Cyan Bane's Hall Of Bouncing Souls: Battlefield 2 Sucks. It is worth $25 at best.

Brainstorm it:

I agree. I just purchased this P.O.S. from Amazon, and I'm returning it today. I was outraged to see that EA's patch sucked my grandma's yummy junk. EA f'n sucks. Madden sucks and Battlefield sucks. Congrats, you lost a customer.

# posted by Anonymous : 7/15/2005 12:00:00 PM

Shut the hell up, BF2 is hands down one of the best multi-player experiences you can get on PC right now, and it is probably one of the best games of the year, it only has to load long if you change your video settings, and after that it takes about as long as vietnam does mabey less, I and many, many people love this game, so I think you guys should try and actually play the game instead of whine about it, because it is a whole lot better than BF1942 and Vietnam combined.

# posted by Anonymous : 7/22/2005 08:41:00 AM

THIS program SUCKS! Meaning, the gameplay is nice but technically it's an early alpha version (playing 1.02 now)

PIV 3.2 - 1 Gb RAM - NVIDIA 6800 but still loading times are UNACCEPTABLE!!!!

Besides the game loading slow, the program keeps on playing STUPID EA 'Challenge everything' loaders and similar CRAP. You cannot disable that - THAT SUCHS EA!!!!

Sometimes logging on takes, and takes time, more time, and this can NOT be interupted!!!! Even the 3 finger salute will not get you out of there, you actually have to hit the power button!!!

This game = FRUSTRATION !!! I'd love to actually physically abuse the developers who have the guts to release this frustrating SHIT ... This games causes violence, not because of the game but because of all the BUGS!!!!

# posted by Anonymous : 7/26/2005 03:17:00 PM

its SO laggy, EA makes the biggest clunkiest games i have ever seen. VALVE ROCKS, Counterstrike Source actualy looks better than BF2, and it will run without any lag on my 5200 without looking worse than BF1942

# posted by Anonymous : 7/31/2005 10:45:00 AM

I currently have an AMD 2800+ and a Radeon X800 Pro, the game takes way too long to load, not to mention the stuttering whilst gameplay. The graphics are quite impressive. Single player mode, i must say is really a training mode for multiplayer games.I have seen much better games from EA, really!!

# posted by Anonymous : 8/02/2005 03:10:00 AM

I agree with the fact this game came out a bit too early. I think EA should have ran some usability tests with this if they cared to. Maybe they don't care and just want $$! Could this be? Lol.

Basically you have choices. One of which is play the game as buggy as it may and deal with it, or don't play at all.

I am one of those who spend dollars on upgrades and had high expectations for this game which I have to admit. The graphics do look great, but why can't a better game company create what everone wants.

Graphics aren't everything. What good is a car that looks beautiful, but has no engine?

I agree with the fact that CS engine is just as good if not better in graphics AND it has clean code! Runs great. BUT I want to drive vehicles and blow things up just like everyone else.

Long story short, my decision is to put Battlefield 2 on the shelf until something great appears in the game world. I know that eventually there will be a game to replace battlefield 2.

Lets not forget about Tribes 2 to Tribes V! Another case where the company quit supporting a game that had a great following. I loved Tribes 2 and had no problem with Tribes V and they pulled the plug on support! It's sad to go in and see nobody playing anymore.

Whats going on with games? Is it because of consoles? Is the market spreading too thin that game companies would rather take the easy way out and just build no brainer games for console?

I feel that pc gaming is turning into a niche market and there needs to be solid companies supporting this. I'm sure the money isn't too bad. After all, it's not like pc's are gonna go away because of consoles! OMG!

# posted by Anonymous : 8/02/2005 05:27:00 AM

There is a disturbing trend in PC games that I havent been able to ignore, and this is, to "dumb" them down. To make them more like console games. Lets face it, console games sell like crazy, but of course, that doesnt mean they are good, it just means that kids dont really care if its good or not when they are spending their parents money. So here you have Battlefield 1942, an AMAZING game, a game that blends reality based FPS games like Raven Sheild, and twitch fest console games like Quake, into this PERFECT unison of reality and fantasy. So BF2 comes out, and what does EA do? They make it Unreal with modern weapons. Thats all it is. Its nothing more than that, and that is sooo sad. Jump around, throw frags, xpacks, keep jumping....blah blah blah. What a waste. My BF2 CD's are in the side yard right now...getting rained on. I will NEVER buy any game that has the EA logo on it again. They raped this franchise, and it disgusts me. Unfortunately, they are not the first. Check out the Mechwarrior/Commander games. Right up until 3 they were awesome. Four comes out, and a new company takes over, and they totally dumb it down. SURE, pretty graphics, but theres no thinking now, its just UT with giant robots. You can see this disturbing trend in RTS games as well. The sad part is, these lame accountants/corporate boneheads, who no NOTHING about video games, are turning the PC into nothing more than an extension of your console system. And thats sad. Its sad that NO ONE can innovate, try something new, they all have to try to copy whatever "works" at the time. So I predict a very long and sad future for PC Gaming. Until someone with some insight comes along and puts out a great original game. At that point, EA will buy it out and the sequel will suck. Thanx for listening, im out.

# posted by Anonymous : 1/02/2006 05:46:00 PM

Top 10 Reasons Battlefield2 sucks my ass

1. Requires 3GB of hard drive space, but only takes up 1.5 for a normal install. What idiot figured that most people would want to install the VOIP server? And GameSpy Arcade? What year is it, for fucks sake?

2. Upon first loading the game, you can't ESC or SPACE or ANYKEY your way out of the logo animations. Luckily, you can ESC out of the intro video, but by that time you're already inconvenienced.

3. "Optimizing shaders". This occurs before the next game, after you alter video settings, every time. Perhaps if this was only necessary during a specific post-install configuration dialog, it would be ok, but instead it needs to be done before loading the level. At that point, you're ready to play already, and not particularly stoked that the level still has to load. Tedious in the extreme.

4. Account login hangs. It will recover if you leave it alone for 20 minutes, but you can't ESC out of it at any time, which is the expected behavior.

5. A clumsier commander interface than Ghost Recon, with marginally better features.

6. The shitty sight reticule from Operation Flashpoint, forcing a tunnel-vision that shooters can't afford, no matter how well-framed the sight picture. I suppose this makes it easier for people who don't shoot guns in real life to feel like they're doing it, but for the rest of us it just dilutes the realism.

7. You have to wait 10 seconds to respawn -- in fuckin single player mode! Gimme a break!

8. 280MB executable to download - this is the upgrade patch that you must apply in order to play online and benefit from bugfixes. The flunkie that programmed the installer must have done it in a pre-caffienated state, because the patch requires that you have 3GB of hard drive space available, or it won't patch. I suspect this is because the Game Requirements Sheet that they handed to the Installer Technician (this is like the waterboy of the development team) said that the game requires 3GB of hard drive space. The patch takes an eternity to load and run, and if it fails, it corrupts the BF2 installation, sending you back to the drawing board. Re-install the game, then try the patch again. You like that, don't ya, bitch?

9. No story in single-player mode. Single-player mode is just multi-player with AI (bots). I suppose if you asked Dice/EA, they'd shovel you some shit about you benefitting from the client-server model -- forget it. The only thing more boring than BF2 online is BF2 single-player.

10. Slow running. Your character, that is. You can't sprint for more than about 100 meters, when you run out of breath and instead of pulling your pussy out of the dirt and KEEPING GOING, you give up and have to slow down cuz you're too...tired...must...only....walk fast....for a minute....I'll catch up guys...anybody seen my inhaler?

Goddamn that's boring. I mean, realism is great, when it IMPROVES GAMEPLAY (meaning: makes the game MORE FUN). Making it so you can't move with agility just makes it boring. We've had Always Run in every decent FPS game for the last 5 years because it's more fun, despite being less realistic in a marginally significant way.

On the plus side, the vehicles are fun to drive. And the fact that you can use the vehicles, in multiplayer online, would be cool if the game wasn't spoiled by all the above problems.

My final gripe with BF2 is that it's just too resource-intensive; it's only a marginal improvement over past games, with 3 times the sluggishness at every turn. This game may be The Shit on some new alienware $5K pc with a 512-MB nitrogen-cooled video card and a cinematic plasma display, but on Yesterday's PC, it blows. I kept going back for more ("Please sir, may I have another?"), thinking that it might be worth the trouble. I wouldn't write off Battlefield 3 yet, but I'll be playing games by Raven Software (SoF2) and Activision (CoD2) in the meantime.

# posted by Anonymous : 1/16/2006 02:15:00 PM

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