Good game, Good game….

yeah i really enjoyed my penultimate game. at times bf3 feels sluggish almost like its got a memory leak. but other times its great as was with that game.

i will be playing over the weekend so i will jump on ts. would have done last night but i couldnt be arsed as im knackered from my first week in the new job 🙂

That good games were had doesn’t mean it’s a great game yet, and yea that judgement will be reserved for full release. It’s worryingly very similar to BC2 so far, although the Conquest map we were playing last night was better designed than most conquest maps in BC2, but I suppose your overall opinion depends what you didn’t like about BC2? For me I developed a hatred for Rush, which more often than not felt like either camping or banging your head off a brick wall (though was sometimes good), and the conquest maps were far too linear on the most part. After that the game didn’t bother me too much, although initially I was put off a bit by the COD style they had adopted. It was still a bf game at heart though, and it was the teamwork in squads of XDC (and rats) that kept me playing it for quite a few months. It didn’t have the longevity of previous BF titles because the maps were just too one dimensional for me, but it was by no means a terrible game as many nights of fun were had.

red orchestra 2 much?!

Yea it won’t happen for a long time yet. The WW2 phase for devs was a good 5 years ago, but it was pretty much done to death and they had few places left to go with it. The problem if you don’t like the modern setting is that there’s just so much more incredibly cool stuff they can do when it comes to likes of single player campaigns for example. There are also much more options available for weapons, unless they do an arcade version of WW2 like BF1942, but that usually puts off the reality types who moan about lack of historical accuracy, and who make up the majority of ppl who give a shit about game setting vs a games playability.

i’d say modern has been done to death and then some!

Hard to disagree with that except that, for whatever reason, they keep releasing really cool stuff in modern settings, and it’ll stay that way until someone figures out how to inject the same into a WW2 title. I struggle to think how they’d do that, but that’s probably why I’m not earning megabucks as a game designer. A revamped BF1942 would be good to see though, and surely that’s a no brainer that we’ll get eventually.