A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
23rd August 2024
Hello!
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in ourWhat We’ve Been Playing archive.
I wanted to properly introduce my partner to it.
It wasn’t a great start.
It’s not just the technology, it’s the acting and whole thing as a holistic package.
I found myself quickly making excuses for it.
It’s that ambience, that pastoral calm.. Pickable flowers are in full bloom, bees buzz around.
you might sense the lazy heat warming the rocks and air.
And in the background, gentle music massages you.
I’d forgotten how relaxing a place Skyrim can be just to potter around.
That’s its heart, I think, as a game and as an experience.
God damn I can’t wait for The Elder Scrolls 6.
But certainly after the game has officially been released.
A single-player campaign set amongst the events of Black Hawk Down is promised for launch.
For a game in alpha, it feels surprisingly polished.
Within the game, there’s plenty of variation too.
But the Battlefield-style mode already feels a lot better than BF2042 did when it launched.
Is the character creator any good?
The customisation goes deep too.
But my favourite part of character character creators is never my creations - it’s the communities'.
From a scarily accurate Billie Eilish, to horrific renditions of Shrek and Wallace, from Wallace and Gromit.
I downloaded Shrek, naturally, and made him do some beautiful poses in the photo mode.
