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DICE ponders: what did people really like about Battlefield: Bad Company?

Battlefield fans have long called for another Bad Company game. In fact, before this year's Battlefield game was announced, some had hoped it would turn out to be Bad Company 3, not Battlefield Hardline.

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ramiuk13610d ago

it reminded me of the film kellys heroes

ArchangelMike3610d ago (Edited 3610d ago )

It reminded me of the film Three Kings. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Firstly it was the single player campaign, and the fact that you could blow-up most of the buildings... in single player. Now the single player portions of the Battlefield games might as well be on-rail shooters for their complete lack of variety.

PeaSFor3609d ago

its all about the humor, nothing else.

MWong3609d ago

It honestly reminded me of Three Kings also, but with humor. I loved the game and the single player was just fun to play. Then when you went to the multiplayer that was just amazing.

VaporCell3609d ago

As said before, I really think what made it special was the destruction and the fact it wasn't a bro-shooter ! Every game tries hard to be "cool" and place the setting to be way too serious...BC really felt refreshing...Also not so much bullcrap and emphasis on endless customization.

badz1493609d ago

for me it's the SP campaigns! so refreshing and full of humor and the stories are quite good and enjoyable compared to BF3 and BF4 where you're just a disposable soldier in the uber-generic storylines like one of those movies directed by Micheal Bay! all KABOOM but no substance!

MP are awesome too with full destruction and stuff!

it boggles my mind how in the hell did they come from awesome BFBC to poop like BF3 and BF4? I'm talking about the campaign, of course and why the hell did they tone down the destruction?

like some of you guys here have said, I doubt I want them to touch BFBC series ever again as it might leave a bad taste if NF3 and NF4 are any indication for what to come! SMH at you guys DICE!

iamnsuperman3610d ago

Lack of seriousness. It was just fun and the characters worked well together. I was a little bit disappointed with BFBC2 as they took a more serious route. Go back to them just going awol stealing stuff

vallencer3609d ago

I miss the sounds from when you got your patches and awards from bad company 1!!! I miss that the most. Also when you knifed someone and got their dog tags. The first bad company was the best in terms of tone. The second one had the better game play.

Utalkin2me3609d ago

Not only was the destruction better. The gameplay was better and netcode was very solid. The game wasn't trying to do to much and was very well balanced.

gedapeleda3609d ago

The goofy campaign was great but what stood out the most was the competitive Multiplayer which had quite a learning curve, you can still find people playing it unlike BC2 so dice should definitely go in the bc1 direction.
Probably one of my favorite games I'd love DICE endlessly if they'd make a direct sequel to the first one.

MRMagoo1233609d ago

I think the fact it wasnt a bug riddles mess it why it was so popular.

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Hellsvacancy3610d ago

Come on who doesn't like trying to outrun a helicopter in a golf cart?

Bad Company was plain old fun, I wouldn't want another Bad Company game, I did for a long time but if they did another one it wouldn't be a good as the older games, they'll find away to screw it up

I used to play Bad Company 1/2 daily, BF4 I play once a week, that should say enough

ramiuk13609d ago

aye when a series is left for a few years and devs go another direction,they never nail what made it good when they go back.

BlackTar1873609d ago

Hopefully that isn't true for H-Hour

momonaboy3609d ago

I loved Bad Company and BC:2 even more! to me it was all about the destruction, by the end of the match almost everything was rubble, barely any structures standing.

Besides Levolution, the newer games don't have as much destruction.

Goro3609d ago

The destruction. Also i preferred the original Frostbite 1 engine over Frostbite 2 or 3.

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The Argument for Battlefield: Bad Company Remakes

With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.

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thorstein130d ago

Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.

When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:

“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.

Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."

(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)

SonyStyled130d ago (Edited 130d ago )

I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)

Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.

RNTody129d ago (Edited 129d ago )

What is so hard to understand for them?

Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD

INMATEofARKHAM129d ago

Probably should add a fun campaign to the list.

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72417d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel417d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon417d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim416d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai417d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341417d ago (Edited 417d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai417d ago (Edited 417d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341417d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313417d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald416d ago (Edited 416d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra416d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai416d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra416d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade416d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra416d ago (Edited 416d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno417d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149417d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop417d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb416d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole417d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled417d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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New Battlefield Single-Player Campaign Adds DICE As A Co-Developer

Halo veteran Marcus Lehto's studio, Ridgeline, will now be joined by DICE on the project.

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HyperMoused442d ago

2042 just die so a real BF game can be created