Fucking Idiots

So! The handicap fellows over at CA are not only still at their hijinks but they seem to be reaching new lows in stupidity.

Navel "Enhancements"

The first thing this makes me think is "well thats nice and all but when the fuck are navel battles going to start taking place in the actual game?" Maybe my game plays different or somthing but once i squash the begining fleets, other than a couple superpowers who you really only have to beat once, Then thats it! never anymore even remotely challenging fights to be had, Ijust pick off one tiny fleet after another til game end. Btw how are those marine landings comming? still havent added the ability for the AI to attack islands except in unbelivably rare circumstances.


The second thought was, so the "counter" in the new rock-paper-scissors format for the top-end research of first of the line ships is....the lowest level ships that you've been able to build since the very first comericial port.

yeah...that makes sense in some alternate realm i guess.

how can such dumbassed cockjobs make games that rock for so long then just completly fuck it up like this? who got fired?

Empire:TW, yes the AI sucks that much...

Todays amusement brought to you by the comedians over at Creative Assembly.

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/sreply/745519/t/The-Daily-Update.html

So! This game, which has been repeatedly claimed as "finished", has such poorly functioning AI that they are removing a very large complex portion of it to try out a new untested method. Sweet! so can we "officially" call ourselves public beta testers who were dumb enough to pay for the privilege now? Personally I've known I was beta testing a product for quite awhile now but every-time you think CA must surely be done sinking lower they continue to surprise!

The question I'm left with is, if Empire:TW is finished as the Dev's claim and has such a massive and complex AI system driving it, then why months into public release when the game is STILL at best in a 0.90 state are we replacing CA's grand creation with a brand new (very likely buggy) AI?

I would ask this question on their forums, my only method for speaking to the developers directly, yet such question are not welcome there.

Fucking lier's and spinmaster's.

Scumbag Game Companies

Today's rant is brought to you by the letter S, for the Shit game companies knowingly release to the public unproperly tested and malfunctional.

My specific target of bitching is Empire: Total War.
CreativeAssembly released E:TW far to early. If you've bought this game and assuming you were one of the supposed many it worked for, then you already know this. This game is plagued by so many crash to desktop bugs that I have still not been able to successfully complete a Grand Campaign. The crashes are hardly the only thing wrong however, this game is also loaded with deficiencies such as limited troop varieties, piss-poor battlemap pathing,and some of the worst AI to ever grace a professionally produced strategy game. I mean really folks, you (CA) harp on how great your in house testing and Sega testing is but yet nobody noticed the AI couldn't even commit to a sea-born invasion? Same goes for the half dozen unit selection crash bugs.

Now, I'm well aware that the previous paragraph is hardly a revelation to anyone who has followed the game but had to get it outa the way!

Whats pissing me off specifically for today is this latest set of updates from the folks in charge of ETW and more directly this post.

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/sreply/744381/t/The-Daily-Update.html

Oh I'm not whining about the belief some have that they're working on "extra content" rather than fixxing major issues in the game, what I'm pissed about is that these jackanapes are calling these "free units" and treating it like they're doing something nice for us, the gamers. The only thing they're doing is releasing stuff that should have been in the game from the beginning but got left out in the rush. This is a joke. I mean whats next...they going to release the Mughals as a playable faction and claim it as a bonus also? (just fyi as surely not everyone is aware, the Mughals are almost completely done already in the existing game but its locked away.)

Its frightening as a consumer that games in such a poor state of implayability can get such high reviews from game mags and web pages, but i suppose that's what the companies like CA/Sega pay them for. You can say it doesn't happen if you want to, but long ago people notice that writers who give poor reviews on high budget games find themselves offered less opportunities to write about others in the future. Always go by the public opinions on games kids!

Hopefully one day soon legislators will step in and force gaming companies and the vendors that distribute them to accept returns on opened malfunctional materials, only then will scumbag companies be broken from the concept of cashing in on unfinished/poorly tested products with the plan to just patch everything up later.

So it begins...

adieu to all censors!

and fuck you.

So that's how he starts this eh? In the words of Isaac Hayes: "you daaaaamn right"

I've always been one of those guys who thought blogs were kinda lame, like myspace lame, yet here we find ourselves. The reason for this great travesty that is my writing ability is I'm tired of not being able to vent properly on a public forum. I mean, I would not be there unless i had something i felt needed to be said right? I obviously must care about the topic hmm? I have little enough free time these latter days and I'm not posting often vehement feelings on mostly gaming forums for jollys! So, now that you know why I'm here, then the only thing that remains is why the hell are you here?!

If you are indeed still here, I can only hope its because just "maybe" you too feel passionate about the subject of whatever rant you peruse.