GasProblem
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Looks cool. I want to see some gameplay and see it running on consoles before I really get excited.
is ww1 a unique theme or something why everyone is so excited?
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Not really. It's a game, I just don't understand how people can so easily be disturbed by something like this.
I mean.. the Holocaust took place in WWII. What happened in WWI that made the events of WWII pale in comparison so much that there's a clear difference in making video games that take place in either war? Genuinely curious.
I'm glad Battlefield 1 now exists, as it will show people that early modern combat was much more varied than that.
Don't you remember the first Bad Company? I hope it wasn't a fluke and they can actually pull of another good campaign.
It is the only really good one. I did complete Bad Company 2 but it isn't half the fun as the first game is.
You basically have to choose it as your role when spawning. You won't be able to just take a tank and use it as a personal transport.
Also Vehicles each have their own classes now, so a pilot will have their own class, tank driver will have their own class etc.You basically have to choose it as your role when spawning. You won't be able to just take a tank and use it as a personal transport.
Is this actually the first game with a 1 applied to its title prior to release?
Battlefield 1?
Surely that's some kind of co-marketing name with Microsoft right?
Don't like the name should be called Battlefield 1914
I'm not really oversensitive to this stuff, but when the goofy host is talking about how great it is to bayonet people, etc. I did cringe a bit.
I do wonder how the wars I took part in will be portrayed in the future, if we are discussing the ambiguity and morale reason they were started. The loss of life is grotesque no matter what the circumstances. We are talking about WWII deaths being justified because the Nazis were certifiably bad, but not every individual that was forced to fight for Germany felt that way. Hiroshima, Dresden, etc. You can't generically say something is right and wrong. As has been mentioned, it's how it's handled and portrayed. Hopefully we get a campaign video from Dice that sends a little bit better message.
I still can't fathom how they made BF3's campaign so boring compared to something like MW.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/the-harlem-hellfighters
Pretty cool doco on the Harlem hell fighters.
It's true. WWI was still a time when young men went to war for adventure. War was greatly glorified back then. WWI changed the very nature of war and how it was viewed by the public at large.Ernst Junger's account of his experience fighting in WWI called Storm of Steel shows a different perspective, someone who believed in the war and found appeal in the nationalism and glory seeking despite the horrors.
The only book many read on WWI is All Quiet on the Western Front, which shows the anti-war perspective. There were certainly many during the period that saw this period, and war in general, as being mankinds' natural state, and the pursuit of victory as a moral imperative.
It's not a popular perspective in the 21st century to be sure, but at the time a different set of mores existed.
Also Vehicles each have their own classes now, so a pilot will have their own class, tank driver will have their own class etc.
To be fair, it makes it a bit more realistic, would a sniper have legged it for a biplane and started a dog fight? No.
It adds an extra tactical element to the gameplay though. Become dedicated and play properly or just fail over and over again. It's brilliant to me, this coupled with the already hard to learn plane controls sounds awesome.The fuck? That sounds like shit.
Guess I'll stick to BF4 when I get the urge to play BF for another 3 years.
The 1 in Battlefield 1 to me means that this is the "first" battlefield, it's set before BF:1942 . It's also the First World War.
Basically now you have dedicated classes for tanks and planes alongside the infantry classes, and if you choose a tank you can't change that until you die.
I thought this would be an amazing thing to do, take a AAA game with a AAA budget and actually explore some of the more somber, sobering tones and idioms that we associate with war and really use the graphical and FPS fidelity we have in modern gaming to showcase the utter brutality and pointless violence that WWI was.
I think it's such a tremendously wasted use of the setting.
Basically now you have dedicated classes for tanks and planes alongside the infantry classes, and if you choose a tank you can't change that until you die.
*Remembers all the previous battlefield campaigns
You have to be incredibly dense to take the word "battlefield" literally instead of the name of the franchise. You don't see the issue with it looking like BF3 and 4?
Does it like hugs?That cat is adorable. :3
So apparently now you can't just change from a tank or plane into another or spawn as an infantry and then get into one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8udm-0mivDY
From 2:01. that would be quite the change.
I would hope so. The assassination would make for a fantastic, and educational, first mission. I'd also love to see the Christmas ceasefire covered as one of the most human moments of the war.I wonder what the campaign will cover. I'm hoping the first character you play is Gavrilo Princip, they could do the tutorial as him and all. And maybe they'll cover the Russian Revolution a bit.
No.
It's WW1 and there never was a BF1, only BF2, BF3 and BF4.
BF1 is the only right answer
I don't get you though, when did I mention that would make it a good game? I was explaining the decision behind naming it BF1.We all get it, but that doesn't make it a good game.
I'm not really oversensitive to this stuff, but when the goofy host is talking about how great it is to bayonet people, etc. I did cringe a bit.
I do wonder how the wars I took part in will be portrayed in the future, if we are discussing the ambiguity and morale reason they were started. The loss of life is grotesque no matter what the circumstances. We are talking about WWII deaths being justified because the Nazis were certifiably bad, but not every individual that was forced to fight for Germany felt that way. Hiroshima, Dresden, etc. You can't generically say something is right and wrong. As has been mentioned, it's how it's handled and portrayed. Hopefully we get a campaign video from Dice that sends a little bit better message.