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Steve Rossell Administrator |
posted June 15, 2005 09:53 AM
  
Brothers in Arms is an excellant game, better than Medal of Honor but I still do not think it is as good as BF2. Steve Rossell ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Robert DeBolt Member |
posted June 15, 2005 11:23 AM
Ok! You convinced me! I ordered BF1942 yesterday! OBTW, my favorite real-time strategy game is Age of Empires II. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Dave Mead Member |
posted June 15, 2005 11:45 AM
Just ordered a new video card so I'll be able to play 3d games properly  I'll get the demo when I get home. My favorite game of all time was the original civilisation. I used to play it so much I started to have turn based dreams! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 15, 2005 01:21 PM
Yeah, I played the demo of Brothers In Arms and although I prefer FPS games that aren't squad based, I enjoyed Republic Commando and Brothers in Arms seemed similar in that squad control was pretty easy. The one thing that initially turned me off on squad based games was controlling the squad wasn't very easy so I usually ended up ignoring them. I might look at the BattleField series though probably for BattleField 2 I'll have to wait for nVidia to release their newer drivers. ------------------ [This message has been edited by Gene Warner (edited June 15, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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Steve Rossell Administrator |
posted June 15, 2005 03:34 PM
--------------------------- You convinced me! I ordered BF1942 yesterday! --------------------------- I hope you pre-ordered BF2 and not ordered BF1942? --------------------------- If you have a GeForce4 card there is a post on www.planetBattlefield.com in the BF2 forums on getting it to work on these cards. My brother had to do this and it worked --------------------------- I agree, squad based games are too diffucult to make it fun. BF2 has squads but you do not have to join one or be the commander. I did like being in a squad and not being the commander. Steve Rossell ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 15, 2005 07:34 PM
quote:I've so far found four squad based games where squad control was pretty easy:
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Robert DeBolt Member |
posted June 15, 2005 09:47 PM
quote: I ordered BF1942 for three reasons:
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Paul Dwyer Member |
posted June 15, 2005 10:24 PM
There is still an online community playing BF1942 and some of the addons (road to rome, wwII secrets). Still a great game, graphically better than a lot of the newer ones out now. Some of the mods are fun, there was a star wars one where you can play a storm trouper with a blaster, that was well done. DessertCombat looked impressive but I found it to have a pertty severe performance penalty for all the nice graphics, also the modern weaponry is so powerful you spend a lot of your time dead waiting to spawn again. I really got into BattleField Vietnam though, all the new tunnel rules and helicopters and riverboats. The portable mortars etc. Also the weapons were fun, carbine-15, m16, m60, m21, akm, ak-47. as you can see I'm a big BF fan ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 15, 2005 11:22 PM
Ah.... I remember this game now! Just downloaded the demo of BF42, seemed very familiar... Then the light went on, several minutes into playing the game it crashed, "Now I remember!" I could never get the demo to run reliably so I never bought the full game figuring it would behave just as badly. Been to the Planet BattleField forums and I see that a lot of people are having lots of problems with this game and with BF2. It's a pitty too, what little I saw looked good... I'm hopping I won't have these problems when I get around to playing Battle for Middle Earth since I understand it also uses the same engine BF42 used. ------------------ [This message has been edited by Gene Warner (edited June 15, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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Paul Dwyer Member |
posted June 15, 2005 11:29 PM
I had problems with BF1942 at first too, they went away with the patches or newer nvidia drivers. Same with BF-Vietname too, I remember that glass was not transparent on my PC till a patch came out. (I couldn't see out of the helicopter windscreen) I think patches were up to 1.62 for bf1942 and they weren't just bug fixes and security patches, some improved sound and graphcs and changed the physics and rules a little too as they discovered a few imbalances as time went by, a couple of weapons changed I think too ------------------ [This message has been edited by Paul Dwyer (edited June 15, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 15, 2005 11:33 PM
Hmm.... maybe for the full game but it doesn't seem like they even bother to fix problems with the demo and unless I can find it real cheap, I'm not going to gamble on buying the full game only to find that I can't run it. Nope, just checked and the Demo hasn't been updated since 2002, where the last game patch was about 6 months ago... Dumb because I think most people would be like me, if they can't get the demo to work they won't buy the game. ------------------ [This message has been edited by Gene Warner (edited June 15, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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Paul Dwyer Member |
posted June 16, 2005 01:07 AM
email them if you think it's worth the effort ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 16, 2005 01:24 PM
I'll probably gamble, I just found the WW II Anthology which has the original BF42 game plus both add-ons for under $20, if the patches don't fix the problem and EA doesn't have an answer, there's always eBay! ------------------ [This message has been edited by Gene Warner (edited June 16, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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Paul Dwyer Member |
posted June 16, 2005 07:51 PM
80% discount on what I payed piecemeal for them when they came out. If you install them all in order the last one will patch upto about 1.51 which has most of the bugs out then just download the last one from the net ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Gene Warner Member |
posted June 17, 2005 10:43 PM
FWIW, I made the plunge and bought:
I do love games! It's the primary reason I have a computer! I'll probably get BattleField: Viet-Nam and BattleField 2 latter, but for now I figure these games will keep me busy... ------------------ [This message has been edited by Gene Warner (edited June 18, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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