Man, I remember being so fuckin stoked for the original release of Nevereinter Nights. You will be missed.

We'll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!

Many game companies were bigots. shrugs. Another example is Ubisoft, founded by 5 brothers (no cooties eh), very toxic environment from my experience.

Any good old style rpgs old style out there? I haven't found anything since Icewind dale...

So you play a mono-type I guess?

Sorry

Everything EA touches loses its soul. EA was always this turbo-capitalist locust-plague of a company. 'Consume and destroy' is their unofficial company motto.

As soon as they bought Bioware it was just a matter of time.

I've eventually managed to play it through to the end, there's some enjoyment but it's such a forgettable experience to me. Maybe I've misunderstood it, one day i'll give it another go. It has very little to do with the original trilogy, in anything except name and some references. Combat isn't too bad but the story is not that compelling

My theory is that EA is actually secretly ran by Hollywood in a bid to get people back to watching movies and TV.

This meme was a prophecy.

It has a different feel than 3 does, but I liked it as it's own thing.

I definitely recall the ship bugged me a little more, the beginning you're forced to navigate it and that bugged me. There are a lot of good aspects to it. If you like the series it definitely deserves a play. When I was playing and reading reviews I felt many reviews were overly critical and not really accurate. More popular to bash it, etc.

Thank God. I was worried a Saudi Kushner Mass Effect would create some kind of paradoxal tear in reality, like the damn pocket universe in Superman.

Same. It was the first major title I recall with a native linux release. They famously didn't deliver it on release but got it out eventually. Met a lot of good linux gamers on those forums while we waited.

I can still remember that feeling of anticipation when "Westwood" came on the screen. I haven't felt that in decades 😔

It's ran by Saudis, they don't like queer things.

I remember being excited for the original Neverwinter Nights that was made by Stormfront and SSI

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)

It may also have been the first graphical MMO.

I wish it wasn't so hard for people to see them as "folks just living their lives and not affecting mine in the slightest"

Yes, but the Saudi deal is a new wrinkle. It's VC bullshit at its worst. EA was bad before, but it's nothing compared to what's coming.

But unfortunately without the IP

Game companies are reading the tea leaves.

AI bought all the ram

AI bought owns all the GPU

Any Game can be decoded and rewritten in fresh code via AI for the tiniest fraction of a salary. It will eventually be able to do it with performance.

New IP could maybe, possibly be generated by some designer/artist types for the cost of a couple salaries.

The client is in the enemy's (our) hands.

All games must go back to Gaming as a Service

We won't pay for gaming as a service.

No new affordable tech is coming to drive the industry, all games will need to shift to online only, AI may get good enough to make games for pennies.

The only part of gaming that survives this is indie developers that push past making shovelware with AI. AAA is cooked.

Let's just use AI and say that it's fair use.

I spent so much time modding Generals and it was fun BUT it had a problem that's present even today that if you play longer it would get slower and slower and eventually crash, there might be a fix but i haven't bothered to check for the past 20 years.

You're right, it's good to separate the individual from the group. We obviously shouldn't specifically blame every single person in that age group, but we know the generation, in general, took most of the wealth and opportunity, then pulled the ladder up behind them, denying it to the following generations. They also voted for most of the current politicians and policies that are keeping inequality high.

I played it and it is good but i grew up playing Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 so that might be why it doesn't click with me, it's too much like Red Alert 3 and apart from Tim Curry (R.I.P.) it didn't take long for me to be bored of it.

Tiberium Wars was kinda the last game from EA in this genre that i would call good and i won't even bother mentioning the garbage that EA made afterwards.

TR did get some updates so i might revisit it and see how it clicks.

Give it another 5 years and a different, more inept developer

Aw man. Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and OG Dragon Age saw me through some of my formative gaming years and it’s been a shame to watch since. I didn’t even bother with Veilguard.

Larian is our big shining hope for this kind of game now, it seems.

Hence my /s

The mass-unit slowdown was terrible, sadly because the mods were epic

Baldurs Bate 3 is turn based strategy with great writing.

Check out Owlcat's new Expanse game, Osiris Reborn. It's an obvious love letter to everything about the Mass Effect series, while also being the best looking video game adaptation of the Expanse yet.

Thanks, I have tried it but couldn't get into it, guess I'll have to try again!

Everybody affects everybody else. We absolutely do not live in a vacuum. It's why libertarianism fails.

Lol. They already pull in $17B/yr, ~4B/yr profit, ~70% market share, <400 employees.... Privately held...

Gabe already has >9B himself.

Why would they sell?

Sure, some day they may enshitify, but by the time that happens, I'll be able to reverse engineer and recompile my STEAM library on my home server.

hold on, im calling EA to buy your home server rn

There’s Divinity Original Sin 2 from the same developer. It doesn’t use the DnD system like BG3 but it’s very good.

safe to say we won't get controller support for dragon age origins anytime soon 😅

Wait for an upcoming patch where they don't change any of the actual content, but if you're in a gay romance it just continually spawns hostile units every time you enter an area.

Capitalism

I play games to escape reality, not relive it.

Surely copyright doesn't last forever plus a day, and they will be released into the public domain in a timely manner.

When Saudi Arabia PIF and Jared Kushner bought EA, I expected something like this to eventually happen. They would want to prop up consumable yearly microtransactioned garbage over games with more moral dilemmas than their respective regimes are willing to tolerate..

Saudi Arabia bought it to diversify. They want success.

Valve please acquire BioWare challenge (seriously, please acquire BioWare, Gaben)

Does anyone have any methods on studying Marx easily without losing focus and without losing memory, and what should I do if I don't have any motivation to study, mostly out of laziness?

Fantastic game. I think it ran on Amiga 500 and other OS I can't remember. Now my night is ruined until I recall.

Nonsense. A stranger transitioning to another gender has nothing to do with me. I have no business having an opinion on it and neither do you.

People keep blaming Saudi Arabia/Kushner for this, but it was going to happen with or without them.

Ooh another Owlcat game to sink too much time into.

I’m a bit out of the loop with studio purchases, but were they going under originally and needed to sell? I have to assume anyone selling their company knows it’s on borrowed time.

EA offered them a ton of money 100 mil or something in the ballpark and they thought they could keep going as before but with EAs corporate boot on their throats they fell apart, unhinged demands, release dates that required a ton of overtime, etc., just typical corporate assholes destroying a team that created some of the most iconic strategy games to date.

The Saudis who bought it don't care about queer things, religion or morals. They only care about money.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’m not familiar with the Expanse but I’ll keep an eye on the reviews! My windows gaming days are over but if the Xbox version is good I might pick it up.