Battlefield 1 (Zero Punctuation)
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"Look, I'm not expecting a war game to have me sit in a wet hole getting trench foot for 8 hours while composing sad poetry about man's inhumanity to man"
*Verdun nervously looking away in between bayonet and shovel attacks*
"A bit of a wasp in my urethra."
Jesus fucking Christ, Yahtzee, where do you think of this shit?
He and the Angry Video Game Nerd order colorful sayings from the same catalogue, and Yahtzee only has to share the fecal expressions.
One thing that I actually thought was funny was in the Italian campaign. It wasn't something the game did directly, but rather implied. Since the guy's retelling it to his daughter, if you died during one of the missions (I didn't), does that mean he would have to correct himself to her?
"...and then I got blown up. No wait, that's not right. Let me try that again..."
Suteivun That would've actually been a pretty cool detail, considering he's an old guy whose memory was likely failing. Maybe not EVERY death, but every so often he remarks on the death and corrects himself.
"Then I took a grenade from nowhe- Oh wait, no that was Patricio..."
Pretty much what Prince of Persia: Sands of Time did. Everytime you died the Prince (who was telling the game as a story) would go "wait, no, that doesn't seem right" (or something along those lines) when you died.
Mafia 3 did a very similar thing during certain missions where a death would be followed with a video of a narrator going "no that's not right" while reading off a document. Cool the first few times but gets to be old quickly.
@@mrshady8111 Or he just said something like: "And if this had happened, Lincoln Clay could never have hunted down (whatever the fuck his name was)".
"I used to be in an advanced expeditionary force like you, but then..."
In fairness, "What the fuck happened to the backup" is not an atypical result in a World War 1 offensive push.
It was really uncommon on the squad or platoon level. Sure on the battalion and larger level it was a running theme of the war that logistics broke down reliably. But since the smallest actions of the war (at least on the British, French, Italian, Russian and Austrian sides of things) were at the battalion level, it was really unlikely to not have all the backup you could identify at a glance.
Methinks it was meant in the rhetorical sense, as in "What happened to the backup?" *glances at muddy moonscape full of corpses*
I had assumed it was from watching sources like The Great War channel here on RUclips and completely losing perspective on the scale of the operations mentioned. Although your explanation is equally as plausible I guess.
Or a pub of Overwatch
The more accurate version would be the "What is a backup?".
"What's the point of changing the setting to WWI if you're just gonna treat it like WWII with slightly different hats."
This one sentence perfectly describes the garbage which was single-player
True...they wasted all of the potential. You could have had a German or Austrian campaign, maybe even a Ottoman one, which would have been more difficult to pull off in a WW2 game.
well, except Storm of Steel
Yeah they shouldve added Central Power campaigns as well after all it wasnt a stackwipe as the campaign makes it out to be
What they should have done is pull a Spec Ops: The Line. Start the story out with "we'll spank those evil (insert country here)s and be back by Christmas, and then bring out the gutpunches and despair. that's the point of WW1
In my opinion, they should have just looked at the first mission you do before anything in the game and gone "Yeah, that but now the entire game!"
I want a parody FPS game where if you kill someone you see a short cinematic backstory of them gettign training and having a family.So that everytime you kill someone you will get 7 tons of pure boredom thrown at you!
Still more entertaining than Battlefield 1!
UnknownSpartan007
Never played it so i cant judge :/
I have. The campaign was short and worthless and the multiplayer was copy-pasted from Battlefield 3, like all Battlefield games these days. This time instead of a thin paint coat of cops and robbers, however, it's a thin paint coat of WWI. It's so horribly thin, in fact, that for a moment I thought I was playing Battlefield 3 with slightly prettier graphics.
You mean like in Austin Powers? /watch?v=Ag_AFraxj-4
UnknownSpartan007
Hmm,well still doesnt really make it unfun.
But wouldnt buy it if i arleady have another battefield game like 3 or 4...
This game felt more like a WW2 game with a WW1 reskin.
xXxKAMIKAZExXx
Verdun got the First World War 1 right.
+Wy Vern What about the second World War 1?
Well, Verdun with the bf1 servers and netcode... teleporting enemies is never a good sign in a game set in ww1. Also, all of the weapons in the game were in use in 1918. WW2 was basically fought with end of ww1 weapons and that is something that a large amount of people forgets. Operations are surprisingly close though. One team has limited resources to attack, the other team is on defense. If it was a mode that went back and forth like that, then you would essentially have Verdun.
And it also felt like Star Wars Battlefront with World War 1 texture and sound pack.
no even close......
That end bit is honestly how I play Verdun.
Is there any other way to play it?
Only one third of your time spent getting shot by people you can't see?
I spend like 80% of the time running around in my trench thinking about how on earth I can show my head and not get shot, while 10% of the time I execute that plan and horribly die and the other 10% is when the enemy is charging the trench and I fail to aim correctly.
That's WW1 in a nutshell.
***** I usually see the people who shoot me just before I die or run across no man's land with a shovel, 5 grenades, and no fucks to give. I was talking more about the bit regarding the 6 weeks' training and family who will never see him again.
There's medics in 'Verdun'? Perhaps I should revisit it..
I want a campaign about Von Lettow's guerrilla campaign in southern Africa and one about the Japanese occupying German colonies in the Pacific. But I guess that would be too realistic for a game named "Battlefield".
(Cue History of Japan's "Japan should take the islands!" here)
Or,well...Y'know... FRANCE AND RUSSIA ?! Two of the major player in WW1,that would make the American war effort and sacrifice ridiculous in comparison ?
Akabeche This is why Verdun is the superior First World War 1 game. Even though it's limited to the western front, it shows all the sides that actually fought there; its gameplay actually reinforces the kind of tactics used in the war (for better or for worse); it's one shot, one kill, so teamwork and tactics > run and gun; and it does feature Russian and US units as some of the squad load outs IIRC.
brainflash1 then just wait for another game to actually portray ww1.
brainflash1 then just wait for another game to actually portray ww1.
This review raises a good point. If BF1's campaign's intention was to portray the drama and tragedy of the WW1 as broad as possible, why there are no campaign missions which players can play as Germans or Turks??
jeonghyun kim well there is going to be dlc but we don't know if it's going to add anything to the campaign
RobinHood East Of course it isn't, it's fucking EA.
Turkish campaign? Idk, they probably avoided it because it would very likely raise discussions about the Armenian Genocide which Turkey somehow still denies and get the game banned there if it gets mentioned in game
As for the German Campaign, they sort of did remedy it **TWO YEARS LATER** in a game that managed to be even more controversial than BF1 somehow, maybe splitting the team to handle Battlefront and Battlefield simultaneously wasn't a good idea
So really, they could've at least done the German and Austro Hungarian side justice and no one (if few) would bat an eye
The part about the WW1 being treated like a reskinned WW2... THAT PART. All of it. THANK YOU Yahtzee, THANK YOU.
5:08 dem puppy sound effects.
Joseph Ocasio now I feel terrible about playing multiplayer
Joseph Ocasio your profile picture is so appropriate for what you just said lol
CURSE YOU LAWRENCE OF ARABIA!
Most disappointing part was no German campaign there are no bad guys in this war (except the warzealous leaderships of Europe) There should be a German and Austrian campaign (maybe ottomans)
And no French and Russians...
Considering the Entente already has well every Campaign I would prefer the Germans before the French or Russians but I say they should have switched the Italians with the French campaign Italy was next to useless in the war.
Ottomans did commit one of the first recognized genocides in modern history though, the Armenian genocide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
Andreas Rånman True but the point of my statement is the soldiers of WW1 weren't some crazy psychopaths like the Nazi's were in WW2 they were merely people sent to be hit by another machine gun bullet after spending 6 months in a trench on the western front counting there days until there eventual demise.
Not to mention they put the whole fucking setting into 1918 so they could introduce assault rifles as standart weapons, even though they were literally rolled out at end of 1917 and used in extremely limited role. I mean there is a fuckton of potential in WW1 storytelling, imagine faces of soldiers who were manning trenches for months and saw first fucking tank speeding at some 10 kmh at them, with their rifles fucking useless ramming through their trenches.
And fucking rockets on WW1 airplanes? There have been some designs that used basically what we use today for new years eve celebrations, absolutely useless against anything but zepelling clothing that separated flamable gas inside from air (ie 0 use against ground targets) and few planes used it, but it was anything but common. They just took fringes of the war technology in last year of war and made it look like that was standart so they wouldnt deviate from WW2 FPS too much. The whole moral story of WW1 about pointlessness of war, destruction of human psyche for whims of kings and emperors who played their game for exploitation of colonies, where people who grew up village from each other were murdering themselves for no reason whatsoever has been fully lost.
You want something that can relate to tragedy of WW1? Try Valiant Hearts.
don't forget the Italian full body armor that can stop entire factories worth of bullets
What if every campaign had an unreliable narrator, and the American was the only honest enough liar to admit to his ruse? It would explain all the automatic weaponry and Kraut mowing and over simplified morality and would make for an interesting meta-message about unreliable narrators as a whole whereby one is forced to ask the question whether it is better to have a speaker who knowingly lies and wears it on his sleeve because it makes for a more enthralling tale, one who knowingly lies but hides it to preserve the honor of those who died, or one who unknowingly lies because their perception is so skewed by the horrors they've witnessed that they can no longer separate reality from nightmare.
Then again that would require effort and fucks to give, and Battlefield 1 had neither.
you deserve a award of somekind cause that was brilliant
This is the new cannon. Everyone is unreliable, for their own personal reasons. But what about the multiplayer? We'll just assume that's a fever dream.
The whole campaign was just dreamed up by the black guy in the field hospital. That's why he narrates the Worldmap, too.
Go back to your accounting point and click hide n seek simulator, nerd. This is a mainstream military shooter.
tbh, I dont think this unreliable narrative meta commentary thingie has any meaning outside writer's wank while most big publishers still shy away from presenting moral with some tacts. A good "war cant end easily or nicely and drains humanity from everybody" story in spec ops: the line turn into some pretentious "you want to be a hero so those pixel must suffer, asshole" trite.
Nass Lass Even if it is writer's wank who doesn't enjoy a good wank every now and again?
Love is a Battlefield.
So please play *HuniePop*, Yahtzee.
what no
Paradox Acres I would pay good money for a video of him playing HuniePop with no prior exposure to the game and with the cumshots active.
shut the fuck up weeb, nobody cares about huniepop. that shit was on newgrounds decades ago.
Kids these days...
I had gotten worried that you stopped posting, thank god you are still alive.
And this is why I play Verdun- accurate rifle based layouts, officer led squads with buffs, trench warfare represented with attack and retreat phases, and penalties for Rambo style lone wolves. whereas Battlefield 1 is 'mow down endless waves of cartoon villain Germans with sketchy shoehorned-in automatic weapons and Hollywood explosions going on everywhere, because it's what the average shooter fan boy wants and doesn't want to come out of his comfort zone and try a slower paced game mode for once'.
Buffs? Didn't know WoW is set in wwi
Mr Price's Magical Playroom I just find Verdun kinda boring
Darth Playroom the Wise I like elements of Verdun, but I found going over the top almost too realistic that is was unfun, if you had to go over the top in WW1 you were most likely going to get shot to death and that's exactly how Verdun is, you go over the top your most likely going to get shot in the first 5 seconds, I still like Verdun but it does get annoying when you have the run over the top with little to no cover.
Jesus christ I've never seen a better summary of the medics in BF1.
Man loved the Canadian missions.... Oh wait
you mean the Kiwi missions?
You mean French missions? Oh wait...
I can't tell if these are for jokes, sarcasm, or actual critiques XD
I loved the Russian misso-...oh, wait.
future dlc innit
rip wallets. Thank EA
There should have been a campaign where you play as a German guy when they see tanks for the first time. Like they'd be like the rebels in Star Wars when they saw the AT AT walkers on Hoth
The one bit about the two soldiers locking eyes and putting their weapons down is a scene directly taken from All Quiet on the Western Front, arguably the most famous WW1 book ever. So if you’re wondering why they only treated WW1 thoughtfully in one scene, it’s because it wasn’t their idea.
Crazy to think that " all quiet on the western front " ended up getting it's own movie and not knowing about the book i solidly wondered for a second when i first read the title of the thing in your comment
"how the fuck did this guy time travelled"
"The scores were close, because we've been smashing random particles together for 40 fucking minutes! Of course they're going to average out with a sample that size!" LMFAO
Just brilliant.
I found it very jarring that this game uses the Gallipoli campaign as an action set-piece. Gallipoli was a horrific nightmare even within the context of the first world war. Hundreds of thousands of thinking, feeling human beings (largely young men conscripted from Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia facing off against young men conscripted from the Levant) got violently killed and maimed in an offensive that ultimately ended up being for nothing. Using that as the backdrop of an action-packed first-person shooter does a disservice to the sheer scale of the human misery Gallipoli generated. I get that the plot of that section is meant to illustrate how terrible war is, but that's severely undercut when the cinematics end and you go straight back to mowing down those dastardly Ottomans _en_ _masse_ like a badass action hero. It irritates me that the devs even bothered with the anti-war pretension. It would be less offensive if they just made the game a dumb, straight-forward action shooter, but the veneer of being socially conscious makes the whole thing feel crass and manipulative. It's a big entertainment corporation taking real human suffering and making a farce out of it. It's all so they can sell copies of this awful game to an ignorant majority audience that just wants stuff to explode on-screen.
I wouldn’t go that far
@@aidenknightofaskr3705 frankly I would, not every piece of media about WW1 has to be All Quiet on the Western Front but there's some things that are just poor taste. It's like making a Bruce Willis style action film out of Hotel Rwanda.
If dice have any sense they'll make a game mode which is operations but hardcore and only the bolt actions the nation you're playing as used
itll probably come when they get custom servers up and running
that would be awesome. that or youd still get sniped/mowed down if you set foot in the open
Big Show either way I'd play it
you mean the "russian 1895" server where you walk 5 seconds and get sniped? That sounds fun in theory but it's just going to be sniping, not battlefield with bolt actions.
bolt actions without scopes
Shit I meant to say that
Secret unlockable level: Christmas football game in no mans land. Although they'd have probably screwed that up with bazooka pickups and dirty fouls anyways...
The football game on Christmas Day 1914 is a myth although it is true there was a ceasefire on that day
@@kernowpictures2002 You learn something new every day!
1:53 Clever making the "i" the shortest segment of "campaign" when the Italian campaign is the shortest one.
you forgot the campaign where u magically become a space marine sent to purge the germans.
Simo
HERESY GROWS FROM IDLENESS!
dejalmer heresy? Where?
General war rat
ANYWHERE THERE IS IDLENESS!!!!!!!
There's lots of idleness in trenches!
You purge Austro-Hungarians, sir!
That ending is the most of what we can call emotion that we'll get from you, isn't it yahtzee?
I'm fine with that.
Finally
Someone who is actually willing to say something negative about Battlefield without smothering it in worship.
1:44 I lost it😂😂
Why is what can only be assumed as a laughing cow emoji used at all.. I just don't get it.
1:35
My God this is gold.
Basically my _only_ requirement for buying this game was that it wouldn't have the usual "heroic Anglo-Saxons" Call of Duty campaign. I figured that if a studio was going to take a risk on the setting, they'd want to make the most use of it and show some new perspectives. That's me taught a lesson.
Seriously though, how the fuck do you make a WWI game that has an _American_ campaign but not a French, German or Russian one? Are US audiences really so ungrateful and xenophobic that they won't pick up any game that doesn't stroke their national ego, no matter how tangential they were to the conflict in question?
Heads Full Of Eyeballs Or Japanese.
You'd think a Russian perspective would be a given, they lost so much in both world wars...
They're releasing the Russian faction as DLC. There might b ea campaign for them. I mean, the war stories are reasonably short, it could be easy to make a DLC one.
MHCP001 Yui
Sure, if they put out decent single player campaigns for those factions I might buy the game once I can get it bundled with the DLC for a reasonable price.
I find it pathetic you're grading a Battlefield game off of the historical accuracy of it's campaign. Sure, the United States of America didn't play a HUGE role on the front lines of WW1 in comparison to Russia or France, but is this really worth going off on the typical "oh America is the worst country in the world" speech? As long as you people continue to blame the USA every time you stub your toe then more and more people will grow to hate you. I'm sorry you didn't get to hear the same looking character models speaking french or russian in a game that obviously wasn't marketing for the minority, die-hard history buffs such as yourself. You're a bigot, and I pity you.
In 1917 British and French armies started a massive operation against German imperial army around village of Passchedaele. The operation lasted for less than 5 months. Result was "massive" British victory. After 500 000 men, average age about 20 years old, were slaughtered in mud British army managed to capture whole fucking 5 miles of territory with the village of Passchedaele completely erased from existance by hundreds of thousands artillery shells. For 5 miles, half a million young men died in fog and mud and everlasting trenches. That was WW1. I dont expect game to capture the futile of this conflict in its entirety, but the spirit of the senseless tragedy that happened between 1914 and 1918 has been completely abandoned in favor of Call of Duty run-and-gun bullshit. Shame.
At least "Valiant Hearts" had the decency to throw in a scenario with a kraut, to show it was shite for everybody. And it had a dog as well. Also where were the calvalry units? Even during WW2 cavalry units featured prominently.
there's horses in the game...
Stefan B. There are lots of cavalry units. Did you even bother to check out the game before criticising?
Stefan B. They're in the game, but mostly multiplayer. The only campaign with Cavalry units is the Lawrence of Arabia bullshit.
slvrcobra1337 Captain Jacquard
I don't play multiplayer. I thought that since they made a pidgeon mission, at least give horses the proper respect they deserve as well. Cavalry units were indispensable during WW1. In WW2 over six million horses were used by the Wehrmacht and Soviet army alone. But I guess realism was too much to be expected from a game where you can see your enemies through walls. I'm not saying the game is bad for omitting horses, far from it. I thought it was great as a whole, but I hope DLC will adress aforementioned issues for single player campaigns.
Stefan B. There were cavalry missions in singleplayer too
That fucking ending xD
I love the Silly german accent. mmm ja for ze glory of ze kaiser mmm
1:36
As much as I like the idea of BF1 - I could not bring myself to purchase it due to all of the automatic guns and grenades and instant medic revives that this game has, and that makes up every other BF before it. If it was a bit more true to the situations of the time (bolt action rifles etc.) it would have really been a day 1 buy for me.
My recommendation, don't. Or at least, don't buy it until the price drops and you can buy it pre-owned at your local Gamestop.
My recommendation is try Verdun, a start- up on Steam that is far more accurate
not every. the refactor engine battlefields are worlds better
UnknownSpartan007 no, don't do that, it's a multiplayer game first and foremost, and waiting that long can lead to empty servers and long que times.
If you're going to buy it, do it before people move on to the next big thing.
Hi There Are you kidding me? You do know how long it takes for these sort of things to truely die out, right? Hell, if I can still get a multiplayer match on Battlefront 2 on the PC, I don't think Battlefield 1 is in danger of dying out any time soon.
Somehow I expected Assassin's creed would do WW1 first.
GregTom2 That might actually be interesting.
demonfireofhell Knowing Assassin's Creed, they'll find a way to make it boring.
Ginger Returns "Here. Sit behind a wall and have a little cry while the Revolutionary War happens behind you."
They actually did, in AC syndicate you can play as an assassin in WW1
Wow... Actually me too. I've seen some "documents" playoffs of it in AC4. About an Assassin in WWI
BF1 is just another BF game. They've turned the franchise in CoD and do a pretty good job in fooling everyone that it isn't
funny thing is CoD has done more to change up its recent games than BF has. It feels... wrong.
glad I'm not the only one thinking this
Woo Nam I admit they both have over stayed their welcome, but it also comes to the point wither people like it or not or by opinion. For those who get tired off call of duty have the same for battlefield and those that don't or are not tired of them yet still play. as much as I would like to see these franchises come to a halt its gonna take a long time for fans to take in a new game franchise a chance in order to replace the old.
and yet their newest game is their worst seller in their history. Euro truck sim 2 has more active players in it than infinite warfare on steam..
Yes, because CoD CERTAINLY has specialized classes, destruction, high TTK, vehiclular warfare, and fucking massive maps used for large scale war games.
I'm sorry but I've been getting tired of this whole "muh BF is just CoD" meme.
Just waiting for a hardcore game mode or custom servers with bolt actions only. Scouts get scoped options, Supports get real MG options (that is, actual machine guns instead of assault rifles skinned to look like them), Assaults can take trench guns. Or, almost as good, a weapon type cap akin to RO.
Then go buy verdun
lordofdarkdudes what's that have patience to get trench foot for 8 hours and write poetry?
couldn't hear you I was too busy killing dastirly krrouts on a horse.
Yuki Terumi more going in to combat with nothing but a bunch of handgrenades and a shovel....And then coming out of top of that figth
honestly I am sickened by BF1 trying to be all mopey about war being hell and then the minute you switch over to multiplayer it romanticizes the hell out of killing the enemy and rewarding you for it
Biodeamon then stick to the multiplayer and leave the army.
Multiplayer is completely different to the singleplayer, No reason to be sickened.
So you wanna play a game with no progression or unlocks? Lemme ask you do you know what fun is?
Fun is counter strike or day of defeat. No progression there.
Progression doesn't equal fun.
But in some cases it does the feeling that your skill actually means something other than a score sheet it a nice feeling
This has been one of your best reviews yet. I fucking loved it.
Battlefield I is what would happen if you gave a kid with ADDHD a 12-page homework assignment on World War I on the last Monday before summer break, and, industrious little blighter that he is, he decided to crunch it all in one night in the library, but instead fell asleep headfirst into a copy of The Guns of August, and dreamed up some kind of crazy, steam punk version of WWI where HE IS THE HERO WITH A MACHINE GUN, mowing down them dastardly Huns by the bushel, blowing up zeppelins like Snoopy on a power trip, the way he would like to blow up all his life's problems, boy look at him go, that glorious bastard! But alas, he awakes to no glory, but only to find an angry librarian looming over him like Severus Snape on one of his bad days, wallowing in a puddle of his own spittle with a cock drawn on his face.
Gotta love putting plans on hold to hear the incoming yahtzee explosion
0:21 references to JAM!!!!! " die in a pose that confuses future archeologists "
4:21 is the exact plot of Armada by Ernest Cline lmao
I wonder how they handled the Gallipoli Campaign. I mean, you could tell an interesting story about an assault that began in the wrong bloody place, made much harder than it should have been, and in all respects was a complete failure and colossal waste of both time and lives.
But, this is Battlefield, not Spec Ops: The Line :(
ZSFTHANK YOU for subtitles! For all the work it's put into them!
best dog noise simulation 2016.
Really good criticisms but I do have 1 problem. When you said that in the multiplayer ‘nothing to do with mine or any individuals help’ I was puzzled. In maps like Fort de Voux or that one operation where you either play Italy or Germany, you can turn the tide by pretty easily by:Step 1: look at the map for where people are fighting the thickestStep 2: look at the map for where the objectives areStep 2: get from current location to objective without going anywhere near the thick fighting
or just equip the 10 A hunter and run at them, I dunno
Battlefield 1 undeservedly demonized WW1 Germans and didn't include FRENCH or RUSSIAN factions which is like not including USSR or the fucking nazi Germany in WW2 game but they did manage to include Americans because everyone knows Americans are the center of the universe and Americans won WW2, WW1, Franco-Prussian War, Napoleonic Wars, Seven Years War and the Thirty Years War. French people, that took second highest casualties in the war after only the Russians and that suffered four years of war on French soil? Nah, fuck them. Russians that lost 13 million men, a country and the army fighting Germans? Lel no. But American flying airplanes like it's Iwo Jima and being totally insufferable? Oh, yes, of course. Can't have the kiddies think Americans weren't totally the most important country in the war or that the Americans didn't win the war by themselves. In conclusion: fuck this game I'm never buying it or any of its DLCs.
"undeservedly demonized WW1 Germans"
-...actually, no it didn't. Literally speaking, "antagonist" doesn't indicate inherent evil, it indicates the opposition to the protagonist. If that happens to be a German/Austro-Hungarian between you and the little objective blip, whatever. Funny enough, if you have the subtitles on during the second mission with the American volunteer pilot, you can come across some rather gentle dialogue coming from "demonized" Germans, like in my run-through, I caught a couple of them talking about the creeping threat of the Spanish Flu.
"not including USSR"
-...do you even history textbook? The USSR didn't exist until 1922, and, fun fact since you lack them entirely, Russia had to pull out of the war in the later year or two because they were going through a revolution at home. See "Anastasia" if you need more information.
"include Americans because everyone knows Americans are the center of the universe and Americans won WW2, WW1, Franco-Prussian War, Napoleonic Wars, Seven Years War and the Thirty Years War"
-First of all, the game was developed by Americans. Of course they'll get story priority. As for your "Yank Wins", America had nothing to do with the last four conflicts you mentioned, and barely helped win WW1 because they only entered the conflict in the closing days of the war. That whole sentence made me fear for your intelligence.
"Russians that lost 13 million men, a country and the army fighting Germans?"
-If you mean "our country revolted against the monarchy while we were out and had to go home to fix it", then yes, they lost an army and a country "fighting Germans". Seriously, did you fall off a building head-first? I'm worried.
" But American flying airplanes like it's Iwo Jima and being totally insufferable? Oh, yes, of course. Can't have the kiddies think Americans weren't totally the most important country in the war or that the Americans didn't win the war by themselves."
-I'll just let you see the above points again. Also remember that this is supposed to be entertainment. If you want "realism", go watch a documentary on it or read a book. Pretty boring, isn't it?
" In conclusion: fuck this game I'm never buying it or any of its DLCs."
-In conclusion, fuck this game, and I will not buy it or any of it's DLC.
All the power to you. Speak with your money, if it bothers you so much. I haven't bought a copy of Call of Duty for the last three or so installments for this reason.
You know TheOneAndOnlyKevan when he was talking about "not including USSR" meant that not including France or Russia factions in Battlefield 1, is like not including the USSR in a WW2 game. He was also being sarcastic about Americans wining WW2, WW1, Franco-Prussian War, Napoleonic Wars, Seven Years War and the Thirty Years War" to emphasis on American bias. You really needed to read his comment better.
As an American, I couldn't agree more with your statement. The Americans weren't even directly in the conflict until 1917, meaning supplying ground units. We were almost entirely a support crew for all of the other allied factions. We only offically joined because of peer pressure and many Americans felt it was time to end our isolationist ways. The Germans were swindled into the war by their allies, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and by their power hungry expansionist leaders. I would love to see more historically accurate games set in the perspective of the "bad guys" in games. Lets be honest though, there were no good or bad guys in that war, only the misguided and greedy. No faction "won" the "Great War"; Everyone suffered. It only provoked the oncoming of Ww2 and created new factions and their party leaders in every country. I just wish BF1 had tried not to be so biased. I wanted to see the grand fronts of each major campaign from both sides. I wanted to fight alongside the resistance fighters in Bulgaria and Poland. I wanted to experience the true life in the trenches first hand and to fight off the hordes of assaulting forces. They could have done so much more with this game. They could have tried to make it at least completely historically accurate, just faster paced with modern gameplay. Good game, good concept, alright story, shit/incomplete execution. *sigh*
I would have liked a section where you fight a german Soldier, that is faced with the first Tank attacks.
You know. Fighting a Weapon you have never seen before,and have no weapons to combat effectively.
@jenova - That's a great idea actually. Kind of like that one campaign mission in the middle east where you fight the Austrian armored train but instead from the Axis's perspective with the first Mk5 trudging into combat in France. It could be like a boss fight and you would have to throw everything you had at your disposal to destroy the beast. Could be fun and interesting. Thanks for sharing.
the tonal whiplash of the first intro mission to the rest is insane. the first mission did so well in its many men sent to be slaughter as there is no main character and every death gives you a name and date of birth but the rest kinda fell flat for me
I can't remember the last time I was so profoundly disappointed with a game's direction. The idea of a slower pacing, cumbersome bolt action weapons being the standard armament and a tone highlighting the general inconsequentiality and amorality of the whole endeavour was fresh and interesting. And then we got something so silly and divorced from the source material that it barely qualifies as satire and comes across as outright stupid, verging on disrespectful. It's weird that if you want an action packed but genuinely sincere war game then Call of Duty 2 remains the standard.
The dog bit at the end is a great way to not die a lot in games. You don't want to leave your poor pupper at home, whimpering forever now, do you?
i was so surprised when i heard they included a gallipoli story in this all those years of history class have paid off... kinda
And my watching of an almost insultingly inaccurate Mel Gibson movie paid off as well.
+technobabble123 Fuck I remember watching that in year 8
Yep. I think Mel Gibson hates the shit out of British people.
technobabble123 how was the movie insulting? besides it not being based on real people during the battle
Well, it completely fucks up the British contributions during the campaign, showing them as being almost horrifyingly incompetent and uncaring, while in real life, the reverse is true. For starters, the British weren't drinking tea on the beach while Australians died for them. In fact, the British sent two companies of Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who they could not afford to just send anywhere and especially couldn't afford to lose in battle, as reinforcements when they heard the battle had stalled. During the whole campaign, the British 29th Division, nicknamed "The Incomparables," suffered 34'000 deaths, the highest of any single unit at Gallipoli and earned 12 Victoria Crosses.
I've binged a lot of your stuff over the last few months and this is by far the best
1:38 and 5:08 shows Yahtzee knows how to voice act.
If BF1 were to recreate the wars word for word from the history books, taking parts of the war from both sides same battle, they would have earned a ton more brownie points for their sales. Then kept the multiplayer where it was.
The pilot is Canadian. Which makes him much better and cooler.
Scruffy Looking Brantforder yep, a Canadian pilot who could only dream of being as good as an American one
Said the person who somehow believes they are inside the Canadian's head.
+Brian Maurer Canadian soldiers are much better trained and much tougher than American soldiers soooooo
well in WW1 the CEF was considered an elite group akin to german shock troops. they managed to take positions that neither the british, french, nor any other group could take.
that being said, the US troops were no slouches either, and US marines had some of the best training in the world at the time, proving themselves in WW1 by halting an entire german advance at one point with a tiny force of marines.
it is almost as if nationality has nothing to do with what makes a soldier good, rather, training does.
Christopher Yonemitsu
And that's the comment I was looking for. Education and upbringing notwithstanding, I agree completely.
I would like to say that a single player's efforts can truely help in a multiplayer match. A good flank can allow you to take a point. There have been countless times when I and a random dude work together without saying anything and turn the tide in our team's favour. I guess being good at the game does make it more fun.
As much as I love BF1, this has got to be one of the best.
5:07 I never thought I would hear that from Yahtzee.
That opening sequence was pretty well executed though...
Always love it when you and Razörfist cover the same topic.
You both bring something wildly different to the table and it's neat to see your contrasting focuses.
Don't tell Razorfist he's like Yahthzee or he'll do to you online what Ultron did to Klaue's arm.
Christopher Brown
Hopefully the "wildly" is enough to drop from "leg breaking" to "discourteous stare"
"...in case the army makes a weapon shaped like an xbox controller..." It's closer than you think, man. Just look at drone warfare.
For the record, we are very close to creating a weapon system that is controlled by a game controller.
They are called Drones. I just hope that they will still be flying drones. The terrifying drones are ground based systems (think bomb squad drones, but designed for direct combat)
Lord, nothing makes me happier than German accent Yahtzee.
They should've added a a little easter egg where on the first coming of Christmas in WW1, everyone had a treaty, could exchange stuff and couldn't shoot each other until Christmas was over.
Hey it did happen.
I'm a battlefield fanboy and this was accurate (as most of Yahtzee's reviews are)
I'm not going to lie, the operations in multiplayer were true-to-life when it came to warfare. Chaos and soldiers dying left it right, I felt like I was in "Saving Private Ryan" except it was set in WW1.
The main issue is that they gave real, experimental weapons to *everyone* when in reality they were few and far between. Also, the special classes felt like the special characters from EA's Battlefront.
Other than that, the game was incredibly fun when it goes well, problem is with multiplayer the experience is impossible to keep consistent because it relies on the players. All I'm saying is, the game can be incredible.
The puppy noise though D:
That part about the scores being close was hilarious.
As a german I approve of your german-accent impression
I always did the last part playing Red Orchestra 2. Nothing like sitting in the snow, wondering if the guy you are playing as will make it back home.
Can't wait to see Yahtzee doing CODIW
preferably alongside Titanfall 2 XD
And he apparently found both mediocre.
Thenextworldwar actually from what I gathered, he actually liked titanfall 2, while iw was a shitfest
I got the impression he liked Titanfall 2 more, but found both mediocre.
The French Army has never been shy about foreign volunteers, the Legions Etrangere (FFL) being one, and Lafayette Escadrille another. The German army took volunteers as well, these were called Freikorps or, literally free corps (in that their members serve of their own free will, regardless of nationality). The UK was a bit more cautious about it but if a yank slipped by pretending to be Canadian, they weren't going to say no, so long as HQ didn't know. Check out "The Great War" channel on YT if you're curious.
I really like yahtzee's german impression
Doc Brown He also does it in the end of his Wolfenstein: Old Blood review.
These are great videos man! I am now a subscriber. Keep it up!
The problem with WWII shooters isn't the WWII getting old, it's the shooters getting old. There's a lot to innovate on in WWII, even if you decide that setting the game outside Europe would kill sales.
It's *military* shooters getting old, while arcade shooters are feeling fresh again.
Punishthefalse I'm not trying to say that shooters *in general* are getting old, just that the part of WWII shooters which is "getting old" is the shooter part rather than the WWII part.
Timothy McLean It's *military shooters* period. How many CODs do we have right now, and what proportion of them deals with WWII? We haven't had military shooters dealing with the second world war for quite some time now. In the recent years, we had been getting modern warfare stuff and three future warfare stuff, rather than WWII.
IT was ww1 in the game
1:38 - 1:45 Bruno, is that you? lmao
I love BF1 multiplayer, but this is hilarious.
The Operation cinematics are told as military briefings for that side
Last time I was this early, pizza didn't have a gate.
For some reason I absolutely love that picture of Yahtzee holding a harp
**after winning a match**
"this some sort of......won battlefield?"
REALLY??
OMG. The amount of words per minute is awesome.
PRAISE THE SUN \[T]/
4:19 "...I know it serves a purpose. It is important to know who is the best at this sort of thing in case the army invent an assault riffle shaped like an XBOX controller." LMFAO ❤️
A WW1 simulator with months of soul destroying boredom spent sitting in a sewage filled mud hole with your dead friends which is punctuated by moments of bowel emptying terror, dysentery and Spanish flu probably would not sell that well.
Or a AAA Verdun 1914-1918 would be nice. There's more options than "Cartoonish representation" and "Boringly realistic."
If the plot is good and the game is not about the shooting maybe it can be about the soldiers themselves or something like that i think it can work
at least it will be unique
Well did anybody actually said they want a WWI simulator? Most people are just upset at the falsely promised "innovation" and "being different" turned out to be as innovative and different as a baguette in a French Walmart.
What's the fucking point of setting the game's time period a century earlier than the present day if the game is just one Excel SUBSTITUTE command away from being a modern military shooter?
And ended with your character lying in the freezing mud while suffocating horribly in a cloud of chlorine gas.
"What the fuck happened to the backup" i fucking died
If you died so many times by enemies you can't see (snipers), then you are either trash in Battlefield or you have played for 10 minutes or so...
4400seriesFAN well yes, but it isn't exactly a crime to be bad at bf, is it?
Why not both?
+Thomas Oltmann
The crime is that he implied that it's the game's fault.
There weren't quickshotting snipers, but they did have a variety of Heavy Machine Guns, Light Machine Guns, and Sub-Machine guns. Granted, they weren't preferred or did have issues, they were still there.
Since when has Battlefield been realistic or ever claimed to be? If you thought BF1 would be realistic and stick to actual events you are on the wrong side.
The only gripe I have with this game is the overwhelming abundance of automatic weapons. I was hoping for more bolt action rifles, and maybe a few of semi-automatic rifles. Hell I could even see throwing in one or two automatic prototypes at the really high ranks. But no, you get access to automatic machine guns from the very beginning. There are way too many automatic weapons. Still enjoy the hell out of this game though.
Hun-dreds, lol.
The tank was by itself because they had artillery wipe out the area including their allies since they thought they were all fucked anyhow. How did you miss this when playing through that part? It was quite clear that was why they were alone in the forest.
ho, and by the way where are the french and russian ?
paid dlc
i know, but in the campaign i mean.
How do you include all the sides in WW1 with only 4 main theatres? Hell, they included the buffalo fighters from the states another reference to an American so sure French there, Italy, Australia and all of Great Britain. There are low numbers of maps in the BF series usually and this game changed the way it did the maps so that they focused on 2-3 battles in each of the theaters mentioned. Sure you could replace that American pilot with a Russian pilot to show respect for the Russians in ww1, but really, without adding another campaign, 2-3 more maps and another bunch of weapons, they couldn't have done it.
with the ending i got an idea for a proper "charity challange", if you play any war like fps, for every death you take, you must donate 5 bucks of your home currency into charity.
Why am I just finding out about this channel? Wtf is wrong with me!?
did you know there are naked girls on the internet?
What's wrong with you, is that you've not been using your time correctly.
Oh well, now you have about 478 videos to go through to catch up, have fun!
+jack drive Gotta go do some research, will report back
In a way I envy you, getting to watch the entire Zero Punctuation series for the first time. What a thought...
Robert Rowley Dude you have been in the dark ages since 2007.
I still want to see him review Verdun. Especially after hearing all this
The Welshman I take it, had the sense to not partake in this shitfest.
abloogywoogywoo the Welsh are happy to be culturally but not politically distinct from the English. When you see Englishman mentioned, Welshman is assumed.
Alastair Ward Political? The Welsh are a distinct separate ethnicity. They are Celtic, whereas the English are Anglo Saxon, Anglo Norman, Danish and/or Anglo Flemish and so on.
abloogywoogywoo yeah, I said culturally as short hand for everything that sets them aside from the English.
Politically support for any sort of Welsh independence, even devolved government, has been incredibly low compared to any other part of the UK. They voted more for Brexit than for their own assembly.
Alastair Ward I'm talking about genetics, not politics.
The Welsh assembly is kinda worthless, devolved powers don't help countries, they just lead to more levels of incompetence. Just look at the SNP for example.
abloogywoogywoo I mentioned politics because that decided who went to war, not genetics.
I got so excited when misheard there'd be a Gallipoli campaign. Thinking we'd maybe see things like Lone Pine or some names like Dalziel that got the VC even seeing John Simpson carrying wounded back on his donkey.
Instead, we got whatever the hell that was.