EA should be taken outside and shot in the head

PiKe

PiKe

PiKe

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Seriously, What kind of junk is Need for Speed Pro Street? It's annoyed me no end but I've nearly finished it, the speed cahllenges are mostly retarded due to the moronic AI and jittery handling, the Grip races offer no challenge or variety, the drag races are very boring and drifting is stupidly easy because you can do a variety of things to artificially increase your score.

I'm seriously considering cancelling my Burnout Paradise pre-order.
 
It's on rental.

I played the demo and it seemed ok, but the full game is just too much, not enough variety makes it boring very quick and frustrating.
 
Some interesting stats from gamerankings:

SEGA

Number of All Releases: 641
Number of All Pre-Releases: 47
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 72.2%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 6.9
Number of Reviews For All: 8761
Number of Previews For All: 7946
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 14
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 169

EA Games

Number of All Releases: 282
Number of All Pre-Releases: 18
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 72.7%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 6.9
Number of Reviews For All: 7029
Number of Previews For All: 10779
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 25
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 599

EA Sports

Number of All Releases: 480
Number of All Pre-Releases: 3
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 77.2%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 6.4
Number of Reviews For All: 8175
Number of Previews For All: 6760
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 17
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 2,253

Konami

Number of All Releases: 530
Number of All Pre-Releases: 27
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 66.6%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 6.2
Number of Reviews For All: 7789
Number of Previews For All: 6735
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 15
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 249

SCEA

Number of All Releases: 307
Number of All Pre-Releases: 25
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 73.8%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 6.5
Number of Reviews For All: 9060
Number of Previews For All: 7191
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 30
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 288

Nintendo

Number of All Releases: 403
Number of All Pre-Releases: 12
Company's Avg Ratio For All: 78.1%
Company's Avg Vote For All: 7.7
Number of Reviews For All: 10134
Number of Previews For All: 7443
Average Number of Reviews per Title For All: 25
Average Number of Previews per Title For All: 620

I know pure numbers can mean very little, but I do think it's a complete myth that EA's output is considerably less than the average in terms of quality.
 
wedgie said:
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I know pure numbers can mean very little, but I do think it's a complete myth that EA's output is considerably less than the average in terms of quality.
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It is not a myth at all. Most EA titles have or have had issues that other games simply don't. These range from poor game or gameplay design to bugs. Their custom support is shocking, they really don't give a crap. People don't hate them for no reason.
 
If I was a tester for them, I'd just make stuff up so they could never release anything anymore, the world would be a better place for it.
 
dbmzk1 said:
It is not a myth at all. Most EA titles have or have had issues that other games simply don't. These range from poor game or gameplay design to bugs. Their custom support is shocking, they really don't give a crap. People don't hate them for no reason.
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Most? I don't think so.

Plenty of developers suffer the same problems EA do, although you could say for the size of EA those problems are less acceptable from them.

There are very few developers that you wouldn't be able to find **** poor releases from them.
 
RuMp3l4$k1n said:
This year just past I've had some cracking EA titles and I think the view of them churning out nothing but **** is a little out of date if I'm honest.
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It is. It's just a myth that people buy into because it's said so much. Of course EA have released some shocking games, I'm simply saying the idea that only EA do this is ridiculous.

Their average review score for their games is very much in line with what some of the other main company's are receiving.
 
lol, EA is one of the reasons I stay out of the PC section. There are a lot of uninformed people who just blame everything on EA which is ludicrous when they are only the publisher.

Yes they have a lot of power, but the poor standard of any game is always down to the team working at the developer.
 
nokkonwud said:
I don't think Criterion would be too happy.
If you weren't aware, Criterion are the ones who made Burnout Paradise, not EA.
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Criterion are an EA owned studio, and in fact I don't think are even called criterion anymore. Actually I think what was Criterion is now EA's UK development headquarters.

The reason people think EA sucks is because they have more crap games than most companies because they are bigger than most companies. Plus EA are more blatent with their branding. Games from big companies like Ubisoft or Activision tend not to be so obviously branded, so people don't notice they make just as many crap games as EA do.
 
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