Battlefield 4 Singleplayer Campaign Details

[lancar]

Wow, that story is so original I can feel the world will explode from it's awesomeness at any moment!

*sarcasm meter explodes*

...oh, well. At least something exploded.

I want the plot twist at the end of the game to be that the protagonist was dreaming it all up, and wake up to find himself back in a forgotten base somewhere in god-knows-where, facing the drudgery of yet another patrol through a barren wasteland where nothing ever happens.

 

[balladbird]

And when did China start becoming the knew punching bag for modern "realistic" shooters? I can (sorta) understand the Russian bit cause of the whole Cold War bullshit. But why China?

China succeeded Russia in becoming the most powerful communist nation in existence, and the conservative right resents the country for the state of economic co-dependence we have with them, hence the ever so popular "China declares war" plots in movies and novels. Sadly for them, because of aforementioned economic co-dependence, a real war isn't feasible for either side, so armchair general escapist fantasy has to suffice.

Plus, war with russia has reached the point WW-II hit halfway through the last decade. been done and done. If you want to make it as an FPS developer, you gotta think outside(but right next to) the box.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would really like a realistic war fighter with realistic representations of actual, real-world weapons with real-world military tech...wherein every army of the world is fighting against creatures from another world and/or demons from Hell (or better yet: both).

 

[james.sponge]

I would really like a realistic war fighter with realistic representations of actual, real-world weapons with real-world military tech...wherein every army of the world is fighting against creatures from another world and/or demons from Hell (or better yet: both).

You mean terrorists?

 

[Aitamo]

You know sometimes when I just get tired of listening to the 13'theens speak or the hackers who get 50 to many kills, I do actually enjoy having the possibility to play single player, you know just by my self... And what if I by some strange reason would just want to continue playing the game I bought a day ago, but still are wanting to play alone leaving all the hackers behind.

My point in this is that, though I strongly agree BF should be played online, there should be nothing stopping you from having the possibility to just play alone for to sec, to see if the developers have put any love into what else of the game.

I even remember myself being one of the worst FPS player that have ever existed when I was younger and you guys know what I did, I warn you this is a big secret. I trained, by killing stupid AI (single player) in battlefield 2, just so I could get used to the controllers and what not that *pew pew* sound was before the enemies died.

We don't need a single player mode, but in a way we want it.
*Crawls back into my cave in the land of the Lonely RPG's*

 

[idarkphoenixi]

The first thing I said to myself was "so are we shooting Russians or Chinese?" Turns out it's both.

So, to put it short: You're Stubbles McGruff, member of the most elite American military unit ever.It's so elite we call it the "Tombstone Squad" because that's really going to play down well in the media. I know I always think of liberty and freedom when I think about graveyards.

Yeah, my opinion is pretty much what everyone else has said - Can EA just stop pretending that we actually care about the single player aspect of Battlefield.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Remember when battlefield was about being a footslogger with a shit weapon trying to climb up that goddamn Omaha beach map while the German players camped in their pillboxes?

 

[Sectan]

So what's with giving all of the protagonists some weird ass "Cool" group to belong to? Can't they just have a regular ass military group name instead of TOMBSTONE! I still have more fun with the original Ghost Recon single player than I did with BF3's singleplayer. Ordering your squad around. Having your sniper get pinned down, sending in your heavy gunner while you switch to sniper and get the fuck out of there. Damn that shit was cool.

 

[ColaWarVeteran]

You know sometimes when I just get tired of listening to the 13'theens speak or the hackers who get 50 to many kills, I do actually enjoy having the possibility to play single player, you know just by my self... And what if I by some strange reason would just want to continue playing the game I bought a day ago, but still are wanting to play alone leaving all the hackers behind.

My point in this is that, though I strongly agree BF should be played online, there should be nothing stopping you from having the possibility to just play alone for to sec, to see if the developers have put any love into what else of the game.

I even remember myself being one of the worst FPS player that have ever existed when I was younger and you guys know what I did, I warn you this is a big secret. I trained, by killing stupid AI (single player) in battlefield 2, just so I could get used to the controllers and what not that *pew pew* sound was before the enemies died.

We don't need a single player mode, but in a way we want it.
*Crawls back into my cave in the land of the Lonely RPG's*

This right here. Sometimes I just want to play alone so I can get used to the controls and such. Sometimes I just want to blow off some steam and play the game without some kid spouting curse words and racial epithets in my ear. There's nothing wrong with having a single player campaign. That aside though I wish these games would add in something like branching story paths based on your performance or achieving certain goals. Black Ops 2 tried this but it didn't really go as far as I'd wished. All your endings ended up being based on about 3 or 4 choices and most of the others just gave you a little flavor text in your mission debriefing.

 

[ColaWarVeteran]

So what's with giving all of the protagonists some weird ass "Cool" group to belong to? Can't they just have a regular ass military group name instead of TOMBSTONE!

Like what exactly? Plenty of U.S. Military Divisions have "cool" names like Hellcats or The Screaming Eagles.

 

[Colt47]

The problem I've always had with the FPS War Shooters is that they tend to focus on just one side and that one side is absolutely justified in every single respect. Command and Conquer had multiple factions with their own stories, Dynasty Warriors has the three kingdoms, Starcraft had Zerg, Protoss, and Terran, but Battlefield and Call of Duty usually have America and it's righteous allies breaking down the doors of the evil terrorists or some other logically bankrupt group.

It's fine once in a blue moon, but they really need to expand the view points a bit. Not only are they inadvertently annoying some groups, they are limiting the tactics and weapons to the side with the advanced toys. I'm actually really interested in seeing how a scrappy bunch of well trained insurgents can manage to take down a tank or some other high tech vehicle.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Remember when battlefield was about being a footslogger with a shit weapon trying to climb up that goddamn Omaha beach map while the German players camped in their pillboxes?

I remember that, fuckin MG's.

that said, being MG's and have a sniper take you out also pissed me right off.

Ended up with NOBODY being an MG in the bunker due to snipers, instead opting to just sit in tall grass on top of the hill or heck, run down and fight the Americans 'on' the beach.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I meant that capitalist America is already being indoctrinated all over the place by communists, though I could never see as good guys or be willing to play as communists. I couldn't even play CoD: World At War's Russian campaign (before I realized I shouldn't be playing CoD in the first place) because based on people killed by ideology, the Nazis were pikers compared to the Soviets...even if their politics were actually closer than they were different.

Because the Soviet represents every communist ever existed?
The Soviet and communism have nothing in commune. Saying that the Soviet represents communism is like saying Hitler represents democracy as a whole because he got elected.

I think the point was more that Communism applied in government has been a human rights failure across the board. Starting with the Soviets, and continuing with China, Cuba, etc. Show me a system that works that isn't a paper theory and maybe you can say communism is good. But as far as we've seen, its killed more people and ruined more societies than capitalism ever has.

 

[Coreless]

As a former US army tanker I find the details about the portrayal of the military absolutely laughable, to the point that its almost become a sad parody of the military instead of actually honoring it. Tombstone squad? lol ridiculous, since when did squads get call-signs? If every soldier had a call-sign it would become a real cluster f**k trying to figure out who is who if hundreds of people have individual designations over the net. Real military units make it easy by using an overall company designation and a platoon level designation which is usually a color or number to make it easier for identifying at a glance who is who.

Why are we still making games about defecting russians? The cold war has been over for decades now. We have plenty of russians already in our employment that defections would not even be necessary. I can understand the coup in Iran plot from the first game because that is actually plausible (if still outlandish), but russians? just...no. What about invading china? Why the hell would china start a war over the death of a politician when it would surely be the death of their country economically if they ever started a war with the US and its allies (for which they depend on for trade). It would also not be in our best interest to ever invade China because we are just as reliant on them as they are on us and our allies for economic stability, its just nonsensical at this point. I mean in downtown Shanghai alone there are tons of American businesses and offices so by leveling those businesses we would only be destroying our own economy.

 

[Zealous]

No details of any kind of animal companion were given.

0/10 Dice. Seriously not impressed with all the features this game is lacking. Really don't think I'm gonna buy this one unless they step up the concentration of cuddly canine combat companions in this title.

OT: What? The only reason anyone's buying this game is the multiplayer? Nah, battlefield fans have always loved shallow jingoistic interactive movies where they can't have fun with their friends in what was once one of the best multiplayer team based series of all time.

 

[Vivi22]

Oh wow. Battlefield 4's campaign. How exciting. Truly every Battlefield fan is hyped of the prospect of playing another high-quality single player campaign.

Really though. The Bad Company campaigns were at least tolerable, if a bit mundane on the gameplay side, because they didn't take it so seriously. I've been playing through BF3 now since it was free on PS+ though, and if I had actually paid for a single player campaign that bad I'd feel cheated. One of the worst I've ever seen in a AAA game.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Cue the endless bitching about games clearly not aimed at them.

Look, some people just want to shoot stuff. Be happy with the good games you get and try to get other developers to make the games you want. Bitching about this won't help any of you. People will still buy it. Take comfort in the good developers you do have.

The big problem here is Battlefield is not and never was aimed at the kind of gamer who wants a campaign. This is that rare case where the publisher really is tacking on a needless mode in an attempt to get people outside of their target audience to buy it, diverting resources away from the main point of the game in the process. It just happens to be in the reverse from the usual complaints about this sort of practice.

 

[Griffolion]

Oh yeah, I forgot Battlefield has a single player, now. Interesting for the three people that will actually play it, I guess.

 

[Erttheking]

The problem I've always had with the FPS War Shooters is that they tend to focus on just one side and that one side is absolutely justified in every single respect. Command and Conquer had multiple factions with their own stories, Dynasty Warriors has the three kingdoms, Starcraft had Zerg, Protoss, and Terran, but Battlefield and Call of Duty usually have America and it's righteous allies breaking down the doors of the evil terrorists or some other logically bankrupt group.

It's fine once in a blue moon, but they really need to expand the view points a bit. Not only are they inadvertently annoying some groups, they are limiting the tactics and weapons to the side with the advanced toys. I'm actually really interested in seeing how a scrappy bunch of well trained insurgents can manage to take down a tank or some other high tech vehicle.

Yeah, Command and Conquer had some really good ambiguous morality going on. Of course there were pure evil aliens, but aliens are ok to make always evil because fuck those guys. Here's an idea for a modern war game. America invades a country like Russia or China for extremely poor reasons because paranoia and xenophobia have climbed their way up the ranks and the war causes massive political and economic upheaval hit both countries hard. Basically a game like Modern Warfare and Battlefield but with a MASSIVE dose of realism.