Some of you may know me from the "old" days of Ghost Recon and it's subsequent add-on packs, before being usurped by the lowly UBI and made an arcade console product.
Back in the day, as we old fugs are more and more heard to say, a man named Zero_Gulf started a happy little band of MERCS by bonkin ya on the head if he thought you were an adult and capable of "playing the game the way it was meant to be played". The MERCS had many incarnations and many that were lucky enough to be a MERC went on to "established" clans...many members of Alpha Squad were first MERCS... but I digress...
I have read so many of the laments here (tho not all surely) and I echo Apex's original plea. But what i must have missed being said in my cursory rebrief is that Ghost Recon was the best Multi-player tactical game of its time, and it seems, better than any since. THAT to me is what made GR the best of all lowly apers and pretenders. The solo mission packs and extensions were fine in their ground breaking primitive way but what made Ghost Recon the best was the immersive multi-player. I am sure i am not alone in saying that I made many very good friends, that are good friends still, and i have yet to have met them in person and shared a beer or shaken their hand.
It's all well and good to pooh pooh something as benign as a video game...but I don't go bowling anymore.
GR was my digital bowling league...I met with my team as often as I could for hours at a time....and always had a fargin good time...it was like it was when i was in the Navy. I'm a nostalgic aging fool, but I'm not alone here in this community. The nature of the play weeded out the kiddies and non-hacks right quick...and I miss that.
I am disgusted with UBI and ###### to the extreme at RSE and even tried to get some investors to buy the title and
"re-develop" it to its original unstained stature....aint gonna happen unless there is some legal way for Clancy himself to wrest it away from the flag collectors at UBI.
Do I have much hope for the so-called GR 4...no..sorry I do not. As long as UBI wants to squat for MS and quick console bucks and then try to fool US..the people that made the franchise what it was, by porting xbox code ...I think I'll just go hoist a glass, listen to TAPS in the distance and remember that none have lasted longer than
GHOST RECON..the original.
I guess we could all pull out an original disk and read the credits on who to approach to remedy the problem..but
the blue heeler is lookin at me and I'm moving back to the herd. NOS ES GRAVATUS
Maybe we'll get lucky and RSE will want to reclaim their good name ...but I don't hold my breath that long anymore.
Give Me Back My Old Ghost Recon, Rejuvenated! That's All!
in GR:FS (PC) - General Discussion
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Hail and a brisk salute Gents,
Some of you may know me from the "old" days of Ghost Recon and it's subsequent add-on packs, before being usurped by the lowly UBI and made an arcade console product.
Back in the day, as we old fugs are more and more heard to say, a man named Zero_Gulf started a happy little band of MERCS by bonkin ya on the head if he thought you were an adult and capable of "playing the game the way it was meant to be played". The MERCS had many incarnations and many that were lucky enough to be a MERC went on to "established" clans...many members of Alpha Squad were first MERCS... but I digress...
I have read so many of the laments here (tho not all surely) and I echo Apex's original plea. But what i must have missed being said in my cursory rebrief is that Ghost Recon was the best Multi-player tactical game of its time, and it seems, better than any since. THAT to me is what made GR the best of all lowly apers and pretenders. The solo mission packs and extensions were fine in their ground breaking primitive way but what made Ghost Recon the best was the immersive multi-player. I am sure i am not alone in saying that I made many very good friends, that are good friends still, and i have yet to have met them in person and shared a beer or shaken their hand.
It's all well and good to pooh pooh something as benign as a video game...but I don't go bowling anymore.
GR was my digital bowling league...I met with my team as often as I could for hours at a time....and always had a fargin good time...it was like it was when i was in the Navy. I'm a nostalgic aging fool, but I'm not alone here in this community. The nature of the play weeded out the kiddies and non-hacks right quick...and I miss that.
I am disgusted with UBI and ###### to the extreme at RSE and even tried to get some investors to buy the title and
"re-develop" it to its original unstained stature....aint gonna happen unless there is some legal way for Clancy himself to wrest it away from the flag collectors at UBI.
Do I have much hope for the so-called GR 4...no..sorry I do not. As long as UBI wants to squat for MS and quick console bucks and then try to fool US..the people that made the franchise what it was, by porting xbox code ...I think I'll just go hoist a glass, listen to TAPS in the distance and remember that none have lasted longer than
GHOST RECON..the original.
I guess we could all pull out an original disk and read the credits on who to approach to remedy the problem..but
the blue heeler is lookin at me and I'm moving back to the herd. NOS ES GRAVATUS
Maybe we'll get lucky and RSE will want to reclaim their good name ...but I don't hold my breath that long anymore.
Here's to us and those like us...damn few left.
Knife aka 3kilo
send a pigeon if you remember when.....