I remember playing this with a friend hiding from a tank in hue city we crouched and hoped the tank didnt spot us then crawled around it like some single player script it was so awesome. I wasted so much time on this game in my young age
@@InvictusAmicitia dunno what tantwo is on about, hueys and cobras were so easy to fly and they were goddamn kings of the battlefield. Press 0 to open radio. Press p to play Surfin Bird.
I don't think it is so underrated and forgotten. Many classic BF fans remember this. It felt underrated because it was basically official, well made mod for BF1942. Most were still playing BF1942 and BF Vietnam was overshadowed, same as BF2142 was overshadowed by BF2.
As a newer battlefield fan I've only just found out this game even existed I've never heard of it or seen it which is a shame as it looks like a fun game!
I think it kinda suffered from having the BF1942 engine. If you are going to make a game about the Vietnam war, you gotta have a lot of bushes to hide in. This old engine just didn't support any kind of guerrilla game play in any way. But then again, this game did basically create BF2, as many of the more successful aspects of the game were just ported into BF2. Like the helicopters. This game would had been so good if it had been released using the BF2 engine.
seriously man.. it wasnt even that long ago and no one knows what im talking about when i mention this game aside from a few friends i used to play this with a lot.
I remember playing this for the first time as a kid, was the front gunner on a canal boat mowing down Charlie with queen blasting from the drive. Was amazing! Started my obsession with Vietnam games. Feel your pain with the ball mouses, having to quickly take the ball out and clean the inside out while in the heat of the moment was always a joy lol
man those were the times. I remember trying to play Battlefield 2142 with my shitty ass internet as a kid and getting like 10fps and 500 ping. Games back then had a nice charm to them
Oh don't think laser mice are free of gunk issues, they still need cleaning and dealing with small hairs collecting near the shiny bit that will blind you while you clean it. But yeah ball-track mice definitely have pretty bad cleaning issues.
wow thats Immersion, Considering the early M16's where prone to jamming and some Dead US Marines and Soldiers are Found Dead Cleaning their Rifles in the Heat of Battle. You've truly experienced BF 'Nam.
Apart from the clunky controls, it´s far better than newer Battlefields: - Had Few bugs - Was an almost complete game at launch with a lot of maps and different weapons - No filthy pay system - Better to play as a team
Omg so much nostalgia memories. I loved this game. This game introduced me to Vietnam. I bought the game only because of how cool the artbook looked like
Longtime player here, even if it hasn't aged amazingly to some I feel like it still kicks *heaps* of ass. If you know where to look you can find patches to allow widescreen and restoring the server browser functionality, but the main thing I recommend is a sound fix from ModDB that restores the ambient sounds like Stars 'N' Bars radio and Hanoi Hannah broadcasts, and the ability to use the vehicle radio. Also worth noting that your sensitivity was fucked up because pre-BF2 sensitivity works in this weird way where you have your General sensitivity, then you can further adjust it specifically for Infantry and Vehicles so you need to crank *those* sliders down too. Anyway, pretty good review even if you were mostly dunking on it, always happy to see someone even acknowledge Vietnam since it seems to be mostly forgotten
@@goldbullet50 Usually players come online in mass for scheduled events, and HELLO Clan seems to be reponsible for most of those so I recommend joining their Discord server to keep track of that. Just a little while ago they got a server fully packed again.
The best thing about BFVietnam is that you can play some music while you driving a vehicle, Ride of the Valkyries, Soul Kitchen, Born to be Wild, the list can go on and on.
I played the absolute hell out of this game. Picked it up on lay-by as a kid from Kmart Australia, along with CnC Generals and Max Payne 2. I was recruited into AEF clan and played many a clan battle as the Chinook pilot for them (and clanned with them again for Forgotten Hope, Point of Existence, and BF2). A major piece of my young teenhood that I will always be greatful for.
@@Soldierfromthepast Well, everything really. The graphics were much more advanced. Like, not even on the same level. The gameplay/gunplay, vehicles, the squad-system and the audio were greatly enhanced or even added from scratch. But don't get me wrong, I love Battlefield Vietnam.
I remember flying helicopters in this game, I always needed the flight sensitivity set to max and would only fly the Chinook. I know, I know, "buh, the Chinook was shit in this game, fly something better," is what most people would say. Instead, I flew both the twin front-facing machine gun variant and the pacifist variant with the cargo hook, where I'd go wrecking ball on aircraft with cars or boats hanging beneath, or flag-capping by spinning the Chinook on it's nose around the flag, missing both flagpole and ground by inches and shooting anyone that interfered. Those were good times...
I believe this was the only battlefield with radios in vehicles that other players could jam along with. Just fantastic rolling into battles with the music jamming.
It's still my favourite BF game. Old BF games were much slower so tactical situation lasted longer than minute, unlike in the newer ones where there are no "tactical situations" (like defending/attacking the bases or sneaky capturing the points behind enemy lines) as resps are close to each others and everything is messed up. In the Old series, respawns used to be a bases in the open field- vehicles weren't used only for fighting, but as a mean of transport to get faster into the frontline. Old BF were way more immersive when it comes to the being team member on the one side of the conflict, no Marines running with the AK'S - instead just get on a huey with your mates, and pray for not being shot down before reaching the point. I'm not saying the new BF'S are bad games, but they're clearly aren't the same anymore. Sad :(
Well said. And the fault of modern battlefields being shit is all thanks to EA who wanted to turn bf to full arcade shootter in hopes to lure some cod fans to join their playerbase. Oh how much i hate EA.
@@tunaritoope2059 Exactly, BF tryharded to much to become a CoD with vehicles. Back in the days they used to be completly dofferent series. Second reason to blame in my opinion is grind- I"am not saying it's bad, but in my opinion scores should be gained (or hardly multiplied) only when players team would win so the teamwork would be protity- actual grind killed the idea of sacrifice and suicidal attacks.
I thought i was old when I realized this game came out 17 years ago and felt even older hearing you were in grade 7 in 2014 talking about "back in the day" ahaha, this gem of a game is a classic though
I have absolutely no complaints for the time era there's allot of idiots who don't appreciate things. Red Orchestra is a pretty old series and it's amazing.
Omg the bit about the USB transfers actually surprised me, I didn't know that it was such a widespread practice. Then you brought up Broforce and I was just blown away cuz the exact same type of deals happened in my school. Keep up the work man lol
Being vietcong in that map lmao. I love it. And what i dont like is the fact that the us somehow secretly capture the base on the hill(not the hill that have the fucking cannon)
This game is one of my all-time favorites. I got a mod called BFV arsenal, which added loads of new vehicles and maps. There was a beach map where I would take a hind helicopter with wing-mounted rockets and massacre the other team. Flying a helicopter, aiming and timing my shots was tricky to learn but I always loved it
BF Vietnam is the game I am most nostalgic about, on par with NFSU. But I have to say, I found rs2 Vietnam's helicopters hard to handle because I was such a beast at the choppers in BF Vietnam.
Its 2004, i start up this game and my dad tells me about the music playing in the main screen. It was Jefferson Airplane. Still love classic rock and the anti war music. Battlefield? Nooot so much after BF 5 lol
I think the game aged well for some part. The AI and the tank-damage isn't all that great, but the possibility of playing against bot, being able to use a variety of vehicles and the spawn point concept, are great features that we don't see often these days
This game gets me so nostalgic for the wave of Vietnam games I was playing at the time. Shellshock nam '67 was right around the corner, and I had BF Vietnam and Vietcong to play til then.
I've always been a sucker for game music and when it came to this game I just booted up certain maps not to even play them but to just listen to the loading screen music and read the information displayed. Operation Flaming Dart was my favorite one because of the sick guitar riffs at the start.
we had optical mice back then that functioned just fine before laser mice (just not on glass surfaces)! the reason that mouse speed can get a bit screwy on older titles has to do with how mice communicate with the computer. there's something called a polling rate, which is a measure of how often the computer asks the mouse "hey man, how many centimeters did you move this millisecond?". back then, integrated chips in mice werent that powerful, so you had lower polling rates, generally around 100-300 times per second. the games are often programmed to pull this stuff straight off the mouse, so if your mouse polls 100 times a second, it needs different sens settings than if it polls 300-500 times a second. modern mice can poll at a max rate of 8000 times a second (on USB 2.0 atleast), so if the game's reading the mouse itself rather than windows' interpretation of the mouse movements, well, it'll be very fast. (this is also why mouse smoothing was invented, to fill in the gaps caused by low polling rates.) that is also where the "raw mouse input" tick box comes from in Source games, they read the raw mouse input. so why doesn't the source engine have this problem of rapid mouse movements? it doesn't read mouse movements directly, it reads the mouse movements, and then works with averages over a period of time (say 1-2 ms, the average of all your mouse movements), that way they're future-proofed, even if we ever get 50 million mouse polling rates or something. You can lock the polling rate in your hardware settings on windows, google around for it if you like playing older games! there's no real drawback, the difference between say, 500 polling rate and 5000 polling rate is not noticeable (to me at least.)
Nice nostalgia video ! One of my childhood favorite game aswell. But i don't agree with you about helicopters. Maybe it was hard at first but when you master it it's pure pleasure (+ you can the soundtrack in heli). I got those feelings back in Rising Storm Vietnam, when i was transport heli pilot. Thanks for this video
this was my favorite battlefield game and one of my favorite video games ever. i still listen to much of the songs on the soundtrack to this game. i’d love to give it a go again for the nostalgia
I remember when the game released and basically the US won every match because they had a class that spawned in with an M60 and a LAW. But basically you were anti-everything. You could fire just about non-stop, and the M60 was basically as accurate as a rifle, so you could gun down or missile anything. It was hands down completely broken and had to be patched for balance pretty quickly.
The greatest thing I remember about the helicopters playing back in 06 was the fact you could select a song(from Vietnam Era) from a Playlist to play over the chopper PA system. Fire up flight of the bumblebees to blast half way across the map in a huey with rockets. Remember like it was yesterday, damn nostalgic
My fondest memory of this game was actually on Operation Flaming Dart map. I was piloting a Huey gunship, going to the mainland. Midway I got into a fight with a Mi-8, you know, those hit the enemy chopper with a rocket before they hit you and actually try this 4-5 times because both of you miss all their shots fights. Anyway, at some point I finally managed to shoot a rocket I was pretty confident it would hit the enemy when all of a sudden I get obliterated by a plane flying nearby. Due to imbalanced teams, after I died, I quickly get switched to the other team. However, during that time, the rocket I already shot out was still traveliing through the air, and... You guessed it, as soon as I joined the other team, my rocket hits the now my teammate, kills them, and I get kicked for teamkill. Best game ever!
Omg I have many memories of this and even more memories of the kids with USBs full of games in High School (NSW here). They had this one but because it needed a CD Key (easy to google) the more popular one to play when teachers weren't looking was the original COD. Many good memories.
I remember going to Walmart and looking for an rts game,I picked this game and thought it was a RTS, iand this was the first Battlefield I ever played, then I fell in love with it! Love battlefield Vietnam good days as a teen back in 2006
although i haven't finished my childhood per say(only a few month left) i would have to say there are more than a few games that hold close memories to my heart. battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare been the closest with lots of memories of huge dorm gaming tournaments with these 2 games. others would be Battlefield Vietnam rather recently, Fallout New Vegas, Far Cry 2 & 3, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Just Cause 2, COD world at war and Bully. all of these have some happy memories related to them in one way or another
Man, i remember making the a map "River Delta" for this game where the US spawned on an island with river boats and helo's and had to insert into a DENSE jungle... and I do mean DENSE jungle. All of the VN spawns were at the mouth of the delta but the objectives were deep inside. There was a firebase on the map too! So many great memories from this game and my childhood. I'd LOVE for a solid BF Vietnam remake!
I used to play this when it was first out, spent many an hour with this and I hold it in great affection. Having Hush by Deep Purple playing over the ingame radio whilst flying into battle on Ia Drang Valley in my Huey Cobra will stay with me 'til the day I die. I seem to remember the choppers being reasonably easy to fly (but it's been a while..). The tanks on Hue (or Reclaiming Hue) was fun. In hindsight they were probably a sack of shit but we didn't know any better back then. Thanks for the lookback and your conclusion is probably how I'd feel now if I played it, which is not what I want. I've wanted to try this game again for the nostalgia for quite some time. Glad I didn't, it shall remain uninstalled and the fond memories shall remain untainted. One other good thing about this game is that it piqued my curiosity about the real war which I subsequently looked into as all the maps were based on real battles. Some real shit went on there. If you're going to look up one battle it has to be 'Siege of Khe Sahn'. Blew my mind.
Thats dope! Love the content keep up the great work! Is there any groups out there on dedicated servers that do real squad tactics in rising storm two vietnam??
thanks bro! and not that I know of, pretty sure there are hardcore servers but I only play on 2 servers in the SEA region so I don't know beyond that. It might be worth checking out the RS2 discord and asking around there
Top 5 game in my list. Sitting next to an ammo crate with an XM under and over. I was a hot-shot chopper pilot, could scoop people out of the water or off a rooftop, or just fly a steady circle for my door gunners delight.
The best parts of this game were the soundtrack you could jam out to and actually hear what was being played by someone else. So loading up in the Helicopter to transport away was a fun time, along with the fact you could lower a tow cable and lift Armor to points needed. As a pilot in the game I never had a problem with flying at all. But the bigger problems came with the imbalance of that SAW loadout, it got ridiculous.
Great video! All the BF games were great! Just talking about the way the mouse rollers would gum up with crap, LOL. I had totally forgotten about that. Now we have mice with freakin laser beams.
So I remember this game when I purchased the battlefield 1942 deluxe edition. It had all the DLCs plus this was added on. Every time I told my friends about it they thought I was talking about bad company vietnam. I have a lot of memories on these maps.
Wow... Bro, I graduated in 2002. In 2001, we used to do exactly what you described, except it was with the Quake 2 demo CD. In the science lab, the computers there were brand new and we just completely took them over to play Quake 2 deathmatches. One time we did it DURING an actual science class...
Ah yes, back when battlefield featured bots for people who didn’t want to fight other players all the time or didn’t have a internet connection because their WiFi is down. Back when even multiplayer games gave options for single player
Just discovered your channel. Please do Operation Flashpoint!!! Man i miss those days getting home from school just to start the old desktop PC up. And my luck, after waiting 10 minutes for start up, dad would come up and say he needed to send an email... inwas thinking, “wtf is an email” 🤣
Loved this game! Loaded all my favorite 60’s and 70’s songs into the songs folder. Got to be really good at flying the Huey and the Gunship would spend the whole campaign ferrying people across the map and close air support.
Playing this back in 2004 was the shit. I don't care what it looks like now it was absolute peak performance back then. Getting 900 ping to Russian servers on Australian dial up and getting auto kicked for high ping and the Soundtrack is what made 2004 great. Take me back
I enjoyed it too, though I only got to play against bots as we didn't get an internet connection until Xmas 2005 (by which time I had moved on to Battlefield 2). The bots made for a decent challenge though in these early Battlefield games, so that was fine (haven't bought any from the last decade, the original BF2 and its expansions was my last experience!).
I've played that game for more than 10 000 hours.I was in a clan. I was one of the best in one Ukrainian server 14dss ....but that was 2011/2012...so much memories man
Literally my favorite battlefield game. Clan battles back in the day with full servers napalming people, attack helicopters wizzing by, and getting inserted behind enemy lines in a chinook ahhhhh the memories
My mouse and keyboard at the time of playing BFV was a microsoft optical mouse and multimedia keyboard (black), with a 17" CRT monitor (also black) P4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram and a Leadtek nVidia 5200fx 128mb, I can specifically remember my PC Case at the time with its various mods I'd always be working on. This is when PC's where fairly fresh to becoming black rather than beige. We still only had dial up 56k internet in 2004 because we weren't wealthy enough to afford broadband and that was the case for a lot of people, so for almost another decade past the release of this game I'd been going to LAN's to file share and play games with people, otherwise at home was pretty much just reserved for skirmishes against AI or going through single player campaigns. It's no wonder kids of today have a major leg up despite being gamers for far less time and generally having far less technical know-how, they're immediately born into amazing graphics and content and tech.. still i'm glad i had the opportunity to experience the birth of 3d games, the birth of battlefield and the normalization of super fast computing, not to mention, having the privilege of feeling novelty behind new tech releases which aren't as impactful anymore due to it all becoming normalized, and I'm so glad I was able to experience LAN's. They were truly the best way to experience gaming.
My brother and I still play it. Half the servers don't work, and the rest are mostly unpopulated, so we do coop or 1v1. Also, thanks for making me nostalgic about the ball mouses
I was just playing this again last month. The best Battlefield game. I only stopped this because Squad got an update (which comes from the Project Reality mod on BF2) and then I started playing Zero Hour.
Hey bud, 31 here too. I know how you feel, such a major piece of our gaming history. We were 15, and then we BF2 again a year later. What a time to be alive.
If you complain about no iron sight, then install: 1. Eve of Destruction: News maps, add in Australian, Alright had iron sight. 2. Iron sight mod: Normal Bf VN, but with Iron sight instead of zoom aim.
As a developer myself i always find it unbelieveable that Battlefield Vietnam plus a lot of UI refactoring is basically BF2. Frostbite development started during BF Vietnam: After deciding that Refractor Engine is not the best choice for battlefield they did three more titles using it (Vietnam Battlefield2 and 2142). It is crazy what they got out of Refractor in terms of gameplay and graphics but coming back to Vietnam you can always clearly see where it came from. Considering that BF2 did not have bad graphics at the time Vietnam was just stunning for 2004.
Wasted countless of hours on SP on old battlefield games. It was always fun, somewhat a challenge to win (for some reason), from Bf1942-vietnam-2142. In vietnam, sadly you didn't mention it, the tunnel system in the game on some maps was awesome. I vividly remember playing on map with mountains surrounding a road or river and there being tons of tunnels through the mountains.
Battlefield 1942 - ruclips.net/video/d7rLNF045Ig/видео.html
I am going to be doing a Battlefield 2142 video soon
wrong microsoft had optical mice in the 1990s i had one.
@@billybobbob3003 ok but I didn't
I remember playing this with a friend hiding from a tank in hue city we crouched and hoped the tank didnt spot us then crawled around it like some single player script it was so awesome. I wasted so much time on this game in my young age
Time well wasted.!
Thats what it's all about
Same experience lol
So much nostalgia playing this! I spent an entire map chasing down enemy Mig21s using my F4, ended up crashing countless time 😂
The boat glitch was the best of any game.
The last Battlefield game with any remote semblance of historical load outs.
Lol and this was the first BF game too😂
@@ridinwithbiden4567 are you sure about that?
It was probably the best battlefield of the entire series
@@ridinwithbiden4567 no it wasn't. that was bf1942
@@ridinwithbiden4567 you are still young son.
Damn i loved BF Vietnam. Especially because of the
Radio in the vehicles.
Yes!!!
I remember being in the back of the chinook and blasting fortunate son lmao
Yeah hope dice will do the same with this one, really cool and funny.
I'd always play no where to run in the huey
@@InvictusAmicitia dunno what tantwo is on about, hueys and cobras were so easy to fly and they were goddamn kings of the battlefield. Press 0 to open radio. Press p to play Surfin Bird.
This is the most underrated and forgotten battlefield game
I don't think it is so underrated and forgotten. Many classic BF fans remember this. It felt underrated because it was basically official, well made mod for BF1942. Most were still playing BF1942 and BF Vietnam was overshadowed, same as BF2142 was overshadowed by BF2.
As a newer battlefield fan I've only just found out this game even existed I've never heard of it or seen it which is a shame as it looks like a fun game!
I think it kinda suffered from having the BF1942 engine. If you are going to make a game about the Vietnam war, you gotta have a lot of bushes to hide in. This old engine just didn't support any kind of guerrilla game play in any way.
But then again, this game did basically create BF2, as many of the more successful aspects of the game were just ported into BF2. Like the helicopters.
This game would had been so good if it had been released using the BF2 engine.
seriously man.. it wasnt even that long ago and no one knows what im talking about when i mention this game aside from a few friends i used to play this with a lot.
@ROFLCOPTERLOL Nope,BF2:Modern Combat is.
I remember playing this for the first time as a kid, was the front gunner on a canal boat mowing down Charlie with queen blasting from the drive. Was amazing! Started my obsession with Vietnam games.
Feel your pain with the ball mouses, having to quickly take the ball out and clean the inside out while in the heat of the moment was always a joy lol
SAME BRO
man those were the times. I remember trying to play Battlefield 2142 with my shitty ass internet as a kid and getting like 10fps and 500 ping. Games back then had a nice charm to them
Oh don't think laser mice are free of gunk issues, they still need cleaning and dealing with small hairs collecting near the shiny bit that will blind you while you clean it.
But yeah ball-track mice definitely have pretty bad cleaning issues.
wow thats Immersion, Considering the early M16's where prone to jamming and some Dead US Marines and Soldiers are Found Dead Cleaning their Rifles in the Heat of Battle. You've truly experienced BF 'Nam.
Even its 13 years old, it's still a masterpiece. We need a remastered version of BF Vietnam.
The only remastered we got is bf bad company 2 vietnam
@@hazystorm. that isn't a remaster.
@@sam8404 yeah but it's kinda renew of bf vietnam
I think that this won't happen for a long while.
Someone eventually will make a remaster mod for it, but I still hope the best that EA will remaster this game
You can actually carry vehicles using helicopters in the game, it was epic
Apart from the clunky controls, it´s far better than newer Battlefields:
- Had Few bugs
- Was an almost complete game at launch with a lot of maps and different weapons
- No filthy pay system
- Better to play as a team
I don't mind the new Battlefields but the older ones will have a special place in my heart
Not sure I agree. It didn't run too well at launch and it took them a while to sort out the ridiculous M60 default loadout that everyone used.
@@mxbx307 Hehehe. I remeber the m60-bazooka dynamic duo
Omg so much nostalgia memories. I loved this game. This game introduced me to Vietnam. I bought the game only because of how cool the artbook looked like
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Still the best Vietnam game ever made. This and Conflict were the best imho.
rising storm 2 is good
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Longtime player here, even if it hasn't aged amazingly to some I feel like it still kicks *heaps* of ass. If you know where to look you can find patches to allow widescreen and restoring the server browser functionality, but the main thing I recommend is a sound fix from ModDB that restores the ambient sounds like Stars 'N' Bars radio and Hanoi Hannah broadcasts, and the ability to use the vehicle radio. Also worth noting that your sensitivity was fucked up because pre-BF2 sensitivity works in this weird way where you have your General sensitivity, then you can further adjust it specifically for Infantry and Vehicles so you need to crank *those* sliders down too. Anyway, pretty good review even if you were mostly dunking on it, always happy to see someone even acknowledge Vietnam since it seems to be mostly forgotten
Does the game still have players? Or is it even possible to play multiplayer anymore?
@@goldbullet50 Usually players come online in mass for scheduled events, and HELLO Clan seems to be reponsible for most of those so I recommend joining their Discord server to keep track of that. Just a little while ago they got a server fully packed again.
The best thing about BFVietnam is that you can play some music while you driving a vehicle, Ride of the Valkyries, Soul Kitchen, Born to be Wild, the list can go on and on.
This is what we need. WE NEED BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM REMASTERED VERSION OR SECOND VERSION OF IT!!!!
I played the absolute hell out of this game. Picked it up on lay-by as a kid from Kmart Australia, along with CnC Generals and Max Payne 2. I was recruited into AEF clan and played many a clan battle as the Chinook pilot for them (and clanned with them again for Forgotten Hope, Point of Existence, and BF2). A major piece of my young teenhood that I will always be greatful for.
I remember playing this for hours against bots not knowing how to fly the planes or helis
I remember playing it in the school library and commiting war crimes
I still play this against bots sometimes and i still can't fly anything lol
Best RUclips algorithm recommendation I've ever had subscribed. The nostalgia is real bro
The only thing that irks me in the game is whenever you get hit it cancels whatever you’re doing, whether shooting or reloading.
I typically cancel what I'm doing when I get slugged too
Good ol bf vietnam. I remember playing differe t maps just for loading soundtrack. Still have saved playlist of all music used in that game. :D
The jump from Battlefield Vietnam to Battlefield 2 was crazy. They're only released one year apart.
@@Soldierfromthepast Well, everything really. The graphics were much more advanced. Like, not even on the same level. The gameplay/gunplay, vehicles, the squad-system and the audio were greatly enhanced or even added from scratch.
But don't get me wrong, I love Battlefield Vietnam.
Ya, I remember the days when playing this game made me forget all the shit happens in School.
same ☹️
I remember flying helicopters in this game, I always needed the flight sensitivity set to max and would only fly the Chinook.
I know, I know, "buh, the Chinook was shit in this game, fly something better," is what most people would say.
Instead, I flew both the twin front-facing machine gun variant and the pacifist variant with the cargo hook, where I'd go wrecking ball on aircraft with cars or boats hanging beneath, or flag-capping by spinning the Chinook on it's nose around the flag, missing both flagpole and ground by inches and shooting anyone that interfered.
Those were good times...
I believe this was the only battlefield with radios in vehicles that other players could jam along with. Just fantastic rolling into battles with the music jamming.
They had it in Hardline as well - a fantastic feature in both
@@inurabera I think even in Bad Company 2 Vietnam it was there, so 3 games.
It's still my favourite BF game. Old BF games were much slower so tactical situation lasted longer than minute, unlike in the newer ones where there are no "tactical situations" (like defending/attacking the bases or sneaky capturing the points behind enemy lines) as resps are close to each others and everything is messed up. In the Old series, respawns used to be a bases in the open field- vehicles weren't used only for fighting, but as a mean of transport to get faster into the frontline. Old BF were way more immersive when it comes to the being team member on the one side of the conflict, no Marines running with the AK'S - instead just get on a huey with your mates, and pray for not being shot down before reaching the point. I'm not saying the new BF'S are bad games, but they're clearly aren't the same anymore. Sad :(
Well said. And the fault of modern battlefields being shit is all thanks to EA who wanted to turn bf to full arcade shootter in hopes to lure some cod fans to join their playerbase. Oh how much i hate EA.
@@tunaritoope2059 Exactly, BF tryharded to much to become a CoD with vehicles. Back in the days they used to be completly dofferent series. Second reason to blame in my opinion is grind- I"am not saying it's bad, but in my opinion scores should be gained (or hardly multiplied) only when players team would win so the teamwork would be protity- actual grind killed the idea of sacrifice and suicidal attacks.
Played this on my first gaming desktop in 2009 for hours. Had it along with the 1948 collection but this one was by far the best.
Not EA Games but Dice before they got bought out. Remember competing in this game way back in the day.
The Battlefield with the best Soundtrack
*WILD THING INTENSEFIELDS*
I thought i was old when I realized this game came out 17 years ago and felt even older hearing you were in grade 7 in 2014 talking about "back in the day" ahaha, this gem of a game is a classic though
Still looks really good for a 2004 game
I have absolutely no complaints for the time era there's allot of idiots who don't appreciate things. Red Orchestra is a pretty old series and it's amazing.
Omg the bit about the USB transfers actually surprised me, I didn't know that it was such a widespread practice. Then you brought up Broforce and I was just blown away cuz the exact same type of deals happened in my school. Keep up the work man lol
But Broforce isnt nearly that old right? Iirc its from 2013
love the content man! keep it up!
Thanks! Will do!
Operation Irving
That map alone makes this game worth your time...
damn right
So much so that when they did bad company 2 vietnam, operation irvine was the surprise bonus map they added to the dlc after its release as a present
Being vietcong in that map lmao. I love it. And what i dont like is the fact that the us somehow secretly capture the base on the hill(not the hill that have the fucking cannon)
That was a great map but I was partial to Ia Drang Valley
This game is one of my all-time favorites. I got a mod called BFV arsenal, which added loads of new vehicles and maps. There was a beach map where I would take a hind helicopter with wing-mounted rockets and massacre the other team. Flying a helicopter, aiming and timing my shots was tricky to learn but I always loved it
That ai jumping from heli without you is so true. Laughed real hard there.
Yo how do you play this now? Had real trouble on Windows 10
@@HaraKiri167 must be dependent more on hardware, I have it installed and it causes no problems on windows 10
BF Vietnam is the game I am most nostalgic about, on par with NFSU. But I have to say, I found rs2 Vietnam's helicopters hard to handle because I was such a beast at the choppers in BF Vietnam.
You got my sub and like in the first second just for making this video
Its 2004, i start up this game and my dad tells me about the music playing in the main screen. It was Jefferson Airplane. Still love classic rock and the anti war music. Battlefield? Nooot so much after BF 5 lol
Haha I always set up punji sticks in ammo box
When enemy capture a base
Loved quang tri and hue maps. Lots of memories of this game.
that was the shit back then
This is some quality content
thanks bro!
I think the game aged well for some part. The AI and the tank-damage isn't all that great, but the possibility of playing against bot, being able to use a variety of vehicles and the spawn point concept, are great features that we don't see often these days
Yep, good features like these are forgotten about/disregarded by modern devs, unfortunately.
My face when I hear people are being nostalgic for Mafia 2 when I'm still nostalgic for Mafia 1: *Private Ryan ending scene*
This game gets me so nostalgic for the wave of Vietnam games I was playing at the time. Shellshock nam '67 was right around the corner, and I had BF Vietnam and Vietcong to play til then.
Oh my. The ball mouse. What a nostalgia to play games with that on the good 'ol days
I loved this game so much blasting nowhere to run from a cobra hunting players trying to hide in a hanger
Haha hell yea!
I've always been a sucker for game music and when it came to this game I just booted up certain maps not to even play them but to just listen to the loading screen music and read the information displayed. Operation Flaming Dart was my favorite one because of the sick guitar riffs at the start.
we had optical mice back then that functioned just fine before laser mice (just not on glass surfaces)!
the reason that mouse speed can get a bit screwy on older titles has to do with how mice communicate with the computer.
there's something called a polling rate, which is a measure of how often the computer asks the mouse "hey man, how many centimeters did you move this millisecond?".
back then, integrated chips in mice werent that powerful, so you had lower polling rates, generally around 100-300 times per second.
the games are often programmed to pull this stuff straight off the mouse, so if your mouse polls 100 times a second, it needs different sens settings than if it polls 300-500 times a second.
modern mice can poll at a max rate of 8000 times a second (on USB 2.0 atleast), so if the game's reading the mouse itself rather than windows' interpretation of the mouse movements, well, it'll be very fast. (this is also why mouse smoothing was invented, to fill in the gaps caused by low polling rates.)
that is also where the "raw mouse input" tick box comes from in Source games, they read the raw mouse input.
so why doesn't the source engine have this problem of rapid mouse movements? it doesn't read mouse movements directly, it reads the mouse movements, and then works with averages over a period of time (say 1-2 ms, the average of all your mouse movements), that way they're future-proofed, even if we ever get 50 million mouse polling rates or something.
You can lock the polling rate in your hardware settings on windows, google around for it if you like playing older games!
there's no real drawback, the difference between say, 500 polling rate and 5000 polling rate is not noticeable (to me at least.)
nostalgia hits hard with that one,you got a new subscriber... keep up the work!
Nice nostalgia video ! One of my childhood favorite game aswell. But i don't agree with you about helicopters. Maybe it was hard at first but when you master it it's pure pleasure (+ you can the soundtrack in heli). I got those feelings back in Rising Storm Vietnam, when i was transport heli pilot. Thanks for this video
yeah it took me a while to learn but as a child I was sooooo bad at flying, no worries mate
Still one of the best bf games
tbh I prefer Battlefield 2 ngl
"It's a good type of shit" 10/10 game review
Watching this because I found it while cleaning out storage and debating on throwing this back in... If my old PC with a cd drive still works
this was my favorite battlefield game and one of my favorite video games ever. i still listen to much of the songs on the soundtrack to this game. i’d love to give it a go again for the nostalgia
I remember when the game released and basically the US won every match because they had a class that spawned in with an M60 and a LAW. But basically you were anti-everything. You could fire just about non-stop, and the M60 was basically as accurate as a rifle, so you could gun down or missile anything. It was hands down completely broken and had to be patched for balance pretty quickly.
The greatest thing I remember about the helicopters playing back in 06 was the fact you could select a song(from Vietnam Era) from a Playlist to play over the chopper PA system. Fire up flight of the bumblebees to blast half way across the map in a huey with rockets. Remember like it was yesterday, damn nostalgic
Hey . You got a new sub just because of that mafia theme that's brought many nostalgia
One of my favorite game! I used to play this with my old laptop.
same!
God same here! I would play on my laptop and play it for hours. Came home from school and hop back on my laptop and play again!
Way too much negativity. This game is fucking gold. It's fun as hell, and that's about all that matters. Stuff like tank round physics is more fun.
Got this in my recommended good luck man
thanks bro!
Bf2 was the best but oh man. This and 1942 came so close. I love all three of those games.
My fondest memory of this game was actually on Operation Flaming Dart map. I was piloting a Huey gunship, going to the mainland. Midway I got into a fight with a Mi-8, you know, those hit the enemy chopper with a rocket before they hit you and actually try this 4-5 times because both of you miss all their shots fights. Anyway, at some point I finally managed to shoot a rocket I was pretty confident it would hit the enemy when all of a sudden I get obliterated by a plane flying nearby. Due to imbalanced teams, after I died, I quickly get switched to the other team. However, during that time, the rocket I already shot out was still traveliing through the air, and... You guessed it, as soon as I joined the other team, my rocket hits the now my teammate, kills them, and I get kicked for teamkill.
Best game ever!
Omg I have many memories of this and even more memories of the kids with USBs full of games in High School (NSW here). They had this one but because it needed a CD Key (easy to google) the more popular one to play when teachers weren't looking was the original COD. Many good memories.
I remember going to Walmart and looking for an rts game,I picked this game and thought it was a RTS, iand this was the first Battlefield I ever played, then I fell in love with it! Love battlefield Vietnam good days as a teen back in 2006
although i haven't finished my childhood per say(only a few month left) i would have to say there are more than a few games that hold close memories to my heart. battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare been the closest with lots of memories of huge dorm gaming tournaments with these 2 games. others would be Battlefield Vietnam rather recently, Fallout New Vegas, Far Cry 2 & 3, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Just Cause 2, COD world at war and Bully. all of these have some happy memories related to them in one way or another
Hahaha, good video and memories from childhood. Spent my days and nights playing this.
Man, i remember making the a map "River Delta" for this game where the US spawned on an island with river boats and helo's and had to insert into a DENSE jungle... and I do mean DENSE jungle. All of the VN spawns were at the mouth of the delta but the objectives were deep inside. There was a firebase on the map too!
So many great memories from this game and my childhood. I'd LOVE for a solid BF Vietnam remake!
I used to play this when it was first out, spent many an hour with this and I hold it in great affection. Having Hush by Deep Purple playing over the ingame radio whilst flying into battle on Ia Drang Valley in my Huey Cobra will stay with me 'til the day I die. I seem to remember the choppers being reasonably easy to fly (but it's been a while..). The tanks on Hue (or Reclaiming Hue) was fun. In hindsight they were probably a sack of shit but we didn't know any better back then. Thanks for the lookback and your conclusion is probably how I'd feel now if I played it, which is not what I want. I've wanted to try this game again for the nostalgia for quite some time. Glad I didn't, it shall remain uninstalled and the fond memories shall remain untainted. One other good thing about this game is that it piqued my curiosity about the real war which I subsequently looked into as all the maps were based on real battles. Some real shit went on there. If you're going to look up one battle it has to be 'Siege of Khe Sahn'. Blew my mind.
Thats dope! Love the content keep up the great work! Is there any groups out there on dedicated servers that do real squad tactics in rising storm two vietnam??
thanks bro! and not that I know of, pretty sure there are hardcore servers but I only play on 2 servers in the SEA region so I don't know beyond that. It might be worth checking out the RS2 discord and asking around there
*Don't you want somebody to loooooooooveeeeee...*
Doooon't you need somebody to loooveee....
Top 5 game in my list. Sitting next to an ammo crate with an XM under and over.
I was a hot-shot chopper pilot, could scoop people out of the water or off a rooftop, or just fly a steady circle for my door gunners delight.
The best parts of this game were the soundtrack you could jam out to and actually hear what was being played by someone else. So loading up in the Helicopter to transport away was a fun time, along with the fact you could lower a tow cable and lift Armor to points needed. As a pilot in the game I never had a problem with flying at all. But the bigger problems came with the imbalance of that SAW loadout, it got ridiculous.
I have a LOT of old memories with this game. First played in 2006 or so on my dad’s old computer and it was mind blowing to me at the time
Great video! All the BF games were great! Just talking about the way the mouse rollers would gum up with crap, LOL. I had totally forgotten about that. Now we have mice with freakin laser beams.
So I remember this game when I purchased the battlefield 1942 deluxe edition. It had all the DLCs plus this was added on. Every time I told my friends about it they thought I was talking about bad company vietnam. I have a lot of memories on these maps.
Wow...
Bro, I graduated in 2002. In 2001, we used to do exactly what you described, except it was with the Quake 2 demo CD. In the science lab, the computers there were brand new and we just completely took them over to play Quake 2 deathmatches. One time we did it DURING an actual science class...
Ah yes, back when battlefield featured bots for people who didn’t want to fight other players all the time or didn’t have a internet connection because their WiFi is down. Back when even multiplayer games gave options for single player
Battlefield Vietnam & Battlefield 1942 were my childhood. Idc, LOVE ‘EM!!! Cherished memories!
Just discovered your channel. Please do Operation Flashpoint!!! Man i miss those days getting home from school just to start the old desktop PC up. And my luck, after waiting 10 minutes for start up, dad would come up and say he needed to send an email... inwas thinking, “wtf is an email” 🤣
Loved this game! Loaded all my favorite 60’s and 70’s songs into the songs folder. Got to be really good at flying the Huey and the Gunship would spend the whole campaign ferrying people across the map and close air support.
Playing this back in 2004 was the shit. I don't care what it looks like now it was absolute peak performance back then. Getting 900 ping to Russian servers on Australian dial up and getting auto kicked for high ping and the Soundtrack is what made 2004 great. Take me back
My first Battlefield game
That comment about the mafia 2 music was spot on
Man I loved this game so much. Getting to a helicopter, flying low level and blasting out Fortunate Son or Ride of the Valkyries. Epic memories.
I enjoyed it too, though I only got to play against bots as we didn't get an internet connection until Xmas 2005 (by which time I had moved on to Battlefield 2). The bots made for a decent challenge though in these early Battlefield games, so that was fine (haven't bought any from the last decade, the original BF2 and its expansions was my last experience!).
I've played that game for more than 10 000 hours.I was in a clan. I was one of the best in one Ukrainian server 14dss ....but that was 2011/2012...so much memories man
I admire the dedication, the game is so much fun
Literally my favorite battlefield game. Clan battles back in the day with full servers napalming people, attack helicopters wizzing by, and getting inserted behind enemy lines in a chinook ahhhhh the memories
I'm so glad I found this video Thank you for bringning me nostalgia
The music has always stayed with me
Had so much with this game with my own soundtrack (tour of duty) on the background . Driving in my jeep with c4 attached . Good times
Crazy how a game made in 2004 is better than a majority of the new shit today.
agreed
I still play this game to this very day
Impressive! I had a hard time making it run and didn't feel like downloading all the drives cause Warzone took up space but Good Job!
My mouse and keyboard at the time of playing BFV was a microsoft optical mouse and multimedia keyboard (black), with a 17" CRT monitor (also black) P4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram and a Leadtek nVidia 5200fx 128mb, I can specifically remember my PC Case at the time with its various mods I'd always be working on. This is when PC's where fairly fresh to becoming black rather than beige. We still only had dial up 56k internet in 2004 because we weren't wealthy enough to afford broadband and that was the case for a lot of people, so for almost another decade past the release of this game I'd been going to LAN's to file share and play games with people, otherwise at home was pretty much just reserved for skirmishes against AI or going through single player campaigns. It's no wonder kids of today have a major leg up despite being gamers for far less time and generally having far less technical know-how, they're immediately born into amazing graphics and content and tech.. still i'm glad i had the opportunity to experience the birth of 3d games, the birth of battlefield and the normalization of super fast computing, not to mention, having the privilege of feeling novelty behind new tech releases which aren't as impactful anymore due to it all becoming normalized, and I'm so glad I was able to experience LAN's. They were truly the best way to experience gaming.
My brother and I still play it. Half the servers don't work, and the rest are mostly unpopulated, so we do coop or 1v1. Also, thanks for making me nostalgic about the ball mouses
I was just playing this again last month. The best Battlefield game. I only stopped this because Squad got an update (which comes from the Project Reality mod on BF2) and then I started playing Zero Hour.
Duuuuude, i am 31 now and u are talking straight from my heart.
Hey bud, 31 here too. I know how you feel, such a major piece of our gaming history. We were 15, and then we BF2 again a year later. What a time to be alive.
Shootin Putin amen brother
I loved this game so much! We had a internet cafe where i live and i played this ALL THE TIME!
If you complain about no iron sight, then install:
1. Eve of Destruction: News maps, add in Australian, Alright had iron sight.
2. Iron sight mod: Normal Bf VN, but with Iron sight instead of zoom aim.
As a developer myself i always find it unbelieveable that Battlefield Vietnam plus a lot of UI refactoring is basically BF2. Frostbite development started during BF Vietnam: After deciding that Refractor Engine is not the best choice for battlefield they did three more titles using it (Vietnam Battlefield2 and 2142). It is crazy what they got out of Refractor in terms of gameplay and graphics but coming back to Vietnam you can always clearly see where it came from. Considering that BF2 did not have bad graphics at the time Vietnam was just stunning for 2004.
Try a game called The hell in Vietnam, it’s an old game, but it’s one of the best for me. You can also make a video about the Talvisota mod for RS2.
will do!
Wasted countless of hours on SP on old battlefield games. It was always fun, somewhat a challenge to win (for some reason), from Bf1942-vietnam-2142. In vietnam, sadly you didn't mention it, the tunnel system in the game on some maps was awesome. I vividly remember playing on map with mountains surrounding a road or river and there being tons of tunnels through the mountains.