This is a rant blog, i guess....
*PS this is for people who have played Battlefield 2. If you haven't, I don't think you will relate
*PPS the fact that the game is in alpha stage doesn't mean it's gonna be 110% different when it's out. Alpha is the second step towards the golden stage, and this second step is messed up
*PPPS i'm not asking for realism or hardcore mode. those aren't the only solutions

Introducion: That player shot at a far away triangle, the result was that he killed another player. Does that sound right to you? think about that for 5 seconds, then proceed.

Now look at this new Battlefield 3 trailer:

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So for those who were duped by DICE's promising interviews, telling us that Battlefield 3 is an actual sequel to Battlefield 2, using things like "Jets, big maps and prone!!1!!111!" to fool us, this blog is to inform you that you were in fact duped.

This is a very normal business step by EA, i'm not saying it's bizarre, i'm just very saddened by the fact that it eventually happened: They found that their PC-based content-rich skill-demanding not-so-rewarding games Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 didn't sell well, whereas their console spin-off Bad Company 2 made serious bank, so instead of milking the Bad Company series with BC3 in two years time, they were too eager and corrupted Battlefield 3 in order to cash in on people's hopes by the end of this year.

This game has nothing in common with Battlefield 2. only the fact that the conquest maps support 64 players.. that's it.

• Just like BC2 and unlike BF2, there is no Commo Rose. You can't use pre-recorded commands to communicate with your team mates efficiently. We're going to be mute just like in BC2

2000+ post on the official forums protesting lack of Commo Rose

Here's a mock-up by a fan. tell me you dont love it:

[Full size]

• Like BC2 and unlike BF2, the ridiculously outrageous 3D spotting is back. You point at the enemy's base, tap the social button, see triangles light up, shoot at the triangles and get kills. You don't have to see the person to kill them. That is called "aim assist". the fact that you can see the triangle through walls and rocks and trees, is called "wallhacking". DICE solved the problem of cheats and hackers: they implemented that shit into their game.

3 hot threads protesting 3D Spotting: First, Second, Third.

• Not only that, but squad leaders get a huge star stuffed NEXT to the spotting triangle on top of their heads, making people think twice before they start a squad.
• The damage models are ridiculous. 3 taps and you're dead. If you have a triangle on your head, you're automatically doomed.
• Like BC2 and unlike BF2, teamwork stats are no-where to be seen. The scoreboard shows this: K, D, Score. the end-of-round stats consist of four screens listing your best kills and killstreaks.. yes, i said killstreaks in a Battlefield game
• There doesn't seem to be any chain of command whatsoever. The squad leader position appears to do literally nothing. there is no commo rose to communicate, no giving orders, nothing.
• Like BC2 and unlike BF2, health regeneration is back. it takes 15 seconds to kick in, but once it does it goes all the way up rapidly. Once again, medics are only needed when someone dies
• A new awesome feature: Vehicle health regeneration. 'nuff said.
• Like BC2 and unlike BF2, there's still an aimbot knife in the game. All you have to do is tap the knife button when you're behind someone, and you're 100% guaranteed to hit them
• The biggest emphasis of the Lead Designer of the game's multiplayer component, is the gunz.

There's already speculations that the conquest maps are gonna be linear and chokepoint-based (no matter how big they are), and that jets and helos will have health regeneration as well.

And so, it is clear that the huge bank that Bad Company 2 made, is totally blinding DICE from having any sense of principle and they're pretty much creating Bad Company 2 under a bigger better name.

They found that when they created games that had honest clean gameplay that encouraged teamwork, they didn't make enough money. Whereas when they created a game with triangles that are visible through walls and tell you where to shoot, they made money.

Yes i'll be buying the game, and yes i'm very excited for it, but the message i'm trying to convey here is that this game is not Battlefield 3.

If you think this is a typical "Bf3 is Bc3 !!" thread, give me a counter argument.

If you had asked me just yesterday, what game i hated the most, i would've said inFamous. 
While i loathe and despise Crysis 2 since it doesn't deserve the Crysis name, I hated inFamous with a passion. 
 
The world felt too grim and offputting, the NPCs are twitchy and weird, you don't feel like they're human beings but rather stampeding rats in a human form, the protagonist is also very twitchy and his movement is dissatisfying (he's like a monkey on drugs), and overall, the game has only one kind of enemies, The Reapers. Though they do vary in style and powers, they're all the same basic enemy.  
The screen goes grey (near-death screen) way too fast, no matter how much you spam the dodge button the snipers across the map can still hit you, and it was all just one big clusterfuck of frustration.  
 

1st Stop - E3 Event 

HD Multiplayer Teaser: 

HD Stage Demo "Thunder Run":

• Bla bla bla about the dynamic lighting, the divine new Frostbite 2 game engine, the smooth grafix, and all that crap we've been fed for four months. If you haven't been keeping up with the news, that's not my goddamn problem!
• The tank setup seems much more satisfying for the player from past BF games, both control-wise and feature wise : 

1. You can zoom in/zoom out in the tank view, turn on thermal vision, shoot both shells and a machine gun. 
2. The tank has it's own built-in console that controls a  laser-designating aerial vehicle of some sorts. Will that be used in multiplayer? We don't know yet, but DICE seem very fond of the player-deployed artillery and UAV, so that could be one of the new ways to deploy UAV in-game. 
3. The shooting precision is looking a lot tighter than previous BF games, with shells hitting their target and not being too hindered by bullet drop mechanics. Also, the tank driving seems a lot more responsive, whereas driving a tank in a Battlefield game is usually a bitch, because they're too slow and heavy to control.
4. When a tank takes a hit, the tank vision/view gets distorted in a black&white color, rather than just showing the red hit detector [It also has a limited health regeneration]. Will that be added to the multiplayer in some way? We don't know, but a new "vehicle-disablement" feature has been added to the multiplayer, which basically means that when you keep GUSTAVing a tank and it gets badly damaged, it doesn't immediately explode, allowing the passengers to get out and flee/fight back before the vehicle explodes. 

A) PixelEnemy's frame-by-frame analysis of the multiplayer teaser  (in collaboration with the Don't Revive Me Bro staff):

• Weapons spotted-  

1. M16A4 
2. SVD  sniper
3. AK74M   
4. AKS74U
5. Beretta M9 pistol
6. MP443 pistol 
7. M249
8. M16
9. Pechenag (PKM type of weapon)
10. M67 Frag Grenade
11. ACOG
12. Combat Scope (a certain type of ACOG)
13. Flashlight attachment [Confirmed]

• Maximum number of players in a squad: 4 [Confirmed]
• Squad Leader makes a comeback - has a star by his name [Confirmed]  
• Classic Rush Mode is back [Confirmed]   
• Health bar is back, in the form of a "100%" bar [Confirmed] + Light health regeneration
• On-screen compass    
• A certain type of missiles can be launched (Possible return of the Anti-Air vehicle)  
• LAV-26 APC [Confirmed] - Details:  

1. 6 Seats 
2. Shell cannon
3. 50. Caliber M2 machine gun  
4. 100% tank health bar
5. Tank view magnification indicator (1x, 2x, etc..)

• Powerful recoil on the guns [Confirmed] 
• 3D spotting is returning [Confirmed]   
• Alot of flashing and myst caused by the bullets
• New/Updated kinds of XP points:  

1. Enemy Down (you killed an enemy) - 100 points
2. Double Kill - 200 points
3. Kill Assists - 50 points
4. Suppression bonus - 50 points
5. Avenger bonus - 10 points
6. "Comeback" XP (when you get a kill after several deaths in a row) - 40 points
7. MCOM Attacker Kill [???]

• On-screen Base indicator   
• MOH-like Objective updates/notification on-screen 
• ANT animation capable of mixing several simultaneous animations in a dynamic way 
• When you aim down your gun scope you can still see the sides of your gun
• Huge explosions caused by Mortar Strikes or Artillery or UAV
• Scripted events after every MCOM wave gets demolished 
• multi-level mini-map (when you go into a new area, a specific mini-map of that area/section is viewed on-screen)
• Everytime you stealth knife/get stealth knifed, there's a quick animation [Confirmed]
• The killfeed says "Knife" when someone gets knifed.
• Chokepoints might be a problem
• Dynamic light sources - You can camp in a room (for instance) and take out the lights to stay in the shadows [Confirmed]. Could be a great gameplay tactic going along with the use of night vision goggles
• MCOMs are attached to things, like vans for example [unconfirmed]
• Falling debris can kill you. Not confirmed if it can damage vehicles.

B) GamerSpawn's 10-minute comprehensive analysis of the multiplayer teaser:  

• Weapons spotted-  (Look Above)
• Tactical Reload: When you have a bullet in the gun chamber and you reload, you keep the chamber bullet and gain the 30 rounds of the magazine, hence the "31" bullet indicator (as opposed to having to lose the chamber bullet to have 30 bullets max)  
• Multiple firing modes selection makes a comeback from Battlefield 2  
• When you headshot-kill someone, a crosshair icon appears by their name in the top left corner KillFeed 
• After fan/expert feedback on the view through the ACOG scope from the Fault Line series of trailers, DICE corrected it by moving the view somewhat closer to the player  
• When looking through your ACOG scope, the entire player view zooms in, not just the view from inside the scope (since that's the way it should be, because of the scope magnification). But hey, screw realism for all i care, we want balance and polish 
• The Russian players are all wearing NBC suits. Does that mean BF3 has Chemical Warfare? 
• The US uniform has Desert Marpat Camouflage. But Paris is no-where near any desert, so... ??

2nd Stop - BF3 Multiplayer Demo at the EA Showfloor Booth:

Live Stream Archive: 

Another 5-minute video from the booth:

• Equippable grenade (no more quick tossing)
• Two types of knife: Quick knife (button tap) + Equppable knife (like a weapon) 

1. Rifleman (or Combat Medic): Assault & Medic put in one (main weapon = assault rifles). You can either choose meds/defibs (medic) or replace them with a grenade launcher (assault) 
2. Support: main weapon = heavy machine guns, your job is to lay suppressing fire and give your teammates ammo 
3. Engineer: main weapon = SMGs, your job is to disable vehicles with your rocket launcher and to repair friendly vehicles 
4. Recon (or Sniper): main weapon = sniper rifles, your job is to snipe / blow shit up with C4.  Motion balls are gone, and the ghillie outfit has been replaced with a jihadist-looking outfit with a bandana

• You can opt-out of being revived. If do so, the revive symbol above your body will disappear (in order not to confuse medics) 
• Medpacks and Ammopacks are fucking huge. they're like mini fridges  
• No pre-recorded voice communication tool whatsoever.. We need a god damned Command Wheel to thank each other and say important things to enhance communication and teamplay! 
• Support class can go prone, deploy bipods and suppress enemies efficiently.  
• When you get suppressed, your screen goes a little dim/blurry, shakes violently and you're unable to aim very well  (called "The stress effect")
• Whenever you jump/vault over an obstacle, there's a quick animation showing your feet 
• Invisible Walls (You heard me.. unless they fix it) 
• Customizable dog-tags [Confirmed] 
• No Kill-Cam: When you die, you lay on your side and see the name and dogtags of your killer, until you get revived or respawn 
• Real military ranks are back, along with real military ribbons and pins (replacing the silly golden stars from BC2) 
• Going into prone has been taxed - it takes a moment and feels quite heavy. Prone too much and you'll get killed doing it (you won't be as quick)

 3rd Stop - Hands-On information:

 A)  DRMB Hands-On Recap:

• Weapons spotted - 

1. SMAW rocket launcher

• The foundations of the buildings don't seem to be easily destructible, so the destruction is more focused on the walls themselves  
• You get 100 points for disabling/immobalizing a vehicle (about this feature, read above)  
• Sway has been added to sniper rifles. Snipers now have to "hold their breath" in order to focus their aim  
• The SVD sniper rifle is a 3-shot kill 
• The suicide screen now says something along the lines of "You committed suicide" ("Epic Fail" screen is gone) 
• Knife information : 

1. When you tap the auto-knife button [as opposed to equipping the knife as a weapon], the knife doesn't stick in your opponent's body, it just swipes/slashes them 
2. It takes two swipes to knife kill an enemy (auto-knife)  
3. You can only get a knifed opponent's dogtags by "stealth knifing them", which means knifing them from behind while undetected 

• Prone position is very smooth, even when strafing, but when you prone as Support and deploy your bipods, the field of vision is limited (90 degrees) 
• The game seems to make the non-support classes more dependent on the support class for ammo. Going Rambo seems to be hindered by the amount of ammo a player has 
• The reload system is the same as BC2, if you have 10 bullets in your mag and you reload, you don't lose the 10 bullets (No need to reserve ammo and reload carefully. It's like your gun is picking up the bullets from a pool)
• The new suppression feature (The Stress Effect) seems like a good way to discourage camping, since you can't camp and poke your head out to shoot. If you get suppressed while camping in a corner, you're pretty much no longer able to fire back properly. 
• Apparently, after you revive somebody, they go into some sort of "last stand" mode where they choose to get up or die and respawn 
• The MCOM arming/disarming button and the kit-picking button have been separated. No longer will you pick up random kits left and right while arming/disarming an MCOM 
• Apparently, MCOMs can only be armed/disarmed from one side

•  3D spotting:
• Very responsive 3D spotting
• There's a chance that when you spot a squad leader, his entire squad gets spotted
• There doesn't seem to be a significant cooldown yet

• Flashlight can be turned on/off
• It takes several bullets to shoot out a light
• Flashlight might be exclusive to the engineer class
• "L" to turn flashlight on/off
• Single shot, burst fire and fully automatic firing modes
• "V" to switch fire modes
• 3 gun add-ons to the main weapons: barrel, ammo and optics
• Snipers can unlock the bipod

• There should be an animation for entering/exiting vehicles which will stop vehicles from becoming a safe fortress that you teleport into

• The knife is faster and more efficient 

• basic weapon keys:

1. 1 is rifle
2. 2 is pistol
3. 3 and you throw out a medicpack/ammopack instead of equipping a box and pressing fire to throw them out. it switches you back to your last equipped weapon.
4. 4 defibs / ???
5. F is knife melee
6. G is for grenades (which used to be for grabbing someone elses kit if I remember correctly)
7. Shift to sprint
8. Ctrl to crouch
9. Z to fall to prone

• When you get revived you get an option to accept the revive by pressing space bar (while in this "last stand" state you are revived with your pistol out in a prone like position) When you accept the revive you get back on your feet and have to press 1 to equip your primary weapon otherwise you're still rocking the pistol.

4th Stop -   Official Information:

• Consoles will not have a server browser 
• PC requirements will not be anything beastly or Crysis-like 
• About the commo rose - "I’m not exactly sure how we’ll be doing the command rose. " Which means it's not entirely out :D 
• Thousands of weapon customizations 
• No day and night cycles in MP, instead we'll have day and night maps. 

• There will be no enter/exit vehicle animations in MP (Zh1nt0 statement in BFO chatroom)  
• No Hybrid scopes. They want the player to make the choice between CQB and range (Demize99 tweet)   
• No respawn immunity, and a reduced spawn time if you get instakilled on revive, since you already went down once.(Demize99 tweet) 
• The HUD is still being enhanced (Demize99 tweet) 
• The Squad Leader is the person who created the squad. He stays until he leaves (Demize99 tweet & tweet) 

Thanks for reading :) .

EDIT: These screenshots are screencaps from youtube taken in 420p .. the image quality is NO-WHERE near the game's actual graphic quality. 

Edit : Here's a video of all the BF3 footage connected together, without the interviews : 

Animation: 

Destruction:

Scale: 

Rendering:

New vs. Old Karkand!

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This is a shoutout to all my gaming homies out there who lack the intuition and 'smarts' needed to solve mysteries.

I've been a complete sucker for Rockstar Games since i first laid eyes on GTA 2 when i was 10. I never miss a R* title, I even went out and bought a PS3 just to be able to play the PC-less Red Dead Redemption.
But this time around.. the game isn't about skill or speed or dedication or past R* games experiences, it's about the player counting on his intuition and mystery-solving gut feelings.. and i've always lacked that in my life.

Whenever i think someone is lying or covering something up, they end up being honest. Whenever i think a dude sounds legit, something about him turns out to be fishy.
I've lost faith in my personal judgement and i'm no good at solving mysteries. i just don't have the luck for it.. 
I look too hard when it's easy to see, and i take it for granted when serious efforts should be put into it.


So.. is anyone else worried that you're gonna spend most of your L.A. Noire gametime putting innocent people behind bars and letting criminals go free?  That's no way to play or enjoy a detective game.. 

Since mid-2008, ive been playing Battlefield 2 nonstop.  
I play on version 1.0, which has mods 
 
Now the word 'mods' seems to have two meanings :  

1. the mods i personally care about, which give you infinite sprint, endless vehicles, atleast 10 jets and 10 helicopters running at the same time, powerful jet afterburner and helicopter torque, etc...  call them gameplay pills if you will 
2. the mods i keep hearing about which i have no interest in, like Project Reality etc... all the community-made modified versions of the game 

Just watch this modded balanced action, something most Battlefield veterans never experienced : 

tl:dr   

hell everyone's making a blog about their lists !

Best of 2010

Ahmad_Metallic: Best of 2010

	1. Red Dead Redemption There's nothing to be said. perfect game. enjoyed it a bit too much! P.S. the only game that hyped me up so much i had a constant headache waiting for it to arrive
	2. Just Cause 2 This game gave a new meaning to the words 'fun' and 'action' .. fucking perfect
	3. Mass Effect 2 I kinda rushed through this one because i beat it right after the first Mass Effect during Nov/Dec 2010. Either way, i dont think it was as good as the first game, still its quite the epic sci-fi masterpiece.
	4. Assassin's Creed II (PC). not as atmospheric and compelling as the first, yet a better longer more polished game with a great variety of missions.
	5. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction Previous SC games were too hard for me to enjoy, but this accessible installment made me ease my way into this stealth action franchise, and allowed me to go back to Chaos Theory and kick ass at it ! great game
	6. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Though it had lag issues for me all the time that didnt allow me to play my best (i got bitchslapped alot), i still think its a GREAT multiplayer shooter.. Dice know how to make it interesting.
	7. Mafia II Being linear made it disappointing, not bad. great story and great atmosphere !
	8. Super Meat Boy Very difficult. made me shout out curse words alot! still a great game with tight controls and THE BEST SOUNDTRACK of the year !
	9. Call of Duty: Black Ops I cant stand the CoD multiplayer. Battlefield always filled that spot for me. However, the CoD singleplayer is always pefectly engaging and adrenaline-inducing! very good action sequences and cinematics
	10. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom fun & brilliant sidescroller with a grim visual style and good piano music

 
  

It's funny, for the last 2 years i tried several times to play Dead Space and each time i got fed up with the camera angle and heavy movement and slow plasma gun that i couldnt keep playing beyond the second chapter 
 
Last night, i was sitting in the dark thinking of a new game to play. something really different. and i looked at my game collection and saw Dead Space standing there with dust this thick covering it 
I installed the game, told myself to give it a serious shot, and 3-4 hours later i was about to finish Chapter 4. 
 
It's really weird.. i guess i never felt the game's vibe and atmosphere, and how brilliant the movement and combat mechanics are.. I'm so glad i decided to give it a shot last night, im about to start chapter 7 and i cant be more psyched ! 
  
                          

The vacuum areas, the zero gravity sequences, the variety of enemies and the weapons COOL AS SHIT.  
And the crazy thing is, i really cant take horror games when im by myself.. i get scared. but with Dead Space i played it AT NIGHT and i felt like it was an action game :S 
  

I think im gonna go give Mass Effect and Fallout 3 another shot !

We're not talking about your favorite SINGER as a PERSON or PERFORMER, we're talking about the sound of their VOICE. 
Edit: people, embed atleast one video of your #1 answer so we can listen to the voice you consider the greatest!  
 

1. Jonathan Davis (Korn) -  
his unique voice can just sweep the room and make you in a state of numbness where you forget where the voice is coming from (your speakers) and you feel like he's completely controlling your mind.. no voice in the world has felt so eerie and supernatural to me. Truly the greatest human voice ever to sing to my ears.
   

Runner-ups :