This topic has been beat to death, except for you FozzyBear... you seem to have a personal grudge. Most have admitted that the new OFP series of games is not the great, classic OFP that we all, well most, loved.
But we have opened our minds that on it's own, at least the infantry and co-op features of OFP:DR was a pretty damn good game, far from perfect and alot of BS game design decision held it back, but for what it was, it was fun.
If you don't agree, then great... but why do we need to hear your close minded opinion over and over and over, and why do you feel the need to counter reply whenever someone says something positive or potential good about the new game. Can we wait till release and decide for our selfs?
If you can't control your reply button, might I suggest only posting at a very anti-new OFP forum, like BIS understandably, so all you negative gamers could rally each others negativity, and let us gamers enjoy the hobby.
It's OK NOT to hit reply here.
If you read all my post from 2007 until 2009 on the Codies forum, you would have seen I was a huge fan of OFP: DR, known as OFP 2 before Bohemia stepped in with their legal team to have the name changed. I was even a huge supporter that the console guys get their mission editor, which turned out to be a huge factor why OFP: DR indeed became a flop on PS3/Xbox sales. If you remember OFP: Elite, it came with a mission editor, the first in console gaming if I remember correctly.
It wasn't until 48 hours after playing the PC version that I noticed some of the diehards (Sir Polaris and his Heroes Community) major disappointment in features that were said to be in the game but weren't. The game was so heavily marketed as a "spiritual successor", "OFP2" and "sequel" all the way up to the final months of release. So, many of us that played OFP: CWC on PC and those that loved OFP Elite on Xbox, were assuming it was going to be exactly the same style game play, but instead of the Codies being the publisher, they were now the producers.
The reason a good portion of the OFP/Arma community jumped ship to support Consolemasters was because we wanted a sequel; we wanted back our OFP: CWC/Elite experience. We felt that Bohemia forgot us and started supporting these "simmers" that started taking over our community and creating this single-player dominated gaming style, later branching out a little to support CO-OP.
But it's pointless for me to go on when you don't understand the community and assume you think I'm hating on OFP: DR for the sake of hating on them. I hate myself or being sucked into to the hype machine. I hate how Consolemasters whored out the greatest name in PC gaming to make a quick buck. I hate how they marketed the game as being able to use all of Skira, just to find out the game was released with a 4 x 4km tether. I hate the idea they kept the same poor graphics and low poly models that could be found in the console version. There is so much to mention, but I have since moved on and now supporting the Project Reality team in creating a real multiplayer experience and supporting the mod team working on Cold War Crysis 2 mod for Arma2/OA.
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And as a moderator I personally find what he posted unprofessional. Thats like me posting something negative about say... CombatAce.com. Very unprofessional, and yes... kinda pathetic.
I guess Dwarden with BIS is unprofessional. I guess Golphur, with WWIIONLINE, is unprofessional for writing on his blog of what he thought about OFP: DR. I guess Dwarden's friend, Yoshiro with TWI, is unprofessional, because he has on more than one occasion, long with John Gibson of TWI, said the game was an utter "failure" via TWI forums.
A video preview of what most console players thought of the game, and was posted in the console section of the Codemasters forum.
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