EA "Embarrassed" by How Good Its 2017 Releases Will Be
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Right, okay... "wrong", and "worst". Could you provide data to prove objective inferiority from 1, to 2, to 3? Or is that just your subjective opinion, just as my subjective view states all three have strengths and weaknesses, and that I prefer ME2 for the story but think 3's overall the best for gameplay, amount of character scenes and sheer quality of presentation?Zontar said:
Well, perhaps, given in many ways I think Inquisition was the worst/dumbest game they've ever created (still love the character scenes/arcs, though). But, as I said, ME did not suffer DA's ongoing identity crisis across a trilogy, so I hope that means BioWare are less likely to drop the ball with Andromeda. I can't wait to see news of it, however, ditto some gameplay footage.
Whatever EA's full line-up really amounts to, Andromeda will very likely be a guaranteed purchase for me.
I was going to tear into this like everyone else, but then he mentioned Mass Effect: Andromeda and now the raging fanboy in me is telling me to say, "Well, let's not too be hasty in our condemnation....".
You just don't get it Rosenberg, we're just too stupid to see the undeniable and objective truth that Mass Effect is lame and stupid and for stupid people!Darth Rosenberg said:
Well, maybe I just got stupider with each game... so I just never noticed? Sounds legit...Dragonlayer said:
Almost certainly, as to go against the incontrovertible facts of the universe that up is up, down is down and Bioware is just like, the worst you guys, is madness of the highest order.Darth Rosenberg said:
And now we wait for all of these games to be microtransaction-ridden mediocre experiences.
That being said, though, have a Battlefield game set in a future setting, or have Bad Company 3, with all of the destruction that made the Bad Company games, well, good, and you will have my interest.
Then, Mass Effect has my attention, but I have yet to determine if the game has my interest. I am certainly curious as to how they will handle the whole Mass Effect 3 ending thing; I mean, whether or not everybody is half-sythetic is a pretty big change, and I will be very disappointed if ME:A just shrugs it off. I also just hope that it does't go down the route of Inquisition and have big, wide open, maps, with nothing to do other than admire the scenery and harvest the same 2 materials over and over again until you have way more than you will ever use (Looking at you Elfroot and Iron).
Also, Garden Warfare 2 does not deserve to be on that list. I am pretty sure that the only person that is excited for Garden Warfare is EA themselves, otherwise, I view it as pretty much a waste of a studio.
That being said, though, have a Battlefield game set in a future setting, or have Bad Company 3, with all of the destruction that made the Bad Company games, well, good, and you will have my interest.
Then, Mass Effect has my attention, but I have yet to determine if the game has my interest. I am certainly curious as to how they will handle the whole Mass Effect 3 ending thing; I mean, whether or not everybody is half-sythetic is a pretty big change, and I will be very disappointed if ME:A just shrugs it off. I also just hope that it does't go down the route of Inquisition and have big, wide open, maps, with nothing to do other than admire the scenery and harvest the same 2 materials over and over again until you have way more than you will ever use (Looking at you Elfroot and Iron).
Also, Garden Warfare 2 does not deserve to be on that list. I am pretty sure that the only person that is excited for Garden Warfare is EA themselves, otherwise, I view it as pretty much a waste of a studio.
This may have been mentioned already, but we're already in EA's Q3 2016 fiscal quarter. This statement suggests no delays. Not saying there won't be any, but this statement doesn't change the release date on ME4 or on Mirror's Edge. To EA, Q3 2017 is the Christmas season of 2016.WolvDragon said:
This is the sort of reporting I'd expect to see on Fox News.
Well done, Escapist. You are now the Fox News of video game sites.
Well done, Escapist. You are now the Fox News of video game sites.
I've only ever bought 3 EA games. Burnout Paradise when I found it at a reasonable price used. And then both Dead Space 1 and Mirror's Edge for less than $5 on Steam. And while I have nothing against any of these games in particular, I don't expect I will be enticed by these new offerings. Mostly because I'd have to buy them through Origin (which I still refuse to get). And I have a genuine lack of faith in their potential quality. It's been a long time since EA release a game I even had a passing interest in. New Mirror's Edge is close, but I'm not feeling it.
The only reason EA, the ONLY reason why you haven't died yet like the disgusting shit-stain you are on this industry is because you feed off of the sport licenses you have that you absolutely don't deserve to own.
Please do continue to ruin your own franchises like you do now, the time of your death will come one day and we will celebrate for a whole year when it does. Your death will bring joy as the game licenses will finally be given to more capable hands and bury the canon of the abominations you created from them.
Your company will be remembered as the devil of the video game industry and I sincerely hope you have a fate worse than Atari's one.
Please do continue to ruin your own franchises like you do now, the time of your death will come one day and we will celebrate for a whole year when it does. Your death will bring joy as the game licenses will finally be given to more capable hands and bury the canon of the abominations you created from them.
Your company will be remembered as the devil of the video game industry and I sincerely hope you have a fate worse than Atari's one.
Man I thought Sony were smug, but you need a whole new level of measurement to gauge EA's smugness.
Ok lets see...
Mirror's Edge: I get a very strong feeling this is going to be like the new Battlefront. Well made, well polished, fun... But completely lacking in features, depth and staying power. It'll look at the game and get some vague idea of the 'core' of it being running, and then just simplify it down to the most basic form of that, with a low skill ceiling so that anyone who has never played that sort of game before can very easily get in and finish the game.
Mass Effect: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Longer response: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Ok, enough copying Yahtzee. Andromeda sounds shit. The strength of ME was always in its story. Mechanically it was always average. ME1 was clunky, ME2 was just GoW in space, ME3 improved shooting to its best in the series, though that's not saying much, however it had plenty of room for improvement there still, and all of its other mechanics where just pathetic.
Storywise the series has been FUBAR since 2. A lot of faffing about and a sudden tonal shift from old 80s Sci-Fi style stuff that tries to be a little internally consistent, to Michael Bay Star Trek was... Eh. On the upside, what it did, it did well, but it was a hefty shift from the original game.
I can't think of much the third game did right in terms of story, TBH. It was a rushed messed. It had little thought put into its pacing, little thought for internal consistency, themes, tone... And then the ending.
ME Andromeda seems to have the most ridiculous premise yet, being set in the future, and another galaxy [Correct me if I'm wrong here, but pretty sure I'm right and heard that, and Andromeda isn't just a funny moniker for it]. So, not only have we magically managed to travel the few tens of millions of years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy, which it was always hinted not even the Reapers could or would do, we've also got the whole 'future' problem to deal with and WTF happened at the end of ME3. From the start the game has no respect for the series' lore, and I doubt it'll be any better in the game itself. Do it as a spinoff 'alternate reality', don't do it as a 'sequel' of sorts. Or, better yet, follow fan suggestions; Prequel in the first contact war, so you don't have to worry about what happened at the end of 3, and you already have your lore written for you.
Not seeing at all how this game will play to its strengths. It'll probably focus on the mechanics, which will be good but fairly run of the mill and thus feel mediocre, whilst its story will likely be a very safe, very average, story after what happened with ME3. Its going to be a big pot of boring average, in short.
Plants vs Zombies: Could be good, but excuse me for not getting excited for a sequel to the game I've played on my phone for at least 5 years now. The series is somewhat old, the genre even older, and whilst an entertaining game, its not exactly the most exciting.
Titanfall: Wasn't excited for the original, not going to be excited for this one. Apparently the original didn't have much staying power, either that won't change, or the game will be turned into a generic Battlefield clone with Mech suits in order to give it 'staying power' by just homogenising the game. Speaking of...
Battlefield: Not at all interested, and haven't been since 3. Apparently 4 was better, but overall the only reason my friends and I played 3 was to do stupid shit like MAV riding to the top of Damavand as the Russians and planting a spawn beacon. Of course, they then tried to patch it out to make it srius gme. The serious side of the game was just boring, and at times fairly unbalanced. Lack of Tactical options was also a big issue, and I doubt they'll bring them back to the level they did with Commanders in 2. So. Yeah. Colour me unexcited.
Mirror's Edge: I get a very strong feeling this is going to be like the new Battlefront. Well made, well polished, fun... But completely lacking in features, depth and staying power. It'll look at the game and get some vague idea of the 'core' of it being running, and then just simplify it down to the most basic form of that, with a low skill ceiling so that anyone who has never played that sort of game before can very easily get in and finish the game.
Mass Effect: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Longer response: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Ok, enough copying Yahtzee. Andromeda sounds shit. The strength of ME was always in its story. Mechanically it was always average. ME1 was clunky, ME2 was just GoW in space, ME3 improved shooting to its best in the series, though that's not saying much, however it had plenty of room for improvement there still, and all of its other mechanics where just pathetic.
Storywise the series has been FUBAR since 2. A lot of faffing about and a sudden tonal shift from old 80s Sci-Fi style stuff that tries to be a little internally consistent, to Michael Bay Star Trek was... Eh. On the upside, what it did, it did well, but it was a hefty shift from the original game.
I can't think of much the third game did right in terms of story, TBH. It was a rushed messed. It had little thought put into its pacing, little thought for internal consistency, themes, tone... And then the ending.
ME Andromeda seems to have the most ridiculous premise yet, being set in the future, and another galaxy [Correct me if I'm wrong here, but pretty sure I'm right and heard that, and Andromeda isn't just a funny moniker for it]. So, not only have we magically managed to travel the few tens of millions of years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy, which it was always hinted not even the Reapers could or would do, we've also got the whole 'future' problem to deal with and WTF happened at the end of ME3. From the start the game has no respect for the series' lore, and I doubt it'll be any better in the game itself. Do it as a spinoff 'alternate reality', don't do it as a 'sequel' of sorts. Or, better yet, follow fan suggestions; Prequel in the first contact war, so you don't have to worry about what happened at the end of 3, and you already have your lore written for you.
Not seeing at all how this game will play to its strengths. It'll probably focus on the mechanics, which will be good but fairly run of the mill and thus feel mediocre, whilst its story will likely be a very safe, very average, story after what happened with ME3. Its going to be a big pot of boring average, in short.
Plants vs Zombies: Could be good, but excuse me for not getting excited for a sequel to the game I've played on my phone for at least 5 years now. The series is somewhat old, the genre even older, and whilst an entertaining game, its not exactly the most exciting.
Titanfall: Wasn't excited for the original, not going to be excited for this one. Apparently the original didn't have much staying power, either that won't change, or the game will be turned into a generic Battlefield clone with Mech suits in order to give it 'staying power' by just homogenising the game. Speaking of...
Battlefield: Not at all interested, and haven't been since 3. Apparently 4 was better, but overall the only reason my friends and I played 3 was to do stupid shit like MAV riding to the top of Damavand as the Russians and planting a spawn beacon. Of course, they then tried to patch it out to make it srius gme. The serious side of the game was just boring, and at times fairly unbalanced. Lack of Tactical options was also a big issue, and I doubt they'll bring them back to the level they did with Commanders in 2. So. Yeah. Colour me unexcited.
Wow... Unjustified arrogance. Lets see.. won worse company in america 2 years straight over SimCity 2013. Should of won that again for Sims 4. This image speaks volumes:
Bottom line: I learned my lesson from Sims 4 base game. EA lost me as a customer for good. I don't believe in giving people money for garbage. And so far all their latest title releases have been unfinished, buggy messes, that took a lot of shortcuts. Sims 4 shows just how many shortcuts they are willing to take by rebranding a failed attempted sims mmo as a single player game with all the mmo limitations intact.
Bottom line: I learned my lesson from Sims 4 base game. EA lost me as a customer for good. I don't believe in giving people money for garbage. And so far all their latest title releases have been unfinished, buggy messes, that took a lot of shortcuts. Sims 4 shows just how many shortcuts they are willing to take by rebranding a failed attempted sims mmo as a single player game with all the mmo limitations intact.