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

DONOHUE07 said:
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
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Totally agree. Backwards it has gone indeed, nothing pulls me in anymore, its all trash boring repeated crap.

Remember this loading tune for BF2....class, i will never forget this tune!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO2cRI6-UPM
 
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Gaming communities were far tighter back in the early 2000's. You actually made some decent friends in game. I feel a huge disconnect now as games are way more popular and thus the community is larger and more diluted. I reckon there's probably still some less popular games with a niche group of people who know everyone though.

It was a great time and I look back with rose tinted glasses but I couldn't go back now, having had broadband and seen what games can look like in 2018! I think a lot of us also forget (depending on how old we are..) that it may have been a time with a lot less responsibility. For me, looking back to the early 2000's, I didn't have a wife, child or stressful job to worry about. I had loads of time and not a lot of money, now it's the exact opposite. The few hours I sometimes get late in the evening where I could play games, I tend to spend watching TV or working! Getting the motivation to play a game is hard lately.
 
balanceballs said:
Gaming communities were far tighter back in the early 2000's. You actually made some decent friends in game. I feel a huge disconnect now as games are way more popular and thus the community is larger and more diluted. I reckon there's probably still some less popular games with a niche group of people who know everyone though.

It was a great time and I look back with rose tinted glasses but I couldn't go back now, having had broadband and seen what games can look like in 2018! I think a lot of us also forget (depending on how old we are..) that it may have been a time with a lot less responsibility. For me, looking back to the early 2000's, I didn't have a wife, child or stressful job to worry about. I had loads of time and not a lot of money, now it's the exact opposite. The few hours I sometimes get late in the evening where I could play games, I tend to spend watching TV or working! Getting the motivation to play a game is hard lately.
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Quake is one.
 
balanceballs said:
Gaming communities were far tighter back in the early 2000's. You actually made some decent friends in game. I feel a huge disconnect now as games are way more popular and thus the community is larger and more diluted. I reckon there's probably still some less popular games with a niche group of people who know everyone though.

It was a great time and I look back with rose tinted glasses but I couldn't go back now, having had broadband and seen what games can look like in 2018! I think a lot of us also forget (depending on how old we are..) that it may have been a time with a lot less responsibility. For me, looking back to the early 2000's, I didn't have a wife, child or stressful job to worry about. I had loads of time and not a lot of money, now it's the exact opposite. The few hours I sometimes get late in the evening where I could play games, I tend to spend watching TV or working! Getting the motivation to play a game is hard lately.
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I play more VR games than flat now, and as VR is still rather niche, you see quite a few regular names in VR multiplayer game lobbies, couple that with the regular voices along with actually feeling like you are stood along side them seeing there body movements it’s a though you are getting to them them, it defiantly gives it a more personal touch. I have heard VR multiplayer likened to good old days for these reasons, of course as VR matures, this will likely change
 
balanceballs said:
Gaming communities were far tighter back in the early 2000's. You actually made some decent friends in game. I feel a huge disconnect now as games are way more popular and thus the community is larger and more diluted. I reckon there's probably still some less popular games with a niche group of people who know everyone though.

It was a great time and I look back with rose tinted glasses but I couldn't go back now, having had broadband and seen what games can look like in 2018! I think a lot of us also forget (depending on how old we are..) that it may have been a time with a lot less responsibility. For me, looking back to the early 2000's, I didn't have a wife, child or stressful job to worry about. I had loads of time and not a lot of money, now it's the exact opposite. The few hours I sometimes get late in the evening where I could play games, I tend to spend watching TV or working! Getting the motivation to play a game is hard lately.
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I mean you wouldnt choose to go back with the knowledge of broadband and better graphics. Back when half life 2 was released the graphics were the best you had seen, that for you would have been all you needed or wanted.

I used to think when i first got the internet it was going to be this great place where people from other cultures could come together and learn a lot from each other. How naive i was back then!
 
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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I'm 32 and have 2 kids. I feel just the same, i must have sunk 4-5 hours a night into that game. On the plus side in terms of evolution (ignoring the half a game comments:rolleyes:), destruction of the environment has improved, i reckon the hit boxes are miles better in BF4 compared to 2. Not sure i like the RBS of BF4 though, i want to know my bullets are going to go where they are aimed.
 
As others have said, it's not the game, it's the people you're playing with.

I didn't get on with BF2, but it was CoD 1-CoD 4 for me (mostly 1 and 2). I played with a regular group in a clan and the community was great. I lived at home at the time and so had plenty of spare time to dedicate. Life moves on and gets in the way unfortunately :(

Barely get time to game at all now, and when i do I end up doing something else, or just have a short blast :(
 
Eq1 in the day 19 years ago beat BF2 hands down.
so a new baseline for online gaming would be that first real online 3D gaming sharing a community that still is unbeatable today.
Maybe EVE online can match it.

I run a crew with BF2, everyone wanted to group up with me, we had so much hilarious fun playing.
Games runs trough content to fast nowadays which is an issue.
Older games, think pen and paper was sharing the experience.
But content runs trough to fast and then its just speed leveling trough.

I skipped BF1 and likely to skip BFV as DICE has dropped the ball on their game serie.

Next up for me is Fallout 76 which for me looks to be a solid game to build and blow things up.
How the community will be I find out
 
Last online competitive FPS I played seriously was UT2004 and it was fab, online games were easy to find, loads of mod servers, instagib, everything you wanted really.

Since then what have we got? One good Battlefield game (the new ones are all *****) and hundreds of COD clones which belong in the garbage.

L4D was kinda fun but they stopped making them, plus it was co-op.

PUBG is OKAY, but it's not a game you can just jump in and play
 
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