Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A brief history of my time with the Battlefield series
12:28 AM
I can remember reading about Battlefield 1942 and thinking that the game would be larger than life. I was out of state when it was released but I bought it as soon as I had a chance to get to store where it was on sale. After logging plenty of hours on my own I knew this was a game that deserved a night of LAN play dedicated to it.
I brought my PC to a friend’s house. A couple hours later after installing, patching, networking, and probably a crack (we only had one copy of the game), we realized that his video card wouldn't run the game. We were new to the world of dedicated video cards and back then we probably couldn't tell one card from another which complicated the whole "minimum system requirements" thing. Nothing could keep us from playing this game that night. We drove down the road to the local big box retailer and returned triumphantly with a new video card. Apparently my friend hadn’t accumulated enough debt during his college years and of course it is a well known fact that credit cards are best used for video card purchases. When we returned we quickly realized the recent purchase wouldn't fit into his 4 year old Gateway. I am almost positive he bought an AGP card and the Gateway was built about the same time AGP was developed so it shipped with a PCI card. We knew another trip was eminent.
As I said, we couldn't be kept from playing that night so we were met with rolling eyes at the door of the store we had just left 20 minutes earlier. They informed us that they were closing and made it clear that they weren't interested in helping us pick a card or process an exchange. No small purchase would be worth staying late. Without batting an eye my cohort smoothly and confident almost to the point of brazenness asked "What if I buy a computer?" The clerks looked at each other and replied "Really?" One swipe of the credit card later and we were home installing and patching all over again. I don't remember how early into the next day we played but it wouldn't be our last time greeting the sunrise with Nazi blood on our virtual hands.
When Battlefield 2 launched I was a little late to the show but only because I didn't have a Battlefield worthy gaming rig at the time. Ironically I was gaming on the PC my friend had purchased to play 1942 and it just couldn't handle BF2. Our once cutting edge AGP card was already being phased out by BF2's launch and I had to replace the entire rig with my current gaming system. After I had procured my copy I spent every minute possible playing BF2. My time was cut short this round due to the addition of a family somewhere between my 1942 days my purchase of BF2. I did get to play quite a bit with one of my brothers which was tons of fun and I wouldn't be opposed to the occasional night of BF2 with him or any of my other friends which is why I just can't figure out how the recent announcement of 3 Battlefield games this year does not excite me.
This is looking to be a 2-3 article post so stay tuned.
I brought my PC to a friend’s house. A couple hours later after installing, patching, networking, and probably a crack (we only had one copy of the game), we realized that his video card wouldn't run the game. We were new to the world of dedicated video cards and back then we probably couldn't tell one card from another which complicated the whole "minimum system requirements" thing. Nothing could keep us from playing this game that night. We drove down the road to the local big box retailer and returned triumphantly with a new video card. Apparently my friend hadn’t accumulated enough debt during his college years and of course it is a well known fact that credit cards are best used for video card purchases. When we returned we quickly realized the recent purchase wouldn't fit into his 4 year old Gateway. I am almost positive he bought an AGP card and the Gateway was built about the same time AGP was developed so it shipped with a PCI card. We knew another trip was eminent.
As I said, we couldn't be kept from playing that night so we were met with rolling eyes at the door of the store we had just left 20 minutes earlier. They informed us that they were closing and made it clear that they weren't interested in helping us pick a card or process an exchange. No small purchase would be worth staying late. Without batting an eye my cohort smoothly and confident almost to the point of brazenness asked "What if I buy a computer?" The clerks looked at each other and replied "Really?" One swipe of the credit card later and we were home installing and patching all over again. I don't remember how early into the next day we played but it wouldn't be our last time greeting the sunrise with Nazi blood on our virtual hands.
When Battlefield 2 launched I was a little late to the show but only because I didn't have a Battlefield worthy gaming rig at the time. Ironically I was gaming on the PC my friend had purchased to play 1942 and it just couldn't handle BF2. Our once cutting edge AGP card was already being phased out by BF2's launch and I had to replace the entire rig with my current gaming system. After I had procured my copy I spent every minute possible playing BF2. My time was cut short this round due to the addition of a family somewhere between my 1942 days my purchase of BF2. I did get to play quite a bit with one of my brothers which was tons of fun and I wouldn't be opposed to the occasional night of BF2 with him or any of my other friends which is why I just can't figure out how the recent announcement of 3 Battlefield games this year does not excite me.
This is looking to be a 2-3 article post so stay tuned.
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