A dick would be a delicacy. They can eat shit.

Nom nom dicks

Time for me to continue never buying any EA game I can avoid again.

I know, right? D: I've told myself in the past I wouldn't buy EA games again, but then I keep seeing what I think are good deals and can't pass them up. :<

Well, I make exceptions for games like Portal - but aside from that, I'm not giving EA any money. Didn't buy Darkspore, for instance.

Portal isn't EA, thank God.

Oh...I saw Portal 2 on their site for sale, though?
Anyway, I bought it through Steam.

If you think that's bad, you should see what they did to Harry Potter. Turned it from a free-roaming adventure game into a rail-shooter.

That game was one of the shittiest things I have ever played. EA in general has improved since then, though.

I bought it yesterday, just before hitting the sac, because you were playing it. I was like:"If the Cap is playing it then it must be good". :p

Sorries! D:

Bha! I can't blame you for that. I should have asked you about it. :p
By the way, I loved your critique on Metacritic. <3

What about Dragon Age origins? That's a good EA game, though probably only because of BioWare's influence.

Yeah, EA seems to not understand how to run sequels when it comes to games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

i haven't played dragon age 2 yet, so i don't know about that one.

WOW.

Yeah... I bought this because I had played the original NFS III: Hot Pursuit, and that game was actually fun and engaging... almost every stage as a racer had a chance of getting caught in a chase, and getting hit by spike strips or pitted into a barrier spelled game over... in the new one, the cops are an annoyance that slows you down enough to let one of the other racers win the race, at best, and they don't even appear on half the races down public roads. Instead, they just give the other racers twisted metal style offensive weapons like spike strips (which only spin you out, don't do anything else) and some kind of ridiculous projectile-EMP cannon, which momentarily slows you down and dents in your back bumper. It's more like mario cart than a proper racing game.

Then in pursuit mode on the old game, you could capture suspects by cornering them, boxing them in, pinning them to barriers, etc... and that was the idea. You had to stop them somehow, either by pitting them or corralling them into spike strips or a barrier, and then box them in so they couldn't escape, and the chase was over when they couldn't get away fast enough. The chase would stay on until you either ended it, or you messed up allowing them to escape (if they got out of your line of sight for more than like 10 seconds, the chase was over.) In the new game, this just plain doesn't work. Spike strips only spin them out (and damage their car's health bar a little bit... but not much--it would take like 5 spike strip hits to total a car...) And by spinning them out, you just make them teleport back into the middle of the road going full speed again, which confuses you and makes it all the more difficult to catch up with them again. You can try and corral them into a barrier or something, but the same is true--they might take some damage, but the collision will slow you down more than them, because they'll be teleported back into the middle of the road again. Even if you pull off some epic maneuver to slam them head-on into an immovable barrier at 220 MPH AND slam into their backside at the same speed after they've stopped (front-end collisions don't hurt cop cars), they'll only take like 60% damage, and just teleport back into the middle of the road and keep going while you stay stopped facing the barrier, which completely RUINS the potentially epic moment. I've even struck cars with such force that they flipped OVER the barrier, went flying off the road and into a cliff-face, coming to rest upside-down in the grass... and they teleport back onto the road and keep going like nothing happened. Nope--the ONLY way to win, is to keep playing bumper cars and whittling their health down bit by bit until they're totaled... even at 1% health, they just keep going at 110% of their top speed like nothing had happened, until you finally scratch the paint of their back bumper one last time, and they flip over and crash burnout-style.... which again COMPLETELY ruins the intensity of the moment. If they cross the finish line, even with one sliver of health and a hair's breadth away from your Bullbar, they escape and you lose.

"I'm sorry officer, but, as you can see, I've won the race now, so, you can't arrest me... I'm just going to take my prize money and go have a drink at the bar. Care to join me?"

"Okay, you win this time..."

*eyeroll*

Also in the old game if you damaged their car enough, it would slow it down, mess up handling, etc... you know, all that cutting-edge locational damage technology thing that was all the rage in 1998. It seems we've gotten a lot less realistic since then... what, did the technology to make this basic stuff happen just go away or something?

sounds really crappy

It was pretty fuckin crappy.

I stopped buying EA games when they bought out Westwood Studios and shat on the Command and Conquer series. Fuck EA.