Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Trailer Talks Keeping It Real

I really wish I had a computer capable of running this at an acceptable framerate. I guess I'll have to go for the 360 version. Such a shame because I'd love to play this with a mouse. But I'd rather play a pwetty game with a thumbstick than a fugly choppy thing with m&kb. :|

Future Idea Comment: Wouldn't it be interresting if drop in players could play a reporter with a camera who gets graded on video footage and documenting the conflicts and then publish them to a server for all to view and rate. Just thought I'd add that. :)

Uh oh, real guns! Thats not cool. I am getting anxiety now. Blowing people up into chunks with military weapons in a video game is awesome, but having real guns around - that's for crazy lunatics that need to be arrested. My hands are shaking.

screw MW2, This BC2, and ARMA 2 will be better, MW2 will be extremely scaled down for the dumb gamers.

I wanted to love Operation Flashpoint and Arma. I really did. I even played Opflash with shacktac a few years ago and had a great time, but it took so much time for the action to get going and the learning curve was off-putting.

I played Arma a few times with shacktac and even though it was awesome, it also took forever to get the action rolling. I just seem to lack the patience required to get into those games, but I WANT to like them so bad (which is why I bought them both).

This game is much more my speed. I like the realism aspect, without an infinite amount of controls. I also like what he said about the helicopter. I used to play Desert Combat for Battlefield 1942 and it was fantastic. Helicopters used the airplane model to fly (since there were no helos in BF1942) so it made it slightly difficult to master with just a keyboard and mouse. This made the learning curve steep enough to keep idiots from flying, but low enough so that you didn't need a joystick. This looks like that kind of game.

I'll try it.

that shot at 2:47 looks horribly realistic (if i really saw that head as torn apart) minus the blood splat.

Anyone try the game on their website to unlock the 2 bonus maps? That crap was kinda tough. I got an 86% and just barely unlocked the codes for the extra maps. Whew! It was kinda fun, actually.

This is going to be amazing.

Is there any info on the mission editor?

Is there a reason this isn't the full video?

Given the apparently high level of attention to detail, I do hope that it isn't ruined by something totally daft like stupid dialogue in cutscenes. Anyway, I may sound antagonistic here: but how good can it actually be given that it's going to be cross platform with techology which is archaeic compared to the latest gen PC gear?

Looking forward to it, and am hoping it'll be as good as it's hype suggests.

Looks pretty damn awesome. Just the fact that you can shoot someone in the leg and their ability to move is affected is great in my book. OFP did this too and it added just that touch of realism that made it a cut above other games. I wish games like Crysis did that too. Shoot a baddie in the leg and he falls and maybe tries to crawl. None of this stumble and get up nonsense when your leg is blown off. I don't really see how even action games like Crysis would suffer from damage models like that. After all most NK enemies had standard issue uniforms. With the nano suits all bets are off of course.

Anyway, looking forward to this game. So far I like the balance between playability and realism.

It's not a milsim, even the developers said that. They've said it's tactical realism and yes, there's a difference.

any word about steam yet? :(

As long as it's fun i'm all over it. Sims are great if they're not boring, or have busted ai.