It is kinda brilliant that after falling out with the other guy and leaving Playdead he’s basically making his own version of the games. Twice as many bleak lofi platformers? Sign me up!

Somerville is Edge cover game this month. Looking good.

Which is only very good. So beyond that too.

hylian_elf wrote:

Ooh I didn't know Somerville was written and directed by Olsen!  I think he briefly for a time was a Badger.  Friend and colleague of our Cherry_Pez and part of the Mordor Mashup crew.  Had a mean Gouken on SFIV iirc.

It's the indie studio headed up by Dino Patti from Playdead, so yeah naturally Somerville is kinda reminiscent of Limbo and Inside.

Good stuff.
Live your dreams Badgers!

Prince of Persia (haters gonna hate)
Mortal Kombat 1
Alan Wake 2
Toxic Commando (assuming this a campaign thing?  If it's ASYNCHRONOUS MP I'll pass)
Sandland maybe?

...

Turns out I can't be bothered to finish the list as there are far too many things worthy of wishlisting - that's probably less than 20% of what I'd be interested in trying.  Blasphemous II is the main one for me anyway, followed by Cocoon and Baby Steps.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Prince of Persia (haters gonna hate)

It looks like a pretty good game in itself, but it seems quite generic and such an uninteresting direction for the series. At its best, it was always an antidote to the all out action of other games, and now it looks like it wants to join them. A modern rethink of the original or Sands of Time would make more sense.

I just googled "everything shown at..." even then I forgot what half the stuff was.

JonB wrote:

A modern rethink of the original or Sands of Time would make more sense.

They’re working on it after rebooting the project but they released an interview recently after announcing it wouldn’t be at this year’s showcase and it sounds like it’s still at a super early stage.

Just saw some footage of Flight Sim 2024. Fuck me it looks spectacular. Such a timesink though. Open ended play which I know is the attraction wouldn't hold me. I'd need a mission structure. I presume there is some of that in there?

It's the only modern game of that PS5/Xbox style of thing that interests me. The rest just looks like uncanny valley play through once cutscene gallery / grindathons.  Games look like they've become this weird merge of Hollywood films and theme park rides. I'm sure there's more to them than that but trailers just leave me totally cold.

davyK wrote:

Just saw some footage of Flight Sim 2024. Fuck me it looks spectacular. Such a timesink though. Open ended play which I know is the attraction wouldn't hold me. I'd need a mission structure.

I spent two days downloading Flight Sim so that I could fly a little plane around over my house, then deleted it again. I just don’t have the time to invest in learning to be a pilot.

I understand from all this talk that new games have been announced and showcased.  No idea about any of this, been out of touch a bit.  I imagine I can just catch up on an online pub like Eurogamer.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Flight Sim does have set missions and stuff doesn't it? Search and rescue, dropping water on forest fires etc

I'd like a bit of that.  Nice early PS2 game called Sky Odyssey hit the mark with me.

Aye. If I could justify it to myself I'd love to get a full PC rig with flight controller etc.

Wifey would probably let me spend the coin but fuck that.

Paul the sparky wrote:

The enormous download and having to learn how to take off etc still puts me off. Could play it via the cloud I suppose

Isn't there a way of playing it almost arcade like and then gradually taking all the aids away?

I've always loved arcade flyers ever since Pilotwings but flying is the one thing I'd fancy actually investing time to play as a sim but fuck that timesink.

I like the look of the racing mode in MS flight sim - whizzing around the towers etc.  My money would probably be better spent on a drone with camera and VR setup.

You can play Flight Sim pretty arcade style. You can just start up in the air so you don’t need to engage with take off and landing at all if you don’t want - you can just fly around.

Yeah, I had auto-everything switched on so I could just take off and pootle about.