Zero Punctuation: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Mromson]

Single player was cool but the MP was god awful.
Anyone else see the irony of the AD for BFBF2 overlaying the video while watching him rip into it?

Did you play the Console version of BFBC2 MP or something?

YEs I played the Console version. I loved Battlefield 1943, I enjoyed BC one but the MP in this game was garbage at best. In game you have no sense of surroundings, The grainy effect they washed the game with really does a disservice to the graphics and your ability to see crap. The leveling system is awful and the "Perk" system was uninspired. The loading just to play a mp game took longer than it needed to be and the navigation through screens was ricockulous.

I've been playing the game in MP for more than 90 hours now and I never had ANY issues knowing where I am and where stuff is. The graphics are awesome and I have no idea what grainy effects you're referring to. No idea how the "console" loading times are - but for me, the loading is next to instant.

 

[Caliostro]

Swing and a miss Yahtzee, swing and miss...

Yes, BC2's single player is shamelessly "borrowing" the setting, to put it gently, from MW (the original, not the shitty sloppy seconds). No, he gameplay is totally different. Yes, the single player totally needs work (although I'd argue you were just playing it wrong, considering I didn't have much of an issue in the mortar stage... Run).

With all those faults, it still offers the best experience I've ever had in a game. A great part of it is the MP, and we all know you don't review that, but considering the MP was largely the focus (and the SP was more of a secondary "bonus" experiment) you really should have given it a try... Then again you reviewed Borderlands as a single player game, which equally confused me (despite the fact that I don't particularly like it).

 

[Sayvara]

I hope I meet Yahtzee in a shooter some day because I'll probably shoot his nuts off more often than he swears.

The BFBC2 singleplayer campaign was in my not so humble opinion disappointingly easy (even on the highest difficulty setting) and "criminally short" as Yahtzee would have put it. It's as close to a rail-shooter as you can get without disabling WASD. Yeah, some sequences I had to do over and over, like that damned cockpit rush, but in the end I probably spent less than 10 hours on it.

Then again... DICE probably learned from Portal there: don't drag it out because people won't thank you for it. Do your things once and then move the heck on. Had I had to endure another "Run or die from hypothermia (you underdressed tosser)" sequence I would have been quite dishertened. It doesn't lend itself well to dwelling on. Just do it once for giggles.

I think the single player mode should best be regarded as a fun little novella that comes with the game (like The Dark Wheel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Wheel] to Elite) that also doubles as a tutorial for the real part of BFBC2: the multiplayer mode.

/S

 

[Bat Vader]

gotta hate realism shooters. its just too accurate to life. Give me halflife 2 any day.

I wouldn't call Modern Warfare 2 or Bad Company 2 that realistic. A realistic war shooter would be Operation Flashpoint. When you get shot in the legs you pretty much lose the ability to use them after a bullet or two.

You can even bleed to death in the game as well.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Didn't really tell me much about the game. Is it me or is he becoming increasingly harder to understand? Its like he talks faster after each review, if you could call it a review and not some series of puns that was meant to entertain people.

the funny thing is, last week everyone was complaining he was talking slower

WUUUUT?? lol. That's crazy talk, he never talks slow.

 

[De Ronneman]

Didn't really tell me much about the game. Is it me or is he becoming increasingly harder to understand? Its like he talks faster after each review, if you could call it a review and not some series of puns that was meant to entertain people.

the funny thing is, last week everyone was complaining he was talking slower

WUUUUT?? lol. That's crazy talk, he never talks slow.

Noone said "slow", just "slower".

A super sonic jet going 80 miles an hour is still pretty damned fast. I can't run that fast, can you?

About the episode: I hoped for more bile, but he's right about the dust thingy, it's hard to navigate sometimes. And the fact that a ginormous duststorm is erected the second a feather hits the floor is not a lie...

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

i will pay you to do a Zero Punctuation on the cheap porn videos under the name of "kill me with an axe please" they need a solid back hand ... to the face

Yeah, I'll get in on that too. Maybe we can get a pool going.

 

[aarontg]

It feels very ignorant to call bad company 2`s destruction system a red faction rip off, it certainly did it better than the previouse red faction games ever did in the past and just because they make total building destruction which merely adds another phase to the destruction process that was already there he plainly calls it a red faction rip off.

 

[Ghostkai]

Couldn't help but feel "where's the punch line?" this episode...
Dunno, just none of the humour touched me.

 

[Tobias Rieper]

he think its trying to be realistic, and reviews a very MP focused game.
...
...amusing in a cute, "this isn't the type of game you should review" way.

Is MP focused a PC way of saying "We suck at making video games"?

Just about anyone can make a multiplayer game that gets tons of players. There are facebook games that are just multiplayer with many times the players of BFBC2. Mainly because it doesn't take much to make a multiplayer game.

You make a game with marginally nice qualities, add in a ranking system, add in multiplayer, and you are done. The epeens will do the rest for you.

You obviously haven't played a Battlefield game. They're multiplayer focused games, just like Unreal Tournament or Counter Strike. If you complain about the singleplayer in those games, without mentioning the multiplayer, then you're doing it wrong.

 

[Maximum_Power_Cheese_Supreme]

The reason that was extremely funny for me was that it's totally true. Every car chase sequence or helicopter part is like a quick time event you can't win no matter where you shot. Several times per mission I manage to get shot at long range to death from some one I simply can't shoot back at. I guess Bad Company 2 manages to succeed at actually making you feel like you are in combat. 'Cause in reality, in combat you are most easily going to die, just like the thousands of npcs you kill in Modern Warfare 2. The only difference being the later is fun and the previous total misery.

Mind you the multilayer is really the only reason to have a Battlefield game.

Is there a logical reason for Yahtzee to use that many a penis in that review?

 

[Tobias Rieper]

Sometimes I forget that video games are incredibly serious business. Thank you, random strangers on the Internet, for reminding me.

As far as the review goes, I'm with a lot of the others in saying that, while he didn't review the multiplayer (as he has openly stated that he never does) he didn't really... tell us anything about the game other than there was a lot of dust and things were kind of ridiculous and like every other game of its type in that regard. And as someone who currently can't play online (I have a Mac, no wireless connection to my 360, and a Silver account) I'm infinitely more concerned with the single-player aspect of games, than multiplayer. So, this would have been a beneficial review for me, had I been told anything.

Then don't buy Bad Company 2. Do I have to remind you not to buy Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 (and 1942 and Vietnam), World of Warcraft, Counter Strike, Red Orchestra, Guild Wars, or whatever other multiplayer oriented game out there? I thought it was obvious enough.

 

[matt87_50]

totally agree!! bring back the real FPSs! serious sam can't do it all by himself!
THIS is how you take fps to the next generation!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLf-0KhTyxU

stupid chest high walls trying desperately to counter dumbtarded console controls and magical instantly regenerating health (which is some how more realistic than picking up a med kit) can suck my ****!

 

[soladrin]

I'm getting kind of bored of the "bring back real FPS's" argument... The minute they do that it's probably gonna get bashed for not being realistic blabla. Theres a reason they are making this kind of shooter these days: they sell better.

 

[seamusotorain]

Derp de derp herp multiplayer derp. I enjoyed the multiplayer demo, and I'd heard the story was pretty weak. If you want a FPS not made out of a grey and brown colour palette, Duke Nukem just hit the XBL Marketplace, and you can always go and play Serious Sam again.

 

[soladrin]

Derp de derp herp multiplayer derp. I enjoyed the multiplayer demo, and I'd heard the story was pretty weak. If you want a FPS not made out of a grey and brown colour palette, Duke Nukem just hit the XBL Marketplace, and you can always go and play Serious Sam again.

Define "just" It's been on XBL as long as i can remember. And it was awesome.

 

[Dark Angel Warlord]

hillarious omg hillarious thank you gawd i hated that game