By Adam Smith on November 29th, 2011 at 4:33 pm.
Arrowhead tell us that Magicka: The Stars Are Left should be available at online stores later today and to herald the alignment of the code, here is a pleasing video. The familiar robed figures are present but the combination of Lovecraftian and noir stylings makes them all the more entertaining, even if they’re not accidentally blowing one another to wizbits. Before the release of the DLC the game engine received what is described as a “major overhaul”. I haven’t had a chance to test that out yet, though I will be trying out this blasphemous content as soon as I get my claws on it.
It’s the second live action thing today that you are allowed to enjoy, apart from actual things happening in front of your eyes in a non pre-recorded fashion. Oh, I suppose if you really want you can watch and enjoy Double Indemnity later on. Maybe even another film of your choice, but make sure to run it by me first.
29/11/2011 at 16:39 Emmanuel says:
This Games looks really good but I don’t understand the meaning of the trailer.
http://www.newlyreleasedgamesreview.com
29/11/2011 at 19:17 iniudan says:
Magicka trailer never had meaning they are all parody where all the character are wizard and where some form of sausage appear except in the early infomercial trailer.
29/11/2011 at 22:27 Dances to Podcasts says:
He’s a spambot. He only makes generic random comments. I’m amazed he hasn’t been banned yet.
30/11/2011 at 10:35 sneetch says:
Yeah, it’s odd that RPS does nothing about him especially as they’re apparently stealing RPS articles lock, stock and barrel on the site he’s spamming.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/batman-arkham-city/
http://www.newlyreleasedgamesreview.com/pc/batman-arkham-city/
Basically don’t go there, it seems to be just a slimy google trap intended to spam ads for miracle weight loss “secrets” that “local moms” discover and big companies apparently don’t want you to know.
30/11/2011 at 13:56 max pain says:
Ban the sinner!
29/11/2011 at 16:42 simonh says:
Classic sound effect when he opens the book!
30/11/2011 at 09:11 Jekhar says:
Stonekeep ftw!
29/11/2011 at 16:43 povu says:
I’m getting a lower framerate since the new Magicka update, not sure what’s up with that.
Also 0:27 That journal opening sound… Morrrowind’s, isn’t it? :P
29/11/2011 at 16:47 Gnoupi says:
Try to play in a window, it tends to help. Not much with raw framerate, with a potential stuttering (at least it works to fix mine).
About the journal, sounds like, but it’s probably just the actual sound of paper :P
29/11/2011 at 16:51 povu says:
It wouldn’t surprise me though, many of the sounds Bethesda used for Morrowind weren’t made by themselves. It has a footstep sound that’s also used in Bloodlines. Probably some sound library somewhere.
29/11/2011 at 20:41 son_of_montfort says:
I’ve heard the Daggerfall horse whinny in several different places, including TV shows. I think it came from a general bank of sounds.
29/11/2011 at 23:51 Stephen Roberts says:
My favourite sound bank sound is ‘rusty door’. As first heard by myself in Farcry, but featuring in almost any film with a destitute building and door usage. Door sounds pop up everywhere. Here check my blog, left a jar where I chart door sounds and their rise to popularity. Part of me wishes I actually did this.
Also worth keeping an ear primed for the ‘booh-fwaa’ noise of a Doom one rocket launcher broken into two sounds ‘boohf’ and ‘fwaa’. Usually when some fire engulfs things, or Buffy the Vampire style TV shows have any kind of ‘action’.
01/12/2011 at 09:15 Kdansky says:
There is a generic explosion / lightning sound that makes me ragequit games, because it’s used so incredibly often.
29/11/2011 at 16:44 unangbangkay says:
Magicka is the Saints Row of wizard games. Or is Saints Row the Magicka of open-world gangster sims?
29/11/2011 at 16:46 julianbenson says:
Is Cowboys and Aliens OK Adam?
29/11/2011 at 17:06 Tusque D'Ivoire says:
The new episodes of Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire? That ok?
29/11/2011 at 17:08 Adam Smith says:
Go on then. If you must.
Particularly Boardwalk Empire. That is most acceptable. In fact, everyone watch that.
30/11/2011 at 00:46 HothMonster says:
But Adam I still have two episodes from season one left, do I have to watch the new one?
And how has anyone waited till Tuesday to watch Sunday’s walking dead, for shame!
30/11/2011 at 01:12 johnpeat says:
Boardwalk Empire is a classic example of spending money on poor content…
Series 1 could have gone 2 ways – it could have been a gangster thing OR it could have been a political thing.
They went for option b – and the nation snored away – there are far better things to watch.
Breaking Bad for one – best TV series made in a long, long time…
30/11/2011 at 06:10 Tyrone Slothrop. says:
Boardwalk Empire is easily the best show since The Wire and even supersedes it in many respects. Whilst the latter is an unmitigated novelistic and documentary masterpiece, the former is a triumph of a more cinematic nature. Neither achievement is lesser than the other.
Also there must be a GTA-form game where you play Richard Harrow.
29/11/2011 at 16:52 cafe says:
Another magica dlc? I didn’t know anyone was still playing it…
29/11/2011 at 17:01 Teddy Leach says:
What.
30/11/2011 at 09:58 Droopy The Dog says:
That’s heathen talk!
*QDW + matchstick*
PvP is still fun (wizard dueling!) and on an hour a fortnight basis I’m still trying to drag my brother through the original campaign
29/11/2011 at 17:13 sbs says:
I LOVE YELLOW
29/11/2011 at 21:33 Tams80 says:
SIIIMOOOON!!!
29/11/2011 at 17:58 westyfield says:
I don’t understand the title – can someone explain “the stars are left” to me please?
29/11/2011 at 18:03 NthDegree256 says:
It’s a play on how Lovecraft’s Cthulhu will awaken “when the stars are right.”
29/11/2011 at 18:09 sbs says:
Oooooh.
29/11/2011 at 18:12 westyfield says:
Ah, thanks. I’ve never read any Lovecraft so I’ve no idea what half the stuff in this is.
29/11/2011 at 22:09 gwathdring says:
I’m not certain it’s specific to Cthulu. There’s a general pseudo-mystical cliché about things occurring when the planets align and the stars are right. Of course, I wasn’t aware Cthulu in particular arrives when the “stars are right,” and as this is Lovecraft themed that may well be the reason. But for what it’s worth, it works at a more general level as well.
30/11/2011 at 01:11 Shadram says:
Most of Lovecraft’s stuff can be summarised as “tentacled horrors from space/another dimension/under the sea/your mum.”
29/11/2011 at 18:30 Maldomel says:
Oh yes! Another brilliant trailer for this brilliant game that I love so much!
29/11/2011 at 18:52 Skabooga says:
“Gosh, I’m hungry.”
These people are great with their sight gags.
29/11/2011 at 18:38 Demon Beaver says:
Hey Adam,
is Key Largo okay to watch? Thanks
29/11/2011 at 19:16 Adam Smith says:
Definitely. I wholly approve.
29/11/2011 at 22:59 Carra says:
Key Largo is very much OK. Great movie.
29/11/2011 at 19:05 Dominic White says:
That yellow bastard…
30/11/2011 at 07:33 Catalyst says:
I got a definite Sin City vibe from the whole thing as well, even though the lovecraftian references are abundant. I absolutely love what Arrowhead is doing :D
29/11/2011 at 19:30 Teronfel says:
And of course yellow dies again…
29/11/2011 at 22:46 jaheira says:
Can I watch Caprica? It’s not that great to honest, so if you say “No” that’s OK.
30/11/2011 at 00:09 caddyB says:
no.
29/11/2011 at 22:59 Carra says:
Fun trailer, reminds me of sin city.
29/11/2011 at 23:44 Shadram says:
I’ve got tickets to go see Submarine at the cinema tonight. Is that allowed?
(Yeah, NZ is far behind you Britishers when it comes to movie releases, but far ahead when it comes to time itself.)
30/11/2011 at 09:57 Shadram says:
I watched it. It was very good. Very good indeed.
30/11/2011 at 00:37 HeavyStorm says:
This is clearly based on “Ghosts”, by Paul Auster. No, really, I’m sure!
30/11/2011 at 03:18 Knufinke says:
Yeah, seems to be a weird noire lovecraftian “City of Glass” thing, I guess?