So I've Finally Played... Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017)

*EPILEPSY WARNING at 1:20
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Music List: Star Wars: Battlefront OST by Gordy Haab
Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact
Snowy Mountains by Mikael Karlsson Joel Eriksson
Anakin's Betrayal by John Williams
An Honest Mistake by The Bravery (Superdiscount Remix)

[@TheActMan]

This title can't be real... This is the Raycevick channel, yes? I must be in the wrong place... EXCUSE ME , SIR! Are you saying that you, Raycevick, have finally played Star Wars Battlefront 2?? Well I'm excited to see what you thought of the Space Battles and Galactic Conquest from 2005 because they were pre- OH GAWD NO IT'S THE ONE FROM 2017 ABANDON SHIP! RETREAT! FALL BACK MEN! THE DAY IS LOST!

[@DINOMAN1337YT]

Ikr?! SWBII (2017) is so trash when compared to SWBII (2005)

[@gregrothschilds8453]

Hey there Act Man

[@Mrjohnnycache1]

Oh man the good old days, playing battlefront 2 split screen with my friends on the ps2.. I was only 9 at the time but i still remember purchasing that game, had to sweet talk the cashier in order for her to let me buy it.

[@arhickernell]

.. "it's the Act Man here"...

[@orbaitv5991]

+PeskyRex Not really but its your opinion

[@henkjamn5136]

That ending. Now you making me count the minutes to the next video. The torture. Just want to thank you for the awesome series you have been running. I started watching your videos when you did the Max Payne games... never looked back. So much good editing/sound and content. Keep it up. Raycevick

[@SplitGoose]

What game is he alluding to?

[@henkjamn5136]

I wish I knew bud, I wish I knew....

[@tinyboxtim6663]

B U R N O U T T I M E

[@michaeloquendo11]

What I love about your critical reviews on games is how you're three-dimensional. Even in controversial games like Battlefront II, you manage to show a level of praise in certain aspects of the game, give your critiques of it's flaws, and even go in-depth analysis on the cause of the game's said flaws. The best part is how you do this all together with a smooth, coherent narration, and a subtle sense of humor.

[@DaiBenduMonk]

Dang! Have never seen any of your videos, but that was a great review. Well done.

[@MrDrManPerson]

You should check out his other reviews. His fantastic voice and comprehensive videos are great content.

[@vovathedude]

I envy you, I rewatch his videos constantly

[@calebbaumtm1915]

Raycevick is wanna of the best content creatures. You should definitely check out his other stuff

[@daviddavidson1417]

There's not many channels on this topic with this quality.

[@DaiBenduMonk]

Will do guys, immediately subbed :)

[@merlin8871]

"Have you ever played a game where the ending, single-handedly, either makes or breaks it?" Life is Strange

[@frankwoods1531]

You didnt say whether it made or broke it

[@TrueArt_1]

Anyone remember the cod4 Star Wars mod?

[@EagleEye517]

Been thinking about it throughout this review,whenever I'd see the Mos Eisley map

[@shaunepascua7649]

The Four Horsemen is is a great game and you get that you are a good game for organization koo

[@shaunepascua7649]

The Four Horsemen o

[@shaunepascua7649]

The Four Horsemen oo i

[@KPol0]

Never been this early to a Raycevick video, but i'm loving it! take care mate, love your work

[@RikimaruLDR]

Nope

[@josephtaylor8646]

If you could give this game one more look now that it's completely finished, I believe you'd be a lot happier

[@FFContent]

I doubt it because it still suffers from the core design issues that he didn't like about it

[@Queqs_]

1:30 Raycevick is a Deltron 3030 fan? Be still my heart

[@theL1st]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

[@darthnihilus7951]

Basically the story of how battlefront went to shit. EA was shown everything they could do to recreate the magic of the battlefront series from pandemic, and they killed it

[@jonathanb30212]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[@aidan8224]

jonathan bailey Not from a Jedi

[@andreiaromanesei9270]

@@aidan8224 go for papa Palpatine

[@bencipars7233]

i do love me some plagueis !

[@anawesomekiwi]

I'll tell you, the new mode (Conquest-ish), which is coming in the next months, will bring fresh air in the Battlefront gameplay, because non-linear, and players will be free to attack objectives from every direction.

[@MarkArandjus]

You get a thumbsup just for dropping some Deltron! _♪ Positive conTACT!_

[@errantoverflow4828]

Battlefront 2 didn't just die *it was mURderEd*

[@lordmorgoth7]

MurderEAd

[@ripstarwars6992]

Amen to that!

[@FEDsShotMOM]

That guy drives me up a wall

[@Weird_but_neat]

Love cleanprincegaming and his pretentious ass voice lmao

[@blackgoldman2]

The problem with SW:BF2 is that its actually not a bad game. But while I play it, I always imagine how much better it could be if €A would have included more teamplay and more stuff "like the old SWBF2" So in the end i can´t enjoy it.

[@levelcheap2435]

@Anne Isopod teamplay has increased in BF5, but ok... They did fuck up teamplay in BF1 though.

[@monsterkitty6921]

@@levelcheap2435 They increased it sure, but increasing it from nothing isn't hard. Besides, 3 and 4 did the same thing as 5 anyway (and weren't nearly as team based as 2)

[@chawkfan94]

I feel the exact same way about the Division 2

[@kmile399]

I just appreciate the fact that he takes the time to make videos instead of just slapping them together and throwing them out once a week. I get genuinely excited when I see one of his videos go up

[@bedasubashtonmoy2479]

I personally think the 3rd person perspective is really "cool" looking visually

[@robertbarksdale3728]

The maturity and depth of this dudes reviews are incredible...i must watch more. Inspirational.

[@JoshKanap]

It’s kind of incredible how much information you pack into these videos. I think you’re the only person I’ve subscribed to that I have to rewind and listen to what you’ve said in order to understand it. Awesome work as always

[@tayyabhussain4527]

17 minutes of pure rayce.. HOOK IT INTO MY VEIN'S

[@EXXTSON]

Tayyab Hussain like youre mom

[@tonymonot8182]

The man of acting

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Into your vein's what?

[@dingtossshitposting]

Oh boy nothing better than getting a sense of pride and accomplishment by watching Raycevick pick apart a game.

[@luigin9087]

*a sense of pride and accomplishment ;)

[@deadshot-qz5rk]

The meme is dead normies

[@luigin9087]

@@deadshot-qz5rk I am sorry that I personally find it funny still...

[@Strawhat_Kal]

deadshot 500 nope

[@miscellaneous9506]

The thing is, the developers have amazing talent and potential. I mean look at all the previous titles that was loved by majority... But the higher tiers just have to ruin it.

[@LiamRproductions]

Great video:)

[@williamtate843]

the match that'll never start thing is *usually* just a glitch. It's when the game forces you onto one server that isn't yours, (for example putting me, an American on the South African servers), and it's called the ping glitch. They were supposed to fix it last patch, but they couldn't get rid of it completely so they're supposed to fix it in the upcoming squad system patch in 4 days.

[@JonatasAdoM]

That's what people want. Operations is so successful in Battlefield 1 because it is consistent and constant. You have few rooms for too much improvise and the same applies to Rush, it still keep a standard cohesion even with all the freedoms available (that most players won't use)

[@Salerten]

I got goosebumps when you edited Deltron 3030 at 1:20

[@TimBr24]

I still play this game and have fun doing it. I can understand your points and think they're valid. Thanks for not just bashing the game and hating on it. Also, there's good news: a non-linear game mode in which you capture command posts and take down capital ships is coming. It might allow players to be more creative.

[@misternolife2018]

The video should be called: "So I shouldn't have played... Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017)"

[@ShadowReaper-pu2hx]

Battlefront II is better now. Much new content, no more pay to win, and a new PVE mode.

[@mikesmith-gk6fy]

Well said sir, this is how you earn a subscriber and consistent viewer, excited to go through the rest of your content

[@peaceunreal4051]

I would of preferred it if iden would of stayed with the empire but instead of showing the empire as the evil side they could of showed them helping civilians

[@DCGMatthew1]

The Empire doesn't do that.

[@zab6124]

@@DCGMatthew1 it does, but primarily humans.

[@zab6124]

@@DCGMatthew1 and core systems above the rest

[@DCGMatthew1]

@@zab6124 But what the Empire was currently doing, they wouldn't help civilians.

[@EagleEye517]

@Peace Unreal I wanted the same,but when I saw the scene in which she turns to the Rebels I was like:"There goes my last bit of trust for EA,just when I tought they couldn't be any more incompetent by ruining the game"

[@ISawABear]

Dude i got this game for free, asides from Starfighter assault i really wish i hadn't

[@theunknown9098]

*besides

[@ISawABear]

Nope: Aside - a remark that is not directly related to the main topic of discussion.

[@StirringStorm]

That's because it's made by Criterion as opposed to the rest of the game

[@comradecommissar1945]

Just do war thunder instead much better ww2 dogfighting game than the new star wars.

[@_Braised]

That ending was building up to what could've been the greatest triumphant montage of Battlefront 2005 gameplay ever. What a wasted opportunity

[@Exima_yt]

aw yisss new Raycevick video... I really loved that you looked at BF2 beyond "Lootboxes REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Only thing I missed in the video was adressing the lack of multiplayer content in general, since there is infact, very little content that gets blown up artificially by starcards. (I'm talking 3 unlockable guns per class - 12 guns in total)

[@SmurffNationn]

8:00 "Gems of our past being left behind..." *Flashes the words SPIES VS. MERCS on screen* PLEASE DO A SPLINTER CELL SPIES VS. MERCS VIDEO

[@Tainuo]

Positive Contact Instrumental = Instant thumbs up. Great work, as always.

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

He also asks, "Why are you such a fucking lose-", oh.

[@FilthyandFree]

I have long since lost my interest in FPS games, besides that new DOOM in 2016, but watching your videos lets me enjoy them anyway. Thanks for that. Keep it up. Also, no one has talked about Max Payne as appropriately as you have. Thanks for that, too.

[@kraziel]

Raycevick, by the way, I've been binge-watching your videos the past 2 days, and I wanted to suggest you a game: Killzone 2. Maybe to make a "I finally played" video. It's an amazing game and everytime I look at a video about it I see dozen of comments praising the it for how it still holds up today, how they can't believe the game is from 2009, and so on. I think it would be nice to spotlight it, since it's such a gem of a game.

[@bigbrownhouse6999]

I think we can all agree that regardless of how crappy Star Wars media is, John Williams will always come out with a bangin score

[@drunkpunk5393]

Your videos are always the best, with solid reasoning and examples. Literally a joy to watch your videos. I look forward to them. And you wont ever have enough probably.

[@Soundwave12gamer]

What I've learned from this game is that, if your team doesn't focus on the objective, just give up on that match, that is for sure a consequence of bad team balancing.

[@jtt9379]

Mad props to this dude. Hours of amazing videos with very little ads between them. Vloggers have more ads on one video then his entire catalog...

[@rubberduckiedogs]

Good video but I’m really subscribing because you used a Deltron song.

[@Wowls]

I feel like they could've had Iden as a storm trooper for the entire campaign, still having their beliefs challenged the whole way and then something convinces them to turn in the last mission where its spent now fighting your own troops

[@TacticalNube]

Deltron is great, good music choice! Great video as always!

[@E_The_American]

You're my hero for using a deltron 3030 track.

[@KyleWallPuncher]

For the campaign, just imagine if Del was the only to defect and the whole story was Iden hunting him down, which we get a final showdown between the two on Jakku

[@Parmetheus]

Wow, your professionalism is very impressive. Great video.

[@jackfenning5668]

I love how the assault vanguard mode is just the republic commando shotgun

[@iluvcarz1]

That ending, I think I know what the next video will be. That particular studio that got zoomed in and the track after it, it's indistinguishable.

[@DarthRiley]

I appreciate an argument against this game that isn’t just “hurdahur loot boxes suck, Hurhur the original battlefront is better.” and you actually acknowledge that the loot boxes are gone and you focus on the gameplay itself. If I can make one recommendation give the new conquest style mode a try when it arrives. I think the one thing you wanted from the game will come with that.

[@Guyon-to3tu]

From all games released in 2017 Battlefront II was definetely one of the games with the most potential to be / become a massive hit. But we've seen were that went...

[@YangTheGoddess]

Games like Battlefield one shows that even games where the map can be destroyed can still be cinematic

[@asiangamer4246]

EA has fixed some issues with the game now, in 2019. Now, I'm not going to say that the game was not terrible. It was just another money grab by EA. But, I believe that EA has listened to the fanbase and is currently giving the people what they want. For now.

[@elektra81516]

You're saying this like EA is making the game, they're not it's DICE that are making it.

[@Eklipzekrew]

I'm taking that vacuum quote... it can be said about so many games these days

[@jediflip2515]

Heres something funny. I dont play the game much, but with 50 hours logged in galactic assault, I still have never played the naboo map.

[@jgvtc559]

The star wars i miss i dont even know the name of im almost 30 and i was a kid as luke Skywalker in that desert shit was mindblowing back then Battlefront is on xbox gold pass swoop it up

[@TheGreatRakatan]

I imagine a story about someone good falling to darkness and madness would make a great story, one far better than the one presented in EABF2. Often they make the most compelling villains.

[@SomeOtherCrap]

All nails hit directly on the head with unsurpassed accuracy! Hey DICE, you listening??

[@malcomyoung2240]

When you talked about the game limiting the player's options about objectives (at 5.00 i think) it's because Frosbite can't handle big environnements. The maps must be limited, if not, you'll the same results than MEa, big empty spaces...

[@thebaconbuizel3598]

Very well put. It always pisses me off when people hate on EA and Dice developers and say they suck. No, they don’t. The scummy higher ups hold them back.

[@Killerduck0213]

I was hoping that we could actually get an Imperial protagonist for once. Not one that switches sides either. I'm genuinely curious what the guy under the helmet in the end was thinking. There's a cut scene in RotJ that I actually wish was kept where an Imperial officer is ordered to fire the death star at Endor. The officer actually visibly has an inner conflict about it because there are still Imperial troops on Endor. I think Star Wars could feasibly humanize the Empire while still keeping them the bad guys. Most Stormtroopers are not crazy old men with lightning hands. Of course this idea is thrown out the window by both the prequel AND the sequel trilogy as with the exception of one guy none of the bad guys are even CAPABLE of thinking for themselves.

[@FulMetaI]

Like usual a well thought out and eloquent in depth analysis of a video game that is spot on and indisputable. Battlefront 2 is at its core a great game. But as you stated if you dump a reasonable amount of time into the game its major faults become clear. One thing that could have been added was the appaling support for the game and live service failure. That is also of major importance to be discussed, especially with Battlefield V on the horizon where the exact same [empty] promises are being thrown towards gamers/the community that echo of the pre launch Battlefront 2 scene.

[@Harbinger1able]

with playing that song at the end i honest to god yelled yes if it seriously means your doing burnout revenge next

[@marc9324]

Armored Skeptic voice having, good ass editing using piece of internet gold. Keep it up Raycevick.

[@tjeffrey830]

You couldn't have said any better! Totally agreed!

[@perkyzombie]

Damn, Positive Contact! Been like fifteen years; 3030 way past the millennium.

[@chiseledmedal2634]

I love the vid but I’m more impressed that you used a Deltron 3030 song

[@MaraIndigoJade]

I think the ending to Dying Light's expansion, 'The Following' tainted that game so badly that I absolutely REFUSE to play the expansion again! And I frakin' loved it every minute of it up UNTIL the last mission! I love DL and The Following had me the whole damn way! I called in to work TWICE in order to finish it! And I was rewarded with an ending that totally INVALIDATED >everything< I did in both the original and the expansion. Whoever it was that wrote that ending and whoever approved it should be ashamed. ASHAMED! It's like they put out the best story they possibly could but then didn't know how to end it. So, they told the story to their eight year old kid and asked them how it should end...

[@gravewalker34]

This could’ve been the best game. It already looks the best out of all in graphics.

[@CH1EFBL1TZ]

just an FYI guys, steam recently had bad company 2 on sale for 2 USD, so here's the deal... buy it on steam, copy the cd key, download origin, and use the cd key on that launcher to install bad company 2. you are fucking welcome

[@bigmanvictor6911]

I actually really like this game, I’ve been playing it for the past 3 months and it’s improved dramatically and I really don’t understand ALL the hate for it now, I get some, but I still enjoy it

[@jediritterger]

4:09 I just realized that frostpunk music is playing in the Background :D

[@ItsDaKipi]

Lovin' the Deltron beat.

[@kadirgarib3459]

The AI on arcade sucks too, Battlefront II (2005) seems to be famous for it's multiplayer but honestly I went hours on offline mode, since your team's AI sucked you would get these one man army moments where ur tense as hell slowly gunning down the enemy army. The AI in Battlefront II (2005) utilised everything they had, they dodge rolled, sprinted, threw grenades, did most everything the player could, Battlefront II (2017)'s AI do 1 of those listed things. All they did for BFII2017 to make them seem like a better challenge than 2005's was make the AI aim better, they just walk around, never sprint, very occasionally do this dodge thing the player can't do, and sometimes throw a grenade. They never use vanguard or infiltration, and when using sentry as heavy, the player gets a unique animation that slows their walking speed, is distinct so you know it's activated and looks pretty cool tbh, THE AI ON THE OTHER HAND walk normally like they're holding a standard gun and instantly kill you because you didn't realise they were holding the explosive sentry because the animation doesn't appear for the AI.

[@reedcoffman3210]

Now battlefront II does have tactics you just need to know how to use them like there is this one spot on Yavin 4 on the first phase where no one looks at and you can get 20 kill streaks with normal troopers while helping your team through keeping the enemies from pushing the center turbolaser

[@xyr3s]

YES! YES! raycevick has played ironsight :D

[@jahhaahaha12]

They do double and triple xp days so the servers have players and you can level up your favorites fast and give them cards

[@csbr75]

>>"After the last stream of relatively serious videos I've done, I've needed to just visit something I've loved again... something done by a single team that loved it even more...and... I think I know what to do" >> *zooms on Criterion Studios logo* >> Silence ... >> *Childhood song kicks in* >> Quickly mention racing games as na example of genre that cant evolve in terms of simulation (*"...evolution has to come from somewhere else"*) OH BOY, IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS? I just hope KZbin doesn't *take down* the video because of the music

[@hitmanTilliMDeaD]

DELTRON 3030!! My mans got taste!

[@MiguelWario05]

I haven’t played BF2 but... is that a TIE Fighter jumping into Hyper Space in 15:08? ... well damn me

[@sacredxgeometry]

Beautiful editing, and even greater diction that perfectly summarized my thoughts on this game. Subscribed!

[@spencersteinbrecher6511]

This game is fantastic now and I can’t think of a better multiplayer game besides battlefield

[@VonDelacroix]

Have you ever played a game where the ending, single-handedly, breaks it. Yes, its called mass effect 3.

[@jdizzle7407]

deltron in the beginning, nice.

[@Bowcaster26]

It's weird watching this because I agree with pretty much all of it yet I've still logged over 700 hours and don't intend to stop. I do love the Strike and Galactic Assault gamemodes and must admit I don't find them as restrictive as you say but I do understand the point. I love the class system being brought back and the Star Cards in their current form I have no issues with as to me using a gun to unlock attachments for that gun is how I would do it. Can't defend the campaign though. As someone else has said, they didn't need to tie is to the Sequel Trilogy at all. The fighting goes on for a good year after DS2s destruction so even if you kept the defection 'twist' it could have been a late/end game thing after constant moral objections to the year post RotJ

[@moonraven6145]

Another good video from Pubescent Master Chief :)

[@Luke-jo4to]

EA should make its next project a remaster of BF2 ‘05. With the insane graphics and epic canon story mode and 1000 little improvement that could be made in 15 years (2020 release date 🙏).

[@will_of_europa]

Hunt the Truth. Wow. That brings back painful memories of when we thought 343 weren't sellouts and a shitty developer.

[@hungryboi4251]

Star wars battlefront is an AWESOME and AMAZING game. It ea and dice that ruin it. For everyone who doesn't know, they didn't give us anything in 9 months full of promised content. We only got 1 small map and a few shitty skins and that's all (and the irony is that a modder literally makes more skins than the devs (one modder even made a whole new gamemode himself)). This game has soooo much potential. They said that the devs of battlefield 5 will start working on battlefront these days and will try to make it good again...let's hope so...but from what happened before, I don't expect much, I'm 15% positive

[@WartimeFriction]

Part of me is glad you didn't spend much time beyond a few passing comments about the lootbox gambling system, as it has been done to death. The other part of me thinks that it's so asinine and disrespectful it deserves to be shunned at every opportunity. That being said, very reasonable and objective review. Thanks

[@777colin]

one of the things I dislike the most about battlefront 2 is the lack of music from the movies

[@zyphurite]

Do I sense a possible "So I've finally played... Spiderman" coming?

[@andreworders7305]

The fact that you have to put a year next to the title means the title has failed at its job. Great going EA.

[@rileyzook-moran4012]

As a total Star Wars fan, I loved some of the detail put into the maps but then when I realized a lot of that detail was just window dressing. It's like, they really had the chance to go all out but they just didn't and that's the part that I think is the most depressing for me. There's so much cool stuff in Star Wars, some of which is actually in the game in some form, but if they don't do anything with it what's the point?

[@R-SXX]

Well, I am curious to hear your opinion on the TITANFALL 2 campaign - I played it with the expection of just playing a COD mediocre campaign, but was really suprised of the games narrative and events.

[@arhickernell]

Games been great since they fixed the progression and star cards. I still hope in here and there for Strike (best mode) and Star Fighter Assault.

[@JojiniChazz]

underrated channel

[@dawnknightx]

I don’t understand what is wrong with the Iden defecting, or any story where a character who is on the “bad guy’s side” switches to the “good guy side”. Like, your reverse scenario could work if the situation was set up, just like how Iden’s situation was set up. There’s context, that being her home, Vardos, which was a planet loyal to the Empire, was being destroyed by the Empire, on the orders of a deadman, for seemingly no reason. Operation: Cinder, which this game did not establish, was basically evidence that Palpatine didn’t care about law, order, or peace as he preached. Couple that with the fact that Del was learning that the Jedi aren’t so bad and that Palpatine had some weird secrets and it makes complete sense for the two to defect. Like, both these characters believed in the stated ideal of the Empire, but they aren’t so blindly loyal to the Empire or selfishly trying to get as much power or glory that they can’t see that the Empire didn’t stand for their stated ideal.

[@davilavi4653]

I agree with EVERYTHING in this. I’ve left Battlefront 2 for Fortnite and I wish that this game would be like the original ones. :(