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Yep I'm On right now, exited Ni No Kuni to check the store. I have 2.01 in my current wallet. Weird.

It's not April 15th yet.

I accidentally did my taxes ten days ago. Not that I'm getting much back, I have mine set up properly, so the government isn't getting much in the way of interest free loans out me. If I didn't have so many games I haven't played yet, I'd get in on Ni No Kuni. It will just have to wait until I've cleared the backlog.

Not trying to rain on any ones parade but I hope Dead Space 3 flops like a lead balloon. Making a 60 dollar game with a "freemium" option seems very underhanded and its getting out of control. 10 years ago, extra costumes and cheats were built into the game not pay us extra. EA seems to try doing this with everything now days.

For those who arent aware, You can now craft weapons in Dead Space and to do so you collect parts/currency to make said weapons in game. When you enter the "Shop" it advertises buying currency and parts with real money(You know because you already paid for the game once) to "speed up the process" but the problem and my counter argument to that is the balance needed for a freemium game is so strict to make it fun, most F2P games have a hard time hitting it. Let alone a game YOU ALREADY PAID for intentionally restricting drops to make paying more for "convenience" seem like they were being nice.

And I know the argument could be made "Well its balanced around solo play through not needing help" but then whats the point of it being there. EA wants to make money so you know for a fact they are going to nerfed drops in the game just enough thats its doable but just frustrating enough to make some people pay.

Lately I've just been getting so frustrated on how I see the game industry going. I miss my PS1/2 days back before all this, locked on disk content, cut pieces out to sell you later, and the omfg must spend millions of dollars to make a good game mentality. So now we get shoehorned into few AAA games, which are mostly sequels, all for the sake of "progress".

Back in those days there was TONs of games every month, some AAA some unknown. Some crap some hidden gems. Honestly the years of hidden gem games seem far behind us, because small and startup studios cant afford to make Super huge ultra graphics and all the systems needed to play on a PS3 HD platform or afford the licence fees to publish them on a home console, which is just saddening.
(Example: Katamari Damacy (SP) I found out about this game at a shop via word of mouth, when you try explaining it, it sounds extremely stupid. But playing it it's fun as all heck, even if simple" How many Katamais like games (Minor budget hidden gems) have you seen this console generation?)

I'm waiting to see which game is going to be "E.T" for Atari and break the gamers back. Unfortunately at this current time because of so many COD kiddies and the like, I just dont see it happening.

(Sorry for the mini rant, I just start typing sometimes and can't stop til I get it out :s )
(BTW I know I know PC master race, but until I can get my JRPG fix, which lately is part of that ****** Big budget, big studio only mentality ((SE how you've fallen)) consoles will have a spot for me as a gamer)





Edited, Feb 1st 2013 11:02pm by BeanX

The game has a great combat system, but everything else about is cookie cutter MMO. It's more like playing an action game than a MMO. But then the quests, the story, the items, and the grind are classic MMO.

Gentlemen your attention please!
Back to the topic at hand.

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All for $5.18 Which isnt a bad price. a lot of these are smaller indie stuff but I've seen a few get decent marks.



Edited, Feb 4th 2013 3:33pm by BeanX

I'm pretty sure that the Dungeon Siege studio was shut down by SE, so get them while you can.

Spoon, sorry If I made it sound like an attack directly on EA (which it sort of is). I have no real issue with the company overall, but ANY company that would put micro transactions to a game, ruining its balance, and still charging full price. Mike B just uploaded a video explaining why he's refusing to play it also I'll embed that lower also if you want to see it.



Some of it doesn't pertain to most users, the monetization of LPers but I feel he makes some good points about why I dislike the ideas being placed in the game.

Sorry If I came out all RA RA Hate EA, and while I dislike Origin, the point behind my stupid rant was more of "this is the direction games overall are going and I really need to say something"

I'm not upset if someone attacks EA. I said I understand it. If you go on big social sites like Reddit, you'll see there's a lot of basically "does anybody else hate EA?" type of posts.

I only have the Mass Effect games and Dragon Age on Origin, and I've never had any trouble playing them. Perhaps I've been lucky. Steam is much better now than it originally was, and the only issues I've had in years was trying to play a game that hadn't been updated, while not on the internet. From what I understand, offline mode is much more streamlined than it used to be, though I've had no cause to use it.

I agree with Rao's stance on SimCity. I'm not a fan of always-on DRM. Ubisoft has used it in the past (Anno 2070) and I thought it was bad. Blizzard has it for D3 and it's stupid there. I also won't be buying SimCity, primarily because of the always-online DRM, and some of the lowest common denominator gameplay pandering that goes hand-in-hand with forcing everyone to play online in conjunction with one another. Most of all, not being able to revert to a previous save takes all the fun out of ending a play session by unleashing all the disasters on your city. I think forcing a game that I always thought of as a more solitary gaming experience to be a slave to an internet connection is a terrible design choice, and sure I'll blame EA for that.

I don't know. I don't particularly like EA. I don't like a lot of their practices. I guess I'm just saying that I don't care enough to not buy their products if it's something I'm interested in.

For what it's worth, I have 2 Origin games and have zero problems playing either. I've had more problems with Steam, and even then not many problems. It used to be horrible on my machine.

I had $10 loose in my gaming budget so decided to get in on Founders. Your analysis of it seems right on. The combat was pretty fun even with a sorcerer (fireball, fireball, fireball, fire column, backspin!) but the basics of it are stock MMORPG. Go talk to that NPC who wants 5 mobs killed, go collect ten widgets from widget-monsters, here's a new robe, here's some new shoes, etc.

I forgot how god-awful male models are in these Japanese styled games. All of my characters are female except for one male demon guy who looks like a 70's glam rock reject. The chubby woodland animals and bunny girls make my Western MMORPG soul cringe.

As long as it's free from here on out, I'll doodle around in the world when I want a stock MMORPG fix. It's nothing to write home about but it's nothing aggressively bad either. I'm not a big end-game raiding person these days so I'll probably just wind up with a handful of characters in the mid levels before my interest just wanes completely.

One thing to note. Most character's don't get some of their most signature abilities until 28-30 ish. Although the beginner stuff on N00b island is fun to play with sticking with a character a bit longer will give you a better feel for how they will shine later. The combat gets pretty twitch and dynamic. That more than anything kept me playing later on. it did not matter if I was killing 10 bumblesmucks in sector 7, it was more about killing them with style and efficiency.

Especially when it comes to fighting BAM's solo or in smaller than called for groups. Timing and spacing become everything. It's the old paradigm though take a game with great combat + great story telling + great endgame and you got the Triforce MMO. Most of them seem to have only 1 or 2 of the 3.