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imo: 1942 was great as well but old bf2 felt for sure like the innovative pinnacle of the part of the franchise that i've actually played. in all, i'd say a pretty good time then for shooters. cod4, ut2k4, tf2—good stuff, and definitely posted about more than 2-3 times.

not sure that i signed up for this website on the year of bf2's launch – i was an avid vanilla CoD/CoD2 player first, then, like most of the 'pro' scene (by pro i mean with national tournament prize winnings amounting to a single GPU; them were t'days, etc), most people seemed to move over to world of warcraft, which swallowed entire gaming communities whole on my xfire friends list (ah! xfire! them were t'days, etc, etc).

i do recall seeing bf1942 and possibly also bf:vietnam ... loaded on a row of computers in a hotel lobby, circa. 2003/4? some time after 9/11, anyway, when air travel was still a vexed affair. even thinking about a row of computers with big CRT monitors, in a hotel lobby, presumably offering internet/email access first and foremost ... (days, them, &c.) it all seems so quaint.

the occasion of purchasing bf2 itself was building a brand new pc for myself. i can't recall, but i do remember it was a big step up from the machine i had that was formerly running puny quake-engine games like call of duty 2 and the lightweight world of warcraft, to the 64-player CPU crusher that was bf2's engine. i think it was an AMD 64-bit CPU (my first) and an ATI X800XT or something? shortly thereafter i actually won an nvidia 8800GTX at a gaming LAN, which was a yuuuge prize in those days. i was on my way to stardom ... if only i had kept at it for another decade until the real money/sponsors actually began weighing in. what a great loss to gaming culture.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-02 02:08:13)

just think: somewhere in another reality, uzique is sitting atop a mountain of youtube money, starting on another frantic video with "what's up u-nation it's ya boy here with more fortnite"

missed his calling!

e: is anyone actually still playing bfv?

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-01-02 05:54:30)

the last battlefield game i bought was bf3. possibly some time on bad company 2. i honestly can’t even remember anymore. they all blurred into one after bf3.

i did enjoy call of duty’s huge warfare battle royal mode during the first covid lockdown. a ripoff of day-z/pub-g/fortnite, etc., but a good time forming small squads with university pals. a bit like the early days of bf2.

as games got more graphically and physically impressive i somehow lost interest. the high-definition gloss was weirdly nullifying. i preferred stylised games like team fortress 2 in the end.

i should check out the new counter strike game but i don’t think i’ll ever bother building another windows desktop pc. seems like a weird thing to even keep in the house thesedays. ‘gamer zone’. cringe. my next desktop-based machine will probably be an imac.

i would probably like to check out that elden ring game and the new gta, but not enough to ever actually commit to buying the hardware and setup again. meh.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-02 09:51:31)

uziq wrote:

the last battlefield game i bought was bf3. possibly some time on bad company 2. i honestly can’t even remember anymore. they all blurred into one after bf3.

i did enjoy call of duty’s huge warfare battle royal mode during the first covid lockdown. a ripoff of day-z/pub-g/fortnite, etc., but a good time forming small squads with university pals. a bit like the early days of bf2.

as games got more graphically and physically impressive i somehow lost interest. the high-definition gloss was weirdly nullifying. i preferred stylised games like team fortress 2 in the end.

i should check out the new counter strike game but i don’t think i’ll ever bother building another windows desktop pc. seems like a weird thing to even keep in the house thesedays. ‘gamer zone’. cringe. my next desktop-based machine will probably be an imac.

i would probably like to check out that elden ring game and the new gta, but not enough to ever actually commit to buying the hardware and setup again. meh.

If you can play RDR2 you could play either of those games just fine on the hardware you have.

I tried to get into RDR2 but was bored after the opening snow thing. I got to the open world section and immediately gave up. It is very intimidating to have to learn all the new controls and systems.

There was recently an article about how modern games are too big. Too many systems to learn.

Modern-day triple Aaa titles have become too big for their own good. A massive influx of money and resources is currently being put into game development for nothing. Most players do not even reach the very end of a game these days.

Amy Hennig feels the need to talk about the increasing gameplay time of video games. Image Credit: @Sonaratv/Wikimedia Commons

Even the former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden agrees; he feels that with each generation of consoles, the price of developing games increases massively due to games becoming too large for players to keep up with. Amy Hennig has been saying the same for a very long time now.

If you Google a little you will find a lot of people who agree with them. You will also find a lot of people murderously angry about the idea that games "need to shrink."

I wish I could go back to the PlayStation 1 days of Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 8, and a few other short story games. 6 to 10 hours of a memorable story beats hundreds of hours of roaming around with a horse waiting for events to happen. I rather roam around IRL in that case.

and yeah it seems like people are finally starting to get sick of AAA games. i was complaining about them a long, long time ago. i remember when TF2 jumped the shark, back when everyone was super-excited to be getting new hats and skins or some bullshit, like idiot puppies with a gewgaw or chew toy.

the fact that a lot of the gamer backlash against the big studios seems to be phrased in terms of complaints about "diversity hires" and "women in vidya games" is .... well, something. i can't be bothered even trying to engage with or debate gamers/gamer discourse thesedays. it is moronic.

one of the better spectator sports in all this is watching airbrush-stricken, grizzled male characters get posted on social media to taunt incel gamers who are unironically angry about pointy elbows and boxy faces, but it probably goes over most of those heads.



i preferred gaming when it was one of those things that was becoming more socially acceptable for adults to engage in. 2025? back into the closet. "are you a gamer?" "er yeah, i played mario kart once, does that count?"

the (first) 2024 was alright, in its way. it didn't run on my pc anywhere near as well as bf2. hard to explain the effect after so much time, but you could just tell back then when your computer, the CPU especially, wasn't cutting it. you'd feel weird rubber banding and turgidity in your movement. bf2 felt lightweight, with the dolphin diving and whatnot. 2024 felt like wading through mud. either the engine wasn't optimised as well or my computer was crunching hard and the framerate was tanking. the game just never attained that 'flow state' feeling that the best games have. (admittedly that's to do with a lot more than just tech specs.)

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-03 09:33:03)

glad you're doing well mitch!