Ross's Game Dungeon: Zany Golf
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Ross takes up golfing and investigates the forces of darkness behind it.
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So google recently removed the "don't be evil" from it's motto.
That doesn't sound like a good sign for the world...
They just removed the "Don't" part.
source?
Well, they cant attempt a mass indoctrination and rigging of the 2020 elections if they keep the motto
So I guess it had to go
@@OGXenos gonna need a citation for that
@@predator3299 Go back to reddit.
Dang, our birthdays are like a week apart! Happy birthday, man!
And I've only ever played the DOS version, eesh. That freaking pinball hole, my word.
I never played the Amiga version prior to this review actually. Since the AppleIIGS one came first and was clearly superior to the DOS one, I thought I should get as close to the source as possible.
Accursed Farms the hole in 1 at the end was a great touch xD
Achievement unlocked:
See two people who you are fan of talking in one discussion
***** Achievement unlocked:
have the same birthday as Ross
(provided he posted this on his birthday.)
+Darkrune365 That's not an achievement, that's a coincidence.
I just realized that Ross probably spent his birthday working on Freeman'd Mind last year (which was 5 days ago). Happy birthday, Ross. Hopefully you won't be so busy next year.
Oh how wrong we got it last year!
At least we can say that Bethesda learned their lesson. They stopped writing code that people would want to steal.
Savage
Now, other people put out code for their players to use and fix bugs with for free. It's like they learned their lesson, and now the exact opposite of their consequence is happening. Now that takes brain power.
+Teh Joosh
No chill.
They also killed Prey 2 when it was almost done D:
BOOM bitch!
no srsly WTF is wrong with my Dragonborn DLC?! I STILL haven't completed that quest from the guy JUST OUTSIDE RAVEN ROCK GGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I'd love to see Ross talk more about EA. It's very fascinating hearing him call a company legit evil.
5 years later: EA evil is an old meme but still applicable
Wait, did 5 years ago people NOT generally consider EA evil?
I feel like these days most consumers are under the general understanding almost all the triple A publishers are evil.
@@0sm1um76 I think EA has generally been considered scum for a long time. They just got more brazen about it in the past few years. Granted a lot of companies have as well, but EA continues to push boundaries in just how awful a company can be.
@@0sm1um76 most consumers just buy their crap, that is the fundamental problem.....
@@0sm1um76 5 years ago EA hadn’t caught flak for Star Wars Battlefront 2 yet, so the general /critical/ and insider consensus was that EA was evil, but the average person either didn’t know or didn’t care at all.
Only Ross would leave me feeling enlightened about the concept of evil because of a game review.
Hell yeah.
Worked briefly with Will Harvey in grad school, long after this game was produced. Brilliant and super-nice guy, no dark side evident. But he does have a reputation for building fiendishly brutal games: see The Immortal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(video_game), reputed to be one of the hardest games for the NES. I own a copy of this, but am in no danger of getting past the first few screens.
I didn't know that marble madness and the immortal are from the same person. Both games attracted me. But Marble Madness (arcade) is a fair game and can be beaten (if you play on an emulater and set mouse sensitivity to "constantly overflowing if you aren't careful")
"But when you KNOW a lawsuit is frivolous and you're using your financial advantage to ruin someone else, that still strikes me as kind of evil." This reminds me of what I heard about Creative Labs in the '90s. Especially their case against Aureal Semiconductor
*EA Games.*
_"Challenge legality."_
Challenge sanity.
*EA Games*
Challenge everything
(This already shows more about EA in a nutshell)
“Challenge everything. Including you pathetic mortals’ petty concepts of good and evil.”
As for examples of evil, just take a look at BF3's release and BF4's release. During BF3, they promised PS3 preorder users a free copy of BF1943. Later, they took that incentive away and said that they dont feel the need to give out BF1943 for free because a "majority" of PS3 users already owned the game. They got hit with a class action lawsuit, and were forced to honor the offer that they made to PS3 users. Although, in order to get the game, there were a lot of hoops to hop through.
With BF4's release, they outright put out a non-functioning, incomplete game. And this was after a beta (which was more of a demo). The issues that the game had were known about well in advance, and yet they still decided to push the game out instead of delaying the game. Loss of save progress, console freezes, server freezes, netcode problems, and glitches galore. Here we are 2 months after release, 4 patches down the road, and the game STILL nearly as unstable as it was on day 1. Least on 360. And during this time, they decided to push out a DLC because "it was in the final stages of production" rather than focus on fixing the game. And when that DLC came out, there were PLENTY of issues that came with it. The biggest one being that there were nearly no servers to play it on (about 4 in my server region, with no servers running the new game mode that came with the DLC).
Now, where does this lead? Well, apparently EA had hyped up their game so much and changed sales projections days before the release of BF4. And during that period, it seems like EA took advantage of the situation and dumped a bunch of stocks during that period. The game released as it did, stocks dropped, and they even came out later and said that "they would halt development on all DLC until the problems are fixed". Which dropped stocks even more. Two class action investor lawsuits have been filed on EA because of this.
EA is literally killing DICE, the developer. In addition to BF4 and it's DLCs, they are also pushing DICE to develop a new Mirrors Edge game, and a new SWBF game. Sure, they have DICE LA, but DICE LA is just Danger Close reskinned. And they've not made a good game since they've been in existence (both MoH reboot games).
Add other poor design decisions, losing one of the original head developers for DICE, and just some other things... well, you get the point.
I could literally rant on EA for some time more, and give more examples, but I'd be sitting here all day if I did.
I feel betrayed as a customer, and I know it's hurting DICE alot (a development studio that I love). With the way things are going, DICE wont last too much longer, and there really isnt much we can do about it. I've taken a stand to not play BF4 until it's fixed, but that's because the game is pretty much unplayable for me and I just dont want to deal with the frustration. I play games to relax and have fun. If a game cant provide me with that, then why am I playing it?
Anyway, that's my rant. And again, Happy B-day Ross.
~Neo
I'm still upset about Battlefield 4 PC :(
I wouldn't necessarily consider that to be "evil" except for the part about damaging DICE. These are simply poorly thought out, despicable business decisions that have not necessarily hurt anyone other than DICE which, granted, does count for some points to your credit.
The scenario that Ross described where they filed a lawsuit that they knew was bullshit in an attempt to bankrupt a poorer company, on the other hand, THAT is evil. That is literally the same thing as a schoolyard bully stealing a smaller child's lunch money and they pass this off as a "business strategy". That is mind blowing to me.
Welcome to the future. BF4 got fixed eventually. BF1 was pretty fantastic, though its DLC cycle was odd; new Mirror's Edge was mediocre and flew under my personal radar; Battlefront EA was... okay, I guess, though I found it lacklustre, and Battlefront 2 EA was a microtransation fiasco. DICE is still alive, as EA seems to like Frostbite. For now. In the mean time, BioWare is eating shit after the dramatic failure of ME: Andromeda and as its developers break under the "pressure" they're suffering under the development of Anthem.
BioWare lost me after Mass Effect 3, though EA is probably to blame as well. Anyhow, I won't cry over their likely demise. The moment EA kill DICE though, I'm out.
This is "asshole", not outright evil.
Wasn’t just pre-orders, ALL copies were announced to come with 1943
Ross, I have to say, in my mind you are permanently the voice of Freeman. Meeting you in reality would be like meeting Kevin Conroy, and I would be just as startled to hear one of my favorite animated voices come out of you as I was him.
Fun fact: At first I was shocked that I hadn't seen this episode of Ross' Game Dungeon before. Then I realized it was posted during a time when I was suffering from a chronic illness that was slowly causing sleep deprivation and oxygen starvation, thus making it extremely difficult for my brain to form new memories. (It's being treated now, so I'm fine.) So even though I've probably seen this already, I get to experience it as if it was brand new. That doesn't happen every day.
Anyway: great video, Ross!
Holy crap man, glad you're doing better now.
Everytime Ross puts a new "dungeon" out i'm like "no way this game is gonna be interesting", then i start watching because of his personality and by the end of the video i'm like "what was i thinking? I want to play this game now so bad! It is so good!" Some great a work you're doing there Ross, getting people interested in games they would've missed otherwise. Thank space jesus for you. Happy birthday, man! You are awesome.
Ah jeez, I feel guilty. I subscribed to you for Freeman's Mind and have been ignoring your other videos for no logical reason whatsoever. I need to change that, this was entertaining.
Same here, had time to kill and my subscription list was otherwise dead. Game dungeon shall no longer be ignored.
Yeah, Ross is amazing and still at it. I swear he is the human Tom Servo.
@@boblobotomy7982 lol, yep, 6 years later and I'm still watching and loving his stuff.
@@koolgool amazing, totally didnt expect a reply.
It's interesting on hearing your arguments about EA. I'd love it if you could make a full video on it. Accursed Farms
Yes please.
7:12
"Here's the problem with Electronic Arts..."
**grabs popcorn**
Hey Ross, my birthday is one day after yours.
It's a bummer to be getting older.
Well we just have to keep killing zombies until we can't anymore.
A somewhat common definition of evil: Gaining profit for yourself either using or ignoring the harm it causes to others or alternatively just cause purposeful harm without further motives.
I don't think that would leave much to argue about what is evil and what is not.
@Lassi Kinnunen good point
The problem with that is that it does not factor in altruistically motivated act's of evil. You know the "For the Greater Good" kinds of things. That while (typically) less common, almost always cause significantly greater harm.
@@patrickbuckley7259 I'd argue it belongs in the same "profit for yourself" category, but the "profit" here is for ego and perverted ideologies instead of materialistic values.
@@ng.tr.s.p.1254 That's a gross stretch. It's also a less usefull defination. It's important that we not try to mischaracterize people who commit evil which good intentions. As doing so makes it easier for us to fall into that mental trap. Saying it's all about ego or ideology is a means of othering them and their intentions. Allowing us to more easily dismiss when we are getting ready to step over the moral event horizon, because we have "the right motivations."
Whether Ego and Ideology are at play, and while they often are, they aren't always. It's important to remember the person in question does not see it that way. Nor would we if we where put into that position. Trying to assign evil to a specific motive like personal profit is a fools game.
@@patrickbuckley7259 NG is right about ego and ideology, though. Think about it. People generally don't see themselves as evil. They aren't "exploiting workers," they're "maximizing productivity." They aren't "committing genocide," they're "eliminating enemies of the state." They aren't "defrauding" anyone, they're "redistributing the wealth." They aren't "emotionally abusive," they're "keeping the peace."
Thing is, *true* altruism is never evil because you find out what's needed and then provide it without hurting anyone. Anything else is just putting on a front.
Ross, EA's evil goes even farther than we think.
See, when EA does "Day One DLC", shoddy annual sequels, and doesn't allow mods for their games, these trends become more accepted because of how POWERFUL EA is. They've got massive influence in both the corporate and gaming world.
Then, these shitty practices become the standard for other developers/publishers because they see EA's games top the sales charts month after month. All games which employ these exact "features." Your example of their worker exploitation is another harrowing instance of this.
It's a vicious cycle.
Yeah, when you're powerful you have the moral obligation to act with a strong code of ethics. Failure to do so is evil, even if the acts you commit are just dickish in any other context.
Shut up, commie.
@@PasserMontanus Great input.
@@PasserMontanus fuck off spooky midget
Precedents set by large evil corporations are a motherfucker.
They’re shysty so now we all have to follow suit.
6:34 Modern architecture is created to keep people separate, moving and buying, rather than interacting or idling.
***** It is very boring, but it's also a fact. Modern architecture is literally created for that purpose. Companies studied the psychological effects of various architecture and designed modern architecture for that exact purpose.
***** The bland modern architecture was created because it's uninteresting and thus people don't spend any time admiring it, and it's made relatively poor for human congregation intentionally to prevent loitering. Inside of stores, it's more like shape, colors, layouts, lighting, sounds, scents, and building shapes. They've used psychological and sociological research to figure out exactly what tricks they can play on the very pathetically easily tricked human mind to get you to buy more, think less and move along. This isn't a conspiracy, this is in textbooks.
***** There are people that profit off of that, it's just that if you're in a plaza or something like that there's not much you can do. That's why Hot Topic and Spencers both have that intentionally different storefront though. It's more places that have no need to draw your eye because you pretty much need to go there, like shopping plazas and supermarkets, as well as modern cities (it's also good for space because squares and rectangles are good for that). Places trying to look visually appealing, like malls mix the two so there's visually appealing elements but still a very tracklike design. Supermarkets spend millions researching the exact design that gets people on average to spend the most. The reason it changes occasionally is because the confusion draws up sales because of impulse purchases because people see products they usually wouldn't because they're lost.
Local grocery stores here seem to build in such a way that people gather at entrances and narrow hallways to talk. I just want in the store or to the till and that's a "the look" worthy social faux pas apparently.
Supermarkets where i live deliberately space the essential groceries like paper towels, dairy, TP and bread as far apart as possible to maximise the number of isles the shopper travels through thus increasing the odds of them making an impulse buy
"Firing lots of competent people at the same time you're making record profits"
Looking at you, Konami towards Kojima Productions
Konami in general at this point
Just to stoke the fire of your torches: Konami made an 'HD remaster' of sorts for MGS3. Everything visual was touched up, especially the character models. But they used that only for pachinko machines.
Prophetic as shit, with Activision and EA this year. Fuckers. Evil, vile scumbags.
The pinball hole reminds me of the time I did minigolf at The Funspot (aka the world's largest arcade, located right here in New Hampshire).
I was at the second to last hole, which was a bridge, and the last hole had a pinball theme to it. I was lining up my shot to make sure I got a hole in one on the bridge, what wound up happening was (and I'm not making this up) I hit the ball so hard, it jumped off the bridge, rolled up the pinball machine and I got a hole in one there. The people behind the counter had such an awestruck look on their face, like they hadn't seen anything like it before (and I'm willing to bet they haven't).
Long story short, I walked away with two free games that day.
Happy Birthday!
EA killed one of the best video game series ever. That's more than enough to hate them. I miss you so much, Oddworld.
RIP Command & Conquer.
Wait what? What did they do to Oddworld after New N' Tasty? What did they do to screw over Inhabitants?
Lyserjix Lie-Ser-Jicks They didn't screw them over after New N Tasty. They screwed them over on Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath. As for New N Tasty, it was their own fuck up. Oddworld Inhabitant's, I mean.
Oh right, now I remember! The fact that they swept those 2 games under the rug advertisement-wise was pretty unforgivable
Nejo Goldsmith u sayin New N' Tasty was a fuck-up nigga? *Raises Pimp-Hand*
"You are in, Player 1!"
That's what she said
That profile pic suits your comment quite well.
Well, EA's frivolous lawsuit to ruin Origin is probably a good reason Richard Garriott would call the owner what he did. Given Origin was Richard's company. If you owned Origin systems and saw someone pull a stunt like that on you (which really is criminal behavior for which *on paper* wasn't something the law could come down on, at the time), you'd probably say the same thing. That's one of those, "How can you sleep at night after doing that" things. Kind of leaves a bad taste in one's mouth that EA named their online store with the very name they pretty much bullied into their company.
Sad part is that people, even today on TH-cam, talk about videogame companies that are way worse than EA. But once they state examples, it's completely clear they just don't know of EA's history. Because even this one example is something just about none of them ever tread upon.
I think it's safe to say companies like Activision-Blizzard and Ubisoft have dethroned EA as the most evil company in gaming, but I still get ticked off when people say "EA isn't that bad". EA is the old, retired villain, while ActiBlizz and Ubisoft are the new, younger and more depraved villains.
Ross, you are truly are an inspiration.
On another note, that victory yell at 14:22 cracked me up.
The DOS version... that was a part of my childhood there! The bleeps and bloops have just such orchestral creativity with the limited sound. :-P
"This is the second largest hamburger I've ever seen." - Guybrush Threepwood, 2013
The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Game companies rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished. Bioware is not the first. By utilizing our funding, game companies develop along the paths we desire. They exist because we allow it, and they will end because we demand it.
--rEApers
I'm copying that and and keeping it on my pc to show it to my friends, nicely done ***** :) Also have a like you deserve it ^^
Eh, the credit isn't mine to take. Saw that on a Message board some time ago.
Still it's quite funny :)
Remove the word game and that sounds like the villan in an Ayn rand novel or something. That's cartoonish evil. That's just being a dick for its own sake.
It's the monologue from Sovereign, the Vanguard of the Reapers, from Mass Effect.
It's pretty much about a race of synthetic alien constructs that purge the galaxy of intelligent civilization every 50,000 years. So...yeah, EA.
4:16 -- That burger must've been cooked by Chef Torte.
"Ze burger! Eet iz moving!"
Game Dungeon has become my favourite show on youtube. Can't have enough of it. Commentary and delivery is hilarious.
Happy Birthday, Ross!
Ross, have you played "Neverhood"? It is hilarious oldschool quest with tons of humor, awesome music and expirience for all times!
Let's mention that EA has repeatedly inflated expectations on upcoming titles to increase their own stock market values, in order to make (albeit dumb but still) investers buy inflated shares that they are then forced to sell because hey, the sales projection was like punching a polar bear in the nards and expecting a positive outcome. For example Kingdoms of Amalur and Battlefield 4. I even think some investers sued EA for delibrately pushing stock, for which they plead innocence with their supreme court worth ofmlegal department, right before doing the same thing again with the next big title.
That's what arseholes like Maddof and Belfort do, so it's not really evil. When I or anyone who doesn't abuse words such as "evil" use it, we mean companies like Rio Tinto and their corruption of the Timor region in Indonesia to maintain their control over the region's mines AND subjugate the people there with help from the government.
Hell, although EA has done a lot of evil, they don't hold a candle to Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, any Oil Company, General Electric, HSBC and any major bank that has been in a scandal pertaining to arms dealing and stock manipulation.
...I can't decide if having the voice of "Owls want me dead" conspiracy buff Gordon Freeman strengthens or harms the 'EA is evil' discussion XD
Given their track record with studio mismanagement, I'm pretty sure that they intentionally broke them apart... How many times have they "reorganized" themselves?
Ross, you are one of the few people left on this planet with the balls to call it as it is. EA IS an evil company, and no, most corporations DON'T have a solid grasp on basic morals. You sir have earned my respect. Not that that's worth allot, but I figured I'd share that with you regardless.
Happy Birthday indeed Ross, good to see another video from you. I like seeing these old games to be both reminded of the good and fun of gaming but also the sheer (positive) insanity it represents/represented. Definitely looking forward to see even more.
I really enjoy this series, Ross. Something about how and what you talk about allows me to watch and listen for long periods without my mind wandering.
I always enjoy being exposed to games I hadn't heard of before as well.
Keep up the great work and happy birthday.
Well happy birthday, Ross.
Ross after 10 years you haven't aged one iota
I really like the tangents you're going on in this series. Always worth my time. Thank you, Ross!
PS: Greetings from Poland!
I could watch these videos multiple times and STILL get a good laugh out of them. Ross, I wish you a long-continued success making videos.
I like Garriott as much as the next guy, but if Ultima 1-6 are anything to go by, his metric for an antichrist might be just a tiny bit messed up.
Hey Ross. You heard that EA published Dungeon Keeper and set it up so that A: It pressures you to pay at every point it can, and B: It rigs its 5-star system so that it's impossible to rate it below maximum?
Don't forget the fact that it charges for almost every block you place unless you want to wait 24 hours. That's like an RTS where you could either pay 5 bucks to have a unit move one square, or wait up to 24 hours. It's sadistic.
@@Wishes_for_Fishes This comment was 5 years ago, I wonder if any free to play people out there have completed it by now.
Happy Birthday Oh Wise & Powerful Ross Scott!
I've so thoroughly linked your voice to Gordon Freeman that even as I'm hearing you talk about stuff out of "character", I still picture Freeman playing these games and doling out his opinions as he does.
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Moving away from EA for a moment, I wholeheartedly understand what you mean about games that make you wish the whole world was like that. The biggest one for me at the moment is _The Witness_; if you don't know, it's a puzzle adventure game in the style of _Myst_ where all the puzzles take the form of maze panels. Some puzzles require you to use logic (like tracing a line over all the dots or dividing the white and black squares, all without going back over yourself), while some require the use of external environment cues (like looking on a nearby tree for a hint on how to solve a tree-shaped maze). It messes with my head slightly, making me wish the entire world was just an intricate series of interlocking maze puzzles. Like, instead of a key for my door I'd have a big blank maze grid that could only be solved by overlaying an image from my phone. Or if you go to buy groceries, you could get a discount if you solved a logic panel in a certain amount of time. It makes me imagine some alternate history where the panels were given to mankind thousands of years ago and integrated into human history, so you'd be exploring ruins and find doors that can only be opened by solving these ancient puzzles. TL;DR version: _The Witness_ is awesome and I want my life to be more like it.
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Watching this again in 2018, and shuddered at the line "Adding Micro-Transactions to a 60$ game". I'm certain Ross predicted the future in this due to the 2017 Battlefront 2. I mean, EA wasn't the first to do it, but I think it was the first to put it in a 60$ game. The others that do this either made the games free later and/or kept it to a max of 40$. Still pretty bullshit, but EA's was BULLSHIT. Especially with how they handled it.
Keep doing these man. I like how these in a way are just reviews, but you give them your own twist which makes them enjoyable.
Spent countless hours on this game as a kid. Great review. There is actually a secret stage you can warp to by hitting your ball in the mouse hole when the red eyes appear in level 9. At least this worked on the IIGS version.
Happy birthday, Mr Morgan Freeman's mind man!
MrMeow110 That may well be wishful thinking more than an actual mistake.
I still can't believe that EA got away with ruining Westwood, and how few people know about it.
This one hits me in the nostalgia feels. Remember playing this when I was around 4(?) with my late grand father on his old Atari ST.
This is the game that peaked my curiosity about computer gaming. I remember in 7th grade, the school acquired some IBM computers and a teacher would play this game on his spare time. I watched him play and really enjoyed the colors, sound and graphics and the game was addictively fun what little I did get to play. I never knew until recent years they later ported it to the Sega Genesis.
You went off the scope with the EA rant though, I assumed this to be an overview of the golf game, not your rage against their publisher.
WOW... I didn't know that.
What I always thought about EA was they used to be an ok company back in the old days (say, up till the end of 90's), but turned progressively more corporate-like and greedy the bigger they and whole gaming industry became... Hearing they pulled some bad shit back in 87' is... wow, "Challenge everything" indeed, heh.
Also, holy shit, I just realized I haven't watched Ross'es videos for more than a year.
All this discussion of EA games makes me miss Westwood Studios.
God dammit EA you killed C&C
Happy birthday, Ross!
That final statement was perfection.
I totally agree with the Architecture statement. My Highschool was built in the mid sixties and hasn't seen a single renovation since, its entirely made out of bland brick and yellow faded floors and walls. Seriously wanna kill myself when I'm there.
Thing is with most buildings in the school system, they tend to let the building go as far as it can lifespan wise with minor fixes through out before even thinking about proper renovation as that's money they don't really have on hand 90% of the time (school fees to parents isn't enough for even a medium sized school to properly fix things) that money mainly has to allocated by the state to pay for a full renovation.
For instance the highschool i went to in Western Australia had bloody DEMOUNTABLES (basically a building that can be jacked up and then built around AKA a temporary building like on a construction site) for their special education students and they were awful (i was one of said students) and those demountables had been there 12 years prior to me attending that school...It wasn't until the majority of the normal kids parents bitching at the school that they looked god awful and so out of place that the school gave the special education staff/students two whole buildings and classrooms to use and then the following year they relented even further and actually asked the state for funds to build new staff rooms and classrooms in the same area that the original buildings that they had given to the special education staff/students...Something i might add, SHOULD have been done years ago!
The demountables there were supposed to house the special education students while a new wing was added for them but guess where that money went? On a new bloody gymnasium/sports hall of all things when the previous one on the school grounds was only 4 years old and plenty large enough for the amount of students that were enrolled at the time!
Down Pandemic studios? Y'know, the guys who made Mercenaries, Star Wars Battlefront. They shut them down because the game (Mercenaries 2) that they gave like, 2 years deadline for didn't make enough profit.
The dos sound as a ring tone was exactly what I was thinking about. I even like it.
That thing with the frivolous Origin lawsuit is called a SLAPP suit. SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, and it refers to when a company sues someone with the specific purpose of hurting them financially with the legal process itself. When a company does a SLAPP suit, they're doing it against someone who is critical or competition, but is in a much weaker financial position. The company sues, and the defendant is put in financial jeopardy because of the legal costs, so they're forced to give up outright. States have been passing anti-SLAPP laws over the years, but many states still are behind on those, and those particular states companies are VERY sue-happy.
cough cough firing westwood studios
Happy Birthday Ross!! And yes, EA are evil. Bullfrog, Westwood made lots of games I adore! And now I fear they will continue to reboot franchises from old titles, making them mediocre and sucking all the good stuff out of the original. Case in point, Syndicate! My favorite game ever! On the Amiga, would play that for days at a time. When a reboot was announced, Oh boy! An updated graphics engine. Refined gameplay. A more strategic style.... was what I wanted. Instead, a so-so FPS, loosely based using some points from the original back story of Syndicate. In that one swipe... destroyed it, and now labelled as Syndicate, people will go "Oh that FPS game?" "No, the four-man strategy game!" "Oh, yeah. Never played that!" -.-
Yeah it's annoying that they just remake old games and make them generic. I liked Syndicate, but it really was just another FPS. There was no reason for them to tack on an existing title when all they barely pick up anything from the original. I guess it earns them a few more bucks from people who liked the original.
Happy birthday Ross please continue what your doing with Freeman's mind and Ross's game dungeon
Ross I've watched your videos for a while now...a lot of things you have said have won me over now.
I would probably be more likely to shop at Wal-Mart if they had a giant engraved face on their facade. Especially if it was grimacing. That would just give you an honest idea of what to expect inside.
Me and Ross have the same birthday?!?! :D
I've watched all of these like 10 times lol, I know you gotta be busy but PLEASE don't let this series be over!
Happy Bday Ross! I've always had great enjoyment from all your videos.
HURRY UP WITH THE NEXT FREEMANS MIND BRO
Doubled Fun Just like EA. (The first one I mean)
EA, Activision, Ubisoft... I'll never understand how or WHY business executives in the gaming industry think it's a GOOD idea to act so predatory and disrespectful. Whether it's to one another, their own employees, or the people they WANT to be buying their products, it seems counter-intuitive to me... I personally don't think an industry centered on ENTERTAINMENT should be so cutthroat and dog-eat-dog
Happy Birthday Ross and thank you for all your hard work and creativity you make for us to laugh and smile in your videos!
Have you ever played Golf without a Golf Cart? Yeah that will get you in shape.
Ross for Minister of Ethics!
That's a government position that I just made up granting him legally binding power to declare things as evil. It wouldn't make those things illegal, just officially recognized as evil in a court of law. Evil people and companies wouldn't have to pay any extra fines or deal with any new laws. They might, however, have to worry about the threat of paladins.
I kind of think we need that as a branch of the government and all governments a bunch of moral monday people to shake their fingers at politicians and corporations whenever they try and do something evil.
EA made DICE rush Battlefield 4 which i still like but it could have been alot better without all the bugs and glitches.That and a finished single player campaign.I mean am i the only one who noticed that it felt as if it were half done?And i don't mean because of all the glitches either,i mean because it felt like half of the game was simply missing.Either way EA definitely sucks.
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EA made DICE rush every game since BF2 not just BF4, scratch that, they made every developer under them rush their product out.
karambiatos Here's hoping the release date of "When it's ready" for Mirror's Edge 2 holds true. I've been waiting for that game for years, but that last thing I want is a rushed product if it can be avoided.
reNINTENDO Agreed,I really liked the first one and i hope the second one holds up to expectations.
While this is several months old, my confusion with regards to this is how much some folks will talk about how evil EA is, without paying as much regard towards Activision...which I would argue has been worse as of the past few years when it comes to being evil.
Happy birthday, Ross!
Really liked your digging up of Gridiron. I almost thought they were actually good people there for a second, what with "Can a computer make you cry"
"Like an overpriced or a bad DLC, that doesn't count"
EA: Is that a challenge?
Kinda evil: Breaking up a tightly knit community for the sake of money they're not patient enough to wait for. Their DotA-style game, Dawngate, has been in beta for 18 months, only 6 of which were open beta. It's closing in 87 days because the income was too small for the suits' liking. :c
Ross, you really shot the arrow on the target about EA, I used to hate ea for making bad battlefield games, the third one was good, but the other 2 ones, ya. But now since you talked about bethesda, one of my favorite video game companies, ripped off by EA, I know that now they are really, 'evil'. =D
+John Zombi Hahah, no
***** Ben Dickie is right you know?
+John Zombi Paid mods were taken down from Steam, dumbass. Also, name one game where Bethesda released day one DLC.
Oh wait, you have the Vault Boy as your profile picture...................
+Spyro Holy shit that is the longest space I've seen.
I remember that berger level. This game was way too hard for me when I was a kid.
[ sees that I have already liked this video ] "... I have no memory of this place."
But I DO remember the Amiga version of this game from my early childhood. I remember tapping one of the keyboard buttons to make the burger jump higher...
electronic arts? more like, evil arts.
+Cloaked_Villain08 more like electronic farts
How about them spending 747 million dollars on marketing and then using that as an excuse as to why used games are terrible and why we should pay more for games?
Ross, please, for the love of everything sacred, make more Ross's Game Dungeon !
Are these videos scripted or ad libbed? If they are scripted then they are excellently written and engaging. If not, then he is incredibly talented and naturally funny.
Hey!!!! I take that “bipolar disorder” comment as a insult! Most of us like (and possibly make) good music, honest 😒
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Maybe you got insulted because he was getting to close for comfort w his truths
Valve is better.
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I don't think we can really condemn limited arithmetic as evil.
***** Valve is just refining their games, you see TF2? That game was 7 years late and it kicks ass. Valve is probably doing the same for Half-Life 3, but they're taking a longer period of time as HL3 is going to be on the Source 2 engine, which isn't quite finished yet.
Sold Gineer You just made me realize I've been waiting for HL3 for seven fucking years.
***** Valve might take a long time to release games, but when they do get released, pretty much everyone loves them. Remember when Half-Life 2 came out? Many publications called it the best game ever made. A fair number of people think it still is. Valve's other games have met with similar (though not quite as superlative) praise. I think it's worth the wait for games of that caliber. Putting the best possible product out there is more important than getting it out fast. I don't think you can call them 'dickish' for that. You may disagree with it, but they're not doing it to spite you (probably not, anyway. If they are, then they're definitely dicks).
As a developer, Valve is the superior company. But in terms of their online distribution services (Steam and Origin), EA is surprisingly the more consumer friendly option. With Origin, you can get a refund "within 24 hours after you first launch the game, within seven days from your date of purchase or within seven days from the game's release date if you pre-purchased/pre-ordered, whichever comes first" if it's an EA published game. With Steam, you're lucky to get a refund at all, even if the game doesn't work at all. It's fucking ridiculous and probably illegal in most markets. It's even worse when you consider Valve's complete lack of quality control.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROSS!
dude, happy birthday man, i'm watching this the day of my birthday; finally hit the big 21.
EA being evil? Hmmmm...... Well, they are slowly killing Bioware, who was once one of the best RPG makers in the world. If you question this, lets compare games Pre-EA ownership(roughly 1996 to 2007 and post-EA(2007- present).
*During the Pre-EA era we saw*--
1-Baulders Gate
2-Baulders Gate 2
3- Neverwinters Nights
4-Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
5- Jade Empire
6- Mass Effect 1
Here we see some of the best RPGS ever made. These games are highly praised and are still played to this very day. Now....
*During Post-EA we saw*--
1- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
2-Dragons Age: Origins ( The best post-era game, but that is only because it was started in 2005. So it was probably nearly done when EA stepped In.)
3- Mass Effect 2
4- Dragon Age II
5-Mass Effect 3
6- Star Wars: The Old Republic
Here we see dumbed down sequels and one MMO that has been criticized on a fairly regular bases.
It is So easy to see what EA has done to Bioware. They have reduced them to a shadow of their former self. I really hope that Bioware can make a comeback with the third Dragon Age, but I do not see that happening. Not with EA in control and with most, if not all, the original people at Bioware gone.
Frostfireglade Still seems a bit evil to me to be destroying a once great company.
DarthKato But they're not destroying it. Bioware is still making heaps of money and if EA were to disappear overnight I'm sure every publisher would do their best to pick them up. Their reputation has suffered, but most people choose to blame EA for that anyway.
I thought Mass Effect 2 & 3 were great games. The day one DLC was annoying, but that was really my only complaint. And SWTOR is also a great game at its core, but EA has crippled it by messing around with the payment model too much.
kemj25 Meh, my problem with them is that the games gradually went from super long titles that were jam-packed with content (I have been playing ME1 for about three years now and I am sure that there is more underneath that nuget core) to a one hour shoot them up.
ME2 was the best mix i suppose but i still think it would have been better if there were more things to do.
hahahaha! I got 100$ from EA because I helped a Lawsuit against them!
Happy Birthday Freeman!
Just listening during late 2020 Quarentine, hopefully.
Late 2022: things are somewhat better now.
EA is pretty much trying to ruin Maxis.
Yah. The latest Sim City looks really fun, but the stupid "always online" requirement keeps me from going to buy it. I really like Maxis' old games.
Peter Gill And tiny cities.
TreuloseTomate
Yah, I seem to recall being disappointed when I saw how tiny they were.
The whole release was rushed, nothing was ready. The servers were hit so hard that it took weeks to get to a playable state. When it was "playable" there were so many bugs and gameplay issues, such as cities just disappearing, losing connection to the servers, traffic being unmanageable no matter how much mass transit you put in. I had building being built on top of buildings because the game was reading zones overlapping. The always online requirement, which they said was because a lot of the computations are ran server side, which someone proved was a lie after they hacked the game and disabled the web connectivity requirement. To top all matters off, EA blamed Maxis for the whole thing. Then tried to make it up to everyone by giving them a free game from a selection of old titles that no one really wanted.
And Dark Spore... Oh, the horror!!
I don't play EA games because I hate EA and because none of their games are all that good.
Why would I buy a $60 mediocre game if I can literally get 3-6 great indie games for the same price?
I value games by how much fun they are to play and EA games don't deliver enough on that front to be worth the price.
They could probably publish *much* better games if they really wanted to, but everything they do publish is painfully mediocre at best.
Star Wars: Battlefront has probably some of the best visuals of any game on the market right now, but graphics simply can't carry a game from a player's point of view.
You won't like eating a piece of shit because someone sculpted it to look like the most delicious chocolate cake ever, but you can enjoy eating a tasty chocolate cake, even if it looks like an actual piece of shit.
ross, i can answer your question about building design with a single, 4 letter word, "Lego", it ushered the era of the standardized cubed building design into existence.
I always interpreted it as industry was more concerned with efficiency. Not cost or quality controls, just overall efficiency. If something that looked good caused any shred of quality to disappear, a company wouldn't do it because they might be beaten competition-wise by other companies working harder.
Happy birthday Ross!