EuroGamer Expo

[russta]

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Silinde, Disdain and I went to the EuroGamer Expo this Friday just gone. I tweeted thoughts on what we played throughout the day but I felt it could use some fleshing out here.

Dark SoulsAs previously mentioned here many times, Demon's Souls is one of my favourite games ever. I'll go into why I doubt I can ever claim it as my top in my Xenoblade

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[celeras]

I fully expect to be disappointed with Skyrim. Everytime I watch that hands-on dragon fight they did, I just look at the combat with raised eyebrow. Both the melee and auto-lightning attacks failed to impress, was kind of hoping for a 'next step' after Oblivion.

GW2 is gonna be great, and obviously can't wait for Dark Souls. Did you get to play BF3 or Firefly 3? Or is that not your thing.

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(Disdain here)

Didn't see Firefly there, and the queues for BF3 were crazy long. I was in the BF3 alpha though and it's certainly a massive leap from BFBC2, in a really good way.

To be honest, the biggest problem is the fact that it's tied to Origin - if it was Steam, you might very well be looking at it finally giving a Call of Duty game a run for it's money.

[russta]

Skyrim definitely doesn't seem like a next step after Oblivion, just more of the same. It's a shame but I can deal with that if they get rid of a lot of the annoyances I had with Oblivion. I can't see it taking my GOTY award given the competition, that's for sure. Hell, I'll be surprised if I find it better than Witcher 2.

As Nick said, the queue for BF3 were insane for a game I only have a passing interest in that's all but been killed off by Origin.

[celeras]

Witcher 2 was awesome, don't think it'll be better than that either.

And Origin thing doesn't even bother me in the slightest, but then again I don't use Steam either unless I'm forced to (Half-life, TF2, etc). I consider stuff like that bloatware, so I have to run it fine.. otherwise I won't. I know people that use it 24/7 though, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out people got attached to their friends list or something. Just don't forget Valve did the same thing as EA with forced-acceptance when they launched Steam :)

[russta]

It just bothers me that we finally have a unified platform for thousands of games in Steam then EA get jealous, make up some bullshit reasons to pull their games and now force you to use another service.

I know it's basically the same concept as Steam but crap like deleting your account after twelve months of inactivity and the absolute inability to change your name doesn't sit right. When Silinde made his EA account, the servers were so hammered he just put in anything to get an account to be able to play Battlefield 2. That account is now his Origin account with no way to change it and Battlefield 3 will display that name. As far as customer service goes, that's the opposite end of the spectrum compared to Valve.

[celeras]

I really don't care about what goes on between these companies to be perfectly honest, but Valve first pulled Crysis 2 and DA2 from Steam prior to all of this because the DLC wasn't sold by them. Which was pretty much the spark to BF3 not being made available to them at all.

But yeah, I don't like/use Steam. It's bloatware that shouldn't be required to be running in the background of all my games. Prior to BF3, that was one of the upsides to Origin. Use it to download the game and never have to run it again.