The only thing I see EA bring to the game pun intended is nickle and diming the shit out of it. r nMod commonalities have lived in proper symbiosis with commercial games since... doom . r nInitially without explicit support from the game developers. The community created their own tools. ...
The Legend of Zelda basically created the graphic RPG genre and subsequent games would copy quite a lot of things from there. You might think that, but before Zelda there were numerous graphic RPG games like Zelda released years before it. The most notable w.r.t. Zelda would probably be Dragon ...
I was also missing UnEpic on the list. It's an absolute gem. If it wasn't for the crack that's called Skyrim I would probably play that game at the moment.
As mentioned on an other forum, give people a choice when they start a game: 1 pure offline character You can never ever bring that character online, so it's just offline SP stuff 2 online character Requires you to be online, but gives you the privilege to use the character ...
