EA's Lessons from Dragon Age and Battlefield Updates

And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, and I'm your host, Brett Deister. If you please subscribe to this podcast on all your favorite podcasting you have, so you have a five star review, really does help with the rankings. Let me know how I'm doing. But this week me talking about Ho Wars Legacy Immortals of Ian, apparently they removed something from that, which I don't know, like anybody plays anymore. Also metal gear, solid Delta Snake Eater, and the updates on that one Civilization six seven is out and I'll tell you my reaction to it, plus with what actually is going on. Paradox actually bought a game studio, so it should be interesting to see what goes on with that one. And Nvidia g four's, RTX 50, 80, even 50 90. They're already raising prices and it apparently was a paper launch and also the A MD Ryzen 9,800 x 3D, what's going on with that and also EA and not learning is lessons from Dragon Age, the Veil guard and why they are completely useless about what's going on with their actual game. Battlefield actually was a, was. Teased in a way announced Battlefield Labs specifically, but we will talk about a little bit about that and then and then Kingdom Come Deliverance Two, it actually came out. So my reactions and why I'm actually not playing it and the talking about the USAID issue in gaming and why it actually matters, because it seems like we've been lied to from. Every walk of life and it looks like it. It's pretty bad. It's not gonna lie. It's really bad. Anyways, let's get on with the show. That's good. All right, so Hogwarts legacy is reported getting a new content and a sequel. So it did very well when it actually, if it was first released, there was a lot of controversy, which was funny when there was controversy, 'cause they said it wasn't woke enough or whatever. But then they had a transgender character in it, and then it actually was fun to play. And so it actually did really well because the controversy kind of made it do well because everybody was like, there's nothing wrong with this game. Now Avalanche Studios is going to be making new content and new and a new game for this one because it actually did so well. It's actually a fun game for the most part. I'm not really excited about the transgender person. I think next one, they should just leave it out because we're just tired of it, so they, if they don't, it probably won't sell well. But it seems like the game has been stuck in this like Halloween forever and they just didn't really remove any of the stuff. So it's funny, but all in all, it's a good game. I all for getting it more content in a new game because it was just a really fun game. If you love Hogwarts, if you love Harry Potter on those books, it was a fun game to actually be a wizard in moving on to, I mortals of Evian, the game that was supposed to be like the call duty of magic, that didn't really quite hit its strides and there were a lot of pacing issues with it, which didn't really make much sense. It slowed you down but made you wanna switch. But there were issues. It was a, it was fine but not great. It was one of those games where, and it needed more time and development. They actually just need more time in ideation phase and figuring out what was in development phase to figure out what was actually going out. But I think they ran outta time and money, so they just released it as it was. But they're, they are removing de novo, which every gamer hates because it does slow down games, even though de Novo's no, it doesn't. Everybody. Gabriel was like, yeah, it does. And they were finally removing it. After a few years of being released, they're finally removing it. Moving on to metal gear, solid Delta Snake Eater, the remake of the original Modern Metal gear. Solid three. Basically what it was, it is finally coming out this year in August, so you have time to wait, but we're finally going to get this actual remake as. It's gonna be on PC obviously, because no gaming development is going to actually do that. But we'll see. We'll see how it is. And moving on to Civilization seven. So I actually did get this one. I love Civilization. I love, I just love, and plus you can play it on Steam deck, which is a huge bonus 'cause I just love. I'm not on my pc, just use my steam deck instead. I'm enjoying it, but a lot of gamers aren't enjoying it because of issues. And there are some issues that I've had with it, but it's nothing like game breaking for me. It runs really well. I've played it for several hours on my steam deck. It is never crashed so far, so I'm happy with it. But there are some things that needs to be cleaned up. There needs to be more met variety. There needs to be more cooperation within it. EY probably needs a little bit of a touch up as well. There are things that they need to actually work on, but from all in all on like a gaming optimization standpoint, it's actually really good. I don't mind getting rid of the builders. I think that needed to go eventually. I do like the way they're going with this. I don't mind the ages thing. I do think that. Leaders should change with age. I think just having one consistent leader, but your age changes is a little weird. There's some issues, but from like the hyperbole of everybody hating on it, it's not that bad if it, is it an unfinished game? I don't know. I'm, I've played a little bit of it and I don't feel like it's unfinished. I feel like I've gotten like a robust game, but I guess I'm not that harsh as they are on it. It's a 4K strategy or a four x strategy game, so you can replay it several times to your heart's content. I feel like a lot of, like RPGs and stuff you can replay 'em, but you want to take time to go away from them and come back to 'em. 'cause once you beat the story, you're gonna beat the same story all over again. And with strategy games, you just, you get, there's a replayability in these games, I'm not having issues, but I guess a lot of people are. So we'll see when all this comes about. Paradox is buying the owner of Jagged Alliance three and surviving Mars Developer I month games. So yeah. So it looks like they're just gonna be acquiring 'em, which actually makes really good sense with paradox. 'cause Paradox is mainly known for strategy type games. And this company, which I did do tro, I think they did Tropical as well, actually makes a lot more sense because of just the way each one's synergized together. Plus, with Paradox, actually not really. I don't think they're ever gonna be releasing the bloodlines too. And just city skylines too. Not doing very well. The first one, original one was great, but the second one had a lot of issues. It looks like they needed more time to actually work with it, but they actually didn't do that, which is very weird. Very weird. But we'll see how this all. Stands out. I hope this actually is a good thing. I hope that they actually continue to make great games. Jack Lines three is a fun game. It's fun 'cause it's like a funny type of game in its own right and it's in the vein of commandos and. Those types of genre of games aren't really made as much anymore, but probably should be made a little bit more. I really hope that this RTS and type of strategy type games, resurgent really does hit its stride because we've been on the first person shooter dominance for a little too long, in my opinion. Alright, moving on to the Nvidia G four. RT X 50, 90, and 50 80. Apparently prices are gonna go up again because of the tariffs on China, and we're gonna be paying more for it unless they actually start building it here, which there are a few foundries. I think TSMC actually does have a foundry in Arizona in the United States, so we should see more price hikes on that, which. I'm just saying just stick with the founder's edition, which it looks like from the 50 80 purpose, there is a lot of headroom to actually overclock it, to make it actually faster than what the base clock is, which is weird that Nvidia would leave so much headroom for that, but I. I guess they were trying to be conservative about it. I don't know. It just seems like this launch has been weird because it was a paper launch. 'cause there is no cards you can get, which is funny because I was looking at new monitors online and Microcenter and a lot of their bundles were like, from a hundreds was like, buy a 50 80 or 50 90 and get a hundred dollars off. I'm like, but you can't find any of 'em. So how are you gonna get the deal if you can't actually find the product? A little weird. Just a little weird. You probably should have pulled that back until stocks came back, but you're just gonna be paying more from third party ones. They're also a lot thicker than the founder's edition, which I'd rather take the founder's edition because it's only two slots, especially for the 50 80 and the 50 90 plus you. You can. Overclock it. It looks like there is a lot of headroom, at least for the 50 80, I think the 50 90 as well, to actually overclock 'em on the founder's edition. So I would just look at that instead and just overclock it. And you may actually finally beat out the 40 90 if you overclock it now base. No, you can't. 40, 90 beats it out all the time. But that maybe what's actually holding to give back is the base clocks. Moving on to the A MD Ryzen 9,000 X 3D stock demand is so high that they're ramping up production. Yes, it is a very good CPU to actually get it does a really good job at. Being efficient for gaming, and to be honest with you, I don't understand why just a MD just doesn't do the Ryzen X 3D as the line to do, because it seems like every time they release the base one and then do the X 3D is always better than the original one. But we'll see how this goes. It seems interesting and. The new ones are supposed to eventually come out March. I know we finally got actual confirmation that the new A MD GPUs are coming out in March, early March. The 9,000 series or 90 70 is the only ones that we know about, so it should be interesting to see how well these due against the 50 70 series that's supposed to come out in March as well. The 50 70. 50 70 ti I think. So it should be interesting to see how well they do with that, how they stack up against the 50 80. If they can actually beat the 50 80. I know they're not gonna touch the 50 90, which everybody's been saying. Huge mistake for you guys get out the high-end market 'cause you probably might have been able to dominate that this time around. But we'll see. We'll see what the updates with FS R four is, if it will do better with Ray tracing, even though. I'm still not convinced that Ray tracing is all that it's cracked out to be. I think we've just been forced upon a good Ray tracing, path, tracing all this tracing. Apparently, we're all artists now. Anyways. Moving on to I. EA and Dragon Age, it looks like from their earnings call, they just have not learned their lesson yet. They're basically blaming Dragon Age on not ha a failure or not having a quote unquote shared world. It's no, the reason why it failed is because it had a cringe worthy. Tirade on how to properly pronouns or properly use someone's pronouns. No one wanted to do that. No one wanted to pull the Brava scene, and everybody was like, this is stupid. I shouldn't be lectured to about this stuff. First of all, pronouns don't exist. It's all in your head, and you are stupid if you have some. Second of all, no one cares, which I will actually be talking about. The dumb signup form for Battlefield Labs and ea. You need to drop all this stuff. No one likes it. No one cares about it. It's annoying and we all hate it. Listen to gamers. The reason why we didn't buy this is because we didn't like the top surgery scars from the character creator. 'cause it made no sense. We didn't like the pronouns made no sense, and you all need to drop 'em. We all know that you took money from usaid. Let's please move on from this. Drop it all. It doesn't work. Get back to making games. Get back to actually creating games for men because men will mo mostly buy this stuff. He also announced EA CEO also announced Apex a 2.0 since it won't happen until next Battlefield. But this will not be the final incarnation of Apex, so we're gonna get a 2.0 version of it. Hopefully it does better than what it is right now. No one's really playing Apex anymore. Just too many different weird things they've been doing with it. I stopped playing with it a while ago is when they only had one map and I, after a while, I was like, eh, I don't know. I just battle Royal me and Battle Royale games just don't mix. I just don't like them that much. If they're fine. Do you love them? By all means. I just don't prefer 'em. I prefer just like Battlefield or Delta Force or hero shooters or old school shooters. Those are fine. I just, I play 'em and I stop playing 'em. 'cause it's just like when you die you have to go and get into new match and I'm just, I just don't wanna do that. Alright, finally announced Battlefield, battlefield six, or whatever they're gonna call it. They announced a whole slew of things. Luckily, portal 2.0 is coming, or portal's coming back as 2.0 hopefully this time around. They utilized it a lot better than they did with 2042. It was the, and I said this when it was having its issues. I, like I said. Focus on portal. It's you're saving grace right now. Nothing else works really well. No one's having fun with the regular stuff. Focus in on portal because portal is the thing you need to focus on and they didn't do it. They focus on fixing the game and then they left, which is always EA style. I don't understand. You don't understand live service games but you winch and complain that games don't work 'cause they don't have live service while you don't understand live services. You have one live service game. It's Apex Legends and that's it. Sims. I wouldn't consider a live service game at all. It's just been updated. 'cause why make a new one? And Battlefield 2042 wasn't a live service game at all. It was, all right, we messed up and we need to fix it. All right, we're moving on. It's like you could have kept on doing things with it and. It may have a longer development cycle. I know that specialists were not loved and fair enough, but here's my problem. If you're gonna be doing the next battlefield game, expect low pre-orders because we're all very skeptical about what you're gonna do. Then the other thing is. Make sure there's destruction in this game because a lot of the other games are now due destruction. Make sure this is worthwhile destruction and actually is good. Make sure you just have a class system. No more specialists we're done with that. It just didn't work. I. If you'd wanna do 128 players, which I don't think you're gonna be doing, make the maps work for a hundred i 128 players can work. You just didn't do the right maps. The maps did not work. That was the issue with it. And a whole, only 128 players can only work in conquest or a Titan mode. I think that actually could work, but it cannot work in rush. It cannot work in. I forget the other one, but the one similar to Rush. It cannot work in those modes as most need to be small. 64 is actually a good spot. 128 players only works for all out warfare. But you need to like press into the multiple objectives and may make it more interesting like this needs to be the next evolution and it's been stuck in this weird. We're gonna follow, we're gonna chase trends and it needs to stop, stop chasing trends. Student extraction shooter. I think it can work if you guys actually make it work. It didn't work because on 2042 because it just wasn't good. You didn't have enough time to make it work. Battle royale fine. Like I said, I just don't like him, so I probably will never play it or I'll play it a few times. This needs to be hit out the park. I know you had Battlefield Labs. I know you're gonna be start testing it and this is gonna be like a testing phase and figuring out what works and what it doesn't. But please, for the love of God, if you're going to be doing signups, stop with the pronouns. I already gave you my quirky pronoun, which was like, this isn't real. Stop this crap. Wanna use more colorful language. But that's basically what I said because I was like, look it, I don't care. You're sex male, female. Pronouns that should have been eliminated. Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Nobody is anything else but male or female. The crazy ones. I'm sorry. This is reality and we all stop this, please. With the love of God, like I just wouldn't play games without all this stupid political stuff in there. Come of your heroes. Three, the game that we're all happy when it came out, but then when it came out, we were like, this is very good. They're coming out with a new DLC later this month, and it's called fire and steel. It's gonna be specifically more about tanks, which is fine. It's gonna be priced at $25, so this better be a really good DLC or people are not gonna buy it. Just saying now, coming to Kingdom Come Deliverance two. I was excited when this was coming out and then too much controversy and too much weirdness about this game. Now. I know. Everybody's this is so amazing. It's so great. First of all, I don't understand why you can romance Hans, as your main character, win the original game. You guys were friends and y'all liked to. Girls. And there was actually one quest where you helped out your bro basically being a girl. The best way of saying it. So now you why, like, why is it that guys can't just be best friends without oh, I guess you're gay, like that. That was weird. And then the black guy in there when his the main guy of war horse studios basically said that. Henry was a straight white Christian male, which apparently now he's not, and there was no black people in there. But now we're like, yeah, there's a black person. Like it was like a weird like turnaround where I was like yeah, I don't really like this. And now you can romance Hans come on guys. Seriously, I'm glad that you made $1 million. I'm glad you chastised the industry for whatever reason, but you're no better. You tried to hide it, you tried to it is not that bad. It's skippable. It's an interesting story thing. I'm like, look, if you want interesting story pieces, how about he still continues to be a straight white Christian male. You deal with repercussions of maybe some of your friends or your companions being gay and you deal with that, but don't already establish your character from the first game as not being gay, and then all of a sudden go, yeah, he's gay now. It makes no sense. It makes no logical sense on this one whatsoever. And don't gimme the, it's an interesting story thing. No, it's not. It's a high, it's hypocritical. Like people, that's what people are calling you out for. It's like you're being hypocritical about this and I'm glad that people, a lot of people didn't care and they bought it, but I only buy it on sale because I'm that's stupid. Like you should have known better. I. Stop with this. I know you're owned by Embracer Group and I'm pretty sure they were the ones behind this telling you what to do. But seriously, that was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. 'cause I canceled my preor, so I was like, I, you know what? I don't really care for this. It's an RPGI love, I love the first game. The game was great, but this is an RPG. I don't understand why you're changing around character's, sexual identity or whatever. Sexual orientation, whatever it's called. I don't get it. I don't understand it and I do not like it, so please stop. But you just want to do this for, clout or whatever reason. I guess you hate that the media was against you. This. Anyways, moving on to usaid. So this is an interesting thing because once Trump got into office, and then once Elon Musk kind of got into like how much money our government was wasting, and it's quite a bit, it is quite bad. It's really, this is like one of the worst scandals in American history right now. And it looks like ED. I also hit gaming pretty much too. To the point where feminist frequency from Anita, Ian took money from the US government to basically tell gaming companies that you shouldn't be making a games cure to males because sexism, she was a grifter before and we all found out that she was a pretty bad grifter. But it's bad when you're taking money from the government to tell American males that they're terrible. That's just dumb. Plus you pay, they paid political and all them to basically have negative stories about Gamergate. So this was all not actually like reporters weren't just dumb. They were paid off to do this. And even Sweet Baby Inc. Looks like it was through another company was used the money from USAID to tell gaming companies to make their games woke, and then the woke games failed miserably. And that's where we're at right now. I don't understand why you would do this. But apparently, and I'm pretty sure a lot of these games took money to do this. A lot of these game companies took money to do this stuff. It is not good. I'm pretty sure Kata and all them are I. Are just as culpable of taking money, just like AP took money, political took money. BBC took money, which I don't understand why we were funding the BBC, but all these companies that somehow were against normal Americans saying, Hey look, there's something not right about this. They're like no. Don't believe you're lying eyes. 'cause we're paid to tell you to lie to you. We're not gonna tell you the truth. We're gonna lie to you 'cause we're paid to do that. By these weird OIDs and it hit gaming. It hit almost every industry. And now we're seeing just how bad it was and it was bad. And I hope that this is finally like the way it will come back around and we'll just get games that are fun to make and fun to play. No more DEI stuff. Just make fun games. People will love your game if it's fun. And we're not just being bashed over with these weird Marxist ideologies. That's the problem that we've all had is just it. No normal person liked it, but it was being pushed, like it was this popular thing that everybody was like, yeah, this is was totally what I like. Yes, this is good. Yeah. No, it wasn't. I hope this is finally the turning point because it needs to stop our needs. Our need of Ian needs to go away forever. Grifter and all these companies need to really look into this. Even Google is dropping their DEI because they know it's not good. They know it's not doing well for them. It'll eventually hit the gaming companies, once they start losing enough money, they'll figure it out. They'll be like, okay, maybe this doesn't actually work, and they'll come crawling back. But right now they just, apparently they still need to learn their lesson. And I hope, and for all of you that just didn't like it, you weren't crazy. You were just like me going, this doesn't make any sense. Just make games that I wanna play. Anyways, thank you for listening to Digital Coffee Gaming Brew. I do appreciate it. 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