Battlefield 4 Official Story Trailer Socks a Dog in the Chops

[WouldYouKindly]

DICE and EA, NO ONE PLAYS BATTLEFIELD FOR IT'S SINGLE PLAYER!

Ahem, I don't think anyone gives a rats ass. If and when I get BF4, I will not even look at the singleplayer.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

So am I really gunna be the first one to point out that the black guy is throwing an apple to a pigmy woman at 1:25. Seriously she was like one forth his size!

Perspective! How the fuck does it work?

Other than that I guess the US grunts still do their "no1 gets left behind" BS...

Well to be fair, no one gets left behind is true of the Marine Corps in real life. It shouldn't even be a question that they need to try and get their buddies out. But hey, forced tension is the best right?

 

[the doom cannon]

So, does anyone else remember that game with the fairly realistic story, good teamwork with incentives, a variety of maps and weapons where none were too overpowered, and a series of worth wile DLC expansions that added new features, new maps, new factions, and new objectives.... I think they called it Battlefield 2, or was it 1942.

I'm sorry, what are you even talking about?

 

[fat american]

So am I really gunna be the first one to point out that the black guy is throwing an apple to a pigmy woman at 1:25. Seriously she was like one forth his size!

Perspective! How the fuck does it work?

Other than that I guess the US grunts still do their "no1 gets left behind" BS...

I'm not sure what you're trying say there.
Honestly, I can tell she's a little further way than he is but that apple is almost the size of her head WHEN she catches it.

I'm fairly certain that that's supposed to be a child.

Anyway, yeah I'm kind of sad that Battlefield is trying so hard to beat Call of Duty, by being exactly like it. The main reason I play Battlefield is for the multiplayer, I only play the single player because it's a good way to warm up to the game. I wouldn't mind one bit if they took it out. Or brought Bad Company back.

 

[Velociferocks]

So am I really gunna be the first one to point out that the black guy is throwing an apple to a pigmy woman at 1:25. Seriously she was like one forth his size!

Perspective! How the fuck does it work?

Other than that I guess the US grunts still do their "no1 gets left behind" BS...

I'm not sure what you're trying say there.
Honestly, I can tell she's a little further way than he is but that apple is almost the size of her head WHEN she catches it.

...Woman? Are you serious that's like an 10 year old little girl, and apples can get pretty damn big.

 

[JaceArveduin]

It looks amazing in terms of graphics and sound, but oh man to it look terrible in terms of everything else. I love BF but ugh, it looks like Ace Combat but taking itself way waaaaay too seriously.

Which Ace Combat are we talkin here? The good ones, or Assault Horizon?

 

[Single Shot]

I think they called it Battlefield 2, or was it 1942.

No, they called it 2142 and the pods are-a-dropping!

Eh, I wasn't into the whole sci-fi feel of 2142. A great game in terms of gameplay but it just wasn't for me.

So, does anyone else remember that game with the fairly realistic story, good teamwork with incentives, a variety of maps and weapons where none were too overpowered, and a series of worth wile DLC expansions that added new features, new maps, new factions, and new objectives.... I think they called it Battlefield 2, or was it 1942.

I'm sorry, what are you even talking about?

Let me explain in short words for you.

I was using a sarcastic question to point out how far the Battlefield series had come from its roots, and how those series origins were better than whatever skin mask it's wearing this year in it's attempt to look like CoD.

 

[Kargathia]

Welp, bonus points for hitting about every single jingo'istic cliche out there?

Honestly guys, you're just embarrassing yourself at this point.

 

[Steven Bogos]

Wait, didn't they say the game wouldn't have female soldiers because reasons? And yet...there is a female soldier. Right there in the trailer.

They specifically said "female soldiers in multiplayer"

 

[Evonisia]

Real subtle, DICE. Your bias is starting to show. Or is this their apology to the BF fans for ripping off MW2 and Black Ops in BF3?

 

[tdylan]

To me this reeks of insecurity. COD doesn't make commercials attempting to take the piss of out of BF. Almost as though COD is so cocksure in what it's doing that it feels it doesn't even need to acknowledge BF. On the other hand, we had Bad Company 2 making fun of "special forces guys with heartbeat sensors on their guns," and then racing on ATVs cuz "snow mobiles are for pussies."

I stopped with the series after Bad Company 2, so I don't know what they did to mock COD in BF3, but here we have it again with the dog. Has anyone heard of "The Pepsi Challenge?" For those that haven't, it's the Pepsi-Cola company saying:

"Blind taste test our product against coco cola and you'll find that you like ours better."

Has anyone ever heard of "The Coca Cola challenge?" You know, the one where coke says:

"try out product and you'll see that we're better than pepsi?

No? You know why that is? Because "the coca cola challenge" is not a real thing. Because Coca Cola doesn't bother acknowledging the competition. They don't have to.

It says a lot that BF's marketing is "Look at us make fun of COD" as opposed to "This is why you would want to play BF."

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

It looks amazing in terms of graphics and sound, but oh man to it look terrible in terms of everything else. I love BF but ugh, it looks like Ace Combat but taking itself way waaaaay too seriously.

Which Ace Combat are we talkin here? The good ones, or Assault Horizon?

I never played Assault Horizon, I enjoyed previous Ace Combat games and I didn't mind the melodrama. It was just silly and fun. BF4 looks like it is trying to have a "serious business" story that ends up being cliched and boring, rather than embracing the silliness like BC1 or Ace Combat.

Who knows though, maybe Project Aces truly believes they are writing personal war stories, but either way I can enjoy that much more than the "realistic"(lolololol) BF campaigns. I've always felt like BF campaigns either had to be just fun ala BC1 or they need to focus on a cast of characters that are part of a larger conflict without looking too hard at way the US and Russia/China would be fighting.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I thought the dog-punching thing was kinda funny.

 

[T'Generalissimo]

Meh, not as good as Conan the Barbarian punching a camel.

 

[the doom cannon]

I think they called it Battlefield 2, or was it 1942.

No, they called it 2142 and the pods are-a-dropping!

Eh, I wasn't into the whole sci-fi feel of 2142. A great game in terms of gameplay but it just wasn't for me.

So, does anyone else remember that game with the fairly realistic story, good teamwork with incentives, a variety of maps and weapons where none were too overpowered, and a series of worth wile DLC expansions that added new features, new maps, new factions, and new objectives.... I think they called it Battlefield 2, or was it 1942.

I'm sorry, what are you even talking about?

Let me explain in short words for you.

I was using a sarcastic question to point out how far the Battlefield series had come from its roots, and how those series origins were better than whatever skin mask it's wearing this year in it's attempt to look like CoD.

What story existed in 1942 and bf2? They only had multiplayer. What dlc? Those games and their expansions came in disc format. And they were expansions, not dlc content. Well i suppose the last 3 bits of content for bf2 were slightly more dlc-ish. What new objectives were added?

 

[rasputin0009]

It says a lot that BF's marketing is "Look at us make fun of COD" as opposed to "This is why you would want to play BF."

The dog-punching is literally half a second at the end of the trailer. It's a very small jab that very few people will get. Most people will recognize that the trailer included explosions, girl squad, black guy yelling, American circle-jerks, and explosions.

Real subtle, DICE. Your bias is starting to show. Or is this their apology to the BF fans for ripping off MW2 and Black Ops in BF3?

How is "Russian terrorists explode things" ripping off only MW2 and Blops? That's been the go to military story for the past 50 years. See: Bond movies, Tom Clancy novels, everything.

I was using a sarcastic question to point out how far the Battlefield series had come from its roots, and how those series origins were better than whatever skin mask it's wearing this year in it's attempt to look like CoD.

The later games in the series aren't much different from its roots at all. This is coming from someone who's put at least 500 hours into each game in the series and at least 2000 hours into 1942. The biggest change was going from 1942/Vietnam to BF2, and if you consider BF2 part of Battlefield's roots, then you should consider that the only thing that has changed since is the addition of a single-player campaign. It's still tactical and team-oriented shooting-at-things gameplay.

 

[tdylan]

It says a lot that BF's marketing is "Look at us make fun of COD" as opposed to "This is why you would want to play BF."

The dog-punching is literally half a second at the end of the trailer. It's a very small jab that very few people will get. Most people will recognize that the trailer included explosions, girl squad, black guy yelling, American circle-jerks, and explosions.

The fact that not everyone will "get it" doesn't diminish the childishness of it all. Yes, it was brief. But the other things shown did nothing to make me think this game's story would be any different from most "serious, modern military shooters" of recent memory. I didn't watch this trailer and think "I want to know how this story turns out," or "this looks different markedly different from the stories of other games I have played."

Some sections reminded me quite heavily of the latest COD Ghost trailer - cinematic destruction on a massive scale. Rubble falling toward you. Dodging large vehicle debris.

 

[CriticalMiss]

Wait, didn't they say the game wouldn't have female soldiers because reasons? And yet...there is a female soldier. Right there in the trailer.

They specifically said "female soldiers in multiplayer"

Yes, but if they have already made a female character model, made animations for it and have a female voice actor in thrall then why not just add women in to the multiplayer? If there is a female character written in to the single player then they must have planned that ahead, but apparently couldn't be arsed to carry over some of those assets to multiplayer. Unless the entire multiplayer portion of the game is entirely custom made and there isn't a single part of it that appears in singleplayer of course.