the deal with all those robo-scorpions. Why in the Kentucky-fried fuck can home appliances talk!?

I went with the ending in which the Courier gets all their original organs back and spares Dr. Mobius while destroying the Think Tank. Seriously, they nonconsensually cut out parts of my body, did you really think I was gonna take that standing? I don't see Dr. Mobius doing that to people!

In summary, this DLC, like all four of them for New Vegas, is something I consider like a required reading. The base game already slaps but the DLCs all build upon the existing world beautifully!

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So I just played: Terraria (+ Calamity mod)

THIS. GAME. SLAPS.

Terraria is quite easly my favorite PC game of all time. So much so that I wouldn't say I just played it. In fact, I've been playing it since before version 1.3! And my god is it fun!

It's on most consoles these days, but I firmly believe the PC version is superior because of one thing: mods. There's a lot of mods for this game, from simple quality of life stuff (my favorite is Ore Excavator, lets you just instamine ore veins and it saves SO much time) to mods that add a whole slew of new content. Like the second part of this little review, the Calamity mod!

I'd only recommend playing Calamity once you get REALLY good at movement in vanilla Terraria (or if you have goated friends who can carry you, like I did when I first played lmao) because holy shit is Calamity challenging. But boy is it a fun challenge. It's one of those mods that just adds a lot of stuff. Biomes, weapons, items, enemies, soundtracks (seriously the Calamity soundtrack is just a lineup of bangers), and of course bosses.

My personal favorite is the Devourer of Gods; one, that name is RAW; two, the music SMACKS (phase 1 is called Scourge of the Universe, phase 2 is Universal Collapse, both are heavenly), and it's just a fun as hell endgame challenge that really tests your mettle. But I'm doing my first solo run and I'm not at that point yet. In fact, I only just killed Moon Lord the other day, and just earlier I did the first post-Moon Lord boss, the Profaned Guardians.

And the weapons are some of the coolest fucking things on the planet. My personal favorite is the Ark of the Cosmos, a melee weapon that you build up throughout the entire game, starting with the Fractured Ark early on and building it up to the Ark of the Ancients, Ark of the Elements (which I currently have in my solo run) and then of course Ark of the Cosmos. My other favorite is the crafting tree with the Pwnage Hammer, which I've currently made into the Stellar Contempt (can you tell I'm a melee enjoyer?).

As for biomes, don't really have a particular favorite. Sunken sea is very calming, but it's tedious to explore and you don't even need to go there. Sulphrous Sea is fun because it has the storm event and the Aquatic Scourge boss (which ALSO has a banger theme) but the Abyss below it is just straight ASS to explore. I guess I'd say the Astral Infection because it's just straight vibes, and Astrum Deus is both fun and useful to fight.

But yeah, overall, I rate Terraria a 9/10 (it has some minor issues but it's damn near perfect) and Calamity a 8/10. Both of them slap.

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So I just played: Kid Icarus: Uprising

YOUR HONOR.

IT'S PEAK.

For context I downloaded an emulator for 3DS games onto my laptop, mostly to play Tomodachi Life (which I'll make another post about because I'm addicted), and I decided to finally try out this game, which I've been dying to play because of that dialogue.

Speaking of the dialogue, peak comedy. That's it. Fourth wall breaks like a deadpool movie (the funny part is that EVERYONE does it, no one is out of the loop they all know they're in a video game), jokes out the wazoo, Viridi being a tsundere (I lowkey ship her and Pit tbh), Hades just in general, it's just the best.

The gameplay is good too, but the controls are a little...weird. I maen it was designed for a 3DS and I'm playing on a PC, so it makes sense. But I've made it work. Basically I use a USB controller in my left hand to move Pit around and shoot, and then my mouse is a substitute for the stylus.

Also the music fucking slaps, That First Town and Dark Pit's theme damn near made me jizz myself with how good they are.

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So I just beat Portal (1 & 2) and I have nothing to say but two words

PEAK. FICTION.

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So I just played: Fallout New Vegas

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

No but seriously, this game SLAPS. There's some rage-inducing moments (I swear to God I wanna kill whoever designed those Ghouls outside the Repconn Test Site) but oh my god it's great other than that. I'm a sucker for westerns, and this is basically "what if western but post-apocalypse" and it's great.

It's like ten bucks on Steam, and the summer sale is going on right now so it's probably even cheaper! And I have to say TEN BUCKS FOR PEAK OH MY GOD WHAT A BARGAIN.

Overall, I love New Vegas. Post apocalyptic western with Big Iron by Marty Robbins in it.

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So I just played: Sonic Frontiers

I haven't beaten the game yet, still working on the third zone, Chaos Island. But it's pretty fun.

It's not really all that cinematic until you get to the boss fights, which I'll get to in a minute. But it's still just fun running around the island killing things and getting those little memory tokens to have those cutscenes with Sonic and his friends (I loved the Amy and Knuckles ones). And the cyberspace levels aren't too bad. They're kinda just remixes of old Sonic levels, maybe made to satisfy the old-school fans, but they're short and sweet, not too heavily emphasized.

But the boss fights...

Oh my FUCKING GOD. The boss fights are just PEAK GODDAMN FICTION. That fucking metal soundtrack (seriously, LISTEN TO UNDEFEATABLE, it goes SO HARD). And the way Super Sonic just fucking wallops these Titans is crazy. He grabs Wyvern BY THE FUCKING JAW and HURLS THAT BITCH INTO A WHOLE MOUNTAIN.

But overall, it's a modest 6/10. Just kinda lawless fun running around in the open zones, which I'm fine with, and absolute cinema for boss fights.

Also, this is kinda becoming a series of posts, so as I play new games, I'll post a review on them! I'll do one for Dying Light 2 soon, since I just beat it.

Finally, have this meme:

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So I just played: Dying Light

It's phenomenal, that's all I'm gonna say. Just a beautiful zombie/parkour game. The combat is simple yet fluid (and SO satisfying oh my god them zombie heads fly), the movement is just so damn fun, and the story is very enthralling. I generally enjoyed the side quests more, just running around Harran helping people get shit done, but the story with Rais and the GRE and Dr. Zere and Doctor Camden was super fun too! Definitely give it a try, Techland always has some sort of sale going on Steam for it. There is a bit of gore in it though, so if you can't handle blood and guts I don't entirely recommend it.

I also played its DLC campaign, The Following! That wasn't quite as fun as the base game with a lack of parkour, but the parkour was still there and driving around the countryside in my beefed-up dune buggy was absolutely baller.

As for Dying Light 2, I've started it and...eh, it's good. Not quite as good as Dying Light 1, though. I haven't gotten too far though, so I imagine it'll get better once I'm in the Central Loop.

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So I've been playing Left 4 Dead 2 recently...

And I completely overloaded it with all the stupidest mods I could find.

I'm not kidding, I replaced Rochelle with a giant pickle that has Nicolas Cage's face on it.

I did some more basic stuff as well, like replacing the magnum (which is normally a Desert Eagle) with a fucking Smith & Wesson 500. And one of the shotguns with a Mossberg 680 from Modern Warfare.

But then I also did some stupid shit, like making all the basic zombies Koopa Troopas. Best thing is easily the Special Infected though. Here's a list:

Smokers are Goofy

Chargers are Larry the Lobster from Spongebob

Witches are SCP-096 (and the music is the Guardian battle theme from BotW)

Boomers are Otis from Barnyard

Jockeys are Diddy Kong

Hunters are Charles Entertainment Cheese (or Chuck E Cheese for the plebs out there /j)

Spitters are normal (because modding them crashes my game for some reason)

And my personal favorite: the tanks are now King K. Rool, complete with Gangplank Galleon playing whenever you fight him

I also replaced the Boomer Bile with the Jarate from TF2.

Finally, have a screenshot of Untitled Goose (replacing Ellis) holding an M82 Barrett