Buy Medal of Honor.

[BabyHeadCrab]

It's a great SP game, and worth the sale price it has today. I'll surely be ridiculed for this, but I enjoyed the single player heaps more than the Half-Life 2 episodes. Yes, the MP is recycled garbage (thanks, DICE) but the guys at completely separate development studio 'Danger Close', put together a fantastic single player game that has literally nothing to do with it's multiplayer counterpart.

If you enjoy a fleeting, awesome and often oddly emotional and evocative single-player war game experience, you can't go wrong here. It really has very little to do with Call of Duty, enemies are most often dispatched without stupid amounts of respawn and the checkpoints further engross you into what you begin to learn is a hellstorm of a war (well, duh). You follow the story of two tier-1 operatives (devgru, etc - a real joint task force often deployed in Afghanistan) and one regular U.S. army ranger who ends up mixed up with them. Again, it's a whirring and somewhat short experience (perfect length, I use the term short relatively), but easily my favorite single player FPS in years.

The sound, art, production, dialog and scripting are all top-notch. This game saw a lot of loving. It's a damn shame that it was universally shamed by critics who couldn't get past the tunnel-vision of CoD competition and the shamefully rushed MP (which I never gave a shit about anyways).

 

[Krynn72]

No, don't. The SP was terrible. Its unmemorable, in fact the only thing I remember about it is the terrible scripting in it, where your partner guy kill is scripted to kill people, and you can't kill the person (invincible) until he does, and he gets stuck every so often so I saw him killing people through walls and shit. God it was so so bad.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

At least be a little more specific, Kryndoggie. Did you even finish?

 

[Shakermaker]

At least be a little more specific, Kryndoggie. Did you even finish?

I agree with Krynn. I didn't enjoy the campaign at all due to the stupid scripting, invisible walls, and a story that might not have been as over the top as Modern Warfare but sure as hell wasn't the semi-realistic Afghanistan experience that was promised. The sections with the buggies spring to mind.

Oh and he most likely finished it because it only takes about four hours to play.

EDIT If anything get BC2 or the BF2 pack that is also on sale today.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

They're snow mobiles - and they were actually used by deployed DF/SF in mountainous Afghanistan quite often. A war game with even semi-realism in such a setting would be ****ing horrid to slog through. There's something to be said for the cinematic value of the whole thing.

Again, it's a heavy opinion type thing. Yeah, there's some flaws - but it's an incredibly visceral experience. Worth well over the meager $15 they put it up for today, in my eyes.

Spoiler

When you're trapped as the U.S. ranger pinned down with meager cover and know most of your squad will die, picking off what little Taliban you can and using the scope to pinpoint targets with hellfire missiles, etc - finally to be relieved by the cobra gunships which YOU get to control once you escort the two other survivors to safety, really great cinematic moments, in this brobro's opinion.

 

[Shakermaker]

They're snow mobiles - and they were actually used by deployed DF/SF in mountainous Afghanistan quite often.

Yeah, but not in the Mario Kart way like in MoH.

A war game with even semi-realism in such a setting would be ****ing horrid to slog through. There's something to be said for the cinematic value of the whole thing.

I especially mean the helicopter levels. Those were god awful.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I didn't mind them - I found them quite satisfying. Particularly when you were revisiting areas you'd broken into on ground beforehand. I've certainly seen vehicle sequences go far worse - and the audio here is particularly well done in terms of radio comm.

Yeah, but not in the Mario Kart way like in MoH.

They're only used for transportation sequences (and handle quite well, thanks to the single player's tasteful use of UE3, as a digression - MP uses DICE' BC2 version of Frostbite, so the MP/SP run on entirely different game engines), and to make them engaging, you dodge obstacles and occasionally traverse a chasm in order to keep up with your team.

It's not like MW2 where you have a submachine gun out and are going balls out on your lonesome, on a civilian snow mobile spraying wildly but somehow taking out trucks of generic, armed brown people.

 

[Shem]

It's a great SP game, and worth the sale price it has today. I'll surely be ridiculed for this, but I enjoyed the single player heaps more than the Half-Life 2 episodes.

but I enjoyed the single player heaps more than the Half-Life 2 episodes.

heaps more than the Half-Life 2 episodes.

Half-Life 2

How dare you.

Spoiler

Come on, man, I was only exaggerating. You didn't have to open up this spoiler to find THAT out, now did you? Oh, there I go again! Well, I'm off!

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Half-Life 2 was great. I'm not a huge fan of the episodes, though. I've been outspoken about this on these boards before. I simply didn't enjoy them that much. I never suggested it tops the greatness of the original Half-Life 2.

love you shem :0

 

[Shem]

Yeah, I took your opinion out of context for comedic effect. Don't sweat it.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I's sweating

 

[Acepilotf14]

I never thought I'd see anyone say what the op just said.

 

[ríomhaire]

Is BF2 still active online? I remember that game being so much fun and €5 seems like a good deal.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Considering 1942 still has a sizable community, I'm sure it is.

 

[Shakermaker]

Is BF2 still active online? I remember that game being so much fun and €5 seems like a good deal.

There were 253 populated ranked non-password servers running BF2 vanilla and SpecOps when I was logged on just now.

 

[ríomhaire]

There were 253 populated ranked non-password servers running BF2 vanilla and SpecOps when I was logged on just now.

Bought.

 

[Stigmata]

bahahahahaha, that's the greatest thread derailing I've seen all year

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

you should check out Rape: The Thread

 

[MJ12]

Just bought BF2. You ****s better play this.

 

[Shem]

I'm waiting for Shogun 2's price to go down before I buy it.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm waiting for Shogun 2's price to go down before I buy it.

Now thats a good game. Just became Shogun and now everybody's pissed at me and I'm fighting wars on like 5 different fronts. Fun stuff.

 

[Escaep]

I liked MoH's single player. While it had its flaws I found it pretty enjoyable. No where near as good as Allied Assault though.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I enjoyed the MoH campaign (multiplayer was balls admittedly =/) but better thna the HL2 episodes are you mad?! D=

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Some have accused me as such, I take no offense

 

[Kadayi]

I didn't mind MoH SP. I'd didn't think it was amazing, but I didn't think it was terrible and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the upcoming sequel.

 

[Ennui]

I didn't get more than 45 minutes into the singleplayer for the latest Medal of Honor. I tried, I really did, it just wasn't doing it for me.

BF2 complete collection is on sale (this is a MOH and BF sale) for $5. Worth it. Also, I have a 64 player BF2 server (hosted in New York) we can use if there's ever enough interest for some HL2.net games. Vanilla BF2 is still highly active, there are probably as many people playing it at any given time as there are playing Bad Company 2 on PC. PR and other mods are also still very active from what I hear.

 

[StardogChampion]

If you buy this game you're contributing to more shit CoD clones. Kill yourself.

 

[StarBob]

Why's everyone forgetting BC2? I guess everyone already has it. It's still great to play.

However I only recently broke down and bought Vietnam at full price and here it is finally discounted... and I didn't even like it all that much. They really screwed up designing some of those maps. Far too many are set up for spawn kills and have brutal choke points. And just like the original BF Vietnam there's a lack of vehicles and the vehicles that do exist are brutal. A helicopter flown well can just dominate for an entire match. So I just play original BC2 and chalk it up as a loss.

For the topic... I played the MOH beta thing and it was pretty generic and kind of bland. $15 is still too much for me.

 

[MJ12]

What exactly does Project Reality do?

 

[Viperidae]

It's like ACE, only more infantry-oriented (and limited by a 6 year old engine).

 

[Paulaner]

Half-Life 2 was great. I'm not a huge fan of the episodes, though. I've been outspoken about this on these boards before. I simply didn't enjoy them that much. I never suggested it tops the greatness of the original Half-Life 2.

I agree, Half-Life 2 Episodes were mediocre at best, imo. I enjoyed a lot of shooters more than them, but I'm not sold on MoH.

 

[knut]

What exactly does Project Reality do?

best game

 

[Calhoun]

best game

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Project Reality has several game modes, support for 128+ players (work in progress, they have established it is possible to play with any number of players in a server, though it may not be stable with any number, 230 was the record and was quite stable and lag free), several different factions with appropriate gear, voice overs and vehicles, and other stuff worth checking out.

 

[knut]

basically, it's the thinking mans battlefield 2. it's slow, has a hell of a learning curve and demands patience, practice but most of all teamwork. everything that is enjoyable outside of killing in BC2, such as resupplying team mates, reviving, spotting, is all done ten-fold in project reality with much more emphasis on winning through careful planning and logistics.

 

[Kadayi]

If you buy this game you're contributing to more shit CoD clones. Kill yourself.

Hysterical much? :dozey:

 

[stemot]

I enjoyed the single player, made a nice change of pace playing a modern shooter without CoD's balls to the wall blockbuster mentality but the Multiplayer was not only crap but pointless when they already had BF2.