EA merges with Activision. CEO is the Antichrist himself. All Hell literally breaks loose. End of days occurs.
/thread right there. You have gained 100% of my respect.Tiddles said:Kayne and Lynch - Actually not any worse under EA.
Yeah, I was going for Idiocracy. But I messed up the quote. I need to watch that movie again. It always makes be feel really really good about myself.gmaverick019 said:hah reminded me of this:DustyDrB said:-Uh oh! Looks like the grass is dying. You better give it some plant food! Here's some Gatorade! It has what plants need! Electrolytes, yeah! $16/square foot.
probably would be true, just as sims is expensive as shit, so would living your real life...
to add to yours:
wanna go downtown? Need to buy the whole downtown expansion! 50 dollars!
wanna go to a movie? the grocery store? Get the urban experience! 120 dollars!
So... like Pokemon is now?Sean Hollyman said:If EA took over Gamefreak
The same Pokemon game released every year, but with a few minor changes, such as different characters, Pokemon, and region. There would be a spinoff sometimes, and fans would buy it every year, regardless. People would complain that the only good one was the first one, while disregarding all newer ones.
don't forget that you will have to buy forge and pay each month for the new spartan ops missionsTerminate421 said:If EA had the ability to take over the Halo games......
There would be:
Iron Sights
Chest High Walls
COMPLETELY Recharging health instead of the genius hybrid of shields and health
No Vehicles
Customizable Weapon Classes
2 hour Campaign
DRM
Online Pass
$20 Dollar Map Packs
Master Chiefs face would be revealed (At the begining of the game)
Whoops. You're absolutely correct. My apologies.CaptainMarvelous said:Jacob was black . James was Latino. Which in no way justifies Smash's statement they're all bland characters just because you appear to have got them mixed up. There is a high percentage of 1-Dimensional characters but some of them are awesome, Garrus and Tali for example.GreyJedi said:If anything, he was a Latino. And yes, his personality was rather bland. But I still think you can't say that about the majority of ME3's major characters.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:Yeah, I mean, apart from his skin being dark and all.Dryk said:I don't remember Jacob being black ever coming up.
OT: EA buys out Grasshopper Studios. The release rate for games actually goes down, they start including DLC and doing direct sequels and lose any sense of joy or creativity as Suda 51 is 'respectfully asked to step down'. I still remember the fear when I saw EA's logo on the Shadows of the Damned box *shiver*
Wanna know the funny thing.. I ditched Morrigan for him, because I found her so badly characterized. I didn't even realize untill he subtly hinted at it, then I thought (His character being the type to joke around) that he was pulling my leg.. that was until the sex and what not. He was was one of the best characters in that game.Vault101 said:-snip-
Jesus... you can go too far with a joke, you know? Some people have actually read that shit. A little bit of respect.Soviet Heavy said:Dawn of War 3 is written by Matthew Ward and C.S Goto.
Dispite going into the game completely blind, and not even knowing that there were homosexual romance options in the game, I had still picked up on the surprisingly unsubtle clues by then.Vault101 said:anyway, Traynor, gay sterotype?....she doesn't hate men, she doesn't talk about feminism, no shaved head....nothing to indicate she is gay untill the shower scene..
*raises hand*SmashLovesTitanQuest said:1) No one is there for the gameplay anyway. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who plays ME for the shooting bits. Close to everyone is there for the juicy conversations and story.
I kind of liked KOTOR's combat, enough. And I liked the shooter-parts in Mass Effect, if not only because everything else about the game was utterly boring as fuck - not saying it's a bad game, but if you so much bat an eye at a durnken Hanna or whatever those jellyfish things were called, you get 7-paragraphs of text about their species, usually reinforcing reasons why they look like jellyfish.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:Lee Quitt said:No I shall not capitalize the word god.
My problem with Cortez is him being gay is his only real personality trait. Him being gay is what people remember him by. That's exactly what I'm talking about when I say it's being shoved in your face, or that Bioware characters are terrible. They are all one dimensional husks with a single cliche separating them from everyone else. Cortez is gay, Jacob is black, Jack is an angsty teenagers, and on and on it goes. These characters have NOTHING else. There are one or two notable exceptions to this rule, but that's it.joonsk said:I disagree. When you meet Cortez he tells you that he lost his husband. That's it. If it were a straight dude he would have sqaid that he lost his wife. I am actually quite happy with what Bioware did with that. A lot of movies, games and comics, gay personages have one character trait, being gay, that annoys me, even though I am straight.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:Snip
Hell, have you played DA:O, remember that dude named Zevran (I think that was his name), he was much worse than Traynor or Cortez.
The thing is, and this is what puzzles me about this, you would be fair in asking just how much characterization you can fit into a 30-40 hour game. The answer is a lot, but Bioware instead choose to focus on something else, which is weird. Since
1) No one is there for the gameplay anyway. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who plays ME for the shooting bits. Close to everyone is there for the juicy conversations and story.
2) Even though Bioware repeatedly ignore character progression to focus on developing God knows what, the actual gameplay STILL sucks ass. ME3 in particular is riddled with so many basic designing flaws, it's incredible.
So the question is, where is all this extra development going? It's not going into the characters, it's no going into graphics, it's obviously not going into the gameplay (I mean ffs, you shoot the same 4 types of enemies all game)...
They had 2 years to work on Mass Effect 3, and a big budget, and yet they continue to ignore the massive issues that plague almost every aspect of their games, the most prominent being one dimensional characters.
See above, pretty much answers your post too.Vault101 said:snip
In reality you get that for a few reasons. The first being that most likely that bioware writers probably arn't gay but is trying to write a gay relationship.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:Pretty sure EA are back there rubbing there hands since they know Biowares habit of "embracing" (but really insulting) the gay community is selling 500.000 extra copies.Vault101 said:eh?...I don't get the connection with EA thereSmashLovesTitanQuest said:The Witcher.
EA pumps out Witcher 3 in a year, splits the game up into 3 pieces of DLC. It's 10 hours long and [b/]theres a shit ton of gay sex that gets shoved in your face. [/b]
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unless your talking about ME3...but come on...it wasn't shoved in your face, neither was it an EA marketeting decision...it was just a story desicion by Biowae
Except it was.Vault101 said:it wasn't shoved in your face
I explore my ship. I reach the lower level, talk to the first person I see. He blurts out "BY THE WAY I'M GAY AND I HAD A HUSBAND AND HE DIED IN THE WAR DID I MENTION I'M REALLY GAY". Yeah, that's how homosexuals always introduce themselves to others, apparently.
So after a resounding fuck that I take Shepard to the citadel. Yeah, this is pretty cool, just walking along... Suddenly, you overhear a LOUD AS FUCK conversation between a gay couple who just can't stop emphasizing how gay they are.
What makes this doubly amusing is that the straight couples in the ME universe never got this treatment. Apparently heterosexuality is out of fashion in the future.
eh i'd play it once or twice,then maybe once every 6-9 months, but then again, you'll be hard pressed to find me play any game more than once or twice that i don't enjoy the story/characters/dialogue in.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:Heres a question then; would you have played ME1+2 10+ times if the story and dialog had been shrunk to an absolute bare minimum, making the shooting the games defining trait?gmaverick019 said:*raises hand*SmashLovesTitanQuest said:1) No one is there for the gameplay anyway. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who plays ME for the shooting bits. Close to everyone is there for the juicy conversations and story.
I actually enjoy just about all of bioware's gameplay...hell, I don't think my 100+ playthroughs of kotor 1 and 2 could be justified without me enjoying it, and i know I put at least 10+ playthroughs into me1 and me2, which as said, I'd have to be crazy to replay that many times if i didn't enjoy it. granted alot of the enemies don't change much in actual styles and such, but really, not too many games do either, so I don't think you can really count that against them that they have only 4-5 different types of enemies.
Yeah it's not the best gameplay, wouldn't ever argue that, but it's enjoyable enough that it has never once stopped me from continuing the flow of the game or being actually broken.
I actually did end up seeing your conversation with the other person, a long time after I quoted you. Like them, I won't get into a debate about ME3's quality, as we would accomplish exactly nothing. We clearly just disagree about a few things, and that's obviously fine. I guess I'll just leave it at that.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:*snip*