portal and plants vs zombie were great, a good ending song makes credits worthwhile...also try cave story (best freeware game ever) for nice credits (except freeware quality though)
well, those are play for free games for you... EA definitely is not the first or the last to do such a thing, I was a Zynga player (FB game company) for 2 years and I cannot even count the number of times this happened - that conditions have been changed during a promo action...if you read EA terms of service you will notice a line that states that you agree that EA can change its products or terms of those products...you could file a lawsuit, but I doubt it would help, since the ToS cover this, this and many other instances...
a great example for me would be Legacy of Kain Defiance, it got 6.9 on all platforms but heck, I rated it 9 and still consider it one of the best games, great story and fun combat...
a shame dragons are pretty weak and don't level scale enough to your level...meaning at higher levels the dragon although now being elder or ancient are just far easier than lower dragons on lower levels...
what's with all these graphic comparisons lately? especially for games which do not need them at all?...portal was/is really one of those games who are absolutely not about graphics, environments perhaps, but graphics? no way...still I'm sure a lot of people will use this thread to point out how powerful computers/graphics they have...
Planescape torment, The longest journey 1, Arcanum, BG2 Throne of Baal, and especially Albion...those were the games with uber story lines...personal favorite is TLJ, in which you get sucked in slowly, but completely...
I mostly agree, Kane, Conqueror and Andrew Ryan were pretty great villians (never played FF so can't say anything about Sephiroth) thanks to those traits mentioned, I also agree with Dragon age 2 missing a villian is a bad thing and the villain from Bulletstorm being an epic fail...one thing with which I disagree are the Reapers, I thought they were/are great villians and had this mystery thing going on (even the mystery about their motive) so you should have placed them in that category, I loved the explanation they gave "our motives are far beyond the understanding of primitive civilizations such as yours" (ME1 dialogue with Sovereign), sure it was a cheap way for the developers to get by, but at that time, right there when I heard it, it did sound epic enough... As for personal preferences, I loved Kain and ultimately also The elder god from the Legacy of Kain series (humanity or rather the lack thereof); The Dark Savant from the Wizardry series (mystery and a mysterious motive); The Transcendent one from Planescape torment (another mystery); Karras from Thief 2 (talk about presence, this guy had it totally!!) and lastly also Glukkons from Oddworld (humor should be included as the 5th reason!)
dragon age 2 has bad gameplay mechanics (no friendly fire unless on nightmare and nightmare was too hard to do, camera) and serious repetitivness in dungeons (seriously why go back to ME1?), that much is true, but as far as the story, characters, world, graphics and sounds go, I think it was comparable to Origins, overall not a bad game if you don't compare it only to the top of the top like DA1 or BG2, but compare to other newer RPGs as well...also, they could have spend more time creating it, it got released way too early, and I second the "all EA's fault" which bloodmoney92 wrote...
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