CrimsonAngel said:
IN Battlefield Badcompany 2 you get a TON of points for random stuff.
Shoot a guy you get points, Hit a guy that some one else kills , Spot a target, Target you spotted get shot and so on will all get you points.
SO every thing you do gives you EXP to the class you are playing that will help you unlock more and better weapons.
Which explains why playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 is an exercise in tactics, coordination, gracefully-executed plans and group accomplishment, bringing about success for the whole team as a result of your own smart play.
Oh, except it's not, and playing it is an exercise in frustration. I swear, it's either your team goes all snipers and refuses to do anything other than sit on a hillside and get shot in the face by assault rifles from half a kilometre away, or you get put on some godly team who are able to win the match five seconds after it starts because they know how to fly the helicopters and there is no reliable counter to them. Fuck, just getting your team to take objectives is a triumph.
No, it really has to do with this:
Azalin said:
So this game rewards you with 1000xp just for watching the tutorial video
And by that, I mean that people are just fucking stupid, don't know how to play with others and can't be arsed, and are more interested in personal accomplishment than working with their team even though they are playing a team-based game. Try making a team-based shooter which features anything more complex than "shoot the other guys" (i.e. Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, which admittedly are great games for what they are), and the frothing masses get confused. Games like Call of Duty and Halo aren't popular because they are well-balanced games that reward teamwork and intelligence, they're popular because they're autofellatio simulators.
This is the true state of the games industry. You think this problem only affects strategy titles, RPGs etc.? Fuck no. Anything even remotely more difficult to grasp than "point gun, shoot gun" is pretty much destined to failure, or limited to a small niche of players. People want to be entertained in short bursts, they want novelty, they want to feel like a badass without exerting effort. This used to be limited to single-player games, where everything was built around the player. Now, it's crept into multiplayer, because people have realised that making other players your bitch is more fun than making an AI character your bitch. The result? Standards are getting lower and lower, we don't have any serious competitive multiplayer games being made, and even previously complex titles like Battlefield are being trimmed down further and further in the name of catering to the "I paid my $60, give me a blowjob" market.
In some senses I have to respect Brink and Splash Damage. Launching a new intellectual property with a unique and accomplished aesthetic, especially in the woefully bland console shooter market, is itself a huge step forward. Some of its game concepts, like the parkour, are ambituous, even if not very well implemented. If anything it strikes me very much as a title a lot of people poured their hearts and souls into, that was gradually worn down into the awkward, "have it both ways" title that ended up on store shelves. There's no real excuse for a bad game in that there's always going to be someone to blame, but here it feels a lot less like the fault of the developer and more the fault of the market and its existing expectations of what shooters have to be.
