I miss Unreal Tournament.
I've kept
UT1,
UT2K4, and
UT3 installed on every single PC I've ever had since those games were brand-new. I still play them all a few times a year. Of course I play with bots. UT1 was the very first video game I ever played online (thank you UMDCP's T1 lines, cuz 56K wasn't cutting it at home), and that game quickly taught me why I should NOT play games online. Every other game I've tried online MP in since has only reinforced that.
The Call of Duty single player experience from about CoD4:MW onward was something I've enjoyed for the most part. The experience is brief and there isn't a lot of replay value there but I found them enjoyable.
That's how I felt way back when I
did play those games.
I especially enjoyed the 2019 game. It was a return to form and actually had a good campaign even though it was short. It was still a bit longer than normal at around 6 hours for me.
I stopped following the series a long time ago, so I don't even know what specific game you are referring to, but I guess I should maybe look into it and check it out.
Battlefield's campaigns used to be **** until Battlefield 3. 4 was good as well
BF3 was the first
BF game I really played, and yeah that campaign was pretty good. It was also one of the games where I first saw the true potential of D3D11. It was an excellent showcase for DX11.
BF4 was one of the first games I played through on my 2014 X99 PC when I first built it. Didn't like it as much as 3, but yeah it was decent. I think I played one other one,
BF1, which I got for $5 on EA Origin (one of the only two games I bought for Origin, and both were $5). Didn't care for that one at all.
I used to play CoD multiplayer a lot but everything after CoD4:MW has never landed quite the same way for me with me enjoying and playing each installment less and less than its predecessor. Now I don't even bother. I think I played two or three matches of the 2019 game and I was done with it.
The only
CoD I ever played online was
CoD4: MW1. This was one of the only two games I ever really bothered to play online (the other being
Hawken, which I was an alpha and beta tester on), and even then not that much. I used to play with a group called Grumpy Old Men Gaming on their server(s). Good times there.
I normally play the campaign and then with offline bots in MP games.
Yeah if I play multiplayer sh1t, it's with bots, or at LANParties that my friends and I used to have back in the day. I've never really cared for playing with strangers anyways, which is one reason why I don't game online. I also don't like not being able to pause the game if I need to go take a dump or whatever. LANParties are my preferred way to do multiplayer. Online MP with friends is still a hassle because everyone has to be able to meet up, and my schedule is very different from most people I know (I'm usually awake at night and sleep during the day, and the people I hang out with these days are also night people). At least with LANParties everyone is there in the same house, ready to dedicate themselves to gaming for a few days. Of course those things don't happen often (although during our peak LANParty era we used to do 3 or 4 a year). These days they don't happen at all. The last one we had was in 2016, and only 3 people showed up. That's also when we realized we are too f*cking old to do LANParties anymore. We can no longer handle a few days of little sleep and filling up on junk food. Back in my 20s I could game for 3 days with little sleep, loaded up on drinks like BAWLS, Wild Stallion, and Vault, eating whatever the f*ck crap we had on hand. Then when the LANParty was over, I would come home, sleep for 16 hours, and be good as new. Those days are long gone.
Now what happens is that my friends have extra gaming-capable PCs in their homes, and if I go over there I can just jump on an extra PC and game with them for the evening. It's like going over to a friend's house and gaming with them on their console (or a 2nd console if they have one available). Those who have gaming laptops just bring them around (much in the same way someone might bring their own consoles to a friend's house).
I remember how hilarious it was that the community made their own online service for the "community demo" versions of
CoD: MW2 and
3. We used that at LANParties.
Pretty sure I got them via Origin Access back in the day. I kind of liked them but ended up getting totally annoyed with them needing to do an 8-9 GB update way too friggin' often. Seriously, it seemed liked 1x week so after a bit I just gave up and uninstalled them but I thought the graphics and game play were decent.
I never had to deal with that because my copies of
BF3 and
4 were "community demos". I was (and am) very much against using Origin and the other storefronts and launchers.
I don't remember exactly what, but seem to remember that there was something really bonkers about the menu layouts that drove me nuts as well.
BF3 and
4, and I think
BF1 (and probably a lot of the other
BFs), if you used the retail version of those games, had their own really sh1tty web-based interface/menus. That was another reason why I was glad I had "community demos" of
BF3 and
4.
