The minimum requirements are the lowest requirements needed in order to run a game without having any problems. But with the new Battlefield 2 game there are no minimum requirements. You have to have these expenses graphics and sounds cards just to get the game to run. But the thing that really gets my blood boiling is the fact that they put in the gaming box that the game was largely developed and tested on NVIDIA GeForce FX and 6 series graphics card. To me, yes I want my game to run on great hardware but we are still in the process of selling games. And in order to sell a game you have to develop it for people who are running on the most POPULAR hardware not the BEST hardware for the game.

When I say popular I mean the usual graphics and sound card you find in a PC you go to a store to buy. For example if I went to Staples, Wal-Mart, or even the Gateway Store. Not this high end hardware you find only in Alienware or Voodoo PCs (if I spelled that right). Yes you can go out and buy these cards separate but that’s what; a hundred dollars worth of hardware that I barely use anyway since I’m more of a console man my self. But how can you pass up on a game like Battlefield 2. You read these magazines and watch all these trailers and they suck you in then BAM the game comes out and now I need some high end graphics card just to get the game to run?? I mean you see why PC games don’t sell that well cause in order for you to enjoy them you need a PC made just for gaming. But Mr. EA Game’s people use computers other than for gaming so you go out and you buy something that will be able to handle both loads.

So here I am the FUTURE KING OF GAMING sitting around with a $54.93 box with the hottest game to come out this summer(for some reason but that’s another topic that I will touch but not on this thread) that I can’t even play. And I know what you are thinking. Why not take this game back and get something else. Like pre-order the new Madden. Unlike most gamers I can’t. See I’m the future king of gaming and I have to do my homework. That means checking out games that sell, see what works and what doesn’t work, seeing what makes this game different from the others, what could they could of done to do it better, and what twist can I give the genre of that game to make this game look like crap?

So while the rest of you enjoy shooting each other up and teaming up to get your goals accomplished. I will be sitting here reading the manual of Battlefield 2 and enjoying the cover art. Because the bottom line of the matter is, there are a lot of gamers out there who just can’t afford to update their PC’s or buy a gaming PC to enjoy a nominee for Game Of The Year in the future(which I know it will be).

P.S. Sorry for making this so long but I had to get this off my chest.