New Need For Speed Requires Online Connection & Free Games

[owsf2000]

This seems excessively retarded to me as an excuse for forcing online connection.

Glad I've never had an interest in the Need for Speed franchise since that means this doesn't impact me in the slightest. I can just imagine how abused that liked-for-ingame-cash thing is going end up being.

In unrelated news, I found this page on PC Gamer a while back. "Free Games of the Week". They update the page each week pretty much with various freebies available on the net. I just bookmarked it and check it now and then to see if there's anything worth downloading. One of the games this week is made using GameMaker Studio - pushing it to it's breaking point to pull of a PS1-era styled 3d horror game. "Engine aside, this is an atmospheric horror game that stacks up nicely against the likes of Silent Hill and Overblood, even if it's obviously several shades behind those games on account of it being made by one person"

Guess it shows the power of the non-free version of the GameMaker Studio. The free version locks down a few things and doesn't do 3D at all if I remember correctly. Once I finish Graze on the 7800 I may attempt to port it to PC using the free version of the studio - and depending on how it looks, I might shell out some money for it the next time it goes on a flash sale. But that's likely nothing to think about til the Christmas sale.

Comments

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

The new Need for Speed game will require Internet connection because EA (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/598696.html) sucks (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/652438.html). And because that's how the game industry rolls (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/tag/asinine%20anti-singleplayer%20trend), these days, in general. Those are stupid enough, shitty enough reasons.

But yeah, their actual stated reason is indeed incredibly asinine. So, basically, they've turned it into a shitty Facebook game, for the most part, one that just so happens to still require a console to play. Ever the bar sinks lower and lower. Welp, I'm also glad I already had less than zero interest in the Need for Speed games. On the bright side, I guess, we won't have to worry about this for to awfully long, because when this fails utterly (not if but when), they'll just shut it down after a year or so, like they have all their other shitty Facebook games (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/642647.html).

As for the PC Gamer free games stuff, I used to have that bookmarked from years ago, but I never actually checked it all that much, for whatever reason. It's been long enough, apparently, that I just noticed that they have unnecessarily and arbitrarily changed the url, because the link I had used to go to PC Gamer's "Best Free Games" Archive (http://www.pcgamer.com/tag/bfg/), but that url now just redirects to the main PC Gamer site. Rock, Paper Shotgun also has a free games (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/free-pc-games/) section, which I similarly haven't checked in forever, once I stopped following that site altogether a while back (same as with PC Gamer, for that matter). Maybe I should start checking into at least that much of their sites again, though.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Of course, we all already know the true reason (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/tag/drm) this game will require an Internet connection, obviously. Goes without saying, that (though I just said it anyway).

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

And for once it looks like just about nobody is fooled by this, based on the comments I saw for the article. Now if only all those people actually stick to their guns and NOT buy the game like they're claiming they won't. I suspect at least half of them will though, thus encouraging EA to continue with it.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty odd in this case to see so few paid plant rep management drones in there trying to shill for EA like they usually do.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

"to awfully long" -> "too awfully long"

*facepalm*