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Fantastic comic that actually tries to do something fresh and unique with Half-Life regardless of """canon""" - something that causes many people, sadly, to overlook it.

It deserves far more love than it gets. Read the first chapter (it's free!) then buy the rest when you realize how good it is. It's worth it.

This DLC was ported to standalone by a third party studio, a quick hackjob by a company whose only notable contributions to the games industry ahead of this port was recreating Garry's Mod gamemodes in Fortnite.

But I leveled up by killing a broom.


I'm a huge fan of Borderlands - the second game especially so. So when Gearbox surprise announced that they took this DLC, which is widely regarded by fans as some of the best content in the series, and turning it standalone? It was cool. But I quickly found out that this version isn't really that great.

For its price? It's not a bad deal. The OG DLC was $10, and this includes the entirety of that DLC, both DLC characters, and a ton of paid cosmetic DLCs. That's on top of new content additions and "new" content additions. But the thing is, you can often find *all* of Borderlands 2 for this same price.

They did put some work into it that I don't think should go overlooked. A few tweaks to enemies here and there, total rebalance with faster leveling, double skill points, immediate skill access, and better drop rates. They also added Marcus (wearing armor, lazily parented to his regular model) for a quest - so you can argue there's even an entire character added. AND there are achievements for Krieg and Gaige, something Gearbox never did for Borderlands 2. AAAAAND smaller things, like accessibility improvements like easy mode (still hidden behind multiple menus) and better subtitle visibility. So clearly, work was put into it.

But then the work that was put into it is very disproportionate. They included the entire Borderlands 2 base loot pool, which might seem cool but I'm 90% sure that was just easier than cutting it out. The menu background still uses Borderlands 2 music instead of music from Dragon Keep, and for some reason the moon and moon base are there? Here are other things I noticed:

• Fast travel menu went unchanged. This is JUST the DLC, yet the fast travel menu shows the entirety of BL2 and other DLC addons, squeezing the visuals to the bottom.
  
• Actual lost stuff - namely a ton of context from the main story (which they quickly try to sweep into the game through a quick, new intro that has better art than BL3's intro if I'm being honest) and all of the PhysX cloth stuff is just gone.
  
• Seemingly doesn't include the HD texture pack which released over two years ago.
  
• The "new" content is just refitted from BL2 - it's not actually new. They even mention things that don't exist in this DLC, like Lynchwood.
  
• Weirdly persistent on removing outright references to Borderlands. They can keep insisting Wonderlands is a new thing if they want, but let's be real.
  
• New cosmetics are cool, but they should be added to BL2.
  
• Carrying over so many BL2 challenges and achievements makes 100%ing this standalone version a bigger hassle than the original.
  
• SOME pickups were changed. A few times, enemies drop scrolls instead of ECHO devices - sometimes they don't. Same with money. It's inconsistent and I don't understand why?
  
• Seraph Crystals were added to boss loot pools, which is cool, except there are only 3 Seraph items to purchase and the Seraph Crystals were dropping -long- before Eridium, a currency that this DLC is built around.
  
• A few achievements, like the one for defeating The Darkness, are broken.

I feel like there was a lot they could have done to improve this package. Properly set up the meta narrative of Wonderlands, maybe? Swap the manufacturers to use Wonderlands variants like Malefactor or Feriore? A lot of people just want a remake and recontextualized version for Borderlands 3, which would have been a LOT of work but I think it would have had more pull than this standalone version. There's just a lot they could have done to make this standalone version actually worthwhile. And they didn't.

It's not bad. But if you want to play this, just get Borderlands 2 instead. This is just a weird melting pot of "wow look what they did" and "wow look what they didn't". It's a strange addition to the Borderlands/Wonderlands franchise that is, at best, just nice to have.

Also I've been writing this review since it released. Thanks.

My favorite Arkane game.

It manages to really leverage the different systems that you expect to see in an immersive sim game - but, unlike other imsims, requires you to actually explore those systems and manipulate them to manipulate your targets. It does, at times, feel a tiny bit extremely heavily scripted - but I think that's a necessity to actually use the game's format to tell a story. It's an extremely clever game, and really shows all of the experience the team at Arkane has built since they started way back with Arx Fatalis.

If you like ANY of Arkane's games, you'll like Deathloop. I just hope they fix the performance issues and crashing.

Update: Nevermind this whole review.

And also gimme a volume slider for emote music it harshes my Vince Staples.

Been playing this game for well over a year, since before it was even released over on ye ol' Epic Games Store, even! Admittedly I went into the game expecting a hollow, meaningless game with no character. Initially, I was right. But over time they really flooded this game with personality - it's crazy how much emotes and saying "you rock" over and over help with that.

Everything about the game otherwise is just solid. Fun characters that are easy to memorize, all with some unique functionality - and they're mostly pretty well-balanced! Gunplay is solid. Audio is great, especially with 3D audio enabled. The levels are all great and memorable, though I personally wish there was more verticality to play with. It's just FUN.

The battle pass/XP gain was maybe nerfed a biiiiit too much with season two in order to kinda push the challenge system. Which would be fine if it wasn't tucked behind some UI - but even by doing the challenges it can be a bit grindy. It'd be rad if that was reworked a bit. There have been a few misfires with limited time events, they always feel more geared towards generating some microtransaction bread instead of engaging players. Shouldn't events be free?


The game is cool and good. Please put more hot dudes/robots in it.

A wise woman once said "born to stink, forced to smell". In an age where the games industry was still finding its footing, smaller studios that once battled the giants for a foothold in the mainstream had to resort to workflows and content delivery methods that were less than conventional in an attempt to secure funding. Ritual Entertainment, one such company, found themselves in this precise predicament after their generally unrewarded work on SiN and Counter-Strike left them seeking a new source of income.

After their brief partnership with indie company "Valve", Ritual utilized the power of a pile of rocks known as Source to power the long-awaited sequel to their breast simulator, SiN. However, resistance from publishers led to Ritual splitting this into an episodic release. The first of these episodes, Emergence, saw its release in 2006. An acquisition shortly after this release forced Ritual to stop production on further episodes, despite the second one being close to release.

This is an unfinished story. A mere 11% of what the developers originally intended. But damn is it good.

With some of the best gunplay in early Source Engine titles, SiN offers a brief few hours of fast, impactful combat supported by unique and interesting industrial settings. While only three weapons are at your disposal, each is a punchy cannon that leaves your enemies as bloody floppy ragdolls. The pistol features a powerful laser blast that can obliterate enemy skulls through surfaces. Your assault rifle can launch grenades and rain lead on swarms. And your shotgun's blast can crumple a common enemy with a single shot, throwing them back like a ridiculous action film.

The world is also packed with details, from phones that actually function to tiny breakable objects. Even things you wouldn't imagine as being interactive, you know, are. This is on top of stunning soundscapes and audio mixing that make environments feel real, despite the game's antiquated engine and art direction. This is carried by the game's oddly systemic supply system. Pick up health canisters and plug them into a device in the wall, or just shoot it to release healing gas. This extends to stinky fart gas that distorts your perception of time so you can take the same amount of damage as normal, only a little slower. It's a personal belief of mine that indie company "Valve" saw this game and copied many of its mechanics for their newest indie title "Half-Life: Alyx". They're suspiciously similar!


SiN Episodes: Emergence may only be one ninth the game it should have been, and it may end on the dumbest cliffhanger that will never see a resolution, and it may be only a couple hours long at its worst, and it may be extremely corny and literally open with ♥♥♥♥ Destroyer-sized breastules waving around your screen which is just ridiculous, but it's a solid experience that's definitely worth a couple American dollars. And who knows? Maybe one day the new owners of this series will see its value and hand it to a studio willing to continue this story.

It's not a super unique game, you can find most of the mechanics in other bridge building games, but it's still a cute game to waste some time on. I was never a fan of the "haha science" and overly bouncy nature of Portal 2, but it really fits with this game's theme. And now it has workshop support and a level editor!

I'd say this game is easily worth the $10.

A really cool collection of thingies made by the people who made some game I like. As of writing this I have tried all but two (Human Medical Scan and Solar System) - played Longbow at an earlier date (thanks, Jeep!). Since The Lab is a collection, it doesn't make sense to leave one big sweeping review - so I'll do a collection of reviews.

I found this one absolutely addictive, but also insanely aggravating. The slingshot felt insanely satisfying to fire, and the cores were hilarious - the writing in this one was generally pretty great. Not much to write about it, but it's fun to play and that's really all that matters.

Got the opportunity to play this one a couple years ago while touring Valve, haven't replayed it since I received my Vive - but I do plan to. I feel it's a little basic, but it works well enough. Maybe I'm just a little tired of seeing bows in VR games since they seem to be so rampant. Still worth a look, but it's nothing super special.

My favorite. If Valve wants to maybe turn this into a full standalone experience, I won't stop them. Playing this game is like reliving those times when I was a kid and played with some toy spaceship, pretending to shoot at aliens - except the spaceship is actually shooting at aliens. Virtually. I feel like there's just so much potential here. Definitely 100% play this one. It's great.

These are cool to explore, but aside from playing fetch and petting a robot dog there's not much interactivity. You get to peek at four locations and look around, and that's about it.

Again, not a huge interactive thing but it's a great thing to experience for some nice humor and see Aperture in VR ("real" Aperture, anyway). It really does give a great sense of scale.

I'm not particularly a fan of Dota 2, so I didn't understand the relevance of a lot of things here - and in general I'm not hugely impressed with this one. It seemed to try to convey scale in the same way Robot Repair did, but didn't do as great of a job. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic because this is totally foreign, but I just don't find it to be that special.

This game is the perfect example of walking simulators done right. While the bulk of the "gameplay" is non-existent since there's no puzzles or challenges to overcome, there's a lot of interaction with the environment and story that actually means something. It's not just picking up a crude model and rotating it like some other similar games. The story is more than just bland meaningless narration about kidney stones, and it's actually a part of the world (figuratively and literally). The game is clever, beautiful, well-made, and actually interesting. Give it a shot.

I was interested in this game when someone showed it to me, and after playing it I was pretty let down. It's a good game, and the atmosphere is great and it tackles a very real topic - but it feels very artificial. The world is totally nonsensical, like nothing makes sense and clearly only exists for the sake of having puzzles (half of which, I felt, were poorly telegraphed and had weak cues). Why would this thing that I assume is a giant prison thing have a piston that shoots fire out of it? Why is this thing here? What's the purpose of half the stuff in this game? I also felt the robot companion segment dragged on a little more than it should have. And ♥♥♥♥ the pitch black steam room segment entirely.

Another major, major issue I have with the game is its reliance on platforming. Not because I'm bad at platformers, I actually really like them. It's because the platforming in this game is dreadful. Jumping is inconsistent and you'll find yourself sometimes jumping futher or higher or shorter or lower than you did the last time. Ledge grabbing barely works, and if you're trying to jump out of a ledge grab it takes the game a whole two seconds to pick it up.

But the game is still good. The atmosphere and character the game is filled with make it worth the purchase alone. Art style isn't anything unique, but it does lend itself pretty well to the world. Pick the game up on sale, especially if you're in it for the gameplay.

As a huge fan of Wolfenstein, I loved this game. The characters are better than ever, the gunplay and stealth are much improved. I feel like the difficulty curve is a little weird. It's not a steady increase, more like a sine wave that randomly zig zags here and there. The world is insanely detailed for a "linear" first person shooter, littered with collectibles that actually add to the world rather than just existing for collection's sake. The hub area, Eva's Hammer, lets you see characters interact and react to you playing the game and it adds a ton of life to the game.

My only complaints is that the first half of the game seems to drag on a bit long due to story reasons, but at least it closes on one of the highest points I've ever experienced in a video game. Like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the halfway point of this game is crazy good. In addition to that, the weapons are a lot more lackluster than the previous games. They turned the Laserkraftwerk into a generic railgun, while the Dieselkraftwerk is more fun (though less useful in combat). The Fergus timeline is also less interesting as a whole, as Fergus' character arc in the game is basically non-existent while Wyatt gets actual attention. Due to it being the second game in a trilogy, it also suffers from one of those endings where it wants you to wait until the next one for real closure. That's not an issue with the game itself, but trilogies in general. And the weapon wheel is bad!

This is a great game, despite its performance issues the first few days of launch (now fixed for me). The first time I played I got a nasty crash right before the ending that ended up corrupting my save files, but the second time I had almost no real issues. You get to kill Nazis better than you've been able to in any game before, and that's definitely the #1 reason to get this game.

8/10 I will play it some more