I always think of Suda51 the same way I think of, say, Michel Gondry - a genuinely creative person who has nevertheless never really made anything great, or even as good as their evident talent suggests they could make, and whose career has suffered as a result.* It feels cruel to call him a meme artist but there’s…

I know I’ve seen the name Ray Merriman used before, pretty sure as a detective, but I can’t remember where.

I actually thought of Doggett when watching Mindhunter and the character of Bill Tench. It’s a classic “old dog who doesn’t trust new tricks but is smart enough to learn them” archetype, and both actors play it well.

“Anthem’s reveal trailer was much less forgettable” was it really 

I’m playing System Shock 2, OP

The one silver lining, however, is that the move will likely prove to be politically unpopular

The game, Prey. It’s destined to be a cult classic in the vein of its most obvious antecedent (System Shock 2) but you shouldn’t wait a decade to find out what’s good about it. It’s probably the last lavish immersive sim we’ll be getting for a few years at least. What a way to go out.

The enemy sniper...

Things appear to have gone sideways shortly after the acquisition of Max Landis’ screenplay

TVs, sure. PC monitors, however, have always been packed more densely with pixels. Playing a game on a 4K monitor of even a small size is fucking wild.

It’s also a great way to get migraines unless your machine’s absolutely top of the line enough to keep consistent 60FPS.

They’d been working on iterations for quite a long time, an open world bounty hunter sequel to the original Prey was canceled and the concept materials (which people seemed to really like) leaked publicly, then apparently Obsidian worked on it for a few months, then they just up and gave the name to a new project at…

If you haven’t gotten Heat Signature, do so. It’s a spacefaring Hotline: Miami roguelite, more or less. If you don’t fall in love the first time you kidnap someone by blowing him and yourself out a hard vacuum window and remote control your shuttle to pluck you out of extreme velocity before you asphyxiate, you’re not…

Prey is very technically sound, for what it’s worth - the art style takes after Dishonored in most respects, but it’s built on Cryengine rather than Void, so it’s very stable and well-optimized. I haven’t run into any bugs to speak of.

G*d bless u.

Zenimax needs a new PR regime so badly. The only non-Bethsoft game they committed to actually selling was Wolfenstein, which in this political milieu sold itself. DOOM at least was a perfectly simple game, easy to sell by word of mouth, but then The Evil Within 2 came and went (didn’t love it, personally). And after…

My main thing was, why did Luke force project himself only to evaporate, Obi-wan style, by himself. I mean yes, there’s the logistical issue of getting to the moon, but nobody actually cares about logistics. Was it just so that he could quote Han at Kylo?

I also saw Observer mentioned. I recently played it and while it has a moment or two of sublime visual motherfuckery over its long playtime, it’s just... A prime example of how not to do world-building. There’s so much detail but the plot is strictly first draft, and like so many first draft stories in speculative…

#1 slept on game this year is Prey. I’m serious! And I say that for the love of it, and of you, gentle reader, for it could double its purported PC sales numbers and still be considered a commercial disappointment. It’s gonna be the Alpha Protocol of 2017.