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I just bought Angry Birds Halloween

October 27th, 2010 Posted in Gaming
Oct, 27 2010
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…despite the fact that I haven’t finished the original Angry Birds yet.

It’s not my fault! The studio that makes it has put out so many free updates for Angry Birds that I can’t keep up. Don’t get me wrong, the free updates are great! But after so much free content long after I paid my initial dollar for the game, I think the company deserve another 99 cents from me. Even for what really could have been part of the existing game.

Seriously though, what game launches and then continually pushes out big free updates that increase the game’s length? The game’s now over twice the original length due to their free content updates. It’s crazy awesome.

That being said, I wouldn’t keep buying one every season. I don’t want a Christmas edition.
More free updates (please) while you work on real game improvements for Angry Birds 2, which I’ll gladly pay for.

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chaos rising

March 23rd, 2010 Posted in Gaming
Mar, 23 2010
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I beat the last boss in Dawn of War II expansion, Chaos Rising tonight. He stumbles, talks and talks and… the game crashes to desktop. I launch the game again, reload my save and… I have to redo the last mission. And that wasn’t an easy mission. Probably took me 40 minutes – 20 minutes just to beat the final guy at the end. So frustrating.

Looking through online forums, lots of others have had this issue and even after replaying it, the same thing happens. Looks like I’ll have to wait for a patch before I re-beat the game.

The worst part? I remember this exact same issue happening in the original Dawn of War II. I beat the final boss, the game crashed and I waited months for a patch to fix the issue before I re-beat it (for the achievement of completing the campaign).

It’s frustrating when developers let the same mistakes and bugs plague subsequent releases.
Reminds me of the fail that was the first four Fallout 3 DLC packs.

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