Verno wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:41:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:31:
Bunch of anti-Valve rhetoric

Now we get the truth here, you don't care about EA, you just think people are too kind to Valve. I don't really care much one way or the other about Valve and I don't think you're some special snowflake who views the industry different than the rest of us. Valve just screws the consumer less and is in the news less for it. They have built up good will by creating value and being very consumer friendly in their decisions, there is no magical component to this. They don't exactly take victory laps of their steam sales either, Valve is generally very uncommunicative compared to other companies.

People will swing the other way on Valve when they start getting into the kinds of shit EA is. For example I saw plenty of criticism when they added the no class action revision to their EULA. So relax, Valve will gets it comeuppance if it deserves it.

By the way, of course everyone wants to make money, its all about HOW they do it that matters to people.

Yakubs wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:19:

KS wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 11:26:
The quest system wouldn't be so bad if people could easily share quests. Unfortunately, it adheres to a rigid prerequisite system where almost every quest is a step in a long chain.

So you can only share a quest if that person has done the immediately previous quest, which is never the case.

Basically you have to arrive at an outpost with quests at the exact same time as someone else.

This exacerbates the need for soloability, thus dumbing down the game, making the online group feature even more irrelevant.

The fun is in groups -- why do these games do this? As de facto single-player games, they are terrible.

Well, it's very difficult to make a dynamic and fun grouping system, is why. I mean, look at a game that went the opposite direction - Guild Wars 2. Their idea of "quests" are showing up at Heart locations on the minimap and doing the very same "kill x" or "gather y" quests that suck in any other game -- the only difference being you're automatically cooperating with other people in the same area.

I don't really know of an MMO that has an innovative quest system since WoW.

Verno wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:23:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:18:
I do get it, hell I've given EA plenty of my own shit over the years as well, but it doesn't get old to you when people use the same tired excuses to bash EA for the sake of it?

Has nothing to do with this trend of yours to pull the "Boosnews is so negative and unfair!!" crap that people tend to do when they don't like the discussion content. It's being discussed because its in the news and its news because they keep making boneheaded decisions. EA had good press for a few years when they were making original IP again and started actually caring about their ports. People don't do it with Activision because there is a lot less of it to talk about. When they were murdering Guitar Hero and not patching fucked up ports people were bitching plenty.

Take Origin for example, it's essentially steam but people hate it and swear to never use it simply because EA's name is attached.

Different topic for a different discussion. I think EA has given people plenty of reason to distrust a digital client effort though whereas Valve has historically done the opposite. Acting as if everyone should just ignore the history of the companies behind the products themselves is not only unrealistic but poor consumer decision making. So while I don't personally care much one way or the other about Origin, it's easy to see why some people do.

Verno wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 15:01:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 14:58:
Why would I blame Blue for poster's content? I get it, most of you think EA is satan incarnate as a company. It's old at this point, as much as my bitching about bitching is old.

No you don't get it, you're just continually ignoring whats said to you. EA isn't satan anymore than Activision is but they do plenty of dumb shit to get themselves into gamers bad graces and the news. Have a problem with it? It starts with them, not the users. No one is making you click on the comments here and read about it either.

Verno wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 14:56:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 14:32:
Thinking EA will actually ban people for not reporting bugs is pretty ridiculous to begin with but it wouldn't be BN without a daily bitch about EA thread.

Uh, it is pretty reasonable to think they might do something they put into an EULA and people have EULA issues with many other companies other than EA. Blue posts news, if you have a problem with the news then tell EA to stop making boneheaded decisions. Your bitching is just as much noise as anything else.

Spektr wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 13:57:
Jee getting banned from EA games for not reporting a bug.. it's so absurd that I shouldn't even comment it. I am merely stating the obvious that banning people for no real reason represents less sales and more piracy. And that it's nearly impossible to prove that a player didn't report a bug and even more so detect the players who don't report bugs...

Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 09:42:

nin wrote on Jan 30, 2013, 09:00:

So we now know why EULAs and ToSes are so lengthy: Even the people making the games can't be bothered to read the crap they let their lawyers stuff into them.

Win!

And this is exactly what I said about SimCity.

Creston wrote on Jan 29, 2013, 11:31:
I had no idea Ego was porting stuff to Linux, though I have to wonder why they picked Reunion rather than any of the follow-up titles.

Creston

jdreyer wrote on Jan 29, 2013, 16:40:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 29, 2013, 13:54:
I was more so curious as to why it keeps happening is all, it's not like Warren hasn't been a part of teams that have put out great games, Ultima Underword, The original Deus Ex etc. Odd that he can't seem to keep a studio going for more than a title or two before moving on is all.

I think it's just the case that he makes reasonably unique products that aren't established brands. So, whereas Dice puts out an iteration on the same thing every couple of years, Warren's games are all or mostly one-offs. IF one doesn't meet expectations, down goes his studio. But he's got the name cred for all those classic games, so he can make a pitch, start up a new studio, and get funding.

Verno wrote on Jan 29, 2013, 12:38:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 29, 2013, 12:17:
So how long before Warren starts a new studio with a new publisher only to ship one or two titles then start the process over again? Seems he's done that his entire career.

I guess he could play it safe and ship Madden sequels his whole life if that's what you want. I prefer his current approach even if he fails or stumbles once in awhile.

Frijoles wrote on Jan 28, 2013, 16:05:
Not a bad game. I'm curious, though. There's a lot of people on Blues that love PoE. But they're the same people that bitched about the always-on DRM in Diablo 3. Doesn't PoE have the same exact thing? I've only logged in once, so I haven't checked to see if my chars are saved to a cloud. I'm guessing they are.

netnerd85 wrote on Jan 25, 2013, 07:43:

Cutter wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 23:22:
Wow, another major franchise to rape for Abrams. Well, to be fair, Lucas already did that long ago. And let's face it, apart from ANH and ESB everything else pretty much sucked major ballsack anyhow. Then again, apart from TOS and TNG, Star Trek has been serial raped too. However, you can't much blame Gene for that.

ST:DS9 was great from season 4-6

Enterprise was complete awesomeness.

Going to hate on Stargate next? okay, we can all agree Universe was shite.

Orphic Resonance wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 20:25:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 18:57:
Eh Darks does have a point. Regs here are prolly the most negative for the sake of being negative when compared to most other gaming news sites.

nope, thats wrong... find me some evidence and then we'll talk - until then, im gonna laugh at this really hard

Orphic Resonance wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 18:28:

Darks wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 15:12:
It is not that I’m defending the game; I’m just getting tired of all the negativity when it comes to pc games in general here at Blues. It’s becoming a routine here listening to whinny assed people bitch about pc games in general when there are not a whole lot of them to go around as it is.

In fact it’s getting a little sickening reading it all the time by the same people doing the bitchin.

seriously? you dont like the comments in the "comments" area?

go have a tea party or play with some dolls or something.. maybe bake some cupcakes

if this place is too rough for you, then put on your tiara and be off on your merry way.. because if you dont expect "negativity" at a gaming website, you've got a few decades to catch up on

jdreyer wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 16:18:
Wow, they are really hitting ALL the Aliens movie beats: medlab, turrets, dropships, loader, Bishop, Sulaco, door welding, etc.

Graphics still look craptastic, but I'm fine with that if story/gameplay are good. Just surprising in this day and age. Hopefully PC graphics will be better.

And given that this is marketing, I'd expect the narrator to have BETTER voice acting than in game. I hope the in game stuff is better, but from what Iv'e seen from other trailers, I'm skeptical. Still, not a deal breaker, just a shame as good voice acting really increases immersion (as do graphics).

Cutter wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 16:38:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:42:

Verno wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:22:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:04:
You've been on BN long enough to know that any reason to whine and moan about EA's policies or practices, posters here will jump all over the chance.

That's actually the internet in general and EA's many shitty policies and practices over the years have given people plenty of reason.

While I don't disagree EA does deserve shit tossed their way for things, the constant stream of it, here especially, gets old after awhile.

Fucking lol. Do you ever actually listen to yourself? You do nothing but rant about everyone and everything. I gripe a lot but at least I do have positive shit to say from time to time.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 13:51:

RollinThundr wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:01:
Blizzard and next gen should never be used in the same sentence. Here's a developer that won't evolve past 2005 visuals just so all their low end customer base doesn't have to upgrade their P4 1gig's.

Wow, Thundr and I have the same opinion?!?

*Scans skies for world-ending meteor.*