My buddy Intern Joe and I tried to hookup tonight for an online Battlefield 2 session.

The title says it all - why is it so hard to find friends, find a server, connect, and get a game going in PC games? I had this same problem with Ghost Recon back when I tried that on the PC as well. With BF2, you can't even remember favorite servers, keep a friends list, etc. I remember it being a little better in the GameSpy software, so I'll have to try that next.

It's SO EASY with XBox:

• push power button
• play game

Intern summed up our sweet online session last night beautifully:

4:40 gt [Google Talk] call placed.
4:41 session begins
4:42 begin looking for room
4:48 still looking for room
4:49 realize need to patch game to most recent version
4:54 finished patching game. system freezes.
4:59 back in room
5:05 found room
5:07 in room.
5:09 cruising around map as gunner with v-nerd as driver.
5:13 lost, confused, no idea where the battle is. fire shots in the air.
5:15 must exit game, time to feed sara session ends. never saw an enemy soldier.
AWESOME game.

classic...

Update:
Two days later, intern and I figured, we've already been through all this ramp-up cost, so let's fire up a game, should only take a few minutes, right?

8:12 gt call placed
8:14 after quick "how-doin's", fire up BF2
8:16 begin looking for room
8:19 realize that Dan is on a different machine than before, and this machine is not patched
8:20 Dan starts download of patch
8:20 Intern starts in a game
8:24 Dan starts patch process
8:30 (long ass process - what the hell is this thing doing?) path process done
8:32 Dan back in lobby looking for intern
8:35 connect by IP to same game where intern is
8:38 finally in the game, trying to figure out where intern is
8:40 about to meet up with intern, game is over, MEC wins (38-0)

sweet! love this game...

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