This:
That is all.
Keep on pwning and owning
~noob622
Programming and Game Design from the mind of a noob.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
When Titans fall....
So the Titanfall launch has come and gone, with its usual slew of issues that can be expected. By this time, most of the Xbox One hiccups have been patched (M$ really wants this game to succeed, wow.), however, PC gamers are still facing issues. Again, that's also to be expected, especially since were talking about Origin here.
[begin Origin hate rant]
See, Origin is like the ghetto, cheap version of Steam. EA, voted the most evil company on the face of the planet, wanted to break into the PC market, so they created a digital distribution system meant to rival Steam like some demented software version of Barry from Pokemon Diamond. But PC fanboys are stubborn; they need a valid reason before they make a change. Well, EA pulling almost all it's non-PopCap games off of Steam is a pretty good reason enough. So Battlefield, Need for Speed, Sims, Spore, and Mass Effect were all on Origin "only" (even though you could easily get it from GMG and such). So fans of those games (myself included), thought, hey, whatever. We're cool with that. And we all downloaded and installed Origin, hoping to get in on some of that Battlefield 3 action. And then we realized how utterly terrible the thing is. Now, overall, the program itself is pretty solid. Though it doesn't have 1/4 the features Steam has, it can launch/download games, make shortcuts. It has cloud saves and friend chat, along with an overlay system. It even has Twitch streaming, which Steam doesn't have yet. So the program is not the problem, for the most part. It's the evil corporation overseeing the program. Customer Support = non existent. Nope. Go to the forums, see all the rage. You have issues from 2011, I'm talking Battlefield 3 era issues, still not patched. They just refuse to listen to the customers. My biggest issue is the language/currency issue. They base your language off your IP, the most stupid thing ever. They think: You have a German IP? You must speak German! Well guess what, EA? I want to play my goddamn games in English, uncensored. Nope. Can't do it. Your store is in German and your currency is in Euros and it's going to stay that way. This issue was brought up in June of 2011. It's March of 2014. And can you change the language of the website/store now? Nope. Even though the forum thread started in 2011 had over 100 replies before being locked. And don't get me started on the banning issue. You say anything remotely bad about EA or to any of its forum users, and it's instant ban. Meaning you can't play the games you paid for for however the long the ban is. That screams effed up in every way. Then you have the terrible downloading speeds, the lack of multiplayer servers in certain locations, the frequent connection issues, and the fact that EA is spying on your computer, makes Origin the worst excuse of any gaming-related software ever.
I'm dead set on the belief that no game, no game, is worth dealing with Origin for. Even Battlefield and TitanFall.
[/Origin hate rant]
Now, don't get me wrong. EA makes awesome games. They really do. Titanfall is amazing on Xbox One and 360 (what I got it on), and I am a NFS/Plants vs Zombies/Peggle/Star Wars/Battlefield fan for life.
Just do us a favor.
Just publish on Steam like every other sane game publisher.
Anyway, that's all the rant for today.
Keep on pwning and owning.
~noob622
[begin Origin hate rant]
See, Origin is like the ghetto, cheap version of Steam. EA, voted the most evil company on the face of the planet, wanted to break into the PC market, so they created a digital distribution system meant to rival Steam like some demented software version of Barry from Pokemon Diamond. But PC fanboys are stubborn; they need a valid reason before they make a change. Well, EA pulling almost all it's non-PopCap games off of Steam is a pretty good reason enough. So Battlefield, Need for Speed, Sims, Spore, and Mass Effect were all on Origin "only" (even though you could easily get it from GMG and such). So fans of those games (myself included), thought, hey, whatever. We're cool with that. And we all downloaded and installed Origin, hoping to get in on some of that Battlefield 3 action. And then we realized how utterly terrible the thing is. Now, overall, the program itself is pretty solid. Though it doesn't have 1/4 the features Steam has, it can launch/download games, make shortcuts. It has cloud saves and friend chat, along with an overlay system. It even has Twitch streaming, which Steam doesn't have yet. So the program is not the problem, for the most part. It's the evil corporation overseeing the program. Customer Support = non existent. Nope. Go to the forums, see all the rage. You have issues from 2011, I'm talking Battlefield 3 era issues, still not patched. They just refuse to listen to the customers. My biggest issue is the language/currency issue. They base your language off your IP, the most stupid thing ever. They think: You have a German IP? You must speak German! Well guess what, EA? I want to play my goddamn games in English, uncensored. Nope. Can't do it. Your store is in German and your currency is in Euros and it's going to stay that way. This issue was brought up in June of 2011. It's March of 2014. And can you change the language of the website/store now? Nope. Even though the forum thread started in 2011 had over 100 replies before being locked. And don't get me started on the banning issue. You say anything remotely bad about EA or to any of its forum users, and it's instant ban. Meaning you can't play the games you paid for for however the long the ban is. That screams effed up in every way. Then you have the terrible downloading speeds, the lack of multiplayer servers in certain locations, the frequent connection issues, and the fact that EA is spying on your computer, makes Origin the worst excuse of any gaming-related software ever.
I'm dead set on the belief that no game, no game, is worth dealing with Origin for. Even Battlefield and TitanFall.
[/Origin hate rant]
Now, don't get me wrong. EA makes awesome games. They really do. Titanfall is amazing on Xbox One and 360 (what I got it on), and I am a NFS/Plants vs Zombies/Peggle/Star Wars/Battlefield fan for life.
Just do us a favor.
Just publish on Steam like every other sane game publisher.
Anyway, that's all the rant for today.
Keep on pwning and owning.
~noob622
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Yeah, yeah, I know.
"Daily Blog" and whatnot. Whatever. It's not like I don't want to post (I really do want to), it's just I have nothing to post about, really. I guess that's just me.
I'll just start posting random gaming stuff I come across.
But not today. No, today, I will be discussing my next YouTube video. Check it out: so I got a brand new game I'm featuring. One is South Park: The Stick of Truth. Get ready for some epic laughs in that one. However, due to the nature of the content (SP fans know what I'm talking about), I'm going to release another live gameplay at the same time. What it will be on is TBD.
Nothing big releasing next week, so I probably won't cover anything... Or maybe I'll do a hardware review on the New Nvidia Titan. Fall is a long way to wait for that new Arkham Game, just saying.
So look forward to a few weeks of that...
Keep on pwning and owning
~noob622
I'll just start posting random gaming stuff I come across.
But not today. No, today, I will be discussing my next YouTube video. Check it out: so I got a brand new game I'm featuring. One is South Park: The Stick of Truth. Get ready for some epic laughs in that one. However, due to the nature of the content (SP fans know what I'm talking about), I'm going to release another live gameplay at the same time. What it will be on is TBD.
Nothing big releasing next week, so I probably won't cover anything... Or maybe I'll do a hardware review on the New Nvidia Titan. Fall is a long way to wait for that new Arkham Game, just saying.
So look forward to a few weeks of that...
Keep on pwning and owning
~noob622
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