Operation Flashpoint: Red River...... oh dear....

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 13:43

First of all, I apologise if this costs anyone a sale in the members market....

But I've just installed and tried my free copy of Operation Flashpoint: Red River that came with my new CPU!

Hands down one of the worst games I think I've ever played!! :confused:

Surely Codemasters can walk to the shops, buy any reputable war FPS and know instantly that they have missed the mark by a country mile!!!!

From the mundane "shoot these targets so we know you can use a mouse" intro to the seemingly endless "driving to a small town to have a battle listening to the commander spouting ****" this has to be the worst FPS I've played!

And thats without even commenting on the single file, same route AI!!!

Avoid at all costs imo....... I feel ripped off.....and didnt even pay for it!

rant over...

Tefal · 19 May 2011 at 13:57

best thing is the game before was exactly the same but people still bought it says "it'll be different this time"

this and all the cod threads makes me think gamers are like a beaten housewife.

Every time they come out the hospital and go home saying "he said he won't do it again, it'll all be different this time", then they're back in A&E in udner a week.

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 14:28

Tefal said:
best thing is the game before was exactly the same but people still bought it says "it'll be different this time"

this and all the cod threads makes me think gamers are like a beaten housewife.

Every time they come out the hospital and go home saying "he said he won't do it again, it'll all be different this time", then they're back in A&E in udner a week.

heehee....

(laughing at the analogy, not the housewife beating bit!!)

Dont get me wrong, the clue was there before I tried it with it being free!!

twoodster · 19 May 2011 at 15:11

The first one was dire. Biggest gaming disappointment in a long long time (well, after Far Cry 2 anyway)

Kosmiche · 19 May 2011 at 15:35

StevieP said:
heehee.... (laughing at the analogy, not the housewife beating bit!!)

That WAS the analogy. :confused:

sargatanas · 19 May 2011 at 15:55

twoodster said:
The first one was dire. Biggest gaming disappointment in a long long time (well, after Far Cry 2 anyway)

Just so you know, this is the third one. The first one came out long ago and is widely considered to be one of the best PC games of all time.

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 15:57

Eames said:
That WAS the analogy.

Yes.... not quite sure of your point.... :confused:

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 15:58

sargatanas said:
Just so you know, this is the third one. The first one came out long ago and is widely considered to be one of the best PC games of all time.

Definitely agree!! - This is why I gave it a punt, only to be disappointed, yet again!

twoodster · 19 May 2011 at 15:59

sargatanas said:
Just so you know, this is the third one. The first one came out long ago and is widely considered to be one of the best PC games of all time.

Yeah I know that - was one of my favourite games of all time! I meant the first Codemasters developed one (Dragon Rising)

sargatanas · 19 May 2011 at 16:02

twoodster said:
Yeah I know that - was one of my favourite games of all time! I meant the first Codemasters developed one (Dragon Rising)

Just making sure

. I personally never played it much but it did seem like great fun. Shame theyre consolising everything now.

Kosmiche · 19 May 2011 at 16:02

StevieP said:
Yes.... not quite sure of your point....

You said you were laughing at the analogy but not the housewife bit, the housewife bit is the analogy.

So you didnt laugh?

RedStarRiot · 19 May 2011 at 16:11

Eames said:
You said you were laughing at the analogy but not the housewife bit, the housewife bit is the analogy.

So you didnt laugh?

I think he was meaning he was laughing at the analogy just not finding beating housewives in the real world very funny. Wasn't that hard really

Kosmiche · 19 May 2011 at 16:16

He said he laughed at the analogy, the content of the analogy was a wife beating comparison. But he didnt laugh at the wife beating part.

So it just sounded wrong the way he said it, like he didnt laugh at anything since thats what the analogy comprised.

Ok letting it slide in 3, 2, 1...

RedStarRiot · 19 May 2011 at 16:27

Eames said:
He said he laughed at the analogy, the content of the analogy was a wife beating comparison. But he didnt laugh at the wife beating part.

So it just sounded wrong the way he said it, like he didnt laugh at anything since thats what the analogy comprised.

Ok letting it slide in 3, 2, 1...

it did sound wrong but worked out what he meant, let it slide man

haha

Alex74 · 19 May 2011 at 16:30

I'd be very happy for Codemasters to just stick to racing games tbh, seems to be their strength.

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 16:34

Eames said:
He said he laughed at the analogy, the content of the analogy was a wife beating comparison. But he didnt laugh at the wife beating part.

So it just sounded wrong the way he said it, like he didnt laugh at anything since thats what the analogy comprised.

Ok letting it slide in 3, 2, 1...

It's slid.....

Kosmiche · 19 May 2011 at 16:36

I actually played the original OF on console and it sort of worked, they made a complicated fps game work on a controller, and it had a sort of novelty factor going for it.

But on pc its shot down by arma in all areas.

StevieP · 19 May 2011 at 16:38

I never tried Arma or Arma 2 - which would you recommend?

Kosmiche · 19 May 2011 at 16:42

Arma 2/Operation Arrowhead

Depending on whether you want to play in forests or in a big open desert. You will need ACE mod to play on a lot of servers.

Some servers also require you have both games, collectivey referred to as "combined ops". So my reccomendation is to get combined ops, this has been on sale numerous times on steam. You can get both games if you like on seperate occasions, then they should automatically become combined ops if theyre on steam.

Original ArmA looks dated, its got a handful of popular servers, it also runs very well on modern pc's.

AWPC · 19 May 2011 at 17:54

StevieP said:
First of all, I apologise if this costs anyone a sale in the members market....

But I've just installed and tried my free copy of Operation Flashpoint: Red River that came with my new CPU!

Hands down one of the worst games I think I've ever played!!

Surely Codemasters can walk to the shops, buy any reputable war FPS and know instantly that they have missed the mark by a country mile!!!!

From the mundane "shoot these targets so we know you can use a mouse" intro to the seemingly endless "driving to a small town to have a battle listening to the commander spouting ****" this has to be the worst FPS I've played!

And thats without even commenting on the single file, same route AI!!!

Avoid at all costs imo....... I feel ripped off.....and didnt even pay for it!

rant over...

You obviously have not played many PC games then this is nowhere near that bad at all. Its designed to be played with 3 Human Co-Op squad mates but is perfectly playable with the AI nothing wrong with it whatsoever except players moaning constantly even when they get it free :eek:

The other big problem is people try to play it like an FPS & ignore the instructions or fail to see about the controls for giving squad commands

Its a tactical squad based FPS which is going for a semi-realistic theme. If you put a few hours in you would see that or played some online Co-Op which has been very active since launch & offers some very frantic & fun filled action with friends or randoms.