Fifteen years ago, a game that could not be fully passed, although some managed to complete the main quest in eight minutes. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind For many, it remains a standard role -playing game with the best of the fantasy worlds. It is not just rich in content – it is littered with this content so that only the most persistent could get to the bottom of the lower layers. She is harsh to impatient beginners, almost does not give intelligible instructions and allows you to do everything, up to the total extermination of the entire population of Tamriel. And she also looks terrible by current standards.

Those who at one time did not get acquainted with this cult game, we advise doing this with apprehension and reservations. You can start, for example, with our review (video below). Or from a trip to Morovind, which very soon can be made in an online role -playing game The Elder Scrolls Online.

The entrance is free

Giant mushrooms-ruins-Vvardenfell's business card. However, standard mushrooms here are also in abundance.

A new large -scale addition Morrowind will appear in the game in early June. In the meantime, it passes the laid -stand on the test server. There we go to see what was happening in Tamriel seven hundred years before the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

The demigod himself is quite democratic, a crowd of adventurers is always stomping in his chambers, and the guard does not drive anyone in a mutual.

When a new territory appears on the studied map of the world, you usually can not do without questions: but how to get there? In this regard, the birthplace of the dark elves Vartenfell does not create problems. Freshly built characters get here automatically, you just have to end the fuss with a traditional educational shoot from a dungeon. And high-level heroes receive an “invitation” quest and can be teleported directly to the sanctuary next to the fishing village of Seydinin.

Production accidents were? But how not to be!

Perhaps I will explain: yes, there are levels in the game, they do not apply only special restrictions. Five minutes ago, a created hero and a veteran playing from the first day can travel on the world on equal terms, perform the same quests, fight the same monsters. Just the difficulty of testing and a reward for them adjust to the level of the player.

In the city of Suran, we delve into the history of the local version Robin Hood.

Therefore, even on a traditionally poorly loaded test server on the streets of Seyd-Nin and Suran, in the vicinity of the residences of the great houses and even next to the camps lost in the depths of the continent, you can always meet players mastering new territories. And there will be a crowd on game servers, like at a rock festival.

And many tourists will not arrive alone, but accompanied by a manual bear.

Ice short fur coat and mushroom fields

How to teach a presumptuous magician? With the help of cats and alchemy!

The new class of Warden, a defender of nature joined them in the regiment of the heroes of Tamriel:. The significance of this event is revealed by a simple fact: since April 2014, the game lived with four classes, and only now, three years later, there were five of them.

This is not to say that the meager choice of classes greatly limited the players. Teso has a very flexible character development system, and the overall build consists of a number of branches. “The race” is “in offset”, the guild, the weapon taken and the reliable armor, special conditions like vampirism and the abilities of Werewolf, global skills and even craft skills. And only one of the terms becomes the actual class branch of skills. Therefore, two sorcerers or templars can differ more from each other than a warrior from the paladin.

What Tamriel without love couples, who, well, do not agree without our help!

And the defender of nature three class sets make it possible to turn into a “tank”, a doctor or an adept of distant battle. Or creatively mix skills in the name of complete universality.

Animal Companions branch gives the defender the opportunity to call assistants on the battlefield, make up for a supply of magic and increase the speed of movement. It is this branch that gives the defender of the faithful guard, the bear – the truth is, in order to call it, you will first have to open a special skill. Over time, Grisli can be made almost immortal: the skill of calling you are free to modify so that the killed guard is instantly revived.

A variety of ghostly animals become the side of the defender with abilities to damage: purple jellyfish, blue sharks, curses of bees and predatory falcons. These abilities are one of the most picturesque in the game, and they are accompanied not only by neat special effects, but also with sounds and animation.

If the hero suddenly covered with ice, then the defender ran past the “tank” branch. This is a useful "short fur coat", protective.

The second branch, Green Balance, allows the defender to appeal to the protective and healing forces of nature. Instantly growing mushrooms, flowers, vines and entire groves of trees treat the associates and the defender itself, and passive abilities restore the reserves of magic and endurance, and also increase the maximum health reserve of members of the group.

Finally, the defender can appeal to the elements of the ice and turn into a non -wounded block. The Winter’s Embrace branch puts the group into ice armor, calls frosty winds that heal the defender, and sink enemies to the place.

The closest look to the classic "Mordovonda" of the surroundings of the Red Mountain. Somehow they just look very simple in comparison with neighboring locations.

The defender who missed the training level with the choice of weapons is born armed with onions. But at the first opportunity, the bulk of the people changes the bow to the staff – destructive or healing. And those who like the element of ice are armed with shield and sword and dress in heavy armor. Although this is not necessary at all, because the game encourages any non -standard approach to building a build. In any case, to the highest levels and complex dungeons.

The defender of nature will also not give himself offense. Ice spears hurt the enemy, and after improvement they can also slow down it.

Living God to help

Vardenfell was not so big, perhaps, in scale, he is inferior to the syrodil. But in attention to the details and in the "manual dressing", the territories are superior to other areas of local Tamriel.

Massive Grisli, satellites of the defenders, instantly create a crowd in any room. But do not interfere with puzzles.

Those who wandered around the paths of the cult “Mordovind” for hours and years will feel like at home here. Almost. Nevertheless, we get here seven hundred years before yesterday's prisoner went from Seyd-Nin to Balmore with a mysterious package for Kai's Kosades.

The suburbs of Vivek will not soon become the same as in the "Mordovond".

The city of Vivek has not yet been completed, its surroundings are dotted with construction forests, and on some of the familiar islands, bridges have not yet been erected. In the place of some familiar villages, we find at best the camps, and the Red Mountain has not yet turned into an impregnable fortress. But everything else, starting with a map and ending with small animals jumping in the grass, is unequivocally recognizable. Up to the local intercity message using long -legged "fleas".

Canonical "flea"-hollitzoder, local transport. Her wild brothers will meet us in the surrounding mountains and plow us with acid.

Porters of Seydinin will become the first settlement on the map of new heroes.

Designers inspired and carefully suffered in 2017, but the spirit of the old game. Take at least the "waiting doors". We read about them in the in -game book "Ancestors and Duners", and now these doors appeared in the abode of great houses and in rich city mansions.

In all territories of additions, we will be held by a whole set of new quests. I must say that the quests in The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind is quite in the spirit of the original. None of the oncoming quests will tell us anything similar to "kill the heels of the boars, soldiers are starving". And if he says, then we will go to the habitat of the wild boars only to find out that they disappeared somewhere, and strange traces lead to the nearest gangster camp, but the bandits are captured that they did not see any wild boars, they themselves then someone regularly stucks in the night, and the ends do not find … Of course, all this was invented for example, so as not to spoil the pleasure. Each insignificant quest here unfolds into an exciting multi -part story with surprises, dangers, tests, puzzles and even the opportunity to sometimes make a choice.

So did we imagine Vvardenfell fifteen years ago, looking at the modest textures of "Mordorovind"?

But, of course, the unprecedented level of freedom, shocking in Mordovond, should not be expected. Still, the game is online, although many "pass" it as an ordinary single -user role. It is possible to show creative inclinations and apply non -standard approaches to tasks here only within limited limits. And the supply of tasks itself is small, although it is difficult to evaluate, because some of the side quests on the test server are not turned on, and also part is impassable due to game errors.

Dwemer ruins in Vvardenfell do not look quite like the rest of Tamriel. For this area they were redrawn again, in accordance with the canon.

Catch an ax!

The unfinished version does not allow us to judge which direction the game balance will shift. Small editing is almost daily. But it is safe to say that lovers to collect weapons and armor will have to think about a place in the warehouse. Only Setov in the addition “falls” a dozen “falls”, and in addition to them, as trophies and quest awards, you can get a breakthrough of the new equipment. And about five sets are mined on the battlefields.

What is a battlefield? Funny brawl with three warring parties.

PVP enthusiasts spent all past years in the syrodile, on a vast territory with bases and fortresses of three factions. Now, in Teso, the battlefields with the classic regimes “King of the Mountain”, Deathmatch and “The capture of the flag” have come. It’s easy to get there, getting up in line, they just don’t let them choose: where it will be not easy to bring, and it will bring it there.

The mode, where three teams of four people try to kill a friend as many times as possible, turned out to be really funny and dynamic. However, it differs little from standard Deathmatch in any other game, except for the type of temporary amplification: to get it, you need to track down and grab a red ghostly ax.

The one who "caught an ax" dresses in a dark red hulahup. It is better to stay away from him until the amplification falls.

But the “capture of the flag” is not working catastrophically. All three key points are located very close to each other, and in fact it turns out the usual brawl. It is worth one of the teams to capture the flag, as “on a light” immediately resort to the other two and instantly beat him off. It is unlikely that the days remaining before the release Bethesda It will extend the boundaries of the card, but perhaps something will still be able to do at least with the time of capture and notification.

Other screenshots from The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind

In order not to be disappointed in addition to Morrowind, you do not have to wait for it that it will miraculously turn out to be a remake of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. And generally evaluating it as an independent game does not make sense. This is just an addition to the online role -playing game, moreover, completely not large -scale: one region, one class, field fields and a story campaign for a https://sister-site.org/richprize-casino/ dozen hours plus side effects.

But believe me: you will spend this ten hours in great places and in an interesting company. After all, where else do you manage to tame the shark and help real demigod?

Technical characteristics

Acoustic type: Soundbar + subwoofer * Power: 4x 40 W (speakers) + 200 W (subwoofer) * Frequency range: no data * Connectors: 3.5 mm Jack, S/PDIF (optical), hdmi-in, hdmi-out, Lan * Wireless modules: Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0 * Additionally: Remote control, LG Music Flow system, support Dolby Digital, DTS * Dimensions: 106×5.3×8.5 cm (soundbar), 17.1x32x25.2 (subwoofer) * Weight: 2.8 (soundbar) + 4.5 kg (subwoofer) * The price of September 2016: 23,000 rubles ($ 350)

Today we have an unusual type of acoustics on tests – soundbar LG SH7B.

In the editorial office he was for two reasons. First – we are frankly tired of looking for a place for classic sets 2.0 and 2.1. Second – we also got a bunch of wires. And if in the case of the computer the problem is not so great-you just need to display an extra half a meter of the countertop and add four more cables to this ball, then in the case of a TV and a projector (as well as the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One), it costs much more acute. The speakers must be hung on the wall and imperceptibly bring the cables to them, and even if we are talking about a system of https://sister-site.org/ninewin-casino/ type 5.1 – this is, if according to the mind, also fuck the walls, and the wallpaper is re -pacing!

We decided to look for the options easier and ordered for the Soundbar test.

LG SH7B

Acoustics supply set is worthy. In a pretty box, we found a lan-wire, an optical cable, instructions, wall mounts, a remote control and columns themselves. The latter in our case two. The first is the soundbar itself, the second is a small subwoofer.

Imagine that in a 42-inch TV someone pulled a strip of a couple of centimeters and beautifully designed it. Introduced? This is SH7b. A long plastic box, covered in front with a metal grate and decorated with silver inserts on the sides. Strict, stylish and, as it turned out, very convenient.

Installation rules

Finding for the soundbar is the right place is easier than for a couple of classic columns. He fits perfectly on the table in front of the monitor, looks harmonious under any TV and even conveniently located under the screen of the projector. It’s easier to hang it on the wall. Pierced four holes with a perforator, screwed two complete brackets and screwed the soundbar to them. And you do not need to buy shelves, and the correct installation angles do not have to calculate.

Perhaps the only thing that is not enough for SH7b is some advanced legs of the legs. If the column is placed on the shelf, then it looks clearly ahead, and not at you. Of course, simple stands can be attached to yourself, on the bottom of the case for this it was as if to deliberately left a lot of technical holes, but I would like to see this in the standard configuration.

But in terms of switching, SH7B bypasses any classic stereopar. Ideally, she needs one wire – thin nutrition, like a laptop. Sources? This is generally a separate song.

Connect

You can do without wires at all and limit yourself to built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The last one here, however, is for a checkmark. The column is able to pick up the home router, but access to it opens only from a computer, phone or tablet, and even then exclusively through the LG Music Flow application. And it does not work very stably, and supports only music services, Google Cast and YouTube. In general, the idea with Wi-Fi, albeit sound, but not very alive.

But Bluetooth does not cause problems at all. It clings to any device, works steadily in an overloaded Wi-Fi-net apartment and, most importantly, copes with films and clips perfectly. We specifically checked – no resinchronization neither with the usual Media Player Classic, nor with YouTube. With games, however, not everything is smooth – the sound is lagging behind the picture. Not so much, but many will annoy many. Exit? Use the wire.

And here the soundbar again puts most classic stereos on the shoulder blades and offers a standard 3.5 mm jack, optical entrance and a pair of hdmi-in/out. That is, if you go the easiest way, then three sources can be connected by wires at once.

However, in the TV-Consol-TV-Setavka-Media-player system, it is much more interesting to do with one cable. The TV can be used as a receiver and connected to it by HDMI all sources, and the sound to the soundbar should be displayed either through one HDMI (TV must support the HDMI CEC/ARE function), or by a more common optics. And if the TV is relatively new, then you can control the volume of the soundbar from the TV panel. Comfortable? Not the same word!

By the way, about the management. On the column itself, right in the center, there is a small display. And from behind, on the left,-power, switching sources, Wi-Fi and the key to connect additional speakers (more than that below). For everything else, there is a small remote control, it is more convenient and more functional. Actually, from it you can choose one of the stops of the equalizer, turn on the Mute mode and independently adjust the frequencies.

About the main thing

Now let's move on to the main thing – sound. There are four speakers in the soundbar itself. Two high and the same amount of medium-frequency. There is a small subwoofer from MDF. It is made interesting. He only needs a food wire, and the sound comes to it through the air. In other words, a submarine can be put anywhere in the room. This does not affect the overall sound of the system, since low frequencies are not determined in the space.

As for the quality of the sound, it can be approached from different sides. With one – a comparable price of a classic stereoPar sounds more abruptly. On the other, this does not mean that Sh7b plays badly. Vice versa.

In films, this acoustics literally explodes the brain and passes fiery greetings to all neighbors on the nearest pair of floors. The soundbar literally turns the room into a small cinema hall. Explosions, purely film “tagging” effects, shootings, deliberately highlighted voices of heroes – all this fills the room and creates an amazing effect, which is very difficult to achieve from ordinary acoustics.

In the games, the impressions are not so bright, but here the question is more likely to sound engineers who obviously lose their movie colleagues. But in games it is much more acutely felt how cool the soundbar positions sounds. It is not possible to determine which side is simply impossible. And if desired, the system can be turned into a full-fledged surround compartment. If you buy a couple of wireless speakers from the Musicflow series (from 3500 rubles apiece), the soundbar will pick them up and will use them as rear speakers. True, for this, the sound will have to be carried through the cable – either by HDMI, or by optics.

And finally – a couple of words about playing music. Here, unfortunately, there is nothing to boast of sh7b. The sound is decent, but there is no question of superode or taking high and medium frequencies for the soul – for the perfect reproduction the soundbar lacks neither the size of the case itself, nor the size of the speakers. In addition, a narrow focus of the column is still imposed, designed for a clearly sitting in the center of the viewer.

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This does not spoil the overall impression. The soundbar fully met all expectations. He saves a bunch of places, much easier in installation than ordinary speakers, and, in the case of specifically, our model needs a much smaller number of wires. Our opinion is the perfect option for a home theater and consoles. We recommend.

Brad Pitt, the world -famous Hollywood actor and defender of children from third world countries, acquired the rights to film adaptation Dark VOID long before the release of the game. A short -sighted step. Obviously, his attention was attracted by the words “parallel worlds”, “Nazis” and “Nikola Tesla”, which the developers persistently pushed into every fresh press release. If Pitt were more patient and waited for the release of the game, he might have changed his mind and hurriedly lost the right to some other caretaker for the future of African youth. For example, Bono.

Horizontal

Although at first Dark Void does not betray himself. It all starts with the fact that shortly before the Second World War, pilot William Gray suddenly meets his former lover at the airfield and does not come up with anything better than bringing her to the Bermuda triangle. There, a flying saucer unexpectedly cuts the plane there, which is why it stalls the engines and half the fuselage falls off with the signalman.

We have to make an emergency landing in the jungle, where strange people are already waiting for heroes in gas masks, a tribe of suspicious savages, Nikola Tesla and hordes of aggressive robots. Subsequently, it turns out that people in gas masks call themselves survivors and have been waging a war with observers for many years-a race of reasonable either lizards, or slugs, long ago exposed from the Earth, not in the extent of the delayed humanity. Observers want a revenge, but on the island where Willa's plane collapsed, there is a portal in a parallel world, an abyss, from where persistent aliens climb.

Dark Vood belongs to that category of games, the creators of which did not have enough experience and talent to discern an invisible line that separates stupidity from genius. Formally, with such a tie, it was possible to organize at least a high -quality action movie, and at the maximum – an epic blockbuster with healthy elements of a madhouse. But Airtight Games , Even without blinking with an eye, parallel worlds, ancient prophecies, flying saucers, intelligent lizards, fascists, prime minister of France and the unfortunate Tesla (who has nothing to do with) has nothing to do with it).

Moreover, they mixed in incorrect proportions: the most colorful heroes like Tesla and Nazis remain almost behind the scenes, the prophecies cause inappropriate associations with the “matrix”, and the focus is boring whispering observers, a vulgar love story, as well as a compulsory wise black college. So that with such initial data (jetpaks, fascists, flying saucers!) make such a boring story – we must try. Now all hope is perhaps on Brad Pitt.

Somewhere I already saw it

If you look closely, it will become clear that many ideas authors Dark Void borrowed from their much more experienced colleagues. Below are several characteristic examples

Vertical

If you discard the delusional plot, then Dark VOID can be divided into two parts: before an improved missile satchel falls into William's hands, and after. The part that “before” is best to slip with eyes closed, because everything that is in it has already seen about one hundred thousand times in other computer militants, and there https://sister-site.org/black-magic-casino/ it was realized at a much higher level.

While William runs on his two, he has to press his back to shelters and shoot cyborgs, which, it seems, forgot to update the software, they behave so stupidly. By the way, the promised “vertical gameplay” appears, which the developers were so proud of – it turns on in moments when the hero needs, for example, climb a steep rock. As it turned out, the vertical war from the horizontal differs only in that the dead enemies do not settle to the ground, but beautifully fly away somewhere behind the main character. In a word, this part of the game is ideally described by the phrase “action with shelters”, which recently, it seems, has become obscene.

Fortunately, foot episodes end about an hour after the start of the game. As soon as William receives Jetpak and goes to the abyss, Dark Vood sharply changes the pace and transforms before his eyes. Instead of stuffy Aztec catacombs – large open spaces, sluggish shooting from shelters is replaced by fierce air battles. Finally appears adrenaline, drive, dynamics-all that good modern action is impossible without. The impression spoils only the terrible flight control with the mouse (play with the gamepad if you want to save your nerves).

William's reactive engine can operate in two modes. The first allows, like an iron person, to rush at great speed and shoot lizards from a large -caliber machine gun (and a little later – missiles). The hero at the same time, spitting on overloads, can spin the barrel, leaving the enemy fire, or almost instantly turn around 180 degrees. In the second mode, Will slowly soars above the ground and shoots enemies from standard hand weapons. It is allowed to move from one state to another at any time, although the real need for this arises only a few times per game.

The hare above the abyss

During the passage, the idea was constantly pursued that the developers were not enough just a little so that Dark Void received a pass to the Premier League-as if they themselves could not decide what they wanted to see their game. Imagine how great it would be if the emphasis was to combine various operating modes of a rocket satchel! Imagining this is actually very easy, because there are such episodes in the game.

When they give us freedom of choice, the game blooms. You first repel the Air Air Air Air Force Air Forces; Then you rush to the other end of the card and majestically descend to the head of the enemy landing, pouring it with fire; You climb to the dominant height and destroy ground forces on the other side of the base with sniper shots; Then you accelerate and achieve the remnants of enemy aircraft. Here it is, a real vertical gameplay! It was him, and not climbing rocks from the first half of the game, it was necessary to flaunt. The problem is that there are exactly two such episodes, during the rest of the time you are either in the sky, where it makes no sense to fly slowly, either in catacombs and at enemy bases, where it is quickly dangerous to fly for health.

Or take the bosses. Bosses in good action should be large. And in Dark Void, this unwritten rule is diligently implemented. When the whole colony of the survivors swallows a giant worm, you expect at least a tense battle for freedom, but in fact a miserable creature cowardly spits out a rebellious dinner just a couple of minutes after the start of the fight.

There is an excellent mission in the protection of the same colony (this, if that, such a huge transport ship) that is fleeing from observers along some canyon. Attacks follow one after another, in the way, in addition to the enemy’s manpower, anti -aircraft guns and mines come across, the equipment in the walkie -talkie yell about the fire on board and the accelerators failed, the teeth reduces from stress – everything is as it should. At the climax from the bottom of the abyss, the hefty combat cruiser of the enemy pops up. And what do you think? It is worthwhile to steal four distribution shields with wires, as a terrible ship rolls to one side and falls where it flew a minute ago.

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Dark Vood is the game of the second echelon, but despite a huge number of shortcomings, it is able to deliver a lot of positive emotions. It is felt that it was created by no means mediocre people who had at least a few interesting ideas in stock. Who or what prevented the developers from making a truly cool game-a separate question. Perhaps they were the Nazis. Or Nikola Tesla. Or Negro Coldun. Be that as it may, if you have several free hours in reserve – it is certainly worth playing in Dark VOID, especially since the game does not take a lot of time.

TRANSLATION: Recently, cases have become more frequent when phrases that should not be in it. Here, however, no one swore behind the scenes and does not confuse words, but still occasionally the heroes begin to speak in pure English, not embarrassed by the inscriptions “completely in Russian” in the box. Fortunately, this happens only a couple of times per game.

Otherwise, the localization turned out to be worthy: a competently translated menu, the normal selection of actors (William was especially successful) and the lack of critical errors will not allow you to feel a tangible difference between the English and Russian versions.

Reigracy – No

Cool plot – No

Originality – No

Easy to master – Yes

Evidence of expectations: 60%

Gameplay: 6

Graphics: 6

Sound and music: 7

Interface and management: 6

Waited? A game about flying on a reactive satchel and the struggle of earthlings with reasonable lizards from a parallel world. Sounds better than it looks.

Mania rating: 6.5

"Above the average"

Localization: 2/3

Games for Necstgen just started to exit, and among them one failure was already found-this Godfall , which critics and users are actively scolding for nullity and monotony. It is noteworthy that all these claims could be predicted long before the release: the first trailer had already impressed few, and the subsequent demonstrations only convinced that nothing outstanding was worth expecting from the game.

On this occasion, we decided to recall other loud projects, in the failure of which analysts and ordinary players were confident before the exit. This list could be huge, but we decided so far to limit ourselves to six points – and recall the most egregious cases. Well, if the topic comes in, then we will release the second part.

Anthem

At the time of the announcement https://sister-site.org/royal-oak-casino/ in Anthem , previously known by code name Dylan, few believed. Just because few people believe BioWare : the once great studio was already only a shadow of itself the same. The founders and veterans scattered where, and the brilliant reputation was soaked Dragon Age II , Final Mass Effect 3 , controversial "Inquisition" And very failed Mass Effect: Andromeda. To correct the situation, the company needed a guaranteed hit. And she showed something strange and completely not characteristic of herself: a luter-player with MMO elements, most similar to Destiny. And if Bungie With her vast experience in the militants, two attempts were required for the normal implementation of the idea, what the chances of this field had BioWare? In addition, the presentation did not sound almost a word about the plot, about the characters or about freedom of choice – in a word, about everything that the studio deserved just folk love. Like Electronic Arts I threw random developers to the project, without taking into account their strengths and weaknesses.

The result was predictable – although Anthem did not become a catastrophe of the Andromeda level, you can’t call it successful. It was exactly the game that skeptics awaited: monotonous post -shooters with senseless grind and empty Endheim. The plot campaign came out more or less decent, but at its end to do in Anthem there was simply nothing. BioWare hoped that the project would live for about ten years, and the people fled before the first big update. Now the game seems to be going to restart, but I believe in this adventure everything is as hard.

Marvel’s Avengers

The sad story is recent "Avengers" So similar to the story of Anthem that it becomes terrible: is it really not anyone in the industry at all on other people's mistakes? Again, a studio, which always made purely single games with an emphasis on the plot and research of the world ( Crystal Dynamics I became famous thanks to the series Tomb Raider ), harnessed to the development of a cooperative action movie. Again, the publisher optimistically announces many years of support with a bunch of content. And again, the first demonstration of gameplay causes the public a loud “and what?". Almost twenty minutes heroes Marvel They knock out dust from opponents, and it looks … tedious. Especially after all that we were shown in the last film about the Avengers.

Already after the first story trailer shown on E3 2019, they began to look at the project askance, and the subsequent beta confirmed the fears: nothing has changed dramatically over the year. It is not surprising that after the release of Marvel’s Avengers, the fate of Anthem was exactly the same: the players passed the plot campaign, looked for the sane endheim, did not find it-and fled before the first major update. As a result, the publishing house Square Enix Already now reports on losses of $ 62 million.

Fallout 76

Run to Fallout With friends – the childhood dream of many fans of RPG. There were a lot of attempts to make it: there are fan development and attempts InterPlay , and all sorts of projects-feeding Fallen Earth. But, it seems, for most players, these fantasies remained so in the zero – in the era of the heyday of MMO. Therefore, when Bethesda I presented it Fallout 76 , Few have experienced at least something close to delight. Instead of him there was a bewilderment: and this is generally what? Online mode for the fourth part? Royal battle? Some kind of spin-off? Full Mmorpg?

Forever tanned PR man Bethesda Pete Hinns did not give a clear answer. As it turned out later, neither he nor the developers themselves, in principle, knew him: Fallout 76 was going on the go, testing and errors.There are many mistakes. And even the confidently optimistic speech of Todd Howard on E3 was able to convince that something really worthwhile was being prepared for the release. Well, Beta dispelled the latest doubts: it was not even that the first users, instead of a normal game, was waiting for a cemetery of raw code, but that Fallout 76 was empty and dull. And, despite all the efforts of the developers, there is still such.

Metal Gear Survive

Unlike cinema, there are not so many copyright series in the gaming industry. Really come to mind Kingdom Hearts Tatsui Nomura, not very popular with us Dragon Quest Yuji Khoria, and of course, Metal Gear Hideo Kojima. For the saga about the Snake of Kodzima – Alpha and Omega: he is a screenwriter, and a director, and a game designer, and producer, and shove, and reaper, and on the Duda player. Not one, even the most seedy, the spin-off of the series did not do without his supervision. So after the dismissal of Kojima from Konami It was clear to everyone that Metal Gear was over.

Everyone except Konami itself. Indeed, the franchise is not to disappear! What is there now in fashion for youth? Games about survival? Zombie? Here, so we hang all this on the skeleton Mgs v -Someone will buy.

To some extent, it even worked: if you read the reviews on Steam today, it turns out that Metal Gear Survive I found my audience. That, for the most part, is not demanding, and the adventures of Solid and the Big Boss know about the adventures of Solid only in vile. But for those who appreciate their time and love the original Metal Gear series, the game was predictably spitting in the soul.

Daikatana

History Daikatana It is necessary to repeat it again and again, until it becomes parables for young and ambitious developers: so that they know what pride leads to and how it is not worth promoting their creation.

In the nineties, John Romero was one of the largest figures in the gaming industry. He helped create the first two parts Doom , He headed the development Quake , But, more importantly, it was he who shone in the press and talked about all these projects. While the brilliant programmer John Karmak and other employees ID Software They just made games, Romero collected cream and behaved like a rock star. Well, when he was still pushed from the company, he began to spin his own-with the pathos name Ion Storm. A hefty office was rented in Austin, where there was a fountain, a billiard table and arcade machines: all conditions to create masterpieces. And the first of them was to be a revolutionary action movie Daikatana , that translated from Japanese means "big sword".

Romero announced his Magnum Opus on E3 1997, promising to let him go to the nearest Christmas. And this was either a arrogant lies or reckless optimism, because Daikatana was still very far from the end. On the contrary, the game only changed the engine, as a result of which the development began, in fact, from scratch. In the same 97th, probably the worst poster in the history of advertising was born into the world. The one on which in large letters was written: "John Romero will make you with his bitch". Well, the game designer wanted attention, and he got it – only now he had nothing to present. The game was made for a long time and painfully: on every next E3 both Romero and Daikatana looked more and more sorry. Finally, when in 2000 the militant still saw the light, the audience emitted a sigh of relief. As everyone expected, it turned out garbage: a mediocre shooter with stupid blanks as partners and ridiculous left-room design. After such a career, the co -founder of the ID Software predictably flew downhill.

Duke Nukem Forever

But okay Daikatana – she lingered for only three years. This, of course, is a lot, but almost nonsense in comparison with the production hell through which Duke Nukem Forever , To end up in a failure. Thirteen years of development. Thirteen! Shifts of studios, changing engines, changing generations … We will not even try to retell this long, tragic saga about broken fates, buried quarries and one killed franchise – it is worthy of a whole novel. The bottom line is that Duke Nukem Forever should not have exit in principle. She should remain an unfulfilled dream, one of many closed projects with great potential.

But for some reason they decided to bring the game to the release at all costs-although it was obvious that it was more than once outdated both technically and morally. Sincere expectation in the hearts of the players came a malicious curiosity: with what roar this miracle will fail? In the summer of 2011 it turned out that with the big. Everyone made fun of the poor Duke Nyukem – and journalists, bloggers, and former fans of the series. Although everyone perfectly understood that after thirteen years of torment he had not a single chance of a different fate.

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