lunch96
2021
you are a DWARF. that means you forge yourself a damn AXE and build AS MUCH CRIT AS YOU CAN. if you aren't killing bosses in one hit you are simply playing this game WRONG
was bracing for this to have aged poorly since this is the "funny" one but it was alright. some good delivery but it only does so much to smooth over what is at its core a pretty brief, shallow experience. a lot of repetition and reused assets; getting the wild idea here that these dlcs dont offer all that much to the base game and are pretty much self-contained and vestigial!
if you're giving this a go to see what all the fuss is about; play until the (first) set of credits rolls, get yourself a skip to shadowbringers, and thank me later.
good game but god DAMN
good game but god DAMN
2020
give the gnome his beer.
been manically going through new vegas again with a fine-toothed comb begging it to Just Miss One Time so I can get it out of my system and this dlc was thankfully/unfortunately the first part of my playthrough where I could definitively step back and say "ok this sucks". Josh I get what you're going for here with the caesar backstory parallels but i don't think having more memory on the ps3 would have made this read any less racist
2016
played 100 hours of this all the damn way through when it came out, saw the ending and was satisfied but now any whenever i see the words "Persona 5" I want to throw up
feels more like an ambitious fan project than something actually cohesive honestly. the idea of Enshrining the Capital C Courier as some like Motive Force of Civilization just kind of feels like something out of a video essayist's and/or fanfic writer's google doc draft. anyway while the story is corny, the gameplay itself isnt really helping since it cannot stop jingling its keys at you at every opportunity to make sure youre Not Getting Bored. hard to have a long introspective "lonesome" walk to think on my status as an apparent Great Man of History when theres something i have to blow up every 10 fuckin feet
2007
somehow manages to be both timelessly fun and engaging but also a magnet for some of the worst experiences you can have on an online game. you will encounter a bot or an insanely annoying guy or both in every game you play on valve official servers that claim to have everything under control with VAC banning every time you load in. also runs like complete dookie on anything more modern than the computers they shot up into space during the moon landing. just stick to the orange box version on xbox where everything was pure. everything was clean.
2024
cube world 2
never trusting you fuckers on backloggd ever again
absolutely the high water mark for the dlcs when it comes to atmosphere and actually feeling like something that connects to the main story. Neat premise that is executed well for the Most part (stealth and platforming sections are just never going to play nicely in this engine). the classic move where they take away all your items actually clicked for me here too, IMO these games are strongest around the beginning where you really have to put everything you scrounge up to use, and that feeling of scarcity really sells the tension in this, especially with the constant health loss in hardcore mode. as with all of these it's a bit rough around the edges, but this is the only one that has a strong enough direction to see it through.
this game is basically an adaptation of an old-school fantasy choose your own adventure novel, and it embodies every aspect of that, so that means great art (click on the pages to de-color them for the full retro experience) some BS difficulty and a solid fantasy adventure story. if you are psycho like me then this is a good time, WARNING though there is no dwarven playable character which is a very disappointing setback to this game. you can be an orc though
2022
chewnic
i fucking hate austin powers
after finally engaging with all the extra stuff in this I actually do think I just prefer the base game as-is, warts and all. these additions tend to stick out like a sore thumb and either feel completely superfluous (I never once felt the need to use alternate ammo during my entire hardcore playthrough) or just kind of annoying. After going through all the dlcs, too, I can safely say you arent really missing anything if you just mod all this chaff out and move on with your life, maybe now i can Finally move on with Mine...