![]() ![]() I get the feeling that they accidentally made it, with the team laughing it up at an April Fools' meeting, giggling and pointing at the artist's monitor, guffawing at the web-page, high-fiving at the trailer, and then their boss asked what they've been doing for the past week and panic sets in.Īnd because of that, I can now skree through the streets of Kavala with a wheezy, over-steering go-kart in a game about Maximum Warface.Īctually, Bohemia is doing an interesting thing with their DLC, attempting to avoid community splits by giving premium content away for free, and advertising it to players who haven't yet paid for it. A similar thing has just happened with Arma 3, which just turned the Arma 3: Go Karts gag into actual, paid-for content. It started life as an April Fools gag and somehow crossed the barrier of joke and into the realms of man. Valve released a jar of piss for TF2, and the years in-between have somehow normalised the notion of an assassin soaking a target in urine. You probably remember that some of this stuff existed, but you probably forgot it was odd. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. I wonder how many design meetings were needed to decide on the flavour of the fish? Star Citizen won't be the first game to feature incongruous, odd items for sale, and it won't be the last, but it is the reason I chose to poke around. The tentacles on the head allow the fish to dig through the loose rock and soil. "Vindel: Generally found in shallow water, this species of fish feeds on waste and algae that collects at the bottom of rivers. It's the decoration section, and I found myself clicking on 'Fishtank', because if you're making a game about space and carefully designed, systemic ships, then the top priority for the community is a place to keep their fish. For real, folding money, you can buy better ships that cost more than the combined costs of the desk I'm writing at and the seat I'm sitting on.īut further into the shop, at the back, behind 'upgrades' to entirely virtual purchases, there is another store that takes United Earth Credits-credits that backers have but can also be purchased with real world money. I was aware that the game allowed people to buy other ships and upgrade, so perhaps there was an upgrade that let me control and see the game I'd paid for? I wandered into the store, feeling like a vagrant at a muscle car shop. I'd tried out my pre-order ship in the Arena Commander alpha, and was less than impressed with its awkward over-steering and a cockpit that showed more window frame than space. When I first pitched this feature, it was because I'd visited the Star Citizen shop. I've been on a boutique call, ahahahahahahaha! I've been looking through games catalogues and hunting down the sort of DLC that could be described as 'boutique'. ![]() An outlet for the stuff that gets cleared from the whiteboard for being too off message, or too niche. DLC-well some of it-feels like the passion projects that don't fit into the canon. Games are increasingly serious business, with huge budgets and a cast amount of public scrutiny. There's a lot of DLC out there, ranging from the mundane to the insane, and I think I know why. The correct answer is that each has been digitised and reformed-Weird Science style-into your games as DLC. Washington and Snoop aren't mentioned in that. What do Hitler, Snoop Dogg, George Washington, and Shakespeare have in common? If you said they all appear in Rik Mayall's autobiography Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ*, you're wrong. ![]()
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