The Tuesday letters page is worried about Myles MacKenzie ruining Metroid Prime 4, as one reader is doubtful about the Legend Of Zelda movie.
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Obvious winner
I see the Game of the Year nominees are in for The Game Awards and it’s not much of a surprise. I would’ve liked to see Silent Hill f get a nod, but it did get quite a few nominations in other awards. I’m struggling to understand how Sony got the most nods per publisher though, especially considering they have nothing in the Game of the Year category. Neither do Xbox and Nintendo only has one, with no sign of Mario Kart World.
It’s certainly been a strange year, with three of the noms being for straight-up indie games and the other two being from small studios too. Personally, I don’t think Hades 2 or Silksong are in the running, as they’re too similar to the originals. I haven’t played Death Stranding 2, but it sounds like that is too.
Donkey Kong Bananza was good, but I didn’t think it was mind-blowing, which means the only real sensible option to me is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It’s also the feel good story of the year, with a small team coming out of nowhere with a great game. I will be shocked if it doesn’t win in December.
Tacle
GC: Death Stranding 2 is published by Sony, even if it wasn’t made by one of their first party studios.
Low odds, high reward
Surprise, surprise but the games publishers are desperate to push out are not the games people actually want. For this whole gen, and beyond, they’ve been obsessed with multiplayer and live service games but, shocker, the majority actually want single-player games.
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I get that multiplayer is more profitable, but they need to accept that there can only be a very small number of online games that are going to be popular at one time. You can only put so many hours a day into one, or maybe two, and if one is a hit it usually means another becomes less popular, like we’re seeing with Call Of Duty at the moment.
But there’s no use trying to think logically about this. Publishers know they can make more money with live service. Even though the chances are much smaller the rewards are much bigger and that’s what they’ll go for every time.
Cranston
The dialogue of Zelda
I have a really bad feeling about the Zelda movie. If you’d told me those photos were of some YouTuber about to play the Zelda theme tune on a violin or something, like they always do, I would believe you. It doesn’t look any more realistic or big budget than that.
I don’t know why but I also get the feeling they’re going to make Zelda the main character and only she will talk. Maybe I’m wrong on that but it’s a terrible idea if they try it. In the fiction of the games Link does talk, you just don’t hear him because he’s you. He says whatever you imagine him to say!
That’s not going to work in a movie, where they’ll have to pretend he has trauma or some kind of condition or something. Instead of being realistic to the games it’ll be the opposite of what’s supposed to be happening and it’ll seem dumb. Or they just have him talk and he’s just… some guy.
Onibee
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Myles off the mark
I love how absolutely every preview of Metroid Prime 4 complains about Myles. What a bizarre own goal, I really can’t understand how such a mistake could’ve been made. Especially after it was clear everyone hated Other M for the talky characters… amongst other things.
I watched the clips and it seems so cringe. I’m not expecting Metroid Prime 4 to be Dead Space or something but surely it doesn’t have to be this cliche and cartoonish? Maybe it won’t matter in the final game but either Myles, and people like him, are in the game a lot or Nintendo decided to show you all the worst bit of the game for a preview.
Has there been any official word on whether there are other character like Myles in the game? I know you said you thought there was, but I’m curious if this is going to turn into Samus and her amazing friends.
Taylor Moon
GC: There are other characters in the most recent trailer, and it seems likely they can follow you around and talk to you like Myles.
Black sheep
I played Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Game Pass, just to see the campaign, and it really is terrible. Not only is it only four hours long but half of that isn’t even proper levels, it’s just reusing the new Warzone map. People like to criticise Call Of Duty no matter what, so I don’t thin some people realise that this time it actually is completely terrible.
The idea of paying £70 for that and the usual multiplayer makes my head spin and I’m glad I got out of that whole scene long ago. I don’t know what the excuse is from Activision but as far as I’m concerned nothing explains that but pure greed.
Orton
Stocking up
I may be in danger of repeating info already mentioned but my Game Pass Ultimate ran out yesterday.
3 x 12 month Game Pass Essential from Loaded (formerly CDKeys) at £34.99 each gives 36 months of Essential.
Assuming you’re not a current subscriber that converts to 14.4 months of Game Pass Ultimate once you add on a one month’s Ultimate key, giving 15.4 months in total.
Total cost for all four keys was £116.96, working out at £7.59 a month and I’m all set for PC and Xbox until March 2027.
If you shop around or wait for a sale it could be even cheaper.
There was some mention in the Underbox of VAT being added on and that seemed to happen with a 12 month Ultimate key when I played around adding it to a cart the other day, but no issues at all tonight and I had my billing country set to the UK. I was logged into the site though when buying, if that makes a difference?
Adam W
Memory hole
It really is true that there’s a fan for absolutely anything. How you become a fan of Concord in the two weeks it existed I’m not sure but kudos to the fans that have got it working again. I think it’s a shame that Sony’s spoiled their fun, because I’m pretty sure they’re never got to touch it again.
All that time and money and it’s as if the game never existed. I can sit down and play dozens of 50-year-old video games whenever I want, but I can’t play one from last year that was made by the biggest company in the business.
Logan
Social commentary
I liked both Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. As others have said, working out how to take down a Thunderjaw (T-Rex) or what can only be described as a Steel type Zapdos was always fun and the weapons, from a disc launcher to explosive javelins to electrical and exploding trip wires, were always a pleasure to use. Great games, great memories.
Aw, now I want a Lego Tallneck for Christmas.
Can anyone explain why this would be rejected from the comments section? Is it the mention of Lego?
Is there a naughty word hiding in plain sight?
It’s very frustrating when you take the time to share your opinions and your comment gets rejected with only a ‘the comment violated our guidelines’ as an answer as to why it was rejected. Have a word GC.
big boy bent
GC: We’ve had some similar complaints recently and we’re talking to IT, to try and figure out what can be done. But according to them it may be tied to previous infractions, and not necessarily the post you made at the time.
Inbox also-rans
Currys have a 10% off pre-order promotion on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. It makes the Switch version £38.69 and the Switch 2 version £44.99.
Simundo
I’m sorry but they should never have made a live action Zelda movie. A CGI animated one sure, especially with anime becoming popular again, but live action makes it look so cheap, no matter how much they spend on it.
Kobold
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