1961

Watch this trailer and get 5 dog tags:

http://actofvalor.com/bf3/

1962

I think that trailer spoils that entire movie. Not that I was planning on seeing it, but wow.

1963

Cools , thanks :)

1964

Yeah it’s super long. I turned the volume off and kept it in a hidden tab.

1965

Spilled coffee all over keyboard:

1966

hahaha great video!

1967

So I’m curious on that video at the 1:41 mark, why are the guys in the tunnel bright white? Is that just for the sake of the video, or… ?

1968

Something to do with it being virtually out of bounds of the map I suspect

1969

I finished the singleplayer. It didn’t seem horrific to me. There’s just not much to it.

It helps to crank the volume way up. Make it an aural experience instead of a visual/gameplay one.

1970

Well I visited the web page when I heard about the Dr.Pepper tags, and figured I’d get mine. But after entering my details I was asked about a Dr.Pepper Can code, which of course I did not have.

Its even funnier when the web page states “No purchase necessary”.

I guess we have a different definition of free. Anyway, the Video tags were Free - in that I paid with my time and not my money -.

1971

Back to Karkand trailer:

7 point maps! Assault Conquest! New Vehicles! New Weapons! Enhanced Destruction! Enhanced Persistence! Wait. What is Enhanced Persistence?

1972

More unlocks, of course.

1973

I want to go to there.

1974

More unlocks indeed, but… i have heard some noise about a new thing called “assignments”, which can be like challenges from CoD.

1975

I think it looks bloody brilliant… Wake island is always a favorite, and so is the other maps - simply awesome.

They really know how to hook us, don’t they? At least, they have me by now.

1976

The singleplayer is a bit off.

Playing today (internet was down on my area). Is weird wen the game want you to be exactly in a spot. And the spot he want is the wrong one, the one that will get you killed. Is the game tryiing to make so you play dumb. Then you pick weapons, and choose the best weapons, but the game reset to some defaults after cutscenes.
The whole impresion is that I am a actor in a movie in a real war, and the movie director is a blooody idiot and want me to do the most stupid things that are going to get me dead. Is like in that horror movies, where a protagonist enter a tunnel, and you want to say out loud “Don’t do that!, the monster is on that hole, idiot!”. But the character still enter the hole. Only here is a videogame, and the game force you to go that hole. I know a lot of games (mostly COD clones) use this system, so maybe is unfair to criticize BF3 for it. Is a mountain of shit. Make absolutelly no sense that a singleplayer game is like this. I dunno. Is like FPS games have evolved to “no-games” or “shitty-games”. Where other genres have become more fun, the FPS singleplayer seems in ruins. This is crap.
I know, I never bought BF3 for the singleplayer, but one thing is to think that, and other is to play it.

Also, I really miss the IR visor, or the ability to spot enemy soldiers. I always use Q on enemy soldiers as a habit, and does nothing on the singleplayer, is very weird to me.

1977

I thought it was terrible, but I’ve also been playing Bulletstorm, Borderlands and Hard Reset - all cheap - plus Rage. The QTE shooter is a sub-sub-genre.

1978

I’ve been slogging through single-player levels every now and then. It looks really pretty, but it’s so lackluster, especially with the mind-blowing levels of awesomeness that is multiplayer just a click away. It’s too rigid and scripted. You can say the same thing about COD, but at least COD manages the rigid and scripted to feel like the world is exploding around you 24/7. I keep thinking about the insanity that is defending the Burger Town in MW2, or carving your way through DC’s suburbs, or the Siege-of-Berlin-style defense of DC. It’s ridiculously over-the-top, but that’s why it works.

And the M1 tank level really disappointed me. I’m about as big a treadhead as you can be, and that just bored me to tears. It’s almost impossible to lose, there’s never any real sense of danger, and I’m just going through the motions. If it had been anything like Crysis’ tank level, that would have been awesome.

1979

I’m amazed by how bad the SP is. It’s, like, completely mind-numbingly stupid. It’s almost insultingly bad.

And Jesus, Teiman; I love you. “Is a mountain of shit” made me laugh like hell.

1980

You can say the same thing about COD, but at least COD manages the rigid and scripted to feel like the world is exploding around you 24/7

I dunno, the CODBLOPS and COD:MW2 single player were pretty damn mind-numbing to me. And I thought some of the setpieces were quite fun, like the guys with all the automatic shotguns in the basement shooting gallery.