Your Friendly Neighborhood Satanist is back and ready to talk about his favorite publisher out there, Electronic Arts.
So, 2011 is half-way done, and we've been beset by a whole slew of games. Most notably are the games coming from the developers under the publisher, Electronic Arts.
The year was entered with a fresh look on the shooter landscape, Battlefield 3 was going to kick ***, and whatever might get between it and total domination would fall. EA was outspoken, and knew that the next Call of Duty being announced was inevitable, so they pursued their goals in hot pursuit.
In the first half we have the triple sequels, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, and Crysis 2.
Dead Space? Scary as usual. Dragon Age? Less tactical, better on console (surprisingly), but no major blemishes Crysis? A genre-saver.
THQ hired amateur developer Kaos Studios to make a good Turning Point game, Homefront. Instead of Nazis, they went with Koreans. Everyone was hyped-up, the game was going to change FPS' forever.
Oh, we were fools. What fools we were!
Homefront hit the FPS market and stopped it in its tracks. What we had was a high-profile Call of Duty clone, down to the controls, graphics, multiplayer, and mello-dramatic set pieces. (Who put that guy in charge of the white phosphorus? And stop being such a wimp! This is war! Don't cry about them burning! If you don't like it, leave the resistance and accept Commie rule! Sorry bout the rage >B^D)
The FPS market was at a standstill. As it looked, the most popular genre of gaming had shoved progress and innovation out the door for the extra paycheck.
Enter Crysis 2. This sequel to the flawed graphical perfection from 2007 was set free from its PC-exclusive holdings and was let free to roam on consoles, and it did a lot better good than you might expect. Crysis 2 was a game unlike any I'd seen before when I started playing it, the sound design, strategic gameplay, and fluidity of changes made available for the Nanosuit made the game the breakout hit of the first half of 2011, well, behind Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat of course.
Crysis got the FPS back on track, and with it in our veins, we were able to handle the assaults of meager titles like Brink and Duke Nukem: Forever.
EA has since been propping its end-year games to the highest caliber.
Bioware's been releasing more and more information about Mass Effect 3 that make our mouths water again and again each time we peek, and the developer even said that it wouldn't be happy unless Mass Effect 3 was perfect.
Digital Illusions' mega-title, Battlefield 3, is set to reclaim the throne it once held in the beginning half of the 00's, and with Infinity Ward broken, coupled with Raven, a disaster developer, working on MW3, it looks as if Modern Warfare will have to warm-up after losing its other big rival last year.
And now we're dealing with a third contender in EA's scope, Valve. Valve's online distribution program known as Steam has unified the PC gaming community better than XBL or PSN combined, and EA wants a cut of the action. The two publishers first showed signs of skirmish when Battlefield 3 was not on a list of games to be on Steam at the end of year. This was followed with Dragon Age 2 being taken off Steam, and according to EA, this was of Valve's doing.
EA has its own PC distribution system, Origins, that is up and coming for another crown for EA.
So stands Electronic Arts. They beat out Activision in the music genre battle over the course of the past four years, and it looks pretty bright for the eccentric developer.
So, discuss! Do you hate EA and what they're doing, or do you agree with their policies and adore their games?
Well EA as a company I don't have too much respect for. I'm just happy that I don't want any of their games on the PC, because I don't want to be bothered with another digital distribution service. EA has been infamous in the past for killing once good franchises such as Command and Conquer(after the generals series that is) as well as a few select others such as Need for Speed(most wanted I honestly believe was the last good game in the series) and while a few of their developers have managed such as Bioware, Digital Illusions(to a degree), and few select others possibly(a lot of their developers aren't owned by them so they don't count) the fact of the matter is that like Activision they are more concerned with a profit margin over the quality of gameplay and so they set deadlines so strict that many games published by them(again with a few exceptions) tend to feel rushed and sometimes have missing features which were in the last game and such. The thing is I will probably still play a lot of their games(mostly rentals probably) but at the same time that doesn't mean that I want to support EA as a company though.
Ea makes some very good games they did good this year but they had other good games : Mirror's Edge, the Sims, FIFA. I love most of their games, but I only hope they make origin good, cuz I had bought Bad Company 2 and it was 16+ here. When I went online to create a account I couldn't because my xbox (msn) account wasn't 18 so I have to wait two years to play it.
EA games are not bad but technical support is bull**** bot generates messages. Thank for this kind of help they could not help me with cerberus network in mass effect 2
