wow! I just finished the campaign and I thought it was terrible. The game was so predictable (as soon as you saw lots of cover you know there was going to be enemys), and the characters sucked! Recker is suppose to be in charge but the other guys always call the shots lol.
There were so many things I did not like about this campaign, I feel that they really rushed the game out (you can tell from all the glitches). I always found the COD campaigns to be better, but I thought EA did a pretty good job with BF3. Also, the credits seem longer than the actual campaign lol.
All in all, thank god this game is more more multiplayer, I never want to play that campaign again, I was actually getting bored of it. Anyone else feel the same way?
The reviews I read had the same feelings as you but might have articulated it a little bit better. Haha…
I personally am sitting down on my couch turning on BF4 for the first time and just like every other multiplayer FPS…I am going to skip the achievement mode aka, campaign, and pop right into Multiplayer…
I’m not sure what you were thinking when you decided to play the campaign but I personally would rather have the dev team focus on making a BADASS MP and making the campaign so-so.
I liked it, I found it fun. Then again I’ll also watch action movies because I want to see crazy stuff, stunts, and hero bullshit. If this was half life or something I might of been disappointed but this is Battlefield, I didn’t play it thinking “What robust storyline and character depth will I experience in this title?” Instead I said, “I want to shoot things, see cool shit, and blow crap up.” To that, it delivered in spades.
Also related side note: If you hate the “boy there’s lots of bounding cover in this area gee I wonder if there’s going to be a firefight” you must have absolutely HATED Mass Effect.
The campaign is not the selling point of battlefield. Boo hoo. The campaign stinks. Big deal. It’s a last resort if the internet goes down. If you want to play a great campaign game, PLAY A CAMPAIGN GAME. DON’T play a game which 99% of people play for MP and then decide to get up in arms about a second thought game mode. There’s no co-op, want to cry about that too?
Single player is not great in BF3/4 but that’s not why people buy the game. I think the only reason DICE includes it is because CoD includes it and that’s their competitor, so they are trying to offer an apples for apples experience to the consumer.
But the MP experience is clearly the portion of the game that is the focus of their effort for quality and where you will spend 98% of your time with the game. If you’re after a riveting well written story campaign then play CoD or play an old CoD since the story is now repetitive and each game is just like the one before it.
With the exception of the BF:BC series, BF’s story writing isn’t where it’s at. But if that’s where your focus is, you’re missing out on what BF is meant to be. Or if your just here to complain, I’m sure there is a haters forum somewhere you coulda posted in instead of opening up a new thread for your unique opinion.
Ok, apparently people just give excuses about how they focused on MP and not SP. But my thoughts were that it was a pretty weak campaign. I actually liked BF3’s campaign, and the length of it as well (as well as all the twists it had). BF4’s length was short (no problem with that, but they stated in MULTIPLE releases that they were focusing on story), and then the story was extremely predictable.
I mean, they wanted to have “twists” in the stories, but also wanted to foreshadow them as well if you paid enough attention to detail. They were aiming for a “oh damn the answer was in front of me the entire time”, but instead it was too easy to guess (and correctly guess) the story.
The ending was directly ripped off of CoD’s BO2 ending, but with less of a choice on how the events unfolded. Whereas during the CoD campaign you had to do certain things to get certain cutscenes/endings, this was just pick and choose at the end.
And sadly, with all the concentration to MP, there’s still a fuck ton of bugs on PC. 64 player servers ALWAYS crashing is a HUGE problem.
Their excuse though for not putting in the Coop missions was also that they were focusing all their resources in the SP campaign and MP. Too bad the SP campaign was probably the least fleshed out in terms of BF3, BFBC2, and BFBC.
The ending was shit because it didn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever.
“LET’S STAY ON A BOAT THAT WE’RE GOING TO BLOW UP BECAUSE WE’RE SITTING FINE ON OUR SWEDISH GRAPPLEHOOKS - what no why would we use the fucking boat we came with to leave it doesn’t make any sense”
Yeah there were lots of horrible decisions made by all parties, and I forgot what was going on halfway through. Kinda didn’t realize all that stuff in bf3 happened until 75% of the way through and I couldn’t figure out why the guy on the ship was so important.
