Video game thread

@Azure Fang  
Oh shit. I never looked at the name. Small world. Those are decent games, by the way. Mostly been playing Midnight Castle, though.

Superliminal is an amazing mind-fuck of a game.

@acres  
Obviously.

@acres  
Oh I know. I watched a crazed Irishman stumble through the game.

@acres  
i find trying to understand the destiny lore to be as much of a mindfuck.  
i still have less than a half of an idea of whats going on

@TeamBlueplant  
that’s cause Destiny was supposed to be an entirely different game in the first place. But corpulent didn’t like that.

@Havoc  
who?

@Havoc  
Who is Corpulent?

@Absol95  
I think it’s a weird way of saying corporate.

@acres  
yes. I not spell gud.

Anyone here also use Origin from time to time and get the feeling that after a few minutes it taxes the battery of one’s laptop, and maybe also sucks up bandwidth?  

@Absol95  
What’s origin?

@Havoc  
A significantly performance-impacting annoyance that you have to put up with to play EA’s newer games on Steam, making their presence on Steam entirely pointless.
 
Also they stole the symbol for hurricanes, which may not be entirely legal.

@Officer Hotpants  
Don’t forget Origin also actively collects some questionable data while it’s active, such as what applications you install, uninstall, and run on your PC in general (the monitoring of which is attributed to it being a resource hog) and does not encrypt XMPP data thus potentially exposing user account data every time a user uses chat, among other things.
 
Here’s to EA retiring Origin in the near future (announced in September) only for them to unleash some unspeakable horror in its place.

@Azure Fang  

 
Where did you hear about EA retiring Origin retiring origin by September of next year? SA forums?

@Officer Hotpants  
EA? Is that some third rate dev?

@Havoc  
AAA more like it, Just as Bethesda and ActiBlizzard are.

@Absol95  
Official announcement and beta lunch. The new launcher has been in closed beta since September but has no “completion” date. Here’s signup the link if you want a chance to beta test, and The Verge’s article about the retirement; they’re effectively rebranding Origin to EA Play and redesigning the launcher. Beta feedback has been less than stellar, with the current beta lacking basic features (DLC detection, achievements, and custom install locations topping the list) present in Origin while still being as unstable.

@Azure Fang  
EA Play is more the replacement name for Origin Access, which already happened.

@Azure Fang  
Sounds like EA all right.

@Absol95  
That may well be the point. EA Play and EA Play are two different things - one is the new desktop client and one is the subscription service. Origin is being rebranded as EA Play to go with EA’s expansion of the Play brand, but leads to necessity confusion: “What do you mean I didn’t need a subscription. I need EA Play to play games on my PC, right?” All “Origin” terms are being retired and replaced with EA Play.

@Azure Fang  
Well, it already happened with Uplay becoming Ubisoft connect.

@Azure Fang  
Watch them not carry over accounts and make everyone repurchase their libraries when they do. Which is to say “watch them pull a Nintendo”.

@Officer Hotpants  
Yeah, even though I’m a nintendo simp, having to repurchase paper mario three times got old.

@Officer Hotpants  
At least Nintendo has games worth repurchasing. The only good games EA has are ones they bought the rights to.