The Friday letters page is unimpressed by Shigeru Miyamoto’s recent comments, as a reader looks forward to not hearing any more about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced.
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Anniversary release
There’s been some talk of Bethesda and their… failings lately but nobody seems to be talking about The Elder Scrolls 6. It’s been so long since Skyrim I don’t even know if younger gamers even know what it is anymore. And we still don’t have anything close to a release date.
I had hoped that after Starfield came out on PS5 that Bethesda would switch track and announce something, but we already know it won’t be the big game during the Xbox summer showcase. It might get a smaller slot, but I know I wouldn’t bet on that right now.
I’m still holding out that there’s hope it could be released next year but I think the safer bet would be 2028 or later. The 20th anniversary of Skyrim is in 2031 and there’s a genuine chance its sequel might not be out until then. Considering how little Bethesda has done in that time that is incredible to me, especially as Fallout 5 won’t be out until after that!
Bosley
What is it good for?
I agree it seems like ages since anyone was talking about Call Of Duty. The most obvious way back for these sort of things is some sort of nostalgia grab but they’ve already remade the Modern Warfare series once and the last Second World War one was a flop. So that means the only real answer is remaking Black Ops, but that series is so all over the place it doesn’t really seem like each game has much to do with each other, so you might as well just make another sequel.
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People will always want to play soldiers, but I don’t know if they’ll always want to play Call Of Duty, now it’s kind of ruined all its major sublines. The best idea would be to make up a new one, but I don’t know what you’d base it around.
War doesn’t seem like so much fun right now, given what’s going on in the world, so this really has hit at the worst time for Activision and I’m not surprised it’s sci-fi games that are more popular at the moment.
McReady
Piratical sequel
I’m so looking forward to not having to hear about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced anymore. In fact, it’s a shame it wasn’t a shadow drop, so we could’ve put a lid on it right now. The graphics look better but at the same time there’s nothing that’s blowing me away or that looks any different than the bullshots they had when it first came out.
If the combat and stealth is better that’s great but I’m not sure why they didn’t just make a sequel. They had two for Assassin’s Creed 2 and I would’ve thought a brand new pirate game would’ve been a lot more exciting than a remake of one that was good in its time but not really anything anyone would play nowadays.
Tony T.
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Remaking history
I can’t say I remember anything about a white ZX Spectrum back in the day but then I was very young then and I’m not sure how rumours spread in those days, via the mags I guess?
44 years of the Speccy certainly makes me feel old but at the same time I’m glad it’s being remembered still. It won’t be long till it can think about its 50th anniversary and that’s crazy to me. That’s almost as long as the games industry as a whole, so it’s kind of nice to have known it since the beginning.
I am interested in the new replica, which isn’t quite as expensive as I expected, but I do worry how playable these games are going to be nowadays. I can’t help thinking that most of them would be better off as a remake, to improve things like controls and difficulty. It’d still be 2D and on an indie budget but I’m not sure there’s really the call for it.
The Bishop
15 minute reward
Replying go Woz G, about the play a PC game reward points. You don’t need a PC, create a GeForce Now account – it’s free – then link your Xbox account on the GeForce Now site.
All you need do then, is play one of the available Game Pass game on the GeForce Now service, such as Ori And The Will Of The Wisps for 15 minutes to get your reward points.
It even works if you do this with the Edge browser on your Xbox console. Been using this method for quite a while to get the PC daily reward points.
Aidax89
Keeping the British end up
RE: the letter on Thursday, about the lack of government promotion for GTA specifically, and the UK gaming industry as a whole; just wanted to offer an alternative view.
Firstly, of all the games ever made, GTA doesn’t need additional publicity. In fact, even though it’s a behemoth of a franchise, GTA likes to give off an anti-establishment vibe so wouldn’t welcome that sort of endorsement.
Secondly, the government (irrespective of political leaning) has given support to the industry, but not necessarily in an in your face way. For instance, just last week it announced a £30 million package for UK developers.
Furthermore, there’s tax breaks aimed specifically at the industry via the VGEC (Video Game Expenditure Credit) and historically governments of different colours have offered similar incentives to the gaming and film sectors, which bring in billions of pounds annually (although obviously not all the developers are UK owned).
And finally, there are a huge amount of UK developers at work today! Yeah, it may not be obvious that some titles are homemade due to the worldwide market, digital distribution, and the cross-border collaboration we now have, but the UK is the third biggest country for game development (by revenue) and the sixth largest market.
TheThruthSoul (PSN ID)
Free advertising
Nocturnal is free on Steam until Sunday, 26th April at 3pm. I have had this on my wishlist for a while but never thought it would be free.
I nearly bought it two or three weeks ago! I wonder if they are having it be free to promote Nocturnal 2.
Andrew J.
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The death of cinema
I found Miyamoto’s comments on the Mario movie critical backlash quite amusing, but I’m surprised he would come out with something as arrogant as ‘helping to revitalise the film industry’ and hope it was something lost in translation.
I haven’t seen the Galaxy film but have seen the first one and sadly agree with the critics. Found it near unwatchable and closer to the death of cinema than its revitalisation – and I’m a big Nintendo fan. If you’d told me in 2017, playing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and Super Mario Odessey, games that seem to fundamentally understand the appeal of exploring virtual worlds in a creative way, that 10 years later Nintendo would jump on cultural brain rot bandwagon… well disappointed wouldn’t cover it.
We are getting a lot of video game movies now, and I’m just hoping that following the success of Mario and Minecraft producers haven’t given up trying to craft anything that resembles an actual film. Though the trailers for the latest Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter suggest they have. Do audiences for these things really just want to clap like seals waiting for fish at ‘recognisable things’? Even Fallout stumbles into that trap. Heaven forbid an actual artist crafts a great story around these things that might not please everyone, when did we become so culturally conservative?
Anyway, we’ve got a proven movie maker in Alex Garland on Elden Ring. Someone who seems to understand games too, using his experience playing Resident Evil to craft 28 Days Later. So hopefully something good will come from that and we’ll get a proper, self-contained movie.
Marc
GC: Yeah, that whole bit from Miyamoto was pretty awful; we were very disappointed. We also admire Alex Garland, but we’d say that if you truly understood games you wouldn’t want to make a movie adaptation in the first place, which we argued was Nintendo’s approach with the Mario movies – which don’t seem to be intended as traditional films at all.
Inbox also-rans
Just been on to pre-order Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynched. There are two choices, the cheaper on has PS5 Pro support, yet the expensive one doesn’t. Is that right or has someone messed up?
David
GC: The Deluxe Edition doesn’t say PS5 Pro Enhanced on the PlayStation Store, but that must be a mistake.
Dammit, now I’m addicted to Vampire Crawlers! It already took me months to get over Vampire Survivors so I guess I’ll at least be saving a lot on new releases for now.
Statler
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