I think the selling point with this one is the gameplay. It’s a Looking Glass style game so the biggest comparison would be System Shock etc. Arkane exclusively make that type of game - Dishonored, Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah. PC Gamer recently did an amazing article about the genre which they called ‘immersive sims’.

It’s a first person ‘immersive sim’, a narrative-heavy freeform game in the Looking Glass Studios mold. System Shock, Thief, Dishonored, Deus Ex. These should give you an idea of the type of thing. Story and atmosphere focused with RPG elements and freeform gameplay.

I was just sharing my opinion, you don’t need to be sarcastic. Unless of course your feelings are actually hurt that easily in which case you probably shouldn’t use the internet.

I like the purple theme too, and the concave controller buttons were a nice touch. But overall the Jap/PAL SNES design is overwhelmingly superior, IMO. The US SNES looks so jarring, there are tons of pointless angles and corners, and the switches are so fugly. It looks like the mould was inside out when they made it.

Good luck Patrick, I always thoroughly enjoyed and looked forward to your work here. Who’s going to cover Souls now? ;’(

It's around 25% of the game, which takes 3-4 hours to beat. With the level of polish, it's well worth the price - and of course you'll get the rest for free when it's finished.

Let’s play the first one before we wish for a second! Only about 3 months to go :)

Not called for. Even worse, not funny.

Strange, I’ve never even heard of ‘Drak Souls 3', ‘The Street Fighter V’, ‘Dragon Quest Builders II’ or ‘Dragon Builders’.

Me too! definitely a very interesting subject to discuss. Peace ;)

I think the thing to bear in mind is that you aren’t literally taking games to a desert island, you are just making a list. The logistics of how you actually acquire the physical (or digital) media is kind of besides the point. Halo 2 Anniversary maybe only available in a collection, but it does not make the…

I appreciate what you’re saying, but again I don’t see how much you pay for a game disc having anything to do with this ‘desert island games’ list. I don’t think the organizers of the podcast would count that, either.

No, again I don't think that's the same thing. An expansion for a game is a different thing to a sequel. Like, would you count the Star Wars trilogy as one film just because you bought them in the same box?

That is a different thing, though. They are originally one title. As someone else said, you could just pick a Humble Bundle or one of those Namco Museum console packages or something by your logic. I'm sorry but the Mass Effect trilogy is three games. Being on the same disc doesn't fuse them together into one game.

Games packaged together are still multiple games, as far as I'm concerned.

Why does the price of 3 games make it count as one game? That makes no sense. It's definitely 3 games.

Wouldn't it be a better idea to choose games you've actually played? Like games that are actually released?

Agree 100%. Yeah it was a really well produced game, but a desert island game? Fuck that. Once was enough. Once was almost too much.

Monkey Island 2

Someone needs to puncture Kojima with a pin so his ego deflates a bit.