Fallout: New Vegas

    Fallout: New Vegas is the fourth installment of the popular FPS game series. The game takes place in an alternate universe in which there was a full on global nuclear exchange in the year 2077. The year in the game is 2281, and it is safe to say that shit is fucked up. With mutant animals, raiders and other gangs, and even more powerful armies that will be against you at every step, there is no lack of challenge in Fallout: New Vegas (especially if you play the hardcore mode).
    The Courier, the player's character, was meant to deliver a package from Primm to New Vegas. But, he/she is intercepted by the Great Khans (one of the aforementioned gangs) and Benny (a dick), who shoots him/her and takes the package, leaving him/her for dead in a shallow grave. The Courier is later found by a robot named Victor, and is sent to the settlement of Goodsprings, where Doctor Mitchell saves his/her life. After the Courier is given some medical tests, the player is pushed back into the open world and the great hunt for Benny the Dick begins. Also you can choose your gender, in case some of you haven't guessed yet.
     The combat and gameplay are roughly the same as Fallout 3, but with a few minor changes. The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System or V.A.T.S. is back and exactly the same as before. An addition Bethesda made that I really enjoyed is the ability to use the iron sights on your guns, making it feel more like an FPS than just a game where you choose where to shoot in a menu.
    Time for a few additions they made. You can now modify your guns, adding a scope or extra magazine, ect.
The game is based in Vegas so of course there is gambling and prostitutes, gambling and prostitutes everywhere. There is also reputation now to go with karma. You can befriend or make an enemy of almost every faction in the game, or you can stay neutral with everyone and almost never get shot at.
    The thing I loved about Fallout: New Vegas was the hardcore mode. It make the game so much more realistic. Bullets now have weight, companions can die, stimpacks heal over time, and the player must drink, eat and sleep, which make traveling through the Mohave Desert harder as dehydration is a main problem for fast traveling.
          Thanks for reading. If you haven't played it or any of the Fallout games yet, I would highly recommend you give them a try.

"I mean, it seems pretty obvious Benny wouldn't want me to help you, but hey, not my fault I'm programmed to not say no!"

Portal 2

  

   I figured that I should start out with a popular video game for my first blog post, and it doesn't get much better than Portal 2. I was a lot more entertained with Portal 2 than I was with the original Portal as it has many more jokes that the first one, almost none of which have to do with the cake. Its nice seeing game companies thinking of new shit rather than just rehashing all of the old shit for once. You start out by being woken up by Wheatley after a 1000 year stay in stasis to find the Enrichment Center in complete ruin. Now you must set out to retrieve your portal gun and escape the Enrichment Center with Wheatley. I enjoyed watching the characters develop in Portal 2, especially the player's character (Chell) and the batshit insane Cave Johnson. GLaDOS, the insane AI, who you killed in the last game by blowing her up with rockets and dropping the individual pieces into an incinerator, seems to have made a full recovery. Instead of killing you though, she decides to simply test you for the rest of your life. How kind.

   Unfortunately, I was unable to test out the co-op mode of the game as of now because my second 360 controller broke. Also I have no friends.

   Please forgive me for the shitiness of this review as I am still learning. Next week I will be reviewing Fallout: New Vegas.

 "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonaid."

"Make life take the lemons back."

"GET MAD."

"I don't want your damn lemons what am I supposed to do with these"