06-29-2009, 01:33 AM
Excellent topic! Since I already missed this coop night I may share my own first OFP experience, in my broken English, indeed.
First thing that I have tried when I got the game was Resistance campaign. After a long cutscene my first mission was simple, to get from point A to point B. I was in a very east-European looking city waiting for a bus. That was by itself something that I least expected from some game - to make me wait for a public transport. Yeah, mission offered me choice to go by motorbike, but I was really curious to see how will bus ride go. And this was supposed to be a military simulator, how is waiting for a bus fitting into that?! Looking to a bus station panel I saw a time table, and watch showed me what time is it. Bus arrived on time - very unlikely to happen in my country - so I took a ride, in a bus where I saw some of the most common people that I have ever seen in some game. After a while there were news on the radio of the political situation in the country, and passengers were commenting on that. Really, more than any game some far, OFP got me immersed in a situation that I found to be very believable, realitic to the point of triviality. At the end of a ride I went to my work place, some office job it seemed. It was only an hour later or so that some real action started, and it was hard as hell, I died a lot, and I found that the game was really difficult, but that's another story. But the point is that this starting experience really gave me some other perspective on world of games/simulators that no other game gave me before. And that bus ride was trivial and yet unforgettable.
Yeah, later I tried various mods, multiplayer and stuff and had a lot of fun. These days I'm playing Arma 2 but I still want to play OFP, game that showed me all that one game might be.
I never gave a damn 'bout the meter man, 'til I was the man who had to read the meters, man
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