The last time I wrote about this show we had just finished the first half of seaosn five and the second half wasn't out yet.
Both of us were feeling pretty done with this show, as much as we liked and enjoyed it, but we also really wanted to know how it all would end.
The second half of season five with the war and the race to become god was all super cool! I really like when writers play with the mythology like that. I loved Lucifer's redemption arc embedded within the war, and him finally admitting to himself that he loved Chloe (That only took you five seasons, Luce, jfc).
The most interesting thing about season 6 was Rory and I loved her.
I got this game when it was new, installed it and everything, and then didn't play it until now.
Far Cry 6 feels more Far Cry than Far Cry 5 imho. We have the crazy, fun characters. We have the unwilling protagonist. We have bases to take over and animals to hunt. We have areas to free and hostages to rescue. We have drugs and crazy doctors and really cool guns.
So they went back and got the crazy characters and missions from Far Cry 3, kept the crazy weapons from New Dawn and Blood Dragon, and got the dictator from Far Cry 4? And Hurk isn't in it? But Danny Trejo is?! This is awesome!
I really liked Dani from the start. She's got some real attitude and lots of spunk, but she feels like a real person through all the crazy shit she has to go through. The characters and missions made me sometimes laugh and sometimes cry and they were always engaging. I had a really good time with this game!
The Stranger Things update/addon was really cool. Running for my life from a Demogorgon was a lot of fun and just the right amount of scary.
Any criticisms I have mostly revolve around endgame tbh. After you finish the story you end up back at camp and every week a specific zone will get taken over by insurgents and you once again get to run around and take over bases and outposts to find clues towards an iunsurgent leader which you then kill. It's a stupid way to make the game last longer - "Here, we undid all these things you did so that you can do them again! FUN!" No. No it's not.
The DLCs are basically rougelite runs through the minds of Vaas, Pagan Min and Joseph respectively. Roguelites are not my thing so when I booted up Vaas's DLC and it said "if you die you lose your gear and perks and have to start over" I just felt my entire will to play sink to the bottom. But I played through it, got through it and at the end it wanted me to play again to beat my own high score. Really?! No.
I had a lot of fun with the main game. It's just the endgame and DLCs that kind of ruined it for me, but at that point I was already mostly done with everything so it didn't really matter.
What did matter however was that Ubisoft Connect crashes every single time I try to use the screenshot button. It occasionally had that problem in AC Valhalla too (for over two years now). Although in Valhalla it wasn't every time, only sometimes. In Far Cry 6 it was every single time. I discovered this when I was playing through the Stranger Things update/addon and wanted to screenshot everything because it was so damn cool and it kept crashing on me every single time. And every time I had to start the questline from the very beginning. Ffs. Not even an autosave after cutscenes, Ubi? Why you gotta hurt me this way? /s The result being that I had to restart the update like five times before I gave up on screenshotting anything, with the added result that I don't have any screenshots at all from this game because photo mode is more hassle than it's worth. Let me just press my one single button without having to mess around with settings in photo mode T_T
So TL;DR: Base game great, endgame bad. DLCs are meh and Ubisoft Connect sucks.
I also ended up really enjoying the music in this game. It was mainly all in Spanish with the added feature that after every session I'd come away with Despacito stuck in my head. And Despacito isn't even in the game xD I burst out laughing the first time a car drove by Dani totally blasting Livin La Vida Loca on full volume xD But I really came to like the songs by the in-game band Maximas Matanzas. Not the kind of stuff I usually listen to, but man it's bombastic and grand.
After we finished with Fallout 76 we picked Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as our new co-op game. We have played through the entire Borderlands series (one, two, tales, pre-sequel, three) together so it was only to be expected that we'd play this one together as well.
Both of us we're excited for this game from the time it was announced. We are very different gamers though. Before we started Toni did research online on what class to pick and which to combine it with etc etc. I started the game up and went with my gut. He played as a Clawbringer combined with Brr-zerker. I played as Spore Warden combined with Graveborn. It suited me perfectly to have two, sometimes even four, companions to help me fight and my tornadoes were absolutely badass.
The whole game was like an extended version of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep DLC for Borderlands 2 and we had so much fun with it. I loved both Frette and Valentine and those two together with Tina was just the perfect DND chaotic party.
If I have any criticisms it's that not many of the characters outside of the party were memorable (I don't remember any names, except Mike) and that there was a bit too much reusing of enemies. Skeletons and Coiled from the get-go until the very end. There were some cool zones though. My favourites being the one where a bean stalk had grown through the entire zone and also the one where we were literally climbing a giant skeleton.
We made sure to do every single side-quest. collect every single lucky dice, poetry page, marble, scroll, rune puzzle and obelisk - basically 100%-ing every zone until we moved on to the next one. I kind of wish smashing the marbles would amount to more than storytime. Seeing the final boss of the obelisks displayed as trophies at the tavern in Brighthoof was always a highlight of going back there.
I actually kind of enjoyed going around on the Overworld, although Toni definitely didn't :P
After we finished the main quest we went around the Overworld and picked up the last few lucky dice and completed the single last sidequest, before we headed to Dreamveil Overlook to go through each of the four mirrors and complete the DLCs. And the DLCs were extremely disappointing. Short runs through locations to pick up items and defeat a boss. A glorified fetch quest times four, with Vesper in the background spouting every dad joke in the universe ever. And to get the last few achis we'd have to do each DLC four times to unlock the highest difficulty? Fuck that. Not engaging enough to try for just an achi.
All in all I had a lot of fun with Tiny Tina's, but Borderlands 2 is still the best one.
