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[QUOTE="Dead-Memories"] when the first disc is multiplayer/co-op certain implications are made.... bf 3 is not about the single player at all, regardless of mindless ad campaigns. XVision84
Well mostly EA, my buddies, and some people here on SW. In fact I remember Wasdie saying that it looked like it would be awesome, and I trust 80% of what he says (70% now).
I mean, they showed some of the best aspects of the campaign. It looks like this fantastic cinematic but also fun to play game, with AI bounding from car to car, sweet destruction, an open looking tank battle in the desert, etc. Then you find out its 90% mediocre CoD rip off with QTE's and bad AI, 8% cutscenes and loading after EVERY DEATH (seriously), and 2% actual interesting and awesome gameplay (mainly the middle part of the sniper mission and some of Dima's missions).
But yeah, its an MP game first and foremost, and I really wish they either stuck all the resources towards multi, or got another team or part of their team to focus on making the game more then a glorified mechanic tutorial.
Yes, they should have put forth all their effort into the multiplayer, but remember that this is an Activision vs EA sort of thing. If EA didn't include a singleplayer, Activision can say "Battlefield 3 has no story, but our CoD provides an excellent fast-paced campaign topped with good co op and multiplayer, why not buy CoD over Battlefield?". That would lose them sales.
I'm still debating whether or not this is a good thing.
On the one hand, the competition means BOTH franchises will strive to be better. If BC2 didn't become a potential threat to CoD, I don't think EA would have poured as much marketing and time into BF3, while I also think its something Activision will consider and hopefully make some beneficial changes to the CoD formula to prevent it.
On the other hand, it means EA is trying to shoehorn in stuff for the CoD audience instead of stuff for the Battlefield audience. The campaign and co-op were basically a poor man's MW campaign and co-op, and if I wanted to play a better version of them I'd just play Call of Duty. They also ended up having Metro as the beta map (contrary to the beta maps they used with BC2, which were full of vehicles and destruction, though I admit I actually like Metro now), and they had all those commercials and ads that were basically just annoying Publisher versions of the one upping dbag storyteller at a party, just namedropping CoD and being "oh we're SOOOO much better" while fostering the dumb fanboy hate we see now further then normal.
It also doesn't help that the game seems rushed to try and directly compete, which wasn't an issue for BC2 (which had a few extra months over its supposed December 2009 release date).
I love the multiplayer though, and I do not regret buying it at all. Damn do I hate Origin's downloader, but other then that I love BF3, and I personally enjoy the multiplayer MUCH more (but yeah, the co-op and campaign still suck, and MW3's mp isn't too bad I guess).
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