Kay G. Radley

Jan 14 2014, 10:02 PM

I bet ten rubles this guy works for EA.

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or give out zeroes on Metacritic, or write unnecessarily mean things about games you've spent just a few hours on, remember that what you're playing is the culmination of years of someone's life. Usually it's not just one life, but tens, or hundreds, or even thousands of people who wake up every day at the crack of dawn thinking about the experiences they're going to create.

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Rumors indicate that Nintendo is already in development of a new console. Most sources are saying it's a new handheld.

Blacklightning

Jan 15 2014, 02:49 PM

The new Alien games sounds fucking amazing. Gamesradar went hands-on with it - it really sounds like the AI is a masterpiece in the making.

Kay G. Radley

Jan 15 2014, 07:49 PM

Blacklightning

Jan 15 2014, 02:49 PM

The new Alien games sounds fucking amazing. Gamesradar went hands-on with it - it really sounds like the AI is a masterpiece in the making.

I dunno...remember the last time a hands-on with an Alien game was fucking amazing?

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I published my big reveal preview of Alien: Isolation early last week. Isolation, I can categorically state, having gone hands-on with it, currently looks like an excellent game. In fact it has the potential to be one of this year’s best. From what I’ve seen and played so far, it appears to be stunningly realised project, being created by a dedicated and very talented team who really get what makes Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece work. It’s also utterly terrifying and, thanks to its uniquely systemic game-design built around an ultra-sophisticated, purely AI-driven Alien, utterly unlike any other survival-horror game out there.

But according to the internet, I’m wrong about all of that. After all, what can I know? I’ve only played it. The internet has an elevated level of insight and wisdom. The internet knows that because Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines was crap, no Alien-related game can ever be good again.

I’m not even being facetious. That’s literally as in-depth as the argument goes. And it utterly defies logic. Or rather, inversely, it hammers together a contrived logical conclusion where, in fact, there is none. Colonial Marines is a different game, based on a different Alien film, made by a different developer for a different set of hardware. The only elements shared between the two games are their publisher, Sega--which seems to be actively distancing itself from CM and pushing hard towards a dark new future with A:I--and the use of the overall Alien franchise license.

To infer that Colonial Marines will have any influence on the quality of Alien: Isolation is exactly the same as saying that the Gamecube’s Batman: Dark Tomorrow ensured that Rocksteady’s Arkham Asylum was a bad game. But then again, I remember that a large proportion of the internet made exactly that conclusion when I gave Arkham Asylum a glowing reveal preview. Time flows like a river, and history repeats.