Battlefield 3’s campaign was not good. That said, I have enjoyed all the Modern Warfare campaigns, and despite the endless bitching on internet gaming forums, clearly so do millions of other people, many of whom never even touch multiplayer modes (for some reason). They’re mindless but fun, like an amusement park ride.
Battlefield 3’s single-player campaign, OTOH, is mindless and not fun, like waiting in line at the DMV.
The co-op is worse. I’ve already died twice on the 3rd mission and I literally can’t force myself to click on it again, even though part of me is compelled to check it off my list.
Oh, huh, guess I was wrong then. Carry on. :)
Some people would play a singleplayer Counterstrike. Some people are Warren. But I’m not sure they are statistically significant.
Hilarious. Thanks for posting it, forgeforsaken.
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I might be wrong and I’ll admit that I’m basing my opinion off of my experience with Unreal Tournament and Gears but the number of people who play online is actually a pretty low % of the overall user base. Players, in my experience, are VASTLY more interested in single player and MP with bots.
I’m curious now … have the COD guys ever released numbers that would show how many people play online VS those who don’t and things like that?
This just in: the vast majority of people are fucking retarded.
This is why I generally avoid multiplayer. Or at least, multiplayer with random strangers.
I don’t know about Call of Duty which is still coasting on the ability of MW1 to deliver spectacle and cool setting in an unremarkable gameplay package, but I have never heard anything about Battlefield games that would suggest that anyone has ever bought them for singleplayer except by accident. FWIW, and I’m sure there’s that one guy who will show up to demonstrate the edge cases.
Gears I would put in a totally different category in terms of how well-regarded its campaign is relative to the multiplayer content, and I’m not sure the UT example is all that relevant outside of its particular moment in time. I mean, I remember messing with bots but mostly as an artifact of not having much else to play.
I bought Battlefield Bad Company 2 for the single-player, but it is a notably unusual entry in the series for even having a decent single-player campaign at all. I wouldn’t for the rest of them.
The difference between UT and Battlefield games is that UT games were actually good single-player games. Just bot-matches, but with solid AI. I probably played the UT games offline as much as I played them on.
The Battlefield games have always been awful, awful single-player games, though. It boggles my mind that anyone would buy them solely for that.
It’s funny, I usually can’t stand multiplayer games, yet I’ve played the HELL out of the original Unreal Tournament in multiplayer. I think it’s a mix of not taking itself too seriously, as well as excellent weapon, bot and level design. I logged on recently too, after buying it from GoG, and there’s still plenty of people playing online.
Forgive me if you’ve posted this before, but what was the average % of online players vs sales for the UT games?
EA deserves the slagging for even attempting to outstupid the MW franchise, but no matter what they or the marketing says, I doubt that the majority of fans bought it for the singleplayer.
The first one only had singleplayer with bots - and Tom Chick is the only person on the planet interested in playing MP games with bots - and the rest didn’t bother. Single player didn’t make an appearance in the series again before they decided to do their console offshots with the Bad Company games.
I’d say that BC1 had a decent campaign, helped by what I thought were at least colorful characters in your squad. BC2 managed to make things slightly more interesting, and again the squadmates helped round out that experience.
Battlefield 3’s campaign, meanwhile, is possibly one of the poorest FPS experiences I’ve had since Haze. Hmm, that’s a bit harsh of me… Haze did have better enemy AI.
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Uncharted is on the lime light. That shines upon its crucifix.
