Poll: Who is more evil, EA or Activision?

[Alexander Cunningham]

Franchise fuckers activail without a doubt.
Now to change the subject slightly.
Are there any GOOD publishers?

 

[xXDeMoNiCXx]

This thread should be called, "Battlefield fans will say Activision, CoD fans will say EA."

I'm a Battlefield fan and I chose EA.

Good for you, I was generalizing for the fanboys that will follow a company no matter what. Thought that was plainly obvious.

This just in: not everyone thinks like you. Thought that was plainly obvious.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

This thread should be called, "Battlefield fans will say Activision, CoD fans will say EA."

I'm a Battlefield fan and I chose EA.

Good for you, I was generalizing for the fanboys that will follow a company no matter what. Thought that was plainly obvious.

This just in: not everyone thinks like you. Thought that was plainly obvious.

This just in: I was GENERALIZING. Someone doesn't understand words.

 

[Brandon237]

EA due to there tampering have ruined Mass Effect 2

Define ruined.

ME2 definitely did not have the feel of a ruined game. It was a well-polished, well made, entertaining game with deep and interesting characters and the ways in which your decisions and previous play influenced the ending was quite clever. It also had, in my opinion, good replay value (ie: I played it about 5 times before I touched another game).

OT: Slightly more activision, but I HATE some of Ubisoft's buggy games, they are full of nonsense sometimes... My copy of Assassin's creed (a new, unscratched disk) gave me the buggiest few installs I have ever had on this pc. I had 11 BSODs in 1 day.

My PC almost fried from that game.

ME2 had a ton of retcons from ME1. (and retcons alone are usually break the impersiveness enough for me to hate said games that have them) But in addition the combat in ME2 was waaaaaaaaaay worse than ME1. Well it was good for generic shooters but I did not play ME1 for generic shooters I played it for the unique combat of the Mass Effect universe. Instead in 2 it was all replaced with heat sinks (see retcons), a cover system, and weakened Biotics which no longer worked on simple armor or shields which is bogus.

Also many of the characters were uninteresting bricks with little need to be on the team. Honestly we could have gotten by with half the squadmates we had and that would have given Bioware more ability to make a more believable story with no bloody plot holes in it.

And onto the story it was plot hole heaven with almost no need for it. Hell one of the DLC not only had another gaping retcon introduced but made the already forgettable and unneeded plot of ME2 even more unneeded.

Oh and Shepard died in the beginning only to come back to life. Way to ruin the flow of the game off the damn bat Bioware.

Lack of powers to use.

Honestly the only good thing about ME2 was Legions whole arc minus the actual mission where we get him as the Derelict Reaper is piss in its own right for what it does to the story and the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC.

If you haven't yet watch Smudboy's videos on youtube. He can describe the crappyness of ME2 in more eloquent detail than me and my bad English can describe.

ME2 combat worse than that in ME1?
THAT is one I have never heard before. Of all the arguments I have heard, that must rank as the weakest. The combat was fluid and it didn't take you 47 hours to heal in the second one. The heat sinks made more sense for combat (the use of heat sinks WAS explained in the game and the codex/manual thing), although that is just my opinion. Also the abilities required some tactical use with the different armours et cetera. In ME1 it was a case of use biotic, every enemy is dead now and flying 300 feet into the atmosphere of the next planet.

The characters were, in my opinion, a lot more interesting in ME2, especially Garrus, Thane and Legion, all awesomely done. All the characters had clever back stories to me and I actually wanted to learn more about them.

The death of Shepard at the beginning was used to start the story they had intended, they needed all the old crew to have gotten themselves into some interesting situations and for the universe to have changed a little (collector crisis, vorcha).

And putting entire posts in colour is frowned upon here, you are just one of many users, if everyone did this the forums would be a mess.