EA just released a shitload of old games on Steam. There's 20-30 of them. Ultimas, Wing Commanders, Crusaders, Theme Hospital, even Road Rash.I only really played the last two mentioned above. Anything worth getting?
>>751014496>no achievementspass
Enjoy your EA launcher
no flippin way, this is a massive pogchamp moment
>>751014540Ah, fuck. Really? Didn't even cross my mind they'd put this shit into old games. I just wanted to finally see what Ultima was about. May as well delete the thread now.
>everyone stopped caring about BF6>we need more money
>Wing commanderit's literally the fan project, why would you pay for a free gamehttps://alltinker.itch.io/wcat
>>751014540I will never install that fucking dogshit ever again fuck EA
>>751014496Can someone gift me crusader no remorse steam key? Poor af
>>751015838Check your DMs ;)
>>751014540There is no need for that.Also the GoG owners are getting the same if owned the originals>>751014983Because Howard Day himself as the wing commander community are at literally the ones working on this.And yes, this isnt over yet, there is more in the future on the "Fast" and "Living though Death" side of things.God bless the Saudis
If you owned the original even through giveaway at the EA APP, you got them for free too, in this case i got both crusader, theme hospital and WCIII
I remember last time EA shadow dropped a bunch of legacy titles onto Steam a solo dev killed himself due to his indie game spent the last 5 years making getting kicked off new and notable.
>>751014496https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcjptSS0-e4&t=235si wish they had done the Kilrathi Saga trailer remastered, for the fact they were the OG known remasters.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HThRI7ZL0>>751017350KEK
>>751014540They don't have them.
>>751017350Kek, came to this thread to see if it would be mentioned.
>>751014496Cool games but>Warning: This title uses 3rd-party DRM (EA app (Origin)).
>>751017350Timing like that is a clear sign the universe is out to get you.
>>751014496>quick we need liquidity, the market is crashingWell that can't be good.
Wing Commander and Privateer were so great that they enabled Chris Roberts to pull off Scam Citizen. or at least the first few games, if it's got Kilrathi you're okay it's after Prophecy they introduced the equivalent of 'an ancient evil awakens'the old Ultimas you're getting varying levels of quality because some are antique greats and others antique stinkers. they're all antiques.also they're all on GOG and probably don't have the EA App packaged in over there
>>751017350Probably not going to happen again this time since it's the big November game month. Unless someone's stupid enough to say "I thought PC would be safe and it'd only be consoles! EA raped me!"
Whatever the black magic EA's own remaster machine had, they literally put at least effort on the master tapes.
>>751018773The posters are still here
>>751018773They actually still have a lot of shit from back when the games were made.https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2448570/view/693151100682896165
Why wouldnt I get these on gog?
>>751019153If you own them on GoG you will receive them gradually through the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lGIBa-AFJQ
It'd be cool if EA just became a normal game company that puts out games without any fuss related to them after all the recent developments.
>>751018741We might see faggots that signed their shitty petition about BioWare killing themselves because people are buying these games from EA
>>751018923KEK, killing Bioware really gave EA their balls back
>>751018458Just wait for the GOG installer to get uploaded.
>>751018458Nigga why (you) lyin?
>>751020214Just check the page yourself, fucktard.
>>751020524It doesn't require Original/EA App at all. Just like all of the other classic games they have released on Steam within the last 5 years. Whatever third party steam add-on you're using is giving you incorrect information. Now please apologise to me.
>>751021138shit I'm sorry bro, my bad
>>751014496>Theme Hospital
As a boomer this is my day one game. So, right now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQM5i62f5zQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQM5i62f5zQ
is Ultima 9 any good? i remember coming across a screenshot off of it a while back and it seemed extremely soulful
>>751022458the game had its issues and is known for being almost unfinished
>>751017126>>751018059>>751021138Good thing I didn't delete the thread then.>>751021786I only played the Amiga version on my 500 around 30 years ago last time, I wonder if and how this is different.
>>751014496>umatic master tapesayy lmao wtf were they smoking
>>751023223if those exists, hope that RA2+TibSun are also intact somewhere.Really though, all is left is need for speed and the JANE's sims
>>751023317i heard they were thrown into trash. after westwood imploded they were given to EA and then they gave it all to victory games and after they were closed it all got into junk. only secondary tapes like the remastered c&c collection greenscreen tapes survived by luck
>>751023459Anon, always suspect of private collectors, it is somewhere around those areas.
bioware dies then suddenly we get cool archive projects wholly based
>>751014496They're just trying to get a few bucks out of Ultima before Garriot reclaims the rights to it.
btw here is some making of blogposthttps://www.ea.com/news/from-the-vault-to-your-library
>>751018923did you take a screenshot and then take a printscreen of you taking a screenshotthe fuck?
>>751022458It's in competition with 8 for worst in the series/franchise
>>751023797Gariott said he is ok because it gives more hype for the real ultima 9>>751023913had to printscreen because WC1 keys are quite sensitive, and to take that screenshot ingame requires some f12 spam
>>751016062Not him, but I got it, thank you 420 Manmeat69
>>751024073>Gariott said he is ok because it gives more hype for the real ultima 9link?
>>751023830>btw here is some making of blogpostthank u of the much good sirness
>>751024428Do not redeem the link
>>751014540>EA launcher>>751018059>>751015354Wouldnt it make financial sense for EA to end the EA launcher DRM now that they are selling their games on steam as well as they got taken over.Seems like a waste of resources maintaining it.I just hope they refund or give free steam codes if they do cancel the launcher.
>road rash getting some lovenever thought i'd live to see the day
>road rash is backYou're welcome, habibi.
>>751025258All the OG soundtrack was re-licensed, so, there is hope for NFS
>>751014496Wow, wing commander and road rash, been a minute since I heard those names. I always wanted to try Ultima Online, hopefully they'll remaster that someday.
>>751025612do you think they'll relicense THAT one song from NFSU haha
>>751026231they will obviously erase every mention to lostprophets, even the community wants nothing from them, not even the chuds or chits/troons.It is probably going to be a lil jon or a a static X replacement
>>751026406Or the plan Bizkit
More and more this will be more common with other companies as well because of the recomps/decomps. Say thanks /v/.
>>751014496All the Ultima and Wing Commander games are good, except Ultima 2 and 9, those are kinda poopy, at least compared to the rest of the series. Wing Command has some really annoying missions, but they're all solid.I'm kinda impressed by these releases, EA has always buried their head in the sand when it comes to their old games, so seeing these is pretty cool.
>>751014496I just saw the EA news, got Road Rash on GOG, and then came here F-5ing.They must have gotten the original videos and remastered them, this is way too good for an AI upscale. I love the full music in game. I'm so happy its all here.The save game menu is clunky, and pressing things on my PS5 controller speeds through selections at light speed, I need to use my keyboard to do that.Other than that, I'm glad to give $5 to have a offline installer, despite the current-patched original win95 installer still running in w11 for me. I will get Wing Commander later, likely on PB.
>>751025612GONNA BREAK MY RUSTY CAGE
>>751014532How about you achieve something real in life for once?
>>751027143They found the master tapes, the original Raw source.
>>751027448Nice. My Grandfather got a 3DO at launch, hoping to do video editing and mixing stuff, connected to a PC, but none of that stuff was developed when the console didn't make a profit. He got a handful of games with it, VR Stalker, Flying Nightmares, Crash n Burn, but Road Rash was amazing. Load times sucked and the game chugged at points, but its was very crisp and sharp on a 30" CRT. I own it now, with most games and some controllers/joysticks.I will have to show him this, and the v2 Repack of the original.
Is the Road Rash any good? I only played the genesis ones
>>751028759Yes, the PC release is literally the definitive edition.
>>751014496why the fuck do I have to buy them again to not have to use the EA launcher?
>>751028864>>751028759nah it's the ugly as fuck version from the playstation that killed the series
>>751028896They work without the EA App
>>751014496AIports
>>751029084>AIthe motherfuckers had the source code at their vault for all these years
>>751027420not cool bro
FUCK EA FOR SHADOW DROPPING THIS AND TAKING THE SPOTLIGHT OFF PASSIONATE INDI DEVS WHO WORKED THEIR ASS OFF
>>751032264And nothing of value was lost
>>751032264That was some great drama when it happened.
RELEASE THE POPCAP GAMES ON GOG, EAGIVE US THE BEJEWELED GAMES WITH CLOUD SAVES AND CHEEVOS FOR 3
>>751017284I didn't get shit
>>751033305those were some legendary twitter screecaps
>>751034296if you are on GoG check your library
Call me when they unfuck Ultima 7/8/9's performance on a modern computer. Wing Commander 3&4 are good (probably better now with less-compressed FMVs), the rest of the series is 'eh.
>>751014496>No SimGolf
>>751033850Insaniquarium dokoBookworm Adventures DOKO
>>751014496Neat. I've never played any Ultima game before. How hard do you anons reckon it is to get into it nowadays?
>>751014496Just want NFS Porsche 2000
>$100 leafbux for it allI feel like I only paid $40 for it all (minus Road Rash) on GOG over a decade ago. Wing Commander was the series that refused to have a deep-dive sale there, but Ultima & the rest were dollars at a point.Least my GOG copies are of Wing Commander are getting the upgrades at no cost.
>all of the new Road Rash/Wing Commander releases were thanks to Jim Vessella just being allowed to dig through EA's archivesFor those unaware, he was the autist that runs Petroglyph who handled the C&C Remaster. Least EA is allowing him to do this shit even though the profits from it are probably negligible for EA's operating costs, but it at least nets them some brownie points.
>>751035068works on my machine™
>>751014532You're a disgusting freak and games are shit because of youI'm so glad old games don't have cheevos
>>751014496>No American McGee's AliceWhat the fuck why? Did Jim somehow miss that one or does EA hate Mr. American that much?
>>751035068I wonder how much it'd cost EA, since the OG 5 NFS were inhouse composers for the most part. It'd just be relicensing the vehicles, which may be cheaper to do as a bulk process rather than per-game.
>>751026406or linkin park/korn/insert popular emo band from the time
>>751036060Gotta wait until he finds the archive that has the 00s EA content in it. First was the 90s with the Westwood shit, and then the 80s with this new LA batch.
>>751036060tbf madness returns has it, you just need to tweak some things
>>751036110Is EA the fucking Comstar to hoard shit and seal it in super sekrit vaults?God Dammit Trip
>>751014496>CNRWhere's No Regerts?
>>751036247there too.
>>751036214I mean, props to EA for even keeping this shit around even though it's taken one autist to actually travel around the country to delve through them and digitize it to a modern solution.
>>751036274NICE
>>751014496I'm not gonna buy these but are any worth playing at all? There's like 20 Ultima games are any worth my time?
>>751036494Ultima Underworld 1&2 are basically the first Immersive Sims. They're a little rough to play by modern standards though, especially the first one.
>>751036494>>751014496Última underworld is pretty cool
>>751036494besides underworld 7 is also great if you can stomach the annoying inventory management
>>7510373217 runs like utter garbage though, unless you want to use an inaccurate Unity 'port'.
Medal of honor airborne and NFS up to carbon would be great
Road Rash feels like utter shit at the new 60fps. The camera motion logic wasn't changed at all, so it looks extra juddery/stiff unless you cap the FPS more down to what the engine was built around.
>>751037612I got Airborne for free a decade and a half ago, but the game punishes you for mere bullshit.
>no cheevosI sleep
>>751014496>old EA gamesi'd wait for the fan patch. I doubt half of those even run.
>>751014496Did they Re-list Medal of Honor Airborne? I'm still mad I missed out on that one.
>>751038306They all run 100%but wing commander prophecy is hd model pack friendly.and EA is also working with the WCcommunity so expect a widescreen patch soon for ingame stuff
>>751014496>EA just released a shitload of old games on Steam. There's 20-30 of them. Ultimas>No AkalabethCasuals.
>>751038596Akalabeth is free
>>751038708Yeah but without it I can't have the complete Ultima mainline collection on Steam. They should just give it to you if you buy any Ultima game.
>EA actually doing something goodAlright, whats the catch?
>>751036839>Immersive Simsnot an actual thing
>>751038890Buying these gives money to EA.
>>751038930My deleted pool ladder says otherwise.
>>751014496Theme Hospital is based and still look good. Do not care about rest.
>>751038930You can argue with Warren Spector about it, since he's the one that coined the genre term for Ultima Underworld when making it.
>>751014496does this mean that faggot garriot is fucked out of the ultima franchise?
>>751038890The Saudi king wants his daily dose of Jane's, NoX, Westwood and Origin
>>751038890There is no catch. It's just Jim quietly doing shit at EA without them noticing again. Next up he needs to announce the C&C:TS/RA2 remaster already.
>>751014496The saudis thank you for every purchase
>>751036494the crusader games are pretty based if you can adapt to the controls (like the gamer you are)
>>751039337Crusader on the sega saturn controller is a lifetime experience
>>751038930Yeah, you're right. Ultima V is the game that was the first immsim, not Underworld.
>>751036839Looks cool
So what are the chances they're doing this to see what gets played the most and then try to shill a sequel?
>>751039027>since he's the one that coined the genre term for Ultima Underworld when making it.Actually Specter said Doug Church was the first one to use the term.
>Slopima
>>751038306i played the crusader games and they work fine
>>751038890this is the result of the catastrophic financial losses of dragon age veilguard. a quick way to recoup cash. say thanks to bioware lol.
>>751040184They sure waited a while to recoup money after Veilguard. Almost like it's unrelated.
>>751014496Road Rash used to be awesome. How are the Ultimas?
snca
>>751040332Better off waiting until next year to see what happens to legacy Ultima, since EA will be losing the IP.
>>751040546Good to know
>>751014496gave Ultima 7 a try a few years ago and it was TRASH
>>751027143Yep, they got the original master tapes and did some pretty nice work.https://www.ea.com/news/from-the-vault-to-your-library
>>751027143Does the game support borderless window or widescreen? When I read that it's still 640x480 I was worried it's going to be a jank fullscreen-only release.
>>751036494Underworld games are. Ultima I through VI are basically what jrpgs used to be back in the day, top-down party-based combat in large worlds. Ultima V, VI, and VII hold up quite well. V and VI hold up if you like 80s/90s era PC-88/98 jrpgs, otherwise you can just pirate VII. Lord British doesn't get any money and Origin is long dead.
>>751041397>JRPGsI am highly interested, can I play V, VI, VII without playing the previous games? I watched a lot of the Majuular videos and had a passing interest in these games, particularly for historical reasons, but the games -sound- cool.
>>751041689I dunno who that is and don't watch e-celeb shit. Lord British went to Japan to work out a deal with Falcom to port the Ultima games, but got pissed off when he discovered they basically ripped off literally fucking everything and sued their asses. There's a reason the japs aren't too keen on the PC otaku crowd, it's an entirely different culture than the console babbies. I'm consistently bemused by jewtendo types here and abroad, but I was part of that culture back in the 90s and thus feel morally and spiritually superior to consolefags as a result. Regardless, you can. Ultima I, II, and III are kinda ignored. IV is really the "first" game in the Avatar series, but you can safely skip it. If you are genuinely interested in that era of jrpgs, IV might be an interesting experience to see a more refined version of what Falcom stole and the start of the divergence betwixt western and eastern RPGs. Ultima was so goddamn influential that its combat style and game design was used until like 2002. Maybe a bit later, depending on whether or not you want to consider Windows ports of older games.
>>751041689I played half of them out of order and didn't feel like I was missing much.
>>751015838That's like 2$ on steam. you could make that just from the weekly drops in counter strike don't you have CS prime?
>>751022458its kind of like proto gothicthe visuals are nice but its extremely unstable and has awful gameplay but that part isn't unique to 9
>>751041978>and has awful gameplayI sometimes wonder if hacking a modern control scheme into it would help any, because man you really need to RTFM for U9, because no other game controls like it.
>>751014496Not a single Ultima game can be considered good by today's standards. Even the Dragon Quest lookalike on the SNES is shit.
>>751014842They didn’t. I bought Road Rash today for 5 bucks. No launcher.
>>751042563Ultima 4 is pretty good but thats mostly because it lacks the bloat of the later games
>>751028759Yes, it plays like those but better.
these state of the art graphics are truly mindblowing
>>751043115When you consider everything prior was just abstractions of things as ASCII, yes it was.
>GOG prices of the games were bumped up todayThanks EA, GOG.
>>751025612Road Rash was able to make a miracle happen because it's all under one record label, and only 6 bands to convince.
>>751014540None use Origin. Also, if you own any of these on GOG already you get the enhanced editions for free.
>>751014496The Wing Commander series is so fucking good, and the fact that the FMV's are all remastered from the original source tapes and film is based as fuck. Also, the original versions of most of these were a huge pain to get working properly on modern PC's with modern hotas and controllers, so the fact that they recognize my Xbox controller and thrustmaster out of the box is really nice. I even tested two of them on Steam Deck and they work decently well there too. Absolutely peak series for anyone who has never played them, and they were way ahead of their time back in the early to mid 90's with high budget cutscenes, dialogue choices, building relationships with your squadmates and branching missions based on your decisions or outcome of previous missions. This is all stuff that became standard in a lot of games nowadays but they were doing it years before even the likes of Bioware.
>>751043115cute lil' guys
>>751017126>SaudisYou mean the Rothschilds agent and buddy Jared Kushner.
>>751024783It's probably not very hard to maintain at all. It just sits there.
>>751043691as a kid I read in a magazine or something that the wing commander series was awesome and I had seen a few episodes of the cartoon on tv so I wanted to play the games. unfortunately the only one I could find was academy which either didn't have a story or somehow hid it somewhere that 7 year old me couldn't find. then the same fucking thing happened to me again with xwing vs tie fighter.
I already own all of those games on GOG.But thanks, I guess.
>>751014496Oh yeah I love giving money to EA for games whose developers were fired decades ago.
>>751039128>C&C:TS/RA2 remasterThey got decompiled. Community can just make anything with it now and AI generate new cutscenes.
>>751048683AI won't be able to do the shit that made the C&C1 Remaster great, other than letting me zoom-in the game and scale the HUD so it's not tiny as fuck at 1440p. Claude won't give me new, cleaner renditions of the music by Klepacki or source FMV.
>>751048736Frank Klepacki is based and would make a new OST for a community project.FMV's might be hard but very possible now with AI.There was a 'Red alert 2 in real life' series made with AI on youtube. With enough effort and enough autism put into it, it could have soul again
>>751048804>AI>adding soul to anything
>>751036060Something about IP rights I assume. AMG Alice is in a similar legal limbo clusterfuck as NOLF and AvP2.
>>751048868>1996>computer generated graphics>being goodYeah, Yeah whatever loser.
>>751048913If you want soul, you'd have a bunch of late teens/early adults trying to shoot on cheap green screens using whatever military-looking shit they put together for under $50.
>>751048990I am still amazed Westwood somehow had gotten James Earl Jones for Tiberian Sun.
>>751049031C&C was fucking HUGE after the first two games. EA had the budget to warrant throwing at named actors for the TD sequel.
>>751048990>what was the budget for RA2 and TibSun>how much were the actors paidBTW the lieutenant chick from RA2 did light core porn
>>751049521EVERY chick in RA2 did light core porn.
>>751049632omg based
Wow dude that is so wholesome chungus. Can't wait to give EA lots of money for games they killed made by studios they murdered.
>>751049521>>751049632The woman who played the ship's chief mechanic in Wing Commander 3 was also a pornstar.
>>751041325its bordered 4x3, not sure the res but it looks great.
>>751050441Hoping they do what they did with C&C and release the source code they found, so the community can improve the game themselves.
Aww, they did not update the "bike intros" in the shop in Road Rash. I would have loved to see that updated, its so fun to view each one.
>>751050719It's basically just the PC version with better music/fmv quality. They did nothing regarding improving the game like taking the aspects from the other versions of Road Rash '94 like NightDive would have done. Which is a shame, since the Windows version sound effects are ass compared to any other version of this game.
>>751018773They did a really good job on the C&C/RA remasters they put out a while back. Also had a lot of behind the scenes videos, and it let you toggle between new graphics and old which was good because the new graphics look like mobile game shit
>>751051120I guess we could mod in the other sound effects. Maybe they will allow steam mod shop support
>>751051224Hopefully. It's the game that got the most dev attention out of everything they've released as far as programming went. The rest is just community programmers for the Wing Commander series, and having someone run FMV clean-up on the tape dumps.That said, holy fuck I forgot how bad Wing Commander 3's FMV quality was. The Kilrathi's fur on the costumes is a fucking blur pon the original compared to what this new version shows.
>>751014496how about you get off your asses at EA and rerelease something people might actually want to play, like Black&White?
>>751051424The guy interviewing the dude responsible behind this recent push already brought up B&W. It ain't on the books for now, and they got other shit to potentially work on first from the new tape collection.
>>751051137That's because the C&C remaster was done by staff from westwood. So it was basically old crew coming back together to do the remaster.
>>751014496Wing Commander 3 is effectively the first cinematic video game. It's the first massive budget AAA game as we know them that pushed technology to the absolute limit. If nothing else, it is an enormously influential piece of gaming history that changed the industry forever in a lot of ways. So many games now owe a lot of their design elements, scale, and ideas to things that Chris Roberts and Origin were doing with that series in the early 90's, especially that game in particular. If you've ever played any modern game that let you talk to the characters in your base between missions, make dialogue choices, and actually grow bonds between them that affect their storylines and their abilities in missions, well, this is the series that invented that. In a time when most major video games had budgets below $500k, they dumped over $4 million into it and it showed. The cast of actors they had for the FMV's and voicevers was unreal, especially in those days. A lot of recognizable faces in that series, even if some weren't quite famous yet back then. On top of all of that, they are also just plain fun to play and massively influenced all the other big space combat sims of the era like X-Wing/TIE Fighter and Freespace.tl;dr Play these absolute classic masterpieces and finally learn why people are obsessed with waiting for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 no matter how long they've been taking
>no Battle for Middle Earth 1&2>no original Mass Effect 1-3
>>751051424>bring B&W forward>still make you spend 3 hours in the mandatory tutorial
Where is Syndicate and Syndicate Wars?
>>751051760On gog.
>>751051424Better off outsourcing it to a dev that cares that can also make it playable in VR since all of the gameplay mechanics are VR-friendly to begin with.
>>751051876Do they hold up any? I grabbed them awhile back when they were free. Only ever played that newer game under the same name that came out on 360/PS3.
>>751014496this is indie dev genocide
>>751051876Yeah I know but I wouldnt mind them getting a 30 year anniversary remaster treatment on those games as they are pretty uniqueUltima and Wing Commander?, yawn
>>751051490Link to interview?
>>751051120Yeah, thats what I was kinda hoping. It runs just as well as my repack. Still, I'm glad for the music and videos, and PS5 plug n play.
>>751052739B&W barely gets a mention. It's mostly just the host talking to Jim Vessella (who led this recent push at EA) after the 3min intro, and discussing the new releases/nostalgia moments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGdLZTgMDd4
>>751051424>>751051490>>751051720>>751051994Give it to the AI sloppers, they will remake it better
>>751052320Haven't played Wars but the first game, absolutely. I think it could be pretty popular if it was released nowadays as an indie game.It looks pretty good, is unique, has interesting gameplay, allows you to do some fun stuff, customise your characters etc.
>>751053190>he didn't hear the newsahhhhh ahahahahaha
>>751017350who cares it was a troon feminist and the game was garbage>10 years to make thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/378690/Potions_A_Curious_Tale/
Cool games.Love from KazakhstanWhat these EA niggers did to Skate is unforgivable. I hate them so much it's unreal.
>>751053685>finally get a new Skate>it's the worst map of the four main Skate games>so many limitations that you can't do the shit (still) that you could in the previous ones>mandatory online with 80+ players yet no one can fucking type or talk to each other for over a year unless you're in a party with voice enabledReSkate must have been a fucking wake-up call for them since they're enabling proximity chat game-wide next week.
>>751053730ReSkate already has proximity chat from default, it's been in the EA client for a long-ass while. Same for the shitty game of skate the black folk been posting about since release.What they need is to stop being gay and update the game itself to be on EA's version.
>>751053780They need to finish bringing back shit that the playtest client had, like ACTUAL community park building, since you used to have snapping tools and unlimited building limit within the park areas, compared to the released game where it's just premade parks from EA only.Hell, the create-a-park warehouse from the playtests still isn't in despite that sitting in the client too.
>>751053849For that to happen they need to stop being trannies. They keep adding bloated shit like discord interaction, brought back the store to show black people mods and shit like that.Actual features? None since initial release.
I wonder if road rash has the full soundtrack? I can't imagine it does. there was like smashing pumpkins and soundgarden in there.
>>751053898>Actual features? None since initial release.They added my fingerflips fucking finally at least, even though the grind physics/animations are still fucking broken and send my skater shooting off at 40 miles at least once a day ever since this season started.I was hoping losing half of their team meant less bureaucracy on the team to vote for and implement the shit the players and devs themselves want, but it's not been the case.>>751054050Full soundtrack to my recollection. It took them nearly a year to secure the rights going by the interview.
>>751054125I mean ReSkate, not EA. ReSkate added nothing since its release, and that is on purpose, according to the two discord devs.Full Circle is probably a skeleton crew. They had people from dice to come over during development/playtests, they fucked off to Battlefield after, then they got the first wave of layoffs and THEN now a second wave. If you read their blogs, the bugs only grow in size, there's no "solved" section anymore. Everything they been released was already in the client, like the halloween event, no complies, all the shitty assets, and etc.Worst part is that there is no bureaucracy from EA except from licensed stuff, but skate brands are retarded cheap compared to music and other stuff.
>>751014496>all ultima are dos boxall barbage
>>751044295holy mother of botposting>>751048629Get fucked biowhore tranny>>751048868again, get fucked biowhore tranny.
>>751049031Weird as it is, but Hollywood used to not be so elite. It was a place to send damaged goods and your gay nephew. Nicholson, Carrie, Ford, the idea that these people would be more expensive than an 8 ball came about but later.
>>751023751based arabs forcing EA to fork the goods
>>751040998>>751027143>all of this possible thanks to this obiwan looking fuckerbased
>>751038306these are made WITH the fan patches, you troglodyte
>>751043115>>751043309>>751044126
>>751055454A hearty kek.
Why would I pay for abandonware
>>751014496>NFSU2 suddenly got its biggest revival in over a decade with the online mode>EA literally wont cash in on it by paying the 10 dollar license to the cars and music and releasing it on steam
>>751018458it better fucking have Soundgarden as the main theme still
>>751025612this threepack would do BIG numbers on Steamall of them are on the top 10 best selling games of gen 6 and have never been rereleased
>>751043115Mind boggling
>>751054308What did you expect? You've already got community ports for games that matter, and nobody is going to bother with older Ultimas. I guess some dumbass and his Claude subscription could make them into a more modern streamlined product, but people barely even know what Ultima is, despite it being more advanced than any modern RPG
Having not clicked it yet, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that if I go check "Ultima VII" right now, it will have mixed to negative reviews. No way EA properly ported that.
>>751056428NAAAAAANIIIIIIIIII?AI coded? I'm still suspicious of it. I'll wait a few months before checking in again.
>>751056428Nobody is actually playing it, but it's your regular DosBox. It's no Exult, but it works
>>751056504DosBox famously does not work properly for Ultima VII. The game is basically unfinishable if that's all they did.
>>751056614? That's the first I hear of it. There's a bunch of tweaks for DosBox and people that actually prefer it to Exult
Theme Park and Theme Park World when?
>>751014496No interest I only buy EA stuff on legacy media for pre steam key PC and platforms like teh 360 and PS2. Boycott on all their products as long as they have the EA launcher. Same for Rockstar and Bethesday. They can all fuck off with that shit.
>>751056751Have them on DVD don't need them on steam.
Enjoy all these fantastic classic games, habibi. No Origin launcher necessary. Only DOSBox.
>>751057141its DOSBox-X but you can replace it with staging nightly
What the fuck is EA's deal?Why are they genuinely so affectionate and respectful to the work and legacy of studios they fucking viciously murdered in cold blood?
>>751058229Regret, and in part because nowadays we know that the people behind it were huge primadonas backstage, one being bald eagle moly.
>>751056496>AI coded?How do you know? There is no disclosure at least. There is one for Road Rash (only for upscaling movies allegedly), so I think there would be one if they used AI for this too.
I probably wont play them but Im glad that they arnt letting classic games be consigned to the dustbin of history.
why are they straight up reusing screenshots from GOGhow lazy can you be
>>751036494Idk i tried ultima 7 but the angel theart is drawn at genuinely bugs me Why wasn't it just isometric?Wizardry > ultima tho if you want old school western rpgs like I haven't played rhebold ultimate but I have played most wizardry games and just looking at ultimate footageIm fairly confident
>>751058229I doubt it's the whole of EA. It's more like the passionate work of one guy (Jimtern) whose preservation projects the execs just greenlight.
>>751058229I judt think ea is smart enough to know that fucking ultima is not eating into their sales of the next battlefield so why not? Get some extra pocket change nothing and a bit of free will for one afternoon of an intern sending some file to steam.The best thing ea had done though was randomly make the best remasters of all time with the cnc classic collection and than proceeded to not remaster more gamesHow cruel, the one time a remaster is good and they don't do all of them
>>751058869*Pocket change For doing nothing and bit of free praise*
>>751058787No, EA has been like that for yearsDo you remember how they released all the C&Cs up to and including TibSun for free in the 2000s? EA is just fucking bipolar
>>751041912I will never not be mad that we almost had proper Japan-US collaborations in the golden age in the 80s and 90s. We could have gotten the best games ever but someone got buttmad that nips used their art.
>>751056115Higher odds of a NFS1-5 pack than any of the console-lead-platform era NFS, just because of the amount of fucking music and vehicles involved.
>>751059297Don't steal. Simple as.
>no Emperor Battle for Duneaww.
>>751058501It's almost like it's the GOG release that was put on Steam or something.
>>751059462Dune games have always been a problem to re-release because of the related IP issues AFAIK
>>751014532Based and same pilled It's old sht anyways
>>751059459Yes, because nothing from the west has ever been an homage to anything Japan made.
Not EA, but Pool of Radiance (2001) has just appeared on Steam.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4834760/Pool_of_Radiance_Ruins_of_Myth_Drannor/
>>751058229EA was a publicly traded company with ~shareholders~ up until this year when some rich Saudis bought it and made it a private company so there's a lot less retards in the kitchen now.
>>751041912People also ignores the fact that most japanese Xers and boomers are nationalist bootlicking corpololberals.Even the Yakuza families were smarter than them and the government in general because japanese economists and shareholders are brazillian levels of retarded.
>>751014532fpbp/thread
>>751060073Ah nice, SNEG publishing it. They're basically the Nightdive equivalent no one talks about. Just quietly bringing some fucking PC classics to the digital storefront, making sure it works without a hitch on modern OS, and adding some add-ons/fixes where applicable that the community usually expects.
>>751060890Again, they were like this for a long time >>751058926
>>751061194I don't think it's unique to EA, Capcom is known for having redemption arcs then right when people warm up to them they transition back to villains.
>>751060979SNEG :D
>>751014532When did people become some obsessed with arbitrary "achievements" in games? I have not once in my life chased an "achievement". I play games I like, and I play them how I want to play them. You're gay.
>>751014496how many of them are playable?
>>751014496>dabbing on gogBased lmao
>>751056115I bought Most Wanted 2012, but once Origin popped up, I refunded it and got Tetris Effect Connected instead.
>>751062826i got mw 2012 for free but i never cared to play it, same goes to shift 2, the controls are atrocious.
>>751062512gog got the updates too. What do you mean
>>751056372Which ones have native ports as opposed to remasters or edited versions that change things?
>>751058564Ultima is an RPG. Wizardry is a gridmaze grinding simulator.
>>751022458No. It plays like shit and is prone to crashes, its story is staggeringly awful, and its completely botched continuity with the past games (despite it being the direct finale to them) is legendary. It's the Game of Thrones Season 7/8 of gaming.
>>751064045U9 was going to be the kickstart for UO2it never came our and all we know of UO2 is still behind one history channel doc over gaming
>>751058229There's a clause or something that requires you to release things if you want to maintain the IP.
>>751058229Stop anthropomorphizing capitalist firms.
>>751062512What the other anon said, and apparently those updates are free for those who already had the game.
>>751066193The literal EQ and maybe WoW killer that never came out, and could had saved MMO's foreverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXV_jB7LTMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tem-zCBZTv0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzA2tPDRAUA
wen nox on steam
