I finished the Tiny Tina DLC today, the last major piece of DLC, playing co-op with Mark and started chasing achievements.

The Tiny Tina DLC is really great. It ends in several massively difficult battles against powerful mages and enchanted skeletons. What a great way to turn a FPS into a fantasy game. I wish more RPGs had as much wild action at the end of them as this does. I love the animations for the skeletons too. They're really scary and you can knock off their heads and watch them try and find you blind. Some use shields too and they are very effective at stopping bullets. I sometimes wished I could weild a sword instead of a gun and fight them on their own terms. Instead I had to use my turret as a distraction while I found a distant place to aim and shoot at their heads. 

After that I started looking at achievements I'd missed. I right away went for the ones for discovering all the named places in the game. I just have one left now. I really like going for those achievements. It was freeing to not have to follow some mission even though I was doing side missions along the way. I was mainly exploring the levels at my leisure looking for vault symbols and anything else of interest. The world is very interesting and full of life. Too bad it's all dangerous and out for your blood. I almost wanted to just take photos and collect plant specimens instead of shoot every darn thing that moved. Where's that first person, field scientist, exploration game I want?

Bye de bye.