It’s not that he can’t see why I wouldn’t like it, but he can’t see himself playing something that isn’t full of “epic fucking landscapes,” he says, arms thrown up in the air, holding out an imaginary canvas of his imagination. I tell him that my go-to at the moment is a game called Boxed In – it’s devilishly addictive.
THE FALCONEER TRAINER FREE
Tomas asks what my comfort game is – the game I go to when I’ve got free time from all of the reviews I work on. I offer up one publisher as an example with all of its studios and key people being super coordinated on Twitter, welcoming new studios to the “family” with pre-planned tweets and cringe artwork the digital version of the fake gamer chat that Ubisoft is so fond of. He isn’t managed, unlike many figures in the industry who get shoved in front of cameras to give blockbuster games a human figurehead. I assure Tomas it’s not a bad thing and that I was actually impressed with the amount of freedom he has online to do his own thing. My email will go ‘someone has asked a question’ and so once a week I’ll go and answer some! I’ve since re-read some of my answers, ones that I wrote when I was tired or depressed and… they’re questionable at best – not all answers are good haha! So… you read my Quora… Wow. “So… I get really bored really quickly, so if I get exceptionally bored,” he says with a laugh. He was doling out free advice and not taking a penny for it, nor was he overtly doing it to further his own cause – I rarely saw mention of The Falconeer in his answers.
I poured over his answers to game development questions where he would give aspiring creators tips on what they should be focusing on and what pitfalls to avoid. And if that’s in July ( my birthday month) there’s a fair chance that’s me… If you see a passed out white male in Amsterdam, chances are he has a British passport, a bag of weed, and a wrap of coke in his back pocket. Because you all stand outside drinking,” he tells me with a laugh. “We have a name for you British people – vertical drinkers. I gleaned from his answers that he’s not fond of the way the city is overrun with cheap tourists, tacky attractions, and hotels/homestays that are driving up the price of affordable housing for locals, not to mention the pisshead Brits standing around getting pissed all day. People would ask about Amsterdam and where they should go while they are on a day visit to the city. I spent the next 20 minutes reading Tomas’ online scribbles to strangers. I Googled his name and I was surprised to find that one search result was for Quora – the community questions and answers website. I didn’t want to be what I fear most: boring. I knew he’d already done a load of interviews with other outlets in the run-up to The Falconeer’s release last year, so I didn’t want to repeat any questions. I was nursing my headache one night, unable to sleep ( I also had a toothache – double misery!) and I wondered what I would actually ask the guy.
If it doesn’t, then it wasn’t meant to be. It’s not because I’m lazy ( maybe a little bit…) but it’s because I don’t want to get any preconceived ideas about the person – no research, just natural conversation. Normally, before I do an interview, I don’t tend to do any research whatsoever. And then I find out, the thing I changed three days before I got sick, it also made every enemy FUCKING HARDCORE and now everybody is complaining about difficulty spikes. “What happened in November is I got Covid two weeks from the press build,” he says “and I was on my couch, dying… and I was thinking that, you know, everybody is testing it, it’s probably gonna be alright. He had actually contracted the virus just a few days before the release of The Falconeer last year. He has the sniffles and when I ask cautiously, as we all do these days, “Rona?” he assures me he is Rona-free. Tomas is actually nursing a bit of a runny nose.
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