Zero Punctuation: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Ghostkai]

Couldn't help but feel "where's the punch line?" this episode...
Dunno, just none of the humour touched me.

 

[Tobias Rieper]

he think its trying to be realistic, and reviews a very MP focused game.
...
...amusing in a cute, "this isn't the type of game you should review" way.

Is MP focused a PC way of saying "We suck at making video games"?

Just about anyone can make a multiplayer game that gets tons of players. There are facebook games that are just multiplayer with many times the players of BFBC2. Mainly because it doesn't take much to make a multiplayer game.

You make a game with marginally nice qualities, add in a ranking system, add in multiplayer, and you are done. The epeens will do the rest for you.

You obviously haven't played a Battlefield game. They're multiplayer focused games, just like Unreal Tournament or Counter Strike. If you complain about the singleplayer in those games, without mentioning the multiplayer, then you're doing it wrong.

 

[Maximum_Power_Cheese_Supreme]

The reason that was extremely funny for me was that it's totally true. Every car chase sequence or helicopter part is like a quick time event you can't win no matter where you shot. Several times per mission I manage to get shot at long range to death from some one I simply can't shoot back at. I guess Bad Company 2 manages to succeed at actually making you feel like you are in combat. 'Cause in reality, in combat you are most easily going to die, just like the thousands of npcs you kill in Modern Warfare 2. The only difference being the later is fun and the previous total misery.

Mind you the multilayer is really the only reason to have a Battlefield game.

Is there a logical reason for Yahtzee to use that many a penis in that review?

 

[Tobias Rieper]

Sometimes I forget that video games are incredibly serious business. Thank you, random strangers on the Internet, for reminding me.

As far as the review goes, I'm with a lot of the others in saying that, while he didn't review the multiplayer (as he has openly stated that he never does) he didn't really... tell us anything about the game other than there was a lot of dust and things were kind of ridiculous and like every other game of its type in that regard. And as someone who currently can't play online (I have a Mac, no wireless connection to my 360, and a Silver account) I'm infinitely more concerned with the single-player aspect of games, than multiplayer. So, this would have been a beneficial review for me, had I been told anything.

Then don't buy Bad Company 2. Do I have to remind you not to buy Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 (and 1942 and Vietnam), World of Warcraft, Counter Strike, Red Orchestra, Guild Wars, or whatever other multiplayer oriented game out there? I thought it was obvious enough.

 

[matt87_50]

totally agree!! bring back the real FPSs! serious sam can't do it all by himself!
THIS is how you take fps to the next generation!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLf-0KhTyxU

stupid chest high walls trying desperately to counter dumbtarded console controls and magical instantly regenerating health (which is some how more realistic than picking up a med kit) can suck my ****!

 

[soladrin]

I'm getting kind of bored of the "bring back real FPS's" argument... The minute they do that it's probably gonna get bashed for not being realistic blabla. Theres a reason they are making this kind of shooter these days: they sell better.

 

[seamusotorain]

Derp de derp herp multiplayer derp. I enjoyed the multiplayer demo, and I'd heard the story was pretty weak. If you want a FPS not made out of a grey and brown colour palette, Duke Nukem just hit the XBL Marketplace, and you can always go and play Serious Sam again.

 

[soladrin]

Derp de derp herp multiplayer derp. I enjoyed the multiplayer demo, and I'd heard the story was pretty weak. If you want a FPS not made out of a grey and brown colour palette, Duke Nukem just hit the XBL Marketplace, and you can always go and play Serious Sam again.

Define "just" It's been on XBL as long as i can remember. And it was awesome.

 

[Dark Angel Warlord]

hillarious omg hillarious thank you gawd i hated that game

 

[Kededro]

He should implement that new flight vehicle idea into his Fun Space Game.

 

[Sayvara]

Oh... maybe I should say something about the review itself:

Mildly funny, but far from one of his best works. This is like the MOA:AA review where he was struggling to find something to complain about, and eventually failed (nazi doom towers anyone? ). "Dust" just doesn't cut it, especially since dust was mostly abscent from the game. The rest is just a bunch of contrived gripes that doesn't even hook on to the game very well.

Mostly I get the impression that he either rushed this review, or that he is trying to get back at the game because it kicked his arse too many times.

/S

 

[Silent Eagle]

DICE sucks at single player expieriences. They only made that to make the MP make since as to why the US and RU forces are fighting it out. I didnt buy this game for the SP thrills.

Plus that mortar scene wasnt so hard,a little trial and error was needed (5 deaths).
Still pissed me off though...

 

[ryai458]

so basically BFBC2 is like MW2 but not good hmmm, good to know.

 

[Etek]

This guy calls himself a reviewer and only plays the single player part of what is known to be a MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME. Epic fail Yahtzee.

 

[Pibe000]

well I liked it, but he didn't really say if he liked it he just went on about the lack of sighting ability. He's already established that he doesn't play online mode, and that might be a good thing. People online are USUALLY jerks (including me).

 

[Pibe000]

It does take a lot from modern warfare it even makes fun of it, But it has a vehicular section and bigger maps and likable characters, so go back to your grenade launching, rpging, snipe camping moron arena that is modern warfare.

 

[Guy Montag]

I would still take this over MW2 any day of the week.

also, seriously, he should stop buying multiplayer games and then insisting on not reviewing the multiplayer.

 

[Pibe000]

yes he should, I still like MW2 but the people who play multilayer can be very stupid/annoying. I would still play the game but I feel inclined to leave whenever I stop having fun, which has never happened to me in bad co.

 

[CD-R]

My response to "realistic" (non-stealth) shooters:

1. Games aren't really supposed to be realistic. IT'S WHY YOU'RE PLAYING A GAME.

2. Having incredibly low health in a non-stealth game that is supposedly all about multiplayer just encourages too much cheap tactics and people working their level best to find game breakers, of which there are usually many, becausethedevelopersdon'tcareaboutbalanceImeandoubleshotguns,really-(long, increasingly unhinged tirade)

3. All the brown, utterly soulless levels/maps, I have no interest in. Let's see a shooter where you fight in the jungle or on the coastline (AND NOT D-DAY! THERE ARE ENOUGH WWII SHOOTERS ALREADY!) or somewhere colorful and different, for a change.

There's a couple jungle levels in BC2 actually. Actually at least 1/3 of the single player game takes place in a jungle.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

If he is so hateful to multiplayer then he should stop buying multiplayer games, I know he said that every game SHOULD stand on its own with the single player but that doesn't necessarily mean they WOULD do that.