When (what date) did you all first play ofp?

[redface 1]

I first played OFP:CWC on April 12 2002

I had seen OFP MP demo earlier in a Computer Mag, but failed to install a graphics card on my old system in order to play it

so I played it as soon as I got my first computer with graphics card

I also remember my first impressions: the menu and the islands looked rather old-fashioned and I simply didn't manage to "steal the car". I was a bit disappointed but luckily I gradually got drawn into the gameplay.

[Blackblood 0]

Demo: March 21, 2001

OFP: July, 2001

Same here. In terms of "what month". The exact day of purchase is forgotten.

[ingram 258]

Quote[/b] ]First I played OFP on the Christmas of year 1999.

I wished my parents for the Operation Flashpoint.

how did you manage that?  is your dad maruk?

first played the demo when i saw the demo on the demo disc of pc gamer, april 2001 (at least i think it was around there, maybe march).  had never heard about the game before, but i was just dumbfounded when i saw how different and absolutely spectacular the concept of this game was.

started editing mission.sqms over the summer of 2001, even though i had absolutely 0 coding experience; big ups to lustypooh!  then that first GUI editor came out (before the game was even released! ), which made everything a LOT easier.

bought the game online as soon as it came out, i don't remember exactly but i think i may have imported the UK version; that was around november 2001 i think.

i had on and off periods since then, i stopped playing for like 3-4 months when i couldn't beat "after montignac", but i always came back.  and now i find myself spending more time thinking about ofp than when it first came out!

Sorry, I was wrong about the date^^

My mistake. It was so much time that I really don't renember it:)

It was a Christmas of 2001 because in that Year OFP was developed to Poland.

Gomen, my mistake:)

[Thunderbird 0]

July 2001, I was a 14 years old bad boy:p

regards

Thunderbird84

[shadow 6]

Demo: March 21st. '01

OFP 1.0: June 15th '01. Thats the day the distributor got it in stock over here, so I drove there in my lunchbreak.

Don't remember the month or day I bought RES, but I received a copy from CM a few days earlier.

[Pathy 0]

October 2001 i think, my mate brought it soon after i saw the review in PC zone, was interested but too poor to just go out and buy.

Then by good fortune his PC packed up, one night theres a ring at the doorbell and my mate is standing there with this game called 'Operation Flashpoint' - "my PCs just packed in, fancy borrowing this? (as long as i can come and play it ) ".

Why yes, i said. Hooked almost instantly, that first proper mission was just too cool at the time.

Remember that whole summer me and my mate made endless missions for each other in the editor, we'd wait outside the room patiently for like 20 or 30 minutes while the other would set up a scenario to play. Needless to say, as soon as his PC got repaired (and it wasnt for like 3 or 4 months! i invested in my own copy!

Oct 2002 my parents finally got a net connection and i was unleashed upon the poor unsuspecting online community.

And they've been trying to get rid of me ever since

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

October 2001

bout the same for me a m8 briefly showed it to me round his house telling me how good it was..

then i went home and discovered my younger brother had bought it

so i gave it a shot 10 minutes later i phoned my mate up to ask wtf he was going on about as this was the shittest game i'd ever seen

biped models that looked like a spastic on acid (looked like someones first attempt at modelling anything) ..walls that didn't act like walls, ie. walk straight thru them..and other hideous bugs..

i moved away from home and i was still kinda intrieged by wot the game was trying to achieve so in early 2002 i went and bought a copy and gave it another chance..

after playing thru the first couple of wanky missions in the campaign got to the first "proper mission" i think the 3rd one

i was taken back by how unforgiving this game was (i like games to be hard)

i think i'd smokin too much wacky backy cos by the time i got to the mission where your lost in the woods at night i was completely shitting myself lol. hooked after that

then me and my friend started playing coops together on lan

and from then on i thought it was the best game ever

been in love with the buggy little f**ker ever since

bah wots a few bugs matter with game play like that !!

[t80 0]

When it was new, i bought the whole game 3 times. first i buy ofp then rh then res, then i lost it. i buy ofp-gold, lost all but res, then i buy goty, now i play that+res

[Colossus 2]

I bought the GOTY version because I hadn't heard about OFP until a saw that GOTY pack. That must have been the month or week before I signed in here.

[norsu 180]

Played the first SP demo when it came, I still had a P2 350Mhz back then . When the full game came I bought it straight away, same with Resistance . I joined forums in January 2002.

[llauma 0]

I had never heard of the game when I came upon it by pure chance in June 21, 2001.

[chipper 0]

I got it when I was strolling through bestbuy in late summer 2001 saw that this game looked cool never heard of it before but it looked cool. The main reason I wanted it was because there was a sticker says there was a free paintball pass inside. But I couldn't ge t it that day and came back and there was none with the paintball pass so I just bought the game anyways. Best thing I ever did! After I had the game for a few weeks I relized that this game was the same one on my maximum pc demo disc called Flashpoint that I tried so hard to get to work but it didn't

[philcommando 0]

Was working on 3d virtual reality solutions with some far sighted pioneers and projects for the 56k internet back in 1995 when Pentium1 systems reign supreme and 2d sprites in games were the rage and the ONLY way 3D will look like. However i was ahead of my time, the market and computers werent ready for 3d, so gave up and moved on with other parts of life.

Was pleasantly surprised that by 2001, computer games were moving into the 3d platform, awed by some amazing 3 days games such as CS and decided to gave it a try, but bought OFP by mistake. Was disappointed when i saw the blocky men on my comp - there were no better than the vrml ones we created back in 1995 using old technology.

But after playing steal the car, being a military man, i was hooked by its vast huge map and editing potential..the spirit of the talented community..and the rest is history....

[Edge 2]

This thread should be renamed to "When OFP changed my life"...

I was first told about the game by my friend in summer 2001, in the remote pub in the middle of nowhere between Czech Rep. and Slovakia. Since he was always into economy, he just reffered to it as a chance for some Czech developers to finally earn some money.

I saw the game first time in September that year, and immediately got bewitched by the completely different approach to military FPS, just like the rest of you...

[shinRaiden 0]

I spent $38.06 (including tax) on October 10th, 2002, at the BestBuy in Tukwila, Washington on the Gold Pack. I stopped resisting buying Resistance a few months later.

A few weeks prior, in that same BestBuy, I was wandering the aisles looking for something interesting since I had just returned home from Japan, and needed an upgrade from Quake2 and Civilization I. Some woman came up to me thinking I worked there (Hello lady, do you see the walmart vest? No I don't work here.) and asked for a recommendation for a game for her son for Christmas. She had to buy it early since he was off on some remote pacific isle blowing his time and money.

She said he played something called Counterstrike, had played them all, and she wanted to get him something unique that he'd enjoy of his preferred FPS catagory. I kid you not. I'd just finished playing a rather boring demo of I think BF1942, not sure now, but I recalled it feeling cramped, and that coming from Quake2.

So I decided to bluff my way through it, and grabbed to boxes off the shelf, flipped them over, and invented a sales pitch on the spot as I read the covers. One was BF1942, the other was OFP. As I read down the list, both seemed 'flexible' and 'multi-role', but the closer was that CWC+RHC+RES came out to the same cost as BF2, and it was modern. That sold her a full set of OFP.

When she left, I turned back to the shelf to see why OFP was so interesting. The more I read, the more impressed I was. Still, I'm a tightwad. Above all else, is it moddable I wondered. How much? Is it viable? I suck at playing, so I have to be able to edit.

I went home and started googling "operation flashpoint". One of the first sites I found was OFPEC. As you can figure out, my questions were answered immediately, and a few days later I had my CD's, and OFP on a 900mhz Athlon, 256mb of ram, and a 32mb TNT2-64. I registered on OFPEC shortly there after, but it was some time before I reg'd here, since we all know "dev's never really support their products".

Additionally, prior to reg'ing here I never had a significant nick, it was always something random of convinence. "shinraiden" was born here April 7th, 2003 and I've been mired in OFP and now VBS ever since.

Now when I travel, I make sure I have my account info secured and with me so I can log in anywhere. When I went to my cousin's wedding in Texas, I searched for and found a used OFP set, since there were no more here. My vacation this year was built around a holy pilgrimage.

Anyways, I like OFP, but the AI doesn't like me.

[SPONGKLINGK 0]

yeah me too bouth the game in 2001 , fiist the ofp coldwar crisis then the red hammer and the resistances,il been playing it ever since this game intruduce to me about 3d modeling And i never played any other game except OFP. OFP ROCKS

[Commando84 0]

i read a few lines in pcgamer about a upcoming new game that had soldiers and vehicle combat and nice screens

and then got the demo in may 2001 and then the game at august or something 2001, time flies really

played counter-strike , half-life and red alert 2 and then suddenly ofp came and i got stuck rally hard.

[flybyil 0]

I've been playing OFP since the beginning of November 2005 (yes, I got it less two weeks ago) and it is the OFP GOTY (1.85) version. Do I like the game?

Yes, yes, yes

[Sanyix 0]

I've started with OFP demo in summer of 2001, and i playing with full game since 2002 january.

[gunfighter-6 0]

Demo in Summer 2001, Game since that day when it was released in Germany...

[Mellis 0]

Bought it 21 June 2001, even 1 day before world release..

from the first time I saw in in a small preview, its looked very nice, then the demo, yay and I were sold to this game for life he he..

Remember that the game, were a little bit out of shape, many patches in the beginning.. Also had 56k that time, but multiplayer game work pretty good anyway.

But now, im really looking forward to the next release, Armed Assault, As I hope will come out before Christmas

[D.murphy man 0]

Not sure what esact date i got OFP, but i remember playing the demo of a PC Gamer magazine disc. I got addicted and use to fire up the demo all the time just to see how many different ways i can do things. Then i found cheats for the demo and use to spawn shikas and tanks and bum around in them . Never looked at another FPS game ever again. Nothing till this very day has manage to keep my occupied for more then 10 mins.

So i got the game the very day it came out in the UK, and been playing in the editor ever since. Never played any of the campaigns, since my sound always use to cut out on my old pc whiles playing OFP and now two PCs later im too addicted to making my own missions then to try out ones made by other people. I should really get around to playing the campaigns one day.

[Tovarish 0]

Think it was around October 2001. A buddy of mine, who was a huge Tribes fanatic at the time, bought it, because he thought it would be similar to Tribes. He hated it . "I can't shoot while moving, and whenever I get hit once, I die, and I never even see the guy before he shoots me!" . I tried it, and was hooked, bought my own a few days later, and been buying each expansion as soon as it came out after that .

[brataccas 0]

 I should really get around to playing the campaigns one day.

OMG you cannot be serious! do u realise how much good stuff you are missing out on?

[Phleep 0]

October 2001

Bought a PC and thought I'd better get a game for it and, as per most others, saw it had lots of different vehicles and options available and so purchased it. Plodded throught the first few levels and then played, and failed, After Montignac many many times. Many, MANY times.

My claim to fame is that I have been team killed by Maruk when testing the 1.60 patch on GamePlanet (NZ).