Battlefield Hardline. Divide your weight by two, that's how many fluid ounces of water you should be drinking a day, minimum. It's getting hot out there boys, stay hydrated.
@@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.
"NEXT TIME ON HARDLINE" "PREVIOUSLY IN HARDLINE" I love it when games does stuff like this lol. Driver: San Francisco also did the same thing everytime you finished a Chapter of the game.
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
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?
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 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.
Heck, both COD and Battlefield don't even have any games that come from civil wars/guerrilla warfare POV's, only Far Cry. I would also want a African civil war game for COD, something similar to Bad Company in terms of story but more action packed like black ops.
@@allamericantrolling They should've explicitly established Hardline's story as a direct sequel to BF3 but with the nuke going off in Time's Square instead of being disarmed, causing the US to grow insanely paranoid and the police becoming fully militarized and massively expanded which would lead to an inevitable backlash thus setting off an American version of the Troubles or the Years of Lead.
@@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.
Hardline is great, honestly. I love the campaign because it's basically a 70s movie, and it was obviously a labor of love. Battlefield is no longer a series made by passionate people. Visceral was a gem of a company.
Hardline was goated imo and is severely overlooked. The multiplayer dialogue as criminals was so awesome and sometimes funny. I still think about the commander calling me you “dumbfucks” when losing
"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.
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.
@@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.
@@minio585 Why do we need branching paths in the cop drama? Are we so autistic now that we can't appreciate nominal choice without demanding 30+ endings for a fucking cop drama set in 80s Miami? It's fine as it is.
@@loserinasuit7880 im not saying 30 endings. All im saying is theres a reason why mass effect 3 gets criticism for its ending. Giving 3 different cutscenes wouldve added alot but i guess they did it this way in case theres a sequel
You know, if Mendoza overdosed on cocaine when it exploded, 30:46 made ME overdose on laughter in real life. This moment right there is absolutely perfect. Every single part of this frame is a separate joke which is hillarious on its own but when they all combine together one may really suffer a heart attack from laughing too hard.
Even with its heap of problems, it was genuinely a fun game with a solid multiplayer that tried to go against the norm. I’m just disappointed people didn’t give it a fair shake.
The multiplayer, as per the norm, was completely fucked at launch and people weren't giving up on 4 yet. By the time they fixed it everyone had already migrated back over to 4, which is a shame because it genuinely had great improvements over 4.
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.
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.
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)
The most fun I EVER had gaming was playing the Hardline beta. It felt like I was playing a movie, the atmospherics were insane. Cop cars, helicopters, robberies. Immaculate vibes, fun gunplay. All around lots of novel game design too!
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.
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.
Scale-wise I think it'd make a ton more sense for Call of Duty to do a Cops and Robbers themed game than Battlefield. COD is known for its 6v6 small multiplayer gameplay which I think you can justify as being some sort of SWAT raid better than Hardline's "Open street war" thing with attack choppers and heavy weapons.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Unpopular opinion incoming: I loved BF hardline I was a great take on the BF franchise and deserves to get a sequel by a team that isn’t EA that can actually do a game like that justice.
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.
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.
Tfw the chief was technically the good guy all along, simply because he created a system that doesn't benefit loose cannons like the protagonist anymore, preventing mass destruction and bloodbath
my favourite part of the video was 25:31 when he noticed that he can get close to the propeller then immediately runs into it to see if he can take damage from it
Love battlefield. Spent more time in hardline than any other ones. People just tried to cram it into the box of bf4 and compared it when they are not the same by any means
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.
Honestly hardline had my favorite battlefield combat, I was max level with all bonuses unlocked in that game, before I had a job I would play it for days at a time
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.
Sent this to my dad who's top 10 in the world on this game. Plays it like a religious routinely dropping 50+ kill games while eating chips and talking to me about school. He needs no concentration and cannot play a single other battlefield game the same way. Fucking legend.
I grew up in government housing. I have memories of Cops coming around and hurting people, I remember being eight years old when I saw cops take my neighbor out into the street with his handcuffs tied behind his back, tripped him, and sent him falling face first into the concrete sidewalk making his nose explode into blood. The bloodstain was there for days. That was the first time I saw police brutality - it was not the last. Games like this really make me mad.
I don't understand why they didn't think to make a SWAT game instead. I could see it getting fleshed out to be almost like siege or ready or not before they were out
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
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.
the devs looked at the frostbite engine realized that it had all kinds of military assets in it and said how do we incorporate all of these into a game about corrupt cops
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
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.
Personally i liked the Hardline campaign, It didn't feel overly serious and was generally just a cop drama, Getting in the mindset that this is just a simple cop drama really made the experience more fun for me.
at 27:13, for some reason they all open fire as you're being dragged away. I don't think anyone told DICE that cops and even soldiers aren't supposed to just shoot everything that moves.
Honestly with leaving people handcuffed lying down there is technically a concept of positional asphyxiation which is taught in basically all hand cuffing courses that I imagine is a big no no especially with battlefield hardline which is what kills the realism for me.
i played this game from day one. never once finished the single player lol. me and my friends were quite high on the rankings for our mastering of the helicopters in the multiplayer. we truly did have a great time with it despite it being the weakest bf
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.
Had to try and appeal to a certain demographic that hates another demographic. As shown by the type of things the "fans" find funny. Like how he thought a man getting unjustly murdered by a pig was funny enough to put up fanart of
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)
I have to give props to Infinite Warfare and Hardline for at least trying to branch out from the mold their respective franchises set.
An experiment worth trying, lot's of room for improvement but they did try to break free from the copy paste nature of AAA
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.
@@masterficuscouldn’t agree more it’s nice to see something that isn’t just pmc or military operations that are “black ops”
@@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.
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
"NEXT TIME ON HARDLINE"
"PREVIOUSLY IN HARDLINE"
I love it when games does stuff like this lol. Driver: San Francisco also did the same thing everytime you finished a Chapter of the game.
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
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
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?
it would have been equally annoying as a self aware parody
I don't care there's a tank (tank?) wohoooo!
Playing it straight was what made it fun. It would be complete dogshit if they were trying to do a self aware parody.
"Killing people, off the books, with the protection of the police chief"
Sometimes these games can be scarily accurate
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.
The game doesn't support this, BUT that makes a ton of sense and I'm going to adopt that headcanon as well
That sounds way better and far more interesting than this.
@@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.
Heck, both COD and Battlefield don't even have any games that come from civil wars/guerrilla warfare POV's, only Far Cry. I would also want a African civil war game for COD, something similar to Bad Company in terms of story but more action packed like black ops.
@@allamericantrolling They should've explicitly established Hardline's story as a direct sequel to BF3 but with the nuke going off in Time's Square instead of being disarmed, causing the US to grow insanely paranoid and the police becoming fully militarized and massively expanded which would lead to an inevitable backlash thus setting off an American version of the Troubles or the Years of Lead.
I think this entire game can be summarized with "Wow, that made 0 sense. But it was fun!"
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
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 🤢
@bansenpy5553 it would still play like a battlefield game, the mafia games were alot different play style then battlefield
Ooo. Going at mob and their illegal liquor and drug sales damn that would be fun
@@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.
It should be in black and white like Hatred or Betrayer.
Using windows 8 in 2024 is wild
I make many bad decisions
@@masterficusbest decision
@@kron7536 true
@@kron7536 i mean, win 8(8.1) is practiacally the same piece of garbage, but worse. I can understand running win 7, but win8 is just a worse win10.
@@kron7536windows 8 is better than windows 10?
Hardline is great, honestly. I love the campaign because it's basically a 70s movie, and it was obviously a labor of love. Battlefield is no longer a series made by passionate people. Visceral was a gem of a company.
PEAK battlefield in my top 3 for sure
ngl, despite my criticisms, I probably spent more time arresting drug dealers in florida than shooting soldiers in any other battlefield campaign
Epilogue means the tail end of a story not the beginning. Regardless Great video, keep it up.
Whoops, I think "epilogue" is just more fun to say than "prologue" and my brain didn't catch it
@@masterficusit is
Hardline was goated imo and is severely overlooked. The multiplayer dialogue as criminals was so awesome and sometimes funny. I still think about the commander calling me you “dumbfucks” when losing
"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.
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.
@@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.
@@minio585 Why do we need branching paths in the cop drama? Are we so autistic now that we can't appreciate nominal choice without demanding 30+ endings for a fucking cop drama set in 80s Miami? It's fine as it is.
@@loserinasuit7880 im not saying 30 endings. All im saying is theres a reason why mass effect 3 gets criticism for its ending. Giving 3 different cutscenes wouldve added alot but i guess they did it this way in case theres a sequel
You know, if Mendoza overdosed on cocaine when it exploded, 30:46 made ME overdose on laughter in real life. This moment right there is absolutely perfect. Every single part of this frame is a separate joke which is hillarious on its own but when they all combine together one may really suffer a heart attack from laughing too hard.
I like hardline because the lack of attack helicopters, jets and armored vehicles made the game really enjoyable in a different way
Even with its heap of problems, it was genuinely a fun game with a solid multiplayer that tried to go against the norm. I’m just disappointed people didn’t give it a fair shake.
The multiplayer, as per the norm, was completely fucked at launch and people weren't giving up on 4 yet. By the time they fixed it everyone had already migrated back over to 4, which is a shame because it genuinely had great improvements over 4.
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.
My favorite genre of youtube video is “surprisingly good video essay that turns out to be by a really small youtuber”
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.
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)
The most fun I EVER had gaming was playing the Hardline beta. It felt like I was playing a movie, the atmospherics were insane. Cop cars, helicopters, robberies. Immaculate vibes, fun gunplay. All around lots of novel game design too!
7:55 HOW DID A COP GET A SWEDISH LATE WW2 WEAPON?!
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.
It’s America, you can find it
various us spec ops used swedish k even in vietnam
I recall that Smith & Wesson copied it as the M76 for police use before the MP5 was invented and took over the entire market.
i want a hardline based on Shield, a TV show about corrupt cops
I'll assume you seen the ps2 game?
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.
Scale-wise I think it'd make a ton more sense for Call of Duty to do a Cops and Robbers themed game than Battlefield. COD is known for its 6v6 small multiplayer gameplay which I think you can justify as being some sort of SWAT raid better than Hardline's "Open street war" thing with attack choppers and heavy weapons.
This feels like Max Payne 3 with characters who completely lack self awareness
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.
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.
I gotta say bad company 2 is also pretty casual and just overall hilarious.
And it has the hotwire gamemode in it, literally second to none.
@@TheSquishyBoi didn't have death grips playing over the car's radio.
I heavily disagree.
@@Moonvive bi furry pfp, opinion instantly disregarded. check these statistics 95%/5%
So slept on man I loved this game
the multiplayer was fucking fire tho , especially with the rappel gun
Hardline was fun ashell especially when I didn’t have a bunch of dumbasses telling me it sucked
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.
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
I know it was stupid but the campaign was so fun and Stoddard being Delsyns brother from infamous second son was an ironic funny touch😂
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 :)
Unpopular opinion incoming: I loved BF hardline I was a great take on the BF franchise and deserves to get a sequel by a team that isn’t EA that can actually do a game like that justice.
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.
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.
One of the best FPS I'm proud to 100% the gameplay can be goofy sometimes but it's fun to play
The campaign for Hardline was so goofy, but the multiplayer was so much fun. I miss it sometimes.
i genuinely had so much fun playing this game when i was younger
Did the algorithm pick this up? Nice work! Im glad you're getting more views. Great video!
Tfw the chief was technically the good guy all along, simply because he created a system that doesn't benefit loose cannons like the protagonist anymore, preventing mass destruction and bloodbath
It’s insane how much of this game you can go through using the stealth mechanics.
Great content, I’d love to see more of this style from you.
my favourite part of the video was 25:31 when he noticed that he can get close to the propeller then immediately runs into it to see if he can take damage from it
Hardline multiplayer was really fun tho
2:49 honestly pretty accurate to the police, except no way she would be complaining about that
Love battlefield. Spent more time in hardline than any other ones. People just tried to cram it into the box of bf4 and compared it when they are not the same by any means
31:12 Raegan's admistration, the drug war and US police. Famous non-political topics
HARDLINE is and will be my favorite topping out 1 and 5
1:45 that dialogue sequence had more fucks than I gave about cop morals in this game...
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.
Honestly hardline had my favorite battlefield combat, I was max level with all bonuses unlocked in that game, before I had a job I would play it for days at a time
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.
Battlefield Hardline is such a banger tho fr. Love the multiplayer.
Sent this to my dad who's top 10 in the world on this game. Plays it like a religious routinely dropping 50+ kill games while eating chips and talking to me about school. He needs no concentration and cannot play a single other battlefield game the same way. Fucking legend.
Epilogue comes at the end, not the start
This battle field game has some of the best / interesting guns that you will not find in any of the other battlefield games so there’s that!
being surprised cops dont go to internal affairs is like being surprised birds can fly
I grew up in government housing.
I have memories of Cops coming around and hurting people, I remember being eight years old when I saw cops take my neighbor out into the street with his handcuffs tied behind his back, tripped him, and sent him falling face first into the concrete sidewalk making his nose explode into blood.
The bloodstain was there for days.
That was the first time I saw police brutality - it was not the last.
Games like this really make me mad.
the multiplayer for this game is still populated and fun
I don't understand why they didn't think to make a SWAT game instead. I could see it getting fleshed out to be almost like siege or ready or not before they were out
Tell me this guy doesn’t sound like knowledge hub!
LAPD has a tank tho
All I'm saying is that BF:H had the best multiplayer.
I actually liked this game quite a lot, just feels like it wasn't supposed to be a battlefield title though
I thought u had way mo subs than u did, this is professionalish
I mean. Im not a fan of windows 10 myself but it takes major dedication to stick to windows 8 in year 2024
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
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.
m113 bradley?
Great video bro! I think you meant prologue when you said epilogue tho
Thanks man, and yeah I goofed prologue, epilogue is a fun word to say and I think that's why that happened
the devs looked at the frostbite engine realized that it had all kinds of military assets in it and said how do we incorporate all of these into a game about corrupt cops
Me: *Sees protagonist in jail*
Me: "Oh how'd that happen? Did he get framed? Was it a setup?"
Comments: *Lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit*
Me: "Oh."
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
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.
Personally i liked the Hardline campaign,
It didn't feel overly serious and was generally just a cop drama,
Getting in the mindset that this is just a simple cop drama really made the experience more fun for me.
Hardline was GOATED
This is basically Bad Boys the videogame and it's fucking cool
Loved hardline because im a gun nerd. Wish they implemented the weapons and customization in 4 as a DLC after release
Still the best Multiplayer of the entire series
9:24 to be fair whistleblower cops don't typically have a good time lol
at 27:13, for some reason they all open fire as you're being dragged away.
I don't think anyone told DICE that cops and even soldiers aren't supposed to just shoot everything that moves.
6:50 why are there hooligans every single time? Are they part of some organization?
I loved hardline so much. Didn't play much of the campaign but that multiplayer was fun asf to me idk why people didn't like it tbh
Epilogue is the end prologue is the beginning
They say that Mendoza is ex special forces in the game
Honestly with leaving people handcuffed lying down there is technically a concept of positional asphyxiation which is taught in basically all hand cuffing courses that I imagine is a big no no especially with battlefield hardline which is what kills the realism for me.
love this game, thanks for the video 🤘
thats cap zipline and hook are very useful if you wanna speed through the game
Believe it or not but I love this campaign,sad to see that it doesn't work the best on pc
i played this game from day one. never once finished the single player lol. me and my friends were quite high on the rankings for our mastering of the helicopters in the multiplayer. we truly did have a great time with it despite it being the weakest bf
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.
Idc I fucking loved this game literally my favorite bf game other than BF BC2
Wasn't Battlefield's entire premise covering ww1 instead of ww2 like cod does? Why are we in a police drama
Had to try and appeal to a certain demographic that hates another demographic. As shown by the type of things the "fans" find funny. Like how he thought a man getting unjustly murdered by a pig was funny enough to put up fanart of
No, why would you think that? First BF game was 1942, a WW2 game, then 1943, another WW2 game
7:57 weapons of which you then also can’t have fun with?
Hardline was so interesting? I enjoyed it as a game but it’s a crazy concept
I liked hardline cause of cops and robbers that’s honestly it, it was alright, was my second battlefield after 3 never played much of 4 until after
1:10 you can off all the cooperators as well. Are they all guaranteed to die or can you shoot just the lady?
Yeah the story was goofy, but I enjoyed the multiplayer so much. Especially the hotwire gamemode.
You forgot an atrostophe
16:40 it sure would be cool to look at the explosion...
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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)
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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)
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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)
10:39 so you can just bring the other two and there’s just literally no use for them
MENDOOOOZZAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!