You are Bringing back memories of Dmitri lukin and general Guba oh boy i had a windows Xp when i got that game it was amazing ... here is one for you - Oh no 2 is down HAHAHA
Shout out to the hardcore group of PS3 players of this game who loved it and played it everyday for years and all knew each other as friends. My greatest gaming memories are with you wonderful people.
Ibought this for ps3 because my pc could not rum it, my peewee brain could not fathom how to use all of the functions so i would in single player team kill all of my guys and steal the sniper. it was the one level where it was i think at the end of an island and you had to take out a base and the heli would show up. i would spend hours tryimg to snipe the pilot
This was the only realistic shooter we got on console for the 360/PS3 generation. I had so much fun playing with friends. A lot of people hated Red River, but I loved every minute of it.
@@Brody_Austin Because we had access to better games then this pile of hot garbage. For real, at the time this was actually a flop for us in comparison.
@@johnnychavezz8566 Right? The missions felt like real combat ops! That and Sgt Knox was great. A lot of reviews targeted how much they hated his constant cursing but he talked just like someone I know who was Special Forces.
Yeah, that reminds me of DiRT 3, I downloaded a patch or "mod" to disable the yellow-ish filter, there needs to be something like that I think, I don't know, never played that game but I'll try that sometime.. :)
I saw the thumbnail and knew it was Operation Flashpoint. Cool to see you talk about it again. What a great game it was. Completed both completely on console and have them both on PC. Played it not long ago again.
You can still buy the game for cheap here. drakelings.bluedrake42.com/index.php?/file/42-operation-flashpoint-dragon-rising/ Get the source code to the multiplayer mod we created here. drakelings.bluedrake42.com/index.php?/file/43-operation-flashpoint-dragon-revival/
I loved this game, I think I played it on Xbox 360 actually lol. I loved the small details like the way the gun blurred near the foreground, the extremely large maps, everything! I played so much, I didn't even know Arma existed back then.
@@haltuaketti420 You mean with pathetic AI with OFP1 capabilities, primitive filter over graphics and basicaly nothing else? Have you ever seen Arma 1 (OFP2 direct competitor) or Arma 2?
Dragon Rising's primary issue was the stigma it had as a supposedly "consolised game", if only we all knew the absolute state things would be in at this point it'd probably have been looked upon more favourably. A lot of the reason we're making our game is that if you want something done well, do it yourself, and what we've wanted to be done well is a Cold War tactical shooter with a high focus on equipment accuracy and the realism of individual firefights, which we think we're doing pretty well so far.
I had this game on console at the same time I had arma 2... this game was amazing on console... it died bc you had to literally tell the ai to do everything on top of it’s plethora of glitches. None of that was new player friendly & people new to mil sims really struggled w controlling AI. The devs had several issues along the way as well. **Edit** to clarify, military terms, tactics & nuances were never "taught" to the player in the first game, it was as if the developers implied you needed some base knowledge to truly thrive in their game.. This, to me is more evident w their Sequel (Red River) which did feature a "new player friendly" tutorial mission. For people without the background knowledge, alot of what milsims have to offer will go completely unnoticed- the movements, the staging etc. Given the Command system's complexity in the first game, along w other "short comings" for newer players, it feels this likely the reason Red River came across as more "Call of Duty-like". They tried to appeal to more casual players & thats where they diluted the game into a genre neither Milsim players, nor casuals really could enjoy. On top of their emphasis on Co-op in the sequel, which seemed like a huge focus change for the title.. To me this is evidence for the rest of my Original statement below: It’s sequel proved the developers had an identity crisis w this title. They wanted something closer to battlefield & moved away from milsim. Despite the characters being pretty well written, the game failed to deliver a mil sim experience & under delivered on the action packed front as well. Also, their ad campaign was non existent. Hard to get people excited about a game they don’t know exists. . In short, the game failed for the same reason most Codemaster games fail- lack of support from devs. Without dedicated niche fans, their games die. Personally, dragon rising multiplayer had the best 1v1 RTS mode, by accident. If you were the only player spawned on the team you could issue commands to all the ai- turn off respawn & you’ve got a high stakes 1st person RTS.. it was sweet & easily my favourite “mode” I’ve ever played in an FPS. The maps being intentionally imbalanced helped & hurt the game for different reasons as well (most maps featured a high tech side v a numerical advantaged side, in some form or another-whether it be access to vehicles, or advanced weaponry & equipment). This was a staple I enjoyed that added more complexity to 1v1 strategy..
I finally picked this (and Red River) up for PS3 having never played them before. And I'm sitting here baffled that this us a game we got on PS3 but nothing on console today even comes close to comparing to this.
@@carston101 dragon rising was awesome i had it on 360 and getting all the achievements was so fulfilling for me. I got all my mates to play it but they didn't enjoy the complexity and went back to cod and halo. Then the sequel came out and from the very first mission it was just a different game. I still have dragon rising but not red river.
Having flashbacks right now to playing this on the 360 with my buddy. We used to play 1v1 Infiltration matches. It was so fun. He was in complete command of his people, I was in complete command of mine. If you died, you just picked from the list of whoever was still alive. But it was less of a shooter than it was a game of chess. Setting up your defenses, planning your attacks. HUGE flanking maneuvers. Artillery smokes to mask movement or create confusion. Good times, good times.
I went back and finished dragon rising with 3 of my friends on the hardest difficulty like 3 months ago, good times. This game's campaign was legendary
The original Operation Flashpoint blew my mind. I still remember a fan made video with Coldplay's "Beatiful world" playing as an m113 raced across a grassy field.
The original actually made you feel afraid at getting shot, knowing you might have to crawl wounded for an hour to find some help, being pinned down whilst hiding in a forest with the enemy starting to surround you was a harrowing experience I'll never forget!
So many great memories in this game. I absolutely loved it when it came out. I think I got something like 5 or 6 of my friends to purchase it as well. The multiplayer was so much fun. This title is what opened my eyes to the more milsim/hardcore shooter type of games and I've never looked back. Dragon Rising will always hold that special place in my heart.
The origional Operation Flashpoint was my very first computer game purchase. I think I was 18. That was 16 years ago. I loved it even though I sucked at it. I spent hours in the mission editor and downloading addons.
8 months later and it’s still on steam for $2 or 3 for the December sale. Bought it but watching your videos on it before actually getting into it. Love your OF:DR videos!
i remember downloading this on my xbox for $15 & i had no internet so i was stuck playing the same missions but the missions were very fun to replay over & over again just to hit the enemy a different angle & what not. i miss playing this game
Cool idea, yea! I'd be interested in getting back into an online Dragon Rising community. It's been years, my recent Hardcore Campaign was a bit rusty...lol It would be a lot of fun
I loved this game series, I only played the Flashpoint Elite/Col War version, but I sunk in tons of hours in. It was a really rough game, but it was intense and fun to play. Love the video!
I remember playing an Operation Flashpoint game on the PS3 and was so disappointed when the online mode stopped working. Never knew exactly way, but this probably was the reason. So both pc and console were abandoned by the devs. Still play the single player on my PS 3 from time to time. And it sure is a wonderfull game, even at this day. Thanks for sharing this Bluedrake!
Did anyone find a way around the whitescreen error in the editor for this? I tried a couple of months back and I still got it. Such as shame as this game is still as fun to play today as it was back on the 360
Mind me asking how you recored this I have tried so many times in obs it only gives me top left corner when its recording? was told this game is a 32bit game and discord told me that obs will record in 64 and 32 bit so why is it not work in full screen like it should not sure what you are using just waiting to get some kind of answer so I can record this game and thanks
Dude, you play all the titles that i love and adore. It's so weird. Anyway, keep up the awesome channel. Been here watching you grow from almost the get go. Nice one bro. 🕉️
I remember sawing first pictures of it in a magazine, was extremely hyped about it. Was so thrilled to play it. But it was not even close to what I expected ....
Hell I made a shitload of missions for this game back in the days. I really really loved it. The music in the menu was dope! (The second track after the chienese thing)
I randomdly bought the original Operation Flashpoint by Bohemia Interactive Studios in 2000 (was literally MIND BLOWN, bought and played all BIS titles since then) it was an integral part of my early adult life, mod teams, milsim clans, you name it. Am now middle aged creep with kids and i miss the free time :p
Damn man, I remember when I bought my first PC in 2007 and two years later I bought two same fucking CDs of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the cover of CD looked amazing, I installed this and I never figured it out how to play, maybe because I was 12 y.o and I didn't know how to speak English hahah. Btw years later I figured, great game
the first Operation flashpoint was one of the best childhood games I played, it made me feel as a soldier when playing as david armstrong. I liked the multiplayer as well, cops vs serial killer mod, zombie survival etc...
Dude this game introduced me to tactical shooters and yet it still had huge set piece battles with literally any vehicle on the mission is drive able. I remember shooting a pilot of a helicopter when he landed and I took the chopper. It's beautiful and the online multiplayer was amazing I remember gathering up humvees and helicopters and charging the enemy. I need to get back to playing this
im 13, and my dad had operation flashpoint and loved it so much, which is the reason he has around combined 15,000 hours on arrowhead, arma 2 and 3, and playing this game, i see why he got hooked into this series.
I played Operation Flashpoint Red River on the Xbox One, and I was not a fan of it. Bullets were straight up going through enemies doing nothing at all, and I had to shoot someone in the head at times 3 to 4 times to get a hit registered. Is Dragon Rising worth getting or is it like Red River?
I mean Operation Flashpoint series did start off by many of the same people who later made Arma. It was just that due to a ton of issues they went eatch their own way. One could bearly push out a stable game while the other had a stable game and made alot of equipment and gear for a faction that only appeared towards the end of their game.
I loved this game. A nice balance between fun and realism/military sim like Arma and a casual FPS. Didn't really like Red River that much, since it lacked a mission editor (but the co-op campaign was fun!) but man I have some good memories from Dragon Rising.
i instantly knew what this was . . . missed this game ! i always love choosing the games that don’t have the big studios behind it like “ PES > vs Fifa “ NFL2K > vs Madden “
I had so many fun times with friends playing Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising in co-op. I enjoyed it so much that I picked up it's sequel Operation Flashpoint: Red River and was EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED.
The editing DLC was bugged. Only 60 units could be on the map at any one time. Enemies could also walk through barriers and walls. The single-player missions were purposely made difficult but not in a challenging way: only giving you an iron sight, only 3 or 4 magazines, and a weapon that only fired bursts of 3 rounds, which against body armor is never enough. These things mean that a mission would take an hour rather than 15 to 20 minutes if you had a good weapon with good sights with ammo. Objectives were also purposely far apart so you would spend a lot of time walking between locations. Having said that, I have clocked up around 400 hours - mostly with created missions from the editor. It's very good, despite its faults.
The flashpoint devs were the same that made arma as far as I know. So this was released during the first stages of early arma games. Their most recognized game called operation flashpoint: Cold War crisis has been put on steam as Arma: Cold War Assault in the year 2011
It has failed because Codemasters did a failed attempt of ripping money off of Bohemia Interactive's child that was the Original OFP. From the get-go the game was supposed to bring people thinking it is the real sequel to Cold War Crisis to play it.
Operation flashpoint: cold war crisis came out 2001 and I played that when I was really young. Bohemia took that game and re-released it as ARMA: Cold War Assault. I think it might include the operation flashpoint: Resistance too which was a expansion to cold war crisis not too sure on that one.
Loved this game. You strike me as a person that also played MAG (Massive Action Game) on PS3 by ZipperInteractive. It was up to 256 players in one game, and one day Zipper up and killed the servers (it was online only). Aside from PS3 losing support, I feel like people would’ve supported if they’d let us.
FYI: Operation Flashpoint got rebranded to ArmA (Armed Assault).. Dragon Rising also didnt die, since there was another one 2 years later called red river..
I played operation flashpont (not these dragons ) when it was developed by ARMA developers. It was amazing for me, a first "mill sim" was hard but rewarding. When i got the news that someone bought tha name of operation flashpoint to make future games i didnt eaven consider to buy them, i sticked to the old devs and ARMA. People still play ARMA to this day :)
Red River is stuck in limbo because it requires Games on Windows LIVE in order to run properly, and the only way to re-release it on Steam is to gut out functionality that relies on Games on Windows LIVE, and at this point i'm pretty sure Codemasters don't have a reason, monetary or otherwise, to spend the time and resources to do that. Kinda sad with the current situation of things considering it (OFP:DR) was a fun game, and more of a game than the ARMA series became as time went onward. It lacked the larger scale, but more than compensated in the fact that it was stable and wasn't released immediately broken (i.e. ARMA2: Operation Arrowhead on steam claims to be a standalone expansion pack, but actually has dependencies that are in ARMA2, and ARMA2: Army of the Czech Republic, with a line of broken code that would prevent you from playing even if you did have these dependencies... ). AI was competent enough to follow your orders, and gameplay usually encouraged you to push objectives and newer secondary ones as they came up, instead of hiding a kilometer away with a sniper rifle shooting at ARMA's un-suppressable AI at "realistic" difficulty (I'm looking at you, CSAT autorifleman at full sprint). ARMA's gameplay is fun when everything works. The problem is, that isn't a case a majority of the time and it only lead to frustration. Codemaster's OFP had the potential of keeping the pressure on to BI so that ARMA can shape up to be more and more stable, instead of needing modders to constantly fix the UX to be even halfway decent.
@@enriquecadlum189 Getting past Windows Live is actually quite easy. In fact, I'm pretty sure you can just press guest account, offline account or something easy like that. I did it not long ago when I played it on PC again, I'd have to install it again to see though.
Yep it's true, you can get past Windows Live with an offline account, it's just a bit hidden in the menu. I'd love to play OFP: RR online though, like back in the days, also OFP: DR
I just was looking this game up yesterday.. because I wanted to play it.. because I used to play it when I was little.. now this game.. is coming back?! Yo.. this game is still looking good even after the graphics..
Oh my god. My best friend and I would slog through this game on Xbox (it was VERY bad on controller) in our dorm and just badly scream the throat singing in the menu. So much pain was felt on that airfield.
Lack of modding destroyed it for me for sure. Just installing it and seeing how little assets I have to play with after getting used to classic Flashpoint and ArmA.
I remember picking up red river and dragon rising back in the day just to see what's up cause it looked good, I remember logging on and thinking that the game was really cool and advanced for its time but questioned why it was dead and so i left it in my library till this day :/ interesting
I remember having rented operation flashpoint red river when Hastings was still in my town (rip Hastings) and it was so fun to play with the campaign, so sad i cant find it anywhere.
Then there was Operation Flashpoint Red River. I loved these two games at the time so much when they released. Then they died, it's a shame because there was something here.
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Operation flashpoint 1985 is ARMA of today. Codemasters kept the title Operation Flashpoint and
Bohemia continued as ARMA when they left.
That is known!
@@gamesinperfection shut up
@@Hombremaniac Not how this video explained it.
You are Bringing back memories of Dmitri lukin and general Guba oh boy i had a windows Xp when i got that game it was amazing ...
here is one for you - Oh no 2 is down HAHAHA
Yeah I bought this thinking it was gonna be like the original op flashpoint
Shout out to the hardcore group of PS3 players of this game who loved it and played it everyday for years and all knew each other as friends. My greatest gaming memories are with you wonderful people.
Ibought this for ps3 because my pc could not rum it, my peewee brain could not fathom how to use all of the functions so i would in single player team kill all of my guys and steal the sniper. it was the one level where it was i think at the end of an island and you had to take out a base and the heli would show up. i would spend hours tryimg to snipe the pilot
i play it now :)
"RIFLEMEN , 450 METERS, NORTH" good god the xbox 360 days
Still got one....wont upgrade ever...cant be asked
I couldn’t play that game at all.. was completely useless at it!!
@@richardbradley2335 You wont upgrade from a 360?
@@richardbradley2335 Hey would you please upgrade from a 360?
@@kkanite6170 Hey man certainly not hehehe
This was the only realistic shooter we got on console for the 360/PS3 generation. I had so much fun playing with friends. A lot of people hated Red River, but I loved every minute of it.
I just got DR and RR and they are fun as hell on consoles
Exactly. Don't know why PC players say this game is bad. Dragon rising is an awesome game! Highly underrated
Red river campaign was fun aff
@@Brody_Austin Because we had access to better games then this pile of hot garbage. For real, at the time this was actually a flop for us in comparison.
@@johnnychavezz8566 Right? The missions felt like real combat ops! That and Sgt Knox was great. A lot of reviews targeted how much they hated his constant cursing but he talked just like someone I know who was Special Forces.
Ah yes I remember it, Operation Flashpoint: Instagram Filter Edition
Yeah, that reminds me of DiRT 3, I downloaded a patch or "mod" to disable the yellow-ish filter, there needs to be something like that I think, I don't know, never played that game but I'll try that sometime.. :)
@@sand.4520 Yup you're right, in fact the engine is the same (or this was an evolution of the dirt 3 one, same stuff any way)
Same as Far Cry 2.
Even tho people say it's aesthetic i find ugly and screw up the player vision.
It was the norm back in the Xbox360 era
I saw the thumbnail and knew it was Operation Flashpoint. Cool to see you talk about it again. What a great game it was. Completed both completely on console and have them both on PC. Played it not long ago again.
How did u get red river on pc
You can still buy the game for cheap here.
drakelings.bluedrake42.com/index.php?/file/42-operation-flashpoint-dragon-rising/
Get the source code to the multiplayer mod we created here.
drakelings.bluedrake42.com/index.php?/file/43-operation-flashpoint-dragon-revival/
@Franciszek Kwiatkowski the hell do you mean
I miss this game so much it was so amazing
@Franciszek Kwiatkowski Lmao dumbass you just mad cuz you thought you were gonna get the game for free and it took you to a Steam Page.
@@TheTicassShow He wrote get the game cheap here
@Franciszek Kwiatkowski I tought i was gonna download the supposed multiplayer mod, instead i got redirected to Steam lmao.
I remember the ACOG being gangster accurate like I’d be plucking head shots at 800m
The old M16A2 ACOG in OFDR was disgusting 😂
Mad shots with that thing
I loved this game, I think I played it on Xbox 360 actually lol. I loved the small details like the way the gun blurred near the foreground, the extremely large maps, everything! I played so much, I didn't even know Arma existed back then.
This was simply CodeMasters trying to cash in on the OFP name. It was a joke from the start
even tho it was a joke from the start it still hold better then most games that are out today
@@haltuaketti420 *than
@@haltuaketti420 You mean with pathetic AI with OFP1 capabilities, primitive filter over graphics and basicaly nothing else? Have you ever seen Arma 1 (OFP2 direct competitor) or Arma 2?
@@martincoufalik9101 nah not on console my dude.
@@lyr1kn156 patato potato.....
Dragon Rising's primary issue was the stigma it had as a supposedly "consolised game", if only we all knew the absolute state things would be in at this point it'd probably have been looked upon more favourably.
A lot of the reason we're making our game is that if you want something done well, do it yourself, and what we've wanted to be done well is a Cold War tactical shooter with a high focus on equipment accuracy and the realism of individual firefights, which we think we're doing pretty well so far.
I had this game on console at the same time I had arma 2... this game was amazing on console... it died bc you had to literally tell the ai to do everything on top of it’s plethora of glitches. None of that was new player friendly & people new to mil sims really struggled w controlling AI. The devs had several issues along the way as well.
**Edit** to clarify, military terms, tactics & nuances were never "taught" to the player in the first game, it was as if the developers implied you needed some base knowledge to truly thrive in their game.. This, to me is more evident w their Sequel (Red River) which did feature a "new player friendly" tutorial mission. For people without the background knowledge, alot of what milsims have to offer will go completely unnoticed- the movements, the staging etc. Given the Command system's complexity in the first game, along w other "short comings" for newer players, it feels this likely the reason Red River came across as more "Call of Duty-like". They tried to appeal to more casual players & thats where they diluted the game into a genre neither Milsim players, nor casuals really could enjoy. On top of their emphasis on Co-op in the sequel, which seemed like a huge focus change for the title..
To me this is evidence for the rest of my Original statement below:
It’s sequel proved the developers had an identity crisis w this title. They wanted something closer to battlefield & moved away from milsim. Despite the characters being pretty well written, the game failed to deliver a mil sim experience & under delivered on the action packed front as well. Also, their ad campaign was non existent. Hard to get people excited about a game they don’t know exists. .
In short, the game failed for the same reason most Codemaster games fail- lack of support from devs. Without dedicated niche fans, their games die.
Personally, dragon rising multiplayer had the best 1v1 RTS mode, by accident. If you were the only player spawned on the team you could issue commands to all the ai- turn off respawn & you’ve got a high stakes 1st person RTS.. it was sweet & easily my favourite “mode” I’ve ever played in an FPS. The maps being intentionally imbalanced helped & hurt the game for different reasons as well (most maps featured a high tech side v a numerical advantaged side, in some form or another-whether it be access to vehicles, or advanced weaponry & equipment). This was a staple I enjoyed that added more complexity to 1v1 strategy..
I finally picked this (and Red River) up for PS3 having never played them before. And I'm sitting here baffled that this us a game we got on PS3 but nothing on console today even comes close to comparing to this.
@@carston101 dragon rising was awesome i had it on 360 and getting all the achievements was so fulfilling for me.
I got all my mates to play it but they didn't enjoy the complexity and went back to cod and halo. Then the sequel came out and from the very first mission it was just a different game. I still have dragon rising but not red river.
@@CAjokeRCA I have played It and I can tell It didn't die because of that, AI in this game is a LOT smarter than on Arma
@@spacewargamer4181 nah you’re gassed up if you think this game out did Arma with the ai lol
I'm so nostalgic that watching this video made some of my hair grow up
Having flashbacks right now to playing this on the 360 with my buddy. We used to play 1v1 Infiltration matches. It was so fun. He was in complete command of his people, I was in complete command of mine. If you died, you just picked from the list of whoever was still alive. But it was less of a shooter than it was a game of chess. Setting up your defenses, planning your attacks. HUGE flanking maneuvers. Artillery smokes to mask movement or create confusion. Good times, good times.
I went back and finished dragon rising with 3 of my friends on the hardest difficulty like 3 months ago, good times. This game's campaign was legendary
One of my first dips into this genre.. after Söldner
Soldner was a complete shit game, this wasn't.
@@floatingchimney
what do you mean man soldner is the BEST game ever made in history
@@sparkyboi4387 Really? Best game ever?
That must be the reason why IGN reviewed Soldner with 5/10 score.
@@floatingchimney
you know i was joking right?
@@sparkyboi4387 nope
This was one of the best games! The bullet drop was amazing!
The map editor was way ahead of its time.
Greetings,
Jeff
I’m still playing it today! And oblivious, i still love it
Multiplayer? How are the servers? Ping? Players?
@@finalfantasy8139 i play just the main campaign
@Magnus Red I don't play it often, I also play Arma 3, Battlefield and more
@Magnus Red stfu... Let people enjoy classic Great games
The original Operation Flashpoint blew my mind. I still remember a fan made video with Coldplay's "Beatiful world" playing as an m113 raced across a grassy field.
Yooooo me toooo
The original actually made you feel afraid at getting shot, knowing you might have to crawl wounded for an hour to find some help, being pinned down whilst hiding in a forest with the enemy starting to surround you was a harrowing experience I'll never forget!
The original OFP lives on as ARMA
Codemasters were the publisher not the developer
The Dev's created ARMA
Love the content lately!! Exactly what I want to see!!
So many great memories in this game. I absolutely loved it when it came out. I think I got something like 5 or 6 of my friends to purchase it as well. The multiplayer was so much fun. This title is what opened my eyes to the more milsim/hardcore shooter type of games and I've never looked back. Dragon Rising will always hold that special place in my heart.
The origional Operation Flashpoint was my very first computer game purchase. I think I was 18. That was 16 years ago. I loved it even though I sucked at it. I spent hours in the mission editor and downloading addons.
One of the most brutal games I've played. Headshots were insta blackscreen.. then it shows half of your head missing.
I miss the crap outta this game even for the pain it caused me the realism was next gen and so satisfying.
8 months later and it’s still on steam for $2 or 3 for the December sale. Bought it but watching your videos on it before actually getting into it.
Love your OF:DR videos!
I think I remember seeing a disk demo on a magazine back in the day for this
Bro this vid gave me so many flashbacks, I remember playing this game on the Xbox 360
just noticed you posted this on my birthday lol
i remember downloading this on my xbox for $15 & i had no internet so i was stuck playing the same missions but the missions were very fun to replay over & over again just to hit the enemy a different angle & what not. i miss playing this game
I still play this game to this day. Great game, especially on PC where they let modders make all manner of additional missions. It needs a re-release.
Cool idea, yea! I'd be interested in getting back into an online Dragon Rising community. It's been years, my recent Hardcore Campaign was a bit rusty...lol
It would be a lot of fun
Fond memories playing coop missions in college with my friend.
Bohemia interactive is still supporting ARMA 3 after so many years recently they released a dlc on Vietnam war which is amazing
i remember when flashpoint was actually flashpoint, now it's called Arma: cold war assault
I loved this game series, I only played the Flashpoint Elite/Col War version, but I sunk in tons of hours in. It was a really rough game, but it was intense and fun to play. Love the video!
I remember playing an Operation Flashpoint game on the PS3 and was so disappointed when the online mode stopped working. Never knew exactly way, but this probably was the reason. So both pc and console were abandoned by the devs.
Still play the single player on my PS 3 from time to time. And it sure is a wonderfull game, even at this day.
Thanks for sharing this Bluedrake!
Did anyone find a way around the whitescreen error in the editor for this? I tried a couple of months back and I still got it. Such as shame as this game is still as fun to play today as it was back on the 360
If you played on PC there was a mod called Island war and it was a huge dynamic battle across the entire map.
Its such a shame the game didnt live up to the hype, it had so much potential and had a good community. :/
It's my dad's favorite game , still plays through it from time to time
Mind me asking how you recored this I have tried so many times in obs it only gives me top left corner when its recording? was told this game is a 32bit game and discord told me that obs will record in 64 and 32 bit so why is it not work in full screen like it should not sure what you are using just waiting to get some kind of answer so I can record this game and thanks
Dude, you play all the titles that i love and adore. It's so weird.
Anyway, keep up the awesome channel. Been here watching you grow from almost the get go.
Nice one bro. 🕉️
corporations suck the life out of the art form. that's it, that's what happened and what keeps happening to every mainstream game.
played this game when it came out. Loved it and recently remembered it existed haha thanks for the video. nostalgia
Try Arma Reforger
I remember the original Operation Flashpoint. Loved it.
I remember sawing first pictures of it in a magazine, was extremely hyped about it.
Was so thrilled to play it. But it was not even close to what I expected ....
I'm loving the BACKGROUND music 👍
Hell I made a shitload of missions for this game back in the days. I really really loved it. The music in the menu was dope! (The second track after the chienese thing)
I remember playing this, and I loved it, I do remember your team AI was kind of buggy though.
I randomdly bought the original Operation Flashpoint by Bohemia Interactive Studios in 2000 (was literally MIND BLOWN, bought and played all BIS titles since then) it was an integral part of my early adult life, mod teams, milsim clans, you name it. Am now middle aged creep with kids and i miss the free time :p
Damn man, I remember when I bought my first PC in 2007 and two years later I bought two same fucking CDs of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the cover of CD looked amazing, I installed this and I never figured it out how to play, maybe because I was 12 y.o and I didn't know how to speak English hahah. Btw years later I figured, great game
the first Operation flashpoint was one of the best childhood games I played, it made me feel as a soldier when playing as david armstrong. I liked the multiplayer as well, cops vs serial killer mod, zombie survival etc...
This game was the best. I still remember the good times me and my old buddies used to have on this game.
So how is it now possible to play it online?
I have all on Steam already, OFP: DR, RR and Arma
I remember this game. Me and my brother used to play campaign coop over LAN.
Dude this game introduced me to tactical shooters and yet it still had huge set piece battles with literally any vehicle on the mission is drive able. I remember shooting a pilot of a helicopter when he landed and I took the chopper. It's beautiful and the online multiplayer was amazing I remember gathering up humvees and helicopters and charging the enemy. I need to get back to playing this
im 13, and my dad had operation flashpoint and loved it so much, which is the reason he has around combined 15,000 hours on arrowhead, arma 2 and 3, and playing this game, i see why he got hooked into this series.
I'd imagine insurance fraud, quick easy money for the producer rather than waiting until it possibly succeeded!?
Great video once again, thanks!
I played this with my dad as a kid, that menu music always had me laughing
I'm looking at the game but I can't find anything about multiplayer? How would I download this for multiplayer, I need help.
I played Operation Flashpoint Red River on the Xbox One, and I was not a fan of it. Bullets were straight up going through enemies doing nothing at all, and I had to shoot someone in the head at times 3 to 4 times to get a hit registered. Is Dragon Rising worth getting or is it like Red River?
I mean Operation Flashpoint series did start off by many of the same people who later made Arma. It was just that due to a ton of issues they went eatch their own way. One could bearly push out a stable game while the other had a stable game and made alot of equipment and gear for a faction that only appeared towards the end of their game.
I loved this game. A nice balance between fun and realism/military sim like Arma and a casual FPS.
Didn't really like Red River that much, since it lacked a mission editor (but the co-op campaign was fun!) but man I have some good memories from Dragon Rising.
i instantly knew what this was . . . missed this game ! i always love choosing the games that don’t have the big studios behind it like “ PES > vs Fifa “ NFL2K > vs Madden “
I had so many fun times with friends playing Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising in co-op.
I enjoyed it so much that I picked up it's sequel Operation Flashpoint: Red River and was EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED.
can anyone tell me what's the background music?
The editing DLC was bugged. Only 60 units could be on the map at any one time. Enemies could also walk through barriers and walls. The single-player missions were purposely made difficult but not in a challenging way: only giving you an iron sight, only 3 or 4 magazines, and a weapon that only fired bursts of 3 rounds, which against body armor is never enough. These things mean that a mission would take an hour rather than 15 to 20 minutes if you had a good weapon with good sights with ammo. Objectives were also purposely far apart so you would spend a lot of time walking between locations. Having said that, I have clocked up around 400 hours - mostly with created missions from the editor. It's very good, despite its faults.
Played the whole campaign last year. Awesome game
The flashpoint devs were the same that made arma as far as I know. So this was released during the first stages of early arma games. Their most recognized game called operation flashpoint: Cold War crisis has been put on steam as Arma: Cold War Assault in the year 2011
On the first mission you can bunker in until nightfall and do the whole mission at night...You have till the next morning to complete this mission.
It has failed because Codemasters did a failed attempt of ripping money off of Bohemia Interactive's child that was the Original OFP. From the get-go the game was supposed to bring people thinking it is the real sequel to Cold War Crisis to play it.
Yeah I remember as a kid being gutted when I bought it and later realised.
I remember playing this when I was a kid not knowing what to do, killing teammates. Good times.
Red River was so dope too! A real tragedy truly
Operation flashpoint: cold war crisis came out 2001 and I played that when I was really young. Bohemia took that game and re-released it as ARMA: Cold War Assault. I think it might include the operation flashpoint: Resistance too which was a expansion to cold war crisis not too sure on that one.
So where is the link to the supposed multiplayer mod that is mentioned in the video?
Loved this game. You strike me as a person that also played MAG (Massive Action Game) on PS3 by ZipperInteractive. It was up to 256 players in one game, and one day Zipper up and killed the servers (it was online only). Aside from PS3 losing support, I feel like people would’ve supported if they’d let us.
i had to play this on my grandma's new laptop at that time lol!
Nice! this game was the best military sim at that time!
FYI: Operation Flashpoint got rebranded to ArmA (Armed Assault)..
Dragon Rising also didnt die, since there was another one 2 years later called red river..
Hell ya son i still play single player
I would still play time to time. There was one guy on multi-player one day and I remember being in complete awe that anyone else would bother 🤣
I played operation flashpont (not these dragons ) when it was developed by ARMA developers. It was amazing for me, a first "mill sim" was hard but rewarding. When i got the news that someone bought tha name of operation flashpoint to make future games i didnt eaven consider to buy them, i sticked to the old devs and ARMA. People still play ARMA to this day :)
Friends and I in my community played all the SAR missions constantly. Was fantastic fun.
If I remember, If you buy Dragon Rising, don't they automatically give you Red River now?
Red River is stuck in limbo because it requires Games on Windows LIVE in order to run properly, and the only way to re-release it on Steam is to gut out functionality that relies on Games on Windows LIVE, and at this point i'm pretty sure Codemasters don't have a reason, monetary or otherwise, to spend the time and resources to do that.
Kinda sad with the current situation of things considering it (OFP:DR) was a fun game, and more of a game than the ARMA series became as time went onward. It lacked the larger scale, but more than compensated in the fact that it was stable and wasn't released immediately broken (i.e. ARMA2: Operation Arrowhead on steam claims to be a standalone expansion pack, but actually has dependencies that are in ARMA2, and ARMA2: Army of the Czech Republic, with a line of broken code that would prevent you from playing even if you did have these dependencies... ).
AI was competent enough to follow your orders, and gameplay usually encouraged you to push objectives and newer secondary ones as they came up, instead of hiding a kilometer away with a sniper rifle shooting at ARMA's un-suppressable AI at "realistic" difficulty (I'm looking at you, CSAT autorifleman at full sprint). ARMA's gameplay is fun when everything works. The problem is, that isn't a case a majority of the time and it only lead to frustration. Codemaster's OFP had the potential of keeping the pressure on to BI so that ARMA can shape up to be more and more stable, instead of needing modders to constantly fix the UX to be even halfway decent.
@@enriquecadlum189 Getting past Windows Live is actually quite easy. In fact, I'm pretty sure you can just press guest account, offline account or something easy like that. I did it not long ago when I played it on PC again, I'd have to install it again to see though.
Yep it's true, you can get past Windows Live with an offline account, it's just a bit hidden in the menu.
I'd love to play OFP: RR online though, like back in the days, also OFP: DR
@@DCGMatthew1 Having an offline account doesn't fix the problem of not being able to save or play multiplayer.
@@hornmonk3zit It let me save the game, unless I did something extra.
I just was looking this game up yesterday.. because I wanted to play it.. because I used to play it when I was little.. now this game.. is coming back?! Yo.. this game is still looking good even after the graphics..
Oh my god. My best friend and I would slog through this game on Xbox (it was VERY bad on controller) in our dorm and just badly scream the throat singing in the menu. So much pain was felt on that airfield.
This game taught me tactics in 2009 on Xbox 360. I learned warfare as a kid basically
playing with squeakers online that instantly got the humvee stuck on a brick wall
This game makes me felt in love with military sim games until now, i never play Arma 2 and Operation Flashpoint is my first military sim game
Lack of modding destroyed it for me for sure. Just installing it and seeing how little assets I have to play with after getting used to classic Flashpoint and ArmA.
I loved this game sm as a kid I replay it all every couple years
Try Arma Reforger
I remember picking up red river and dragon rising back in the day just to see what's up cause it looked good, I remember logging on and thinking that the game was really cool and advanced for its time but questioned why it was dead and so i left it in my library till this day :/ interesting
I loved the campaign in co-op
I still play this on hardcore. I love it and will always appreciate it along with arma
I remember having rented operation flashpoint red river when Hastings was still in my town (rip Hastings) and it was so fun to play with the campaign, so sad i cant find it anywhere.
Try Arma Reforger
Then there was Operation Flashpoint Red River. I loved these two games at the time so much when they released. Then they died, it's a shame because there was something here.
You can still play multiplayer and co-op trough lan via RadminVPN
This brought back so many memories
There's still a very small but dedicated multiplayer base last time I checked.
Just played it this weekend, still as good as I remembered
Try Arma Reforger
Cannot wait for robust perr-to-peer multiplayer and fully tokenized studio-and-player-generated assets.
Can you or a mod team purchase this game title? I mean the actual engine and mod it the way you want then release it?