If I didn't have a kid to entertain, I can well imagine myself playing six straight hours of this on Boxing Day. Now this feels like a Christmas game too - brainless but comic excess, silliness and slickness all at once. A big fat sale pushed this down to a truly bargainous $15. It's about the moment to moment experience, not any kind of end point. A certain sense that they already know exactly what it is, or consider its whirlwind of easy explosions somewhat throwaway, perhaps? I must admit, it's one of those games I just play for a bit, with absolute zero intention of ever seeing all of it. One of those games that I suspect is on many people's wish-lists but they won't commit to until the price is right. When I think about human society moving increasingly into darkness - fear and hate and anger and rejection - in 2016, I think too of how there don't seem to be anything like enough warm, Woodish voices any more. A voice I took for granted shockingly extinguished. Never the height of humour, for me, but very much the truth of it - the absurdities, big and small, of the British condition, fondness and cynicism all at once. The reality is that, after Bowie, it was Victoria Wood's passing which hit me hardest.Īnother figure who had always seemed to be there, someone of boundless warmth wrapped in no less necessary world-weariness. There was no shock to it, only sadness - and gratitude that, right up until almost the moment of his passing, he was still releasing superior albums. I have long adored Leonard, but for years his death has seemed like something that could happen any day now. Counter-Strike: Global Offensiveįor credibility's sake I want to claim that the celebrity death which hit me next-hardest was Leonard Cohen, but that simply isn't the case. Ten months on from release, Steam reviews are still "mixed", but jeez, what does that even mean anymore?ĪLSO I only just realised this was called King Of The Kill, not King Of The Hill. It was a mere ten bucks for a chunk of last week, which created enough critical mass to bring it back. H1Z1: King of the Killĭaybreak's battle royaley spin-off of what was initially intended to be a slice of DayZ mania makes an unexpected return to the charts because of, no surprise, a sale. Its innocence is a much-needed counter to all that murder.
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In any case, I am totally cool with Frontier's roller coaster builder being the PC success story of December 2016. Seems like a Christmas game somehow, doesn't it? Or maybe I'm just saying that because I once visited Universal Studios Florida mere days before Christmas. That aside, we're pretty keen on Astroneer - Oor Grahamy even claims that "Astroneer is the most promising and confident base for a game of this type I’ve seen in a long time." 3. Please seek others' visual comparisons between it and Astroneer if this concerns you). (Disclaimer: I did some writing for No Man's Sky. I've heard the No Man's Sky comparisons - fair enough, as both share resource-harvesting across proc-gen worlds, though I would have words with anyone who claims this looks even faintly as pretty.
Almost inevitably, it's a building and survival game that's in early access, as this is what The Infinite Thirst Of Modern PC Gamers seems to demand. AstroneerĪlways nice to see a new entry that hasn't been advertised on bus stops. The songs remain, somehow with more vitality than ever.
It remains so difficult to adjust to a reality without him. From singing along to space oddity on the way to school to in the late 80s to how embarrassing his Britpop-meets-jungle 90s comeback was, to how he looped back into credibility and importance during his post-Reality hiatus, Bowie was always around. I am well aware that there is no novelty to saying this, but such was the splendour of the man's music that it always felt so personal even when millions were listening to it. The celebrity death that hit hardest this year was Bowie. It's THE mosssssssst wonderful tiiiiiiiiiiiime ahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I wish I had a machinegun ho ho ho ahahaha, get stuffed 2016. It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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