Ironically, this sub franchise is BETTER than the mainstream one. Better story and writing, ACTUAL characters. I still remember their names 10 ten years later because they were that memorable. Better multiplayer too tbh. Everyone knew their jobs back then. Assault knew when to drop ammo. Engineer repaired friendly vehicles and DIDN'T hog it for himself. Snipers spotted enemies and were a menace. Medics revived and healed their comrades.
MP wise it also had private servers and most importantly hardcore mode. Shotguns were not video game close range blasters but acutally versatile. They had destructible terrain and roles were as you said very important. The trend with the mainstream continues down.
Makes me think of the good ol xbox days. I remember me and a buddy were bounding across the map as snipers, trying to be sneaky with the low walls and bushes on Heavy Metal. Whispering, moving from cover to cover so we can steal the enemy team's chopper. Then it came to my realization, "Why are we whispering? We're in party chat! No one can hear us!"
@@k1lmansgh0st there is a lingering memory from this game that i have to this very day because it was that memorable: i was playing on the russian team and we captured the objective then a friendly recon pressed select (because i was playing on ps3 at the time) and had the icon blinking indicating he wanted ammo. so i tossed the ammo bag for him and another one where it was the opposite where i was the recon and asked the assault for ammo. and boy he tossed ammo my way. two memories that still lingers in my head to this day. much better than standing Infront of the support just to get basic necessities like ammo or health.
Bad company 2's multiplayer was the peak battlefield experience for me. I still remember my first game. I had killed someone in a 1 story building on rush, peeked out a window and saw nothing but abrams staring at me. He put a shell in the wall and blew me and the building to hell. I was hooked immediately.
I definitely loved it, I have something like 23k kills lol. The feel of the tanks, choppers, and kits plus how the way there was always something able to 'best' each like rock-paper-scissors. Engineer+G3 was my favorite. My wildest moment was no-scope sniping a gunner then pilot point blank out of a blackhawk as it flew overhead, yolo.
It was well balanced, looked real but still had the fantasy aspect to it. The superb audio and lines from the soldiers, both russian and american are unforgetable.
My favorite part about it was being inside a building and hearing that signature sound that let you know you have about 3 seconds to GTFO, so there's me bailing out the nearest window before I'm crushed to death. Gave me such a rush!
@@hotmegoi504 I love BBR too. It's amazing that with all the tech advancements over the past decade, major studios still fail to understand why destruction is important. This isn't a technology problem, it's a prioritization problem.
What i love about the Bad company voice acting is that it feels very organic. Like they just got the voice actors to sit in a room together and just improv a bunch of shit in character and see what came out. You can tell that the voice actors were naturally good at their jobs.
I swear, when Sarge laughed, it was a genuine laughter from the actor. And those little dialogues hae got to be ad lib. They just sound raw, real and unscripted. I miss this game 😍
For me Bad Company 1&2 have a special place in my heart especially cause of the audio design. It sounds soooo good, from how the footsteps change due to the material you are walking on, to the massive echoy effect when you are in buildings. Everything just feels more up close an personal with it's sound design.
@@TheoriginalBMT war tapes for DA WIN, BABY! Totally changed and enhanced the atmosphere. And made perfect sound design even perfect...ER. I don't even know why it was an "option". if anything, it should've been the default sounds setting. Or atleast been more "in your face" when in the audio settings. Terrifyingly to easy to just over look it when in the sounds settings.
Bad Company will always have a special spot in my heart. It was the first time I came to appreciate the M14 EBR, with great characters and an amazing campaign to boot. It has aged so well
That exchange about Aguire is so wonderfully written and performed. The trailing lines, the overflowing characterisation in the delivery, and Hags' general attempts to not come off as a hick are amazing. You don't experience that kind of writing and performance in major films these days, let alone games of this nature.
Been saying it for years, bfbc2 was the GOAT. The audio change from outdoors to indoors, the death animations, the feel when running, it didnt take itself too seriously yet it is one of the best shooters of all time.
Good gameplay mechanics to put well written, likeable characters into a dangerous and immersive environment is just the right way to make a good game no matter the genre or budget.
18:16 That whole conversation between Hags and Flynn it's one of the most iconic moments of this game... Hell this game is just full of memorable and iconic moments.
@@mobiusraptor7He isn't really conservative. They tend to be a lot more importance on traditional religion, community and responsibility/service. He's more like a social stereotype of right wingers in the early 2000's. Which they still really didn't get along, but since politics weren't as mainstream as they are now, both sides typically were mature enough to keep political discussions at the courts and debates.
If they remade this today the squad would have to have two female women of color, not make jokes about buying 556 at Walmart and remove all “toxic masculinity” from the dialogue. Honestly I hope they don’t remake it, because I know they’ll just shit all over its legacy by injecting 2023 inclusivity into something that was so untouched by that shit
Yeah, tripple A games just so often screw up the basics, its crazy. Even those mostly ultra bland marvel movies at least understood that principle. So did movies like John Wick, which developed a big following just by being competent. Meanwhile RPGs like Divinity 2 have sidequests with vastly better stories than many video game campaigns. But AAA games just try to... to be honest, im not even sure what Battlefield 3/4 tried. Aping the (mostly bad) stories of modern call of duty campaigns?
The Vietnam expansion was one of the best games ever made, such a perfect experience at the time. Bc2 may not have aged that well, but when it came out it melted my brain with how amazing and realistic it felt
@@FutaCatto2Ehhh movement is incredibly clunky. You can only move at 90 degree increments if I remember correctly unless you move your crosshair. Which is more realistic and makes it hard to just run around evading shots with movement. But when every other game allows more free movement it feels bad now.
This is far and away my FAVORITE battlefield game, and arguably my favorite multi-player fps of all time. Such a fun game that really distanced itself from all the cod clones.
Battlefield 2 (2005) holds that title for me. It was a great successor to the Desert Combat mod for the original Battlefield 1942. Did anyone else here play Desert Combat or Battlefield 2 back then? Nobody else seems to remember them.
@@kingconcerto5860I am gen z but still play BF 2 in lan with friends and bots. So, 16 vs 16 will be like 4 vs 4 humans and 12 vs 12 bots, i.e. 4 humans + 12 Bots vs 4 humans + 12 Bots. Wanna play battlefield 2142 too. Fingers crossed
@@kingconcerto5860 Lotta people grew up on PS3+360, thats prolly why Bad Company is what they remember. Id agree Battlefield 2 was still the most interesting title tho. BC2 wasnt too bad for being a simplified battlefield, though. BF3 was mostly the same and bigger, BF4 was stagnation (+bad maps), and BFOne the series just went off the rails.
the way the character fights the recoil and the way the dust hangs in the air for so long is something the newer games are missing badly. looks so good
Yeah waiting for the dust to clear to see if you got them adds a moment of tension, and it makes it satisfying when the smoke does clear and all you see are holes and people on the ground.
Finally some who gets it, sometimes I’d just use the explosions to create a smoke screen. Even used a tank to cover a guy running in the dessert because he was out in the open
A big part of the nostalgia for me also comes from the Bad Company trailers. They really highlighted the different personalities of the main ensemble cast, and how well they meshed together to set the comedic tone. Was very unique for the time for the military fps genre
The development team that Dice had at the time were amazing. The team I still play with to this day met on bad company. An amazing game that I still like to revisit.
I think if they ever want to create a campaign (game) like this again, they just need a team of fun, casual, creative people just doing their thing. Apart from corporate influence.
Marcus Lehto who was the Art Director at Bungie during their Halo days is one of the people heading up Ridgeline games and that makes me really excited to see some adventure they come up with.
These are the games that got me into BF, so many good memories. The bug where you could turn a slug into a railgun with the right attachments were fantastic.
I appreciate the extra time you took to get the banter in between the action, I remember sitting there and just listening to them talk back when I played these games all those years ago... Bad Company games were a damn gem.
So happy to see this series get some modern day attention. Bad Company 1 on my 360 is still one of the best FPS single player campaign’s I’ve played. Wild they never put it on PC
It really feels like they are there with you and you are hearing them talk to each other like friends in voice chat, even though you can't really participate in the conversation as yourself. It makes it such a fun experience when I played it the first time
The sound and destructive environments in that game were ahead of its time and hasn't really been replicated since. Why hasn't any game since worked on sound as much? Such an important and overlooked part of the immersive experience! Imagine this sound in Squad!
I remember wondering how they did the destructible buildings, it seemed like magic back then but so obvious now. Peak Battlefield, it's bringing back memories.
No way BRUH, you crazy! le levelution in the Battlefields that followed wAs waY bETteer And WAy moRe imPRESivE.......said literally only people at DICE. Probably. lmao
I loved playing both of these games while growing up. Now that I'm older I understand all the pop culture references, the subtle nuances and all the good gameplay and I appreciate this series so much more.
the multiplayer was the best, most maps were tailored for rush mode and were all memorable, balanced and varied weapons AND the micro destructions (section of walls) made for an awesome focused gameplay and experience. i still played it well into its lifespan until a few years ago. sad its gonna be gone for good
I was just talking about this game for like 5 hours with friends not that long ago Drew, Thank you so much for playing it again so that I can remember just how good this game was.
One of my "Only in Battlefield Moments" was in Bad Company 2. Conquest on White Pass. Was holding a house near the middle cap with one other guy. Was using the M1 Garand and killed somewhere north of 25 enemies in the space of 5 minutes.
One thing I remember about BC2's multiplayer that I had a lot of fun with were the UAV terminals. You could mount a MG on them, ram people, and call in cruise missiles to hit tanks and damage buildings. I'd always hog them when I got the chance, because as long as you hung back and didn't get into the thick of things, you could spot enemies and drop cruise missiles the whole match and just get a shitload of points for effectively playing a point and click adventure game. One Rush match I was sitting on the terminal for so long that when someone finally shot down the UAV, I was out of bounds because the friendly spawn had moved up.
This game was peak multiplayer action and I’ll always consider it the best shooter to me. I was 11 when it came out and played it for years, BF3 disappointed me so much I just wanted them to add on to this type of gameplay. It’s all memories now…
It does not get enough love and attention, probably the most likeable group of protagonists in a shooter franchise that isn't call of duty. I treasure the memories I had of cutting the grass in the middle of summer and playing this game well into the evening.
One of the many many great things I remember about this game was the audio, I think it might have been one of the first games where I started really noticing and appreciating great audio besides "that's a good soundtrack" or "can I hear enemy footsteps". I was absolutely blown away hearing this game cranked up on my speakers for the first time, especially with that one audio setting set to "war tapes". The punch of the guns and explosions was just amazing.
I remember it being a week before Christmas in 2010 I called EA/Dice support (forget which) and said I played other battlefields and I owned battlefield modern combat on xbox original. The Support guy on the other end said "thats awesome buddy" here is a veteren status and that ww2 M1 Garand for your account on bcbc2. He unlocked the veteran status I needed for the special m1 Garand weapon only given to battlefield vets with a level 3. That made my Christmas and a very good memory I think about time to time. Really was a different time back then.
The slower gameplay and no prone in this game made for more tactical battles which I loved. The thing I hate most about newer battlefields and shooters in general are how fast and twitchy they are. It just promotes sweats and less teamwork. This games multiplayer team work was ESSENTIAL which just upped the fun and immersion. I pray they rerelease this game with updated textures and frame rate.
This game defined my battlefield experience. The multiplayer used interesting weapons, diverse map sets, extremely fun destruction, the vehicle gameplay was also really fun, and the batches often led to some insane battles to defend a point that was crumbling to the ground. I have never had so much fun in a battlefield game ever since. I think part of what freed this game from some of the doledrums of what other games were and are experiencing today is exactly what drewski says here. The game didn’t take itself too seriously. It did have its moments of realism and grit, but it didn’t take itself too seriously
The bad company games were top, but I also really enjoyed battlefield 3. That campaign has a lot of memories for me, like for instance the night mission where you attack a city and it’s just chaos everywhere I just happened to play on bonfire night which is like 4th of July with fireworks going off anywhere and I remember taking a break from gaming to go out and as soon as I left the house I just felt like I was living the mission with distant explosions. Also everyone remembers the Jet mission
I don't know whether it's your enthusiasm for shooters, the pacing of the videos or the great storytelling, but you always make me glued to the screen, no matter how long the videos get. You even got my scared ass into playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Thank you for what you do.
I remember Battlefield Bad Company. I had the gold edition. It also came with a grenade pin key chain. I still have it today. Such a great game. Miss Gold Rush game mode.
BFBC2 to this day was the best MP shooter ever created. The balance, the sound, the destruction, the perfect amount of vehicles for the player count, the maps, the ballistics and everything else shooters have to offer. After this, my love for adversarial MP declined year by year by year until I no longer even play mainstream MP anymore. ARMA and co-op shooters is all I play now. CoD, Battlefield, and all the others suck now cause of cheaters, griefers, hackers, and battle royale games. BFBC2 Rush and Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 were the greatest experience of my adversarial gaming life.
The sniper rifles in BFBC1 & 2 were hands down the best I've ever experienced in video games... The sound of the M95 Barrett shooting and the satisfying reload animation just makes my knees weak 🤣🤣
Had funner times in the campaign and multiplayer of this game than the mainland games (or other spin offs). Multiplayer wasn’t filled with try-yards like modern multiplayer shooters
Bro this game was my absolute childhood and seeing all these memory’s come back and all the characters leave me surprised about how one glimpse of a map brings back and entire strategy I had for beating it
I have logged more than a month of hours on this game since i was 11 years old, forever the core of my childhood. Sad to see EA scam its players with 2042, but ill never forget peak gamer life with this game.
This game series did 2 this INCREDIBLY well. Sound design, and character writing. Playing this game with a good subwoofer on a 5.1 was a magic experience.
Bad Company 1 is so incredibly good. The characters, the writing, the sound, the destruction, the music? Would love a reboot that goes back to it but the project leads during that time have pretty much all left for other studios or to start their own.
I absolutely love this style of content combined with old games like bc2, especially with how incredible of a game it is, AND A WHOLE FKING HOUR is just absolutely insane
I've had this game in my steam library for almost 10 years now but never played it before. Had no clue the random conversations were this good. Even just watching this and not having yet experienced it myself the characters feel alive, especially compared to modern games. Will download and give it a playthrough now!
Bad Company 2 holds a special place in my heart. We were visiting my godmother and her husband worked at EA back then. He had some pre release version of Bad Company 2 and I got to play it way before it came out. I actually got to keep the disc and still have it somewhere. Pretty amazing to get to play this awesome story way ahead of everyone as a 8-9 yo kid XD The multiplayer experience in this game still has to be one of the best ever.
I remember playing BC1 for the first time with my dad on the PS3. Unforgettable experience!! I loved every minute of hanging with him and will always cherish that one as one of the first "next gen" games I played. Even more special with him.
Bfbc2 was god teir. Multiplayer and single player. The destruction itself was ridiculously fun. Funny characters and smooth play. Truly was the peak of gaming
The multiplayer was just absolutely amazing. It felt like gritty carnage every time you were in a match. The level destruction was just so good. Someone’s camping in a building? Not a problem, I’ll just level it. The only gripe I had was shotgun slugs with magnum ammo. That combo needed nerfed for sure. There’s no reason why an 870 Remington should be pulling sniper shots at hundreds of yards away. Lol
To this day I will randomly say "Out of my way I've got to save me some cheerleaders" before taking on a task I don't really want to do, this game defined a lot of my teenage years and I think I sunk about as much time in to this playing aggressive recon as I did the OG MW2.
Really glad you playing this, so many fond memories online and the campaign was so funny. Looking forward to the Badcompany 1 video, I as well haven't played it since it came out. I just remember riding the golf cart around and tanks shooting at me.
It's also where I really got into online multiplayer fighting, it had bullet drop, expansive maps, making a kill shot from a mountain top into a village all the way across the maps just made you feel special haha
I would love to see Bad company 3 as long as they do it right! Build it based on the first two games, bring back the voice actors, make a full campaign taking place right after BC2, make it funny! Basically just make it like the original games. Also the game has to be finished apon release! I know there's more people than just you and I that love the Bad Company games so much!
Still my favorite Battlefield. I got it around the COD era of shooters and was blown away by how advanced it was for it's time. Graphics, audio, destruction, weapons, mechanics. I fell in love instantly and never looked back. Wish they kept that feel with the modern games but still has a place in my heart.
This is incredible nostalgia, hits like a truck. I remember loving this game so much despite only played the single-player campaign but over and over. I never knew I was playing one of the best if not the best Battlefield game ever.
played the shit out of it as a kid, especially multiplayer. When Bf3 arrived I was confused because the ending tells them that Russians are in Alaska, then it shifted to the Middle East. Turns out it was a new story :(
Definitely my favorite all time battlefield game. I've played the bad company 2 campaign about a dozen times. And , still love it. Especially, when they decide to save the helicopter hippie.
Man, I still remember pumping out long range kills with the NS2000 using Slugs in multiplayer. It was basically a non-scoped sniper rifle and I freakin' loved using it. This series really needs to have its comeback one day~ Edit - OH, Drew, in the very small off-chance you'll scroll over this comment - please also give ye old "Modern Combat" on the PS2 a shot down the line. That SP campaign was also smth very interesting and the unit-switch mechanic is still to this day rather unique. Eat Kiwi, brother.
I still miss this game, me and some high school friends would always jump in a match, even if we were totally about to lose due to tickets, and we'd turn it around by either sneaking around the side of the map to flank the enemy from behind, countersnipe the snipers keeping our guys pinned down, or we'd do the dumbest thing and use one of us as a sniper, the other as an engineer, the engineer would sit in the spawn in a tank and the sniper would call out directions until we zeroed the shots in like a long range artillery, while the sniper was also calling in bombing runs to just wipe out enemy armor. The best was when we lined up the artillery tank shells to land directly on the point, constantly damaging it until it blew allowing us to move into the next rush position and bring our team back from the brink. Then there was the ABSOLUTELY amazing veitnam expansion, blasting fortunate sun from the tanks and helicopters, running around with flamethrowers, trying to assault up a hillside that had been decimated by napalm forcing you to crawl through small trenches to work up the hill. 10/10 experience......then battlefield 3 came out, less destruction, terrible maps, couldn't damage the points anymore, only a handful of buildings could be destroyed or broken open, trees were invincible, sniper lost their bombardment ability, and the game felt more like call of duty. Picked up 4 after that and refunded it within a couple hours.
The idle convos were always great in this game my favorite ones when you're in the desert and haggard talks about his mouth being drier than Gandhis flip flops and how skunks asshole tastes like chicken 🤣
I fell in love with the battlefield franchise because I’d watch my dad play Bad Company 2 online on his PlayStation 3. I’m almost 25 now. It feels like it’s been so long. Times really slipping away.
Of course I remember their names: Hawkins, Dima, Solomon. Kaffarov and his villa, Blackburns interrogation scene with Glenn Morshower (who did some VA work as Overlord in Call of Doots), Al-Bashir. As fun as BFBC and BFBC2 are, I love BF3 and BF4 more. What's sad is what EA/DICE did with Medal of Honor. I loved those games as well. It was a nice counter point to Call of Doots Black Ops and it being set back in time.
I played Bad Company 2 again about 6 months ago and I remembered what fun it was. Just a blast the entire time, and only Battlebit even slightly compares.
I remember when this game came out and all I had played was Call of Duty and Medal of Honor and wanted to try something different. I found this game on the shelf at Best Buy and played it all the way through in one night and played the multiplayer for multiple days straight. My first and still my favorite battlefield game to this day!
Man, i remember when BC2 came out, i didn't have internet at home, so I had to play offline. I think I probably played through the campaign like 20 times. The open with the WW2 stuff will always be my favorite part along with the desert mission with the 50 Cal.
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Do you think you could find and play Black? If you like the sounds in this game, you'll like how thick and bassy everything sounds in Black.
Thr F2000 sounds like a CWIS
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an225 has 6 engines not 4. the plane is an124 in the game
Just played and finished BF3 (grew up in a COD household) It was great, can’t remember a single character
Ironically, this sub franchise is BETTER than the mainstream one. Better story and writing, ACTUAL characters. I still remember their names 10 ten years later because they were that memorable. Better multiplayer too tbh. Everyone knew their jobs back then. Assault knew when to drop ammo. Engineer repaired friendly vehicles and DIDN'T hog it for himself. Snipers spotted enemies and were a menace. Medics revived and healed their comrades.
MP wise it also had private servers and most importantly hardcore mode.
Shotguns were not video game close range blasters but acutally versatile.
They had destructible terrain and roles were as you said very important.
The trend with the mainstream continues down.
Makes me think of the good ol xbox days. I remember me and a buddy were bounding across the map as snipers, trying to be sneaky with the low walls and bushes on Heavy Metal. Whispering, moving from cover to cover so we can steal the enemy team's chopper. Then it came to my realization, "Why are we whispering? We're in party chat! No one can hear us!"
@@k1lmansgh0st there is a lingering memory from this game that i have to this very day because it was that memorable: i was playing on the russian team and we captured the objective then a friendly recon pressed select (because i was playing on ps3 at the time) and had the icon blinking indicating he wanted ammo. so i tossed the ammo bag for him and another one where it was the opposite where i was the recon and asked the assault for ammo. and boy he tossed ammo my way. two memories that still lingers in my head to this day. much better than standing Infront of the support just to get basic necessities like ammo or health.
In Squad, Medic is point-man and RECON.
Agreed
Bad company 2's multiplayer was the peak battlefield experience for me. I still remember my first game. I had killed someone in a 1 story building on rush, peeked out a window and saw nothing but abrams staring at me. He put a shell in the wall and blew me and the building to hell. I was hooked immediately.
I definitely loved it, I have something like 23k kills lol. The feel of the tanks, choppers, and kits plus how the way there was always something able to 'best' each like rock-paper-scissors.
Engineer+G3 was my favorite. My wildest moment was no-scope sniping a gunner then pilot point blank out of a blackhawk as it flew overhead, yolo.
It was well balanced, looked real but still had the fantasy aspect to it. The superb audio and lines from the soldiers, both russian and american are unforgetable.
@@cerstvemlieko not sure what fantasy aspect you mean, but the audio was fkn amazing.
peak was Battlefield 2, bad company was the console peasant version of true Batttlefield.
@@MauricioPlaza You just wish that was true.
What I miss the most is destruction, some of the greatest multiplayer destruction ever in a game. Wish the series would go back to this.
My favorite part about it was being inside a building and hearing that signature sound that let you know you have about 3 seconds to GTFO, so there's me bailing out the nearest window before I'm crushed to death. Gave me such a rush!
Check out The Finals if you're interested in destruction, the closed beta was insane
This is why im so into battlebit right now. Its basically the best version of battlefield out at the moment.
@@hotmegoi504 I love BBR too. It's amazing that with all the tech advancements over the past decade, major studios still fail to understand why destruction is important. This isn't a technology problem, it's a prioritization problem.
The best part of that was getting multi-kills from everyone who was still in the building too as it came down and crushed them
What i love about the Bad company voice acting is that it feels very organic. Like they just got the voice actors to sit in a room together and just improv a bunch of shit in character and see what came out. You can tell that the voice actors were naturally good at their jobs.
I think they kinda did just that. Like half the shit that was recorded - you can't write that lmao.
That's probably why it sounds so natural. Friendly banter.
Same here, Even though BF was mostly at one point remembered as a multiplayer only game Bad Company did a great job along with BF1.
I swear, when Sarge laughed, it was a genuine laughter from the actor. And those little dialogues hae got to be ad lib. They just sound raw, real and unscripted. I miss this game 😍
Or it's just a combination of good acting and directing.
What makes it so great.
Fr they just feel like little mini fan films in the actual game
For me Bad Company 1&2 have a special place in my heart especially cause of the audio design. It sounds soooo good, from how the footsteps change due to the material you are walking on, to the massive echoy effect when you are in buildings. Everything just feels more up close an personal with it's sound design.
War tapes and playing in a foreign VO language was Uber immersive.
@@TheoriginalBMT war tapes for DA WIN, BABY! Totally changed and enhanced the atmosphere. And made perfect sound design even perfect...ER.
I don't even know why it was an "option". if anything, it should've been the default sounds setting. Or atleast been more "in your face" when in the audio settings. Terrifyingly to easy to just over look it when in the sounds settings.
@@shmeckle666 maybe war tapes was better for headphone users, gotta remember alot of console players from that time just used their TV speakers.
@@TehPh1L I just forced my tv to perform war tapes haha. I don't know if there was enough difference. It felt different
Bad Company will always have a special spot in my heart. It was the first time I came to appreciate the M14 EBR, with great characters and an amazing campaign to boot. It has aged so well
Sarge was about to retire until shit hit the fan.
Redford: Okay, this is our stop. And Sweetwater, just shut the hell up.
Sweetwater: What? I didn't even say anything!
@@Hinokassaudifan1Man just wanted to go fishing
@@therazgriz0079 and then ww3 happened.
@@Hinokassaudifan1 We know. We played it.
That exchange about Aguire is so wonderfully written and performed. The trailing lines, the overflowing characterisation in the delivery, and Hags' general attempts to not come off as a hick are amazing. You don't experience that kind of writing and performance in major films these days, let alone games of this nature.
Been saying it for years, bfbc2 was the GOAT. The audio change from outdoors to indoors, the death animations, the feel when running, it didnt take itself too seriously yet it is one of the best shooters of all time.
Good gameplay mechanics to put well written, likeable characters into a dangerous and immersive environment is just the right way to make a good game no matter the genre or budget.
@@baphometshorn6349yup
They could never recreate it. Casual players can't handle movement that slow. Just look at 2042's Portal version of BC2. It sucks balls.
18:16 That whole conversation between Hags and Flynn it's one of the most iconic moments of this game... Hell this game is just full of memorable and iconic moments.
SPOILER
When Flynn died, Hags still talked about him, even long after. Back when conservatives and liberals got along.
@@mobiusraptor7He isn't really conservative. They tend to be a lot more importance on traditional religion, community and responsibility/service. He's more like a social stereotype of right wingers in the early 2000's.
Which they still really didn't get along, but since politics weren't as mainstream as they are now, both sides typically were mature enough to keep political discussions at the courts and debates.
Putting likable characters in difficult situations. It's storytelling 101, and it's downright amazing how few manages to do it.
FPS devs usually don't get the top shelve storywriters. Sometimes even they drop a gem like bad company though.
If they remade this today the squad would have to have two female women of color, not make jokes about buying 556 at Walmart and remove all “toxic masculinity” from the dialogue.
Honestly I hope they don’t remake it, because I know they’ll just shit all over its legacy by injecting 2023 inclusivity into something that was so untouched by that shit
@@niceyzuzu5036 Oh shut up with your incel garbage lmao.
Yeah, tripple A games just so often screw up the basics, its crazy. Even those mostly ultra bland marvel movies at least understood that principle. So did movies like John Wick, which developed a big following just by being competent.
Meanwhile RPGs like Divinity 2 have sidequests with vastly better stories than many video game campaigns.
But AAA games just try to... to be honest, im not even sure what Battlefield 3/4 tried. Aping the (mostly bad) stories of modern call of duty campaigns?
The Vietnam expansion was one of the best games ever made, such a perfect experience at the time.
Bc2 may not have aged that well, but when it came out it melted my brain with how amazing and realistic it felt
BC2 aged well and still is the best Battlefield.
I agree. TTK along with BF 1943 was nearly perfect. Deadly but not OP. The maps were so sick too. Phu Bai Valley is unbelievable.
Nah. It aged well.
Bc2 gameplay is fun, very solid game
@@FutaCatto2Ehhh movement is incredibly clunky. You can only move at 90 degree increments if I remember correctly unless you move your crosshair. Which is more realistic and makes it hard to just run around evading shots with movement. But when every other game allows more free movement it feels bad now.
This is far and away my FAVORITE battlefield game, and arguably my favorite multi-player fps of all time. Such a fun game that really distanced itself from all the cod clones.
Battlefield 2 (2005) holds that title for me. It was a great successor to the Desert Combat mod for the original Battlefield 1942. Did anyone else here play Desert Combat or Battlefield 2 back then? Nobody else seems to remember them.
@@kingconcerto5860I am gen z but still play BF 2 in lan with friends and bots. So, 16 vs 16 will be like 4 vs 4 humans and 12 vs 12 bots,
i.e. 4 humans + 12 Bots vs 4 humans + 12 Bots.
Wanna play battlefield 2142 too. Fingers crossed
@@kingconcerto5860 oh man i played so much Desert Combat mod and then BF2 with friends of mine - some of the best gaming moments ever
@@kingconcerto5860 Lotta people grew up on PS3+360, thats prolly why Bad Company is what they remember.
Id agree Battlefield 2 was still the most interesting title tho. BC2 wasnt too bad for being a simplified battlefield, though. BF3 was mostly the same and bigger, BF4 was stagnation (+bad maps), and BFOne the series just went off the rails.
One thing that makes this game really cool is that this is one of the few games that actually features the AEK 971.
the way the character fights the recoil and the way the dust hangs in the air for so long is something the newer games are missing badly. looks so good
Yeah waiting for the dust to clear to see if you got them adds a moment of tension, and it makes it satisfying when the smoke does clear and all you see are holes and people on the ground.
Finally some who gets it, sometimes I’d just use the explosions to create a smoke screen. Even used a tank to cover a guy running in the dessert because he was out in the open
@@velafresh 🗿🤝🏻🗿
A big part of the nostalgia for me also comes from the Bad Company trailers. They really highlighted the different personalities of the main ensemble cast, and how well they meshed together to set the comedic tone. Was very unique for the time for the military fps genre
With the quality of Battlefield games as of late, I'd rather them not make another Bad Company game.
Yes they need to stay away from it and leave it be. Leave it as a masterpiece duo
Respectfully agree
Facts, Bad Co was was way ahead of its time. There's no way they could recreate or make this even better today.
The main character is probably gonna be a nonbinary african french woman
This makes me sad, but i agree.
The development team that Dice had at the time were amazing. The team I still play with to this day met on bad company. An amazing game that I still like to revisit.
I think if they ever want to create a campaign (game) like this again, they just need a team of fun, casual, creative people just doing their thing. Apart from corporate influence.
EA was founded by corp influence it will always be the corpo game co.
Yeah.
Marcus Lehto who was the Art Director at Bungie during their Halo days is one of the people heading up Ridgeline games and that makes me really excited to see some adventure they come up with.
These are the games that got me into BF, so many good memories. The bug where you could turn a slug into a railgun with the right attachments were fantastic.
I appreciate the extra time you took to get the banter in between the action, I remember sitting there and just listening to them talk back when I played these games all those years ago... Bad Company games were a damn gem.
That explains all the Bad Company 2 memes lately 😅
So happy to see this series get some modern day attention. Bad Company 1 on my 360 is still one of the best FPS single player campaign’s I’ve played. Wild they never put it on PC
This game was more lively than the new battlefield have ever been. The ai teammates were amazing and engaging.
It really feels like they are there with you and you are hearing them talk to each other like friends in voice chat, even though you can't really participate in the conversation as yourself. It makes it such a fun experience when I played it the first time
The sound and destructive environments in that game were ahead of its time and hasn't really been replicated since. Why hasn't any game since worked on sound as much? Such an important and overlooked part of the immersive experience! Imagine this sound in Squad!
That flaming car was pure horror for me as a kid, so many memories and that sound in the same mission. chills man
I remember wondering how they did the destructible buildings, it seemed like magic back then but so obvious now. Peak Battlefield, it's bringing back memories.
No way BRUH, you crazy! le levelution in the Battlefields that followed wAs waY bETteer And WAy moRe imPRESivE.......said literally only people at DICE. Probably. lmao
@@shmeckle666 If only we could've had both, damn it
I loved playing both of these games while growing up. Now that I'm older I understand all the pop culture references, the subtle nuances and all the good gameplay and I appreciate this series so much more.
BC2 defines my middle school experience
I remember coming home on a chilly spring day to spend the next 9 hours playing the game
the multiplayer was the best, most maps were tailored for rush mode and were all memorable, balanced and varied weapons AND the micro destructions (section of walls) made for an awesome focused gameplay and experience. i still played it well into its lifespan until a few years ago. sad its gonna be gone for good
I think there's a community who's prepared to take-on the hosting process for the players who still wanna do multiplayer.
@@OperatorDrewski i know. but lets be real. its gonna be a graveyard (as it already is) unless theres some organized event. was fun while it lasted
It will survive no problen...vu will pick it up
the first game I ever played online. I got into it just as it was nearing the end of its life, a few months before BF3 came out. Man, what a game.
I was just talking about this game for like 5 hours with friends not that long ago Drew, Thank you so much for playing it again so that I can remember just how good this game was.
Bad Company might have lacked strafe movement but I can`t be the only one feeling it will forever be special
One of my "Only in Battlefield Moments" was in Bad Company 2. Conquest on White Pass. Was holding a house near the middle cap with one other guy. Was using the M1 Garand and killed somewhere north of 25 enemies in the space of 5 minutes.
Nice
I played more BC2 than probably any other shooter. Arica Harbor 24/7 and Valspario all hardcore had the best gun mechanics and TTK in any shooter then
The writing for the characters were next level. Love the banter and random conversations.
At this point. EA & DICE have totally forgotten what the Battlefield Franchise is about considering how out of touch they are.
One thing I remember about BC2's multiplayer that I had a lot of fun with were the UAV terminals. You could mount a MG on them, ram people, and call in cruise missiles to hit tanks and damage buildings. I'd always hog them when I got the chance, because as long as you hung back and didn't get into the thick of things, you could spot enemies and drop cruise missiles the whole match and just get a shitload of points for effectively playing a point and click adventure game.
One Rush match I was sitting on the terminal for so long that when someone finally shot down the UAV, I was out of bounds because the friendly spawn had moved up.
The UAV was so fun. I got so good at using it.
This game was peak multiplayer action and I’ll always consider it the best shooter to me. I was 11 when it came out and played it for years, BF3 disappointed me so much I just wanted them to add on to this type of gameplay. It’s all memories now…
It does not get enough love and attention, probably the most likeable group of protagonists in a shooter franchise that isn't call of duty. I treasure the memories I had of cutting the grass in the middle of summer and playing this game well into the evening.
One of the many many great things I remember about this game was the audio, I think it might have been one of the first games where I started really noticing and appreciating great audio besides "that's a good soundtrack" or "can I hear enemy footsteps". I was absolutely blown away hearing this game cranked up on my speakers for the first time, especially with that one audio setting set to "war tapes". The punch of the guns and explosions was just amazing.
A moment of silence for those that never found the "war tapes" options in the audio settings.
@@shmeckle666 War Tapes peaked further in BF3, after that it just sounded like shit.
Another great thing about this game is that it had an amazing polish dubbing and translation.
I remember it being a week before Christmas in 2010 I called EA/Dice support (forget which) and said I played other battlefields and I owned battlefield modern combat on xbox original. The Support guy on the other end said "thats awesome buddy" here is a veteren status and that ww2 M1 Garand for your account on bcbc2. He unlocked the veteran status I needed for the special m1 Garand weapon only given to battlefield vets with a level 3. That made my Christmas and a very good memory I think about time to time.
Really was a different time back then.
The slower gameplay and no prone in this game made for more tactical battles which I loved. The thing I hate most about newer battlefields and shooters in general are how fast and twitchy they are. It just promotes sweats and less teamwork.
This games multiplayer team work was ESSENTIAL which just upped the fun and immersion. I pray they rerelease this game with updated textures and frame rate.
This game defined my battlefield experience. The multiplayer used interesting weapons, diverse map sets, extremely fun destruction, the vehicle gameplay was also really fun, and the batches often led to some insane battles to defend a point that was crumbling to the ground. I have never had so much fun in a battlefield game ever since. I think part of what freed this game from some of the doledrums of what other games were and are experiencing today is exactly what drewski says here. The game didn’t take itself too seriously. It did have its moments of realism and grit, but it didn’t take itself too seriously
The bad company games were top, but I also really enjoyed battlefield 3. That campaign has a lot of memories for me, like for instance the night mission where you attack a city and it’s just chaos everywhere I just happened to play on bonfire night which is like 4th of July with fireworks going off anywhere and I remember taking a break from gaming to go out and as soon as I left the house I just felt like I was living the mission with distant explosions. Also everyone remembers the Jet mission
I don't know whether it's your enthusiasm for shooters, the pacing of the videos or the great storytelling, but you always make me glued to the screen, no matter how long the videos get.
You even got my scared ass into playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Thank you for what you do.
You nailed exactly my feelings on this franchise. I'm hoping reviving Bad Company is what Ridgeline Games is up to.
I remember Battlefield Bad Company. I had the gold edition. It also came with a grenade pin key chain. I still have it today. Such a great game. Miss Gold Rush game mode.
Still my favorite BF. Best single and multiplayer in the franchise. We need destruction back
BFBC2 to this day was the best MP shooter ever created. The balance, the sound, the destruction, the perfect amount of vehicles for the player count, the maps, the ballistics and everything else shooters have to offer. After this, my love for adversarial MP declined year by year by year until I no longer even play mainstream MP anymore. ARMA and co-op shooters is all I play now. CoD, Battlefield, and all the others suck now cause of cheaters, griefers, hackers, and battle royale games. BFBC2 Rush and Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 were the greatest experience of my adversarial gaming life.
we need a bad company remake
Nahhh. Remastered is better. That'll fix
After 2042? Yeah nah, fuck that. Don't touch this.
@@twinturboray BC3 to see DICE/EA fuck it all up?
EA already scrap that BC3 idea before 2042 came up and thank god it didnt happen
soo maybe not
@@5at5unaamen brother they better not touch it
Why don't you come to Battlebit Remastered ?
The sniper rifles in BFBC1 & 2 were hands down the best I've ever experienced in video games... The sound of the M95 Barrett shooting and the satisfying reload animation just makes my knees weak 🤣🤣
Had funner times in the campaign and multiplayer of this game than the mainland games (or other spin offs). Multiplayer wasn’t filled with try-yards like modern multiplayer shooters
Bro this game was my absolute childhood and seeing all these memory’s come back and all the characters leave me surprised about how one glimpse of a map brings back and entire strategy I had for beating it
I have logged more than a month of hours on this game since i was 11 years old, forever the core of my childhood. Sad to see EA scam its players with 2042, but ill never forget peak gamer life with this game.
This game series did 2 this INCREDIBLY well. Sound design, and character writing. Playing this game with a good subwoofer on a 5.1 was a magic experience.
Let's all be honest, the best memories we have of gaming are from single player games like this one
Bad Company 1 is so incredibly good. The characters, the writing, the sound, the destruction, the music? Would love a reboot that goes back to it but the project leads during that time have pretty much all left for other studios or to start their own.
Number one bb
I absolutely love this style of content combined with old games like bc2, especially with how incredible of a game it is, AND A WHOLE FKING HOUR is just absolutely insane
I've had this game in my steam library for almost 10 years now but never played it before. Had no clue the random conversations were this good. Even just watching this and not having yet experienced it myself the characters feel alive, especially compared to modern games. Will download and give it a playthrough now!
Bad Company 2 holds a special place in my heart. We were visiting my godmother and her husband worked at EA back then. He had some pre release version of Bad Company 2 and I got to play it way before it came out. I actually got to keep the disc and still have it somewhere. Pretty amazing to get to play this awesome story way ahead of everyone as a 8-9 yo kid XD
The multiplayer experience in this game still has to be one of the best ever.
I remember playing BC1 for the first time with my dad on the PS3. Unforgettable experience!! I loved every minute of hanging with him and will always cherish that one as one of the first "next gen" games I played. Even more special with him.
Still have Bad Comany 2 on xbox 360 ( 14 yrs old and still running strong!!) to this day and love it!!
Bfbc2 was god teir. Multiplayer and single player. The destruction itself was ridiculously fun. Funny characters and smooth play.
Truly was the peak of gaming
The multiplayer was just absolutely amazing. It felt like gritty carnage every time you were in a match. The level destruction was just so good. Someone’s camping in a building? Not a problem, I’ll just level it. The only gripe I had was shotgun slugs with magnum ammo. That combo needed nerfed for sure. There’s no reason why an 870 Remington should be pulling sniper shots at hundreds of yards away. Lol
I still can't believe that the servers are shutting down on the 8th of December. Unbelievable decision..
To this day I will randomly say "Out of my way I've got to save me some cheerleaders" before taking on a task I don't really want to do, this game defined a lot of my teenage years and I think I sunk about as much time in to this playing aggressive recon as I did the OG MW2.
39:46 Best turret section in an fps is still Black Cats in World at War imo. It changes things up constantly and the music is 🔥🔥
Miss this game. Crazy how far the franchise has fallen.
Really glad you playing this, so many fond memories online and the campaign was so funny. Looking forward to the Badcompany 1 video, I as well haven't played it since it came out. I just remember riding the golf cart around and tanks shooting at me.
It's also where I really got into online multiplayer fighting, it had bullet drop, expansive maps, making a kill shot from a mountain top into a village all the way across the maps just made you feel special haha
I would love to see Bad company 3 as long as they do it right! Build it based on the first two games, bring back the voice actors, make a full campaign taking place right after BC2, make it funny! Basically just make it like the original games.
Also the game has to be finished apon release!
I know there's more people than just you and I that love the Bad Company games so much!
The sound design is probably my favorite in the series. The snipers sounded so marvelous
Still my favorite Battlefield. I got it around the COD era of shooters and was blown away by how advanced it was for it's time. Graphics, audio, destruction, weapons, mechanics. I fell in love instantly and never looked back. Wish they kept that feel with the modern games but still has a place in my heart.
Fucking hell, the sound design in BC2 was insane. This and BF3 were peak DICE. A shame how the studio and the series had fallen since.
This is incredible nostalgia, hits like a truck. I remember loving this game so much despite only played the single-player campaign but over and over. I never knew I was playing one of the best if not the best Battlefield game ever.
played the shit out of it as a kid, especially multiplayer. When Bf3 arrived I was confused because the ending tells them that Russians are in Alaska, then it shifted to the Middle East. Turns out it was a new story :(
My God, an emulator for BC1 would be SICK! Enjoyed that game so much.
Definitely my favorite all time battlefield game. I've played the bad company 2 campaign about a dozen times. And , still love it. Especially, when they decide to save the helicopter hippie.
Man, I still remember pumping out long range kills with the NS2000 using Slugs in multiplayer. It was basically a non-scoped sniper rifle and I freakin' loved using it. This series really needs to have its comeback one day~
Edit - OH, Drew, in the very small off-chance you'll scroll over this comment - please also give ye old "Modern Combat" on the PS2 a shot down the line. That SP campaign was also smth very interesting and the unit-switch mechanic is still to this day rather unique.
Eat Kiwi, brother.
I still miss this game, me and some high school friends would always jump in a match, even if we were totally about to lose due to tickets, and we'd turn it around by either sneaking around the side of the map to flank the enemy from behind, countersnipe the snipers keeping our guys pinned down, or we'd do the dumbest thing and use one of us as a sniper, the other as an engineer, the engineer would sit in the spawn in a tank and the sniper would call out directions until we zeroed the shots in like a long range artillery, while the sniper was also calling in bombing runs to just wipe out enemy armor. The best was when we lined up the artillery tank shells to land directly on the point, constantly damaging it until it blew allowing us to move into the next rush position and bring our team back from the brink. Then there was the ABSOLUTELY amazing veitnam expansion, blasting fortunate sun from the tanks and helicopters, running around with flamethrowers, trying to assault up a hillside that had been decimated by napalm forcing you to crawl through small trenches to work up the hill.
10/10 experience......then battlefield 3 came out, less destruction, terrible maps, couldn't damage the points anymore, only a handful of buildings could be destroyed or broken open, trees were invincible, sniper lost their bombardment ability, and the game felt more like call of duty. Picked up 4 after that and refunded it within a couple hours.
31:10 THAT point blank .50 blast was PERSONAL man
Dev team: how many barrels do you want.
Director: YES
The vietnam expansion was by far my most beloved Battlefield of them all.
I recognized Corpus right away too! I lived there for about 10 years. I live on the west side of the country now but I still miss it sometimes.
that story is the defenition of "guys beeing dudes beeing friends"
We need to push for a bad company 1 and 2 remaster
The idle convos were always great in this game my favorite ones when you're in the desert and haggard talks about his mouth being drier than Gandhis flip flops and how skunks asshole tastes like chicken 🤣
that end credits screen reminded me of the fact that BC2 Vietnam exists. I played so many hours with friends on that. it was so good.
This games graphics are insane for being from 2010. Like they literally look better than some games coming out today lmao
I fell in love with the battlefield franchise because I’d watch my dad play Bad Company 2 online on his PlayStation 3. I’m almost 25 now. It feels like it’s been so long. Times really slipping away.
Of course I remember their names: Hawkins, Dima, Solomon. Kaffarov and his villa, Blackburns interrogation scene with Glenn Morshower (who did some VA work as Overlord in Call of Doots), Al-Bashir. As fun as BFBC and BFBC2 are, I love BF3 and BF4 more.
What's sad is what EA/DICE did with Medal of Honor. I loved those games as well. It was a nice counter point to Call of Doots Black Ops and it being set back in time.
I played Bad Company 2 again about 6 months ago and I remembered what fun it was. Just a blast the entire time, and only Battlebit even slightly compares.
I remember when this game came out and all I had played was Call of Duty and Medal of Honor and wanted to try something different. I found this game on the shelf at Best Buy and played it all the way through in one night and played the multiplayer for multiple days straight. My first and still my favorite battlefield game to this day!
This game was great for so many reasons, I was so ready for a Bad Comp 3 i always wondered what happened since it never released.
Man, i remember when BC2 came out, i didn't have internet at home, so I had to play offline. I think I probably played through the campaign like 20 times. The open with the WW2 stuff will always be my favorite part along with the desert mission with the 50 Cal.