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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Boy oh boy this one really came out of nowhere and surprised me. I had written it off as an Uncharted clone when I heard the announcement but it really feels more like Dishonored and that's not a bad thing. If there's one thing where nobody could fault this game, it's in capturing that Indiana Jones spirit. It really does feel like a proper story in the series and the writing and characterization and setpieces are on point. The PC port was very well optimized too, despite me running it on a 3060 Ti that is beginning to show its age. My only complaint is that in some segments it's not clear where you're supposed to go and sometimes it got so dark all of a sudden that I had no idea which way to even look, and I'm pretty sure this wasn't intentional because it would even happen underwater of all places. Maybe my hardware had something to do with it, I don't know. Still a great game though. I'm just pissed because I was supposed to get it for free with my 4070 Ti Super but my order was canceled. When I reordered the card a few days later the promotion was over and Nvidia would not even pretend like they were going to cut me a break. Thank god for game pass, at least.

Gothic surf rock has a name, gothabilly, and it is my favorite genre name of all time.

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Want to talk about vibes? This game has vibes. The gothic surf rock, especially with this song, is so fucking good. I never finished this back in the day and I couldn't recall why... until about half way through I hit a familiar spot. You have to grab 10 flowers (two types, five of each) for West Dickens and there's no other missions at the time. The flowers are a pain in the ass to find. Still not worth dropping the pack for, but definitely something that should have been adjusted to one of each. I probably had to wrap the game up early to play Uncharted 3 or something. Outside of that the game is a ton of fun and definitely earned it's reputation for being one of the best expansion packs of all time. It's too bad Rockstar refused to do anything like this for RDR2.