Category: Video Games

The Beyond Good And Evil 2 E3 trailer.

Beyond Good And Evil 2 is gleefully violent and casually profane and absolutely unsuitable for children (or those of infirm moral character) and I am extremely concerned that it will not be available on the PC. Because, yeah, that last bit is the only real deal-breaker for me. I’m just not going to buy a PS4. It’s not in the cards.

The Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus trailer.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus looks like, well, a straight-up shooter.  Fair enough; so was Bioshock Infinite, and I liked that well enough. But is it going to be worth picking up?  And how was the first Wolfenstein, anyway? I have an entire tetrabyte of hard drive space to fill up now, after all.

God, this Bethesda Creation Club thing is gonna be a HUGE PitA.

I mean, OK, as a concept Bethesda’s Creation Club for Fallout 4 and Skyrim is great.

But it’s gonna be a pure headache to everybody who has already modded the game. Because I don’t think that all that vetted content is going to be compatible with all the modded content out there, and I certainly don’t think that all the best modded content is going to end up being vetted.  For a variety of reasons.  On the plus side — and it’s a very big plus side — some modders may end up getting paid for some of their stuff.

So I guess we’ll see.

The ‘Assassin’s Creed: Origins’ gameplay trailer.

There’s a giant snake in Assassin’s Creed: Origins.  Like, Conan-sized.  I am not exactly sure why there is a giant snake. I am not opposed to there being a giant snake, but I would like there to be some sort of explanation as to why. I believe that this reasonable, surely.

Tweet of the Day, Four-Buck Tie Fighter! (And God Bless GOG.com) edition.

Seriously, I love those guys.  They are out and about doing the Lord’s work, bringing us the games of our younger days and allowing us to play them on our modern machines. I don’t have the joystick anymore, but if you do Star Wars: Tie Fighter was an awesome game. The graphics are very mid-Nineties, but I’ve never played a better space combat flight simulator. If they remade it I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Oh, wait: Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a VR Multiplayer game?

Damn.

Damn.

Most VR games, for many resons, are single player experiences.  We’ve gone into why a couple times; what I understand from those trying to plough up this space is that the current rate of hardware adoption alone makes a multiplayer offering a dangerous proposition.  But we’re also still figuring out what it means for a single person to be ensouled in that place, mapping our perceptions and actions to it in a way that is believable and not nauseating.  A multiuser space has challenges on top of that.  It also has a profound potential that Star Trek: Bridge Crew reveals with aplomb.

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E3 coming up next week.

So far, I’ve heard baseless rumors about Cyberpunk 2077 and Mass Effect: Andromeda. And, of course, the not-baseless rumor about the new Assassin’s Creed title. And as for Bethesda, well: have a really messed-up rumor, fresh and hot:

“[Starfield] is going to be a sci-fi open world RPG in typical Bethesda first person fashion. It’s going to feature 5-10 races there’s still some debate on what should and shouldn’t go in and takes place in the Fallout universe just so far in the future and far away from Earth that it’ll only be mentioned in hints. This is part of an ongoing planned interconnected universe of every Bethesda franchise. They gave hints of this by implying the Brotherhood of Steel created Nirnroot in Fallout 4. They’re getting a little wacky with the lore and using “Elder Scrolls time wounds” to justify lore inconsistencies.

“Basically, Fallout is the beginning of the timeline, Starfield is the middle, and Elder Scrolls is Far Future.

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