The 30 Days of Gaming Challenge, v2.0!

While this ever beloved DLC Campaign for Borderlands 2 may come off as another meme and pop culture referece filled humor fiesta that totally matches the tone of Borderlands 2 as a whole, one cannot forget that the whole story itself is Tina Tina coping and eventually coming into terms with the harsh reality of Roland's death.

I chose this one as my entry since its one of the few moments in the game where we see the soft side of Tiny Tina. Also, the symbolism in this entire campaign in regards to the whole situation is admittedly well written for me. Its one of the few things in the game's writing that brilliantly works.

Cortana leaving Master Chief at the end of Halo 4. Didn't pick up a controller for about a week after that.

Pretty simple. Universally speaking, this game is well loved by fans and critics alike for what it is in both the single player and multiplayer components of the game. But what a lot of these people tend to forget was how utterly broken and unbalanced the Multiplayer was. Modern Warfare 2 featured some of the most devastating kill streak rewards in the series that utterly melted face when abused by the players. Considering that this game was obviously before the Black Ops sub series, Kills made by the kill streak rewards still counted towards the kill count, which is why it was so easy to rack up double digit kill streaks and kill counts. Utterly busted.

Lets not also forget that this is the game that had the Commando Perk, also known as blink slash. Being able to one hit kill people from across the screen with the game's infamous knife attack? Totally balanced.

This is also the game that the developers decided to nerf the crap out of a gun that was pretty cool and fun to use because of reasons. I'm talking about the Model 1887. That gun was one of the coolest guns to be put in any shooter for it being a reference to Terminator 2, which that alone sold me. And yes, I'm guilty of using Dual Wield 1887's to abuse people with but i never found it that broken compared to the many other glaring issues the game had. But nope. Rather than nerf things such as Commando Pro (Broken ass perk), or how kill streaks rewards affecting kill streaks, they nerf a gun that people liked using. Nerfing things that people like IS NOT A SOLUTION TO GAME BALANCE!

Perhaps the reason why MW2 still remains to this day as a loved game is that... while its multiplayer has its fair share of problems, the same thing can be said with some of the games after this one. Ghosts, MW3, and Advanced Warfare to be mentioned.. but really Modern Warfare 2 was the CoD game that somehow in someway paved way for a darker times in the First Person shooting genre as a whole. It being a commercial and critical masterpiece somehow paved way into this fad where every first person shooter being released just tried to outdo or at least be "like Call of Duty" to appeal to the mass market.