Volourn

"All those posts are gone." Yeah, that's the only part that sucks. Not to mention, these baords are bare now with only the GD and KOTOR2 (kinda) forums worthwhile... Sarge, don't whine because they banned your trolling butts. At leats Hades admits he deserved to be banned (9 out of 10 times!). R00fles!

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And, try to absolve the BIS lackies of any responsibility. The entire company from the top CEO to the bottom janitor are at fualt. Perhaps, if the janitor didn't demand a $10/hour raise they wouldn't have flopped.

"Its hard to be strong when the leadership was being completely stupid." And?

"Yea, actually you were very annoying at that time Volourn, more than usual." You only thought so as usually youa ren't a target of mine 'cause you ar enormally kewl. You weren't then. "You were the self appointed IPLY crusader, saying IPLY

"ea makes crap footy games; it's a fact. if you knew anything about football and tried one of the fifa games, you'd know that." I know enough about SOCCOR to know that EA's Fifa series is damn good. In fact, they're so damn good they actually got me to wtahc a couple of SOCCOR games on tv though I got bored. SOCCOR is fun to play; boring to play. FIFA CRUSHES its competition. Anyone who knew ANYTHINg about SOCCOR would know thi to be fact. You must be trolling to post such an asanine opinion like it was fact. You obviously know nothing about what you are talking about. Game over. For now.

"baldurs gate 2 and icewind dale 2 sucked." Make up your mind. You go from saying it sucks to it being good.

"Be careful with those flamebaits. Bioware is not the best thing happened to gaming," Yea, theya re. Or darn close it. Only EA Sports, and Squaresoft come close. BIS was also awesome. "Also, they released NWN." Even more reason to like 'em. NWN has been out for over 2 years, and I still play it regularly. Good stuff.

"show me 100 reviewers who said this, then...ye stepped up ta bat, dwarf; at least take one cut 'afore ye strikes out... " Show me yours, and I still won't show you mine. I don't need to prove this to you as anyone who is being honest that most reviewers as well as most players prefer Diablo over PST (or BG, or whatever other game you can think of except the Sims most likely, R00fles!).

"show me 100 reviews that say Diablo is better than PS:T..." Please. You know full well that most people including most reviewers prefer Diablo over PST. Don't hide your ehad in the sand. "Expand your horizons beyond Bioware, Black Isle, and Troika." I did. And, if the Gothic series is a sample of Pirhana Bites' work; I don't want part of it. It had some promise; but ultimately ended up sucking. And, oh, there are other companies I like other than the three you mentioned. However, PB is surely not one of them. i like GOOD game developers. not pretenders.

"100s o' reviews would e'en argue wit' ya on this one... " That's right... others' opinions only matter when theya gree with yours, right Sargy? 100s of reviews believe that Diablo is a better game than PST. That means its true! R00fles!

"Nordom...funny as hell an' one o' the most useful in combat ...Ignus...best mage in the game (not to say much, mind ye)...important fer TNO as he leads ta a slew o' memories... ...Morte...the funniest freakin' NPC e'er...could make PoR2 enjoyable..." No. Morte was ok. He is just another Minsc; though. the other two you mentioned along with tin can suck. KOTOR's npcs are not even close to being as good as BG2.

."..I canna believe it wasna Volourn wit' the Dumbest Thing Posted on these Boards Award[/b] today...well, there's always tomorrow... " That's impossible. Any day you post you auto win simply with your 'dialect'.

"NWN ,well ick. Get deja vu all the time playing that game. Hey look the temple of Lathander is the Halls of Justice. Wow so is that temple in HotU... Not to mention every crypt looking like the creator ruins. More to do with tiles than 3d it has to be said." yet you still play it. Go figure. As for PST vs. BG2 npcs. Overall, BG2 wins easy. Sure, PST has awesome NPCs in Dak'kon, and FFG. It also has some solid npcs. But, fully 3 npcs are crap. Plain, and simply crap. That's almost half of them. Tin Can, Fire *yawn* Whiner, and Puzzler McDuff are all amongst the WORST npcs ever. Extremely shallow npcs who add so little to the experience I gave them the boot as soon as I saw them. Dak'kon, and FFg are amongst my fave npcs ever; but meh for the others. All of the npcs in BG2 have some good qualities - even the highly overrated Minsc.

"well, they DO make crap sports games and they DO charge hundreds of dollars for them. i.e. fifa99, fifa00, fifa01, fifa02,fifa03 etc etc sucked big time. the worst part is, ea used to make good games. fifa98 is one the best footy games ever; but i guess they got too gready and big for their own good. nowadays, konami's pro evolution soccer is miles ahead of the fifa-series. the only thing ea got going for them, are liscenses. real names and players; but the gameplay is horrible." I ahve never paid $100 for a EA sports game. Or for that matter any game. And, they don't make crap games and your opinion about whether they suck or not means very little to me. "Zoq: All I see is someone trolling." That would be you. It's not trolling just because most people on this silly baord disagree with me. Of course, supporting the Big Bad Evil EA tm. is considering trolling by crybabies like yourself even though all you've done in this thread is troll me. Keep up the good work.

I see a lot of crying, I see a lot of opinions; but I see no proof. Mkreku: That would be cool. :cool:

"so the games price needs to double AND suck in order for you to agree its a bad thing? what if the games price remains the same but the quality goes down the tube? is that not enough proof for you?" I'm not the one who made it that way. Someone, I believe #U, said that I would upset if next year it would be doubled in price and suck. i'm just going along with what it said. However, I'll say this, if the price rises up to $100+ dollars and/or the game is definitely worse (as opposed to marginally worse since the Madden series goes up and down sometimes as they twink the game play each year. ie. this year it's MUCH HARDER to run the ball than last year( than I'd complain. But, i seriously doubt that it's the case. "But it doesn't matter since MS was legally declared a monopoly due to all that IE business." Irrelevant. MS has competitor hence it cna't, by defintion, be a monopoly. The US gov't was just trying to steal MS's money. "Instead of coming up with ideas of your own, you just attack mine." Not my fault; you make it easy by giving a bad exmaple. however, I'll give an example of monoplies that are as solid as if they had compeitiors more or less - Hydro. (though technically, the Natural Gas companies now comepte with them). It's really hard to find a REAL monopoly nowdays. Even EA isn't even CLOSE to being a monopoly. Game over.

"MS is a perfect example of a monopoly. You can't deny that." Ha. They are a company that delivers a service that people want and do a good damn job of it. Period. However, THEY. ARE. NOT. A. MONOPOLY. "have provided an example and a reasoning to back my claims. Now it's your turn to do the same. The ball is in your court. If you can't, you will 'auto lose'." You gave one example. That being MS which proves nothing. Not to mention the fact that MS isn't a monopoly. It has compeitiors. Youa ren't even trying. Fer shame. Once again, if Madden 2006 is selling for $160 and sucks 9which i'd find out by renting since I would not pay $160 for it) than you'd win; but since that won't happen you autolose. Game over. Again.

BG2 is the better game than the OC. But, NWN *easily* has better overall graphics though the backgrounds for BG2 were better in many ways. "The lighting was really bad in nwn" You nuts? NWN has some of the best lighting in ANY game. Any game whatsoever. "There was no single moment in all of the NWN campaigns (OC, SOU and HOtU) that I've found as involving as Imoen's rescue." I can think of at least 10.

"setting aside Sports games (for which a new game for a new year makes some sense), how many expansion packs has The Sims had now?" A. I don't give a damn about the Sims. B. Sims gets tons of expansions because want the expansions to be amde because people like the Sims. Period. Stop crying because EA knows how to make games people want to play, and other comapnies seemingly don't. "Precisely what is their motivation for providing you with a bug-free game when they dominate their market? Games released early make more money, and if people want to play them then they (meaning, you) will wait for the patches anyway." *yawn* The RPG genre has comepitgiton yet those games are riddled with patches - even the good devlopers rely on patches. see: BIO, Troika, et al. I have NEVER patched an EA game unless it was a RPG 'cause I never needed to. i need proof before accusing them of screwing up. Not some half wit random dink on a message baord's gloom and doom opinion to go by. "You're celebrating the fact that you have no real choices." The only thing beyond stupid is you telling me I have "no real choice". I always have a choice. Don't tell me that I don't when I do. "Meanwhile, many, and I mean, MANY other game companies can not only compare, but make far better games in other every other genre....and you're apparently happy that a slew of crappy sports games allows EA the power to snuff them out whenever it pleases. After all, if they had only had the sense to stake out their own unimaginative, reliable money-farm rather than concentrating on making new games with new designs that take extra time and money, they'd still be in business....right?" The more you argue about your opinion about how 'crappy' EA games are; the more I'll tune you out as someone who is only attacking them not based on relaity but on your silly notion that they make crappy games. When they don't. Deal with it. "Then why are you whining about how people are selfish for worrying only about the consumers, of which you are a part? Yes, they're selfish; that's the way the whole freaking system works." That's because when people argue against monopilies they make it out to be a morlaity case when it is simply their selfishness. I point out the fact that it's all about selfishness on the consumer's part including my own. If that's the 'way ther system workjs" then you should admit that EA has done absolutely nothingw rong. theya re looking out for thier best interest. As they should. Period. Of course, even as a monoply, it's not in their best interets to make crappy game after crappy game. People will notice, AND they will stop buying. "Want proof of how monopolies have product quality decrease while at the same time increasing prices? Microsoft is all the proof you need. If EA is allowed to get a similar monopoly on sports games, the same thing is bound to happen. Monopolies are the dead end of rampant capitalism." This isn't proof. Get REAL proof. Like I said, if Madden 2006 is $160 and is worse than Madden 2005 than i'll say you'll win. But that won't happen so, once again, you auto lose.

"I think most regulars got banned at that time, so it wasn

"Do you like it so much you'd like to see the same tried-and-true game (or a bazillion expansion packs for said game) released over and over rather than seeing new ideas?" EA has new ideas every year for their sports games. " Do you genuinely enjoy the triumph of copycats and easy-to-develop mediocrity over inspired but niche-market games?" What are you babbling about? EA doesn't need to copy anyone when it comes to sports games. Outside of the silly junky old style Arcade sports games; E pratically 'invented' the sports game. At least sports games thata re cool. I think only a handful of non EA sports games have evr been good. That being baldes of Steel and Techmo Bowl. All else is crap. "Are you looking forward to waiting through three patches (if you even get more than one) for the next game which is released early because selling an unfinished product to consumers is more profitable than waiting until it's done?" WTH? I have never a patch for an EA sports game. None. Zero. Zilch. I doubt I ever will anytime soon. "While they may have better games than EA (and many, if not most, do), they lose." An opinion. An opinion I complete;y disagree with. No one, and I mean, no one can comapre to EA when it comes sports games. This was true even when there was 'competition". it won't change now either. "If so, you're EA's model customer. You're also a dyed-in-the-wool sucker. " Out of all the EA games I've bpight; I've only disliked a small handful. I wish pother publishers - small or big - were even close to being good when it comes to delivering products to their consumers. Next troll please. "Does this improve the situation for the consumer in the slightest? Nope." Nor does it make it any worse for the SMART consumer. Smart sports game consumers buy EA. All other sports gam,es are crap. IUf you supported loer companies I have no mercy for you, suckers. "Waiting for the Almighty Dollar to rescue you from mediocrity in gaming is idiotic, because there's far more efficient ways to make money then to release a detailed and inspired game when it's actually finished." Another opinionated troll. Boo hoo. You think EA game suck. good for you. I think they are good. good for me. I win, you lose. You are the idiot for supporting loser products. "this statement proves you have no clue what youre even talking about." Hilarious. lIKE Taks said, you know nothing. Mor ethan one company sells gas. What a maroon. "uh? the entire point was about how a monopoly is bad for consumers. so the fact you think the consumer isnt important just adds to the proof you have no clue whatsoever about this topic." No. the pointwas that monoplies ar ebad. Period. They aren't or theya re depending on who has a monoply. EA having a monpoly of NFL games is a good thing for EA, the NFL, and intelligent sports game fans. The moronic sports fans can either shape up and buy EA Madden or go cry in their spilled milk. No matter what, I win. "Yeah, so going from having nice games at nice prices to having mediocre games at ridiculously high prices is indeed winning. Like it or not, that's what a monopoly means. Higher prices, lower overall product quality." Proof please. I paid $80 dollars for Madden 2005. It was a great game with some faults. If it comes out next year for $160 and is just medicror or outright crap than you'll be right. It won't so you auto lose. "And no, I could care less if you buy games or not." It's good to know you care. "After all, if I don't feel like paying what a game's worth, I can just rent it, even PC titles. Can you say the same? " I edn to rent before buying console games. Though; for the last 3 years I've made exmeptions for E sports games. In that time, I've bought 9 of them ,a nd only one I regret. Damn NBA Live 2005. LOL I'm more likely to be screwed buying crappy RPGs like POR2, IWD2, MW, and others than an EA sports game. that's for sure. Peace. GO EA GO! edit: "I'm sure EA executives are touched at your heartfelt devotion to their well-being, but since you're a consumer I would assume it would be in your interests to figure out how you get a better game rather than how EA keeps it's market share. " Eh? I couldn't care less about EA. if they made ****ty games; I wouldn't buy them. Period. If they made ****ty games I disliked; i woiuldn't care that they'd go under. I support them because they make games I like. I'm as selfish as the next consumer. I never said otherwise.

"im still not seeing how that is good for the CONSUMER." Ahh.. I get it. It's all about selfishness. It's about you. That's cool. At least it's good to know. "where is your "proof" that ea owning the market place is a good thing?" Simple. EA makes games I like. If they continue doing so; I have no need for other companies spamming NFL games on the market. "just look at the gas industry" I look. *shrug* Competition is there. It is NOT a monoply. And, the services they provide vary in rnage of price and service so your point makes little sense. Try again. And, once again, this tlak about the consumer. Screw the consumer. I hate consuemr.s I hate 'em with a passion. They are selfish, arrogant, igmornat, dumb,r etarded, cruel, jerkish, and every other name I cna think off. They are pure evil and need to be CRUSHED.

"keep thinking that in a couple of years when ea doesnt have competition and can get away with releasing half assed games for twice the price because the consumer has no other viable options available to them." Proof. All you have is whining, undocumented, unfactua, no basis in fact, mythical rumours that show that will happen. I'll believe it when i see it. I'd rather trust EA to bring the goods than trust random posters on the internet who have start of hate hard on for them. If EA does what you suggets; they won't get my money. period. And, guess what? I'll move on and survive. But, I doubt it'll be that way.

"volourn, just an observation, but you dont have much of a business background or knowledge do you. its quite evident in the way you have this twisted view of how a monopoly is a good thing. " Just an observation; but I never said a monoply was a good thing.However, it's preferable than having fake competion. I want real competition. I want companies that can compete on their own two feet; not be allowed to compete just because.