THEBLITZ6794 10 Posted July 9, 2009 wut happened? i thought the storyline of OFP was incredible. you never knew wut would happen next and you felt like you were part of something larger. it wasnt like "ok super squad, go take regina". no, u were part of 2 platoons attacking it. and when the t80s stormed out of the woods, that was intense. or after montinigac. this was especially so on ofp:elite were the battles were more intense. arma had a decent storyline but nowhere near as intense. ive just started arma 2 but it just seems to be lacking something. i mean, the game engine was developed for massive battles, not sneaking around, though arma 2 is really good at it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arma2mods 10 Posted July 9, 2009 (edited) It was interesting story for first time playing it throught but it was very linear straight forward mission after mission design only some weapons/ammo and soldiers changing. Certain freedom of approaching objectives gave so much more vivid feeling on time when there really wasnt that much of that type of games around. If you did try to explore everything were done in every missions, always going to out from waypoints either mission design was automatically killing player crossing the mission radius, or there were some lone tanks all around. I still remember I killed everything in all 3 campaigns I could found on map every single idle t80s some villages preventing player freely travelling in islands and such. I would like to have elements of having multiple characters having their own speciality one special force guy, pilot, tanker, and regular infantry grunt. The dialogue and voice acting were better but you overall were too restricted to total outcome of decision you made. You either succeed or failed in objectives and that did kept you on track. OFP campaigns were afterall very much of scripted, so there were every time same thigns trigged in certain moment and you could anticipate second time playing them. In A2 there is plenty of things to keep player interested, but yes there arent all the time that same sense of total war illusion on background, going on were whole world future will be on decided there. The clash of superpowers using their entire arsenal wiping each others out, would be way to its to be done. We can just wait and see how many SP campaigns will be made by community and there should again be CWC mods bringing the same missions to this engine so direct comparision should be easy to made. I just miss the amount of quality made content made in OFP. Edited July 9, 2009 by arma2mods 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-Defcon- 10 Posted July 9, 2009 OFP and Resistance has, imo, the best single player campaign I've ever played. Simple things like the radio talking about the surprise attacks, helping the resistance, mass scale assaults that I hadn't seen in previous FPS games. It all created the feeling you were just a small but significant part of something. Of course after years of CTI in OFP, going back to the campaign didn't lend the same experience and awe so maybe that is the reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
THEBLITZ6794 10 Posted July 9, 2009 It was interesting story for first time playing it throught but it was very linear straight forward mission after mission design only some weapons/ammo and soldiers changing. Certain freedom of approaching objectives gave so much more vivid feeling on time when there really wasnt that much of that type of games around. If you did try to explore everything were done in every missions, always going to out from waypoints either mission design was automatically killing player crossing the mission radius, or there were some lone tanks all around. I still remember I killed everything in all 3 campaigns I could found on map every single idle t80s some villages preventing player freely travelling in islands and such. I would like to have elements of having multiple characters having their own speciality one special force guy, pilot, tanker, and regular infantry grunt. The dialogue and voice acting were better but you overall were too restricted to total outcome of decision you made. You either succeed or failed in objectives and that did kept you on track. OFP campaigns were afterall very much of scripted, so there were every time same thigns trigged in certain moment and you could anticipate second time playing them. In A2 there is plenty of things to keep player interested, but yes there arent all the time that same sense of total war illusion on background, going on were whole world future will be on decided there. The clash of superpowers using their entire arsenal wiping each others out, would be way to its to be done. We can just wait and see how many SP campaigns will be made by community and there should again be CWC mods bringing the same missions to this engine so direct comparision should be easy to made. I just miss the amount of quality made content made in OFP. though they were scripted, they were unpredictable (i mean come on, who saw those t80s coming at regina?). the game also introduced sandbox gameplay (the 1 where u find the shilkas/then kill them later on, sabotage, and hind attack, after montingac to a limited extent). resistance took off with sandboxness. arma 2 is a fantastic game though and as i get into the game the more i like it better than arma, story included. im on razor two right now. i cant wait for manhatten as ive heard its uber sandboxmadness!!!!!!:yay::yay: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaplainDMK 10 Posted July 9, 2009 OFP and Resistance has, imo, the best single player campaign I've ever played. Simple things like the radio talking about the surprise attacks, helping the resistance, mass scale assaults that I hadn't seen in previous FPS games. It all created the feeling you were just a small but significant part of something.Of course after years of CTI in OFP, going back to the campaign didn't lend the same experience and awe so maybe that is the reason. Lol the campaign in OFP and Resistance was the best ive ever played... There was just that fealing of being expendable... And when you got killed and the cam slowly zoomed out and showed you were just a small cog in a giant war machine... I didnt get that fealing anywhere else. And theres just something epic bout going against the commies and knowing that your next mission could end in a massive mushroom cloud :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
THEBLITZ6794 10 Posted July 9, 2009 Lol the campaign in OFP and Resistance was the best ive ever played...There was just that fealing of being expendable... And when you got killed and the cam slowly zoomed out and showed you were just a small cog in a giant war machine... I didnt get that fealing anywhere else. And theres just something epic bout going against the commies and knowing that your next mission could end in a massive mushroom cloud :D i love how didnt mention red hammer (it sucked...horribly) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaplainDMK 10 Posted July 9, 2009 i love how didnt mention red hammer (it sucked...horribly) Well i only played the first mission and nothing else, didnt eaven finish that. So i dont know, never realy gave it a go. I hope for a comunity port of the CWC campaing (same missions just in chernarus) or a new campaing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted July 13, 2009 i love how didnt mention red hammer (it sucked...horribly) Probably because we didn't make Red Hammer, Codemasters did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
