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Tom Orry, Editorial Director – PES 2017, PS4
I think I’ve missed having a football game to go to when I can’t decide what to play. FIFA 15 was the last one I played ‘properly’ but I chose to skip both FIFA and PES entries last year to try and free up time to play other things. PES 2017 seems pretty great so far and I’ve already smashed in some proper PES screamers. It’s a shame there’s no way to auto share a great goal to Twitter as I’m having to spend far too long messing about in the PS4’s picture and video sharing software. Classic gamer, that. The excellent tools available are never enough!
I also played Battlefield 1 for about five minutes. I spent longer than that trying to log into the servers (classic @VGTomO to try and play while they were down) and when I managed it, I was confronted with a UI that made less sense to me than the appeal of modern YouTubers. Still, I hear Dave bloody loves it…
Dave Scammell, News Editor – Battlefield 1 Open Beta, PS4
I was already a big Battlefield fan, but even I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying the Battlefield 1 beta. Sinai Desert seems a little hit and miss – a pretty decent map for snipers and tanks, but certainly not Battlefield’s best. But it’s the gunplay that’s the star, with the return to classic weapons offering a meaty punch against the modern/futuristic guns we’ve grown accustomed to in recent years. I was worried it might all feel a little too much like Battlefront, but no, I’m having a lot of fun with it, and oh my goodness it’s just struck me that it’s out in a little over six weeks.
Besides that, I’ve also been dipping back into Overwatch, although being put up against a team of level 90-somethings when you’ve only just hit 17 is a little more intimidating than it perhaps needs to be. It’s still a lot of fun, but for a game reliant on organised team play, the matchmaking can sometimes feel a little unfair. Oh, and while we’re on that subject, good grief, it takes a long time to level up in that game.
So there you go, two multiplayer shooters for me this week. And not even a tinge of Rainbow Six Siege…
Alice Bell, Junior Staff Writer – World of Warcraft: Legion, PC
I played WoW quite a lot a few years ago (mained Horde as a dot spec’d warlock, for anyone interested in specifics. I can’t take the pressure of playing an actual useful class i.e. healer or tank), mostly around the Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria expansions. I liked the whole giant panda thing they had going on there. This week my husband, who had played it for many years before I’d even met him – WoW being the only video game he really likes aside from Half Life 2 and, for an unknown reason given how different they are, Borderlands – bought the Legion expansion and started playing it again, chiefly because he’s been working late shifts and needed something to do when he was sat in the flat on his own in the mornings, because he goes even more peculiar otherwise. I was watching him play it and got the itch again, so I made a demon hunter, which is one of the new classes.
Demon hunters are pretty cool, it turns out. They’re a hero class, like Death Knights, so when you make a new one you start at level 98, although you need to already have a level 70 character on the server. You need to have put the hours in as it were. It was embarrassing because I’ve forgotten all the hot keys and controls, so I will never laugh at Dave for having forgotten how to play guitar ever again.
Demon hunters are outcast elves who were kicked out of being elves for using the nasty green magic powers of the legion. Their whole look is thus really cool, involving a lot of green and purple armour, and customisable horns and blindfolds and stuff. They get a unique starting area, too. The starting areas are always Blizzard’s best bit, because they pack them full of fun and/or cool stuff to do, so you get all invested in the game and feel good about dinging a bunch of levels in a row, and then you get to the actual game and realise it is mostly grinding and fetch quests. Legion seems alright, though. There are some huge battles early on that draw people from different servers and it’s all very epic. It’s got a lot of XP farming kind of events around it as well, so it’s a very active expansion. If you like WoW then you will like this. But if you like WoW you’ve probably already got it, so I dunno what to tell you.
My demon hunter is called Boaby, by the way. I thought you’d like that.
Steve Burns, Contrarian-in-Chief – PES 2017 demo
I’m off. Dead. For now, at least. The Mayor will return, but only after playing a lot of PES.
Anyway, listen. I should probably take this opportunity to say what a pleasure it has been to be at VideoGamer, and that our readers/fans/zealots/future assassins are the best in the world. Every site will say that, of course. But they are wrong, as they are on most things, the bastards.
Anyway. Let’s not get too sentimental here. See ya.
