Zero Punctuation: Battlefield 3
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Yahtzee, you've got to start reviewing the multiplayer component of games at some point! You're starting to sound al lot like the ESRB and their "Online interactions are not rated". The concept that a game can only be judged on the singleplayer is starting to be obsolete.
are you trying to sell a my little pony game with guns?uberhippy said:Why must we have the next in the streek of brown-Grey shooters,,,
We should have a technicolour, fantasical shooter, you know,, one thats fun??
OT never was gonna buy this game and the all power Y was never gonna change my mind on this!
Ah, funny as always. Still, I got this on release, and I've been enjoying the multiplayer quite a bit, only playing the first level of the campaign to learn the controls (because that was even necessary)
But yea, I've actually had quite a bit of fun with the multi-player, though lag is still an issue, jets are pretty poorly implemented, and really, having to unlock EVERYTHING, including weapons/add-ons for vehicles? Where the hell is the logic in that? More importantly, rolling around in a tank still feels awesome, and that's what really matters.
But yea, I've actually had quite a bit of fun with the multi-player, though lag is still an issue, jets are pretty poorly implemented, and really, having to unlock EVERYTHING, including weapons/add-ons for vehicles? Where the hell is the logic in that? More importantly, rolling around in a tank still feels awesome, and that's what really matters.
Best ending to a review I think I've ever witnessed. If only more reviewers were that frank, it would certainly spice up the likes of IGN.
He did say that TF2 was a multiplayer experience matched only by competitive breast massage in his Portal 2 review, so I'd say he liked it a bunch.
Surprised he didn't go on about the lens flare at all, yes BF3 you have a lighting engine *clap clap* now can you stop blinding me everytime i look at any sort of light source?
The single player isn't bad really, it's boring... To me boring is so much worse than bad
The single player isn't bad really, it's boring... To me boring is so much worse than bad
We had one of those a while back, it was called Halo: Combat Evolved. It took place in a myriad of interesting levels that ranged in colour from lush greens and browns, stark blue-grey installations, purple covenant battle cruisers and weird orange-brown squishy intestine levels. It featured enemies in every colour of the rainbow, an asortment of weapons that would choke a goose and a storyline a little more thought out than 'terrorists in the middle east have nuclear weapons, are you a bad enough dude to stop them?'uberhippy said:Why must we have the next in the streek of brown-Grey shooters,,,
We should have a technicolour, fantasical shooter, you know,, one thats fun??
You remember what happened? Oh yeah, everyone said it was the worst shooter ever and went back to Modern Warfare and Battlefield.
I sit smug in my superiority that I recognised the brown gritty realistic shooters for what they were back in two thousand and fucking one, yet apparently no one else saw this coming.
It is the fault of everyone who bought MW and BF that we are now in Shooter Season 2011 and nothing more interesting that a shit stained dishrag has come out. I am not one of those people, and I certainly didn't ask for this dirge of repetitious shooters.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Fuck it, I'm going back to the jRPGs.
So many "THIS IS A MULTIPLAYER GAME!" For one thing, how can you review multiplayer games if your experience to it is randomized to whom you play it with? With such "uncontrolled" experience, I don't think anyone can justify or measure it's worth.
For every online matchup, its a given fact that the person who have just started playing it and is grouped randomly to anyone will have a shitty time by not having every content (NEED TO UNLOCK!) as well as having zero cooperation with his dick partners. While, of course, the other person who have unlocked more content and already have a group of friends which have coordinated everything will have a grand old time.
This is not crafted by professionals to create the experiences they want you to have. And that's the reason why Yahtzee also hates User Made Content.
Every single time I watch Yahtzee screams of him wanting the game industry to be more like a book/movie (not a bad thing, mind); good storytelling fused in gameplay, as well as creating a unique experience based around what the devs planned you to experience. You cannot do this in Multiplayer when your uncooperative teammate friendly fired at you to teabag your corpse.
For every online matchup, its a given fact that the person who have just started playing it and is grouped randomly to anyone will have a shitty time by not having every content (NEED TO UNLOCK!) as well as having zero cooperation with his dick partners. While, of course, the other person who have unlocked more content and already have a group of friends which have coordinated everything will have a grand old time.
This is not crafted by professionals to create the experiences they want you to have. And that's the reason why Yahtzee also hates User Made Content.
Every single time I watch Yahtzee screams of him wanting the game industry to be more like a book/movie (not a bad thing, mind); good storytelling fused in gameplay, as well as creating a unique experience based around what the devs planned you to experience. You cannot do this in Multiplayer when your uncooperative teammate friendly fired at you to teabag your corpse.
He's on the money about the single player, I know I haven't bothered finishing it; And yet I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that Multiplayer is the elephant in Yahtzee's room. Even giving a nod to it he still managed to completely ignore it. Oh well.
...You do know that's his name, right?Prof. Monkeypox said:
Unfair in a way with not taking into account multiplayer with that being the main point of Battlefield.
That being said EA did write themselves into a corner by focusing on a campaign orientated marketing scheme. Also Black Ops stole the interogation thing from BLACK did they not? In which case EA initially came up with that concept. Could be wrong.
Oh and I really wish he'd leave Gears alone haha I love it but am not one of the people he made out at the beignning.
Either way entertaining review!
That being said EA did write themselves into a corner by focusing on a campaign orientated marketing scheme. Also Black Ops stole the interogation thing from BLACK did they not? In which case EA initially came up with that concept. Could be wrong.
Oh and I really wish he'd leave Gears alone haha I love it but am not one of the people he made out at the beignning.
Either way entertaining review!
The single-player is way too scripted, linear, filled with quick time events and enemies which totally ignore everyone except you (which is often a lot of people) and have simply incredible ability to notice and shoot you.
But really, the single-player is pretty damn irrelevant for BF3. The multi-player is good. It would be nice if the single-player was good, but... it isn't. The game is still worth it easily, unless you don't like multi-player at all.
But really, the single-player is pretty damn irrelevant for BF3. The multi-player is good. It would be nice if the single-player was good, but... it isn't. The game is still worth it easily, unless you don't like multi-player at all.
There's always Halo, which is extremely vibrant. Bulletstorm also made a go of it. Oh, and there was Brink by Bethesda, but I heard that it didn't live up to expectations. The Far Cry series was also fairly colorful. Of course they decided to put Crysis 2 in New York, so that's a bit of a let down.Kopikatsu said:The new Serious Sam comes out soon. BFE, I think it was.uberhippy said:Why must we have the next in the streek of brown-Grey shooters,,,
We should have a technicolour, fantasical shooter, you know,, one thats fun??
But the market has spoken. People like military shooters because they have the best multiplayer, which is what most people are interested in (with the exception of Halo). Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll set the next CoD in South America so we can fight in a tropical rainforest. But don't say that people are ONLY making brown military shooters. The brown military shooters are just the most popular and well polished.
Hence the ridiculousness of EA claiming that single-player is as important to them as multiplayer. The entire review from the moment he quoted that statement onwards was effectively a mocking of it; EA released the statement to try and save face when it turned out their single-player campaign was a wet-fart.KelsieKatt said:
