The Rise and Fall of Operation Flashpoint
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2019
- In 1997, a video game company named Bohemia Interactive was established in Prague. The Czech Republic had historically never been a hotbed for video game development, but Bohemia’s founders - Marek Španěl, Ondřej Španěl, and Slavomír Pavlíček - were on a mission. They were determined to create a first person shooter that would capture the reality of war more accurately than any game before it; an engrossing simulation that would depict what real battlefields were like, and feature an unprecedented sense of scale and attention to detail.
After a challenging and prolonged development period, Bohemia delivered on these ambitions in 2001 with Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The game was both a triumph within the genre of tactical first-person shooters, and one of the first major successes in the history of Czech-made video games. But it was also beginning of two wars - a war between Bohemia and its publisher, which would attempt to capitalize on the game without its creators’ involvement, and a war between Bohemia and itself, as the studio struggled to balance its ambitions with its capabilities.
When the dust finally settled over a decade later, Operation Flashpoint had been stripped of its appeal and future. But Bohemia had survived, and started a new series, ARMA, that picked up mechanically and spiritually where Cold War Crisis left off. Unlike its predecessor, ARMA received a more muted reaction from the industry when it debuted - yet eventually grew into an empire within the military simulation genre.
In a world where abandoned video game franchises so rarely receive spiritual successors that continue in their footsteps, the story of the Operation Flashpoint and ARMA is a shining exception; a reminder that not all inactive series become lost forever.
This is the rise and fall of Operation Flashpoint.
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Got my legs blown out, had to crawl 3 miles to extraction as the sun came up; my only guide was fast fading star constellation ..This was not how the mission was supposed to end, but it was supported. They don't make games like that any more.
god, the kolgujev mission.
Southend Busker - i tried playing one of these game years ago but never really learned what to do. But your comment makes me want to go back and try again.
@@kummakummakummakummakummac8606 Just play ARMA 3...
@@ravioliiking It's not the same.
I remember running and hiding for hours to get to the extraction point, eventually stealing a helicopter and escaping, all because i wanted to..... still one of the best games in my opinion. No one has the patience for them anymore...
The only game that made my heart pounding when i hear tracktires moving.
Damn that was chilly. When you’re waiting behind building with just 3 rockets and three tanks
The ONLY game that has given me a similar feeling is Cold Waters, when you get pinged by active sonar by something you haven't detected yet.
I was exploring russia map and found this in google map
Coordinate: 68.4643248, 102.1858787
I think the game is base on this kind of place
You clearly haven't played Arma 3 stealth missions.
One of Top 5 games of my lifetime.
This game made me learn to fear the Shilka.
All glory to Shilka.
Same
Absolutely till this day!
Everytime....I....die....
Yea man. The time when you hear Shilka in radio a you had a bad feeling about this.
All hail the Shilka \(°-°)/
I remember completing Operation Flashpoint as a kid. I actually cried!
That "Pilot lost at night with only the stars and a compass to find his way home" mission, was absolutely unrivalled.
12 O'CLOCK ENEMY SHILKA 300
OH NO 2 IS DOWN
OH NO 3 IS DOWN
OH NO 1 IS DOWN
7 TAKING COMMAND
OH NO 7 IS DOWN
Oh the memories haha
When you understand ,that you fucked up😂
I had a bug where one of the guys just wouldn't shut up about 3 or whoever... OH NO 3 IS DOWNOH NO 3 IS DOWNOH NO 3 IS DOWNOH NO 3 IS DOWNOH NO 3 IS DOWN
@@MongooseTacticool That happened way too frequently. And equally frequent, that AI would be sent alone towards the enemy front.
@@rakrul Yeah, I always worked hard to keep my guys alive. But sometimes it was like "¬ALL > Die Horribly" :)
Crawling for an hour and then having to do it all again bc of 1 bullet. Almost no save points... what a game
let me guess...you were in that damned forest!
@@bbb462cid don't get me started on that
@@Radeo lol
And you didn't know to delete/rename the one allowed save in order to save again, I presume?
@@MosoKaiser You could press left shift + keypad minus in the menu and then type "savegame" to overwrite the save too. Much easier.
Ive spent countless hours in mission editor. Damn I loved this game as a kid.
And boy how I was scared of that mission when you get lost and injured in the woods and enemies were everywhere and all you could hear were birds chirping... LOVE IT
That mission was tense! I thought finding the M60 on a dead guy would help even the playing field, but.. nope. I got torn apart so many times trying to fight those Russians in the woods.
Yes same for me! Designing complicated missions, figuring out the codes. Play the mission over and over until it worked perfectly. Flashpoint dragon rising was disappointing in creator mode
Loved that mission, it was my favourite one. PAPA BEAR COME IN, THIS IS ARMSTRONG!
You're talking about After Montignac, right? I honestly don't remember ever completing that mission it was way too hard for a kid like me lol.
@@kieferam5593 the trick was not getting killed lol ... I feel you man ,I had to replay it quite a few times back then
Almost 20 freaking years. Those early clips of the original Flashpoint brought some emotions up...
ever fled a T-80 in a Tractor?
i have. Cold War Crisis was *one of those games* that you just.. came back to.
is a tractor even faster than just, a jogging man?
In the editor you could attach a TOW launcher on the roof of that tractor, now you don't have to flee any more! The Zetor 7211 assault brigade shall be victorious!
Sorry, TOZER 7211 that is.
@@SuperExodian if your legs are shot and out of ammo and wanna live anything is my good sir.
I got that shit for free on steam hahahaha ahh the memories..
nop, I have fled a T-800 in my dreams more hen once
I remember restarting one certain mission a dozen times because I refused to lose any soldier in my platoon...
I believe it's the mission right after the Russians attacked and you had to run into the nearby woods to escape. First time around the fucking Shilka wiped everyone and I had only 1 buddy left lol RESTART
I was a kid without full developed empathy back then and even I feel bad for dead comrades. This game...
@@lostsaxon7478 lol the shilka was terrifying
Bring back my ptsd of jools and jops on cannon fodder
Lol, this. I could go through 90% of a mission without a casualty, but restarted when someone died anyway BECAUSE I REFUSE TO LOSE SOLDIERS IN MY PLATOON GODDAMNIT
Damn, I miss this game. I remember wreaking havoc on an enemy squad with an SVD from pretty far away. Far enough that enemy AI can't spot me despite the report from the SVD. When I realized how each round fired followed a ballistic trajectory and the rangefinder on the Dragunov's scope reticle actually helped me guide my fire, I was like, "Woah, this ain't your regular shooter!".
Good times. What a masterpiece OFP:CWC was.
Yeah at long range it was a riot .i would mow down entire squads. While they were running. Most were headshots
i remember having a very similar experience with the first ARMA. The scale and detail was mind blowing for its time.
When the sound of BMP came *closer and closer* to my position, I pissed my pants.
BMPs are easy to kill if you’ve got a LAW or an RPG
@@legowattambor834 ohh wow you are so smart... when you have no rpg and not like 15 grenades, all you can is stay low and move slowly. he is right, the sound of the tanks coming closer was horrible.
@@rallzam man he's just sayin that they're easy to kill IF you have a LAW or an RPG he didn't say anything else.
😂
@@legowattambor834 99% of soldiers don't carry an AT type weapon and cannot be assumed to carry one either.. So yes, an APC (or especially an IFV like the BMP) is terrifying for a foot soldier.. Never mind an MBT with large HE-Frag rounds (which the BMP1 actually has).
1:"3 o'clock, enemy, soldier, 100"
1:"6, engage, soldier"
*6:"Soldier, is history"*
Man... I spent years listening to those symphonies. I even started my own campaign and then moved to ArmA 3 to continue these missions...
sadly my potato PC barely runs arma 3 :( got to stuck to A2 CO.
All move to house 12 o'clock ,
Mine was "BMP is history"
You've got to do a rise and fall of Prince of Persia. No series has fallen as much as that series did.
Too true, too true...
MechWarrior?
@@TheSpectreSeeker
Remember when everyone was anticipating a new game in that series? Fuck even "normies" know about that series too.
@@GrippeeTV
That is atleast getting a new game. PoP is dead and all Ubisoft makes now are generic open world games.
civilwarfare101 yeah they really are all about that open world lol. Which I don’t get, because their open world games are pretty bland compared to a lot of others.
The Cold War Crisis was truly realistic. I dreaded playing as Gastovsky. Being alone in the forest at night felt so freaking real. For some reason neither Bohemia nor Codies can give me the same experience anymore.
True but modern Arma games are amazing still and now looking at Reforger, im super excited for Arma 4. "night felt so freaking real" well maybe but DayZ on the other hand sometimes at night can give you an heart attack, it was even more intense when we played mod version of DayZ back in 2013.
Reforged gives me the same feeling that flashpoint did say back then.
@@ampeg187 DayZ is a stupid mod with zombies and players killing one another. The 2001 Operation Flashpoint : Cold War Crisis and it's 2 expansions it's what the modern military simulators are based on, including the ArmA series.
@@ampeg187 Did you ever play Operation Firelord on the original? It was just a mission that made clever use of the mission editor features to go beyond what the devs could have foreseen. Intense hardly begins to describe the experience.
A big part of that is because we are all older and have "been there, done that" with many games. It's hard for games, especially single player games to grab and hold my attention these days. I still really enjoy multi-player games a lot. The bar has been raised quite a lot for developers to be able to hold the attention of older gamers who have seen everything the industry has to throw at us since the 90s or earlier.
Operation Flashpoint, Mafia and Vietcong.. legendary czech made games
Don't forget Hidden & Dangerous.
vietcong not so much
MikaAV part 1 was awesome for me on the pc
VietCong not so much?? I curse thee.
@@mihaia8119 vietcong with full czech dubbing was life experience " ŽERTE OLOVE VY ŽLUTÝ PRASATA"
Holy shit. I just randomly remembered the original Operation Flashpoing: Cold War Crisis few days ago, what a coincidence. I got it for my (which I believe) 10th birthday present when I hardly knew english. I literally had no clue what was happening at all in the game, and going through the training took me hours, because I didn't understand what shouldering my weapon meant. It is incredible how much patience kids can have. But it felt like an amazing achievement going through the training course. I can still remember the title menu music, and how I was puzzled why the main mission was called champagne (I did not know the difference between champagne and campaign). I unfortunately got stuck in the mission where I had to drive the jeep somewhere, because I did not understand what I where I was supposed to go. I sunk hours into this game with absolutely no idea as a 10 year old, yet I cherished every second of it. Me and my friends just fooled around in different missions discussing what on god's name we were supposed to do. One thing I still clearly remember is when we bailed out of a heli from low altitude, and how my character broke his legs and refused to walk. That was when I was shocked how much detail a game can have.
I will never forget (which I believe to be the first proper mission) where you charge into a village. I think I had gotten this game after CoD1, so I couldn't figure out how to aim down sights. Literally pressing every button, I realized it was defaulted to V, which I find very strange. After many deaths, I proceeded somehow, and believe the town gets attacked by tanks. And since I probably wasn't properly playing the objective, had my entire team killed. So I was huddling next to a house while the tanks roamed around me. I still remember my heart sinking when the house I was crawling around got hit with a shell and leaned over with some crack on the wall to indicate it's been destroyed.
And this one heli scenario was one of my favorite as well. I learned how to control the heli by literally playing it over and over again, clicking different things and realizing things are happening. One day I managed to beat the scenario, and I saw the indication to return to base. I had no idea how to land the damned thing. I tried my best until I was going down too fast, so I bailed. The heli crashed in the woods, but the game recognized it as returned to base and I won. At the last cut scene I could see my co pilot standing next to a destroyed burning heli haha. I also remember how you hear something about getting beer when you fly back.
I have to get this game again...
I seriously can't believe how I remember so much of this game in such detail. I never thought it was such a big deal for me. I believe though I didn't get it, I felt the intricacies and the detail. Figuring it out made me feel like becoming a professional soldier.
RoyRoger best game ever for me. I was a little kid as well when I started .
My first game was killzone, i was 4 or 5 yrso, it took me days to finish the first mission, I wasn't used to fps and i had a really hard time aiming the sights at enemies. After a couple of missions I couldn't progress anymore because i got lost in a water purification facility if I remember correctly, still i have never enjoyed a game as much as the first killzone
I played it when I was like 10 too, luckily for me It was in czech language, but I remember I sucked at it too, so after playing few missions I played mostly only with editor, or instead of finishing mission I stole some tractor and kept driving around
You just said what I was thinking too, except I got the game as a gift from my sister's boyfriend because he wanted to score some points with her lmao
it was really something special. As a kid the death sequence was quite powerful: the wise quote that comes up, the ominous music.
My biggest memory from this game.
WHERE ARE YOU?!?!
One Position FF52. XD best game ever
I still don't know what to press/do to reply to this?
@@dekster14LP IIRC you had to start to give them a move command, and then actually click on the map itself where you wanted them to go.
It's been a few years since I've played so that could be wrong, and there may be a better way to deal with it.
All, Disembark.
All, form Line!
2, 7, 8, Engage Skud Launcher
MOVE 50 METERS FROM THAT BUSH.
Objective: Capture VIP located in UAZ
me: *spends 15 minutes setting up ambush*
6: *deploys LAW*
6: UAZ IS HISTORY
you ay zee is history
You have commands 3 2(cease fire), and 3 6 (disengage) to prevent that :)
Goddamn it 6
OH NO 6 IS DOWN
@@athafaiq1520 F'ing 6. Every damn time.
"CONTACT! 12 O'clock Soldier 200!"
Sometimes, I swear I can hear those calls out of the blue.
'Ratata'
"Soldier is History"
"Ohhhh no!....4!...is down!"
-OH NO, FLASHPOINT IS DOWN!
-It IS ARMA, TAKING COMMAND. I SAY AGAIN ARMA, TAKING COMMAND, OUT...
-This is ARMA, CodeMasters 11oclock 300.
This is ARMA, CodeMasters is History.
You are possibly unintentionally paraphrasing optional course of actions in demo version of Operation Flashpoint - when all officers die during your assault :) I don't remember how many times I replayed it with different outcomes. One time I even successfully completed the mission - killing all enemies in Houdan and prevent any escapees from calling reinfornements - you get "Houdan sized" message and mission completes successfully without the need to retreat and eventually got shot down by ZSU-23. "Shilka". I was blown away by this. Single player campaign also had some twists and alternative mission paths in end-game when hunting for Scud launchers. Amazing game.
@@reav3rtm I played at least a 1000 hours on this game and yes their are secret objectives that be discovered during missions.
Operation Flashpoint is dead, long live ARMA!
@@reav3rtm There were also a big ton of player made campaigns for OFP.
From civilian resistance with persistent item systems (similar to vanilla "resistance") to being a colonel that is tasked to conquer all vanilla islands - commanding different squads, tanks, helicopters and transports - some of them have such twists too.
"Pappa Bear to all squads, we're approaching the enemy positions contact in imminent God help us all...out" I couldn't play that mission until I got a 1Ghz CPU
😄👍
Ohh god
Oh man, same! Memories...
I used to play it on a 550mhz pc
I'm not sure if anyone will see this - but I always remember one of my favorites parts of a new mission was reading the journal entry for the solider you were playing as. just to see his "thoughts."
I agree those were great.
It was a masterpiece, they don’t make games like this anymore.
DeanoPiano this and 2001 ghost recon weren’t best friends
@Max RV Hurr hurr you're so funny and original.
@Max RV when you are so stupid that the only thing you can say is ''ok boomer'' becouse that you where told to say
@Max RV enjoy your genZ stupidity .good luck on that
DeanoPiano I mean there’s a game called Squad
I am one of the Americans whose name is in the credits of OFP:CWC. I was one of about 20 English-speaking fans on the OFP website forum before the public demo was released. Bohemia Interactive took our personal wishes (mine were side doorguns on the Blackhawk and fully rendered forests) and made them reality. When we heard that Codemasters was to be the publisher, several fans wailed that CM would be the death of the title. Prophetic. Another note is that Operation Flashpoint: Elite was nearly bug-free and the Classic XBox's clear voice comm made my time in OFP:E some of the best multiplayer gaming I have ever enjoyed. My suspicion is that Microsoft was not fond of the game because of its infinite replayability. (It had a Lite version of OFP: Resistance's mission editor.) I'll add further comments as I watch the remainder of this documentary.
WOW Small world. I ran a fan site www.coldwarflashpoint.com Loved those early days. The game was a dream come true back then. My taste has changed over the years and I wish their western game would have materialize. -AndOne
@@BunkgoVideo AndOne! Howdy, Pardner! Remember Vikingo?
@@TacShooter OMG, Yes I remember you. We were the early fan. web.archive.org/web/20010331113803/www.coldwarflashpoint.com/
@@BunkgoVideo This is Uziyahu. Vikingo was a cool dude, though. :D
@@TacShooter remember bad mojo, buddy pickle?
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance is a very dated game by 2019 standards but I'll never forget how fucking terrifying it was to play back in '02. The level of immersion and the legitimate dread of being hunted down by the Russian military (particularly at the start of the campaign) was absolutely amazing. Not many games have topped that feeling for me!
yeesssssss. The story around Victor Troska had a great arc. Getting your equipment, watching out for you AI members not to die, storing the weapons, it was damn nice. When you got your first tanks it was the bomb. Finally you could fight back. It really felt like an achievement.
✌✌✌
Yes. And the first mission when you lost your squad and you need to find the resistance. What a great mission, alone in the wild surrounded by Russian Militaries. With just a map and no compas.
Your squad and supplies are persistent too, very hardcore game
@@blub2121 I wholeheartedly concur.
They just announced ARMA Reforger which looks like a TRUE child of Operation Flashpoin. Oh man, this game was ahead of its time. Many of my friends didn't like it for dying from 1 bullet and having no saving spots lol But with one friend who loved it as I did, we played for months together. And the single player campaigns were amazing.
Yes, absolutely loved its campaigns. But hated the campaigns for Arma 1,2 and 3. Did you like their campaigns?
@@yous2244 I didn't play it. My computer was too weak and then I saw the gameplay on TH-cam and didn't like it.
@@MishaElRusito that's disappointing. They were absolutely amazing though
This comment didn't age well :D
Bohemia guys have always been in my heart throughout the years. They put everything into Flashpoint and it was revolutionary at the time.
Kudos to them for never giving up.
play ARMA 3 its worth every penny
We wouldn't have battle royale games, and The Survival game craze, if it wasn't for Bohemia making amazing games that allowed for amazing mods.
PUBG and DayZ were both originally mods for arma.
Bohemia made games that birthed the trending titles to this day. And we owe them a lot for that.
And they even support mod creators, many people who made arma 2 mods (sumrak who made namalsk, dean who made dayz) were/are on bohemias current team
@@tunisiwi Yes this is very true. Arma 3 was built around being painless to Mod. and we have some of the best FREE overhauls and mods for any game. Arma 3 can be anything from Star wars, to halo, to full on Military Simulation with ENTIRE military packs for almost every nation.
Arma 3 is a masterpiece. and Bohemia deserves more credit than anyone out there in the gaming industry.
If you didnt know, Bohemia makes "VBS" wich is a simulation program used by the US Military to run training operations, and scenario recreation and simulation. nobody can play it unless you are a veteran or service member, with special access. the department of defense owns the contract. Its a very advanced but graphicaly watered down version of arma.
@@thebugsy7633 I've heard that it has some features like terraforming, craters from bombs and artillary and many more features that would be pretty neat to have in the next game or dlc. It supposedly runs on a modified version of the arma 2 engine, but i'm not sure how true that is. Maybe some day it'll be released to the public.
Thats debatable, likely in a world with no arma, the creator of PUBG would have just used a different engine
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 perhaps, but Bohemia had a platform readily available, and through love of their modders, was in a community that supported the making of the Battlegrounds-By player unknown(the arma 3 mod), while bohemia created an amazing platform for him to develop his vision. Arms 3 Pubg was popular for years before he developed pubg.
OFP was the ultimate game back then. One to beat all the others. Way ahead its time.
Open world (no need to explain), survival (find a medical tent when you are injured, ammo etc), great stories (remember Gastovski?), elements of horror (when you are surrounded by tanks that patrol the area, and you must avoid them like monsters). Thanks to the editor and modding community, you could do almost any game there. I remember the first zombie survival maps in OFP ... Way ahead ...
It was also my first original game. I ordered it via phone call (no internet). I waited about two weeks. I was even willing to cancel the order, because the cost of the game was almost half a year of my pocket money. I'm glad I did not do it.
Fortunately, the game was in my language. It's funny how a child can quickly understand what the war is about, learn from mistakes. I quickly realized that using the M60 brings more enemy fire to you. That you have to flank. That you must think, not just push the LMB. That You need to aim before target when its run, and sometimes higher (bullet drop)...
Discovery of mods, downloading them in an internet cafe, testing countless number of pistols and rifles just to see how they look and sound in editor for hours... Uber realistic mods. Errors, crashes...
Later, internet and MP in large coop missions, where often You had 1 or 2 lives. I remember one game, where from a few dozen people at the beginning, only 5 left after 6 hours (included me, just cus of luck).
First MP PvP maps, capturing areas, planting bombs next to the road and waiting for enemy (once I detonated bomb to late trying to kill 2 guys on a red motorbike - they didint die from the blast, but the shock wave gave them some sort of nitro speed, so they cant turn the bike and they are killed themselfs on the building next to the road...). I love OFP. I love this community.
Writing shit on the briefing map to piss off admins (btw they know who write this cus of logs...).
And I found a good mate IRL back then who loves game as well! We tested mods and campaigns and later we discussed how we finish each mission. And all those quotes when you died. Amazing.
THANK YOU Bohemia Interactive FOR BEST GAMING EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE (the only time I dont regret wasting time playing games). Check this stunning song about ArmA/OFP
th-cam.com/video/-DLJPr2lyno/w-d-xo.html
Cool, thanks for sharing your experience with this Game : )
I totally agree. Huge maps, open world, tons of vehicles (and detailed interiors!), tons of weapons, tons of user made missions, mods, addons... It was just a perfect game. I miss my clan :'(
Remember that sp mission that reccomended a 1 gig or better processor? Man how far we have come. I was never able to finish it due to snipes and poor frame rate.
Joel McCunty remember that one:)
me too i had to play a scary mission started as a teen stole some thing and had to join army or go to prison the problem is his shift was in a scary forest and alot of spoky thing started to get out than the game chnaged to how to survive a ghost lol there it is ( th-cam.com/video/vkmB0MP30tM/w-d-xo.html )
It really bothers me that whoever is playing these games in this video is not using the iron sights.
back than it was more like sniping mode than just aiming with iron sights. it gave you sights siluete and was meant for precise shots from steady position.
One day, i fraged a guy while moving and hipfiring during a multiplayer game of OFP.
Everybody was shocked someone pulled such an impossible move and win...
Jiří Dušek no, it wasn’t
Fuck the iron sights it bothers me that they're using ak's and svd's while playing as americans.
@Heroin Bob you know what, you're right. I didn't even think about that 👌 .
Arma 2 is honestly one of the best games I have ever played. It's not the prettiest but it is damn immersive and entertaining
I must agree with you. The story is unforgettable, i wish more people talked about it.
This channel deserves way more subscribers
and less dislikes
This is the one creator i'll go out of my way to log in for. Sit with my wife and watch. I really appreciate his work.
tell your friends and your friends dogs. thatll help
Sadly I can't subscribe more than once.
Yeah, the production value and research that goes into each video is insane. I would say it's some of the best 'gaming' content on TH-cam.
Hello from Czech Republic. I will never forget Operation Flashpoint. The box is still on my shelf. Never forgot the 7th mision where you left alone on invaded island. Amazing game for its time. Thanks a lot for this video. But FFS ALWAYS aim down sights in this game, this hip fire is pain to watch :).
gotta run like hell for the trees in that one
Just played that mission on arma 3 remake "cold war crisis" It still have the same feel of tention if not greater.
Haha, so recognisable. Although I can't play it on win10, my OFP copies still stand proudly in my game cabinet. Truly a great great game.
So many memories from Op Flashpoint... First game to ever entirely immerse me to what I can only guess was real military action... Nothing like crawling in the dirt for miles, because helicopters and APCs are patrolling the entire area around you and don't take prisoners. I should play this again.
This is what makes TH-cam special, great documentaries like this that you don't find on mainstream TV. Excellent work!
"If you see a flash it is already too late!".
Was that the tagline on the box?
Stay of the road if you want to grow old.
@@shantyguy this was written when in installation app
"Trevoga, trevoga!"
Those bring back memories.
So few games set around the cold war and give believable, intense combat simulations
Yet there are many games about the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, both of which are Cold War conflicts.
@@MaximilianoAedo The Gulf War is not a cold war conflict
Nothing beats Arma 3, nothing
@@jean-baptistecarrere-gee9157 +1
It may have happened when the Soviet Union was still around but it was a shell of its former self and had nothing to do with the conflict to begin with.
Have you tried ArmA2 / Arma3 series with mods and add ons?
"After Montignac" was legendary.... I love all the comments about it.
Remember: "Original games don't fade."
Exactly! Thanks for the nostalgia fix
Battlefield 4 is exactly like that 🙌
Bohemia is such a supportive company and I cannot recommend Arma 3 enough for those who haven't picked it up. I've clocked up 1,721 hours and always find myself coming back to play due to their continued support of the modding community, even going as far as hosting competitions and giving prizes to modders/mods that go the extra mile.
i have too many hours to be proud of in arma 3 2387 as of 01/22/19 lmao i love the game down to its core and i just want to see it prosper
inbox me if you need people to play with
DayZ disagrees
Supportive till they fucked their fans in the ass by using DayZ SA as an excuse to fund their new arma 4 engine
Exactly, AIS mods, RDS mods, blastcore (god I love that one). Had well over 100gb only of mods. Or just creating your own scenario/mission to let friends play on that coop as you throw things at them with zeus and ares :)
I was the Project Leader and founder of a mod called Flashpoint in the Falklands.. I was in Prague for a break with my girlfriend at the time and got personally invited to BI by Marek Spanel. What a lovely guy he was too!! :)
I remember that mod in development stage, did you ever get to complete it?
@@bazzabaz I was going through a bad divorce and handed the reigns over. I think it was released but not the way we all wanted it.
@@shauntbarry that's a shame, I recall there were many mods in development at the time but very few made it to fruition, i suppose it's a hell of a lot of work for a hobby and life more often than not takes over. Apart from yours (a Falklands campaign game would've been fairly unique), the other mod I was really interested in was named Invasion1944 and was D-day based. Again, I don't think it was fully realised.
@@bazzabaz I actually got divorced as a result of the time I actually spent on it.. That's why I left. My life was a mess.. Thankful it's all back up and ok again! It was a pure passion and it took over my life in a big way...
@@bazzabaz I think it was partially released as addons but the dream of the campaign I had didn't materialise sadly.. It was actaully meant to be a perspective from several brothers from each side of the war in different armed forces. 2 from the Argentine side camped in. And the others from 2 para and from the Navy.. Shame really I had the whole thing storyline mapped out where they met each other in unfortunate cirumstances at the end..
How sad it was to hear on the radio that Tasmanian Devil is being suddenly killed,
and also, the killing of Victor Troska just right at the end of the war was very devastating...
One of the greatest games ever made. I still play the solo mission Bomberman once a year or so just to get my fix. Deep immersion and a compelling atmosphere, it's stayed with me since it was released almost 20 (!) years ago.
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis never dies!
I enjoyed the ability to create your own missions on the original Xbox. This game holds strong in my heart.
@@EberleinMund I did two singleplayer campaigns for the PC version 1.99 and I completed all three official campaigns. Great game! I was born in 2001 and bought this game when I was like 15-16 years old. I'm a lucky one in my generation who enjoys the older games and is not playing by the graphics. The graphics are great for a game from 2001! I currently play ArmA II and III. Both are awesome!
@@TeurastajaNexus congratulations, you played that masterpiece. When i see some comments on steam about ofp how bad it looks and so on it makes me sad. But i had a wonderful time with that game.
@@Gustav-Biernot Those people on Steam are probably some fortnite kids who don't know shit about real games.
Of course, we have the arma series now.
Dude, you are the Morgan Freeman of gaming documentaries. I could listen to you narrate about a man watching a piece of carpet and I'd love it.
He's a paid voice over artist. The narrator is not the owner of the channel.
its called aladin
If you like this you should Look up Xbox Ahoy or just Ahoy.
@@martinhubinette2254 Ahoys voice makes me nut
Yesss!
Operation flashpoint may not have lived up to expectations but it was my first military sim experience and I love it. The soundtrack is also one of the best I've heard.
Yep, the soundtrack is great. And the game itself could be the best tactical shooter with a few adjustments, a shame that Codemasters left it behind
@@r.daneel.90 Codemasters just never understood that OFP was never about being a battle simulator or tactical shooter. It was a *war* simulator. What made the game great was that it actually made you fear death, and it made you worry about losing your men, or spending too much ammo. And during missions you could never really relax, just in case you had missed an enemy patrol that spots and shoots you.
I liked Rainbow Six Rogue Spear a lot as a kid. I dunno if I was just young, or it was legitimately very hard, but that game was intense and slow paced / tactical stuff, NOTHING like R6:S.. Or Vegas ones... man... Rainbox Six was soooo different in the 90s / early 00s.. I guess not a 'military' sim, though, more of a special ops or SWAT or anti-terror kinda sim thing. It was good though. Got emotionally connected to your characters / squad and would actually feel really, really bad if someone died. I think I eventually beat that game either without anyone from my original squad dying, or at least, I got one guy from the original squad to the end of the game (Chavez rings a bell??). Forget which, it was like literally 20 years ago lol.. damn,.
OFP is obviously a lot different, more like ARMA / Project Reality (BF 1942 mod) / uhhhh the game my best friend likes that the people who made Project Reality made... Squad? I think.. Those games aren't QUITE my cup of tea but I feel the old Rainbow Six games and OFP have some cross overs regarding immersion, realism, and emotional connections to your squadmates (just very different "scales" of warfare / combat, R6 being a small tactical stealth thing, infantry only, and OFP/Project Reality being more a vast open warzone with vehicles and such). It was also my first multiplayer experience. I can't even remember the name of the platform it launched the multiplayer through, but I'm sure it became defunct at some point I recall..
@@emperror85 To be fair they did It with Dragon Rising
@@spacewargamer4181 Not sure I understand what you meant. What did they do with Dragon Rising? The only positive thing I remember about Dragon Rising was that the graphics looked alright for its time.
Operation Flaspoint burned my motherboard back in the day. I love it
Lol hehehe I can believe it
Please do Rise and Fall of Delta Force for PC.
I think Rise and Fall of Novalogic as a whole would be more comprehensible topic than just covering Delta franchise.
That would be great, does anyone remember the name of the proprietary tile engine they used on thier late 90s games? It made them run smooth on pretty crap spec PCs.
I was one of those who played the fuck out of bhd... as like, a 13 year old with no income, I always wanted the newer ones. That's around the time I discovered arma2 actually. While trying to find a decent flight sim
Yes, loved those games. Nova logic as a whole would be interesting
delta force:black hawk down
18 years,
8 PC's
11 video cards,
maybe a dozen clans...
ONE FRANCHISE.
My name's Noises and I saw the flash once.
Nerd alert.
Report in
You must be really carless for your PCs if you had 8 PCs spanning 18 years. I had one PC for 10 years.. lol
@@GhostSlay3r 10 years without upgrade must be painful.
@@TheTarooX Nah, When I got the PC, it had top notch specs. Even at the end of it's lifespan, it could still play most new games. Even Battlefield 1 in 60FPS. AMD hardware ages well 😅
I've spend 3(!) hours real life, waiting in a bush, because a tank come from out of nowhere and was like 2 meters away from that bush. Best game ever.
HOLY SHIT that idea of US/Soviet forces meeting on an island for a fight to the death after an apocalypse... I'd buy the shit outa that game 😁
My favorite line................"I'd buy the shit outa that game"
GVMERS is the type of channel where you can "thumbs up" the vid before even watching it. ^_^
Facts
It's what i did... :-P
I didn't want to watch in 360p, so i waited until right now to watch it, but given the subject matter, i knew it would be a good one from the get go.
Straight up it's the first thing I do.
So true
I remember when this was a demo on a CDROM on a magazine. I did more walking in this game than they did in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings combined.
Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis, the best f'n game that i've ever played
It is. I've basically stayed there on Everon and never left. I bought a few modern FPS since then, but I always go back.
To put it simply, the best. Mechanically the newer ARMA installements take the cake, sure. But the atmosphere, story, characters, music, the setting. Oh man, that was it. Timeless classic.
Another great in-depth documentary style video by GVMERS with the narrator's deep and profound voice-over.
"after Montignac" is the most emotionally intense mission i've ever played on a video game. Operation Flashpoint surely one of my favourite gsames ever, a masterpiece.
Try reaplaying the campaign on arma 3. its awesome.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Bohemia basically remastered the first game with arma 3? If so I know what I'm purchasing
Well you are wrong and I will correct you as you wish. Bohemia re-realesd the game from their code as "Arma colwar crisis" since codemasters own the flashpoint name but noone could forbid bohemia to release exqct same game with new name. But not into Arma 3. There is a mod for arma 3 and even its DLCs like red hammer and resistence (even though resistence have only few first missions as its still work in progress) all made by different people. But I highly reccomend downloading mod called "Cold War Crisis" by "Cnotk". I finished the whole campign perfectly playable just 3 missions I had problém with mission ending when I finished all tasks aso I had to use "endmission" cheat but despite that it was perfectly playable Cuscenes work great and Im sure I will yet play it again. The story is so imersive, missions are replaybale.
@@17MrLeon thank you my friend that was really helpful. Either way I got some purchases to make ( rather support Bohemia than codemasters, I just learnt about the whole issue about them)
Yeah The operation flashpoint 2 series by codemasters has nothing to do with original operation flashpoint. The true sequels are basically Arma and now that coldwar crisis exist with arma name as well you can now forgot that name.
Having been born in 1990, this has always been my most favorite game in the genre. You could accomplish almost any mission in whatever way you could imagine. Sometimes you'd steal an enemy vehicle, other times you'd go change your loadout and either snipe or use an LAW, another time you'd go to another base you remembered from a previous mission to get a tank that wasn't intended but you could still get it.
Indeed, failing certain objectives could change the mission afterwards.
It was possible to create your own complex missions.
If you put a lot of effort into it, you could even save a convoy that was intended to be blown up ... but by rushing in with an LAW you could lucky shot the enemy tank and manage to save your allies and the mission completely supported that happening and the saved NPC's did realistically what they should do after surviving.
The vast scale of the map; during any mission you could go anywhere in the entire game world which was literally >100 km large.
You could go refuel at a tanker or a gas station, same for ammo, ... .
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Truly the golden standard for a mil sim.
And ... no other company ever managed to offer something similar. It would always be more scripted and linear, less large in scale, never that amount of freedom, ...
Only ARMA as it's successor did something similar ... .
OF:DR and full spectrum warrior.....
Best military games I've ever played in my life!
Man, my youngest years were the greatest!!!
Great games!
Great music!
Great movies!
The era between mid-late 80's and late 90's were the best time to be alive!
This make me cry i was a child playing cold war crysis demo over and over again.
Imagining a Crytek developed Arma makes my PC cry
Crawling to the extraction point 1 hour after I was shot in the legs and all of my comrades die (i was 11). I even blocked the key on my keyboard to no need to push it all the time...
@@pd5156 I remember one time after the helicopter i was able to jump before it goes down and captured the AA I thought i beat the demo and the game is now full
I still remember the radio chatter logs.
Amazing demo, you could fuck around so much with the triggers that it felt like another mission
@Jimmy Combs hİ Jimmy. How's school ?
The best combination of gameplay and storyline in a combat simulator. That mission where you're left dead in the middle of a forest behind enemy lines and had to get to extraction asap was the most heart stopping I've played on pc and in real life! 😂😂😂 I prefer this over codemasters anytime.
You know how 'every time you mention Deus Ex someone reinstalls it'? Every time you mention OFP CWC someone starts getting PTSD flashbacks from that mission.
@@dihedralprime1039 Is that what I'm experiencing nowadays? 😂 Explains a lot. Yeah too much gaming since the 90s, what can I say.
I remember that one, creepy with enemy lurking in the woods and if youstray in the open bmps patrol around the area
@@dihedralprime1039 me
After Montignac
bring my back to the memories at 2001, flashpoint stay with me and my cousin over many many night and dawn.
now my Arma 3 reaching 1500 hours
Such memories from this game with the realism and the modding community. I did my first addon for any game when I modeled the Antonov 124 and tried to make it work with the flight model in OFP. Would have been great if the game allowed vehicles to actually be transported as cargo, but it was good for massive paratrooper insertions :D Thank you Bohemia for this wonderful open universe to play with for many many years!
*2:11am, about to sleep*
Sees a new video from GVMERS
*mission abort, we'll get 'em next time*
if this channel ever ends i hope their last video is "the rise and fall of GVMERS"
This is still the most realistic depiction of iron sights I've ever seen in a video game. Newer games make the sights obscure everything. If you are someone who shoots, you'll know that the rear sight fades away and all you have to do is put the front sight post over the target and then, "SOLDIER IS HISTORY!"
I remember using the OFP editor and creating massive battles on dessert island... oh those were the times!
I built a massive convoy and the goal was simple. Get to the other side of the Desert Island.
Except that there were dozens of bombers overhead :)
I made race tracks and studf u do in gta now lol
"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with... G."
"Jeep doesn't start with G, you meathead!"
@@triple-oe4hw "OK, OK, not jeep, I mean... grass."
@@NolDragon "Grass??"
The M16A2. 600 rounds a second, perfectly balanced and only weighs 5 pounds. How can u not love it.
@@avipeltz6863 pipedown children here comes berghoff
One of my all time favorite series of games, if you can even call it that. I lose myself in ArmA 3 for days, and it all started in OP: Flashpoint.
Bohemia interactive is one of those rare companies that actually cares about its brand and its community. They started out with just a pure live of making games and still today that's what they do it for. They love their community undoubtedly and enjoy making content for others to play and they also take criticism very well where as most would scoff at it. Like how in arma 3 there was no single player options yet after given some time they built a story (several actually) and expanded upon it with incredible flexibility. This is a rare company to see and we should be appreciative of their dedication. I'm aware that not all company stay pure forever but bohemia interactive has done one hell of a job at sticking to their roots and delivering on their promise.
Absolutely superb production values. Your videos are professional, well thought out and excellently made. Thanks!
God, the one thing I loved about Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was the menu music. was interesting. Mongolian throat singing was something I never heard before and it gave a feeling of dread and hardship that most music didn't seem to capture at all
The music is absolutely mesmerizing!
Yeah, DR isn't the best game, but I always get hype when I get to that menu
As a massive OFP1 fan, I remember giving Dragon Rising a shot for the first time and listened to the whole menu theme song before jumping into the campaign. It was beautiful and I thought it would be a taste of (good) things to come. It wasn't, lol.
I would say I’ve lost hundreds of hours to playing Arma 2 but no, I WON those hours
Arma 2 had the best content of the series. I wish they had stuck with real world military content instead of the half-arsed not-quite-sci-fi, not-quite-contemporary nonsense in Arma 3, given that the new engine is such a big improvement.
I got a few thousand hours in Arma 2. And its still going up ^^.
Hardcore games
Just found out about this video game documentary channel. 3 videos in and I'm hooked. These are my kind of documentaries.
Liked and subbed.
RIP Operation Flashpoint. Youll never be forgotten it gave me some nice Weekends on mission editor. I'll never forget it >-
Rise and Fall of Turok!
Yes
No rise and fall of metroid prime
Yes! That needs to be done! I said that on one of their previous Rise and Fall videos!
*BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND*
TUROK ! HELP ! *kids voice*
I feel like you should've given Zeus mode a mention, I've never seem anything else like it and it's honestly the gift that keeps on giving in plenty of communities
Yeah the Zeus mode just makes community games that much more awesome!
I wouldn't have 10% of my 1800 hours in arma 3 if it wasn't for Zeus!
Back when I played OFP 1, the editor was fun to mess with, and I got dozens of hours out of it. But I never found it as enjoyable in arma 2 or 3 until Zeus. Hell, I even bought arma 3 because of Zeus, having seen Lutein's videos!
Yeah my outfit largely plays in Zeus mode, it's basically DnD for milsim nerds.
@@CynicalOldDwarf Exactly. You can try as much as you want to create perfect custom mission, you dont want to overcomplicate it. Sometimes happens that allies find their way somwhere you were not prepared to "host" them... So just throw a random patrols over there :D
I annoyed one of our regular zeuses the other night. We were in a column of HMMWVS and he'd laid down mines to make us stop for an ambush.
We take fire from one side so return fire, then we start taking fire from the other side so not wanting to be the meat in a guerilla sandwich I yell "Screw the mines, off road and advance" :)
Thank you for this excellent documentary. I joined Codemasters Spain as PR Executive in 2001, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis was the first game I worked in, and still holds a special place in my heart.
my first ever war game and the best game i ever played, and i've played it all.
man this game was a quarter of my childhood.
That moment when you've played so much Cold War Crisis and ArmA you recognize which missions all the used clips are from... :'D
I remember the OFP mission that you are to late for extraction, alone, in the woods, patrols everywhere. Man, I have never felt that rush of a video game again.
It is definitely in the top 3 video game experiences. That and vanishing realms in VR with some cannabis ;)
can't wait for arma 4R!
@@humanentity5890 Arma 4 VR?
"After Montignac" mission.
I played it first time 19 years ago, boys. What a game it was! Still have the cds, still play every two three years!!!!
Awesome video. I was working at Codemasters as a dev in 2000 and remember early builds of the game, in fact I still have the copy they gave me free on release day. It wasn't a complete campaign even when Codemasters discovered them but I recall some discussion that the designer had been influenced by the Amiga open world game Hunter. We had some level designers from our studio in Leamington Spa work on the the original OF campaign, so I'm guessing there was a push to get the title out using some of Codemasters resources, in fact many of the digitised faces in the game were in fact my collegues. It's sad that Codies lost that partnership with Bohemian as it was some stunning IP and could have benefited them both. Arma is an exceptional simulation but perhaps underated and undermarketed, maybe it's for the best as there is little out there that comes close in terms of realism.
Cold War Crisis blew my mind. I even loved Dragon Rising and played its exquisite -- and at times utterly broken -- PvP for probably more than three hundred hours. It was brutal. I still have grit in my teeth. I don't blame anyone who couldn't hack it, but if you stuck with the game, there has been nothing like it before or since.
In the end, a confused and distracted Codemasters, trying to strike a balance between CoD hysteria and the technical demands of a true milsim, allowed Sion Lenton to hijack the project and I believe he ousted Bohemia in an attempt to put his own mark on the franchise. The guy was completely inept and should never have been in that position for any game under any circumstances.
Dragon rising was NOT operation flashpoint by any means or shape or form. The publisher Codemasters bullied BI for the ip for that game and released that trash... so please don't ever put these games in the same category. Flashpoint and Resistance and Elite were all BI, the rest were abominations.
@@humanentity5890 Dragon rising was okay but should not be compared to the originals, I agree. DR wasn't even finished and all the vehicles handled like shit. I was very disappointed when it came out, but in the end I beat it on the highest difficulty (hardcore) and to be honest I would give it a solid 6/10.
30:03 The Soundtrack of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising....it gave me goosebumps.
That, by far, was my friends and my most favourite game!
That was well done. Thank you for that trip down memory lane.
Aaah the memories, awesome video, thanks for this!
The first Operation Flashpoint will always be my favorite !
I played a lot a flashpoint on my 360
Okami Same, I loved this game. And even after I got ArmA, I still played for a while
Campaign was hard and kids only wanted CoD at time
And it shows.
I feel like if EA rebooted the series with more of its original appeal and a new setting in South America or Africa or something, it would be greatly celebrated and succesful.
Man this narrator guy's career sure is finding success. I've heard this guy narrate for like at least 3 other channels
I'm still mad about what Codemasters did. I will never forgive them. OFP forever.
I've never played any of the games mentioned, but from the sounds of things, Codemaster had the IP, but didn't have the compassion for the franchise; and created somethign to churn out profit. Sounds similar to what EA does...
@@Arcantropolo Yeah, Codemasters was the publisher for Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis as well as developer and publisher to the the "Red Hammer" official expansion to it while Bohemia Interactive was the developer of the core game, meaning Codemasters came away with owning the Operation Flashpoint name and the publishing rights under that name.
Bohemia Interactive still owns the rights to the software and game content though.
Which is why they were able to re-release the original Operation Flashpoint game under the ARMA: Cold War Assault name to fit in with the rest of their later ARMA series and still keep it commercially available without having to go through Codemasters for publishing.
Operation Flashpoint is dead, long live ARMA.
Rise and fall of microsoft flight simulator, please!
That would be awesome, but now they'd have to do history of microsoft flight simulator because they unexpectedly revealed a new flight sim at e3 a few days ago, 4 months after your comment :D
not today buddy
there makeing a new game
@@trashsombra2793 i hope, it will be sim, not a "game".
Rise, fall and re-birth
Former Clanmember of inTrain here, greetings to everyone from the Community back in those days :)
I love this channel. These docs are so well done. Thank you
With all the politics and bullshit on TH-cam now a days I am so grateful for this channel so I can have an escape from all the toxicity and just enjoy the history behind video games.
One of my best games ever!! Still missing it! That game was SO EPIC when it came out and still it is EPIC. So many good memories
90Bartek90 let’s coop ps3
I absolutely love this game and finished it multiple times, it´s just so good. And it´s editor was just insanely good.