EA, as far as I’m concerned, has been making great strides of late to removing itself from the very top of the list of the most hated videogame publisher in all the land. The very vocal people on the internet who like to moan about everything, have had very little vitriol to direct at EA of late. They’ve been giving away games, they’re giving away DLC and have been admitting they’ve made mistakes. Instead, it’s Ubisoft who seems to be climbing the ladder. And now EA’s helping push them them up.
As you know, Assassin’s Creed Unity won’t be 1080p on either of the new consoles, with the game rendering at a barely-distinguishable-to-the-human-eye-unless-you-really-really-concentrate 900p. That’s in itself okay, but Ubisoft’s problem came with the excuses that followed – including the one that launched the #PS4noParity hashtag: the since recanted story of both systems running at 900p for the sake of parity across consoles.
In the wake of that resolution controversy, the Dragon Age: Inquisition Twitter account has taken something that’s less than positive, and successfully used it to take a subtle jab or two at Ubisoft. Here’s what they said:
Confirmed: #DAI resolution is 1080p on PS4, and 900p on Xbox One. We maximized the current potential of each platform.
— Dragon Age (@dragonage) October 10, 2014
Cheeky! Dragon Age: Inquisition is out on the new and old consoles, plus PC towards the end of November. It promises to deliver over 200 hours of RPG action, and significantly more than just one cave.
Last Updated: October 13, 2014
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 07:44
I just realized that I completely forgot about rAge.
Well at least I made some major progress in DA:O this weekend and I should finish it tonight.
Let’s end this Blight!!
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 07:47
I only realised rAge this weekend mid-friday :/
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 07:53
I realised Thursday morning and then promptly forgot.
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 08:27
Where were you man!?
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 08:28
At home in front of my PC killing Darkspawn and traitors.
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 09:04
We missed you! *lies *kidding *notreally *jokes
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:10
You should go into politics.
Brady miaau
October 13, 2014 at 09:12
What origin did you pick? I picked human noble first and found it, after I played most of the others, the most enjoyable
Ceyber, Hans
October 13, 2014 at 10:27
Same here, doing my second play of human noble, after trying all the other origins. Probably like it so much ‘cos it’s the most relatable for me.
Jedi Consular Kromas
October 13, 2014 at 09:44
Good just remember to make sure the mages are treated well. Damn templar bastards!
Ceyber, Hans
October 13, 2014 at 10:25
Same here, finally reached the first DLC last night. Having a friggin’ blast.
Not looking forward to DA2 playthrough though, especially with old-school CD installation 🙁
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 12:23
I have my CD-keys registered with Origin so I just set DA2 to download while playing DA:O.
I’m a bit worried that Origin will interfere but with DA:I coming next month I figure testing Origin is a good idea.
Ceyber, Hans
October 13, 2014 at 17:48
Been using Origin for awhile, since BF3, not bad at all – compared to Upoop anyway – just a bit of a resource hog imo.
Unfortunately I can’t afford to waste the bandwidth to download the game. My BF4 needed a 30gig update when my HDD crashed, so I just haven’t played it in months.
Moments like these make me wonder whether a faster connection speed is worth the sacrifice of having uncapped monthly data…
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 18:06
Considering I have used a 20GB cap in 3 days… uncapped is really important to me, but like you said the speeds (and stability) are definitely lacking.
Ceyber, Hans
October 13, 2014 at 18:20
I’d never survive on 20gigs… Which ISP you with?
Recently switched to OpenWeb, weak stability-wise but worth it for the speed and (more importantly) price.
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 14, 2014 at 12:31
Axxess who supply Telkom lines at a cheaper price with better service.
Still Telkom so it’s not nearly as good as it could be.
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 07:46
LOL cheeky buggers
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:02
Now that I’ve got Shadow of Mordorrrr I’ve lost a bit of interest in DA 😉
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:04
LOL, I wish I had your gaming budget. Between all the games you buy and all the makeup, you must earn a potload!
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:07
My girlfriend and I are together 8 years today, so it was an anniversary gift. 😀
Oh and about the makeup….Hmmmpphhh
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 08:08
You buy her games and she buys you makeup?
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:11
Must be very expensive make up.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:11
…
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:14
lol
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:15
Oh snap!
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 08:28
HAHAHAHA 🙂
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:14
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 08:27
You enjoying?
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:30
Loving it so much man. Feels very much like Batman, very much, but that’s the appeal. Love the gamplay and the sneaking and kill moves. Map is just tiny, but that’s not really an issue.
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 08:31
Need to get it!
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:31
One thing that pissed me of though. In nearly killed all the captains. But if there are three left the game inserts random captains again. Which is normally only happens when you die.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:32
Still have to get to that point. Though I sure do love killing captains. ;P
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:49
Same here, sneaking above the horde, dive bombing a captain and stabbing the hell out of him is such fun.
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:33
“Which is normally only happens when you die”
o_O
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:33
Which is you are mos Admiral Administrator of grammar is mos are.
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:34
STAHP
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:48
The orc that kills you get’s promoted to captain, which stands to reason that if I’m to awesome to die there shouldn’t be random orc promotions. But I can see why they do this, I mean it will make the nemesis system useless if they don’t replenish their ranks somehow.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
October 13, 2014 at 09:51
Stopped killing them and started dominating them, then you send the warchiefs to battle each other 🙂
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:13
What happened to the MS/EA partnership? EA just confirmed who wins resolutiongate between the PS4 and the XBOX One. Not that it matters. The lies is what matters. Don’t lie Ubisoft.
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:14
EA really is making an effort to win us back. Good on them.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:16
Compared to Ubisoft, EA is starting to look like a company that actually cares.
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:18
Compared to OOOBI, EA are like the Red Cross
konfab aka derp
October 13, 2014 at 08:18
I think their bottom line was starting to get nailed.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:20
After they screwed their customers.
Kensei Seraph - Staff
October 13, 2014 at 08:18
I was actually thinking that someone should take another look at Origin and see if it is still as bad as we all remember it to be.
What was the hashtag Rince came up with? #intern[something]
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:20
I was on Origin on Friday. The store has some good prices on certain games, high prices on others, seems a bit unbalanced. Uplay is all in Euro, so I’ll never spend money on there.
Luckily when I start an EA game on Steam it doesn’t force me to open Origin, different to Ubisoft that always forces you to open U(kak)play.
That said. I’m currently playing Valiant Hearts from UbiArts. Wow, that’s a brilliant little game.
Admiral Chief 0
October 13, 2014 at 08:17
#DAI reminds me of another favourite here on Lagz………HAI!
Hammersteyn
October 13, 2014 at 08:32
At the review they will probably use #HAI DAI IS COOL
Ryanza
October 13, 2014 at 08:17
The last I checked they both have DRM. Origin and Uplay. So fuck em both.
Don’t support DRM. The Witcher 3 is coming.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 08:17
The Witcherrrrrrrr!
Brady miaau
October 13, 2014 at 09:11
But I have a console for games. That means I inherently support DRM. Is that bad?
Ryanza
October 13, 2014 at 09:24
Console retail games are not linked to profiles nor linked to console. Retail console games can be sold and bough second-hand.
The trend now is always online games. So they getting people ready to accept full DRM on consoles next time around.
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 08:27
Hahaha! Ouch!
oVg Definitive and Remastered
October 13, 2014 at 08:52
So the frame rate is still the same as Assassins?
That is all that matters on these big as flat screen TVs, FRAME RATE. I could not give a shit about the game being 720 or 1080p.
Rags
October 13, 2014 at 09:01
PC, xbox controller, hdmi 😛
Matthew Holliday
October 13, 2014 at 09:41
PC, dualscreened to 52″ tv, xbox controller.
I feel you.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:43
PC, dualscreened, but I’m on a 24″ and a 20″
Xbox controller always a must.
Matthew Holliday
October 13, 2014 at 09:47
will probably be doing it on my 24″ aswell, playing shadow of mordor on my 24″ atm, pixel density is so much higher, so much crisper and dont need my glasses to read text…
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:48
Me too. Man, that game is really pretty. They completely overhyped the size of the map, but the game itself is still excellent.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
October 13, 2014 at 09:49
you on Map 1 still?
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:53
I got it yesterday at 4
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
October 13, 2014 at 09:53
Ahh, if you follow the main story missions, for about 6 or so hours (till you reach about 12 of them, it unlocks another map)
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:55
I’ve been enjoying killing everything I run into so much that I’ve only done three of the main quest missions yet. But I had no idea about the other map, now I seriously want to play some more.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
October 13, 2014 at 09:58
Play the story missions, it will unlock your wraith abilities quickly. I played them until i got the second map unlocked. with that you get the dominate ability, so then i went back and started turning the entire orc army to follow me.
Also, you want the captains to be at a higher level so they drop better runes. let one or 2 of them escape every now and again.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 10:03
Ooo!
Damn it. I need to go home and play now!
Matthew Holliday
October 13, 2014 at 10:25
maps not massive, but the second one mixxes it up a bit.
i made a point of getting all the colelctables, side missions and killing ALL THE THINGS befor getting too into the story.
the nemesis system is pretty cool, but ive only had trouble with one or two guys. so no ones alive long enough to really be a nuisance.
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 11:09
I didn’t even know about the second map until this morning, so now I’m quite amped to get back into it.
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
October 13, 2014 at 09:49
what is a 24″? don’t you mean 42?
Captain JJ Underleyened
October 13, 2014 at 09:52
#windgat 😉
RinceThis
October 13, 2014 at 09:10
What is this new avatar?!
house_hero
October 13, 2014 at 09:33
I tried the AC demo at Rage on XBone yesterday… and I was very disappointed by the overall look of AC… didn’t look much better than PS3 or 360 with a jittery framerate. The MS staff guy told me it was the TV.
Ceyber, Hans
October 13, 2014 at 18:29
‘MS staff guy’ knows what he’s talking about. I’m willing to bet the connecting cables were twisted, affecting visual acuity. Not to mention the fact that there was that guy who sneezed way too loudly.