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Jul21

Battlefield 3 Alpha Impres… Wait. My PC sucks? Ok. EA’s Origin Impressions?

by Ian on July 21, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Posted In: Gaming, News, PC

Yesterday I recieved an awesome email that I had been selected to join the Battlefield 3 Alpha on PC.  I only play Battlefield on Xbox 360, but hey I’m not gonna throw away my chance to test out my most anticipated multiplayer game of 2011!  Sooooo I gave it a shot, it was a fairly quick download via Origin (EA’s answer to Steam) but my desktop PC is running Windows Vista (I know, UGGGHH!) so when I tried to install BF3Aplha I was running into all sorts of errors.  Mainly because of Vista’s horrible “Are you sure you want to allow this?” which constantly caused the install to crash, and after about 10 – 15 attempts, it finally installed correctly.  But now it was installed and I was excited to start it up. All I had to do was click the “Play Game” button.  My excitement was suddenly shattered… launching the game opened up my brower to BF3′s Battlelog Site - the Battlfield Facebook.  This page is basically your main game hub.  It’s where you find your friends, check your stats, and launch/join a game.  It also requires an add-in, another download, that you need before you can click the “Launch/Join Game” button.  It took some effort to get that installed right, I accidentally cancelled the download, and then I couldn’t access the download link anymore so I had to clear my broswer history, cookies, and cache.  But finally I got THAT installed.  So now I was able to click the button “Launch/Join Game”  Below is a dramatization of what happened next:

 Wooo, ok here we go, awesome, yes! 
*Click*
*Loud Windows Error Sound* accompanied by “Your video drivers are out of date you need version 2.75″
Whaaaaaat?!  I just updated my friggin’ drivers a week ago!
*proceeds to check the Nvidia drivers page – which informs that drivers are up to date, version 2.33″
Son of a!  My video card sucks balls!  It’s most updated driver is still below the requirement!  ARG! Well, that was a fun 2.5 hours of my life. Gone.

So the only thing I can offer you is my thoughts on the Origin service.  It’s annoying.  I don’t like that I launch the game and then need to… LAUNCH THE GAME.  No, I have to log into a website that launches the game.  I’m sure it’s to battle piracy, which is fine, but there has to be a cleaner, faster, smoother way of doing it.  The majority of the time I spent trying to get this game to run last night was waiting for my PC stop freezing.  I’ll admit that I don’t have the fastest PC, but honestly, if a web page is causing my PC to hang, that’s just ridiculous.  Logging into a website shouldn’t demand 80% of my system’s resources! To be fair, I haven’t played a PC game since Star Wars Galaxies so I’ve been away from the pains and struggles of PC Gaming for awhile.  And as much as I would LOVE to upgrade my system, I just don’t think it’s going to happen.  At least not until Star Wars: The Old Republic.  I’m sure Amber will be happy when our PC is upgraded because then SIMs 3 will stop crashing on her.  That has to be annoying, and I always feel bad for her when she puts in a good amount of time building something and then POOF!  Gone.  To me Origin feels like EA was looking at Steam and saying “We need one of those” and throwing together what they can.  I have no prior experience with Origin, nor do I know how long it’s been around, but I’m not a fan so far.  Get it together EA.

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Jul21

NewGamerNation Podcast: Episode 8 – MMO Mania

by Ian on July 21, 2011 at 11:23 am
Posted In: Gaming, News, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360

Joe invited us back to the New Gamer Nation podast and as usual it was a lot of fun. We chat about games, of course, but what we’re playing, ads in video games, steam, Windows 8, MMOs, “Oh my!”  Lots of good conversations so check it out!  Episode 8 – MMO Mania.

-Ian

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Jan22

FIFA Footloose

by Ian on January 22, 2011 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comics, Gaming, Xbox 360
FIFA Footloose

So one day me and Justin were kickin’ it old school playing some FIFA 11. We just finished a match and as the game was loading back to the menu, we both caught each other rocking out to the music. It was awkward, but then not… we both continued to pretty much rock out for a minute or two. Then we thought up this great comic idea. Side note: I think EA does a good job at assembling soundtacks for their games. So far me or my wife have gotten our hands on each of the FIFA soundtracks since 09′. If you don’t play FIFA you may not get it, but that’s no reason not to dance to some good music!

-Ian

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Dec22

Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam

by RedDuey on December 22, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Posted In: Gaming, Xbox 360

Battlefield Playing History:

If you’ve been reading the comics then you should have noticed by now that Ian and I are Halo players, not necessarily good Halo players, but Halo players all the same.  However a few summers ago Dice released Battlefield 1943 as an Xbox 360 arcade and I picked it up on whim and had fun playing it for a couple of weeks.  (I also got Ian to buy it and he had fun playing it as well)  Do to unfortunate circumstances I lost my 360 and just about every video game I own so I was forced to restart my game collection this past winter.  During the period of time I only had enough money to pick up one game so I was relegated to playing that game and whatever arcade games I had purchased.  So I began to play Battlefield 1943 again and realized how much I loved that game.  So I went and picked up Battlefield Bad Company 2 when I had enough money and I had a blast playing the game.  I brought it over to Ian’s place and we played for a while and I got him to buy it as well.  Battlefield is a great change of pace to Halo or perhaps its a modern time set game that plays most closely to Halo, I’m not sure, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun to play.  So I couldn’t wait to try out Vietnam.

Vietnam:

The game is enormous fun to play.  The sound is excellent, the game looks beautiful, and I love that everything is time specific.  What I mean by time specific is that no guns can use optics of any kind except for sniper rifles.  That means players will have to get used to the iron sights.  The weapons themselves are time specific, only allowing you to use weapons that were used in that era, same goes for the vehicles you use as well.  A nice addition is the soundtrack that Dice added for this game, which again is time specific.  Getting in a vehicle and hearing CCR blaring is a fun addition to destroying the enemies with tank shells to the dome.

Speaking of vehicles, the helicopters in the game, from what I’ve seen, are not nearly as much of a menace as they are in BFBC2.  While admittedly I’ve only been playing conquest on the 360 and I’ve only played a couple of hours, you can shoot down a chopper with a weapon equipped with magnum ammo.  I watched Ian shoot down a Huey with a PPSH, a engineer weapon, and I think he was the only one shooting at it.  Sure he used up all of his ammo but he took it down and it only took about a minute and 1/2 to do.  *Warning I’m a terrible helicopter pilot* but the helicopters seem easier to fly than in BFBC2, but again I’m no ace pilot.

It seems that in Vietnam the sensitivity is actually increased from BFBC2, so players might find the controls a little too responsive and might need to tone them down.  I’ve heard some players on their youtube videos say the guns seem to feel a little different but I haven’t noticed that myself.

All in all the expansion was worth the 1200 Microsoft points I spent to buy it and if you like Battlefield owning this expansion is a must.

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