Battlefield 4 available for preorder

I'll pass, it quite honestly looks similar to 3 and I'm not a huge fan of that style of games.

I have, however, been hearing rumblings about Half-Life 3 being announced soon.
 
Perkomate said:
I'll pass, it quite honestly looks similar to 3 and I'm not a huge fan of that style of games.

I have, however, been hearing rumblings about Half-Life 3 being announced soon.
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Hasnt that happenned at least once a year since 2 was out? It will never happen at this rate, and if you believe that then you can only be surprised in 5 years when it actually shows up.

Looks good to me but wont get it until it's on sale unless i get a job or a few builds or some way to get some money
 
jonnyp11 said:
Hasnt that happenned at least once a year since 2 was out? It will never happen at this rate, and if you believe that then you can only be surprised in 5 years when it actually shows up.

Looks good to me but wont get it until it's on sale unless i get a job or a few builds or some way to get some money
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Once a week more like :rolleyes:


This looks like crap. It is pretty but that is it.

You have more time with cutscenes than playing the game. If I wanted to watch something, I would go an watch a film, not play a game. I expect gameplay, not some pos unrealistic cutscene nonsense.

There is too much going on, but not enough to do. I miss the days of CoD2/MoHAA when you would have to clear an objective (without endless cutscenes) from a ton of enemies, or go and steal something and get out, with the only action packed moments either during a gunfight or when an alarm is raised.

I also hate the unrealism of it, which again stems from cutscenes. I don't want an interactive movie, I want a video game, but because they have tried to make it the former, they have put in all of the rubbish from a z-list action movie, as in running through huge amounts of gunfire and still being alive, having a building fall down around you, and still being alive and have all of your buddies be safe and alive, have a helicopter shoot at you in the open and miss every shot. It is just pathetic.

The AI of your friendlies is terrible, and so too is the fact that they warp to you. If you go and a be a dick and drive off, you are on your own and face the consequences of meeting dozens of enemies face to face alone.

Then add in having to shoot someone a good 5 or 6 times before they go down and the unnecessary shock and awe moments, no, this is definitely not a game for me, and looking at BF2 especially compared to this, much like the post WaW CoD franchise, I find it upsetting what has happened to Battlefield.


As I said from the moment of the announcement, this is definitely not a game I will be getting
 
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Aastii said:
Once a week more like :rolleyes:


This looks like crap. It is pretty but that is it.

You have more time with cutscenes than playing the game. If I wanted to watch something, I would go an watch a film, not play a game. I expect gameplay, not some pos unrealistic cutscene nonsense.

There is too much going on, but not enough to do. I miss the days of CoD2/MoHAA when you would have to clear an objective (without endless cutscenes) from a ton of enemies, or go and steal something and get out, with the only action packed moments either during a gunfight or when an alarm is raised.

I also hate the unrealism of it, which again stems from cutscenes. I don't want an interactive movie, I want a video game, but because they have tried to make it the former, they have put in all of the rubbish from a z-list action movie, as in running through huge amounts of gunfire and still being alive, having a building fall down around you, and still being alive and have all of your buddies be safe and alive, have a helicopter shoot at you in the open and miss every shot. It is just pathetic.

The AI of your friendlies is terrible, and so too is the fact that they warp to you. If you go and a be a dick and drive off, you are on your own and face the consequences of meeting dozens of enemies face to face alone.

Then add in having to shoot someone a good 5 or 6 times before they go down and the unnecessary shock and awe moments, no, this is definitely not a game for me, and looking at BF2 especially compared to this, much like the post WaW CoD franchise, I find it upsetting what has happened to Battlefield.


As I said from the moment of the announcement, this is definitely not a game I will be getting
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Also, the quick time events in 3 sucked hard. I bet this one will have loads of QTEs, and DLC out the ass.
QTEs do not make a game fun or enjoyable. It turns it into a movie where you mash X every so often.
 
Aastii said:
Once a week more like :rolleyes:


This looks like crap. It is pretty but that is it.

You have more time with cutscenes than playing the game. If I wanted to watch something, I would go an watch a film, not play a game. I expect gameplay, not some pos unrealistic cutscene nonsense.

There is too much going on, but not enough to do. I miss the days of CoD2/MoHAA when you would have to clear an objective (without endless cutscenes) from a ton of enemies, or go and steal something and get out, with the only action packed moments either during a gunfight or when an alarm is raised.

I also hate the unrealism of it, which again stems from cutscenes. I don't want an interactive movie, I want a video game, but because they have tried to make it the former, they have put in all of the rubbish from a z-list action movie, as in running through huge amounts of gunfire and still being alive, having a building fall down around you, and still being alive and have all of your buddies be safe and alive, have a helicopter shoot at you in the open and miss every shot. It is just pathetic.

The AI of your friendlies is terrible, and so too is the fact that they warp to you. If you go and a be a dick and drive off, you are on your own and face the consequences of meeting dozens of enemies face to face alone.

Then add in having to shoot someone a good 5 or 6 times before they go down and the unnecessary shock and awe moments, no, this is definitely not a game for me, and looking at BF2 especially compared to this, much like the post WaW CoD franchise, I find it upsetting what has happened to Battlefield.


As I said from the moment of the announcement, this is definitely not a game I will be getting
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Depending on the game, like mass effect, I enjoy cutscenes and i think they can add to the storyline of a game. I've been playing games for 20+ years now, ive done and seen it all before. For me these days, i need more than just good gameplay. I need a good storyline to keep me interested, to drive me on to see what happens next.
 
Eh played Battlefield 3 round a friend's house. It was alright, but not really my cup of tea - so I don't think I'll bother with this.
 
spirit said:
Eh played Battlefield 3 round a friend's house. It was alright, but not really my cup of tea - so I don't think I'll bother with this.
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you don't really care about anything that isn't NFS or Just Cause 3 (wonder when or if that will happen, hopefully it would have multiplayer)
 
jonnyp11 said:
you don't really care about anything that isn't NFS or Just Cause 3 (wonder when or if that will happen, hopefully it would have multiplayer)
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True. ;)

Truth be told though, I've played quite a lot of the other games at friend's houses and I've never really liked any of them - and the only Need For Speed I like is Hot Pursuit really.
 
Shlouski said:
Depending on the game, like mass effect, I enjoy cutscenes and i think they can add to the storyline of a game. I've been playing games for 20+ years now, ive done and seen it all before. For me these days, i need more than just good gameplay. I need a good storyline to keep me interested, to drive me on to see what happens next.
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The gameplay trailer has more cutscenes than actual playing the game, and the cutscenes and QTE's that are there are terrible. I am not knocking cutscenes, they need to be in story driven games, unless you are led from point A to point B with something happening/someone talking to explain, but when you are just sitting watching the game be played for you, it is no longer a game, it is an animated film.

The first 4 minutes is just cutscenes and the only gameplay is a few doors being opened. I would rather watch paint dry.

Then add in that they try to make a "realistic" modern shooter, the car is sunk with no water in it right at the start, the whole thing would be full of water before it touched the bottom. That is just the first scene, never mind the rest of it.

Sorry if you disagree, but this for me shows one of the lowest points in gaming
 
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Aastii said:
The gameplay trailer has more cutscenes than actual playing the game, and the cutscenes and QTE's that are there are terrible. I am not knocking cutscenes, they need to be in story driven games, but when you are just sitting watching the game be played for you, it is no longer a game, it is an animated film
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that's something that the Half-Life series did very well, make it not feel like a movie.
 
Perkomate said:
that's something that the Half-Life series did very well, make it not feel like a movie.
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It is because you always had control of the character. As soon as you take control away, it is no longer you, so the immersion is lost because you are simply watching someone else.

Look at CoD4 as another example, you never speak and it is a great single player experience, then compare it to MW2, it is just ridiculous because you keep getting control tugged away from you and you have some goit talking for you.

Half Life, and all of the Valve games for that matter, also had the benefit of amazing characters with personalities. None of these characters have any personality or originality at all. Compare Alex and GLaDOS to soldier number 1 and soldier number 2. Much like a novel, how can you have a good story driven experience with characters with about as much personality as a wet lettuce?

The same goes for the story. The Half Life universe and for another example the Fallout universe have great depth to them. <insert generic modern shooter title here> has the same regurgitated bull over and over again. The Russians are not rising up, the situations are not believable, the "realism" they are trying to include is not there. So far as FPS games go, I find Arma to be a much better experience for realistic FPS games because it isn't having some identity crisis, it is a realistic MilSim and it knows it, unlike these arcade shooters trying to be realistic and failing, so getting the worst of both worlds, not the best
 
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