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[Knight of Fools]

Uh you mean BF2 had the unlock system first..

Dagnabbit, I knew I was forgetting something.

[timferius]

For some reasone I always forget 2 was first...

[Shadowlord]

If it were free on Steam or GoG, or XBox Live, then I'd consider downloading... wait... Battlefied? What is this Battlefied of which you speak? Fie!

Anyways, I won't touch Origin. I even go so far as to only play Origin-only games on XBox 360 to avoid having to install it, and EA DRM games as well for the most part.

[Goron]

I must be lucky or something. I have had origin installed since b3 came out and my house has not burned down yet! No yeti attacks either...

[Sonlirain]

If it were free on Steam or GoG, or XBox Live, then I'd consider downloading... wait... Battlefied? What is this Battlefied of which you speak? Fie!

Anyways, I won't touch Origin. I even go so far as to only play Origin-only games on XBox 360 to avoid having to install it, and EA DRM games as well for the most part.

And you did a wise choice.
Installing and getting BF2142 to work was a royal pain. It required 3 non automatic patches (you could TRY installing them on auto but it wouldn't work) installed in the RIGHT order (it would let you install them in the wrong order but the game wouldn't run afterwards and you'd have to reinstall the game to try again).

And to top it off after several months of hiatus i decided to have a break... and forgot the password.
No problem you say?
Well the password recovery e-mail that i requested NEVER came.

So yeah...

[Silfurdreki]

I loved BF 2142. Too bad I was young and dumb impatient and got it on EA download manager, the incredibly crap predecessor to Origin. Also too bad that it ceased to exist and that the game was hell to get running. It was also incredibly unstable and would crash at the drop of a hat.

I still loved it though.

Maybe I'll try out 1942, I never got to play multiplayer in that since I never owned it.

[Thendash]

The mod you want for BF '42: Forgotten Hope.

[Thexor]

...I guess I'm in the minority here. I pre-ordered BF 2142, and strongly disliked it. Titans were outright broken (move the Titan, everyone on the server starts lagging) and fundamentally un-fun to fight in (four narrow corridors that can each be attacked from only one direction). Mechs were alright, but not particularly interesting. The weapons were mostly rehashes of BF2.


Fun story: I recently had an internship at a AAA game development studio. One day, while feeling stupid, I made a snide comment about BF 2142 to a couple of the other developers.
Turns out one of them was a former DICE employee, who had worked extensively on 2142.
His excuse for the game, which admittedly was quite true, was "engine limitations from BF2". If you've ever tried to stand on top of a BF2 tank (or a BF2142 tank, for that matter), you'll understand why Titans were so problematic, engine-wise.

[Nistenf]

I don't seem to be able to download the game from my region. Way to go Origin

[alexandertnt]

Unbelievable, it works in Australia.

Perhaps EA, much like some of the other big publishers have done with steam, forgot to push the big red "Fuck your country" button that most big publishers seem to have.

Either way it has been a long time since I have played it, so yay free game.

[Sonlirain]

The narrow corridor problem was partially solved by shield overloading (you could destroy consoles 1 and 2 by shooting AT weapons on shields that close the way to consoles 3 and 4).

Also i don't remember lagging to hell... i did have framerate drops tho but that's only when all 64 players sat on the titan attacking/defending by grenade spamming while the titan slowly goes to hell anyway because noone cares about caping the silos.

[Neyvn]

My Response to anything to do with Origin...

"@#$% you Origin, Change one thing on my PC and you forget me ever owning Battlefield 3, #!@# that in buying it again..."

[Jopax]

Yay BF!
Nay Origin!

I'd get it just for the music, because man dat music.

[timferius]

Hey, I lost one of my Sims3 cd keys, and since I had registered them online before, they threw all of them on origin for me.

[Mono124]

Shame on me I guess. Decided to download this jewel to relive my past, thinking, hey, what could possibly go wrong?
Apparently Origin doesn't like my computer, and I can't log in, due to the "You must be online the first time you log in" error from hell.

NINJAEDIT: Well, the last time before I went to uninstall, it works. Really EA? Psychic much?