After my breaking discs debacle (try here, if you're in the UK and have trouble with that... odd bug, don't ask me... I'm only the editor _) a short while back, I went out and sprung for a new copy of Battlefield 2 over the weekend. That's nigh on €130 I've spent on Battlefield 2 so far, between the expansions and the replacement. Darnit anyways, it's worth it... though the whole issue of expensive games is another matter entirely (not to mention how we Europeans are being screwed with our pants on... €600 and $600 for a Playstation 3, or about $765 for a PS3 in Europe... *sigh*)

Still, I have my Battlefield 2. I loaded it up, listened to the familiar music once more and went to load Wake Island 2007, the updated version of the first ever Battlefield map I ever played online way back when we got the multiplayer demo of Battlefield 1942 (Tobruk, in the single player demo, was the first ever Battlefield map I ever played.)

It loads and it loads, and suddenly the bar reaches 100%.............and the game crashes to desktop. I hate buggy games. But I love Battlefield. I'm sure there's some good Shakespearian quotes I could lift here to hammer home my point, but I'd rather get back to fixing my phantom Battlefield problems.