General Gaming Thread

[apsham]

Indulge me Srar, what was the title of the email?

[Your Mom]

You've been chosen

[Ruki]

Shadow Of Mordor release date moves up!

September 30th.

[apsham]

You've been chosen

And who recently applied to Bioware?

God dammit. That email made me mad.

[Your Mom]

I was wondering why you asked that.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I got the same email! I didn't watch the thing yet though.

[King Ellis]

Half the internet cheered at the demise of the EA Online pass, the other half gave grave warnings of what EA might be cooking up next. Today, have their worst fears been realised?

http://www.ea.com/news/ea-announces-ea-access-on-xbox-one

EA Access membership unlocks The Vault, a collection of EA’s biggest games on Xbox One ready for you to download and play. During the beta, gamers will have unlimited access to four great EA games: FIFA 14, Madden NFL 25, Peggle 2 and Battlefield 4™, with more titles being added soon. That’s over $100 worth of games for $4.99 a month. You can play these EA favorites as much as you want with the click of a button.

It sounds like they're expanding on the 'Season Ticket' thing they did for the sports games, still getting you the early access to stuff like FIFA, Madden etc but also back catalogue stuff too. Granted, you might argue that you might not really need FIFA 14 when you want to buy FIFA 15 but when the season ticket before was $25 a year and this will be $30, it's a nice little extra to have and it's a good way to branch out into unfamiliar sports without having to buy Madden 07 for a buck or something.

It is interesting to see something like this coming up in games though. Obviously, it might not be exactly comparable to Netflix or WWE Network or something since, one would assume that new releases would take at least a year to go into the vault, but it's still interesting to see more forays into this sort of thing.

[TKz]

Wait, what, so I could buy Battlefield 4 for $5 a month? That's kind of cool. I'd pay $5 to try out Battlefield 4 for a month, assuming you can cancel whenever you want.

[RoyWill Rumble]

Playing Battlefield 4 would require Battlefield 4 to actually work.

[apsham]

It's worked for months now.

[RoyWill Rumble]

It's worked for months now.

What? Awesome. I gave it a try at a friend's place about two months ago and it was still shitting the bed. Rad.

[apsham]

I was playing it on the PS4 at least and it was pretty flawless. If you're talking 360 or PS3, I'm not sure. I always assumed those were never going to be fixed due to how hellaciously bad they were optimized.

[Avenged Probably]

Yeah I don't know about the console versions but the pc version is totally fine nowadays.

[Baddar]

Definitely worth it if there's no minimum subscriptions.

[apsham]

You can also do a $29.99 a year subscription if you just wanna buy up front, that's really not a terrible deal. If The Vault just keeps building and doesn't take away, it'll be a damn bargain down the road.

[Dan]

I'll probably subscribe to that. FIFA and Madden 5 days early plus access to the vault is awesome.

Should have probably posted it in the Xbox One thread considering it's exclusive though

[King Ellis]

No no, it's an interesting discussion topic on the future of gaming and whether or not we're heading towards some form of subscription model within our digital future. :/

[New Damage]

I'm sure we had a thread before, but is Saint's Row 4 any decent? I have a £20 voucher from when I left work for HMV, and it's a fiver.

[Ruki]

It's pretty good.

[Your Mom]

For 5? No question. I paid $60 and was still happy with it