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Friday, August 26, 2016
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided plot
This specific drawing makes him look like he is tripping on speed.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' Is Worth Buying Review
Too often, video games are a qualified affair on launch day. A good game with great potential, we might say, or we’ll wait to see how the community develops, hopefully the bugs get ironed out, the DLC schedule looks impressive — etc. No Man’s Sky, out earlier this month, is a classic example. A wildly ambitious game, with some genuinely exciting mechanics, but obviously flawed at launch and likely much better given a few months to a year. It’s why it’s nice to review a game like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, out today on PS4, Xbox One and PC. It’s a satisfying, complete game that delivers on its promises with grace. It is not a perfect game, but it is a game that here, on its launch day, feels absolutely worth buying. And it’s nice to say that sometimes.
We wonder, for a second, what makes a Deus Ex game. There’s really only been two. We tend to use the word “immersive sim,” a game that attempts to paint a complete world through depth rather than breadth. A game like Skyrim or Fallout wants the world to feel whole because there’s always another adventure over the next hill, but Deus Ex wants the world to feel whole because we’ve been offered a rounded and real slice of it. It offers the player multiple paths through an environment that seem to encourage but don’t require stealth. It offers a world of pocket secretaries and hackable PCs that fill out the little details of the people you’re punching in the throat. However it is you’ve done something, you’ll always see another way in at the last moment. You can say this about the cyberpunk dystopia of Deus Ex: it is certainly well ventilated.
When Human Revolution came out in 2011, it seemed comically unlikely that a modern game could capture the magic of the originalDeus Ex, especially after that other game nobody talks about. And yet it did! It never quite rose to those lofty heights, but it somehow came out of the gate with that essential feeling intact, and it felt like a true accomplishment, a game that we had assigned to a rosy past come barreling through into the present. Most importantly, its success guaranteed more games, and it’s brought us to today.
And so that’s the good news: Mankind Divided feels like Human Revolution, in the best ways possible. It doesn’t bring much more to the table, but we’re as stocked with satisfying infiltration, high-minded philosophy and oddly charming gangsters as ever. The writing is not quite as strong as its predecessors, but the gameplay is there in spades, and fans of the older game will feel right at home. It’s got those takedown animations and the satisfying feeling you get by sliding open a well-hidden vent, and that’s pretty much all I needed here. Eidos Montreal has once again managed to not screw it up, which is no mean feat.
There are problems worth mentioning. The “mechanical apartheid” concept plays well only occasionally, and feels flippant at its worst. It’s a setup for a sequel, and those are never terribly satisfying on a narrative level. It lacks the globetrotting panache of either Deus Ex orHuman Revolution, and its focus on a single city makes everything play out a little smaller. On the other end of the spectrum, its loose and hard to follow narrative don’t quite deliver. At the end of the day, I didn’t fall quite as deep into this world as I did with those other two titles. Those are topics for later posts, but worth considering.
But did you like Human Revolution? Do you like the idea of explorable semi-sandboxes full of people to punch in the throat? Buy this game from G2A here or from Amazon:
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Pokémon GO Causes A Terrifying Stampede In Taiwan After Snorlax Appears
No, the people there aren't under attack. They are just trying to catch a pokemon.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Racist gamers are pissed that the hero of Ubisoft’s ‘Watch Dogs 2’ is a black hacktivist
The original Watch_Dogs followed a (purposefully) nondescript white man named Aiden Pearce as he hacked and hunted down members of the organization that killed his niece. Watch_Dogs 2, on the other hand, focuses on Marcus Holloway, a young black man originally from Oakland who becomes a legendary hacker after being wrongfully jailed by a crime prediction algorithm.
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In the hours after Ubisoft’s initial announcement, and over one million views on YouTube, fans of the franchise began to dissect the game ahead of Ubisoft’s official press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next week. Many expressed concern about whether the game’s graphics would be up to snuff, while others noted some of the narrative elements the game seemed to have in common with the USA series Mr. Robot.
Over on the forums for Steam, a streaming service through which people will be able to play the game this fall, though, nearly every single conversation about Watch_Dogs 2 was about Marcus’ race. In the now-closed thread titled “Shoehorned black character why can’t we be Aiden?” hundreds of disgruntled fans vented their frustrations about how “implausible” it would be for a black person to live in San Francisco.
“Look at the demographics of San Fran it would be more plausible if I played as a homo or an asian than some random black dude,” user MentholFox complained. “Considering they make up 6% of the population in SanFran fam.”
Most of the 45 page-long thread is chock full of different spins on the idea that black people somehow don’t make sense as protagonists in general, let alone tech-savvy heroes in the Bay Area. Even though the initial thread was locked down by Steam’s moderators, a number of other, slightly less explicitly racist threads sprang up over night.
A discussion about the necessity of character customizationbegan with a call to give players the ability to change Marcus’ race. Another thread—that insisted that it wasn’t trying to be racist—called for the death of “social justice warriors” fighting to make games politically correct. A handful of commenters made the very valid counterpoint that traditionally, gamers of color haven’t had the option to play as anything but white male characters and that Watch_Dogs 2 was a breath of fresh air.
“Sooooooo why is it that black people don’t care what character they’re playing, as long as the game is good and white people makes it seems like it the end of the world if the character is black,” user bigd, a black gamer, posted. “All this talk about gang bangers, don’t know how to use technology, thugs, and we are the problem.”
It’s true that San Francisco’s black population has been on a steady decline for the better part of the past 30 years. In 1970, black people accounted for just over 13% of the city’s residents. As of 2015, that number had dropped to just under 6%. But that’s part of what makes Marcus’ story so interesting.
Aiden Pearce was supposed to be the generic, cookie-cutter faceless white man we typically associate with expert hackers. That was his storyline and it’s done now. Marcus, by contrast, is the sort of social activist who seems tailor made for the age of #BlackLivesMatter.
It rings true that a black family living in the Bay Area might have been priced out of San Francisco and driven to settle down in Oakland and the idea of a young black man being profiled by a police pre-crime algorithm has very solid roots in reality. Racist gamers might not be on board with the story Marcus has to tell, but it’s exactly the sort story that more big-name game houses should be focusing more on.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Watch Dogs 2's Bounty Hunter mode will send online players to kill you
Watch Dogs 2 already had us interested with its technicolour upgrade to San Francisco and painfully cool hacking hero Marcus Holloway but the newly announced Bounty Hunter mode sounds like a lot of fun. Your version of San Fran is always connected to the wonderful world wide web, meaning plenty of interaction with other players. There's a PvP mechanic called online invasions that sees you hacking other hackers - who does hack the hackmen? - but the Bounty Hunter mode sounds the most exciting.
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If you kill too many innocent civilians in your quest to take the city for Dedsec your behaviour won't go unnoticed. Up to three players will be given a Bounty Hunt with your name on it and be sent in to take you down to earn XP. Running Man-style, if you can take them out instead of dying, you'll get even more loot. In a game that already sounds like its learned a lot from the far more sombre original, it's great to see even more new ways to play in this sunny sandbox. Hipster GTA 5? I'm totally in. Check out the online trailer below.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
My Favorite Overwatch Animated Short : “Hero”
This is my favorite Overwatch Animated Short. This animated short title is "HERO".
"Hero" follows the masked vigilante Soldier: 76 on a personal mission to Dorado where he's set to investigate the illegal activities of the Los Muertos gang—but an unexpected complication threatens to compromise his objective.
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OVERWATCH Gets Anime Style Opening And It's Amazing
I wouldn't just watch this. I'd Over watch this.
Song: Nano feat. My first story - Savior of Song from anime Arpeggio of Blue Steel
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