Should I get? Should I get? Should I get?

Should wait for reviews.

But I want!

Really should wait for reviews.

But I REALLY want.

Wait for reviews dammit! Show a little self-control!

Alright - there's no need to get angry...

The problem/brilliance of Steam is...by the time I get to about the third sentence of that (fairly frequent) exchange, it's already bought and downloading.

*shakes fist at the uncaring skies*

-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Badcompany2 is BF2 distilled. Slightly stronger with less flavor. I really hate the feature rollback and removal of squad commands. The gameplay is intense as ever with improved objective based goals. If it releases today why wont steam let me preload?

Prez wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 12:13:
Should I get? Should I get? Should I get?

Should wait for reviews.

But I want!

Really should wait for reviews.

But I REALLY want.

Wait for reviews dammit! Show a little self-control!

Alright - there's no need to get angry...

Wait for reviews to be gushing? Why?

Just buy the game, its proven itself via demo and beta.

If you like Battlefield in any tiny little bitty way you MUST buy this game.

Stop slacking man!

The default FOV is 55?. Who the fuck playtested this? O_o

Who cares? It's changeable. I can't count the number of recent games that have lacked this, thank god someone finally put it back in. Every FPS game should have user customizable FoV.

Prez, you should buy it bro If you need a squad, I've got some RL friends together and we'll be playing all the time on my server.

Verno has RL friends? I am shocked and awed by that thought. Now if only SupCom 2 would get decrypted...

No pre-loading on Steam. How idiotic can you get?

Getting out of your mom's basement tends to help with socializing MrBone, I did it 12 years ago but it's never too late for you too fella

No pre-loading on Steam. How idiotic can you get?

The game unlocks in 30 minutes so most of us are past the preload rage now but yeah it was pretty stupid and obviously intended by EA who had preloads on every other service including their own store.

Should I get? Should I get? Should I get?

Absolutely. It's a great BF game.

IMO, the moments when BC2 really shines are when the destructible environs change your tactics and possibilities. I also love noob tubing people in buildings who think they are safe. lol. Really, go get it today. No game is perfect, but this is a fun BF game and it's on PC!

i 2nd this, played beta for weeks and never got tired of the map. Rush mode is great and really focus the fighting.

You can give squad orders too but only to defend and attack a point. Every command is the same key "Q" it just depends on the context of what your looking at. works really well.

Sound design in this game is amazing too.

Yea, trying to camp the mcoms to defend them from rushers is fun when you realize there's no more walls to hide behind. Bullet pen still feels "off" in the game, but having some is better then none.

taking the day off from work tomorrow to play this. Should arrive today in the mail so might get some time in tonight. Watched that first hour thingy last night, the map variation looks outstanding, I hadn't seen the jungle stuff but I can't wait to tear into those maps.

SP campaign looks better than the first, still not more interesting than MP, but better anyway.

I'm thinking I'll wait for reviews on this. If the multiplayer is actually as good as preliminary reports say then it may be worth a purchase. Need more info though. Maybe some good gameplay vids on youtube.

There are quite a few reviews already:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/battlefieldbadcompany2

Averaging 9/10 so far.

Here a pretty good review http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2010/03/02/battlefield-bad-company-2-review/1 and check out the new lauch trailer http://www.gamespot.com/showcases/bfbc2?sid=6252664 ...works well with classical music

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 14:17:
I'm thinking I'll wait for reviews on this. If the multiplayer is actually as good as preliminary reports say then it may be worth a purchase. Need more info though. Maybe some good gameplay vids on youtube.

What do you want to see? I can take some gameplay vids tonight

Araes wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 14:47:
Here a pretty good review http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2010/03/02/battlefield-bad-company-2-review/1 and check out the new lauch trailer http://www.gamespot.com/showcases/bfbc2?sid=6252664 ...works well with classical music

Stansfield: "I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?"

Prez wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 12:13:
Should I get? Should I get? Should I get?

Should wait for reviews.

But I want!

Really should wait for reviews.

But I REALLY want.

Wait for reviews dammit! Show a little self-control!

Alright - there's no need to get angry...

Same here. I see no big sales so no rush for me.

I was very disappointed to hear you can't play the multi-player modes single-player with bots like you could in the earlier BF games.

On a good server with mature players, the Battlefield games were easily some of the best computer gaming I've ever experienced. On server with brats and idiots, there wasn't much point.

Playing alone with bots made up for this to a certain degree. In my opinion, BF2 with bots, while it hardly compared to a good server, was much better than the typical, disorganized public server. At least the general flow of the gameplay worked right, and it made for a fun shooting gallery. It's why I kept it installed for so long.

It seems as I get older I have less and less patience for the jerk-offs on the typical public servers, to the point now where I won't even subject myself to it, and I don't really have the time to go seeking out good matches/players anymore.

I can appreciate why they didn't, of course. Given the probable amount of work it would take, it wouldn't be worth it given how few people would actually be interested in it. I imagine that the people that play like twits on public servers just like to play it that way, and the serious people are willing to invest the time to sort themselves out (it really can be truly awesome with good players).

It's just a shame it's gone a step backward feature-wise in this sense. I'd pay for that as DLC in the future if they put real effort into it. It would give us co-op as well, which was also lots of fun, and you only need a handful of people to make that worthwhile (just two player BF2 coop with my roommate back when was a hell of a lot of fun).