The problem with Bad Company 2

I have played first person shooters for a long time. I played Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Rise of the Triad...you see where this is going. Needless to say, I have a good deal of experience with the genre.

When it comes to the modern first person shooter, I have problems. For one, my reflex time isn't as good as it used to be. One of the reasons I disliked Modern Warfare 2 was its reliance on reflex time. A milisecond too late, and you were dead. Which isn't counting the people who play Modern Warfare 2, or the rampant cheating, or the abominable PS3 network code. A game that is slightly more...stately would be more to my liking. Hence, the Battlefield series. I really enjoyed the first Bad Company game, because it seemed like the polar opposite of Modern Warfare. Distance, space, changing terrain, concrete objectives; it lets someone who isn't in junior high excel.

While I honestly don't care about its singelpayer, I enjoy very much the multiplayer of Bad Company 2. Its everything that the first one was, but improved greatly in every regard. The modes, the weapons, the sound and especially the graphics are great steps forward from the design of the original. What I like especially is the dynamic of the classes. I enjoy the reconnaissance class more than anything else. The GOL sniper rifle is without peer in the current class of shooters. It handles well, is highly accurate and delivers a significant punch. I will play the engineer occasionally, but I could care less about the medic and assault class. A sniper can be relevant in this game, unlike MAG. In MAG, a sniper spends most of his time attempting to find a halfway decent line of sight. Rarely is a sniper doing something remotely relevant, and has to move into dangerous firing positions to even see the enemy. In Bad Company 2, you are dressed like a bush. So that, when you hide in another bush....you are actually difficult to detect! And, you don't have to be close enough to the enemy to give him a friendly handshake to be effective. Of course, this doesn't stop people from doing stupid things like, oh, I don't know, sniping from the starting area. At other snipers. Who only can see each other. Which provides a situation in which the attacker is wasting his fucking time shooting at people who aren't defending the flag. Its like they start their own little private match, and waste respawns doing, effectively, nothing. I'm usually the highest scoring sniper on my team, because I actually move to effective firing positions and don't waste my time on pointless sniper duels. Bah.