PC Gamer U.S.A. STILL Hating OFP1

[Uziyahu--IDF]

Back in the day, PC Gamer USA hated on OFP:CWC while lauding heaps of praise on the garbage that was Ghost Recon 1 (can you say, "invisible walls"?), this because they had a long-standing relationship with Red Storm Enterainment since Rainbow Six 1 on the PC.

Well, I recently read the article in PC Gamer USA for OFP2, and they seemed to have changed their tune. Gone were the snipings of Li C. Kuo! But as I read on, their agenda became clear. They refer to "the competition", which, of course, is a reference to B.I.'s efforts in ArmA2.

They even go so far as to assert that OFP1 didn't have mortars and grenades.

OFP1 had hand-grenades, 40mm launched grenades, rifle grenades (certainly the equivalent of a mortar in damage, if not range), and rocket-propelled grenades.

I don't know if they want me linking to a scanned article, here, but even the very first public demo of Cold War Crisis had hand grenades and 40mm grenades (and I'm guessing with hex-editing RPG's and rifle grenades were possible).

PC Gamer USA isn't worthy of being my toilet paper.

(Note that PC Gamer UK praised OFP1.)

[sparks50]

I wouldn't exactly take that magazine too seriously.

[volkov956]

PC gamer in US/Canada seems to high rate high hype games anything else really gets small sections and less praise.

But most times they just seem to be rehashing articles over and over lately. I remeber in 1998 and 1999 when they're mags were dependable and has lots of content and did not seem to be as wrongly written like these days.

I remeber them saying in one of my PC Gamer mags that arma was a let down because it was too realistic..... i remeber in the older days when games were praised for that thing....

[Baphomet]

PCG has turned into a rag, staffed and read by immature mouthbreathing fad-monkeys.


End of story.

[Spetz]

CM probably advertised their game in the magazine, you wouldn't wanna write anything against your customer. (Fox news and Monsanto, NBC and GE anyone?)

[Migel]

I dont read those magazines at all.
I just download the game and play it for about 2 days to figure out whetever it is worth buying and then I buy it.

Its not legal but fair in my eyes. Demos are never complete enough to give a clear view on the game, trailers are fake as hell and I really dont trust 1 guy to review a game for me that got that game for free next to other gadgets and sponsoring or in this case got free stuff from a rivalling game at that time.

So basicly I only pay when I want to show my support.
And well flashpoint even got 3 times my support
( 1 x all versions, 1 time goty and 1 time goty as reserve )

[kiesthegrunt]

Haha,me and my friends still enjoy playing the multilayer demo. In my opinion that says quite a lot about a game when it's almost ten years old. I've found that gaming magazines just love to bash any game that they can't beat in ten minutes,by lobbing grenades like they're providing air support for an aerial assault on Omaha beach.

[OverCharger]

Magazines like PC gamer USA or Gamespot.com aim to casual players who likes more "light" games. I guess most of american players like games with instant entertaining, not simulations like OFP or Arma.
If you look inside OFP and Arma communitys, probably you'll find more players, addon makers, mission editors etc. from Europe. Then european magazines towards to that kind of public.

I remember huge diferences between OFP reviews, even Gamespot called OFP a Shooter. The same for Arma.

Another thing is the level of sales. Look what happens with military flight simulations last 10 years and you'll understand what I´m talking about.

[kiesthegrunt]

Haha,sadly. I think OverCharger is right for the most part. Americans just love instant gratification(PS:I'm American so don't go all "RACIST!" on me)

[-Martin-]

Well I think that OFP1 was so popular and well done becaouse BIS didn't make it for money but they made it for joy, if you look at ArmA for example that feeling is not there anymore becaouse it was made quickly to finance the development of ArmA 2.

As for PC Gamer USA, American, well all comapnies always think about money and buisness and they make up lies to help them. Anyone who has played OFP can see that PC Gamer is writing compleate bull**it about the game but now that they've seen how popular OFP was they changed their mind about OFP2 becaouse they can see that there is a big profit to be made there.

But still there is no point in reading PC Gamer magazines, just download the demo of the game, play with it for a few days and then get the full version if you like it.