Josh Fongheiser's Blog

Hey all. First off, I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything. My attention has been elsewhere and life has been busy. Despite that, though, I’ve managed to squeeze a little time into games, and I wanted to write about those this year (like last year).

Like before, I’ll try to stick to a paragraph or so per game. Unlike last year, I’m going to list some games that I’ve played,

Earlier this year, the LEGO Group released an album on Spotify (and other streaming platforms). The album does not contain music, though; it’s a collection of seven half-hour-long white noise tracks.

It’s probably exactly what you’d imagine: each track is filled with the sound of LEGO® bricks. Surprisingly, they each are unique and have a different flavor; “The Waterfall” is akin to an endless tub of bricks dumped onto the floor.

Last week, Crystal Dynamics released the Future Imperfect DLC for Marvel’s Avengers. This update included Hawkeye (Clint Barton) as a new playable character, a new storyline, and some new explorable areas and repeatable content. So, how is it? Is it worth it jumping back into the game for this update?

Note: this post contains minor storyline spoilers.

The Good

First off, Hawkeye himself is a treat to play.

If you’ve visited this site before, I’m sure you noticed the list of games (and DLCs/story updates) I’ve finished throughout 2020 in the sidebar. They’re all listed in reverse order of when I finished them, with my opinion of them boiled down to a single emoji.

Here, I’m going to try and give a short review for each of them. I’m only going to stick to one paragraph per game (less if I’ve already written a review about them).

Note: like other DLC reviews, I will only be covering the Steel Dawn questline in this review – not the rest of the base game changes. This is going to be a shorter review than what I’ve done in the past, as it is a smaller DLC. In addition, this post does contain spoilers.

Intro

Steel Dawn is the first questline in a larger story arc centered around the Brotherhood of Steel’s return to Appalachia.

Note: for this review for The Elder Scrolls Online: Markarth, like any future review I may do for an ESO DLC, I only cover the content present in the DLC itself. I will not discuss the base game changes that came with this patch. Also note that there are minor visual spoilers present; I only took screenshots from the early portion of the expansion.