Not much more to say other than I am going right now to play the hell out of the new post BETA content!
The only downside is that the campaign will be split into three parts and released as free DLC over the next three months, starting in mid October; HOWEVER!!! The number of high quality community missions that already exist and are yet to come more than make up for it!!!
Now, if you will excuse me, I have a game to play. In the meantime I want to hear all of your own experience with the series, what you think of the latest release, and why you will or will not be getting it.
WHOOT!!!
See you on the battlefield Escapist!
P.S. I know that the Escapist will probably have their own news segment over the release of the game however could you leave this thread open because I really want to hear other Escapist's experience with the series as a whole. Their own history with the series, actually, I should write my own down right now before I get to playing. It would not feel right otherwise!
I first discovered Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis on the store shelves of Walmart back in 01 when I was but a small tike and my first reaction was total elation. That was quickly squashed when it turned out neither of my parents were interested in getting the game for me so I conned them into buying it for my younger brother's birthday. That quickly backfired as a 2MB videocard did not really... well... allow the game to even start, huh. It was another year and a half before we got a videocard powerful enough to run the game at a blazing 20FPS and it was more than enough. I cannot tell you how much fun I had with that game despite its blatantly obvious quirks and glitches. I would spend hours creating my own missions in the built-in editor.
Something however changed, when I bought my first computer in 06 I discovered both Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam, both of which utterly destroyed any interest I had in the OFP series. Even with avid mod support of Arma 1, I could never get back into it with its bizarre proprietary graphics and lighting engine, clunky controls, and horrific physics. The Battlefield series stole my heart up until 2009 when Arma 2 was released and the series became dead to me. With Bad Company 1 trailing behind it Arma 2 was more of the same crap, a product of a 13 year old engine, in the wrong generation. Despite my antipathy I kept buying the expansions in the vain hope that some miracle would bring the series back into the modern day but it would never be.
As Bad Company 2 was released and its humorless, face-palm worthy serious, devoid of charm campaign and claustrophobic levels almost killed the series for me I caught word of a new ARMA game. Immediately I ditched the BF series after maybe a month stint in BF3, hoping and wishing for the game to live up to my unreasonable expectations. And did it? Fuck no! It still has a few niggly bits that still nag at me every time that I boot it up but am I enjoying myself? Fuck yeah, enough so to say: That'll do pig, that'll do.
If it can make such an improvement to draw me into a series that was once dead to me and is still under active development then I cannot wait to see what the future holds.
The only downside is that the campaign will be split into three parts and released as free DLC over the next three months, starting in mid October; HOWEVER!!! The number of high quality community missions that already exist and are yet to come more than make up for it!!!
Now, if you will excuse me, I have a game to play. In the meantime I want to hear all of your own experience with the series, what you think of the latest release, and why you will or will not be getting it.
WHOOT!!!
See you on the battlefield Escapist!
P.S. I know that the Escapist will probably have their own news segment over the release of the game however could you leave this thread open because I really want to hear other Escapist's experience with the series as a whole. Their own history with the series, actually, I should write my own down right now before I get to playing. It would not feel right otherwise!
I first discovered Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis on the store shelves of Walmart back in 01 when I was but a small tike and my first reaction was total elation. That was quickly squashed when it turned out neither of my parents were interested in getting the game for me so I conned them into buying it for my younger brother's birthday. That quickly backfired as a 2MB videocard did not really... well... allow the game to even start, huh. It was another year and a half before we got a videocard powerful enough to run the game at a blazing 20FPS and it was more than enough. I cannot tell you how much fun I had with that game despite its blatantly obvious quirks and glitches. I would spend hours creating my own missions in the built-in editor.
Something however changed, when I bought my first computer in 06 I discovered both Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam, both of which utterly destroyed any interest I had in the OFP series. Even with avid mod support of Arma 1, I could never get back into it with its bizarre proprietary graphics and lighting engine, clunky controls, and horrific physics. The Battlefield series stole my heart up until 2009 when Arma 2 was released and the series became dead to me. With Bad Company 1 trailing behind it Arma 2 was more of the same crap, a product of a 13 year old engine, in the wrong generation. Despite my antipathy I kept buying the expansions in the vain hope that some miracle would bring the series back into the modern day but it would never be.
As Bad Company 2 was released and its humorless, face-palm worthy serious, devoid of charm campaign and claustrophobic levels almost killed the series for me I caught word of a new ARMA game. Immediately I ditched the BF series after maybe a month stint in BF3, hoping and wishing for the game to live up to my unreasonable expectations. And did it? Fuck no! It still has a few niggly bits that still nag at me every time that I boot it up but am I enjoying myself? Fuck yeah, enough so to say: That'll do pig, that'll do.
If it can make such an improvement to draw me into a series that was once dead to me and is still under active development then I cannot wait to see what the future holds.
