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Preorder or price gouge.
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The sad part of it is seeing all the companies that follow suit going on with the new games as a service model. Belch!!!
EA I remember used to be completely awesome. That is until they started getting hideously greedy , buying and killing off beloved franchises and their Studios, now they've gone to a new level of being criminally aloof as with the case with Belgian gambling law leaving me the question is how far will this company go now that a countries law doesn't matter to them?
I still play the Retro EA games for posterity and guess what, its still loads of fun. No microtransactions, no promotional DLC, you got the full entire package on the cartridge. Not to mention I remember they had to go through an intensive series of quality assurance and testing prior to release. Unlike today where the practice of releasing broken, unfinished and bare bones games have become the norm with a lot of companies following that trend.
One of my favorites published by EA was Populous made by Bullfrog Studios.
As to EA themselves a wonderful old tyme list...
I loved (and still do.....)
Battle chess.
Abrams battle tank
688 sub
The early (retro) Battlefields. I'll also include Bad Company and Bad Company 2.
The Bard's Tale.
Command and conquer
Black and white.
Dungeon Keeper..
So many great titles and developers that just leads me to wonder what the hell happened to EA and the gaming industry itself?
I'm serious when I say I really wish there will be another very hard gaming crash like there was in the 80s.
At least there's Indies. It's been a love-hate relationship but one that still grabs my attention for putting Ford games as they used to be.
Most of indie games are garbage shovelware, but a few have shown through as wonderful modern day gems reminiscence of the quality of games we used to have buy passionate (and successful) companies who put the gamer first and foremost. Like the good old days of Gaming where I had fun and felt the value largely matched the money I paid for them.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That is probably the thing I hate most about contemporary gaming. I don't want to bring a game home only to have to wait for a patch to download to make an unfinished game marginally playable. It's not nostalgia, but it literally was better when we popped in the cartridge or disc, turned the console on, and played.
Command and Conquer, along with Star Craft, made me life long fans of the RTS genre. But the direction EA went made me eventually not even liking C&C anymore.
I also forgot EA did Black & White. That was definitely a very fun game, whether it was to play it to do the missions or just play around and have fun (especially with the giant pet you got in it).
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yeah I saw that with Grand Theft Auto V. For myself I'm a single player gamer though I do like multiplayer now and again. The fact that rock star had reneged on its promise to address single player as well as multiplayer by way of future content left a bad taste in my mouth. In fact even for multiplayer enthusiasts the practice of pay-to-win, sleazy manipulative matchmaking, and don't even mention Shark cards although the name itself seems uncannily fitting for the purchaser.I'm worried that Rockstar might be going down that path. I mean they've always been a bit sneaky, releasing games conveniently at the end of a generation cycle and rereleasing another version on next gen consoles. (I'm still salty about the XBox 360 rerelease of San Andreas. A bit too buggy to be up to snuff with Rockstar's usual standards IMO.)
But yeah EA is basically the mafia of the gaming industry at this point. I knew they were unscrupulous but damn, they continue to sink to new lows.
I fear Red Dead Redemption 2 is going to go down the same road as Grand Theft Auto V and I'm certainly not pre-ordering the game no matter what kind of carrot they want to dangle. If they don't give a good quality game for single player I'm simply not buying it. With the way EA acts today I'm not holding my breath and I've tempered my hype meter and stayed realistic as far as expectations and delivery goes.
Depending upon the subsequent reviews and criticisms after release, I'm prepared to even be willing to wait a year or two until the price drops to a level where I feel it's worth the money to finally make a purchase. I've done that already with games like EAs Star Wars Battlefront where it's now Pennies on the dollar where value matches content. I've learned to be patient and not fall for the hype anymore. I've already saved much frustration and funds that way.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
All the more reason to get back into PC gaming once I can afford a good rig.
The sheer amount of far more quality titles ranging into the thousands and a wide selection of genres is a big draw for me. I'm a big-time fan of large tactical (thinking) simulations (like Arma, Combat Mission, or Wargame Red Dragon) and rts games (akin with Company of Heroes, Theater of War, and Homeworld.) which is notably lacking If not largely absent on consoles leaving players with a very limited and narrow selection of games to choose from.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
They are definitely there on console (Starcraft and C&C 1 are both on N64). However they just don't work that well with a controller. The C&C game on 360 wasn't too bad, but it still didn't have a mouse and keyboard. I've long loved the genre, but it's pretty much the only genre that I will not play on console because controllers suck for it.
I rarely preorder. If I do, it would have to be a game I am planning to buy, even if the reviews come out and rate it 2/10.
Based on their track record, and on Red Dead Redemption, this is one of the rare games that sits comfortably in that category.
Yeah this and the Spider-Man game are the ones I was going to buy no matter what this year. Though Spyro reignited looks fun too.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
No Man's Sky.
Yeah. I don't pre-order games at all anymore. I won't even buy a game on the week of release. Generally it takes at least that long to get rid of the worst of the inevitable bugs anyway.
