Has online gaming actually "Evolved" from BF2 in 2005?

I made a 3 Star general in bf2 with over 2600hrs and over 45k kills as an aviator. I was one of the best around. Never will it be repeated again, PC gaming at its finest
 
arknor said:
I liked BF1942 more than the other BF games that followed it, I must have spent thousands of hours playing that game, maybe a few hundred in BF2 and then didn't really bother with the BF games since

pretty sure I was on telewest cable back then

not sure the speed though 1/4mbit or something :O
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For sure I was. Only 512k initially but compared to dial up it was like lightning.

Low take up in my area meant pings were <10ms.
 
I know the question is about playing BF2 online, but I picked it up for £1 from a charity shop last week and have been playing it against bots. I never owned it when it was new (nor BF3 or 4). To be honest it doesn't seem all that "less polished" than BF1. Other than the menus which are perfectly functional but just as laberynth as BF1s. All the guns accuracy also seems a bit crap too. It also needed eleventy billion patches like modern Bf games. Although these did include free maps!

I'll try not to be 10 years too late for BF5.
 
BF2 and 2142 were my highlights I would say. Nothing has surpassed them for me as far as multiplayer enjoyment goes. Playing it with randoms or more so with your mates in a squad was awesome. It just feels like with every release of a new BF or whatever, it's just baby steps from the previous. Either playing it too cautions, or slowly drip feeding "new" features for the next game.

I just miss things like having a dedicated commander being able to support you and being able to attack the enemy. Having actual runways to take off from rather than spawning in a plane and having to go back for ammo. Just the little things.
 
I think a lot of it was how old you were. I was brought up on ww2 films, models,books so bf1942 was perfection for me.

All the vehicles, it's the only true battlefield imo. The ships, subs, carriers!!!

Historical based maps. Tanks, planes galore as said airfields you have to take off from.

Why they just can't remake it I don't know.
 
For me it was BF1942, first game that really got me hooked on strategic FPS.

Half Life was great, Doom... Wolfenstein was my very first FPS I think.

But it was 1942 that really pulled me in.

It came out while I still had 56k dual up at home.

Found myself heading to a friends house more frequently with my PC for a small LAN party, enjoying his mega super fast new 2mbit ADSL connection for us to both play online simultaneously.

Playing sniper on that was great... first game I remember with some semblance of bullet trajectory and travel velocity... so you had to aim in front of a moving player to hit... I was really good at it.

Didn’t spend much time with BF2... I go through phases where for a few weeks or months I’ll want to game loads... then I’ll barely touch a game for a while.

Think I missed BF2 because it was in one of my down phases. Didn’t get into 2042 either, didn’t enjoy the future setting much & I think this might have been around the times of the earlier Call of Duty games and maybe C&C Generals.

I played the earlier C&C games, but maaaaan, the anticipation for that was so high... I bought my first dGPU... my first PC upgrade for the first PC I had bought with my own money... just to play the beta even... on my 56k modem online! I had to go into my mum’s work to download the installers and burn them to CD to bring it home!!

Back to FPSes (although I suppose maybe RPG)... I don’t finish many games, I tend to get bored somewhere along the way and move on to something else.

But after one of my down times... during the summer at the end of my first year at uni... I bought an Xbox 360 and Logitech 5.1 system to play Bioshock... completed it in a few days, I loved it so much. The immersion in that game was amazing.
 
I loved 1942, BF2, Vietnam and 2142, the last great Battlefield was Bad Company 2, everything after BC2 have been poor.

I don’t think gaming has evolved at all, and I’ll go as far as saying that games have gone backwards, with flashier graphics being the focus, and some graphical effects used don’t even look very good imo
 
Tom|Nbk said:
I think a lot of us me included have rose tinted specs with BF2. Although saying that I'm not sure that feeling of first playing BF2 will ever be rekindled again, for me at least
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Like you I had really really good times playing bf2. Nothing has matched that feeling since.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
:( it's quite sad when I think about it but we have many more options now
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As someone has said above, being around 30 years old now means there isn't the time to put into it. When you're 16/17 and living with your parents you have so much time! I doubt I could get all 6 of my bf2 regular pals (that I still know) online at the same time anyway!
 
MSTRBKR said:
As someone has said above, being around 30 years old now means there isn't the time to put into it. When you're 16/17 and living with your parents you have so much time! I doubt I could get all 6 of my bf2 regular pals (that I still know) online at the same time anyway!
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Yea I think it's more that tbh I'm 29
 
Old battlefield was great but Planetside was better, even bigger maps with even more players and orbital strikes.

And you could see around corners by going in 3rd person. haha.
 
Eurofighter said:
Old battlefield was great but Planetside was better, even bigger maps with even more players and orbital strikes.

And you could see around corners by going in 3rd person. haha.
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I absolutely loved planetside, for me it was one of the best games ever, and still to this day, I wish it was going still, just a shame the devs gave up on it and it became infested with hackers.

Thoughourly enjoyed BF2, a few of my mates at the time and myself had our own server aswell, I miss the gameplay, i liked how you didn’t have to level up then unlock / upgrade weopons.
 
Back when I used to run LANparties, the BF1942 Wake Island demo dropped just before one event.

We literally just played a full Wake Island server for 3 days solid. I don't think the formula has been bettered, the balance of the map was perfection, the variety and number of vehicles and classes. Being able to sail the carriers around and crash them!
 
Yea there were fan made maps for BF1942 which were just ocean and ships, it was great.

BF2142 was quite fun as well, but didn't live all that long.
 
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crinkleshoes said:
For me it was BF1942, first game that really got me hooked on strategic FPS.

Half Life was great, Doom... Wolfenstein was my very first FPS I think.

But it was 1942 that really pulled me in.

It came out while I still had 56k dual up at home.

Found myself heading to a friends house more frequently with my PC for a small LAN party, enjoying his mega super fast new 2mbit ADSL connection for us to both play online simultaneously.

Playing sniper on that was great... first game I remember with some semblance of bullet trajectory and travel velocity... so you had to aim in front of a moving player to hit... I was really good at it.

Didn’t spend much time with BF2... I go through phases where for a few weeks or months I’ll want to game loads... then I’ll barely touch a game for a while.

Think I missed BF2 because it was in one of my down phases. Didn’t get into 2042 either, didn’t enjoy the future setting much & I think this might have been around the times of the earlier Call of Duty games and maybe C&C Generals.

I played the earlier C&C games, but maaaaan, the anticipation for that was so high... I bought my first dGPU... my first PC upgrade for the first PC I had bought with my own money... just to play the beta even... on my 56k modem online! I had to go into my mum’s work to download the installers and burn them to CD to bring it home!!

Back to FPSes (although I suppose maybe RPG)... I don’t finish many games, I tend to get bored somewhere along the way and move on to something else.

But after one of my down times... during the summer at the end of my first year at uni... I bought an Xbox 360 and Logitech 5.1 system to play Bioshock... completed it in a few days, I loved it so much. The immersion in that game was amazing.
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I'll bet that was a real blast. :D
 
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