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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #226479 is a reply to message #226182] |
Fri, 13 October 2006 10:56   |
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Fobby[GEN] wrote on Wed, 11 October 2006 22:14]I'd buy the game if it wasn't for the numerous problems in Bf2.
I play BF2 occasionally, but it's just such a task just getting into a server:
-Wait for the game to load
-Wait to connect to Account Server
-Find a good server(And wait a ridiculously long amount of time to get the player information for each server you click on)
-Wait for the map to load
-Wait to have your Client Data "Verified"
-Wait to load another map, just because it took you so long to load, that the one you were loading has already ended...So you have to now load the new map, and re-verify your client data.
-Wait for the Join game button to actually work
-Wait for your screen to load
-Get kicked from the server for a "High Average Ping of 105", and start the process over again from step 3.
- Your game crashes. Wait for your desktop to load.
-Start all over again
That's pretty what it's like for me, every time I play BF2. I'm in-game for 2 hours maybe, but only get to play for about 20 minutes. It just isn't worth it. If BF2 was as easy to jump into as Renegade is, then it'd be a whole lot easier for me to enjoy the game. Not to mention the numerous patches released that neither improve the gameplay, nor fix any of the major bugs.
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Have you tried the latest patches? I think 1.3 (I think it was that one) fixed a lot of the load times. I used to think the same thing, then one of the patches drastically increased the load time. Another thing you have to think of is that BF2 has many more features than games like Renegade or CS which make it worth the extra 30 second - 1 minute wait. At least in my opinion.
BF2 is a good game. But back on topic, I downloaded the BF2142 demo the day it came out, but didn't install it until just yesterday. When I did, it installed without a single error (and I know for a fact that my computer meets minimum requirements) but I, too, go the DirectX errors and others (I think there were a total of four) but a BF2 buddy of mine said that if you do what Deathgod said, that will fix the game (google the missing files and isntall them manually). I have yet to try it ... I'm too busy with my C&C: The First Decade purchase 
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #227762 is a reply to message #225881] |
Sun, 22 October 2006 17:13 |
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I just played the demo with my friends for a while yesterday, and it really sucks. It is NO different from Battlefield 2, besides the fact that there are new maps, new vehicles, new guns, and a new game mode that isn't much different from the original. Can't you guys see? They are basically releasing another Battlefield 2 with new stuff added. It's really like an expansion pack. Even if it was an expansion pack, I would still think it sucks. I already encountered many bugs from playing it for the first five minutes too.
I recently played a whole lot of Battlefield 1942, and I just had more fun than I could ever imagine to have in Battlefield 2 or 2142.
I forgot how fun 1942 is. BF2 will never win over that game, and BF2 will never make it on my classical game list.
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #227801 is a reply to message #227762] |
Sun, 22 October 2006 23:56 |
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| icedog90 wrote on Sun, 22 October 2006 20:13 |
I just played the demo with my friends for a while yesterday, and it really sucks. It is NO different from Battlefield 2, besides the fact that there are new maps, new vehicles, new guns, and a new game mode that isn't much different from the original. Can't you guys see? They are basically releasing another Battlefield 2 with new stuff added. It's really like an expansion pack. Even if it was an expansion pack, I would still think it sucks. I already encountered many bugs from playing it for the first five minutes too.
I recently played a whole lot of Battlefield 1942, and I just had more fun than I could ever imagine to have in Battlefield 2 or 2142.
I forgot how fun 1942 is. BF2 will never win over that game, and BF2 will never make it on my classical game list.
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Yeah, but that's not really different than the good old Westwood releasing yet another similiar C&C one after another where only units and maps were changed, or company X releasing a new version of game Y in general. The truth is, many of us don't WANT it to be much different. BF2 was awesome, and I, for one, like it if they just change models and maps and such, the idea behind the game is proven very successful and popular, and I don't see a need to dump it yet. I'm not saying they can keep upgrading it forever, but a good game can easily last 3-4 sequels with different environment before people find it boring.
In a nutshell, screw repetitiveness, I'll play a game for as long as I find it fun.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #227812 is a reply to message #227801] |
Mon, 23 October 2006 02:21 |
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| Scythar wrote on Mon, 23 October 2006 08:56 |
| icedog90 wrote on Sun, 22 October 2006 20:13 |
I just played the demo with my friends for a while yesterday, and it really sucks. It is NO different from Battlefield 2, besides the fact that there are new maps, new vehicles, new guns, and a new game mode that isn't much different from the original. Can't you guys see? They are basically releasing another Battlefield 2 with new stuff added. It's really like an expansion pack. Even if it was an expansion pack, I would still think it sucks. I already encountered many bugs from playing it for the first five minutes too.
I recently played a whole lot of Battlefield 1942, and I just had more fun than I could ever imagine to have in Battlefield 2 or 2142.
I forgot how fun 1942 is. BF2 will never win over that game, and BF2 will never make it on my classical game list.
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Yeah, but that's not really different than the good old Westwood releasing yet another similiar C&C one after another where only units and maps were changed,
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You, sir, deserve to be shot for that comment. Now get out of my sight!
You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #227813 is a reply to message #225881] |
Mon, 23 October 2006 02:29 |
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Heheh, depends on how you view it. What I was saying is that Westwood's C&C games were awesome even if they were very similiar and many reviews indeed marked them as "the same game with new units". It didn't make the games one bit worse. It's the same with Battlefield series for me. It's supposed to be a team-based FPS game with it's own basic characteristics, just because "it's the same game as before but with new units" doesn't make it any worse.
Personal opinions naturally.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #227893 is a reply to message #225881] |
Mon, 23 October 2006 14:08 |
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I want to, but dare to.
I want to give 100 % focus to school so I can make them not just play them, and BF2142 would torpedo my GPA.
It blows, but maybee I will get in on holiday break.
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| Re: Battlefield 2142 Demo out [message #235951 is a reply to message #227864] |
Tue, 26 December 2006 18:34 |
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| icedog90 wrote on Mon, 23 October 2006 13:40 |
Screw all of you guys who love BF2. That game is a perfect example of how games today are starting to suck.
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*timemachine*
Oi! BF2 may not have an interesting story, but the gameplay is incredible. Nothing original, nothing fancy, but the gameplay still manages to entertain me. That's the purpose of the game, afterall. If I had to rate it on what it is, purely a multiplayer FPS game (the AI for singleplayer is braindead I tell ya, BRAINDEAD) then I'd give it near full marks. Games don't need to be innovative, they don't need to original (look, it's my webdesign sense rubbing against my video game tastes!) but they should be entertaining. Sometimes games (like Face of Mankind) disappoint us when they don't live up to the promised originality promised, but BF2 promises none of that. It's clearly just a multiplayer shoot-the-fuck-out-of-the-enemy game that manages to entertain, and greatly at that.
Though I do wish that games would focus on giving a hundred hour storyline and singleplayer experience along with the multiplayer...
Anyways, that's just my little bit there. Besides that, I bought Battlefield 2142, too. Pretty damn fun, I wish they didn't make me pay for a full game, though. The graphical updates are nice and all, but I'd rather have just had a Battlefield 2 expansion. Though, I suppose, since the two games are in completely different settings Marketing thought they could pass off BF2142 as a full new game. Fuck you, marketing.
No. Seriously. No.
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