Destructoid Review: Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand

You may not be aware of it but EA just took a 2.7 GB dump on your hard drive. Within the latest patch for Battlefield 3 lies its first expansion Back to Karkand (B2K, brah!) Far less ambitious than the Vietnam expansions of the series’ past, B2K is an effort at mixing some old maps (all taken from Battlefield 2) with some new tech and ideas.

[KrystofKage1]

Destructoid review's make Gamespot look good. After reading the MW3 review, followed by the embarrassing editorial defending it, the site lost all credibility.

[coolbeans]

I'm guessing everyone you disagree with loses credibility in your eyes.

[KrystofKage1]

Let's pretend I am, what about the masses who also agree? Are you going to pretend they are just narrow-minded jerks as well? Whenever a publication has to post an article defending their views, usually there is something wrong with that. Especially when the article essentially calls anyone who disagrees with them hipsters who only hate on MW3 because it's cool to do so.

And to compare it to Half-life was borderline trolling. Half-Life innovated, MW3 imitated.

[Agent-86]

@KrystofKage1, I'm with you. They gave MW3 a 9.5 while only giving BF3 a 7.5. Wow! Giving a tired retread a 9.5? That's just "opposite land" in my view. And, now, only giving B2K a 7? What a bunch of bozos!

[coolbeans]

"Let's pretend I am..."

I found this a funny way to open your statement.

"Whenever a publication has to post an article defending their view, usually there is something wrong with that."

You're going to have to give proof of this to back up an insinuation like this. Whenever publications do this, it's normally to dive deeper into a review to allow the publication to deal with the usually heated traffic. Give a game 'too low of a score' by so many or too high, and usually the average site goers are interested to hear even more about this product before losing sixty dollars. Publication's examining the game even furthur with a follow up is a good thing.

"...the article essentially calls anyone who disagrees with them hipsters who only hate on MW3 because it's cool to do so."

Look at your first statement! All you do is state one sentence about Destructiod losing credibility because of the opinion of one reviewer and you'll probably get bubbles by a few n4g posters. Knowing this and how often the most popular statement is simply a trolling article, how can one not assume everyone's just hating on it to be cool? I'm not saying there's legitimate complaints against the CoD series' progression, but the majority making those complaints can rarely make a normal sentence (ie "CoD IZ STUPEED!").

"And to compare it to Half-life was borderline trolling."

I'd say that's a very disagreeable comparison, but trolling? Did you...*sigh*...nevermind, the irony's kind of overwhleming at this point.

[KrystofKage1]

"I found this a funny way to open your statement."
Ya, it is. Because it shows even if I was the antichrist, my point is solid: the review was turd, and the majority agreed.

"You're going to have to give proof of this to back up an insinuation like this. Whenever publications do this, it's normally to dive deeper into a review to allow the publication to deal with the usually heated traffic"
-Gamespot for one. And whenever a publication does it, it's to defend itself. Nice way to mask it as something else, though. The fact remains that they received enormous negative feedback.

"how can one not assume everyone's just hating on it to be cool? "
-With that said, you are either an editor of Destructoid, or an Activision plant. Or desperate to prove a point you know is dumb. Yes, this is one big conspiracy, we all hate MW3 because it's so cool!

"I'd say that's a very disagreeable comparison, but trolling? Did you...*sigh*...nevermind, the irony's kind of overwhleming at this point. "
-I agree, the irony of your comments are overwhelming.

[coolbeans]

- Your point just shows how Destructoid's follow-up rings true (in most cases). In three posts, you've made NO agruements against the context of either this review or MW3's review that you're blantantly trashing. How can you possibly think your point is solid by looking at your previous statements?

- " And whenever a publication does it, it's to defend itself."

Umm...yeah it is defending its opinion...by diving deeper into the review given (what masking?). You mean to tell me after a review has been given the reviewer can no longer speak about the game or explain certain facets even further as to how he/she arrived at his/her decision? It's absolute nonsense to think a site doing a follow-up to their initial review is a sign of weakness.

Sigh...do you honestly think receiving a huge amount of negative feedback on a review actually shows the quality of a review? Don't you think that comparison, feedback/quality of review, mirrors that of say...sales/quality of game? You mean to tell me that a vocal internet majority, the same majority that's scouring metacritic every second, is really the most rational group of people? Give me a percentage of this "enormous" amount of posters who actually challenge the context of the review AND read the full review.

- "(Your retort>)With that said, you are either an editor of Destructoid, or an Activision plant. . . .Yes, this is one big conspiracy, we all hate MW3 because it's so cool!(<your defense)"

I just felt like giving you an example of what irony is (if you understand my point of view from reading this). I didn't come in here to insinuate MW3 detractors are just hipsters or trying to be cool. I did want to have a rational follow up to your inital statement to see if your point was going anywhere, but-to your own demsie-you only encourage me to expound upon my initial reply to show just how true it rings with most users on here.

[rattletop]

Gulf of 'Omen' hahaha.. first it was 'karkland' now this..

[venom06]

Destructoid can SUCK A FAT HARD SLOPPY SCHLONG!!! they are STILL all burthurt because they didn't receeive a "review copy" of the game originally, thus the ONLY reason they gave it a low score on their first garbage ass review..... this just part 2 of their whinefest because they didn't get a chance to review it first... Everyone @ desrtuctoid can go to "you know where"....

[Ocean]

Mmmmmm i take it all the upcoming COD DLC will receive the same treatment

Off work from Tuesday till Jan 4th, so will be enjoying the Karkand DLC over xmas