Yeah, the franchise has been raked over the coals. For me, it peaked somewhere near the end of BF2. Once they completely nerfed the blackhawk and then released 2142, it was over.
I can't believe that everyone loves BC2 and BF3 so much. These threads make me feel like an old man talking about how much better these older games obviously are.
Nah. I find a ton of people who like BC2 dislike BF3. I loved the HELL out of BF2 and I like BC2, but hate the goddamn hell out of BF3. The thing about BC2, it was always supposed to be different from the mainline battlefeld series, like Battlefield modern combat or such.
It did what it did VERY well, it had great frostbite implementation and the maps were designed around them very nicely. It had smaller maps, and fewer classes, but it limited the proliferation of scopes to EVERYONE which made it a ton more fun. It also had an extremely unique feel. There is no game that has the feel BC2 did.
BF3 just feels like playing modern warfare all over again. And the frostbite implementation just makes me angry. I had a situation where I was tracking a guy with a tank, shot at the wall he was hiding behind, blew it up and damaged him. Tracked his little orange triangle (God I hate that damn orange triangle) behind another wall, shot it, and... bam, it was one of the random indestructible walls that is impervious to tank shells next to a destructible wall.
What the hell is that. Either design the map to take full advantage of terrain and make it work consistantly, or don't use it at all. You can't just take BF2 maps and inconsistently add destruction to it. The map design doesn't work with that shit.
Bf2 was the highlight of the series though. BF2142 I had a ton of fun with too. The Pilium may be one of my favorte weapons ever in a game.An anti tank sniper is too good to pass up.
