Aurora313 wrote...
Joy. Thanks EA. It's not like they F*cked up every other series they've touched. CC4 for one. I wasted my 16 (was that was '09 right?) birthday present money on that one... god, what a waste. It was pathetic. Would have been innovative if it weren't the last game of the series. And the ending was - shock-horror - the same no matter which path you took. You get shot by your CO and Kane leaves. Only difference is whether or not your wife is alive. And honestly in the GDI side, thank GOD she's dead.
I'm sorry, EA of now is pathetic. They used to be good, CC3 was GOOD. Loved every second of it. Loved every second of Kane's Wrath. But the last five years have been horrible to say the least. I'm a lazy person, hence why I play games, but this is seriously making me brush the dust off my nintendo games and play those. A last decade was awesome. Story was more important than graphics.
I stopped after C&CG:ZH. I loved the Generals series more than ever. A little too much if my parents had anything to say about it when I got the game back in 2004. I missed out on the Red Alert 2 series, so I got the First Decade, played the campaign non-stop, and I loved that series even more. Suffice to say, I was never a fan of the Tiberium Wars, so I wasn't all too excited for C&C3. And I'm not even going to buy Generals 2. Saw the trailer and thought it was way too extreme for my tastes.
And sorry for turning this into a non-Ash rant post, but I miss that. The Zelda series never had the best/awesome graphics, but it has one of the largest fan bases that I know of because its cliched but the story is told with a new twist each time. And Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are still names that you hear around the place, hell, they've even been remastered (OOC has, not sure about MM).
I miss the old days where story was everything and graphics were next to nothing in terms of importance...
Can't say I've played any of the games, but I always had interest in learning about them because of what I heard, especially OoT and MM. I missed out on a lot because my first console system was the GameCube.
I miss the days where I could be snarky/renegade to Ash and she'd have a witty comeback and still be tagged as the love interest, not this 'Oh, you renegaded me once in this minute conversation at the start of the game. You don't want to romance me anymore.' stuff. I could joke offhandedly about her sister singing show tunes and she'd have a witty comeback that I'd laugh at...
I miss those Halcyon days...
Indeed, those were the good ol' days. ME1 didn't always have the renegade comments that made everyone hate your guts. I loved joking around with Ash, Garrus, and Wrex with some snarky comments and then receive a witty comment in return. I was laughing when the Ash romance lock-in and the pre-romance scene came up because I could tease her, and she'd return the favor. I miss those moments. In the other 2 games when it comes to romance, if you renegaded a response, the moment was most likely over. You'd be considered a d-bag that didn't care. I hated that that's how it's become throughout the series.