Good news, since they just recently announced BF 1943 won't be coming to the pc. http://ironhammers.org/?p=3510

Other tidbits; battlefield 3 won't support windows XP, and will use "higher than DX9" (built for dx11, may be playable on dx10).

Impulse? Its almost an automatic no given the history right?

Anyway I love the way BF3 is "Hai guis! Member BF2ZzZZ? Well BF3 will HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS BF2 OMGOMGOMGOMG!!11!".

I'll never buy a Battlefield game again after what they did to me on 2142. I bought the original game, then I bought Northern Strike, and Northern Strike ended up an a different EA account and I couldn't play it even though I'd linked my three accounts together. So I basically just wasted money.

I submitted multiple tickets, and each ticket never got a response except an email going "If you don't respond to this email within XXX amount of time we will assume your issue has been resolved." So they basically stole money from me.

I loved Battlefield 2142, but I just won't do it again. I hate EA in general now. </3

OH YA! (remembers good old days, 1942, BF2 oh ya!)

I wonder if they will bring back the general position from BF2 or something like it...

I'm excited, personally. BF2 was a big moment for me getting into FPS, and I enjoy that they're going back to a different kind of game play philosophy. BC2 was and is fun, but the depth ran out of that game a long time ago for me. It's all about blowing people and things up now, and very little else.

I was smart enough not to buy the DLC/Stand-alone packs for BF2. That shit was a train wreck, and continues to be to this day. So I avoided getting screwed over in that whole mess.

There are a lot of mixed reactions to BF3. Some people are like "we should be excited about going back to older design features" and others are like "thank god you're going back to older design features."

Well off the top of my head:

-Machine Gun mantling. Which isn't "new" but it's new to Battlefield.

-Dragging opponents and teammates away who are wounded. Which implies the medic system is changing.

-Destructible environments better than BC2 in a heavy urban setting.

That's all they've revealed so for that's "new." But really I just wanted a refined BC2, where it wasn't so run n' gun, get your 20 minutes of fun and leave. So far, that seems to be playing out.

I'll wait for the expansion standalone they almost certainly have planned. 

Am I the only one who have never been into battlefield?

This feels like one of the big gameseries that "everybody" has to play but I've never been interested in it.

I don't know if I'd go *that* far.

But they're great games. And compared to the CoD franchise, DICE tends to care more about design than Infinity Ward or Treyarch, in that they have had more features with more depth, and game play has usually been more interesting than 16 dicks on opposing teams spawning at random and shooting each other. Sort of. Bad Company 2 was a console-based compromise intended to fund DICE until the release of BF3. It was a step away from their traditional mechanics and a step toward CoD.....but with BF3, they've said it is a completely separate franchise from BC, and has it's own set of design rules and requirements.

The lighting and animations look amazing.

Most everything else, the story, the action, the shooting....looks pretty standard.

Had to laugh when the bloodsplatter on your screen came from a homie, and getting shot produced no BLOOD SCREEN, SO REAL effect.

Wow I liked the looks of it.

Isn't it bloody scream?

Hahahah that game was so pointless...and entertaining.