The Tragic Downfall of the Battlefield Franchise

The Tragic Downfall of the Battlefield Franchise
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In this video I'll be going over the history of the franchise which covers all games from Battlefield 1942 all the way to Battlefield 2042. The video covers all the innovations DICE made with the franchise, as well as the downfall. Battlefield went from a franchise known for innovation, to un-originality.
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[@snzr]

For the people commenting that I missed this and that, the point of the video was to quickly summarise the biggest games in the franchise. If you’re annoyed that I missed your favourite game, I’m sorry about that 😢 this wasn’t a history video of battlefield, I spoke about the old games to remind people how great it used to be before I completely ruin the mood by reminding you that 2042 exists. Thanks to all the amazing comments! Please read them yourselves as some people have some interesting information down there about Battlefield! P.S I occasionally stream, you should come hang out some time!

[@Hamburg222]

Great video man! And screw you for making me upset! I miss BF3 🥹

[@aaronblank2318]

You don't have anything to apologize for. You made a great video. There's no way to please everyone.

[@ygk6289]

not sure if i missed it, but bf4 had much more "detail map design" that convinced you you are in a battefiled, where as BF2042 had unbelievably sterile maps (supposedly in an utopic future). Also, i see way more "meaningful" building destruction in BF4 than in BF2042. First and last pre-order for me for sure. And I really need conving to go back to BF. I rather play BF4 while i still can.

[@shawnvinson3557]

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[@boohoow]

No worries man! Great video. KZbin seldom has people making quality gaming content like you did with this video. And I happen to agree with you completely in you overall analysis. I hadn't even thought about what felt different between Battlefield 3 and 4, but seeing your video made me remember how much I loved BF3. Found this video because I was looking for what BF game to play in 2024, and you really made me dodge some bullets (no pun intended). So I just bought BF 1 :)

[@mikexstad1121]

Sorry kids you just had to be there. BF3 was incredible.

[@luisgaebler1886]

Too right

[@graceypatrick]

And bf4

[@Christian0132]

Close quarters was such a special dlc for me poured so many hours into that map pack alone

[@imakesbeatz]

My best TDM record, going up to 300, was 95-29. God I miss that game.

[@SOLOcan]

No sorry kids, you had to be there for bf1942. BF3 was when they started to pivot the series to be a direct competitor to CoD and every other multiplayer FPS on the market. People were stoked for BF3 because it was a return to a classic especially in light to some of the things in MW2 (eg dedicated servers, laying off the original devs of CoD4) rather than new innovation. BF1942 and it’s mod, desert combat, are pretty janky but really were something new. It really felt like a sandbox to play in rather than the tailored and managed experience designed to hook even the most ADHD addled brain so they can get the largest market share.

[@sensufr219]

Playing BF3 you felt like you were in a movie

[@OmniscientReadr]

Luckily there’s still enough players to continue playing the game :,)

[@kirillholt2329]

at the time if felt 5-7 years ahead of it's time. Now it seems like it was ahead for an undefined period since the industry took a nose dive and everything from 10-15 years ago feels like a groundbreaking masterpiece.

[@nitroxylictv]

@@kirillholt2329 Thats why BF3, Black Ops 1 & 2 and Battlefield 1 are gaining more players now. Nobody wants to play these 100mph run and gun sweat simulators. We just want classic action.

[@monobgantonina5577]

@@kirillholt2329 BF3 is what killed the franchise. Run n gun mindless cod style gameplay. small maps, and a shit ton of features cut from BF2. What is it ahead of its time exactly? Its just cod with vehicles. No real battlefield fan liked it. Of course it got a lot of sales from cod fanboys who have no concept of teamplay.

[@Demetriiuz]

It really was one of those "you had to be there" games

[@TheUniformGreen]

Besides DICE's incompetency and tone deafness, I would also add their arrogance. Ever since BF5, they fought against their community

[@snzr]

They absolutely are arrogant. It's probably why 2042 doesnt get the changes it needs because the devs are too stubborn and arrogant to accept player feedback.

[@BourbonBandit-]

@@snzrIt's painfully evident that they don't play their own game either

[@hrthrhs]

All the long time devs left DICE within a few months after BatV's release - ever since then it's been constant screw ups.

[@EEEEEEE354]

how have they fought against the community with 2042. Say what you want about 2042 but almost every update has been made to specifically address community complaints. You got better maps, balancing changes, spread changes, classes, etc.

[@UnchainedEruption]

To be fair, I think that was EA who said, “Don’t like it? Don’t buy it!” to which Battlefield fans said, “Sure thing!”

[@BoxiesAU]

'Hey, we sold a heap of units, won a heap of awards and are beloved by fans. What should we do?' 'Everything opposite to that!', 'Great idea!'

[@snzr]

Pretty much yeah lol

[@danielaponte4054]

They don't care about copies sold or even microtransactions anymore, all they care is ESG scores

[@snzr]

@@danielaponte4054 lmao

[@kfk3000]

They're just being innovative. Trying to make bad games now instead of good ones is just a change of their formula.

[@infinitsai]

I actually feel really bad for some of the 2042 devs, imagine them playing bf3/4/1 as students and worked their ass up to join their dream franchise just to find out they're just working on slope

[@snzr]

They are the devs that turned it into slop though. A lot of devs who are working with the frostbite engine now have no idea what they’re doing with it. It’s why 2042 development has been so slow.

[@nitroxylictv]

yea the old dev team is long gone

[@elbuhdai605]

​@@nitroxylictv The Old Battlefield devs left to form Embark Studios (makers of The Finals), Fall Damage Studios, Time to Kill Games, and a few others.

[@mitri5389]

Lmao do you think studios hire people who went to school? Most of the college educated coworkers I've worked with don't last long, or they are completely clueless and just lost, not knowing how to do the most basic of things... they do know all the useless terminology, however.

[@techzone1552]

@@mitri5389 Because college students come out having this inflated ego and arrogance and likely haven't worked at all in the field they're trying to enter and it's a shame that they ruin the perception for everyone else. I'm facing the same thing in culinary school lol

[@elliotlabrie5241]

BF3 and BF4 were such good games from the story mode to the multiplayer. No other fps game felt this immersive.

[@snzr]

They were top tier, unfortunately we’ll never see that kind of quality again :/

[@jneuf861]

I still play bf4 weekly. Servers are full

[@UnchainedEruption]

Are you serious? BF3 campaign was notoriously bad, and even BF4, while better, was still pretty mediocre. Honestly only the Bad Company’s had good campaigns. But that’s okay, because BF3 is still my favorite in the series (although I love them all, from 1942 up till BF 1)

[@darkshat3077]

@@UnchainedEruptionBF3 had a great campaign wdym?

[@JFinns]

@@UnchainedEruptionwhat are you talking about campaign you sound like a clown these are S tier multiplayer games

[@BankBustaa]

I poured hundreds of hours into BF1 with my friends. Some of my most fond memories gaming ever

[@snzr]

Beautiful game that created beautiful memories, this was me for Battlefield 3!

[@ElMarcoHoJ]

Same and I still do

[@thesinaclwon]

The dreadnoughts were delicious!

[@sebastian577]

Me too man

[@anderson_hc]

Bf1 was another shitty game tbh

[@goober5713]

I had over 1,000 hours on BF4 and absolutely loved every minute of it.

[@snzr]

I was the same with BF3. I have nearly 3K hours across Xbox and PC, and I loved every moment of it.

[@R0d_1984]

from BF42 till BF3 (didn't play much of BF2 cause i was mostly playing Americas Army V1.65 until 2.85, then it turned to crap), i would have put an easy 10,000 hours into it [edit - BF3](same with AA), weekdays work, get home by 4pm game til 5:30AM, up at 7:30 work repeat till the weekend, then sat 24hours, sunday 18hours, did that for 2.5 years; Had jobs that were only 4 days; Starsiege Tribes, first time i played that it was a long weekend, so i played for 72 hour straight (minus food, toilet, coffee/water), i've been gaming for 26 years... Was really into Vietnam back in the day, so BF Vietnam and BC Vietnam were my jam... My reaction times are too slow now for FPS MP, playing Half-Life, the long dark, stranded deep, Generation Zero, homeworld and WH40k DoW1, trying to get back into Elite dangerous sigh atm, ...

[@gothamxp5]

Absolutely! Had so much fun with bfbc2, bf3, and definitely bf4. It's always been a blast and had at least 1k hours in each.

[@yoyodrago]

Same, BF3 looked amazing but didn't run as good as BF4 after its updates and BF4 map packs were a chiefs kiss with the remastered maps.

[@KTMGUNNER]

I'd still be playing but unfortunately it's showing it's age.

[@littlegamingj2003]

One thing you'vs missed is that, they shut down battlefield bad company 2 and as well the older titles multiplayer servers , on December 23

[@snzr]

At the time I didn’t think it was necessary because of how old the games were. But now the videos out and I saw someone actually comment on that, I realised I should’ve just done it. RIP to those games 🪦

[@littlegamingj2003]

@@snzr yea, I get that. At least I managed to 100% the main game beforehand

[@littlegamingj2003]

@@snzr my question remains, about the reason as to why? My thought, is so older fans come to newer or something. Also sweet baby inc, has creativd control and leading design for the games, so that's something

[@snzr]

EA is just pure greed. Obviously keeping the older games running costs them money and if they're not making profits from it, just kill it. Which is worrying because BF3 could be next. And that game is on life support. Essentially dead on PC and on console.@@littlegamingj2003

[@littlegamingj2003]

@@snzr yea, I wish they actually give a damn, and be genuine. And it's surprising to me that something old as cod 4 still running.

[@xRoofkoreanx]

I’m just happy people still play bf4.

[@bobthetoker8523]

Tried playing it the other day, it broke my heart to see 'kicked by punkbuster' over and over again. Loved that game on xbox

[@BattleLev]

Keep playin please 🙏🫡

[@seppokumpulainen2868]

Still playing it with friend nice to just relax and play vehicles or kill and annoy enemy tryhard players

[@venjo639]

Yeah still playin and still enjoying! It’s good to come back after a while again, every time!

[@OlviMasta77]

BF3!

[@drewbear_07]

I was so hyped for Battlefield 2042 just to get scammed out of $80 pretty much

[@LaztheLax]

Haha! At least you still get to play the game. Meanwhile Rockstar literally scammed gamers by releasing individual re masters of GTA 3, Vice City, and SA only to say fuck people who only got *one* title alone and RE-RELEASE the trilogy collection like that didn't fucking happen.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

This is why I haven't bought a new game at launch since BF3

[@hdlowrider1903]

Ya I bought a PS5 just for BF 2042 release. Just to buy for a game that was unplayable. The game is still terrible

[@LayzeeJay]

My buddy booted the game up day 1 on his pc a 2080 super and an 8 core processor, runs every other game like a champ. we were so excited to play until we were met with an unplayable lagtastic ugly mess even on potato low settings. Checked all drivers of course that had to be the issue nope everything was updated. Rebooted hopped in a different game nope. Total time in game…less than 15 minutes before we requested a refund.

[@hdlowrider1903]

@@LayzeeJay ya PlayStation honored refunds too because it was unplayable. The PlayStation store even took it off to buy for awhile. Pathetic. That franchise is done. Trust me, the next one will suck too. I just tried their free trial just for the hell of it. Ya they fixed a lot of the issues, took them two years, but the maps are still trash, and so is the game

[@jager9633]

I think all my favorite shooter franchises have died at this point. DICE is incompetent and Battlefield sucks, COD is completely and utterly soulless, and 343 still doesn't know how to make a Halo game after more than 10 years. Casual multiplayer is dead

[@matthewcvetkovich5848]

I agree with this statement 100% It’s sad I just want a fun multiplayer shooter again

[@poiuytr01]

Man that ending hit hard because it’s true. I hope the game comes back

[@snzr]

Me too. The ending message was just something I wanted to say because it’s how I felt with Battlefield. I also wanted to point out that the message wasn’t just for Battlefield, it’s for other games and franchises too.

[@pleasureslave6473]

Battlefield won't comeback because Dice quit. They're at Embark now.

[@pleasureslave6473]

You definitely didn't do BF4's comeback justice. They overhauled so much that I can't fit it here.

[@snzr]

@@pleasureslave6473 you’re absolutely right, but I was worried the video would get too long and it would discourage people from watching. Now that I think about it, I should’ve just spoke about it! 🙃

[@HaraldQuake]

It's kinda sad because it's not only Battlefield that is like this. Almost everything in life works that way. Enjoy the things you enjoy for the time you can until they are over...

[@nukey_nuke]

I’ve played so much bf3 that when I shoot a wall in a game and it doesn’t explode it’s unusual to me😂

[@runofthemillz]

I can’t describe the depressing/saddening feeling when I loaded into bf 2042 and just realized how ass that game was and how different it felt compared to games before

[@snzr]

Exactly how I was at first ☹️

[@fruity-scuad]

Playing battlfiekd 2042 after playing battfield 1 is just a sad comparisson

[@HugoStiglitz88]

BF1 is trash too though and also feels nothing like the good battlefield games. Even 2042 is better than that

[@resetbutton7982]

@@HugoStiglitz88no BF1 is a better game than 2042. Even BF5 is better than 2042

[@FireWalkMusic]

BF3 and BF4 are the best ones. That was the peak of Battlefield.

[@ItsYurVatoAlex]

I love how you mentioned that friendships and rivalries were made in bf3. I became part of the 1v1 jet dogfight community where we would rent servers solely for dogfighting and we would all compete to see who was the best pilot, and this created friendships and rivalries we still have to this day. This game really did have something for everyone. Excellent video snzr!

[@snzr]

I heard about those kinda servers on Xbox. Jets were so hard back then, I actually respected people who were insane in jets, it’s really hard to master!

[@KekusMagnus]

@@snzr They were actually much easier than they are now, jets are nerfed to the ground and near-useless in 2042. In BF3 a good jet pilot would single-handedly kill every vehicle on the enemy team

[@jordanhurst4460]

I'm still friends with someone I met in BF3 to this day. We were both 14-15 years old at the time. We had sniper duals on Caspian Border. After years of being friends, we still keep in touch. We call each other every once in a while to catch up.

[@checohidalgo9873]

I think sometimes it isn't always the "nostalgia goggles", games such as BFBC2 and BF3 just had so much more care, time and effort put into them that they still outshine what's coming out currently, like a timeless work of art. I played BFBC2 until the servers shut down and uninstalled MW2(2022) and still boot up WaW to unwind after studying.

[@UnchainedEruption]

It is weird as fuck to hear people call those ones nostalgic. I can understand people feeling that way about BF 1942 and BF 2, but BC2 and 3? Like, those are the new ones to me lol. That’s Frostbite era, with its amazing graphics, War Tapes sound, and destruction.

[@soccermaster011]

@@UnchainedEruptionshut up

[@IGotBoergs]

I‘m still sad that bf1 didn‘t have a dedicated ww1 sever, only boltaction rifles and other accurate weapons. Would‘ve made for a completely different game

[@nicsuggitt176]

They did, Back to Basics mode. It was incredible. Standard rifles and map weapons only. In hardcore with no hud it was insane. Trench whistles blaring, mass bayonet charges with the explosions from the field guns all around. Literal chills.

[@100500daniel]

​@@nicsuggitt176I never even knew this game mode exists because it's so unpopular it's never in any server let alone years after launch :(

[@SauceyFredo]

I mean there were machine guns in WW1 actually plenty. Many were used near the end of the war like the BAR but guns like the Chauchat, Lewis Gun, Maxim gun, Hotchkiss, etc. Realistically the only guns that shouldnt be there are sub machine guns.

[@droppeddogs]

That is dumb, battlefield is fast paced and balanced. You should play Verdun instead

[@adriandiaz4624]

Battlefield veteran here. Sad to see how EA killed my favourite franchise by trying to cater to an audience that does not even care about it. Nice video mate

[@Montereyjames]

I wouldnt be mad if Dice just annonced they would be remastering BF3 and let us go back to the golden age for a bit

[@snzr]

Wouldn’t be such a bad idea. A nice bridge to bridge the gap for the new 2025 game!

[@stubblytuna4068]

Do you really trust them to do that?

[@heistingcrusader_ad3223]

They would fuck it up. And plus people still play BF3

[@H1zN]

If they would remaster it, it would be bad. Diversty BS, gender BS, pol. correctness BS, Skin BS and Challanges BS. Keep BF3 as a good game in your mind.

[@DirkDagger]

Playing BF3, every match felt like you were taking part in an actual war. Every teammate's actions played into the greater objective, and the moments when you got into a team that ran like clockwork made fight for the victory all the more exhilarating.

[@snzr]

BF3’s gameplay was unmatched

[@nukey_nuke]

I gotta say BF2 and BF1 made me feel like I was in an actual war

[@bluscout1857]

Every battlefield up from 3 to 5 felt somewhat like a war 2042 felt like a generic video game shooter

[@John-PaulHunt-wy7lf]

Soon BF3 is banned by asian nations and in the west.

[@AnonymousMachine]

​@@bluscout1857you guys just lack the skill to have fun and depend so much on hand holding

[@JoeyMace28]

Frankly, devs today fucking suck. It's time to call a spade a spade. People will commonly say that we shouldn't blame the devs because x reason, it's just a cop out. BF3 came out a year and a half after BFBC2 and managed to not be bugged to absolute shit. There is no genuine reason why in the three years between BF5 and BF2042 that the dev team couldn't make a game that was playable. Content is one thing, and gaming has been suffering from that greed up top for a good decade at this point; however, in the past few years pretty much all AAA titles release basically unplayable. Not going to get into the reasons on why devs today are terrible, but fuck me AAA gaming has been starved of good devs for a very long time now.

[@dkkanofkash8798]

Companies hire incompetent people who barely get any work done and who can be paid less, the drop in quality is not surprising whatsoever.

[@JoeyMace28]

@@dkkanofkash8798 Far from surprising tbh. It’s a damn shame.

[@MrDeja56]

Battlefield 2... What a banger. Still play it daily after almost 20 years ;)

[@garrettjones9549]

The amount of crazy mods for singleplayer still blows my mind

[@V3ntilator]

@@garrettjones9549 They made a complete Star Wars game out of BF 1942.

[@Largentina.]

BF2 is something special

[@diet_dr.demoncore]

BF2 is where the series ACTUALLY peaked, only real ones will understand modern combat + bad company were a step in the wrong direction that all of the later games followed

[@ghostinthesystem3872]

EA ruins everythijg

[@nwoizaakgoldmann4519]

Nope, thats not only EA that would be to easy. Dice is completly out of touch and has no good devs anymore. They are all long gone and they are working on other project outside of Dice

[@TheeRookie]

How many hours I spent on BF3 and then BF4. Bought all the DLC. I absolutely loved those two games

[@snzr]

The times when we were excited for new updates and expansions. Now it’s just whatever.

[@J.Wick.]

Same bro. Same.

[@hrthrhs]

What's sad about BatV is it had the potential to be brilliant - it had such attention to detail such as soldiers running differently in shallow water and players becoming dirty, brilliant levelution in that every building could be destroyed, butter smooth movement, great team aspects such as squad points & squad call-ins and being able to heal your squad regardless of class, an amazing soundtrack, vehicles which felt weighty, wide variety of map biomes. The game now is heaps of fun.

[@bluscout1857]

I’d argue it IS brilliant, most people playing it have put in like hundreds of hours into it it me included, it may not be as great as bf1 but bfv is still very fun you know even if it has its problems and even if it wasn’t finished, it’s a banger game that a lot of people enjoy, I know this because I’m on the game a lot and I do see a lot of people on it lol, most of them have been playing the game for a while now to, again sure it may not be as great as bf1 but the servers on the game are still very much active and I will honestly say I do kinda prefer the gunplay in bfv over the majority of the other battlefield games Specifically talking about the newest bf5 build, pacific war and all, if you mean launch I can’t really state anything about that I never really played it on launch, and also assuming by BatV you mean bfv lol

[@guardian7287]

I find it quite sad that we never got see what it could have become.

[@WarFoxThunder]

​@@bluscout1857brooo same

[@andrewcollier3495]

They should have continued improving BF5 rather than launch BF2042. Bring in Russian factions, Italian Campaigns and add famous battles etc. It could have been great.

[@VostrumRexouium]

Hardline was actually good and gets to much hate for no reason, what other game offers cops and robbers in a grand scale where firing RPG's at moving cars from other cars is the most normal thing!? sure it aint no military shooter but it wasnt trying to be. what happened to BFV and 2042 though...now that deserves the hate, how did we go from the marketing being the reason not to buy, and now the marketing being a true battlefield and the game itself being anything but a true battlefield

[@ChromeCowboy_]

Man Hardline is so underrated 😢

[@KekusMagnus]

I don't think it's too unreasonable to ask for a modern BF3-like game. It is still great to play but it's showing its age, and there is definitely demand for it in the community. They don't have to keep trying to re-invent the wheel or chasing industry trends when they have a guaranteed working formula right in their hands. Just give us similar gunplay, similar map design (or just remaster old maps), similar vehicle mechanics, modern graphics and a solid roster of at least 15 maps at launch.

[@snzr]

Exactly that. It’s really simple to do well with the next game. The game needs exactly what you just said, as well as load of day one content.

[@bluscout1857]

Pretty sure if all else fails and they just can’t for the life of themselves think of anything new they could probably remaster the old games

[@chrissybubiB]

Add a captivating and motivating Progression and I'm all sold 😍💯

[@Jimbos3rdCousin]

Just noticed in the BF3 trailer and older, there were barely any changes between the trailer and the release gameplay. Really get that you see, they need to get back to where they once were.

[@toughluck8012]

Bf3 literally still holds up today among modern titles being released. Graphics and gameplay

[@jacksongrey5340]

Pandering, Micro transactions, Never ending reboots. The three things that have killed modern gaming

[@burnpitcav1519]

Man I wanted to cry. The best I ever was at a video game was battlefield bad company 2. I was top 100 for a couple months. Proudest moment and I loved that game. It was team effort, fun to play and I met tons of cool people.

[@R0d_1984]

epic, only reached 247, though i was playing on U.S servers with a ping of 350-500( long way from Australia ;D )....

[@mrsexy5680]

If you ask me, battlebit achieved what recent battlefield games cant. All out, frontline war, 124 vs 124 players. You have snipers, tanks, large open battlefields in deserts and farmlands. Proximity voice chat between allies and enemies alike, and even stupid fun stuff can be done like taking down a tabk single handedly with a huge rpg, or running behind frontlines with 6 stacks of c4 strapped to your own chest. Its truly the war game of all time.

[@snzr]

Battlebit brought that fun sandbox experience back to the formula, something the newer games lacked. That’s one of the reasons why I think it did so well for a while.

[@mrsexy5680]

@@snzr i think i also just love how huge scale it is and the prox chat. It adds a feeling of “this really is a huge scale war” Some parts will be frontlines with constant gunfire, explosions, and screaming of the injured, the other will be a few snipes all huddled together chilling and chatting, up in the sky a bunch of guys chatting before the heli drops em off into enemy lines, 2 guys going around like partner’s picking each other up when the other falls to keep pushing through a war too big for them, and another group acting like seal team 6 as they go into the enemy base, and somewhere you have a maniac playing freebird as he takes down a tank single handedly with 8 bundles of c4. Thats what battlebit feels like. Battlefield never got close to that.

[@mrsexy5680]

@@snzr i think its only dying as a game since the people who play it too long get too tactical about it, and get bored, and finally leave. Games at abt 3k players now so its kinda dead in the water. But it was great.

[@joshazie5296]

I’ll give BFV one thing, and that’s my opinion that “The Last Tiger” was one of the best pieces of storytelling in the entire franchise. I’m sure there’s inaccuracies in it, but the overall story and the darkness of it all was superb.

[@WarFoxThunder]

AGREED.

[@SauceyFredo]

Nothing is cooler than last stands and tanks. A formula that always hits

[@regularguy2807]

Nah the ending sucked it should've been Mueller telling the others and fighting the Americans till he dies so that his crew can retreat.

[@joshazie5296]

@@regularguy2807 you missed the point then. By the end of the war they’ve seen thru the lies of the Nazi Party. They just bombed the bridge with them on it and stranded them behind enemy lines. They hung his young loader for deserting when he was doing his duty, a boy way too young to fight. He saw the civilians dying by the hundreds in cologne, despite the military claiming all of them had been evac’d. Müller realized that they meant nothing to the regime they fought and died for. He lost his faith in his country, hence why he discarded his iron cross. There is no retreat, they are quite literally stranded and surrounded.

[@Tomszpl]

What lies, and he understood that he is nothing in army with millions of soldiers? No shit i dont understand endind​@@joshazie5296

[@PSNmemoryismisery]

the gaming industry as a whole has massively declined and the franchises we love are damaged beyond recognition.

[@venjo639]

Maybe it’s time to quit gaming hahaha No I’m just kidding. As a console player this sucks a lot but on pc you have sooo many alternatives, that’s crazy!

[@neomachine855]

​@@venjo639 Ehhh I wouldn't quit console entirely tbh, the Japanese developers like FromSoft, Nintendo, even Capcom, Sega and Square Enix still pump out amazing titles like Street Fighter 6, Armored Core 6, Tears Of The Kingdom, FF16 and the 7 Remakes and the Yakuza series, there's also the indie devs and occasionally you'll get the multiplayer games that are actually fun like Helldivers or The Finals

[@chodagreat7876]

I want to share my journey with Battlefield series. I started online gaming with MW2 and loved it! Blackops1 and Blackops2 made my heart melt when it comes to gaming. One day, I bought my first ever HD TV and got a copy of Battlefield3 for free with my TV. I expected nothing of it as all my friends trash talked the game. I remember my first ever match... It was on Noshar Canals.. I literally screames and felt overwhelmed by how AWESOME the game was!! I never played cod again after that day. I am absolutely heartbroken with the series after Battlefield 1.

[@R0d_1984]

MechWarrior2 was cool..........

[@ahmedadnan4398]

battlefield is dead for me the game is awful no content bad maps I feel playing battlefield 2042 is like a cancer

[@jessejan07]

What’s so sad to me is that battlefield portal had insane potential, just to see it go to waste :(. Honestly they could release an battlefield portal standalone game and build upon it with maps/weapons/assets from all throughout the franchise, would be so cool!

[@lr9380]

Bf 3 or 1 just felt like playing a game version of Black Hawk Down or Dunkirk, while Bf 2042 felt like a generic game adaption of what Fast and Furious 25 would look like

[@Nitroh-]

One bit of critical info you missed about 2042 was the game was originally being made as a Battle Royale only game, hence why we got 128p, way too big and open maps, specialists etc etc. Pretty sure it was confirmed by an insider at EA, and generally easy to speculate given the layout of the game.

[@snzr]

I wasn't aware of that. That makes a lot of sense. Guess that's what they get for chasing trends 💀

[@Nitroh-]

@snzr Yup, to make it worse with Hazard Zones fail too 💀💀. I remember seeing Tom Henderson tweet about it, DICE scrapped and re built 2042 over a year into development or something.

[@neilpearson26]

Just had a look at 2042 and the first thing I saw was an add on that cost £17.99. Not for a load of maps, just a few shitty costumes and a load of tat. That's what it's come to now, just a vehicle to sell you a load of crap. Shame.

[@Edmundostudios]

I agree with most points made. After MW19 came out I didn’t really play BF5 much anymore. Battlefield up until that point always felt like it had the best graphics and animations over cod but now it’s the other way around which is kind of sad.

[@j.d.s.8132]

Yeah I feel the same. BF1 beat CoD IW in 2016, then in 2019 things changed and CoD MW beat BF5 in pretty much everything. Now they both fail, MW3 is a failure and BF2042 is boring and unplayable. I just hope they get it together, but so much talent left BF recently.

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

​@@j.d.s.8132 Microsoft bought Activision and I'm hoping Activision new corporate lords will make them better games.

[@ryotv1747]

I love bf. I remember the first time I switched from cod to bf, and i told myself that I would never go back to CoD again with games like bf3. Bf1 is still imo, the best bf game out of the past 15 years. The immersion, the gore, the movement gameplay graphics soundtrack god, what a fucking game!

[@Maeno34]

Great video but why is it that everyone always fails to acknowledge how bf1s life cycle literally signaled what was to come with the franchise. That game had us waiting 6 months for the first expansion, broken weapons, and overall poor communication from dice. A lof of the problems listed in bf5 literally started in bf1. Its frustrating that people really gloss over that.

[@DIC_CEO]

First Battlefield game I played was 1943. It was a 1 or 2 hour demo and I fell in love. Unfortunately it was the last day of summer vacation and my day refused to buy it. Eventually I got it and then moved on the Bad Company 2 and I was dedicated to the franchise until 2042. Made so many friends along the way and I’ll be forever grateful. Great video memorializing the franchise. Hopefully this era of battlefield will be a thing of the past but I doubt it.

[@snzr]

I never got to play that one! I’m sure it was great! Thanks for watching

[@stinkerace4075]

Listen as someone who has played battlefield as their main game since 1942, I won’t defend battlefield V too much, but saying the gunplay wasn’t good because of random recoil is hilarious. Random bullet deviation from BF4 (and 2042 for some time) makes for some of the most frustrating gunplay ever. BFV guns at least shoot where the sights are…That was the main reason dice said they increased the TTK for the first time, new players were getting destroyed by long time battlefield and FPS players and they even said it was causing new players to leave. BFV and BF3 have the best gunplay in the series and I hope they never return to random bullet spread like they did with 2042 on launch. I will agree with you though that BF3 is the best in the series, truly a worthy successor to BF2

[@BamBam-er6hp]

Imagine getting so bad your consumers tried to like cod after bf5 and 2042.... What a collapse.

[@lolvanced]

Wait this video have less than 1k views???? Holy you really made some high quality stuff. Hope you can make it big in the future, very nice work tho

[@snzr]

Thanks mate, I really appreciate that!

[@Sperimorph1]

Man i hate EA handling battlefield games. 3 4 and 1 were most fun i ever had in multiplayer game.

[@Rubycore]

"Bring the T1 system back" People have just forgotten about service stars, huh?

[@snzr]

I love the service star system, I have not forgotten it. I mentioned it in newer videos that it’s something DICE need to bring back with leaderboards. I think T1 system was good because it rewards free skins, so why not have both? 😀

[@EXiLExJD]

BF3 and BF4 were the peak of the series, still playing BF4 to this day.

[@clarksonoceallachain8536]

Pair the "what a time to be alive" ad with the dima ending cutscene in BF3

[@Kazaonyt]

Rest in peace

[@thekrew257]

Great video! I started playing battlefield bad company in the Xbox 360 days, I can still hear the menu music in my head. Gosh I miss those days.

[@snzr]

Great game for the time!

[@SarFergani]

Those were the days my man!!!

[@ToiletGrenade]

I played the Hardline Beta for about 40 hours when it was out. There were three maps iirc, those being Dust Bowl, Downtown and Bank Job. One thing I remember from the Beta vs Retail version was the progression was very noticably downgraded and the game felt way more grindy, I think the battlepacks literally went up in price 10x. I personally loved every second of the Beta, some very fond memories there, I actually still have a handful of videos from it on my channel.

[@snzr]

I was referring to the first beta, I’m pretty sure that one only had downtown.

[@ToiletGrenade]

@@snzr Ah, the closed one. Never played that one so you're probably right.

[@aedri]

underrated channel

[@el1e869]

I think battlefield V was the biggest let down, so many potential and ea couldn’t help themselves🤦🏿‍♂️

[@takasytuacja5133]

I understand many are frustrated with recent changes and decisions involving DICE. While DICE is responsible for development, it's important to note that EA, as the parent company, significantly influences these decisions. EA's cost-saving measures and financial strategies can impact the quality and direction of the games we love. Ultimately, it's EA that holds the major responsibility for these outcomes.

[@YorchVicAstronaut1R]

Delta force with ex DICE devs working on it and CoD adding destruction are the last nails for the BF franchise coffin. And like you said BF WAS a good franchise. RIP 🙏🏻. Great video bro. BF3 BF4 will live forever in my heart ❤️

[@PiterburgCowboy]

With the recent fallout about the works of these creative consulting firms like SBI, we now begin to understand why in BF5 a strong, powerful disabled woman was showed into a WWII front line for absolutely no reason at all. That BF5 as was also the definitive mark where players would realize the best days for BF are over.

[@NoBreakz]

Bf3 was insane, but the transition from bad company to bf3 was insane

[@TheRealFeechLaManna]

Conquest at Golmud and TDM in the Noshar Channels, the very peak of Battlefield. The memories

[@pieropalle]

"the black sheep of the franchise" Hardline had insanely fun gameplay, the best gunplay in the entire series and was an overall amazing game, marketing convinced the low IQ masses of the opposite but everyone who played it agrees with me. If people didn't follow trends for their entire life we would have much better videogames (and life in general)

[@snzr]

Agreed, I personally really enjoyed what that game had to offer and the infantry experience was very unique.

[@Vulmen311]

Great video! Agree with pretty much everything you said. What is the ambient track in the background of the 2042 part called?

[@snzr]

Thanks for watching, the song is called Aquarium by Casino Versus Japan

[@Vulmen311]

@@snzr thanks! Watched some of your other videos, you're a very talented player which is kinda rare for youtubers who do essays like you. Looking forward for more videos!

[@snzr]

Cheers mate!@@Vulmen311

[@SleepySoviet]

Always amuses me to no end that people complained about bf5 being inauthentic to the time period but ignored bf1 being just as inaccurate

[@direct2397]

It had more to do with the entire vibe of the game rather then historical inaccuracies. A game doesn't need to be and honestly can't be 100% historically accurate. And that's fine. As long as the vibe and feel is right. In bf1, the vibe was just right. In bf5, it wasn't.

[@SleepySoviet]

@@direct2397 bf1 had nothing to do with ww1. It was a ww2 shooter wearing a ww1 skin

[@direct2397]

@@SleepySoviet and you completely missed my point. Yes it was far from a authentic ww1 experience like beyond the wire or isonzo. But again, the vibe was right. The music. Ambience, colour patterns, art style everything came together to create a incredible feel. Bf5 failed to do that. Bf5 wasn't a bad game. But it just didn't have a vibe at all. It was just a game nothing more nothing less.

[@ApolloTheDerg]

2042 gutted the social features, chat taken away, no servers, no platoons, not even persistent lobbies. I made many friends from BF4 back in the day, even just starting out as killing eachother in a pub match and ending up on TeamSpeak together. I still talk to these friends today, nearly a decade later. The new game just does not let you do this easily, it’s almost ashamed of the idea that you can communicate.

[@AnonymousMachine]

There is discord. I made more friends on 2042 that I ever did on BF4, 1 and 5. Also because thankfully there is no server browser

[@ApolloTheDerg]

@@AnonymousMachine dont get me wrong, having fresh faces in lobbies has its perks to a degree, but it is so limited. To this day I can join a BF4 locker server and say hello, and I get 3-7 responses from familiar faces, even if we aren't friends, its a community. Maybe even just having a server to play 3 rounds with the same folks and you end up talking more and making friends from funny run ins or situations. When 2042 launched I remember a Sundance landing on my jet, staring at me before the roadkill happened, and I was laughing my butt off but there was zero way to use all chat to talk about it or just share the moment. The fact it came back and is turned off by default is sad, some folks aren't even aware it is an option.

[@themaster3132]

Great video bro. its Kush Soup btw. this hit me in the feels i miss bf3 and playing knife only

[@snzr]

Respect brother, you’re an OG!

[@parallel-knight]

All they needed to do is make BF3/4 with BF look.

[@YaBoiBooda]

BF3 was the first multi-player game I unlocked everything for. This game was just different back then that you had to experience.

[@M1zzyMaz]

Great video, think you should definitely stick to making more videos like this in the future mate! Bc2/BF3 made me fall in love with Battlefield and 2042 has made that love dwindle

[@snzr]

Once the next games out and it’s good, we’ll all forget about 2042!

[@scarface50377]

I remember skipping school to just play the bf4 multiplayer demo. Good times

[@spinsaw]

Close quarters on Noshar Canals, Sniping on Tehran Highway and rush on Metro. BF3 is where it peaked.

[@tomlom69]

Im my opinion BF3 was peak

[@maze1914]

Can we get a bf3 remake. Hell just give me the single player mission n ill be happy lol

[@R0d_1984]

i used to have the discs from BF1942 till BF3 after what they did to BF5 i threw them out never to touch BF again (miss the Vietnam editions, BC2 and BF3 alot)...

[@duplicarus]

I remember all the cool shit I’d do in battlefield 3. Like throwing a C4 pack onto a helicopter while on the roof of a building.

[@Boqaj_]

Anyone else remember the BF3 "Faultline" trailer coming out and being mind blown? Then (atleast on pc) it actually lived up to the hype

[@Felipelipe99]

Great video man! I started on BF3, that era was peak ❤

[@ivannerub1043]

This brought back memories of Battlefield 3❤, I would play BF3 non stop for hours and hours , I hope the next game is a modern version of BF3!!!!!!

[@snzr]

Same, battlefield 3 is GOATED 🐐

[@MM3HD]

I left black ops 2 for bf3 because I was tired of cod. One of the best decisions of my life. Bf4 was better than ghosts. I'll never forget those memories.

[@defconzero7547]

Very nice summary about the Battlefield franchise. Well done. More of that! Pls

[@snzr]

Thanks for watching, I’ll try to make more videos like this in the future!

[@VERsingthegamez]

BF1 started the fall of the franchise post launch with DLCS releasing so far apart and DICE starting to not listen to player feedback. Then 5 sealed its fate being the worst bf game and one of the worst fps ever created. 2042 was just as bad but I find it more enjoyable to play than 5 since the core of the game was there but sadly its lack of maps made me leave. Also bf3 had a terrible HZ rate of 15 which explained why you died behind covers more often than not. 4 helped fix it and refined 3's formula despite its rocky launch. 4 and 3 where the peak of the franchise and given the recent news about EA and Dice behinds the scenes, we'll never get another good bf game. The only thing I can truly be excited bf related is Warsaw Revamped, mods for BF4. Hopefully it comes in soon.

[@DavidGonzalez_97]

Slightly disagree with you a bit where you said that BF1 was the fall of the franchise. The in-between time for the DLCS was a good amount of time, especially since the new content didn't feel broken or rushed since they've had that time in between to work on it. The fall, in my opinion, was BF5. As for the feedback, people were asking for things that wouldn't make sense in a WW1 style game like customizations to weapons. Personally I liked the variant system but that's just me

[@VERsingthegamez]

@@DavidGonzalez_97 The DLCS had months in between and people were complaining it taking too long. We got our first dlcs in March of 2017 then the next one in September of 2017 then half of Tide in Dec 2017 with the other half at the end of Jan 2018. The last one came out rushed out the door with bugs and problems in Feb 2018. Compare that to bf4 and bf3's and it was clear it was not spaced out well at all. Most of the dlc maps were either fine or bad. They could have easily made attachments for weapons instead of this bloated variant system. Why are there multiple variants of a m1911 that offer no difference except one being silence? Bf1 isn't all bad with all its dlcs now here but again this showed bf fall clear to me and v only sealed the deal that battlefield one day is going to be put on hold like MOH was since 2042's response and post launch was bad not to mention there is no hype what so ever for the next game considering all this.

[@mrd7374]

How do i send this video to Dice?

[@RMPalm2000]

Battlefield 1 is, in my opinion, one of the greatest FPS games ever made. BFV ended up being a good game, better than people give it credit for being. They abandoned it too soon though. Not including DDay or the eastern front is borderline criminal.

[@SamuelGavin]

My thoughts are almost identical on so many ways here. There must be many battlefielders that have been around since bad company who feel the same. You hit the nail on the head.

[@snzr]

Thank you! And I hope everyone feels the same. We need to be vocal as much as we can in hope that the franchise will change, otherwise it’s doomed.

[@R0d_1984]

Played since BF1942 days, really hooked since BF Vietnam till BF3, then i was over it.

[@mothmothmanmothman1541]

This is great analysis! I think chasing trends really ended it for battlefield. The year they actually beat CoD was when they did something no one expected and made a WW1 game...

[@snzr]

That’s very true, I think Infinite Warfare releases that year and nobody cared for it. Thanks for watching I hoped you enjoyed it!

[@starstruckp4808]

2042 is and always will be a failure. Not just to the franchise, but even as a full fledged game. A shame that even when BFV was hailed to be the worst in the franchise, 2042 managed to topple it without any effort. No doubt I’ll miss BF:BC 1 & 2, BF3/4/1 and even Hardline. What a trip this has been.

[@MSDGAMEZ]

Such a good video in subscribed now. Great job man

[@snzr]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the sub

[@louissenekis]

great vid man, for all that’s happened, i still love this franchise and pray it comes back stronger than ever

[@snzr]

Same man! I absolutely love the Battlefield formula, nothing is quite like it. The franchise has to come back from this!

[@louissenekis]

@@snzr exactly man, honestly, no other game can capture the atmosphere and rock paper scissors formula as good as dice did, even battlefield v had that dna that made me sink hundreds of hours despite all its flaws, 2042 lacks that dna i feel, praying it comes back

[@l67swap1]

I remember building my PC with 3 GTX 580s in sli and i7 950 just to play bf3 ... That game is still amazing to this day... Gaming sure isn't like this anymore . Great video 👌👍

[@mikepartlow4305]

Bad Company started my obsession with game audio too. The guns sounded like their real world counterparts perfectly and I can't think of any other FPS that does it that well

[@PeppicoBF]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies worldwide, ESG scoring multiplied by corporate greed.

[@echodelta2172]

B-but muh black female snipers in the Marine Corps!

[@PeppicoBF]

@@echodelta2172as long as we have ____ admirals.... we good brother

[@jemmrich]

Well presented and thorough, great job!

[@snzr]

Thanks mate!

[@varunparbhakar5075]

What a great video! Keep it up man, I love your analysis and how passionate you are about this franchise, looking forward to more videos like this.

[@snzr]

Thanks for watching man, I really appreciate it!

[@rH0und]

I miss those days of bf3 It was one of my first “violent” games as a kid and I definitely would have been one of those squeakers if I had a mic. It’s such a shame how time goes on and we lose such great things

[@datboi9648]

In school I had to save up and pay for my own online service, buy my systems and games. I was on CoD for the longest time so I was late to BF3. But played a small bit and loved it. BF4 I had no life lol and BF1 I had no life. Cried a little when they dropped the ball with my favorite era, WW2.

[@snzr]

Yeah BFV was such a waste of time in the games franchise.

[@notanactual_user]

really good watch. I wish you dived a little more into bf1 but other than that i really liked it

[@snzr]

I think I didn’t need to. Everyone knows how incredible it was, and I didnt want the video to be longer than it already was because I was afraid this would discourage people from watching jt

[@BoogeyMan828]

Battlefield is supposed to be large map/scale combined arms not just infantry imo. Until they go back to that a lot of players are done with BF