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Battlefield 4 Announcement Trailer

First she appeared in Battleship, now she's getting remixed for Battlefield. Congratulations, Rhianna!!!!

Mar. 26 2013

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Battlefield 4

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17 minutes? no thx, I think 1 minute is enough, I'm not going to play this but boy do I like these super fast actiony trailers, they really know how to make them.

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Not even sort of interesting. Yawn.

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The graphics look great and all but ehh it's another military FPS. I think I've had enough of those for a lifetime at this point.

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Single player campaign and Rihanna.

A Battlefield trailer clearly not made for Battlefield fans.

Them CoD bucks.

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How are people defending this game? Aside from the graphics - and yeah, it looks really nice in places, but let's not act like it's that much of a step up from Battlefield 3 - it looks like every other military shooter ever created. I mean for fuck's sake, we're still fighting Russians? We won the fucking Cold War twenty years ago, it was a stupid throwback when Modern Warfare first did it six years ago, and literally every other fucking shooter has used Russians ever since (with the exceptions of the ones that use North Koreans). You know what? If playing the exact same shit you've been playing for the past several years but nicer looking is enough to make you say "hell yeah dogg DICE brought it!" then more power to you. Somehow I got it in my mind that the entire problem with this generation going on for so long is that we ran out of new ideas.

And I'm basing these comments on the 17 minute video, not this Rihanna thing I didn't bother watching.

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The game looks amazing that's for sure

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Edited By crimsonrising

Of course they're going to show SP first. The campaign just shows off whatever Frostbyte engine they have now. We all know what the MP is going to be. It's going to be Battlefield. It's going to look nice. Get over it. You aren't going to buy this for the SP anyways. I'm glad they don't give a shit about making a good SP campaign. Leave that to Bad Company. More focus on MP. /rant

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why cant this be Bad Company 3

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@iamjohn: Just imagine for a second that there are people out there that love playing these games, just like you love playing the games of your choice.

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I am ready for more Battlefield, woohoo!

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@wilshere said:

@iamjohn: Just imagine for a second that there are people out there that love playing these games, just like you love playing the games of your choice.

Yeah, and I liked this game just fine when it was called Battlefield 3. They just made that game again despite the fact that that game is still relatively new and somehow we're supposed to be so excited?

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I don't give a fuck what the singleplayer looks like. Battlefield 3 all they showed was shit blowing up in singleplayer and I bought the game and found out fucking nothing blows up in multiplayer.

Really would have preferred Bad Company 3.

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Not enough dirt on the screen, i can still see what's going on.

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Me and my friends played the SHIT out of Bad Company 2, none of them even play online games that much and I think we clocked up something like 300+ hours each on B:BC2 just sodding around and having a laugh. Then we all picked up B3 and even though it's objectively probably a much better game on a technical and mechanical level, we just all stopped playing it after a month or so. Dunno what it was but I just wasn't really feeling it at all. Felt so mindless compared to BC2's multiplayer, none of the maps felt as good, none of the guns felt satisfying and every time you found one halfway decent, it was declared overpowered (which just meant it was actually useable) and their solution to 'balance' something was just to make it pointlessly bad with recoil or something.

Conquest just felt totally mindless on the consoles with that number of players, I'd go into games and sometimes it'd literally just be both teams rotating through the capture points with no actual battles to hold anywhere, etc. Then on rush the placement's of the M-Comm stations just felt totally arbitrary. Some would just be wide out in the opening meaning you'd all just end up doing kamikaze runs until someone got it, or it'd be in so deep somewhere, it was just impossible to get against a half decent team. Don't even get me started on maps like Metro, I hate the whole BF vs MW debate, but maps like Metro really did feel like them trying to have a go at that style of game. BC2 wasn't perfect, not in the slightest, but I definitely felt like B3 was a step back in terms of the MP longevity

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@eastboundspider: Did you not see Omar From Off Of The Wire? His yelling was some of the most spirited of all!

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White Men Yelling At Each Other 4

There was a black man there.

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war is scary and dangerous.

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I like the choice of music.

That's about all I liked.

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Team Breezy!

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And the theme is now even more unrecognisable. That's rather sad. I used to love the Battlefield theme. That said, it looks great.

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@gimpy: this happened to me and a friend to! we used to play it a few nights a week and loved it. ended up having 200 hours or more, then came B3...played it for 1-2 weeks and then never again.

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At some point it looks too good, the issue I had with BF3 was that the world was so visually loud I could never spot targets, after hundreds of hours in BF2 I spent a few in 3 getting continually sniped at the spawn points, and gave up....

I know this is a personal issue, but it still makes me sad :(

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Best part of this was the Battlefield 4 trailer that played before it.

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OK...I guess..... Is anyone still impressed by flashy desaturated war graphics dubbed over with pop music? Call me crazy but I think Bad Company 2 is the last good Battlefield game we'll see for a while.

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Not interested! I'm sick of Battlefield catering to the CoD audience. I want another Bad Company or 2143... They can keep these CoD rip offs and rihanna to themselves! Thanks for letting us down again EA! Your on a roll right now!

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The music makes perfect sense in this trailer. They're using it as a metaphor for Call of Duty (life's a game but it's not fair) and how it's on top now, but when they release BF4 DICE will be the ones on top (we gonna run this town tonight). It's very clever and makes perfect sense when you realize this is a company that released BF3, a $50 game, $100 with DLC, that has a worse launcher than any F2P game.

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I only just started thinking about grabbing Battlefield 3 but I'm very turned off by being an army man shooting army mans.

The gameplay in these games always looks fantastic though I just wish they had some charm.

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I always chuckle at the "BF players want this" and "CoD players want that"

It's the same shit, marginally different pile.

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Starting out with a helicopter crash, pretty much sums up all my BF experience.

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Can't wait for the campaign, you guys.

But seriously, was disappointed with BF3. I loved the Bad Company games (1's campaign and 2's multiplayer specifically), this just looks like Battlefield 3.5. I guess EA won't be happy until they've completely over-saturated the shooter market and worn out all their IPs chasing Call of Duty.

Also, loving the giant pop-up ad when I boot up BF3 Premium. That's EA's way of thanking you for spending a bunch of money on their game... never again, I guess.

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Battlefield shouldn't even have a campaign. They should just make it like BF1942, the only campaign is bots. Get your ass online god damn it.

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That car trapped underwater sequence looks so great, really impressed if that is in engine gameplay.

I'll say it again, 64 player next gen console BF4 could really be a COD killer.

More players doesn´t equal more fun. Some BF3 maps with 64 player are down right just fucked.

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The music selection could not have been worse. So disappointing.

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@branthog said:

I remember being so excited for BF3. I imagined I was going to play thousands of hours of it, just like with BF2. I think my count stands at, currently, 60 hours. The way they rolled out so many different expansions that all sort of fragmented the player base and the servers . . . sucked. The way they made it so almost every server was constrained to be just like every other server . . . sucked. I never found a stable, consistent, fun community of players on a great server with a solid rotation that didn't suck ass. Then throw the "annual pass" or whatever on top of that . . . and . . . meh.

At this point, I think BF4 might be the first one I never buy or play. They really lost me with BF3. Spent so much money on it and all the content, but never fucking really got into it. (Don't get me wrong, when it was good -- it was really good. . . . it was just all the community stuff and DLC-ish stuff that really tore it down).

I'd rather bite the bullet and sink my time int ARMA III, despite the hurdles and challenges of that game. At least I probably won't feel dirty about it, afterward.

Also, holy shit that song was awful. Is that seriously what Rhianna's voice sounds like?

(Of course, there's always a chance Dice and EA will come to their senses and stop going down that shitty path that they went with BF3. I'm just not going to count on it and, at this point, they really have to seriously earn me back).

Also the fact that BF3 has only 4 player squads, no commander, no VOIP, maps with flags centered in the middle, supernova sun, no working commo rose...

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@sneeze said:

"Prepare 4 battle" .. really? I really wish they hadn't done that.

(Game looks cool though, but I'm a sucker for Battlefield)

I don't see a problem with this....

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I hope this comes out on next-gen platforms with a player count higher then 24. I hate PC games, but I long for 64 player battlefield. (Crosses fingers)

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I should be impressed by this, but I'm not. I'm kind of over it frankly. It looks amazing technically, but aesthetically it's bland and boring. You really get the impression that DICE didn't get a lot of time to make something different here. It certainly doesn't help that EA keep pushing... out... these... FUCKING military shooters and over-saturate the market to the point where I can't stand to see another one.

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@zlimness said:

I should be impressed by this, but I'm not. I'm kind of over it frankly. It looks amazing technically, but aesthetically it's bland and boring. You really get the impression that DICE didn't get a lot of time to make something different here. It certainly doesn't help that EA keep pushing... out... these... FUCKING military shooters and over-saturate the market to the point where I can't stand to see another one.

I know it's confusing, but maybe if you don't like it, you just shouldn't play it. Nobody's twisting your arm, man. Just go enjoy the games you do like. Personally, I like Battlefield so I'll probably pick it up. Sorry if that offends you... :(

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I love BF multiplayer. I hate Rihanna. But srsly people need to stop being so whiney and just enjoy the fact that there is more BF on the way. So quit crying and be constructive.

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I don't get how a trailer that shows off SP is kowtowing to CoD players or whatever people are bitching about. 99% of people I know of that play CoD could give a fuck about the SP, they play it for 5 hours and then MP for a year. Not to mention the first BF3 trailer was also 17 minutes of SP now that I think about it.

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those trailers aren't for us. There's for the people who say f' ya un-ironically in every day life. Thus the Summer movie style trailer for single player. If you know what battlefield is in a multiplayer context you already decided whether you will get this or not. I think the engine looks great. Savy gamers dont make there buying decision based on sizzle trailers. They look at a developers track record, read reviews from trusted sources etc.

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@cheweqfp said:

those trailers aren't for us. There's for the people who say f' ya un-ironically in every day life. Thus the Summer movie style trailer for single player. If you know what battlefield is in a multiplayer context you already decided whether you will get this or not. I think the engine looks great. Savy gamers dont make there buying decision based on sizzle trailers. They look at a developers track record, read reviews from trusted sources etc.

QFT

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@rufshod said:

This is great and all, but where's my Bad Company 3!?

I'm with you. BF:BC2 was much more than I expected. I really enjoyed that size of combat.

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@rufshod said:

This is great and all, but where's my Bad Company 3!?

Yes.

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Gonna be INSANEEEE!