I'm not trying to go beside your point because right now I have no idea what your point it. To be honest, it just sounds like you're upset EA isn't making the game as you think they should be made. I don't understand how that takes away from the identity of a game. The Sims, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect all have their own identity and EA has done nothing to change it. So I honestly have no idea where you're coming from with that.
My point is that EA is a very mainstream oriented company. Mostly visable in the standard presentation they provide their games with.
The term 'EA Sauce' you keep using is making you sound less like you have actual reasoning behind your dislike of EA and sounds more like you're just bashing EA because they don't do what you want, which you literally just stated. If your taste doesn't match up with the games EA puts out, you should try to go look for games that do match your taste. It's not EAs fault you don't like the kind of games they make. You really shouldn't bash them for that.
The EA sauce that I mentioned once and only used again since that made me feel you refered to my post, is the thing that makes EA games all stand together. I`m not "bashing" EA, they can do whatever the hell they want, I`m just voicing my opinion that it isn`t my cup of tea, that is all. Superb franchises like Dragon Age (which are only published by EA) still stand out to me.
What exactly does Nintendo 'embody' for you anyway? I can't exactly say they 'push their imaginations to the limit' all that much. EA does a lot more than Nintendo does. For example, compare the Sims 1 to the Sims 3. While the base mechanics are the same, there's no denying the two are totally different games. They've made big changes. EA isn't afraid to change something up in a game. Nintendo on the other hand has very little in the way of innovation (besides the waggle waggle sticks and giant game pad that they refuse to get rid of and actually isolate people who play their games and you know... can't use their hands as well as other people due to medical conditions or other such things). Super Mario Brothers on the NES plays near identically to most of the New Super Mario Brothers games. Heck, they made Super Mario Galaxy twice in a row and just added Yoshi. A Link Between Worlds is at least a change to the usual Zelda formula from what I've seen of it though.
I've been playing games for over 20 years, not just nintendo obviously, for me Nintendo embodies fun, imagination and reinvention. And no, ofcourse they aren`t the only gamestudios who can bring that to the table, but I feel they have done it most consistantly. I feel Nintendo has evolved their games a lot, most visible in Mario, Zelda and Metroid games. The way they translate gameplay to new environments and add new gameplay mechanics is exceptional. Not that I don`t see an occasional mis**** from them. I felt Mario Sunshine was fun to play but dissapointing, same goes for that Luigi game on the WiiU. BUt all in all, Mario has starred in a wide diversity of games, like fighting, racing, platforming, RPG, sportsgames, partygames, etc. Definetly not all great games, but they sure all are different. I think Zelda is unique in design. New franchises they start bring complete new experiences to the table, like Pikmin.
Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo games. But Nintendo is not my favorite company (now that I think about it, I wouldn't know who to call my favorite company). I was cringing through the entire last Nintendo Direct. It was painful all the stuff they were announcing like it was something I should be excited about.
Playing the Devil's advocate is tiring...
I don`t care who makes a game,. if its good, its good. Hindsight shows nintendo has created most of my favorite games, but that doesn`t mean I`ll blindly follow them with every product they toss on the market. Just like I wont dissmiss every EA game without trying it. But I`ve been playing EA games for over 15 years and I felt I earned a right to voice my opinion about them. I say 15 years, cause my earliest memory without factchecking to playing an EA game is Fifa 98, with the blur,.song 2 theme.
When you ask people for opinions on gamestudios, what else do you expect then approaches from a personal angle, depending on what that person likes and dislikes? Thats kinda how this whole game industry works and kinda the reason Sega went down in flames and Sony and Microsoft emerged. THey appealed more to the masses. So i`m not denying EA is very succesful, I`m just saying that personally I dislike most of their products. They don`t have to change for me, I don`t care, gaming is expensive enough as it is.
