sonofableep

i just started playing Battlefied: Bad Company 2 last night.  good lord.  gawd damn.  holy hell.  yeah.

i could prattle on about the visceral realism of the weapon sounds, or the “you are there” immersion of the environmental DSP, or the quality of the VO, or a lot of things.  or what a great game it is top-to-bottom, no ifs, ands, or buts.  but plenty of reviewers and bloggers are wearing out their keyboards doing that already.  i’ll just say that as someone who knows what it takes to pull all that off, hats off to those cats.  hats way off.

my coworker and i jumped right into multiplayer and got ourselves ganked again and again and again.  and we weren’t even jumping around, listening to torches this time.  we were *playing*.  and *losing*.  and LOVING IT.

i’ve always had this dream that someday MMO combat could approach – never equal – but maybe at least inch closer to the kind of combat you get in a game like that.  obviously the nature of the MMO beast virtually prohibits it (server lag, gameplay mechanics, class balancing, etc.), but still.  there’s things that can be done with animation & audio to make combat feel more…combative.  more “I’M KICKING YOUR ASS WITH BOTH HANDS!”, and less “(nom nom nom) auto-attack (nom nom sandwich) ability #3 (nom nom check facebook) ability #3 (burp)”.

it is a dream i have, friends.  and the gameplay last night simultaneously made me want to try ever harder, while making me think, “no, fucking, way”.  :)