Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer DICE has said that it is "scared of the competition" within the online FPS field, but that the company is "comfortable in what (it is) building".
Cultured Vultures: In the spirit of preserving some kind of history of this industry, we’ve decided to list some of the best games that you just simply can’t get hold of digitally at the minute.
I just started playing Spec op. I've had it for years on steam and forgot about it. Such a good game.
Honorable mention to the excellent Driveclub, one of the best racing games of all-time and one of my favourite games ever.
Outrun Online Arcade, Sega Rally Online Arcade, After Burner Climax... all good stuff. I keep my 360 hooked up to play these as well as the TMNT games that were also delisted.
wow...I have all of them except the Nintendo ones either in physical or digital version.
Also..Deadpool the Game is missing on that list.
Battlefield Bad Company 2, Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, and a handful other EA games have finally had their online services shut down.
I had no idea that Bad Company 2 was still running, and only now that I know, I want to jump on! 😥
BF1943 is the only online MP game that I was genuinely interested in. Been playing since launch 14 years ago. Hate that I couldn't put in as much time to play as I'd hoped for during the final week.
Dead Space 2...... I wasn't even aware that had multiplayer. Nevermind that it was apparently one of their best multiplayers!
Dead Space 2 multiplayer had been hanging on for years - I'd boot my PS3 up to see some familiar names in lobbies. This will definitely be missed!
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
It's a big enough gap to MW2 so people will be bored and looking for the next big thing.
The risk to BF is in fact probably what DICE call it's strength - they have lots of vehicles. While vehicles can be fun, in every BF game I've played to date, there are the same list of problems
1) people queue for vehicles, and TK those who beat them to it
2) The vehicles are too easy to operate compared to the infantry play, so as infantry you can be at a big disadvantage particularly to aircraft - that is no fun for the inf.
3) BF games have impressive scale with 64 players, but they don't really force those players towards an objective - something MAG does well. Most BF2 casual play is just lone wolfing or sometimes 2 or 3 guys working together but there's little proper team working unless it's clan v clan.
Whether BFBC2 will improve on these I don't know. The beta on PS3 was fun, but still suffered from some of these problems. We'll see how things look on the PC later this week.
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