I used to go a LAN cafe to play BF Vietnam with friends, and sitting at the menu with that funky as fuck bassline and the speech voiceover is a super distinct memory for me. It's poppin.
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Battlefield 3 launch trailer is still epic
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I used to go a LAN cafe to play BF Vietnam with friends, and sitting at the menu with that funky as fuck bassline and the speech voiceover is a super distinct memory for me. It's poppin.
BF3 was so fucking hype for me. BF1942 was my very first PC game and I adored the series ever since, but I never had the opportunity to get into the action at release until BF3 because I got my first proper gaming PC that could play current games in 2010. I was able to see it in a press screening at Gamescom 2011 and it blew my freaking mind. I just had to be there for Day 1. And I was. And I very rarely had so much excitement to play a game than at very first day of BF3. BF3 still has some of the very best maps in the series, although the overall gunplay and gameplay elements like the supression system were much better in BF4.
God, I love this series. And I miss the hype for the games since BF1 came out. Sure, people played BF1, but it never was as big as it was during the BF3 and BF4 days.
So much this. This is already one of the best games in the series.
And the BFV launch trailer is the best one since this gem:
God, I love this series. And I miss the hype for the games since BF1 came out. Sure, people played BF1, but it never was as big as it was during the BF3 and BF4 days.
So much this. This is already one of the best games in the series.
And the BFV launch trailer is the best one since this gem:
The games that ran on the Refractor Engine. So all the BF games before Bad Company.
Bad Company is actually a reasonable adaptation of the original Battlefield formula to console limitations but BCII is when they threw the baby out with the bath water and began making sweeping changes to the gameplay to make the games more accessible. Changes which then bled into the main series.
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THIS.
I was pre-dominantly a COD player and small, tight maps with fast paced gameplay is what I was used to. That's why I could never get into BF.
I didn't get BF3 even when I was mesmerized by its graphics and destruction. But when this trailer launched, my mind was blown. I went ahead and bought the game along with the DLC.
I'm a sucker for destruction, especially the smaller scale visceral destruction. Plus having smaller and tight maps is what helped me to migrate to BF. Slowly I started getting into the bigger game modes, but I still prefer their Close Quarters Update. All those maps were fucking gold.
The early days of Battlefield 3 reveals were amazing.
Thunder Run Tank Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A
Operation Guillotine Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlZHhMDg_Ic
Thunder Run Tank Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A
Operation Guillotine Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlZHhMDg_Ic
To think that such a vanilla campaign was still probably the most enjoyable campaign in the series ever since. Battlefield 4 was pretty terrible besides the memetastic opening (TURN AROUND), Hardline had great ideas but was not good at all, 1 had some good stories and some meh ones, V is too short and only one story out of three has anything to say. Battlefield 3 was an all-out war story where you did it all: desert strikes, urban shootouts, punchouts, flying planes in the sky, driving around like a madman, and it looked glorious for the days and felt fun enough to get through the silly story. It was basically a bigger scale Call Of Duty campaign, which was fine. The trailers were also on point, but I think that's one of the constants the series never failed at: producing hype trailers.
The lighting is still top notch. It was incredible at the time. Amazing games 3 & 4. 1 was vastly different and I'm enjoying the middle ground with V.
I'd forgotten how good this looks/sounds. the whole sequence is fantastic.
Oh my, what the hell happened to the people that used to do the editing/music for this series? I remember buying this pack on that trailer alone. Their marketing is absolutely horrible by comparison. That is God tier feels.
I honestly dug BF3's campaign the most. The rest have been lackluster so far. Although I do like the little vignettes at the start of BF1 and 5, the rest of the campaigns are pretty meh.
The best battlefield multiplayer experience and it is not remotely close. Awesome trailer too, I remember losing my shit when I saw it for the first time after playing so much 1942.
The Specialization system now is kinda that level, if not quite above. At least the flares and missiles could be unlocked "quickly" and without having to also pay up some arbitrary secondary currency.
Now in BFV you have vehicles that are actually, for real, completely gimped until you max rank them AND grind up the coin to buy upgrades. Until you fulfil that you have a way worse vehicle/weapon than everyone else.
I'm amused by the comments calling it the best BF in thread. It's by far the worst one. By an absolute mile. Annoying mechanics and terrible, terrible maps. Was ok after DLC, but the stock game was awful for 64 players.
"Ok guys, we're back at 64 players. Should we try and match the excellent, multifaceted and complex city map designs we used in 2? Nah fuck it, lets just make Grand Bazaar a fucking square with a corridor up the middle, and half the maps just a literal straight line corridor, job done. We could make an open map, but screw it lets just make it 90% empty space that nothing happens in and then put all the flags within 5 meters of each other and call it Caspian Border".
Every single launch map was bad and several are a candidate for worst in the series. BF games are only as good as their maps.
In fairness, it might have been better with a 24 player limit. It certainly felt designed for it, but if you're calling the game BF3 you're sending a message that it's a sequel to BF2 and therefore I expect maps that play well in Conquest for 64 players.
"Ok guys, we're back at 64 players. Should we try and match the excellent, multifaceted and complex city map designs we used in 2? Nah fuck it, lets just make Grand Bazaar a fucking square with a corridor up the middle, and half the maps just a literal straight line corridor, job done. We could make an open map, but screw it lets just make it 90% empty space that nothing happens in and then put all the flags within 5 meters of each other and call it Caspian Border".
Every single launch map was bad and several are a candidate for worst in the series. BF games are only as good as their maps.
In fairness, it might have been better with a 24 player limit. It certainly felt designed for it, but if you're calling the game BF3 you're sending a message that it's a sequel to BF2 and therefore I expect maps that play well in Conquest for 64 players.
BF3 map design was so good.
Does BF3 even have a single sniper shelf map like the modern ones do? Hate the direction Dice has gone with maps. Battlefront went the way of the choke point while Battlefield does the sniper shelf wide open map million eyes on you thing.
Edit: ^Ha! Yeah 64 players can't have been enjoyable in BF3.
Does BF3 even have a single sniper shelf map like the modern ones do? Hate the direction Dice has gone with maps. Battlefront went the way of the choke point while Battlefield does the sniper shelf wide open map million eyes on you thing.
Edit: ^Ha! Yeah 64 players can't have been enjoyable in BF3.
I can still vividly recall tossing the single-player campaign aside because I ran too far ahead of my AI teammates that the game dropped them from the level, which made it impossible to progress thanks to the door leading to next portion of the map being part of a small scripted sequence. I'm a highly-trained killing machine, but lord help me if I ever need to operate a doorknob.
I remember I was floored by the helicopter and went out and bought a new GPU because of it. How far we've come lol.