Has anyone noticed that in the first level of campaign during the attack helicopter chase scene you can drive as slowly as you want.. Like, you can inch forward in the minivan and the helicopter NEVER damages you despite shooting all over the place… Jeez, Dice if you are not going to give the campaign any more depth than a thin illusion that its not just a series of strictly scripted events.. just take out the gameplay and make it a point and click.. I mean. If the gameplay sucks, why is it even there?
Digital Illusions…
Edit: but seriously the campaign sucks and we all knew it was gonna.
There’s a lot of rumours circulating that Dice was asking for a 2014 release, but EA wouldn’t allow it, obviously, with the next gen launch and such.
If we assume that’s true, it’s not unlikely that a lot of the focus was put into the multiplayer player at the expense of the campaign. That would explain why so often, it feels like you are just wandering around a beautiful zone where the biggest threat is a CTD.
I don’t really get why battlefield needs a single player, but I guess someone thinks that people want it (I don’t, but that doesn’t mean other would not like it).
For me, battlefield has always been about multiplayer and it seems to me DICE favours it as well. That explains for me why the campaign is pretty flaccid.
What of the people who don’t have the internet or just don’t like playing with others
I’d say that for single play there are MUCH better games. The thing that makes battlefield fun is multiplayer.
For singleplayer, I play other games. Examples are Bioshock or the Witcher or Dragon Age or so many others.
For me Battlefield was a multiplayer revolution, and THE defining multiplayer game. I am sure others had different games that did this for them, but thats my experience.
at least for me, this is my first time playing any of the battlefields, so the campaign is a nice simple way to get used to the controls, weapons, and just get an idea for how things work. I also get a chance to fool around without people bitching that i dont know how to play
Thats a good point, never thought of it like that.
In prior games that didn’t have a single player campaign, you could play alone with bots populating both teams. So, you could get used to the controls and vehicles and such without going online.
Personally, I can’t stand the campaign of most games, too slow, I go straight to multiplayer. However, when I see sweet rewards for doing single player, I do it. I played just enough single player to unlock the shank just so I can be a boss when I melee someone.
To be honest, I find that the campaign almost feels like a warm-up/intro to the game for new players. The only incentive to playing it would be the unlocks/achievement-whoring.
While I have a similar opinion.. I don’t think it should be that way. Battlefield 4 is a AAA game with a massive budget. In the world of consoles, Battlefield occupies the space shooters such as Halo used too. It’s THE flagship shooter. COD Modern Warfare kinda dethroned Halo and ushered in the modern military craze on the xbox 360 at least. The problem is.. the core gameplay of COD and Battlefield campaigns SUCKS. Endless grenades and A.I. that is either boring and stupid or frustratingly accurate and stupid is not fun. They can try to spice it up with as much epic chase scenes and explosions as they want.. The core gameplay still sucks. Now, I forgive DICE somewhat because they have always been about multiplayer.. but I think the problem is their half assed campaigns are lowering the bar for single player campaigns in AAA shooters.
“In Halo 1, there was maybe 30 seconds of fun that happened over and over and over again, so if you can get 30 seconds of fun, you can pretty much stretch that out to be an entire game … and so you can have all the great graphics, and all the different characters, and lots of different weapons with amazing effects, but if you don’t nail that 30 seconds, you’re not gonna have a great game.” -Jaime Griesemer
Modern warfare shooters TOTALLY fail at this 30 seconds of fun.
I’d say that for single play there are MUCH better games.
Those aren’t FPS war simulation shooters. BF4 is. I really miss the days of good single player FPS war sim/realistic type single player campaigns. Yeah, I spend countless more hours on MP and maybe only once go back and play the SP after the first time, but I still would enjoy a nice campaign.
At least it was pretty to look at.
But c’mon if it looked like shit we’d prob return the game for lying so bad. We knew it looked good but se really dumb decisions were made in that campaign.