Eh, bugs and crashes never plagued my BF2 experience. My #1 complaint would be the loading times, but the game still provided me the ability to enjoyably piss away 100 hours of my life -- which is good enough for me.

LOL @ "Hellbinder's Lair"
http://www.area3d.net/hellbinder.php?id=431
Maybe quit fellating EA and post to your website?

I admit BF2142 with the futuristic themes and the walking tanks all look pretty cool, but I am quite bitter about the poor support for BF2 and I'll wait a while to see how EA handles this one before I buy it.


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Mittens, stop shilling for EA.

I'm in the 2142 Beta. It does indeed blow mightily. I like BF2 better then 2142. It may become playable at some point, but right now it's suffering from trying to add too much to an old engine.

Damn, why does Blue's get so many of these crappy paid PR people?

The only crappy people around here are complete tools like you and about 1/2 the other bashomatic posters on this site.

You and your kindred daily make this site a complete pain to read. you ruin nearly every topic with one complete BS post after the next. All you are is a giant pack of mindless ravenous wolves bent on causing trouble and destruction.

So, Better graphics and better physics are not a reason to buy a new computer to play a new game?????

No. Not if it's still the same old gameplay.


Then again, my dislike of the BF series has nothing to do with EA. I don't mind EA, unlike most people. I don't think EA ruins things, and it's easy to avoid their crap and only buy their good stuff.

I just think DICE is inept, and should be the crap you avoid. I thought the BF2 demo was fun for about five minutes before the gameplay mechanics started to feel off and annoying. I thought the full game was worse. The game was fun for getting in a humvee and running people over. I thought it sucked if you were on foot or in anything else.


EA = fine. DICE = awful.

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Sounds like Hellbinder is just a guy with an attitude. First thing he can muster up "You guys are completely IDIOTIC." Now that just goes to show you how deep in thought he really is. Just a sad little boy at heart.

This comment was edited on Sep 8, 11:17.

Uh, what? The Battlefield games have been some of the most difficult (in terms of technical problems, crashing, etc) and most frustrating (in terms of your teammates being asses, difficulty getting around maps due to needing vehicles, etc etc etc) gaming experiences I've ever had, and I've been gaming for a really long time. Don't even try to cop this shit that there have been no problems and the Battlefield series has been this wonderful fountain of paradise.

PJ, I could not agree more. This time I wait a month or so to see what the game is really like. I still feel BF1942 was the best yet. Is that a shame or what? BF:V, what a joke! BF2 for me was not much at all. From the start it was just another BF1942 with better graphics, required a new $700.00 card and system to play. I fell for it hook line and sinker too. Built a new system for it before it came out. To the tune of almost 2K. Talk about a loyal FPS shooter fan. I'm that guy. I am just so tired of being screwed, I have gone back to playing Tribes and still have a blast. Sure the graphics are not as good but tha gameplay is still great.

So, Better graphics and better physics are not a reason to buy a new computer to play a new game?????

Gee i guess suddenly DICE is doing something that no other developer, game company or console has *ever* done before. How dare they release a new game with NEW game play elements and NEW graphics that require a NEW System?

How can you people not see how complete STUPID you are?

go play Atari 2600.

You guys are completely IDIOTIC.

There are not masses of people out there who "got burned" by the BF franchise. There are not masses of people out there who think they got screwed over by BF1942, the add-ons, BF Vietnam, or BF2.

There is one total BS post after the next in this topic. I have been playing the beta for 2 weeks. The game is not even remotely like a mod. It has a completely different feel and play to it with completely new content. According to this logic every game is simply a mod eh?

I don’t know where the heck you people get off posting complete rubbish like this in topic after topic on this site.

All the battlefield games have been extremely fun to play including the new one. There are no show stopper bugs in the game. The few little bugs that are in there are merely mild irritations, none of which deserve this kind of rubbish.

Grow the frock up.

PJ, I could not agree more. This time I wait a month or so to see what the game is really like. I still feel BF1942 was the best yet. Is that a shame or what? BF:V, what a joke! BF2 for me was not much at all. From the start it was just another BF1942 with better graphics, required a new $700.00 card and system to play. I fell for it hook line and sinker too. Built a new system for it before it came out. To the tune of almost 2K. Talk about a loyal FPS shooter fan. I'm that guy. I am just so tired of being screwed, I have gone back to playing Tribes and still have a blast. Sure the graphics are not as good but tha gameplay is still great.

where the demo will appear? I wanna get in early & beat the teens

Well put. And I would add... remember how bright and shiny the BF2 demo was? It was well done. They knew in order to get most customers who felt burned by BF1942 (the add-ons) and BF:V they had to come across polished.

From what some of you are posting the 2142 beta is not doing as well at pulling the wool over the eyes. Not making those consumers that feel burnt by the DICE/EA handling of the entire franchise forget and jump on the bandwagon once again.

I remember the BF2 demo how it was much more polished than the retail game at release. So I am sitting this one out. No BETA, closed/limited/open... not going to bite.

I will be playing other games and waiting to see the forums after release. I got a feeling we will be hearing about a delay or seeing some huge threads with pissed off buyers. I can wait...

well said, but for me, the in-game ads just push me over the edge to not even consider buying it. I never have, nor will, pay money for a agme with adverts in.

Mittens:

I think what you are misunderstanding here is that most people who think negatively about BF2142 simply hate EA. We don't need to play it to put it down because we've been abandoned with BF2.

EA just keeps shoving new games down peoples throats instead of patching their old ones. The only reasons these patches started to come out was because they realized that most of the community wasn't going to have BF:V and BF2 done over again.

So while you may want to just "be able to enjoy BF2142 despite its bugs" I don't think you'll find many supporters. At least not from people who pay for their own video games and expect a certain level of quality.

This is nothing more, nothing less than a MOD of BF2. End of story. I for one will not fall for their crap again. Hell these scumb bags have yet to fix BF2.

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Have not played in a week, got sick of trying to find a server to get on. Game has potential, but it is pretty early still. I will have to grab this new beta and see how it works. Hopefully this means we can use it on "multiple" computers as my new machine comes Monday, another reason I didnt want to install the beta, just in case it would not work on another machine.

Mittens, stop shilling for EA.

I think "shill" is one of the most overused concepts since the time when Penny-Arcade "uncovered" the whole thing through some comics/e-mails.

I liked Battlefield 2 and I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying the beta for BF2142. So, yeah, woo. Look at me bleed and die for EA. I'd totally do anything to support all of their products! I love EA so much! I wish I could perform acts of sexual varieties on them or, if not, at least go from site to site and proclaim their goodness as a publisher!

Oh, wait, no. That was somebody else. God forbid I enjoy the Battlefield franchise despite their problems.

I'm confused as to the general consensus on this one as one person says it sucks the other person says it's the holey grail.

I'm going to have to try this n decide for myself. I enjoyed BF2, the only downside to it was all the laggy caching crap that went on for a 1gig system. CBA upgrading to 2gig just for sloppy programming.

Ah well.

This game rules so hard even in beta that I am eagerly anticipating my check from EA for this statement.

Mittens, stop shilling for EA.

I'm in the 2142 Beta. It does indeed blow mightily. I like BF2 better then 2142. It may become playable at some point, but right now it's suffering from trying to add too much to an old engine.

Damn, why does Blue's get so many of these crappy paid PR people?

Learn from the past grasshoppers. BF2 = BF2142 except with in game dynamic ads.

I love when people try to pass off advice on to others without any actual first-hand experience with the games they're putting down.

You are right, that must have been my imagination about the whole dynamic in game advertising announced some weeks back by ea.