Comments on: Review: Battlefield 2142

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:34:47 +0000

@Zac: Read this when you get a chance … a whole lot of changes are coming. This details the BIG 4 of gaming hardware … Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and ATI … and what their plans for the next 12-18 months are.

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/cpu_gpu_roadmap_07/

By: Kevin Cortez

Kevin Cortez — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:24:35 +0000

More like, better download Tribes for free .

By: doom

doom — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:38:19 +0000

blalbalba spyware blablalba bf2 sucked hard bugcity blabllba better buy ET quakewars

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:21:15 +0000

Argh! In no way can I afford all this.. A new cpu, a DX10 graphics card, new motherboard because I’ll need PCI-E, and Vista, that’s easily over $1000. Argh.

Technology moves faster than my wallet’s expansion.

I guess it will be a few years before everyone’s embraced the step. But prices won’t likely go down until newer better things are introduced.

*won’t be ready for it*

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:01:55 +0000

Well since they have pushed the release date back to 2007 Q1 you have some time to save up and upgrade to a dual core system (maybe even quad core if you can afford it … me I’m waiting on applications that will really take meaningful advantage of more than even one processor so a dual core will be fine for me (and this and Alan Wake and UT2K7 are the apps that are compelling me to upgrade).

Also that means you and I will both be able to have a DX10 compatible card for it and of course we’ll need to move to Vista but I think that is really when this game is going to be released anyway. So yeah next year is the really BIG paradigm shift in PC gaming … better get ready for it.

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:56:44 +0000

Yeah I’m expecting a lot too. Though my computer won’t be able to handle it until I upgrade. *cries*

Let’s just hope EA ONLY do the publishing, nothing the production.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:48:24 +0000

Oh no they won’t do that. I know they really want to knock the ball out of the park with this game … it really will be the most technically advanced game on the planet when it gets released (of course Alan Wake is waiting in the wings for that title) … and it sports their new engine (Cry Engine 2 or CE2) they hope to license as middleware … so I am expecting a lot.

Of course when EA is involved sometimes things go horribly awry … I’m just really asking the Gods of Video gaming to be kind to this title.

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:32:43 +0000

Ah I see. I was commenting because it’s the same developer. Hopefully they don’t lose their motivation in making clean games.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:19:33 +0000

They were better than average (especially the PC version) but remember UBISOFT was the publisher of those titles. And for the most part I like UBI. They came out with patches for FarCry as necessary and like I said it was pretty solid to begin with. Also I have FarCry for the 360 and it is pretty damn clean for a console game. There is supposed to be some patch released but no one has been complaining as far as I know.

Oh yeah and this is NOT a Far Cry game … it is very different. Only the lush green tropical environment is similar.

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:06:38 +0000

“But I am getting mighty concerned about Crysis and how polished it will be upon release … damn EA.”

What were the other FarCry games like in terms of bugs?

By: Anuban

Anuban — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:45:09 +0000

Too hilarious … couldn’t anyone tell from the install of the demo there was going to be an issue? I’ve never had to go and find a dll for any demo … all the files are included. Oh well I’m sure there are still lots of people who are having fun with this broken game and really that is all that counts I guess. But I am getting mighty concerned about Crysis and how polished it will be upon release … damn EA.

By: Jim2k

Jim2k — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:56:51 +0000

It doesn’t even support 1280×1024 resoultion… The engine scales so badly, and there are SO many bugs already now. It doesn’t deserve a 6/10, maybe 5/10.

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:46:06 +0000

No widescreen support… *cries*

The bugs always come in EA games.. They always seem to rush things and do the cheapest job.

By: Laminated_Parrot

Laminated_Parrot — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:56:27 +0000

I have one problem, you mentioned a “simple patch.” You do remember this is EA we’re talking about, and apparently they havn’t heard of “simple patches”