EA Origin Access Games

craymail wrote: ↑I enjoyed the single player campaigns of Battlefield V, Titanfall 2 and Battlefront 2. I just finished those from the same promo. I wouldn't have bought those games for the short single player length, but since it was free...hey, why not.

I've heard Titanfall 2 campaign is an oft overlooked gem. Good point.

I just got Origin Basic recently and have been having a lot of fun playing Command & Conquer 3. The cutscenes are a hoot!

Talamasca wrote: ↑ I just got Origin Basic recently and have been having a lot of fun playing Command & Conquer 3. The cutscenes are a hoot!

C&C3 is the last excellent C&C game from the franchise. Kept all the core mechanics of a C&C game and added a few new ones, competitive play is still a thing for this game as well.

C&C4 is sadly rubbish, might've been ok as a non-C&C game but it was a dreadful C&C game with a lot of bad design decisions, it took none of the mechanics from past games or other RTSes for that matter. Fine for an experimental new IP, but a well established series like C&C you can't do such a thing.

Drizzt wrote: ↑ I've heard Titanfall 2 campaign is an oft overlooked gem. Good point.

Yeah it was pretty good. Inside and Vampyr is also worth playing.

Origin basic is worth it for me because of Madden and Fifa. The rest is pretty much extra.

BF multiplayer also shows up after a few months.

And of course City Skylines is amazing.

I just use the free months here and there to power through the campaign on their big exclusive shooters. Pretty worth it that way but as a subscription service Gamepass is beating it pretty badly in terms of value and EA doesn't seem really interested in pushing for more stuff.

Titanfall 2's single player was great, and really caught me by surprise. Several really inventive levels really show off the pedigree of this dev team, and you can see the hints of why Apex Legends was so great and well-received. The multiplayer is pretty fun too, but I wonder what the community is like for that now.

If you get a 10 hour trial to Jedi: Fallen Order, I really enjoyed that game this year, and almost 100% it... 10 hours is probably enough to get your Jedi fix, though the game itself takes about 15-20 hours to finish.

I liked SW Battlefront 2, despite the criticism and backlash it received. The campaign was ok, and the multiplayer was pretty good. I remember really liking the starfighter modes

I played a bit of Burnout Paradise Remastered earlier this year, and as fun as that game is, it's also very obviously an old game with some rough edges... the map and waypointing system is far from what you expect these days, but it was still a fun ride for a few hours.

Limbo and Inside are no-brainers if you've got a few hours... Great art design, inventive puzzles, and it can be finished in a couple hours each.

I spent a lot of hours this year playing Dead Cells... if you're into metroidvania type games, it's a good one.

The Batman Arkham games are good if you've never played them...