 Well, uh, Cat's Out of the Bag, this is the first video I'm doing on my own. Not really. I could swear now. I'm not going to because this is who I am and this is the content I've always created. It's who I am! So let's keep going! I will say, and you probably already heard this, the day after Nintendo told me, that's it! They sent me more codes for the Borderlands collection, the Bioshock collection at XCOM 2. So Nintendo, they have provided these games for me, which is really nice because 2K actually reached out independently, separately, and sent me a load of boxes and a little care package, which I now have to decide if I want to keep or not because they're kind of cool, but at the same time, they're also just red boxes. But, uh, I opened them and I unboxed them and the video was very boring, so here's, like, 10 seconds of it. I know 2K wanted to send me something. I didn't know what they were going to send me. Ah! Ho, ho, ho, ho! We got socks. I'm not even wearing any socks right now. That's perfect. Oh, it's just a pro controller. The one thing I'm missing... Okay, I don't want it. The game isn't here. Okay, so this one has a lot more stuff. A carry bag. A fricking, what, a snuggie? Oh, it's a robe! What the heck? Oh, it's even got the strap! What the heck? X-ray candle. Oh, this is what's making everything smell so nice. Oh, that does smell pretty good. Bean bag. Oh, you, like, heat it up in the microwave. Getting ready for winter about Season 2 late. XCOM Radiation Bath salts. XCOM package was, like, a pamper day at the spa package. So what's going to be the theme of Borderlands? It's a hat! Oh, it is so hot in this house. We have Joy-Con skins. That would be cool for someone. Gonna do a giveaway of this. I think that's everything. Not gonna lie. I'm most excited for the games. This is really awesome, though. There is so much cool stuff. All right, cool. Thanks. They didn't send me the games, but they sent me everything else in the kitchen sink, even bath salts and a candle. It smells really good, though. All right, despite Nintendo sending me the codes, I buy games. So I went out and I bought them anyway. I just want you to know, as always on this channel, I bought these games. I also got them for free. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not. I gave them away on my Twitch. By the way, if you didn't know, I'm a Twitcher now. I've been Twitching a lot, so I'd appreciate it if you went over and followed me there. We've been playing a lot of games, having a ton of fun. Here's a little bit. All right, but whatever. You're not here to see me open bath salts. You're here to learn if you should bother to buy these games just like I did. Also, XCOM, which I haven't bought yet, but I actually used the code for that one. So technically, Nintendo did provide XCOM too. Let's talk about these games. If you'll permit me, I'd like to start with the Bioshock collection. I think there's probably been more hype over Borderlands, which I completely understand. But personally for me, I love these games. The original Bioshock has always been up there, and I don't know. I feel like I say this all the time, but let's just say top 30 video games I've ever played. Released in 2007 for its time, it was a freaking terrifying masterpiece. From the start of the game, when you're playing crashes in the middle of the ocean, and you desperately swim towards a lighthouse, work your way down to an elevator, and then find yourself in the middle of a terrifying rapture, I was instantly hooked. In fact, I remember so vividly being absolutely scared out of my mind in that initial scene when a splicer is tearing into the top of the elevator, and then the door just opens, and I'm expected to walk out. Now, no thank you. From there, it's a roller coaster ride of genetic modifying superpowers and smashing people's heads in with a wrench. Very disturbingly, as you play through the game, you find these little girls protected by these big daddies, and the big daddies are still one of the most callest video game enemies of all frickin' time with their master drill just smashing to your face, and they essentially act as the bouncers for these little girls, and they do that because the little girls are full of Adam. The entity that you need to mutate your genetics and grow even stronger. So you get a choice. Do you save the little girl, which gives you a teeny tiny bit of power, but you know, you save a little girl, or do you harvest them and turn them into a slug, apparently, and take all the power? I could never actually bring myself to do it back in the day. I never even knew what happened when you did harvest them. There's a different ending depending on which way you play through, and I always play through with the good ending, or at least what I consider the good ending. However, on stream earlier tonight, I got my buttons confused on the pro controller and harvested one for the first time, and, well, that was terrifying. Alright, let's kill her. Wait, did I actually kill her? Oh! The second bio-shot game, isn't great. The entire thrill of the first game was stepping into the unknown, with everything in the rapture from man on machine wanting to end your life. The Big Daddy's being the biggest challenge of all. Just hearing that ground-shaking thud of a Big Daddy's footsteps from behind the wall was enough to send chills down my spine. But then in the second game, they go and make you the Big Daddy, and, um, it gives it a completely different feel. That kind of feel like I have a giant drill for a hand, and all these little peasants running around me mean and do nothing to me. There's no reason to really be scared of anything. And yet it's still set in that same wannabe survival horror setting, but it feels more like an action game, and the two don't really blend. It completely lost its atmosphere and wasn't nearly as exciting. It was made by a different team than the original game, and I don't know why in Heaven's name you would ever do this. I can't recall a sequel game that was made by another team that ended up being good. However, the original team came back to make the third game titled Bioshock Infinite, and Bioshock Infinite is infinitely as good as the first one, in my opinion. Bioshock Infinite leaned even heavier into that action-adventure genre. However, they built a world and an atmosphere that actually gelled with that genre. And I love the juxtaposition of this game starting with you on the ocean rowing to a lighthouse. So rather than going down into that lighthouse and down into the depths, you go to the top of the lighthouse and you skyrocket up above the clouds and you see this giant world that essentially becomes your playground. I found there was a lot more to explore in Bioshock Infinite from both the world and the gameplay. And overall, I felt the storytelling was much better in the third one while being a lot less creepy. But whaty! How does it run on Switch? I gotta say, and this is a spoiler for all of these games today. 2K, or whoever it was that ported them over, did a fantastic job at taking these games and throwing them on the Switch. Whether you're playing in handheld mode or docked, they look and play fantastic. Originally, all these Bioshock games released on 360 and you would hope for this, but I would definitely say these games look and play better on the Switch. These games are just flawless on the system. Uh, XCOM! XCOM! Uh, XCOM! I loved the original XCOM, but I never played the sequel. So hearing that it was coming to Switch was perfect for me. The XCOM games are turn-based tactic strategy games. And we don't have a great deal of those on Switch. Some standouts for me would be Mario and Rabbids. Fire Emblem, in a way, although Fire Emblem is so much more than just that. I'd say it's like half a term, and then the other half is like, anyway. I would go out on a limb and say XCOM 2 might be the best one. What I love so much about the XCOM series, unlike the other games I mentioned earlier, you get to create your own characters. You get to fully customize them. You get to name them. You get attached to them and you want to keep them alive as long as possible because once they kick the bucket, that's it! In this genre, I prefer this way of playing so much. I mean, I love Mario and Rabbids, but if you get a game over, you just reload the game and off Mario goes on another try. But in XCOM, if a character dies, you just gotta keep on going. You gotta start again with a new one at level 1. That adds so much tension and so much threat to every battle. The first time I ever played an XCOM game, and it's gonna be no footage of this because I was like 20 or whatever. I named all my characters off of me, my friends and my friends' parents. I don't know why I did that, but my roommate Drew, I made his dad and I made it look like his dad. Why? I don't know. We were a weird bunch. But Drew's dad, he was this big burly mustache sniper man. Let me paint a picture for you. We had them cornered. We were all but one. We were pushing them back past the front lines and they were all wiped out by a couple of aliens and then tragedy struck as a whole ship of aliens dropped behind my characters. And who was the furthest one back behind? Sniping his little heart out, saving the day Drew's dad. No! The actual Drew could hear me screaming from the whole way down. I actually ended that entire playthrough there and I think started again a year later. I was so heartbroken. Anyway, I really like the XCOM games and I'm glad one's on Switch and you should check it out. Borderlands. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. This is the one so many people have been asking for, been excited for. Myself included. I know some of you might be sick of hearing this, but I live in Texas and just around the corner, there's a little game studio. Maybe you heard of it as Gearbox. It's just over there. They invited me around when Borderlands 3 was releasing. I got to play it like three months earlier and record footage of it. They even told me, hey, you could be the first person on YouTube with footage of the game. Wouldn't that be awesome? I said yes. And then I didn't know what to do with the footage as I have a Switch channel. I just sat on the footage and never used it. So I squandered that opportunity. They were really nice people though. And the whole time I was there, I asked, hey, hey, hey, you put Borderlands on theater of all freaking things. I know that was a disaster. We're not going to talk about it, but how hard would it be to put this on Switch? I mean, come on. Oh, well, you know, with the thinking about it by just up in the air. I was really hoping they would let me know. But no, I found out with everyone else during a direct that Borderlands was coming to Switch. I was very excited. This is perfect. The Borderlands collection has come with the pre-sequel, the original game, and Borderlands 2. Three games for the price of three games because Switch tax, nothing is cheaper. Nothing is cheaper. I'm sorry. Oh, it also includes all the DLC or the add-on content. I've never played the pre-sequel. Should I have played that before now? Who cares? There's so many games here I'm covering and they all came out like four days ago. Cut me some slack. I've played the original. It's okay. I was never a huge fan. It was Borderlands 2 that actually sold me on this entire franchise because Borderlands 2, it's a game. The best thing about Borderlands 2 other than the fact that it's fun is the fact that it's a game that is just built to play with friends. Even now in 2020, for some reason, it's really hard to find good multiplayer co-op games to play with your friends. I have friends from back in Australia and we have always sought out fun co-op multiplayer experiences and let me tell you, we barely ever find many. But Borderlands 2, back on 360, it was a way for all four of us to come together at one of our houses and sit there and join our Xboxes together with LAN cables and all that mess we used to do and just blast through Borderlands 2 while sipping down Mountain Dew and snacking on Doritos. What are they called? That's right, Doritos. And 1AM McDonald's Maccas Runs. Let me get back to my Australian roots for a second. 1AM Macca Runs. In the middle of Borderlands 2 sessions, I will never forget those times. I cherish those times. Anyway, I know there are a lot of games that will let you play with another player. They will allow you to play with two, three, four players. But not many games like Borderlands 2 where it's made with that mindset of playing with at least one other person, if not four. In fact, playing this game alone is not really a very enjoyable experience in my opinion. You really need to bring friends along, at least one for the journey. Other than that, the huge highlight of the Borderlands series across the board is just the gameplay. The biggest draw being the guns. Oh, man, the guns. There's just millions of different kinds of guns because they are all completely randomized. What the gun looks like, what the gun does, how many effects the gun has, how the gun reloads, how many different weapon fires, how strong the gun is, what the stats of the gun is. Everything is random. And they all do such weird and wacky things from the way they fire or the type of ammunition they have or even the reload animations are literally throwing the gun away, having it explode and magically just pulling out another one and you're ready to go again. These games keep you guessing with the weapons. It's never the same the second time you play. And I'd be remissed and yell it out down below if I didn't point out that the games are full with quirky characters, humorous dialogue, and funny moments around every corner. And I know I said it already, but let me clarify it again. Yes, just like with the BioShock Collection, these games look and play amazing on Switch. To go back to the years where I had to unplug my Xbox, find my LAN cable, throw it all into my backpack, log it to my friend's house, set it all up, cable is everywhere, destroying his parents' electric bill took like an hour to set the whole thing up and then we'd get hungry and go and eat. And by the time we even started playing it was like 3 a.m. in the morning just to then after you get bored after a few hours of playing, unplug everything, put it back in your backpack, take it back home, set it back up in your house to think now I can just bring my Switch to our friend's house, plug it in, I have my own little portable screen. We are in the freaking future. Oh, I kind of stressed myself out there at the end. I'm all tense. I'm all worked up. If only there was a way I could relax. I could calm down. I could. That gives me an idea. But smile. But smile. Why? They actually smell really good. Why? Why what? Why? I don't understand the why. I'm trying to have a nice relaxing. Thanks to 2K. You realize bathrobe doesn't mean you get in it and then get in the bath. That's not... I'm saying why'd you do it and I was going to say bath? And it's a very bad train that I don't want to take ever. Did you see my underwear when I jumped in? No, but you put out the candle. Oh no, my relaxing candle. Yeah, daddy's crazy. Sign me. What are we going to do? Well look, I couldn't do this before because this is barely family friendly but now rule books out the window. What did barstools do? I put that whole tube in here. I think they're just supposed to smell nice. I don't think there's any other reason. Don't drink the water. No, I'm sniffing it. I'm not an idiot. Really? Sure, I'm talking a bathrobe right now. Sign me. No, not the candle. Sign me. I think they conned me. Oh, James. I think they ex-conned me. Thanks for watching my video. If you could subscribe, I'd appreciate it. If you could like the video, I'd appreciate that too. But for now, I'm going to relax and just relax really, so thank you. Oh. It was my foot. I bet it was. I didn't do it.