I have to give props to Infinite Warfare and Hardline for at least trying to branch out from the mold their respective franchises set.

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

An experiment worth trying, lot's of room for improvement but they did try to break free from the copy paste nature of AAA

@lastresort2600

13 күн бұрын

That's how a lot of franchises hit their peaks, I found, by applying their best mechanics to something new. I wish they did more like this today.

@naenaemister5048

13 күн бұрын

@@masterficuscouldn’t agree more it’s nice to see something that isn’t just pmc or military operations that are “black ops”

@munanchoinc

13 күн бұрын

@@masterficus I think the reason why both games never got the praise they deserved is because IW came in such a terrible time to make a futuristic game at a time when Sci-Fi Shooter fatigue was setting in. Hardline meanwhile had to compete with BF4 Which had more liberties in it's setting. You can't compete fighting in a game set in a Louisiana swamp in a cops vs robbers against Jets, different types of Tanks, APCs, Hovercrafts, Hovertanks with a railgun in the middle of a de-commissioned Soviet base in the middle of Arctic tundra.

@AmelpsXett

13 күн бұрын

its still toothless and mindless experience. They didnt experiment, they just dangled different toys in front of idiots.

The best way to play this campaign is by going to main menu after every mission so it feels like binging a tv show

i felt hardline was an homage of serialized police tv shows, but played it completely straight and with not one ounce of self awareness or parody. the story barely made sense, but nothing in it was as baffling as the moment in battlefield 3 when you had to shoot your squad leader within milliseconds of a cutscene ending or else he opens fire on you despite neither you nor him having any reason to do so

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

I gotta admit I really appreciate how it commits to the bit. It never belittles itself and just lets the player have fun with the premise

@Imperial_Novatrooper

10 күн бұрын

Cole it's implied is a paranoid loon who would sooner shoot a Russian uniform than listen to reason from his subordinate. Campo spends the whole campaign bitching about Cole's attitude and command and the general impression is laid down that he's a gung ho glory hound who will stoop to surprising depths to advance his career. It's an intensely dramatic conclusion to the conflict but by that point the game had already invaded Iran and blown up Paris, so can you really judge a few more rounds of 5.56 thrown at the guy who's been belittling your work the whole time?

@Lthethird

8 күн бұрын

it would have been equally annoying as a self aware parody

@imnotusingmyrealname4566

4 күн бұрын

I don't care there's a tank (tank?) wohoooo!

"Killing people, off the books, with the protection of the police chief" Sometimes these games can be scarily accurate

I would LOVE a hardline type game set in the 1920s. The things they cohld do with that in a prohibition atmosphere would make for outstanding gameplay

@bansenpy5553

12 күн бұрын

Ew for me 1920s all the way to 50s is the most boring time period for me ever except for the 2 world wars,main reason I hated the mafia games 🤢

@jacobgalfi1420

12 күн бұрын

@bansenpy5553 it would still play like a battlefield game, the mafia games were alot different play style then battlefield

@sephuris5555

10 күн бұрын

Ooo. Going at mob and their illegal liquor and drug sales damn that would be fun

@Kisseyhersh123

3 күн бұрын

@@bansenpy5553 yeah well there was kind of a giant economic failure that bankrupt a vast majority of the world and lots of people died as a result of both it and the world war and several disease plagues that ravaged the planet.

PEAK battlefield in my top 3 for sure

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

ngl, despite my criticisms, I probably spent more time arresting drug dealers in florida than shooting soldiers in any other battlefield campaign

CinemaSins every time your amendments are violated lol

Using windows 8 in 2024 is wild

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

I make many bad decisions

@Ducking69

10 күн бұрын

@@masterficusbest decision

"the game rewards you by doing non lethals with lethals" is all the gameplay type issues i have with BFH. It really didnt seem like some of the choices was made with any logic thinking. Still my favorite BF story to revisit. Edit: Didnt seem like the choices were made to be inclusive or "fun" either. If you're a traditional CoD shoot em all then its no fun forcing arrests so no guns for that playstyle and its far from satisfying to be rewarded stuff from a different catagory. Locking the tazer or other tools behind arrests or maybe even non lethal options that gave a small amount of xp when doing arrests (like rubber bullets, batons etc.) Too short development time with not enough focus is the core of many game issues but this battlefield feels way more plagued with it than others. like they spent too much time throwing ideas around at the table without locking them down before releasing the Design doc for the teams.

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

Your comment got me thinking, maybe reduce the number of lethals to the point that in a couple playthroughs you could try them all, and expand the number of non lethals and their effects. Have slightly different endings if your playthrough was mostly lethal or non lethal to tie gameplay style to the narrative. I think you're absolutely right on the short development time.

@minio585

13 күн бұрын

@@masterficus the vast majority of players i assume Finnish the story once or twice at most within the games life span. So balancing around more would be silly. Changing the ending would be quite easy aswell with just 3-4 different cutscenes. Not going the mass effect route of having different mid points (unnecessary dev time for a cop drama) but just something that recognized the play through but sadly this wouldnt work with the stories as they tried to keep the leaderboard system from bf4 missions causing it to be segmented but didnt even make the leaderboard/points system well thought out. because they didnt keep the cop theme all the way through for theming and weighted it to only one gameplay style often making the player take choices in engagements that they didnt really want to make. Leading to worse outlook on the campaign as a whole. To be honest the leaderboard system is a good representation of everything wrong with bfh aswell. Not enough theme to make it immersive, not enough freedom to be 100% fun and seemingly not enough time to make it feel complete.

despite all this game's shortcomings it remains *the* best battlefield game. hands down. a much less serious, much more casual battlefield title, with a lot of love put into it.

@TheSquishyBoi

14 күн бұрын

I gotta say bad company 2 is also pretty casual and just overall hilarious.

@GoddessOfMisfortune

14 күн бұрын

And it has the hotwire gamemode in it, literally second to none.

@ground5295

13 күн бұрын

@@TheSquishyBoi didn't have death grips playing over the car's radio.

@Honey_Katz

13 күн бұрын

I heavily disagree.

@ground5295

13 күн бұрын

@@Honey_Katz bi furry pfp, opinion instantly disregarded. check these statistics 95%/5%

Epilogue means the tail end of a story not the beginning. Regardless Great video, keep it up.

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

Whoops, I think "epilogue" is just more fun to say than "prologue" and my brain didn't catch it

So this entire time, I watched this entire video thinking that it was a top quality video essay from some big youtuber. Turns out, its a top quality video essay from a small youtuber. Dear Master Ficus, please, continue making this good content. You literally locked me in for half a hour only to give me the biggest surprise of my life. Good video, good content, will continue to watch.

@justarandompersoniguess

14 күн бұрын

My favorite genre of youtube video is “surprisingly good video essay that turns out to be by a really small youtuber”

@jeffhurtson5211

14 күн бұрын

I scrolled down to read this comment, only to scroll back up and be shocked that the "small" youtuber ment under 1k instead of under 10k. Especially for how good this video was.

My head cannon for this battlefield game. All of the gangs are different Political movements gearing up for Civil War selling drugs and dealing with cartels to get more firearms and fund their revolution that is why the police are so armed and that is why the suspects are so armed and why normal police tactics are being abandoned as America looms towards chaos.

@masterficus

13 күн бұрын

The game doesn't support this, BUT that makes a ton of sense and I'm going to adopt that headcanon as well

@declanjones8888

11 күн бұрын

That sounds way better and far more interesting than this.

@allamericantrolling

11 күн бұрын

@@masterficus they should’ve hired me as a storyboard Director hahaha I think a setting like this would be far more interesting and make a lot more sense with gameplay and why these gangsters have tanks, instead it’s just sympathetic soldiers defecting to the side of revolutionaries. Their game could’ve had a deep and compelling story about political extremism, and what happens when a government is pushed to the brink of collapse have the game stepped in gray there are no good guys or bad guys.

the multiplayer was fucking fire tho , especially with the rappel gun

I wish Hardline had skippable cutscenes. Being forced to sit through them just kills replay value, especially when some of them just drag on.

Honestly I love this game with all my heart, its wacky, its stupid, it makes no sence and has a pretty decent pacing which only goes up and up. Its battlefield, in its purest form. Its not an accurate game, or a realistic game, but its downright fun. It even manages to feel like the bad company team got hold of the reigns for a moment.

Holy shit this is the first time I've ever watched a review or video talking about a specific game that actually went into its difficulties. I know it's such a small thing which in the video, but I almost almost never hear people talk about the difficulties and how well or poorly balanced they are.

Did the algorithm pick this up? Nice work! Im glad you're getting more views. Great video!

i genuinely had so much fun playing this game when i was younger

I just finished this game like a couple of weeks ago in my rush to catch up on the battlefield franchise before the multiplayer dies and it's gone forever like bad company 1 and 2. I pretty much missed out on the entire franchise growing up. And after playing the campaign of this game man, it gave me less of a battlefield 5 and more of a vibe of Payday 2 combined with rainbow six siege. Once again, I'm just talking about vibe. Now I can't play, not graphics, but the general vibe and atmosphere of the campaign. And the only thing I can really narrow it down to it is a few significant seeds and its color designs and the music that really gave it sometimes that siege Payday 2 vibe for some reason.

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

They really went into the 80's cop drama aesthetic head first, sets it apart, in a good way I think

this is a great video, keep up the good content man i wanna look around for other video essays you might've made

The only Battlefield games ive played were Bad Company 2, BF3, and owned but never installed BF4. Would love to see what you think of the Medal of Honor series.

@masterficus

16 күн бұрын

Been years since I've played a Medal of Honor game, I remember enjoying it though. Played BF3 growing up and remember being really impressed, been a while though.

i honestly love this game! that or it reminds me of those cops shows i used to watch as a kid. really reminds me of like overdramatize CSI Miami show i really loved, good kind of corny :)

One of the best FPS I'm proud to 100% the gameplay can be goofy sometimes but it's fun to play

7:55 HOW DID A COP GET A SWEDISH LATE WW2 WEAPON?!

@masterficus

13 күн бұрын

I really should've included this, one of the other collectables you can find are guns, I can't remember how many there are but it's not a lot. The swedish smg is found in swamp episode, which means the coke smugglers were using an antique swedish ww2 smg as a drop gun in the middle of the swamp.

I remember reading somewhere that the pistols are stronger than rifles in the campaign, but I could be wrong. And at 25:23 I'd just like to share that some modified M113 Bradleys are in use by police and SWAT teams See also: police BTR

@masterficus

13 күн бұрын

I think you're right, the snipers and shotguns do more damage but the other rifles trade damage for fire rate, to the point that at least the revolver I used a lot did more damage per shot. The police do have some rad armored carriers, but the main gun on the tank takes training to use and a dedicated guy for it. Also I had no idea some police departments had access to M113 Bradleys, that's very cool and a little unnerving.

Epilogue comes at the end, not the start

Hardline multiplayer was really fun tho

All I'm saying is that BF:H had the best multiplayer.

Great video bro! I think you meant prologue when you said epilogue tho

@masterficus

13 күн бұрын

Thanks man, and yeah I goofed prologue, epilogue is a fun word to say and I think that's why that happened

The campaign for Hardline was so goofy, but the multiplayer was so much fun. I miss it sometimes.

Tell me this guy doesn’t sound like knowledge hub!

I think if they gave out all the DLC with the full game for like, $20, this game would explode. Personally my favorite Battlefield to date; the level of player freedom you get is actually insane.

This is basically Bad Boys the videogame and it's fucking cool

Hardline was fun ashell especially when I didn’t have a bunch of dumbasses telling me it sucked

I hit the craziest trick shot in hardline beta weekend I’m 21 now still think about that tripple collateral through a moving car 360 no scope (%100 on accident but my friends didn’t need to know that)

Making a Battlefield game thats a Cop Drama is like making a Jak and Daxter game thats nothing but demolish derby. Oh wait, they did. Still, someone new to follow.

Man i really liked the multiplayer for hardline

So, it’s actually accurate to the average modern American police experience. I am talking about committing misconduct not bat shit insane stunts and things

@justalurker3489

13 күн бұрын

I mean they try to do unnecessary shit like that though. There's the infamous video of a cop ramming his car into a car with a pregnant woman in it because she didn't pull over quickly enough (she signaled she was doing so), flipping her car. He gets out and berates her while she's still upside down.

I definitely enjoyed the campaign from for this one i might reinstall it now

I don't like water so i don't think i will

5:50 why the fuck cant she hold pressure on her own wound???

No fuckin way you have less than 600 subs

Best cop sim/arcade in ps3 to date!! Ion assure ps4, but for me it is too

One of the most forgettable games i ever played lol, completely forgot this existed even tho i played it on release

Remember guys this all ok for the police to do because they announced their intention beforehand

@sojournertaylor6897

13 күн бұрын

Said nobody who knows anything.

U cant tell me bfh was the og mw22

I bought the BF games through to bf vietnam, and played part of I think it was bf 2142? We're talking pre-2010 ish. Haven't really bothered with anything multiplayer or online since me3. Seems like a janky cop game they threw the "battlefield" title on.

@masterficus

14 күн бұрын

You nailed it, glitchy, janky, disconnected, almost nothing to do with the rest of the series. Fun in "what is this" sort of way

16:40 it sure would be cool to look at the explosion... . to bad you are shaking worse than a naked dude in -60F weather (before you factor in a 50MPH wind, gusts to 70) and i know how bad you shake in weather like that.... because i live in NE montana.... and have been naked outside in that weather (dont ask) . seriously.... that is the most VIOLENT "explosion shake" ive ever seen in video games, movies.... even real life when i blew up 10 pounds of tannerite.... (that was just a shock wave, then about 2 seconds of "holy fuck"/confusion/checking my self for shrapnel) . but i could still see the door of the fridge we blew up flying about 1/2 mile away..... (the "main door" fell off of the transport to the shooting range..... so we just put it on top.... put the 10 pounds in the freezer.... and blew it up) only thing left was a square metal frame and the compressor (EVERYTHING ELSE was reduced to pieces less than 1 inch square)

it may be "cringe" as the kids say..... but how do you have less than 1000 subs? . id like to see your take on the Brothers In Arms series (the first 2 games are pretty good....have their rough patches, but still hold up) the last game leaves you on a cliff hanger... and randy pitchford is too greasy to make the 4th game (and if he does... it will just be a cash grab) . the last game was SO much more than got delivered... their WAS!!! a trailer that showed off "buddy moments" (this is a squad based game.... if you order your fire team to charge an MG42 and they all get killed, on some difficulty options they are dead for the REST OF THE GAME) so a buddy getting shot was a BIG deal (on "easy" i think they were dead till the next mission.....and in EIB you could revive them after a checkpoint? like an opntion to revive or not came up IIRC) . ANYWAY..... your squad MATTERS!!! so if you are running behind someone.... and he gets shot in the head (like in the now deleted trailer) you catch him..... it goes slowmo.... you see the hole in his helmet, blood running down from his face....... (no other game did that at the time) . they also had a trailer showing off GAMEPLAY of a REAL!!!! "toy shop"..... all the maps were going to be made using WW2 recon pictures. and this toy shop was REAL..... and this motor attack was REAL.... (the first game actually DID!! have a lot of pretty close to real life maps/engagements) a motor hits outside.... you everyone gets FUCKED by glass shards.... you pull one from your arm in a cut scene . . what we got was a rushed game with focus issues.... the last mission where you are in a tank is SUPER rushed....the FIRST!! time i played the game i was like "wow, this is jank AF... this feels like they were rushed" and that before i started watching youtube... before i knew what "dev hell" was.... or "crunch" . . . anyway.... Borthers in arms "kick started" my love of more realistic video games but i still LOVE Call Of Duty 1/UO (base attack mode needs to make a comeback... COD1 is more like Counter Strike than COD2+) . then red orchestra came out.....and i STILL play that game (stock RO is best RO.... really shows the horror of WW2... ONLY!!! game that makes me duck IRL when bullets come close) . then ARMA2... then DCS flight sim (i LITERALLY got addicted to DCS..... F15C was my jam!!! then Mig-21, then F14..... now i might have to reinstall to play the F4 phantom.... much eaiser to kill modern jets in the F4 than the MIG21..... which i LOVED to do in multiplayer, troll modern jet players, especially F15s, in the mig21) . people said my mig 21 had stealth tech..... because id study the maps on the 104th sever (which is where 99% of my ~2500 hours was spent) i knew EVERY valley.... i knew where the ACWACS was on each team and what valleys it could see into..... spawn points ETC . . before me and 2 other dudes figured this out..... NO ONE was flying above ~35,000 feet they would all try to climb sub sonic.... and eventually the angle of attack / induced drag gets so high you CANT accelerate. . but if you take off.... hit 500 knots.... (in F15C... 6 aim120, 2 aim 9, 2 wing bags) then pull up.... try to maintain 400 knots.... 320 at the LEAST!!! . once above contrail altitude (for stealth reasons)..... level off / shallow dive to hit mach 1.6 at mach 1.6 the F15s engines start to act a bit like ram jets.... and pick up some thrust at that point.... you can climb to 52,000 feet at mach 1.9 if you want to... . you can shoot AIM120s at people 40 to 70 miles away and get hits!!! (even if they defend after they get the pitbull RWR warning.... its still super sonic) range depends on how high and fast they are... of course. . a dude on the deck and cold = 20 miles a dude at 35,000 and mach 1.5... head on.... = 40 or 50 miles. . normally... people say the AIM 120 is only good to 15 miles MAX!!! usually 10 miles.... (pitbull is ~8 miles.... so shooting inside that gives no advantage over FOX1s)

@masterficus

13 күн бұрын

Never played Brothers in Arms, sounds like it's worth trying out. I'm not worried about my sub count, I'm just a hobbyist, if I took youtube seriously I would've pumped out weekly fallout content and wouldn't waste my time with superstition shorts that only I care about. I just make videos on whatever I feel like talking about, the trade off is being a small channel, which I'm totally fine with.

Dude this game was amazing, i dint care about its title, it was just fun as all hell

Battlefield: Copaganda

@ericneuens

5 күн бұрын

And why do you think this game is copaganda?

the multiplayer was super fun. Hotwire was entertaining as could be, Blood money and Heist were up there too, I'm just sad Hardline's multiplayer doesn't get the same love BF4 and BC2 get, in my mind they're all up there as some of the best Battlefield has to offer, though, I'm biased in favor of BF5 being the best, I just love WW2 games. The singleplayer felt bad, even back when the game came out. Thanks for this deep-ish dive on it. Good stuff.

Hardline was kinda right ngl (its multiplayer I mean)

Lmao this is either a deeply republican fantasy of cops or a deeply liberal fantasy of cops

i worked on this game. It wasn't fun.

Unfortunately this game seems unplayable to me on steam thanks to it's spyware, horribly outdated even by anticheat standards, pnkbuster anticheat.

acab

Great game, but a bad battlefield

What is this copium

@roxicolada

12 күн бұрын

What copium? BFH story being bad is literally one of the most milquetoast arguments on this platform, did you play this game lol?

This game was straight ass, cheap as hell. Don’t understand how people can find this game fun over BF1