Well, I think that’s all from the PC Gaming Show. Hope you’ve enjoyed it. I’ll add a few more trailers so do keep refreshing.
Alright old-timers, here comes Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios, which was announced recently. Larian got the rights to develop the classic D&D role-playing series, which is over 20 years old. All the iconic monsters, characters and places are in there apparently, and there are systems to allow emergent combat, just like a tabletop D&D experience.
There will also be a Baldur’s Gate 3 prequel tabletop game – it’s out in September and it’ll give players an idea of what’s happening in the world, which is set 100 years after Baldur’s Gate 2.
As yet though, Baldur’s Gate 3 has no release date.
Genesis Noir is an existential odyssey from Fellow Traveller, set during the Big Bang. The trailer is quite a thing – a monochrome film noir-esque confection with jazz soundtrack and Saul Bass references. It looks like you wander amongst the birthing planets, um… I don’t know. I’ll dig out the trailer and leave it to you.
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Now it’s Telling Lies from Annapurna Interactive and Sam Barlow, the creator of the brilliant CCTV thriller Her Story. Here, you watch video footage to piece together the story in which a woman has stolen an NSA memory stick showing footage of the game’s four characters. Something has gone horribly wrong and you have to work out what and why.
You can pick out certain words and phrases spoken by the characters, looking them up on an in-game database. It looks like footage is taken from fictitious video diaries and video phone messages. There’s a confessional Sex, Lies and Videotape feel to it all.
Players have to pick up on the subtext of each recording, listen out for names and places and start making links. Apparently there’s over ten hours of footage and the story encompasses two years of events.
Telling Lies is out “very soon” according to Barlow.
Yay, it’s time for Maneater, which was a highlight of last year’s PC Gaming Show. It’s an open-world shark RPG – you start as a baby shark (do do do do do doooo) and have to eat to survive. At key life phases you make a big jump in size and power and as that happens you can evolve parts of your body – for example, metal teeth and mutated lungs.
The trailer shows you stalking a boat load of hairy fishermen, causing havoc. Scaly Pete is the villain of the story – he’s the Quint of the game, a shark hunter. The story of the game is revealed through a reality TV show following Pete on his adventures.
‘GTA but you’re a shark’ is the elevator pitch. It’ll be out within a year.
Borderlands 3 is on stage now with questions from the community. The developers are adding lots of different grenades, unique class mods which give new skills, and artefacts which add to movement allowing you to slide faster, or adding explosions to sliding. As for end game content, there’s a Guardian system like the previous Bad Ass Ranks, which provides an infinite progression system.
Boss fights – there will be huge ones. There will be multiple huge vaults with giant bosses, as well as mini-bosses littered about. Multiplayer will allow participants to jump in at any time. Tiny Tina will be fighting alongside the vault raiders. The level limit will be 50. You’ll be able to transfer weapons between characters. I think that’s it.
A world exclusive reveal of CrisTales from Modus Games, a love letter to classic JRPGs. The visuals are beautiful and highly stylised. You can rewrite the past and change the future apparently. Will have to watch this again later as it’s lovely.
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Auto Chess from Chinese publisher Dragonest has been a success on mobile and now it’s coming to PC. It’s a chess-themed MOBA title coming to the Epic Store later this year.
Here’s Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, talking about his new title, Ancestors, which is about the evolution of the human race – so not particularly ambitious then. You play modern humankind’s predecessors and must guide a clan through dangerous landscapes and lots of predators. There’s no story, there are no mini-maps, you’re just trying to survive and evolve. It’s out 27 August.
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Okay so after a reveal for Vermin Tide 2, the fantasy co-op game, we move onto Per Aspera where you play as an AI orbiting Mars charged with terraforming the planet so humans can live on it.
Admittedly I missed most of the Songs of Conquest trailer because I was having a little cry, but it’s a fantasy strategy adventure where you gather resources to build up your town, then take part in turn-based battles. The Heroes of Might and Magic series has been a major influence.
He’s here to talk about Shenmue 3 which was recently delayed. He says thank you to the fans for supporting him for over 20 years. You’re welcome Suzuki-san.
Okay, it’s a world exclusive look at the game! We start with a grand master telling Ryo his kung fu isn’t strong enough. They spar in lovely detail. Then we get our hero running through a beautifully intricate small town, fighting local gangsters. The dialogue is classic Shenmue. My heart is bursting. It’s out 19 November!
Thank you, Yu Suzuki!
Oh my god, Yu Suzuki is on stage – the genius behind Outrun, Hang-On and Virtua Fighting. *Sega fanboy faints*
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