THE Battlefield

Battlefield series hasn't been my favourite game series at first. Liked Battlefield 1942 for while and even got the World War 2 Anthology pack which includes every BF 1942 game. One of the things I do remember, tried the multiplayer few times, but didn't like it as much as I would hoped for. Sniping was pretty awkward sometimes, if you tried to shoot far away. I don't know if sniper rifles were that powerful in that era, but they really aren't sniper rifles, if you can't shoot far away with good accuracy. And the vehicle handling were also pretty nasty job...
Second game in the series was Battlefield 2, which was "demo" version only I played. Never got into it to actually buy it. And in the end I just felt 1942 beats it easily.

There was two BF titles I didn't got into either and never even tried them: Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield Bad Company (if you count Play4Free and Online it's four, but now I'm not going for the free games). I don't even remember if I knew about the first Bad Company title, or it was the time I played other games so much to never realized it to even existed.

Years back, only shooter I played with great joy was Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (and few years from this there was Unreal Tournament). There were no realistic gameplay (nowadays you can let the mods handle those), but that's not the point in that game. You have fun and play with mods (sometimes all you see is modded servers nowadays and not the simple servers) and laugh to ragequitters. Another title I played for while was Left 4 Dead 2. Not war game, but pretty good shooter survival game.

Back to BF...
I believe it was a random news somewhere on the internet for Battlefield Bad Company 2 closed beta. It was on going beta test and I wanted to test it, but felt I were too late to participate. It was one of the happiest news for me at that time when I got invite in after throwing application for code. After the beta it wasn't too long when EA released it on retail. Lucky enough, with little help from my childhood friend, I got Bad Company 2 title for very good price (not the full price you get locally). This was very first "realistic" war-shooter game I loved. This was the game where I fell in love for Recon class and since I have been more of a sniper than rambo with Assault or Support class. Don't get me wrong though, I like all of the classes, they have their own good features to help squadmates. But there was one big thing that got me into Recon class: M95! One manly sniper rifle.


Almost one full year of Bad Company 2 and then I got little tired of shooters and because there were other game releases that I wanted to try out - and I have bad habit to NOT play them through at first, if they are sinlge player games. But when I saw E3 2011 show with videos for upcoming games, one title raised my mind: Battlefield 3! Before E3 I knew this was coming, but few than less knew anything about this. After the demo video I was sooo hooked to this to hope there would be beta test as previous title. And while I was watching somebody playing other shooter I heard if  you want to get in alpha, you had to have Medal of Honor Tier 1 (Limited) edition to get automatic invite to BF3 alpha test - and of course I wanted to be in! Medal of Honor was one of the first game I bought to play another game and not play it almost at all. Only one mission, and that's it - kind of waste of money, but it had to be done for another great game.

But now that alpha and beta test phases are over and thousands bugs and glitches fixed - and still few them intact - game is released. I didn't get it on Europes release date, few days later but it didn't bother, 'cause I knew there would be gamers who literally take their time to get ahead of others. You really can't compete with them. But if you aren't playing for fun, for what are playing for?

The Barrett Model 98B a.k.a. 98 Bravo

Anyways, I have had fun with BF3. Had little tough start, but now as I'm used to the gameplay, it is easy - as long your teammates work with you! At the time I write this, I have unlocked SV98 (and 12x scope and bipod) which is awesome compination with recon class. One unlock to wait is M98B even if it takes while to get, but hey, it's a Barrett for god's sakes!

Battles and some of Modern kind

For some reasons it's nice to have different release dates for North America and Europe - even if in most cases it's kind of annoying. In this one my preorder has been shipped already, not today, not yesterday, but at sunday (local time). Today is release day of Battlefield 3 in NA. Tomorrow in Australia. 28. day in Europe. Luckily I have stuff to do before the EU launch, but hopefully not too much.

While waiting for the release, I should play other games while I can. Few days back I got back for PS3 games. Tested PS Move once again with Sports Champions, which is quite nice if you ask me. Many gamers don't like the Move at all, but once you get used to it, it's not as bad everybody says it to be. Move still has low game count, but it doesn't mean it sucks. It is hard to do a good game for Move to it actually work smoothly and to be addictive. Yeah, the price is little bit high (games are little pricey too), but if you have cash left with your other purchases, why not try this one out.

But enough of Move.

Battle at Hu Lao gate - beware the almighty Lu Bu!

With Sports Champions to Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce. I believe the Dynasty Warriors may be known series for some. It is one of many titles from Tecmo Koei. As I liked Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper (PC) years ago, I wanted to try this one out, one reasons to be the good price. But as I played, it might be quite difficult game, even if you tweek the difficulty settings pretty low (or I'm just bad player in this game). Maybe I'll play Bayonetta next time with PS3...

Another game I could play as I wait BF3 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Even if I don't like it much as the first two games, it makes more harm not to play paid game. Graphics are nice yes, but this time I'm going to for game mechanics more. MW3 has pretty smooth settings (not the plot), but configs for keyboard changes (example: toggle buttons) are not there. You can change some keys for toggle, but not all. Ironsight and crouch can be changed to toggle, so you don't have to press them twice to go crouch and back up.
When I played the multiplayer first time some time ago (free weekend and maybe it was with 2x XP amount) it was fun, at the time didn't quite notice few things which made my decision of the game in the future (aka. today) change to not as fun as it was. One feature that I don't like is the kill spree award system, where you get chance to use harriets or other aircraft to almost instantly kill enemies (or other "usefull" stuff against opponents).

This all reminded how much I liked the first games in the series (sad they don't have multiplayer though). Love for the first game in the CoD series newer will go numb. They were simple as raindrops and someway entertaining for gamers in that genre. And as written before, 1 and 2 were the only games I played with every difficulty setting, or almost all of them. Still remember one-man mission in the first game - god I hated it so much. And the escape afterwards was pain in the ass. Times change and so does games do. Some to good some to bad and maybe some in between.

But when you think things through, every game has it's own problems and some may not even be that. All depends on players and their opinions what works for them.

Too many titles and one Beta

Again with this crap, too many games to play and no time to lose. And don't even remind me of those PS3 games I have. Last title was Heavy Rain which has about 5hours of gameplay, and after that I have only used the console for videos and movies. Oh well, can only blame myself for hogging games like rare item collector, but newer finishing them. Reminds me of buying Terry Pratchett's novels...

Last game I finished was Dead Island, but you can play it again after completing it though. Other games I have started but never finished (and I mean those that have a value of finishing): Dragon Age 2, Hunted The Demon's Forge, Fist of the North Star Ken's Rage(PS3), Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3), Far Cry 2, Deus Ex HR. Too big list if you ask me. PS3 titles were mostly a case that I wanted to try them out, because they are KOEI titles. Both of them are kind of games that you have get used to before you can enjoy them. I didn't get past that line yet, but I'm thinking to return to. But unlikely in this year.

Luckily there is still Battlefield 3 Beta running, even if europe retail release is little over two weeks from now (28.10). And even if it is released, I believe lots of gamers are going to play the multiplayer over singleplayer more. I just hope the plot for singleplayer mode is playable, which reminds me of Battlefield Bad Company 2, which I never finished, but I don't care...multiplayer was tons of fun!

BF3 beta is quite nice game at the moment, with some bugs and glitches, but hey, what game doesn't have any of those. I have encountered couple glitches, one from alpha state and one from beta. Beta glitch was so tiny that I don't remember what it was, but I know it was there. They told that there was hundreds of bug and glitch fixes from alpha to beta, but we don't know what have changed. And now they promise to fix more bugs for retail version from all the feedback in Battlelog.

If there is bugs in retail version, they don't bother me as long as they aren't "in the way", which hasn't happened to me in alpha or in beta yet. At the moment as beta is running, I have had a blast of fun. Have only encountered couple nuts in the game, one who shot teammates for no reason and squad mates who ran straight to enemy fire without looking up if there was any threat.

And now if I would get some inspirations, I might continue to clean and make my sisters website to half ready. Till then, games are on hold...oh the horror!