I was all ready to have a rant about it being the weekend and having to work, but instead I’m going to talk about how amazing Middle-earth: Shadow of War looks. I’m a huge Tolkien fan – I wrote my dissertation on his novel’s influence on the fantasy genre – but the video game renditions haven’t really captured my attention in the past. Even Shadow of Mordor wore thin towards the end, despite being a lot of fun at times, but watching some gameplay footage it looks as though Shadow of War is building system upon system on the Mordor framework. It’s definitely looking like it’ll be a highlight later in the year.
Besides watching videos, I’ve been hammering through NieR: Automata, which is a wonderful entry in the action-JRPG mould, while sneaking in time with Zelda, Bomberman R, Fast RMX, King Of Fighters ’98 and VOEZ on the Nintendo Switch. The ability to pick it up for ten minutes combined with a super fast wake up time, is making it absolutely perfect to fit in amidst a busy day, and it really does have the potential to be a winner for the company.
Tuffcub is loving Horizon Zero Dawn, to the point that he says it’s the best game he’s played for a good few years. Besides that he’s been playing Dying Reborn on PSVR and cracking on with the FlatOut 4 review. Aran meanwhile has been splitting his time between Gravity Rush 2, which took a bit of getting used to, and Ghost Recon Wildlands, which is his new favourite multiplayer experience of 2017.
Jake has mostly been playing Horizon, but since he picked up his Switch a couple days ago, Zelda is now stealing all of his time. Steve finished up his Memoranda review, along with going for some Future Unfolding, Jak 2 on Vita and Uncharted 4 as well, which he had to get on with so there’s space on his hard drive for Horizon! Miguel has been hit by a blackout, so he’s not been able to play more than a couple of hours of NieR: Automata, He’s only had time for Atelier Firis, anyway.
Dave has had a huge week of gaming;
There were tons of Switch games. Snipperclips provided some entertainment while I had the brother-in-law and his firlfriend round. I ploughed through Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment, despite the American spelling, and the rest of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, before working my way through four Neo Geo arcade games (World Heroes Perfect, KoF 98, Waku Waku 7, and Shock Troopers). I then pushed myself to complete the latest Deus Ex Mankind Divided DLC.
I haven’t even touched Zelda yet and I Personally don’t expect to do so until after reviewing a certain RPG .
Tef’s continued his journeys in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, as well as reviewing Fast RMX on Switch, but he’s not been completely consumed by those games. He caught us up on his impressions from Dawn of War III’s multiplayer, went to see Middle-earth: Shadow of War and went hands on with a game he knew practically nothing about: Dragon Quest Heroes II.
Finally it’s over to Jim who’s also had a very good week gaming-wise;
This week I finally polished off The Witcher III. It’s a relief to rub such a big massive game off my to-do list. Going back, I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I originally did when beating the main story. I can’t exactly put my finger on why, but the same thing happened with Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Apart from that I’ve been dipping in and out of For Honor. It’s a fantastic multiplayer game though one I’m keeping a distance from until Ubisoft can start to iron out some of its networking issues.
There was some Ghost Recon Wildlands in there too, which I’ve been playing with Tef and Aran.
Oh, and Zelda. A [flipping lot]Â of Zelda.
Now then, what have you played?
Andrewww
Dissertation on Tolkien..? Very cool..! I definitely picked a less interesting topic…