Category: Video Games

Three days to go on Mass Effect: Andromeda…

…and we’ve already begun the traditional ‘yelling at Bioware.’  They hate the animation, they hate the sex scenes, they hate the wrong kind of sex scenes, they hate the character creation process… it’s all very exciting.  No, seriously.  It’s not truly a Bioware game unless somebody’s pissing and moaning over every conceivable aspect of it.  And, thanks to the miracle of limited early access, we can experience this marvelous folk custom before the game even comes out!

…Mind you, I largely don’t care about this because we’re getting back something like recognizable skill trees, more generalized characters, and Mako 2.0 the Nomad.  This is what I am here for. I want to wander around and obsessively look for stuff. I’ll be able to get it, starting Tuesday.
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So, apparently Conan Exiles saved FunCom’s butt.

Which is good to hear, because FunCom’s The Secret World is still my favorite MMO.  Although it hasn’t had much new stuff, and I was worried about that, mind you. But I hadn’t realized how worried I should have been:

Speaking to Engadget at GDC, [FunCom] creative director Joel Bylos said the company was so close to bankruptcy before Conan Exiles it was borrowing from investors to make payroll. Seeking a way out of this dire situation, Funcom took to SteamSpy to see what sort of games sold strongly enough to make the bank needed to keep the company afloat – and which it could afford to make. The plethora of dodgy survival games on Steam was the answer.

“These games sell a lot, but they’re not that high quality. We could definitely hit that bar,” Bylos said. And lo! Conan Exiles was born.

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Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay (Exploration and Discovery).

Mass Effect: Andromeda looks… more like an RPG than ME2 and ME3 did.  I really do think that they went back to the first game and took a good, hard look at it to see what worked. Which is fine by me, since I’m as much of a fan of the first game as I was the second and third one.

This Middle Earth: Shadow of War… wait. No. Please stop.

That’s not how this works, Middle Earth: Shadow of War.

That’s not how any of this works.

I mean, did they read the books? …They didn’t read the books, did they.  Also: now we know that people really can’t come back from the grave, because if they could JRR Tolkien would have over this.  With CS Lewis.  And a Sherman tank.

Mass Effect: Andromeda specs out.

Doesn’t look like I need to replace my machine quite yet if I want to play Mass Effect: Andromeda.  On the other hand, I’m running an AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB. I’m not sure how that’s going to stack up to this. On the gripping hand, I designed said machine around Witcher 3‘s recommended stats, and those stats turned out to be over-generous… Continue reading Mass Effect: Andromeda specs out.