Video Games Ate My Soul Episode 3: Online Only Emblems of Fire!

Episode 3: Online Only Emblems of Fire!

Notable News:

This is going to be a short but sweet episode folks. Honestly not much to talk about this week as far as news goes. Well all except what this week's weekly feature is about.

Weekly Feature:

Online Only Stops Here! :

This past week we saw the release of Simcity. Regardless of my own thoughts on the game no one could play the game for a long time after its release thanks to the Online Only model they chose to use on the game. May I remind you eventually that $60 game's servers will be turned off and that game will become useless(EA often cuts servers for older games)! This will happen for almost any game that requires you to sign into a server to play the game. This is especially unacceptable for a single player game. Now there is not a single player in the new Simcity. However if this becomes standard this is the fate all your games will eventually take! This is unacceptable and I say we stop this now!

Why pay $60 for a game that will die in a few years? At the very least give access to single player so you have something to go back and experience. I enjoy going back to older games and replaying them. So if the gaming industry goes this way not only will you and I never be able to go back and re-experience a great single player but what about someone going game hunting for older games and looking to experience these games in the future? They will never know what that particular generation (the one that uses Only Online) was like thanks to servers for what? To fight piracy? If so that is crazy and hurting the customers in a way that I think is going way way too far! I will be boycotting this ridiculous model and I hope you will too because this is not a way to treat customers who are paying good money for your games!

What have I Been Playing?

Fire Emblem Awakening:

So I started playing Fire Emblem Awakening for the 3DS and its AWESOME! My favorite Fire Emblem was the Gamecube one however this one may be my favorite. Fire Emblem is a strategy rpg in which if your character dies they are dead forever! This makes every battle intense and so thrilling. The story so far has been pretty good for a war story. I don't want to get into too much detail about the story because I would not want to give anything away but there are plenty of twists and turns throughout. The game has skits between characters and most of them are hilarious! This one gives you the ability to grind using reeking boxes. There are also bonus teams and challenge maps that Nintendo is rolling out in staggered releases. If you are a fan of strategy rpgs or you want to try a strategy rpg I think this is one of the best recent releases to give strategy rpgs a try!

Notable Game Release of the Week:

Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm:

The expansion pack to Starcraft 2 has finally arrived! This time the focus is on the Zerg! Sounds like this one is just as good as the first Starcraft 2. I personally loved how they did the story and the in between story stuff in the first one and this continues that. I personally wish they would have done that for Diablo 3 but hey what can you do. Play it and scream ZERG RUSH!!!!

Question of the Week

If Online Only becomes the norm in games will you continue to buy and play video games? Why or why not?

Signing Off

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Thanks Guys and Girls! See you next week stay classy!