Which is better ARMA2 or OPF2

[fiftyone]

Trouble brewing...

Quote Maruk :
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The name game: Codemasters’ marketing of new “Operation Flashpoint” creates confusion, provokes protest.

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Only to be expected..
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=59&t=77485&

 

[KrazyKraut]

Oooh, drama. Reminds of hip hop beefs.

 

[Divinehammer]

Does ARMA2 leverage the extra proc cores like OFP2 will do I thought that was interesting. Also anyone know much about the EGO engine not sure how it is going to work out transfering from a driving sim to a shooter game seems like that would be buggy.

 

[Reddog]

I predict they'll both be crap.

OFP2 was hyped as being a worthy OFP follow up and milsim title. But, what gameplay footage they have shown looks like something between a tactical shooter and BF2 on a larger scale. It's a cash cow aiming to take a well known name and spoon feed it to action FPS fans world wide, of course with all the usual pitfalls of cross platform development added in. It may end up being an outstanding action/tactical game in it's own right, but deserving of the OFP name it certainly won't be.

ArmA2 won't be terrible, but what it will be is stale. You can expect the same old clunky movement system, crappy animations, crappy AI, crappy vehicle implementation and vehicle hitpoint system (which allows a ****ing tank to be destroyed by enough MG fire). All this will be shoehorned into the same old engine with some fairly major graphical upgrades, which for me is the worrying part when you look at how atrocious the performance was with ArmA. They seem to be dead set on making an engrossing campaign this time and hopefully they will, but BIS persist to overlook the glaring issues their game engine has in the control dept. Screw new wiz bang graphics, if they could get some semblance of fluidity into the controls and handling of your character and have it look decent and run well the experience would be 100% better in my opinion.

These are just my cynical opinions at the moment and they are subject to change as I learn more about each title, but right now I am pretty non-plussed about both.

 

[Fedorov]

I predict they'll both be crap.

OFP2 was hyped as being a worthy OFP follow up and milsim title. But, what gameplay footage they have shown looks like something between a tactical shooter and BF2 on a larger scale. It's a cash cow aiming to take a well known name and spoon feed it to action FPS fans world wide, of course with all the usual pitfalls of cross platform development added in. It may end up being an outstanding action/tactical game in it's own right, but deserving of the OFP name it certainly won't be.

ArmA2 won't be terrible, but what it will be is stale. You can expect the same old clunky movement system, crappy animations, crappy AI, crappy vehicle implementation and vehicle hitpoint system (which allows a ****ing tank to be destroyed by enough MG fire). All this will be shoehorned into the same old engine with some fairly major graphical upgrades, which for me is the worrying part when you look at how atrocious the performance was with ArmA. They seem to be dead set on making an engrossing campaign this time and hopefully they will, but BIS persist to overlook the glaring issues their game engine has in the control dept. Screw new wiz bang graphics, if they could get some semblance of fluidity into the controls and handling of your character and have it look decent and run well the experience would be 100% better in my opinion.

These are just my cynical opinions at the moment and they are subject to change as I learn more about each title, but right now I am pretty non-plussed about both.

I fully agree with this post

 

[KrazyKraut]

Well said.