I have heard a lot of ranting amongst the OFP community how CM (CodeMasters) has deviated there most recent edition of MilSim shooters to the gaming world. I have yet to purchase it yet, but it has had me thinking. Most of us love Operation Flashpoint/ARMA/ARMA 2 because it has a much more realistic approach to Military based FPS than Call of Duty, Medal of Honor as well as Battlefield. But the facts are apparent; OFP:RR has taken a more acceptable (amongst the gaming world) approach to FPS.
Games like OFP and ARMA are a hard concept for most to accept, they want action, they want something that what they perceive to be real, actually IS. Many of us old OFP and ARMA fans no that most games don’t even as close to this as we would like. But would it be nice if those who played COD, MOF and BF had a closer attachment to a more RL sim. Sure we know a lot of this is about money, especially during these times where companies are trying to keep there head above water, especially when so many dollars are spent in development. The fact of the matter is CM needs to make some form of acceptable approach to the gaming community. Personally, I think they should have never done this under the OFP name. But I think, that if they can keep ARMA as a more realistic approach to MilSim and use OFP to help those trigger happy shooters over to something a bit more realistic, it’s acceptable.
CM if your listening. Keep ARMA for us hardcore MilSim fans, and use OFP to show those trigger happy FPSrs that there is something better out there. JMHO
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