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Halo. On Steam. We have waited years for this moment.
Halo CE - The eternal classic
Halo 2 - The great journey
Halo 3 - The perfect conclusion
Halo 3: ODST - The side story you didn't know you wanted, but came to love all the same.
Halo Reach - The charming prequel
Halo 4 - The flawed sequel
Five exceptional games and one average game. All for $40. It's an exceptional deal.

Rocket League was a fun game... until they sold their operation to Epic Games. I had not played in a while but I kept up with the news and Rocket League entered a spiral of pushing monetizations over quality ever since they were "acquired" by Epic Games. Now in their September 2020 update, Psyonix has made it impossible to play Rocket League without first making/linking an Epic Games account. That means because I don't want to give my information to Tencent, I can no longer play the game I paid for. Tim Sweeney, you are a cancer on PC gaming. Glad to know that sucking off Tim's schlong is more important to you than your playerbase, Psyonix. Psyonix, maybe someday you'll understand that a community is worth more than any paycheck a corporation can write for you. Because unlike a corporation, a community won't abandon you the second your game becomes unprofitable.

Risk of Rain 2... where do I begin? After playing ROR1 , I had hoped Hopoo would do a sequel and WOW did they deliver! You can see from other reviews how the character abilities, items, stages and scaling difficulty all blend together to create a unique and incredibly satisfying experience each run, so I won't waste your time restating the obvious. A few things to consider:

The game heats your PC, a lot. It's perfectly playable on most hardware but you may need to lower some effects and/or crank your fan speed up if you're noticing unusually high CPU / GPU temps. There were no frame drops on max settings when playing on an 8 year old PC versus a 2 year old PC. The temperature was higher, that is all. This is minor but worth mentioning for users concerned about their hardware.

As it is a roguelike, there is RNG. Some runs will feel absolutely astounding as you stack great items and melt bosses in seconds. Other runs will end early and leave you feeling frustrated. You will not get far the first time you play as you need to learn how each character plays to go the distance. Once you understand how a character plays you can begin to really enjoy the game and keep opening chests hoping to create that "overpowered" build you've been waiting for.

9/10 Exceptionally well crafted roguelike. Unforgettable when playing with friends. The best early access game to come out in 2019. The game will reach 1.0 later in 2020 and I'm excited to see where Hopoo takes it.

I have played 1500 hours of the game this was based off, PlanetSide 2. This game is all the worst aspects of PS2 rolled into one package. The performance is bad, the gunplay is terrible, the vehicles feel terrible to drive, you spend most of the match looking for players, the loot is awful. Did I mention there is a LOADING SCREEN when you switch spectator views? Yes, you are thrown into a loading screen every time you change perspective when downed. The only good things about this game are the weapon and character models, which should have been used in PlanetSide 2, aka the game that still could have a future unlike this garbage.

0/10 Stay far away. If you want an actually good battle royale go play Apex Legends instead.

Good with friends. 2 people is pretty straightfoward, 3 is a bit hectic, 4 is chaotic. Some weapons feel much stronger than the rest (blunderbuss, grenade launcher). Other than that it's a fun party game.

Warframe is a 3rd person (over the shoulder) co-op shooter that does many things right with some mistakes here and there. As of this review I have 395 hours in Warframe. No small chunk of change when it comes to playtime. In these ~400 hours I have seen all of the game's core content, except the newest expansion Fortuna as that just launched a few weeks ago. My honest opinion on the game is as follows.

-Runs great on almost any system from laptops to high end desktops.

-The artstyle and graphics are as fantastical as ever for a science-fantasy game. Warframe holds nothing back and creates a unique game world consisting of familiar earth-like terrain, sprawling metallic machine constructs, a terrifying organic plague, mystical ancient ruins and whatever inbetween the artists dream up. The environments, weapons, frames, ships and characters never feel like a derivative of some other piece of fantasy you've seen rehashed a dozen times. If Warframe's art direction doesn't immediately take you back and make you say "Wow", I don't know what will.

-The classes (warframes) and weapons all feel different to use. No single "class" is dominant and there is no "correct" weapon loadout to choose. It is completely up to your preference what frame you play with and what guns you use. With enough effort any frame and any weapon can be made "endgame viable" so rest assured you won't be locked out of the hardest missions just because you chose your starter warframe.

-The movement is extremely fluid, almost perfect. Sliding, dodging, rolling, gliding and aiming while in the air all work beautifully and give the game it's distinctive fast pace.

-The story is, in my opinion, what makes this game a hidden gem. The story really doesn't get going until several hours in and at that point you're going to be waiting as you increase your Mastery Level, complete planet nodes (missions), and craft parts needed to progress. However if you keep going despite that, the narrative that unfolds is masterfully executed and not only ties into the game world perfectly, but also elevates the game as a whole. A lot of set pieces, environments and characters don't make sense when you're first introduced to them. "Why is Vor antagonizing you and the other players? Who are the Orokin? Why does the Lotus care about you? Who are the Corpus? What is the Infested? What is that "Void" people keep talking about? What even is a warframe?" are a few of the questions everybody asks in the beginning. When you play through the story (and then eagerly look at your ship's codex to fill in the final little details)... you realize all these elements make sense, connect together and matter to the game world. At my first impression I thought the game was a decent shooter with nice visuals and cool guns. I never looked at the game the same way again after completing "The Second Dream" and neither will you.

-After 400 hours the missions, while well executed, have become repetetive and somewhat tedious. Guess that's just bound to happen when you do the exact same scenarios on every planet with no change in gameplay to suit the planet.

-The mod system is 60% useless crap and 40% actually useful mods, and if we break that 40% down further the total distribution becomes:
60% crap you'll use once when you start playing, then a veteran player will teach you what you actually should use to make weapons perform better.
20% gold and silver mods you absolutely need and will spend many missions trying to obtain.
10% prime mods you really should have but hardly ever get the opportunity to obtain outside of trading with players.
10% high stat rivens + exceptionally rare prime/gold mods that are borderline overpowered but so hard to come by that few people ever see them.

-The Plains of Eidolon is notorious for it's grind with paltry rewards. The overall "grind" not being rewarding enough is an issue best debated in it's own topic. I won't drone on in details but after the initial rush of Warframe's beginning, storyline and obtaining a few of the things you want finishes.... there's a significant time sink required to finish out end-game content. It's significant enough to warrant mentioning but not significant enough to prevent me from recommending this game.

-The game has been out for several years now and like all indie games it has it's share of bugs. Most game breaking bugs are patched quickly however a few loading screen bugs still persist after all this time. Protip: If you find yourself stuck in an abnormally long loading screen after finishing a mission.... you just encountered the frustrating infinite loading screen bug and your mission is toast. You get no rewards because the only way out of it is to restart the game entirely. Beware of updating the game when major patches go live because a very frequent error is a launcher error. A launcher error that refuses to recognize your game as being valid and forces you to reinstall the whole damn game. I'm not sure why Digital Extremes keeps pushing their awful launcher on us when steam has all the launching capabilities you need. I get that they still want to make the game available off Steam but when the majority of your players play through steam it's time to stop beating around the bush.

If you're looking for guns, Borderlands 2 will give you:

Guns
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Eridium
Guns
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Grenades
Guns
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And even more Guns

The best co-operative loot based shooter on the market today. Grab 3 of your friends and blast through even more psychos, mercs, skags, rakk and bosses with one Handsome Jack on your tail the entire time.

It's Portal 2.

You shouldn't be reading this review. You should be playing the game already. Yes, it's that good. No, I'm not kidding. This is the one game on steam I'm going to give a 10/10. Portal 2 is as close to perfect as a videogame can get. Play it. Now.

10/10 I want my cake...

You will die. And you will die again. And again. And again.
Until you finally gain enough skill and powerups to survive through multiple stages.

Then you will die again.


Hardest game I've ever played and at the same time the most addicting.

After completing Bastion, I thought that Supergiant Games couldn't top that ending.

I.
Was.
Wrong.

Transistor is now one of my favorite story games ever. This is one of those games you don't want to play; you NEED to play. Buy it now.

10/10 Amazing music, superb design, levels are always challenging, THAT ENDING!!