Like most people in life, I listened to a lot of questionable music when I was younger. But my weird musical tastes don't hold a candle to the stuff Sonic the Hedgehog was listening to in the 90s.
Bayonetta 2, Fantasy Life, Shadow of Mordor and more are on the docket for this week's Game|Life podcast.
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Happy Friday!
I recently (read: last month) built a new PC to play games on. My old PC was just shy of eight years old and hadn't had a decent upgrade in roughly four years. Needless to say, most of the games I have been wanting to play lately simply wouldn't run on my old rig.
Thanks to the always awesome Max Roahrig, I finally have something that will actually play more than just RollerCoaster Tycoon and SimCity 2000. It's been awesome lately, playing games on my PC that once made my old computer shiver with fear. It's nice knowing that I can simply download a game and not worry about whether or not I can run it.
The one thing that hasn't been awesome however, is how much money I've spent on games since my new PC was up and running. I did a tally last night, just to kinda see where the total was and, well, it's over half of what I paid to build this damn PC.
You're heading to the store to get an Xbox One right now, and need to know which games to get. Or you're at work or in school, daydreaming about what you want to play next. Or maybe you're suiting up for a battle in the console war, cinching on your armor and trying to remember which games will best help you make the argument for Microsoft's new console. We are here to help.
Alien: Isolation has received a lot of praise over its faithful recreation of the original film's lo-fi take on science fiction. "Truckers in space" was the aesthetic director Ridley Scott set out to capture and the decks and corridors of the shipping vessel Nostromo defined a sci-fi art style for 35 years.
Titan has a new book out showcasing the concept art and illustrations that inspired Isolation but they could have just as easily come from a book showing the ideas behind the original movie.
[Don't forget to enter our competition to win a copy of The Art of Alien: Isolation. Just click here for more info.]
"You may abandon your own body, but you must preserve your honor." - Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
Amazon has a new description of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and, well, just read for yourself:
"Whether you're creating stages on the GamePad, competing in challenges crafted by Master Hand and Crazy Hand, or outwitting your opponents in a brand new board game mode, there's no doubt that the ultimate Smash Bros. game has arrived."
This stuff hasn't been officially announced yet, although Nintendo has teased the unnamed mode featuring Master Hand and Crazy Hand. Sounds worthy of a Nintendo Direct.
November 21 is going to be a wonderful day.
[Via NeoGAF]
There has been a bit of talk about an interesting legendary weapon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel that is in plain sight, but unavailable at first. Excalibastard is stuck in a stone in the area Stanton's Liver, and only those badass enough can pull it out. At first, there was only speculation, but the community went in and tinkered with the code to find out that it requires at least 2500 badass points to pull, which is somewhere between one and two times through the campaign, depending on how much variety a player employs.
I played around with it for a few minutes to get a feel for it, and it is one of the "railgun-like" laser weapons that feels more like a sniper rifle. Naturally, being named after a mythical sword, it comes with a pretty long blade. It is 100% accurate, and has the cryo element. The Borderlands wiki reports enemies killed with it also explode with a cryo nova, though I did not experience that with my limited time using it.
Check out my screenshots to see it in action.
How did that bread get up on the ceiling fan? Very carefully, I'd imagine.
Bossa Studios' I am Bread is a game in which you literally play as a sentient slice of bread. And, get this, it looks fun! Challenging, too. The controls appear reminiscent of something like QWOP where it's often a humorous struggle to get anywhere, even a few inches ahead.
It reminds me of the PlayStation glory days when developers were both willing and able to create experimental or otherwise bizarre 3D games. Incredible Crisis comes to mind. Or Mister Mosquito, if you're jumping ahead to PS2. Exactly the stuff I wish we'd see more of in the indie scene.
Summon Epona for just $10. For those keeping track, this is a 12-hole Alto C instrument. [Ocarina]
Above, for your viewing convenience: a solid 50 minutes of Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata talking about Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, Final Fantasy Agito, and of course, the fifteenth main entry in Square's ubiquitous RPG series.
