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America's Army thread Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 02:29:19 2116e6 No.14335235

I remember playing two and three a couple of years back. So I checked steam today and saw that they removed 3 and put up a new one called "Proving grounds".

What the fuck did they do to my semi-milsim roundbased shooter? I used to sink entire weekends into AA2/3. All they had to do would be some bugfixes and better graphics, but no.

Not even the DoD can make games nowadays.

FRAAAG ZUUM

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 05:19:43 7ad1c1 No.14336001

I couldn't get into AA3 at all, so I have no faith that Proving Grounds is any better. Fun fact about AA3: The employees who made it were technically contractors and all got dismissed the day after release.

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 05:25:41 2116e6 No.14336018

>>14336001

AA3 was my jam for a year or two. It was fun as fuck tactically moving across that bridge over and over and over. 99% of the time the attackers failed, but if everything went right, and they managed to place every smoke/fog correctly, and the DRM got a few good hits in, and the grenadier managed to take out the enemy tower, while the SAWs blocked the main street, then they had a slight chance.

Fuck man, I miss it.

Proving grounds is more of a mix of CoD and CS, but worse.

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 05:32:25 914e59 No.14336053

I installed AA on the PCs in high school.

It was a blast, but I don't think I played it since.

Honestly I didn't know it was still around

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 05:39:17 2116e6 No.14336094

>>14336053

Yeah, AA died kinda fast, then AA2 was around for some time. 2 was considers passable, and it has a lot of features that never made it to 3.

3 was a mess from the start, but it worked and kept the core gameplay functioning.

Proving grounds broke with most traditions. The game is not 100% bug free, but it is far better than the last few iterations, yet it's gameplay is twitch shooter bullshit.

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 05:54:30 7ad1c1 No.14336155

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>>14336018

The bridge map from the old ones? Very fond memories of that one, even if it was the biggest meat grinder in the whole game.

I only ended up playing in the first place because I tried to download BF1942 on Limewire and it ended up being AA instead. Don't regret it at all, though. Played it and AA2 nonstop back in the day. I much prefer F2P being funded by state propaganda than microtransactions. Come to think of it, this game really capitalized on all the shitty industry memes years before they really took off.

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 06:14:19 c547cf No.14336235

AA3 servers could have possibly gone down.

Proving Grounds is okay, I played it for a while but it's a bit too twitch shooter esque. Insurgency captures it a bit better IMO.

Anonymous 02/16/18 (Fri) 06:15:19 b97449 No.14336239

>>14336155

I miss these cheesy vidya gameshows with commentary.