Why Battlefield: Bad Company isn't that good.

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#1 Hickamie14
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The only reason in my opinion is this. RANDOM F***ING DEATHS! This game has sooo many of them it's ridiculous, the one thing I can't stand in video games is absolute confusion. Yea the destruction is great, the sound is amazing, and the vehicles are fun, but after a few deaths your going to start getting pissed off at how quickly your dying and how. You can just be walking around and then all of a sudden you just die, no warning at all. Then all it gives you is some little symbol for what killed you. As if anyone knows what those are. It's completely pointless to spawn by your squad because you immediately die from some far off thing, but if you span back at the base you have to walk for like one minute until the fighting, because for whatever reason, there is never any vehicles. Not that it matters, because once you got in a vehicle you would magically die.
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#2 PacBoy23
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stopped reading at random deaths because i know where it is coming from because it turns to them and looking at your user picture and seeing halo 3 icon just stick with halo 3 in call of duty 4 if you think your dying randomly then battlefield isnt your game and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever. I doubt you ever even play and Im top in the achievement number 48 check so I play alot and I know.
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#3 kerrman
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I'm good at games, so this never happens to me. Thus, I love this game.
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#4 torontomapleafs
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Think about it, in real life when you die its going to be something like BAM! Dead!. Its an awsome game and i like the fact the game doesnt have a stupid kill cam.
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#5 Hickamie14
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stopped reading at random deaths because i know where it is coming from because it turns to them and looking at your user picture and seeing halo 3 icon just stick with halo 3 in call of duty 4 if you think your dying randomly then battlefield isnt your game and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever. I doubt you ever even play and Im top in the achievement number 48 check so I play alot and I know.PacBoy23
I understand where you're coming from, I'm just angry that I spent 60 bucks on a game I don't enjoy, that's all. I really wish I was like you and knew all that stuff but I'm not. And anyway the only reason I have that Halo 3 thing is because I put it in while the Halo 3 hype machine was running and I don't know how to change it:(
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#6 Hickamie14
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Think about it, in real life when you die its going to be something like BAM! Dead!. Its an awsome game and i like the fact the game doesnt have a stupid kill cam.torontomapleafs
At a certain point video games need to be fake, like in this instance. I like the kill cam, it leaves you knowing how you died and not confused, I wish more games had it.
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#7 PacBoy23
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[QUOTE="PacBoy23"]stopped reading at random deaths because i know where it is coming from because it turns to them and looking at your user picture and seeing halo 3 icon just stick with halo 3 in call of duty 4 if you think your dying randomly then battlefield isnt your game and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever. I doubt you ever even play and Im top in the achievement number 48 check so I play alot and I know.Hickamie14
I understand where you're coming from, I'm just angry that I spent 60 bucks on a game I don't enjoy, that's all. I really wish I was like you and knew all that stuff but I'm not. And anyway the only reason I have that Halo 3 thing is because I put it in while the Halo 3 hype machine was running and I don't know how to change it:(

sorry if it sounded like I was ripping you but this game is my baby and I have had it since monday and willing to protect it all cost because it truly deserves triple A other than the lackluster conclusion

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#8 deactivated-57af49c27f4e8
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that's what happens in a real war. people get blasted without even knowing it.
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#9 kerrman
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[QUOTE="torontomapleafs"]Think about it, in real life when you die its going to be something like BAM! Dead!. Its an awsome game and i like the fact the game doesnt have a stupid kill cam.Hickamie14
At a certain point video games need to be fake, like in this instance. I like the kill cam, it leaves you knowing how you died and not confused, I wish more games had it.

In my opinion that ruins the game, I love Call Of Duty 4, and the killcam is indeed a great addition, but when you're in a huge war and a sniper half a mile away picks you off, the killcam then gives away where he is. Ruining camping (which could be a positive), but also affectively ruining sniping and tactics.

I think you should keep playing the game dude, you'll get better, take cover more often and be a little more tactical. That way you won't be dying out of no where. No offense, but the Halo icon kinda gives away that you like that kind of game, which BC is not. It requires you to think about what you do, Halo is in the ranks of Quake and Doom, where you just kinda run around and shoot everything and anything.

EDIT: Just noticed your post about the Halo icon, so ignore that part. haha

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#10 Hickamie14
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[QUOTE="Hickamie14"][QUOTE="PacBoy23"]stopped reading at random deaths because i know where it is coming from because it turns to them and looking at your user picture and seeing halo 3 icon just stick with halo 3 in call of duty 4 if you think your dying randomly then battlefield isnt your game and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever. I doubt you ever even play and Im top in the achievement number 48 check so I play alot and I know.PacBoy23

I understand where you're coming from, I'm just angry that I spent 60 bucks on a game I don't enjoy, that's all. I really wish I was like you and knew all that stuff but I'm not. And anyway the only reason I have that Halo 3 thing is because I put it in while the Halo 3 hype machine was running and I don't know how to change it:(

sorry if it sounded like I was ripping you but this game is my baby and I have had it since monday and willing to protect it all cost because it truly deserves triple A other than the lackluster conclusion

I understand, I was the same with Halo 3, well until I realized how poor it is.
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#11 SomaticDeath
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well TC if you didnt suck so much at video games then you wouldnt have "random" deaths, just look around to where you think you got shot. Either hide, heal, or find a medic, it's not that hard
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#12 ascendentjustic
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my only problem with the online is that it takes way too many bullets to kill one guy. it seems like you end up unloading a third of your clip on one guy, and he still ends up living
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#13 deactivated-586291ff5899b
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I don't have it yet - but a buddy of mine does. I asked him how was it - he said he almost threw his controller as he was killed 4 x's in a row just as he spawned back into the game.

One thing that I think really sucks about this game is the fact you can't go prone in the game. Some people say it's too hard to kill snipers who are prone - too bad I say - deal with it !!! A few times while playing the demo, I needed to reload but couldn't duck down enough to hide, so my head was exposed - got plugged by the guy across the way on top of a building I was trying to kill. That pissed me off to no end !!!

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#14 TomWithGas
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stopped reading at random deaths because i know where it is coming from because it turns to them and looking at your user picture and seeing halo 3 icon just stick with halo 3 in call of duty 4 if you think your dying randomly then battlefield isnt your game and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever. I doubt you ever even play and Im top in the achievement number 48 check so I play alot and I know.PacBoy23

This comment is cool, because its a prime example of blind fanboi rage.

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#15 ARO1993
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everyone says this but people dont realize that if u do custom match and set it to hard then the health gets alot better
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#16 EnderSR388
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I think you're frustrated at the mortar strikes. I really didn't like this game, based on what I played in the demo, but now that I can play more then Oasis, I'm having a blast. The only thing that I wish the BF series would do away with is the icons over everyones heads. It makes it far to easy to see people and is a perfect tool snipers, mostly. But I guess if they didn't have them, then everyone would just head out to the fringes of the map and snipe. Kinda like Blackhawk Down on the XBOX. :?
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#17 Wardemon50
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The kill-cam is the worst invention known to man. It makes you look like a tard. I unload a clip on a guy, he gets hurt, I die, and the kill-cam says I never was even looking at him. God I hate that thing
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#18 x4skill
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How about a game that's really real. Like you die and then that's it! No more playing. That would be sweet!
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#19 Wardemon50
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They have one. It's a flash game they featured on Kotaku. Look for it.
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#20 TIE_Elite_Pilot
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[QUOTE="torontomapleafs"]Think about it, in real life when you die its going to be something like BAM! Dead!. Its an awsome game and i like the fact the game doesnt have a stupid kill cam.Hickamie14
At a certain point video games need to be fake, like in this instance. I like the kill cam, it leaves you knowing how you died and not confused, I wish more games had it.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this one. I love how BFBC pushes the realism to a new level. And I'll admit, when I first played the MP, lack of a kill cam was kind of jarring, but after a few matches (back in the demo) I got around it. IMO, CoD4 and BFBC are nothing alike, and hence you have to switch mindsets while playing. I don't play Halo 3 like I play Gears (they're both Sci-Fi, but they play very differently), and same goes for BFBC. CoD4 is the Halo of the modern day (setting) shooters, I always did just fine running and gunning like Rambo. BFBC, I play more like Gears, cover is important, and so is being sneaky.

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#21 AzzoLovesBirdy
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I stopped reading at random deathsPacBoy23

and no vehicles because people use them and get them destroyed but I always see vehicles but whatever.



Didn't you stop reading at "Random Deaths"?

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#22 Govesticrash187
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Well I kinda disagree. If you are really observant, you can usually see who is shooting you. Plus, the few random deaths I have had I didn't mind cuz you can just respawn w/out any consequences.
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#23 chex81
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theres no doubt random deaths SUCK...the killcam is definitely a great innovation for online shooters

with that said, BF:BC is still much better than COD4 overall...so i can overlook it

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#24 EnderSR388
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BFBC, I play more like Gears, cover is important....TIE_Elite_Pilot

Not so much. Especially when it gets exploded in your face! I've learned that in BF:BC, you're not safe anywhere! lol

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#25 Hickamie14
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How about a game that's really real. Like you die and then that's it! No more playing. That would be sweet! x4skill
That sounds terrible IMO.
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#26 kerrman
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[QUOTE="x4skill"]How about a game that's really real. Like you die and then that's it! No more playing. That would be sweet! Hickamie14
That sounds terrible IMO.

Not a fan of sarcasm are we?

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#27 Strife88
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I understand where you're coming from, I'm just angry that I spent 60 bucks on a game I don't enjoy, that's all.Hickamie14

Since this game is a lot more different than anything else that's why they had the demo out, so that when it comes out the people that like the game will buy it and those like you won't end up saying ''everyone don't buy this game, you die in four seconds." Considering the amount of work a company like DICE puts in their games they don't need people to put their games down because it lacks their tastes.
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#28 camcbri
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Relax and play a little be more deliberately than you're used to. Don't team spawn just anywhere on the map; use your ten seconds to see what's happening. I like to sneak around and pick people off, so that give me one of those "random" kills when I get the newly spawned guy. Also, remember that artillery is the devil. Stay out of open areas and spread your fire team out so the artillery gunner doesn't pick up on you so easily.

After a few rounds of more cautious play (or unlocking the health thing) you will feel right at home.