Games Inbox: Is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet going to be a good game?

The Friday letters page struggles to get excited over Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, as a reader feels GTA 6’s marketing is a waste of money.

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Naughty heresy
As much as I’m looking forward to a new Naughty Dog game, and a new IP at that, can we just talk about how terrible the name Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is? Intergalactic is okay on its own, or at least it would be if Interstellar wasn’t already a thing. But The Heretic Prophet? It makes it sound like a bad JRPG.

The first trailer didn’t help either and yet you couldn’t ask for a better pedigree than Naughty Dog. And when they say it’s a combination of the best parts of all their previous game, what more could you ask for? So why aren’t I excited?

If it is out next year, and it sounds like it’s going to be the big Christmas game, then we really should’ve seen something proper of it by now. Naughty Dog have never been particularly secretive before and if you’ve got a new IP surely you want to give it as much hype as possible. And it’s not like Sony has had anything lately that they don’t want to confuse people over, since Wolverine came out a while back now.

We already know it’s not going to be at The Game Awards and I don’t know how much they’re going to concentrate on it early in the new year, when they’ve got God Of War Laufey out first. When you put it like that it sounds like maybe it won’t be out that soon, but I don’t know. They’re not building the hype as far as I’m concerned.
Gazza

Absence of awful
I wouldn’t put Resident Evil Requiem as my game of the year, even not counting GTA 6, as I think there were games better than it this year, namely 007 First Light, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, and Mina The Hollower.

However, I am very glad to see Capcom get their due, as they’ve had a knock-out year and they’ve been excellent for a long time. And they’ve been excellent without being awful too, with nothing overpriced, no rip-off DLC, and no obvious AI. Instead, we get a super healthy mix of sequels, remakes, and new IP that beats even Nintendo.

Pragmata was also excellent and I’m hoping to get Onimusha cheap in the Black Friday sales, so hats off to them and here’s hoping Resident Evil Veronica will be good next year. In fact, let’s just hope next year is as good as this year for quality, and better in terms of not laying off every developer in sight.
Zeiss

Double Link
Absolutely adore Zelda: A Link To The Past and, as GC, says A Link Between Worlds is an excellent sequel too.

As for remakes, what I’d prefer would be both games in one package, with A Link To The Past only updated into the Between Worlds art/graphical style, which in itself is just A Link To The Past’s art style for the modern day anyway.

Bosh, job done, take my money.
big boy bent

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Waste of money
Nice as it is to see GTA 6 billboards going up everywhere and a Selfridges pop-up store, complete with a real/fake sports car, I fail to see the cost benefit.

As I understand it, Rockstar’s global publicity blitz is meant to turn undecided customers into customers. All of that advertising must have cost them a fortune.

A much better way to spend money would have been to offer customers a deluxe physical edition of the game. I would have paid more to get at least the bulk of GTA 6 on disc.

I salute all of those pleased pre-loaders with their super-fast connections, but my preload is still ongoing.

I guess this is why we were allowed to preload for more than a week before release, to give us low tech slow coaches half a chance. I suspect that a major hurdle for everyone is server congestion.
Michael Veal

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Atlas of Vice
After all that, the GTA 6 map isn’t even a proper map! The old ones you could actually use for navigation, but this one looks more like one of those maps you get when you visit the zoo or a theme park.

I guess it doesn’t matter, and considering how big GTA 6 is you’ll probably need a whole atlas to have a proper map but it’s just not the same. I just wish they’d made the effort to include a map, whatever it looks like, in the physical package. Not charge 75p for it and make you buy some tat from the Rockstar website to even get it.

It doesn’t matter, I know. The minute the game is out, and I’m playing it, I’ll forget all about it. But between this and the no disc version I feel like Rockstar are taking advantage because they know they can.
Dura

Perfect set-up
I hope you are well.

For many years now I have been looking for the perfect setup for my consoles and PC. And I would say that the biggest obstacle I face is finding the perfect headset.

Much to the amusement of my gaming buddy I have always struggled to hear in-game moments. In a recent game on DMZ I failed to hear another player climbing a ladder behind me, despite my buddy pointing it out!

Thanks to my military service I have recently been diagnosed with high end hearing loss and tinnitus. Until this I just put my poor hearing down to being a bit rubbish at gaming but it hasn’t stopped me spending a small fortune on different headsets.

I think I have tried them all over time, from the cheap and cheerful to the high end offerings. I read reviews and in particular user reviews to help find the most suitable headset but not knowing I had a problem with my hearing until recently I have wasted a fair few quid.

I’m currently using Steelseries Arctis Nova, which in my opinion are very good but then again, I can’t hear a man climbing a ladder so probably not the best advert!

I’d be interested to hear, no pun intended, from any other readers who have similar hearing issues and what their solution is.

Thanks GC.
Dirtystopout

GC: Many games nowadays have visual indications for sound, as accessibility options. We’re not sure if Call Of Duty does but there’s likely third party mods on PC, if you have one.

Good but disappointing
As Xmas gets near, I know you will be doing top list of favourite games this year, but what’s been your biggest disappointment this year?
TWO MACKS

GC: There hasn’t been anything particularly frustrating but Control Resonant would probably be the most obvious choice. Actually, Saros as well. Even though we gave it 9/10, and the combat is fantastic, we still found it a disappointing follow-up to Returnal.

Arcade battle
I was always curious about the game Screamer but due to complex controls and highly involved mechanics I put off by it, especially at the price of £59.99.

I did, however, notice that it was available to play for the weekend with Game Pass free play days. I did initially struggle with the game, as I had gone with single stick controls, so I was steering and drifting on the left analogue stick. Just half an hour later though it started to click and after a few hours I had to purchase this fantastic game, due to its sublime controls and handling. It did help that it was currently an offer for £24 too.

The game has a really good story mode, at least by the standards of a racing game anyway, that feels partly like a visual novel. The story slowly introduces you to all the controls mechanics, and everything button is fully remappable. I have it set up so the RB and LB bumper buttons are now assigned to the X and A button buttons on my Xbox controller and it works so well.

I also purchased Star Wars: Galactic Racer but I’ve completely bounced off that game so far. I vastly prefer Screamer and highly recommend it to anyone on the fence about it. It just needed a trial or demo to convince me and win me over.
Charlie H.

Inbox also-rans
Disappointing to see that Saros didn’t win any Golden Joystick awards. Would’ve thought the visual design award for Housemarque was certainly worthy. Perhaps sound design also. Great to see Resident Evil Requiem do well though.
Lizardpudlian

I tried save scumming before attempting the shooting gallery in Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, in order not to lose my rupees. To my surprise, when I reloaded the save, the rupees were still gone! Talk about ‘the devs knew you would do this’.
Ali K

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