Bad Company proves DICE used to be competent

[@wangchung2157]

For a while me and my friends played BC1 and BC2 exclusively even more than COD 2 and Halo 3 it was that freaking good I genuinely loved BC2 I still think its the peak of online Battlefield

[@amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510]

Definitely B2 multiplayer was brilliant and 3 also imo

[@echodelta2172]

BC2 is still alive on PC

[@Pattamatt1998]

It's not a perfect game, but its peaks very much cancel out the handful of gripes I have. I think BF3 is a better game overall but I'd be lying if I said I didn't prefer BC2.

[@_gungrave_6802]

@@echodelta2172 and also played more than most other games in the franchise.

[@SomeoneStoleMyHandle911]

Bad company was peak multiplayer for any EA game ever

[@TheMC1102]

Bad Company is like Titanfall and Half-Life: it's devs can't count to 3.

[@histhoryk2648]

Let's think about it do you really want Bad Company 3 made by devs responsible for 2042

[@NexusKin]

And also Left 4 Dead and Portal as well.

[@gastone2168]

@@histhoryk2648 same thing I thought, better have a great memory than an actual nightmare.

[@jacobjones4766]

@@NexusKin left 4 dead devs made back 4 blood like this year dude

[@jaroslavmrazek5752]

@@jacobjones4766 ​ Only 7 people out of 200 that worked on L4D worked on Back 4 blood hence why it sucks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5W1fYGLfNJ5eZo

[@echodelta2172]

Man, it's like a demonstration of "remember when games were fun?" Also, it's pretty rough it never got ported to PC. The graphics could have been made much more livable. High school me with no Xbox live thought this game with its 20-30 FPS campaign was the best evar.

[@Snowmaninadesert]

its more of remember wen companys made a lot of really good games

[@PartyhatRS]

Evar lol

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

Well, games are still fun. I would argue a lot of them are way more fun than back then. Abd I certainly don’t miss 7th gen shooter, no thank you, sir.

[@MarieAvora]

55 FOV

[@NexusKin]

I didn't like the fact that the graphics had a grainy foggy filter over them. That was my biggest issue with the graphics.

[@ozymandias3097]

BC2 multiplayer was my “Golden Age” of gaming. I miss those days so much.

[@honeybadger6275]

For me it was runescape, lucky for me I can boot that up anytime.

[@choklatecheeseburger]

Same man. So much fun.

[@JOHNBURG1917]

The Vietnam ad on was the shit.

[@honeybadger6275]

@@JOHNBURG1917 It was pretty good, not as good as the original vietnam game though.

[@T4nkcommander]

@@honeybadger6275 BF Vietnam was the only BF that disappointed me prior to BF3. BC2 Vietnam was so much better

[@sd-dt8qy]

I wish Oboe would narrate my life with his golf announcer voice

[@doubleemcastillano464]

Realistically, most regular troops only have a main arm and not a side arm. Snipers would require a sidearm because their primary weapon is a long range engagement type weapon. So it mostly makes sense.

[@freshglizzy3763]

Oboe's jokes always hit. I don't know how this man does it

[@remy7815]

Yeah cus he edits out the bad ones💀

[@usdjxavi]

I hope it’s drugs - good drugs

[@birdwife589]

literally

[@dafunktrunk]

If you make a 1000 bad jokes, you're bound to make some killer good jokes

[@TheReZisTLust]

Depends on the person. 🤭

[@diligentone-six2688]

The Destruction Physics, OP Power Tool, Finding Gold and the Comedic Dialogue makes this franchise stand out.

[@pyrrhus2714]

I played this game way more than I care to admit. Easily in my top 5 most nostalgic games of all time

[@NexusKin]

This game without a doubt has the best Battlefield campaign ever. The level of freedom, destruction, diversity and personality it has is so great that none of the future entries have measured up in my opinion.

[@Ahmadmallah88]

Now it’s a piece of history😪😪 I hope they remaster this I can’t move on.

[@rramos117]

Flying the Apache in BC1 (2008) was super fun with a friend as gunner. We’d call out targets, dodge RPGs, and land in remote places to repair. I’ll never forget one Rush match on End of the Line. Attackers had 2 apaches and then we stole the defenders’ Hind from the port, so 3 helicopters raining destruction for next 15 mins. Best memories.

[@Gameprojordan]

I love Bad Company 1. Bought it on release and played the hell out of it both single player and online. The only downside is the bad FOV. I always found the realistic gun firing sounds super cool, and how the firing sounds would change if you were inside or outside, aswell as the destructible environment. Those features were insanely novel in 2008. Another thing I enjoyed is the sniper classes ghillie suits would actually help blend you into the foliage when playing multi-player, unlike say COD4 where you still stuck out. I remember hiding inside little shrubs on the sides of roads and airstriking enemy tanks as they drove past me 😂 they had no idea where I was lol

[@machina_spirit]

Dont forgot also how your hearing would distort and blow out when a tank shell landed near you, or if you were standing too close to a tank firing its cannon or a grenade haha. Such awesome and immersive sound design, wish new games were as good

[@Gameprojordan]

@@machina_spirit yesssss I love that, also your microphone blowing out and making loud beepy scratchy noises from the explosion. And the realistic sounds of despair soldiers would make when injured or fired at, plus there was a good amount of swearing in the game. Pretty sure it's the only T rated game I've ever played where people would say "shit" on a regular basis. Also what's interesting is battlefield managed to pull off these realistic gun sounds over a decade before COD did. CoD only started implementing realistic firing sounds when modern warfare 2019 came out, this game pulled that off in 2008

[@rramos117]

Brooooo the BC1 sniper being able to call in JDAM was so cheap. You could steer the bomb away from vehicles and drop it on unsuspecting people in buildings. They’re like wtf. Also you could RPG the gold crates from across the map until they were destroyed. Rarely lost a Rush match, great times.

[@samw2670]

You make me hate snipers even more in this game. Heavy camping in this game

[@jonbaxter2254]

Man, this sucks. I used to play this demo all the damn time, loved it. Wish they made a 3rd.

[@user-lr8pk7un1x]

I genuinely don't think they can make a 3rd nowadays without removing what everyone liked about the first two

[@echodelta2172]

@@user-lr8pk7un1x right on, you do not want current-year DICE making anything related to Bad Company

[@ish8966]

Funny thing is apparently bad company 3 was pitched, but they went with 2042 instead because they thought "it wouldn't sell"

[@echodelta2172]

@@ish8966 EA and DICE are run by out of touch suits and SJWs at this point. I'm glad they chose to ruin a new game instead of a beloved one.

[@themilkman8554]

@@ish8966 that decision alone put the nail in the coffin... funny to wonder what shit would've been like if they. went with a BC3

[@trail-wolf4x4]

THERES GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLSS!!! Honestly I think this game nailed squad dynamics and interactions, the dialogue had genuine funny moments oh and there was guns n shooty stuff Environmental destruction was neat

[@mr.2cents.846]

The squad made the game. The difference characters. "Didn't we just shoot these guys?"

[@glamrockbonnie5983]

Yes finally a legend plays a legendary game

[@DyonisX]

Our play session will be legendary!

[@notfriendlystudios1643]

I always thought the Bad Company 1 Cqmpaign was super overlooked, thanks for givin it, it's proper do dilligance.

[@OneNationUnderGod.45]

BFBC1 was my first online Battlefield experience, I remember how much that games multiplayer blew me away. The destruction, the graphics, the sounds, the immersion, it was unmatched by anything else at that time. Those days of online gaming were so beautiful.

[@1111Tactical]

The destruction is still mostly unmatched to this day

[@histhoryk2648]

7th gen was a golden era of gaming and this channel is a proof for that

[@NexusKin]

7th generation was the last good generation of gaming, before corporate exploitation took over and completely ruined everything.

[@davidsplooge14]

@@NexusKin everything?

[@bigboysdotcom745]

7th generation was borderline awful. It casualized every game franchise and finally perfected the formula of "how do we get people to keep buying the same game every year, almost on brand recognition and copypasted features alone?"

[@tiredofthisshieeet]

Bad Company 2 online multiplayer is still in my top 3 Battlefield multiplayers of all time. So much damn fun holy shit

[@Hoshcof]

I run the Chibi-Robo! Wiki and was so surprised by the mention of the little robot in this video haha. Been binging your videos the past few days and really enjoying your content.

[@Web720]

Used to play this, my first introduction to BF. Best SP for a BF title the rest became way too linear and interrupted what BF is all about. Disliked how BC2 went more serious and chased the COD trend more. The trailers for this game were great with a Gears of War parody and MGS4 as well. BC2 had a MW2 parody trailer.

[@NexusKin]

That's what I love about this first Bad Company game. It was its own unique experience with mechanics and features that helped it to really stand out. Bad Company 2 just felt like a Call Of Duty clone and everything just devolved from there. Frontlines Fuel Of War from Kaos Studios and THQ was more like the first Bad Company than Bad Company 2 actually was.

[@joshuabrien2970]

@@NexusKin even though bc2 is more serious its still has the characters as themselves which makes still less errors then bf3 and bf4s campaigns

[@donutplays9124]

I remember this game blew my mind when I played it because of the fully destructible environments lol Also if you want a voice command game for the PS3 look at Tom Clancy's Endwar. You used a headset and gave voice commands in an RTS

[@INFILTR8US]

Yeah getting killed the moment you spawn because someone blew up your safehouse so realistic

[@SpeedsterBlur]

I would also add binary domain, but that's on pc as well, for $15.

[@MrSeropamine]

I like the voice command mechanic in that game; everything else is crap. World In Conflict with the voice mechanic would be beautiful imo

[@NexusKin]

This game was the debut of the Frostbite Engine, and honestly the absolute peak of it in my opinion. Each level was like its own mini sandbox, so you could just run around the entire map blowing literally everything up that you wanted. The only other game with destruction capabilities similar to this one that I can think of is Red Faction Guerilla.

[@raze_]

Also tom clancys rainbow 6 vegas 2. Its also actually a good game so he should play it anyway.

[@rttt159]

You guys need to realize, the companies we grew up with aren't the same companies today. Jagex isn't Jagex from 2005, Dice isn't Dice from 2008, Ubisoft hasn't been Ubisoft since about 20 years now. The employees that were paid to make the games we played, are gone into fucking retirement by now. It's not the people in the companies that changed, it's the gaming business model that's changed. There's a few passion projects, like Star citizen, Ready or not, Squad, etc. That really stand out. However, the majority of game developers are just neckbeards trying to make the most amount of money, off the least amount of work.

[@machina_spirit]

This brought back some good nostalgia. Glad you shouted out the excellent sound design, damn i miss how punchy the guns and explosions were in the Bad Company games

[@StriderPF]

1:24 plot twist the garbage bag was full of an assortment of wooden upholstery including multiple stools

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

It would have been funnier if he had just said “yep” after it exploded.

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

Just seeing this game makes mad angry at what dice has become.

[@iclimbeverything2990]

BFBC2 was my favorite game for months on Xbox. Fantastic gunplay, destruction, and vehicles. I was really looking forward to Battlefield 2042 just to go on the Portal mode and play BFBC2, and we all know how that turned out If you had the G3 with an acog it has no bullet drop and was basically a better sniper rifle. Only BF game that I unlocked everything, until BF3 like 3 years later maybe?

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

This campaign is literally a Modernized Kelly's heroes

[@civilprotection3114]

One of the reason the weapon model is so large is that Dice said they wanted to show off the animations for weapons.

[@Nick-hm9rh]

For the pistol issue i think they did it this way because most modern basic infantry dont carry pistols either. As reconnaissance you do. Or most of the time at least

[@noway6633]

That's not what I've heard at all

[@stevemc6010]

It's moreso still inline with Battlefield 2. Squad and Project reality also don't have pistols for all kits.

[@kevinduong337]

I kind of like the running speed since that really is how fast you'd run with all that flak and ammo. And in Bad Company you play as a regular lower-enlisted grunt, who'll usually have no sidearms of any kind. I love this game because you're not supposed to be some high-speed spec ops OPer8or, just a moto E1-E3 in a shitbag fireteam.

[@SlickAstley_TV]

1:09 actually if your getting shelled noplace would be the best place to be, but being inside armor is the last place you'd want to be because that's what they're aiming for, and armor is squishy against arty. And modern arty is pretty accurate, what with drones and all. Anyways, funny vid. LOVED bc2 btw

[@maximusdecimus1374]

I freakin' loved this game when it came out. Frame rates and sepia tones meant nothing to me then. I think I had every achievement for the PS3 version except the one where you were supposed to get 10,002 kills online, because that was stupid and I ended up simply refusing.

[@BigS1av]

I played that game way too much, and i’m pretty sure I got that achievement.

[@athenian221]

I killed myself 10,000 times using only explosives in a game called Hawken for an achievement and all I got was emblem of a grenade. I was so sad 🙁 it wasn't worth it

[@SpecShadow]

sepia tones? I don't remember such issues... but BF3 release on the other hand...

[@jacemenard9168]

What he failed to mention is this game was one of the first games to introduce destructible environments on this scale

[@0Synergy]

It angers me greatly that it never got a PC port, low FOV, "30"fps, bloom, motion blur, controller aiming. Man I do miss playing it on my PS3 back in the day though.

[@LilFuniAZNBoi]

I thought the respawning in campaign was kinda a weird carryover from the multiplayer. BFBC2's campaign felt more "traditional" i guess.

[@NexusKin]

I actually thought that helped to give the game its own unique foundation when combined with the automatically regenerating health syringe system. You could immediately restore your health from almost empty to completely full, and then you'd just have to wait for a brief cooldown period to use it again. It made the entire experience challenging, but completely fair. BFBC2 just felt like a complete Call Of Duty ripoff, whereas this first game was definitely its own unique experience.

[@1111Tactical]

The piano jazz menu music is still stuck in my head to this day

[@fredo0084]

This game has a vibe that the setting is during the 80's also the second one

[@Jeff-lf4yr]

This is my favorite battlefield game, gotta play the game with every weapon expect the ones that take up the half the screen. Battlefield 2 felt like a cod game

[@TheLaLeeee]

3:18 Of course they were chasing the trend of Battlefield. This IS Battlefield.

[@dylanmilne6683]

Jezuz 2008. It really doesn't look that bad for such an old game. Felt pretty smooth for the time too iirc.

[@Joov]

This Battlefield campaign brought to you by: The MCU writing team

[@valentinmarinescu6445]

A very good game. A lengthy single player campaign, you could blow up basically everything, lots of vehicles. Would definitely deserve a remastered edition.

[@bruhgod123]

considering how dice is now its a blessing that its not remastered

[@AlqhemyA]

ngl i cringed so hard when oboe called the AEK an AK47

[@roflcoppter117]

I partially melted down my x360 playing this constantly on summer break. Totally worth it

[@Cygnus99]

2:12 there is entirely too much South East Michigan culture going on here I love it

[@dereinzige3092]

Ah yes. My M4 has 50 rounds in a magazine... oh, every gun has 50 rounds in a magazine

[@BlackMasterRoshi]

that garbage bag explosion had incredible bass

[@Pancakes13371]

"Video-Essay Whiteman" is my new favorite Oboe character.

[@emekos_]

3:46 he even did the han solo reference as the second obligatory helicopter crash happened.

[@bronsontolliver9027]

I love that "Closing Time" bit.

[@austinrusk9195]

This game is legendary and so is oboe

[@OttoEwen]

"your squad will have to steal a load of affordable drugs from Canada to pay off their student loans"...golden

[@TheMrfoxguy]

4 was the beginning of the end

[@stinklinethegoblin5952]

Love this little fella

[@OzymandiasJeeff]

Home from work. New Oboeshoes video. Life good.

[@mexicanhalloween]

I want my meyers-briggs results conveyed to me in helicopter explosions

[@Tiger74147]

The jokes were so savage. The insulin one killed me!

[@hlb99]

Dude, this video is probably one of your best, u were inspired as fuck. I loved every single minute. Thanks so much for your work, keep it up!

[@thetankhunter100]

3:45 That Ahoy reference.

[@Dinnizzel97]

2019s modern warfares biggest downfall was no FOV for console,never really knew how important FOV was

[@plumhollow7108]

you can change the fov on console

[@Dinnizzel97]

@@plumhollow7108 for 2019 MW?? On PS4 and xbox1? Unless that was a recent update I don't remember that

[@honeybadger6275]

@@Dinnizzel97 Usually they don't let you change the fov because the crapbox consoles cant handle having to generate the extra stuff going on on the screen. That's why console games always have a super low fov, it helps you get better fps.

[@Dinnizzel97]

@@honeybadger6275 see I would accept that answer IF it was like that for cold war,but it's not and it was just an obvious oversight that hurt the game in the long run for console

[@Dinnizzel97]

@@honeybadger6275 also the amount of games I can change FOV outweigh the ones I can't so it feels like it should just be part of the standard at this point

[@ryzekiv7147]

I almost choked on my toothpaste at 2:12

[@marciomaiajr]

Bad Company 2 is one of my favorite games. Better than most CODs.

[@amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510]

Bad company 1 story good and in general was a blast multiplayer solid however bad company 2 story was average but the multiplayer rocked and the physics were damn good

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Personally I think a 3 weapon system (plus grenades) is the way to go: 2 main gun slots and one for pistol(s). Hold button to switch main guns or tap to quickly draw your pistol.

[@TheSirAnthony]

That chess joke made me laugh far harder than it should have, bravo

[@SloodermanSloodin]

Finally someone plays this masterpiece and it’s the one and only oboeshoesgames

[@DarkysLPs]

5:40 I can just picture it perfectly, why are you so on point?

[@chemergency]

Bad Company 1 was great, it's too bad it never got a PC port but at-least the PS3 version emulates well for the most part.

[@whiskeycorridor90]

This is actually still a great looking game. Its amazing it came out in 2008. Also how much do I need to pay you to play Airforce Delta Strike?

[@NexusKin]

Mirror's Edge came out in 2008 also, and that was also made by DICE and EA. Back when developers and publishers actually cared a relatively larger amount about the quality of their games.

[@Stefano.C]

So glad you covered bad company 1, my favorite :D

[@ParadoxISPower]

I'm dying, your comedy is amazing 👏 keep it up, subscribed.

[@badger297]

BC2 was the first BF game I ever played and is to this day my favorite in the series

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

I forgot this game name so I searched ' war game with smiley on grenade' and found it, I replayed this game so many times as a young teen

[@achtee]

Memory unlocked playing this on the family tv to my older sister saying “drug addict” every time I healed

[@grun73r]

The hk416 in this game has the ejection port and forward assist on the wrong side of the gun for some reason and it’s always pissed me off

[@bvrsqzr3569]

Bad company was awesome. It was ahead of its time. EA has become one of if not the worst part of gaming. They are the perfect example of what greed will turn into.

[@shotgun-enjoyer]

that intro joke killed me

[@Ethonra]

The opening joke but not a joke about EA is the best burn about them I've heard in awhile. The Battlefield 2042 joke was also very good.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

3:34: excellent timing!

[@malithaw]

Dice used to be creative till BF1. After that all went to shit. No one who worked on old BF games work there anymore. The studio is now a mere shell of it's former glory.

[@honeybadger6275]

Nah battlefield 4 was when it started going downhill.

[@malithaw]

@@honeybadger6275 Nonsense

[@honeybadger6275]

@@malithaw Absolutrely, it was a low effort copy of battlefield 3 without any improvements and was an extremely buggy launch. Game was absolutely worse than battlefield 3. Hardline came after that and it was a boring game that died early on and everyone just went back to playing battlefield 4. Battlefield 1 was ahistorical trash. Battlefield 5 was so bad it died like 4 months after release. Battlefield 2042 was dead on arrival. Battlefield 3 was the peak of the series.

[@tangero3462]

Played BC1 and 2 religiously. It was so nice when games remembered to be fun

[@michalbochenski4329]

"On a scale of 50 degree FOV to 100 degree FOV, I give Battlefield Bad Company a 20 FOV" Bruh I can't😭

[@bigtimediamond1088]

0:54 No kidding on the framerate. Those screen tears are the (integrated) graphic's cries for an FPS unlocker downloaded from a sketchy website (that or an unintuitive search in the control panel for a V-sync or limiter of some kind).

[@Tom_Swiss]

This game still has an active player base. If you're NOT a campsnuiper, come and join us in 2022. Look for RHRA conquest Server.

[@AnimePigeon]

I loved this game - I preferred it over Cod. I also loved MAG - that was purely only online though 😭

[@llab3903]

“Purely only online”

[@travismeta3727]

I always thought Bad Company was named after the Five Finger Death Punch song of the same name

[@domm138]

6:03 holy fucking hell, i know one of the main devs that worked on it where did you find that glorious memetic diamond in the rough?

[@lysergicore]

The Bad Company series as well as BF3 was the denouement in the franchise.

[@evelawless5480]

Fucking loved that game.

[@Alskie666]

I just played through this campaign again and it’s amazing. Why aren’t all battlefield campaigns like this? Open world-ish. And you can use all vehicles and guns. I wish the second game was more like this.

[@pixelpowder8371]

This game shows that one of the best terrains for a tank is a golf course.

[@honzabalak3462]

The fact that BFBC1 doesn't have an official PC port to this day puzzles me.

[@LacklusterThoughts]

I think the fov was to emphasize long range engagements, also lets people sneak up on you. I also remember playing this on a square tv and it was less noticeable.

[@alanmathias6706]

this game is a timeless classic

[@CoyoteKnight]

To this day, I firmly believe BC1 was the last good battlefield and the only good SP battlefield.

[@NexusKin]

I agree. The campaign for this game was so amazing and refreshing. Everything that came after just felt increasingly watered down and neutered.

[@FOVoid]

3:02 bottom right corner. It says AEK971...

[@TheRealFlapSlapper]

Bad company 2 was peak multiplayer and surpassed cod, I don’t think I’ve been truly happy with my life for at least 10 years

[@jakehoffmann9686]

3:27 is probably one of your best moments

[@j.mckerch4320]

4:03 Is that 2010 SeaNanners MW2 commentary I hear?

[@salmonteatime]

I also got likely to stay in an armored car!