Karl Bode
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Re: ARMA2 2 Days!
Like the last 57 games these guys have made, it's brilliant and miserable all in one package. The user interface is almost as dangerous as the enemies, and you'll spend more time fighting your command controls than enemy machine gunners.
That said the updated graphics are great, and the open world feel is the same great stuff. There's some additional new base building stuff in there as well.
But the bugs. Ugh. Your own support transports will run you over, enemies will shoot you from a mile away through high grass before you see them, and several campaign missions are utterly broken. As in, spend a few hours working through objectives only to have the whole thing grind to a halt.
I'm not even sure they fully bug test these games before release. I think they just let the mod community fix things. My advice would be to wait a few months before picking this up. |
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Nightfall
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| said by Karl Bode  :Like the last 57 games these guys have made, it's brilliant and miserable all in one package. The user interface is almost as dangerous as the enemies, and you'll spend more time fighting your command controls than enemy machine gunners. That said the updated graphics are great, and the open world feel is the same great stuff. There's some additional new base building stuff in there as well. But the bugs. Ugh. Your own support transports will run you over, enemies will shoot you from a mile away through high grass before you see them, and several campaign missions are utterly broken. As in, spend a few hours working through objectives only to have the whole thing grind to a halt. I'm not even sure they fully bug test these games before release. I think they just let the mod community fix things. My advice would be to wait a few months before picking this up. I would agree. I am a little disappointed in this game due to the bugs alone. While it is fun, I am going to wait and start playing this when the bugs are hashed out. Right now, I am enjoying Prototype a lot and I have Fallout in the queue.
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Somnambul33t
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| reply to Ryan
DLed the demo, played 20 mins, uninstalled.
buggy as hell, gfx are dated out of the box maxed out @ 1080p (unless demo has reduced max quality like some demos do to reduce DL size), voice acting was terrible in training, training was bugged and wouldnt let me complete marksmanship, and the AI didnt even look like they were talking to u.
i'd never even heard of arma until i got this demo and heard really good thing about it, but it all around sucked and was a waste of my time.
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02
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| There is something there buried in the mess that's truly brilliant. They really have simulated war in an entire country to an unprecedented degree....but again, the problem is they have No apparent quality assurance in place of any worth.
Over the next year I'll be interested to see what the mod community does with the game. Right now I'm putting it on the shelf. |
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JIGA
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Operation Flashpoint really set the standard for these type of games. Arma and Arma 2 have really failed.
I believe Arma was made by the members or some members of the OFP team. If so, they dropped the ball... |
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