born2expire wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 12:04:
I can't belive Im the 18th comment and the first to mention all the damn QTE's. They completely ruin the game, it WOULD be a decent game without them, but I can't stand QTE's and there is just so many of them.

Redmask wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 10:42:

TrollingDunder wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 10:32:
Ubisoft titles never have MT's? How bout Activision? Is someone from EA holding a gun to your head making you buy MT's in Dead Space 3?
Almost every game has dlc or some form of microtransactions now, regardless of publisher, some of it even Day 1 on the disk dlc, go bitch at activision, Take Two, Ubisoft, Deep Silver etc etc. Oh what's that? You people only bitch when it's EA because it's the popular thing to do? Way to be part of the crowd!

By all means bitch away, but be consistent about it.
Every publisher in the industry is shitty

Now it's 'almost every game', keep shifting those goalposts there. No it's not even close to 'almost every game' released has microtransactions, in fact it's exactly the opposite. Most games do not have microtransactions, you don't even know what they are if you believe that.

Who says I don't bitch about other companies doing it though? Who says everyone doesn't? If every publisher is shitty including EA then I can still bitch about EA, did you even stop to use your brain before saying that? Who the fuck made you the judge of what people are allowed to bitch about anyway? Let's see you support any of this shit with some facts, otherwise it's just fanboy crap from someone with a long history of it.

Xero wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 10:25:
Game is awesome IMO and no problems so far. On a 560GTX. I have settings at Ultra though down set some not as important effects just to make sure I got high performance. I have tesselation enabled and zero lag. I even tried the TressFX for fun and while it was pretty awesome and ran OK from far away, the minute there was closeup shots of her face, all that hair brought my rig to it's knees, lol.
Eitherway, nothing to gripe about. Sick game and it sucks for anyone encountering these issues.

Redmask wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 09:33:

TrollingDunder wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 09:18:
The reality is every publisher is doing the same thing. That's the fucking reality of it. Does that mean I like it? Hell no, but pretending EA is the only publisher doing it is about as Herp derp as you can get. Though that's pretty par for the course round here.

No, the reality is that your head is stuck up EAs buttocks. Everyone else is doing it? EVERYONE? Ok so I can go back to last year and see microtransactions in every single game released, shit no I can't because it turns out that's a complete fabrication. Where are all of these microtransactions? Oh it turns out only the shitty companies are doing a lot of it right now, funny how that's exactly what people were complaining about before you ignorantly bleated unfounded nonsense.

Redmask wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 07:07:

TrollingDunder wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 22:59:
ignorant shilling

So wait, he just said they aren't doing it in all games but you know something he doesn't? We're trusting EA or not? The reality is that you just want to make excuses for EA which is your little hobby around here. Microtransactions in singleplayer games are not an industry necessity, plenty of games manage to succeed without them. If you removed your head from EAs buttocks for a few minutes, your sense of smell would clear right up.

Redmask wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 21:36:
Actions speak louder than words and Dead Space 3 was a pretty big indicator to me.

Cutter wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 17:31:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 16:01:

Cutter wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 13:13:
Tried the alpha and it sucked. The show looks equally as bad. Both are bound to fail hard.

lol judging a game on an alpha.

Well, it's pretty obvious, much like yourself. Both failures.

Cutter wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 13:13:
Tried the alpha and it sucked. The show looks equally as bad. Both are bound to fail hard.

InBlack wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 10:40:
I dunno, if the work in question had any references to biggotry that would be understandable. as I understood it that was not the case. The artist quit because the internet got 'angry'. WTF!?

When we start crucifying people not because of their acts, but because of their beliefs, even if those beliefs are wrong, what does that say about our society?

Verno wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 10:16:
Not to mention they already did dudebro it up pretty well but he's obviously whiteknighting something hes never even touched himself

Panickd wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 11:13:

siapnar wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 11:04:
Also, I play BF3 all the time and never encounter hackers. If I do, they don't have an effect on my enjoyment, since it's not all that noticable. Or maybe I play on great servers.

I was once killed by knife while driving a tank. Yes hackers exist in the game, yes DICE sucks at anti-cheat technology and relies on even suckier third party technology and no, they don't give a shit since every single time I have ever seen anyone reported for hacking the most that happens is their stats get reset, which only makes them want to cheat more to get their stats back up. That being said, the game is old and most of the hackers have moved on to grief in newer games now so you don't encounter them as much anymore. But when the game was new it was a nightly battle to find a server without some asshat ruining the game for everyone.

On to 2143: given EA's new "we're going to monetize the shit out of every possible thing" business model, I don't think a Battlefield 2143 game would turn out all that great. In fact, quite the opposite.

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:10:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:03:

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:00:
Wanting all my games in one place isn't a reason to hate Origin, but certainly a pretty valid reason not to use it.

As someone that uses precisely 0 of Steam's social features, it's the one that matters most to me. You get so used to seeing that list. It makes it easy to figure out what you want to play next (idea for Valve: let us order games by priority, so I don't have to scroll through every Alien Shooter game to get to the ones I forgot I bought 5 years ago but really want to play!)

Honestly, clicking play via steam or Orgin or a desktop shortcut really matters that much? I guess I'm just not as anal as some of you guys. Though then again I like console games too so I prolly don't fit into the PC Master Race level of elitism to begin with.

Steam is always open on my PC. It's there. It's convenient.

So yeah, it is a bit of a hassle to have a second option. Switching costs are more real than you think.

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:00:
Wanting all my games in one place isn't a reason to hate Origin, but certainly a pretty valid reason not to use it.

As someone that uses precisely 0 of Steam's social features, it's the one that matters most to me. You get so used to seeing that list. It makes it easy to figure out what you want to play next (idea for Valve: let us order games by priority, so I don't have to scroll through every Alien Shooter game to get to the ones I forgot I bought 5 years ago but really want to play!)

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:02:
Verno, will you please stop engaging the troll? How much more evidence does he have to provide that he's a troll? He literally repeats the exact same fucking thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Stop giving him the satisfaction. Save yourself the 5 minutes and do something cool with it, like ogle a hot secretary or something.

Creston

Darks wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:46:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:11:

Darks wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:58:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:06:

Darks wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:52:

vacs wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:44:
Maybe they will now consider selling DS3 on Steam? Idiots

That’s in in a nut shell dude. I have not and will not buy any of their games as long as Origin is a prime evil.

Put it on Steam and let people make a choice. I would love to see the statistics on this if they did a comparison to how many buy it on Steam vs. Origin.

I think EA already knows the answer to this and that’s what their afraid of.

What I don't get is why people hate so much on Origin and praise Steam in the same breath. They're the same fucking thing.

Seriously dude, do you or have you used Origin? It’s an over inflated conglomerated piece of shit. Its slow, their friends list blows. EA put little to no thought into this client. Not to mention some of the back end bullshit EA has been accused of with their client monitoring and scanning peoples pcs for info.

Jesus PC elitists are douchebags.

No dude, you have that honor all to yourself. I think it’s been stated many times why most people don’t like Origin, but I guess you need a ton of bricks dropped on you to get the point through that thick head of yours.

Verno wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:17:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:11:

Yep use both, have actually had more issues with Steam over the years than Origin/EA Downloader. To me all it is is another store front. I don't understand what's so difficult about clicking a different short cut. OH NOES I NEED MY 300+ games ALL ON STEAM! Jesus PC elitists are douchebags.

That's because you just want to rant and don't actually listen to the reasons, you do this in pretty much every EA thread now its become a forum trope

Darks wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:58:

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:06:

Darks wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:52:

vacs wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 11:44:
Maybe they will now consider selling DS3 on Steam? Idiots

That’s in in a nut shell dude. I have not and will not buy any of their games as long as Origin is a prime evil.

Put it on Steam and let people make a choice. I would love to see the statistics on this if they did a comparison to how many buy it on Steam vs. Origin.

I think EA already knows the answer to this and that’s what their afraid of.

What I don't get is why people hate so much on Origin and praise Steam in the same breath. They're the same fucking thing.

Seriously dude, do you or have you used Origin? It’s an over inflated conglomerated piece of shit. Its slow, their friends list blows. EA put little to no thought into this client. Not to mention some of the back end bullshit EA has been accused of with their client monitoring and scanning peoples pcs for info.

Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:27:

Dagnamit wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:13:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:02:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:59:
Come on, they made DE:HR and it was awesome. Give them a little faith.

Creston

You mean like the boss fights?

No. Faith is earned.

That game didn't even need boss fights. Why on earth would you switch gears in the middle of the game from, get from A to B however you want, to, your only option is to kill this guy. Ignore the boss fights, because they were from an entirely different game that sucked. They only put them in there because they thought that people would be disappointed if boss fights weren't in the game. They were wrong. I doubt they make the same mistake again.

Besides, they outsourced the boss fights.

Didn't they also make Hitman Absolution? I still haven't played more than about 30 minutes of that thanks to the save system. When you load a checkpoint, the level is reset and guards are back ... including the guard RIGHT BESIDE the checkpoint. I can't fathom what the thinking was there. I assumed it was a bug but it seems no, this is intentional.

DX:HR was excellent and the rubbish boss fights were only 50% their fault, in that they didn't make them but they should have paid more attention. I didn't like the expansion but that's a relatively minor complaint.

Axis wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:36:
They should keep making Star Wars games to put the final nail in Bioware's coffin.

I've said it 1000 times the last several years, the SW IP is worn and done, don't count on fanboys making it work.