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mother of god
this is a worthy 2100st post
First screens and art of Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls Online. The MMO will be utilizing the HeroEngine, the same engine powering Star Wars The Old Republic. Expect tons of new info on the title at next months E3. Elder Scrolls Online is slated for PC and MAC next year.
I am curious
cautious, but curious
(via whataboutmonday)
Gosh now I’m off on a big tangent about what wonderful sound design Irrational Games has always had and I wanted to share something from System Shock 2 with all of you.
For those of you who haven’t played System Shock 2 or are unfamiliar with it, your ship has been taken over by an alien parasite that calls itself The Many. Most of the enemies you fight are zombie-like humans that have been possessed by The Many.
The clip above is all the dialogue of the most common humanoid enemy. If you listen to most of it, it sounds like fairly generic video game-y stuff - threatening to make you a part of The Many, talking about silencing the discord, and so on. It’s certainly a little spooky, but nothing out of the ordinary.
And then you hear something different.
When I first played System Shock 2, it scared me so much I had trouble completing it. There is nothing like rounding a corner, making eye contact with an enemy, and then having it tell you, “Hurry… run,” before it starts to charge at you.
This dialogue is brilliant for so many reasons. It tells the player that somehow, the human part of these people is still aware and trying to cling to their minds, and that’s wonderfully disturbing and scary. There are lines of dialogue that would play as combat was happening, where they would scream, “I’m sorry” as they came at you with all their might. Having an enemy apologize to you as it tried to kill you was, for me, more terrifying than most things are today.
my favourite/least favourite holy fuck System Shock 2 enemy was the protocol droid suicide bombers
“where are you, sir”
“I can’t find you”
“how can I be of assisstan—”*BOOM*
(via tibiagurney)
assassin’s creed 2 and mario kart ds
see i was actually thinking about this earlier like maybe ezio could be in his kart designed by leonardo da vinci and then to get to first place he could briefly jump out of his vehicle and stealth assassinate people in front of him
temple run and pokemon white
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animal crossing and pkmn heartgold!!
…i really want this.
portal and portal 2
well
Metroid Prime and Alan Wake
there are so many ways this could go wrong
I’ve heard about the upcoming game-that-isn’t-a-game-but-is-like-a-game Dear Esther and hadn’t really paid much attention to it - but this trailer has my interest piqued. It looks… very pretty. Coming from a books-and-films background, I don’t mind if a ga- a playable thing is lacking in gameplay (oh dear, this is all starting to sound very recursive), but it still remains to be seen if it has enough substance. It’s out on the 14th of February.
I played an early draft of Dear Esther a couple of years ago and found it extremely compelling, if somewhat lacking in polish. It proved difficult to parse; I was unsure if that was a design flaw or the whole point. Regardless, I will definitely be watching for this (re?)release.
Brenda Brathwaite lead an interesting discussion on twitter about THAC0 and age - you can tell a gamer who is over 30 by whether they can compute THAC0 in their head or not.“Just this guy, you know” on io9’s article about 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons
Gamers get hella uncomfortable over male sexuality too. Can you imagine a “good male character who just happens to be wearing sexually exploitative outfits because he’s ok with his masculinity?” Constantly has the camera pan lovingly over his asscrack and firm glutes, and big ole dangly ballsack that is totes sweaty from all this MMA and soldiering. Time to hit the showers, and do you, personally, think it’s ok to have a long slow pan up the dude’s package (indiscreetly hidden in a jock of course), to his chiseled physique and erect nipples (pierced). He’s not even a Bond-esque confident man, he’s basically a weird Bowie caricature that’s constantly having near-dickslips in every single cinematic as the completely nonsexualized female characters do their business of being gruff and shooting dudes and advancing the plot. Finally, at the end he falls in love (out of nowhere) and/or is killed by the big baddie.
a forum post I read recently, trying to give a solid example of what ‘male objectification in gaming ’ would actually look like if it was anything equivalent to current female objectification in gaming. (via nothingbutsurrender)
is it bad that i want to play a game with this character
(via weeaboo-chan)
Hadn’t uploaded any of these on Tumblr, so here is a photoset of fan art that I did for the Metroid Database Bestiary. You can also find some of it on my deviantart account. I can’t wait to have time again to do MORE this year. :)
Edit: WHOOPS. I screwed up the links in the original post, but they are fixed now. Also, be sure to check out the other artists who did work for this project! They are all linked in the Bestiary.
oh baby woah
holy shit these are beautiful
kajy:
What is Left 4 Dead 2?
what is all of the elder scrolls games and armed and dangerous
what is fallout 3
what is the legend of zelda
WHAT IS PORTAL 2
What is Heart of Darkness
What is Rule of Rose
What is The Neverhood
what is chuck-e-cheese gameroom for the nintendo DS
What is Cory in the House
What is Deus Ex?
I’m sorry, but there is no way I could pin it down to one single game. I want to be biased and elitist, but I just can’t. Video game mucic is just too good.
What is Metroid, Alex?
Props to whoever remembered The Neverhood, though, damn.
Arkham City is really great
but Catwoman is basically all of the Strong Female Characters rolled into one
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