All board the hype train. Despite the fairly disappointing press conference I locked in my preorder at Amazon. Better safe than sorry.
Bethesa blaming Sony for no Mods on Fallout 4 and Skyrim Remastered
Read the Kotaku article here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGXCisAaR4
No Man’s Sky – 1 more day
One more day and No Man’s Sky will be (officially) released. In the past few days several outlets already sold the game and it’s becoming increasingly hard to avoid spoilers on places like Reddit and the few gaming related Facebook groups I’m part of. But the creators of the game, Hello Games, already announced that a day 1 patch will be released that will fundamentally change the game as it is right now. They even advise to delete your save and start over, probably a good idea anyway as the servers will be wiped as well. Release notes for the 1.03 update can be found here. It’s a nice list of updates and tweaks, and I am hoping Hello Games will take the same approach to updates as CD Projekt Red does. Lots of attention to detail, the fans (and free).
One thing that did annoy me about the pre-ordering on PSN was the apparent lack of pre-order incentive compared to the European release and the physical Gamestop one. You get a better starting ship and some credits. But it turned out you do get this as well on PSN when pre-ordering, it’s just not mentioned on the store page.
So one more day before I will start exploring the No Man’s Sky universe. I might start a Star Trek style “Captains Log”. Not sure yet.
Uncharted 4 – check..
This weekend I finished Uncharted 4, took me about 3 to 4 evenings to play through. It wasn’t the best one (I still think that was 3, but it was close) but it was certainly the most beautiful one. Will be putting Nathan Drake down for a bit to finish my second play through of Fallout 4 before Far Harbor drops this Thursday.
My first play through was with the Institute, this time I’ll probably go for the Railroad. I’ve also discovered I’m just 5 Trophies away from a platinum for this one.
Uncharted 4 – Update 1.02
The game hasn’t even launched yet. Still 9 hours to go, but the first update is already in…
But anyway, that’s how it is nowadays. I first saw the gameplay at E3 last year and it looked fantastic. It’s seems to be the best looking game around. So yeah, 8 hours and 15 minutes to go. I’ll be playing the Division until then to finally get to lvl 30. Or just continue Rogue Galaxy.
Full write-up at Eurogamer.
Dragon Age: Inquisition – Try 3
Started another play-through of Dragon Age: Inquisition. This is my third try, I always lose interest somewhere around getting to Skyhold. Not that’s it a bad game, not uninteresting lore either, it just becomes a bit of a drag. First two plays it was clearly due to hanging around the Hinterlands too long, and not realizing you should just venture forth. We’ll see how it goes this time.
Fallout 4: radiation effects
Uncharted: Nathan Drake gets kicked in the balls and dies
SDCC2015 – Preview Night
The first day has come and gone. Arrived around noon by car and went directly to the supermarket for some food for on the hotel room and sandwiches during the day.
Then we picked up the badges, I read somewhere this starts at 3 but registration was already open at 1.30pm.
Went to the hotel with an Uber and checked in, better room than last year. With a view of the shuttle bus stop, so know exactly when to leave the room every morning. Handy!
Around 5pm we went back to the convention center and lined up for Ballroom 20, found great seats in the front. The first preview was Supergirl. It looks great, a bit of a corny start, but then again most of these shows need to grow. The second one was Blindspot and well it was pretty uninspiring and awful. Third one was Containment, looks good but one of the main characters has a bit of a Denzel Washington wannabe air around him. The last one was Lucifer, it was great. Laughs, witty all there. But the big question is can the writers keep this up?
The exhibit hall was already closed at 9.30pm so went to a screening of The Gallows. Couldn’t make the premiere yesterday at the Hollywood Highschool, so glad I didn’t miss it all. But it was pretty predictable.
Tomorrow the real fun begins.
One more day before SDCC starts
Just one more day before the San Diego Comic Con 2015 starts. First up is Preview Night, for those who have managed to get a ticket, I was lucky.
Already packed most of my things, here’s what I’m taking/recommend:
- GoPro (with small hand stick, extending sticks are prohibited now)
- Video camera (you never know)
- Photo cameras (two again you never know)
- iPhone (twitter, photos)
- iPad (reading up on things)
- PS Vita (Persona 4)
- Kindle (reading)
- Extra battery packs + chargers and cables
- Pain killer (god forbid you’ll get some kind of headache during the day and ruin it all)
- Refillable water bottles (free refills everywhere)
- Blister bandaids and normal ones
- Regular toiletries
- Cloths (duh)
- Good shoes
- Electric kettle
- Coffee and instant noodle bowls (late snacks and early bites)
- Printouts of all your confirmation emails (badges, hotel, train etc)
First thing we’ll do when we arrive is drop off bags at our hotel and pick up our badges, but then we will probably make a quick stop at Ralph’s for some snacks for during the day. I do not recommend getting anything at the convention center, it’s all over priced and pretty disgusting. The Gaslamp Quarter restaurants charge a bit too much for what you get in return, I usually go for one or two good meals (check yelp) and home made sandwiches the rest of the time.
At 6PM it all starts with Preview Night. Check the link: http://sched.co/3kPO and at 10PM a free screening of The Gallows: https://www.wbtickets.com/main/movie_landing/R0FMTE9XU0NPTUlDQ09O