Battlefield Hardline. Divide your weight by two, that's how many fluid ounces of water you should be drinking a day, minimum. It's getting hot out there boys, stay hydrated.
@@masterficus I think the reason why both games never got the praise they deserved is because IW came in such a terrible time to make a futuristic game at a time when Sci-Fi Shooter fatigue was setting in. Hardline meanwhile had to compete with BF4 Which had more liberties in it's setting. You can't compete fighting in a game set in a Louisiana swamp in a cops vs robbers against Jets, different types of Tanks, APCs, Hovercrafts, Hovertanks with a railgun in the middle of a de-commissioned Soviet base in the middle of Arctic tundra.
"NEXT TIME ON HARDLINE" "PREVIOUSLY IN HARDLINE" I love it when games does stuff like this lol. Driver: San Francisco also did the same thing everytime you finished a Chapter of the game.
i felt hardline was an homage of serialized police tv shows, but played it completely straight and with not one ounce of self awareness or parody. the story barely made sense, but nothing in it was as baffling as the moment in battlefield 3 when you had to shoot your squad leader within milliseconds of a cutscene ending or else he opens fire on you despite neither you nor him having any reason to do so
Cole it's implied is a paranoid loon who would sooner shoot a Russian uniform than listen to reason from his subordinate. Campo spends the whole campaign bitching about Cole's attitude and command and the general impression is laid down that he's a gung ho glory hound who will stoop to surprising depths to advance his career. It's an intensely dramatic conclusion to the conflict but by that point the game had already invaded Iran and blown up Paris, so can you really judge a few more rounds of 5.56 thrown at the guy who's been belittling your work the whole time?
My head cannon for this battlefield game. All of the gangs are different Political movements gearing up for Civil War selling drugs and dealing with cartels to get more firearms and fund their revolution that is why the police are so armed and that is why the suspects are so armed and why normal police tactics are being abandoned as America looms towards chaos.
@@masterficus they should’ve hired me as a storyboard Director hahaha I think a setting like this would be far more interesting and make a lot more sense with gameplay and why these gangsters have tanks, instead it’s just sympathetic soldiers defecting to the side of revolutionaries. Their game could’ve had a deep and compelling story about political extremism, and what happens when a government is pushed to the brink of collapse have the game stepped in gray there are no good guys or bad guys.
Heck, both COD and Battlefield don't even have any games that come from civil wars/guerrilla warfare POV's, only Far Cry. I would also want a African civil war game for COD, something similar to Bad Company in terms of story but more action packed like black ops.
@@allamericantrolling They should've explicitly established Hardline's story as a direct sequel to BF3 but with the nuke going off in Time's Square instead of being disarmed, causing the US to grow insanely paranoid and the police becoming fully militarized and massively expanded which would lead to an inevitable backlash thus setting off an American version of the Troubles or the Years of Lead.
@@bansenpy5553 yeah well there was kind of a giant economic failure that bankrupt a vast majority of the world and lots of people died as a result of both it and the world war and several disease plagues that ravaged the planet.
Hardline is great, honestly. I love the campaign because it's basically a 70s movie, and it was obviously a labor of love. Battlefield is no longer a series made by passionate people. Visceral was a gem of a company.
"the game rewards you by doing non lethals with lethals" is all the gameplay type issues i have with BFH. It really didnt seem like some of the choices was made with any logic thinking. Still my favorite BF story to revisit. Edit: Didnt seem like the choices were made to be inclusive or "fun" either. If you're a traditional CoD shoot em all then its no fun forcing arrests so no guns for that playstyle and its far from satisfying to be rewarded stuff from a different catagory. Locking the tazer or other tools behind arrests or maybe even non lethal options that gave a small amount of xp when doing arrests (like rubber bullets, batons etc.) Too short development time with not enough focus is the core of many game issues but this battlefield feels way more plagued with it than others. like they spent too much time throwing ideas around at the table without locking them down before releasing the Design doc for the teams.
Your comment got me thinking, maybe reduce the number of lethals to the point that in a couple playthroughs you could try them all, and expand the number of non lethals and their effects. Have slightly different endings if your playthrough was mostly lethal or non lethal to tie gameplay style to the narrative. I think you're absolutely right on the short development time.
@@masterficus the vast majority of players i assume Finnish the story once or twice at most within the games life span. So balancing around more would be silly. Changing the ending would be quite easy aswell with just 3-4 different cutscenes. Not going the mass effect route of having different mid points (unnecessary dev time for a cop drama) but just something that recognized the play through but sadly this wouldnt work with the stories as they tried to keep the leaderboard system from bf4 missions causing it to be segmented but didnt even make the leaderboard/points system well thought out. because they didnt keep the cop theme all the way through for theming and weighted it to only one gameplay style often making the player take choices in engagements that they didnt really want to make. Leading to worse outlook on the campaign as a whole. To be honest the leaderboard system is a good representation of everything wrong with bfh aswell. Not enough theme to make it immersive, not enough freedom to be 100% fun and seemingly not enough time to make it feel complete.
@@minio585 Why do we need branching paths in the cop drama? Are we so autistic now that we can't appreciate nominal choice without demanding 30+ endings for a fucking cop drama set in 80s Miami? It's fine as it is.
@@loserinasuit7880 im not saying 30 endings. All im saying is theres a reason why mass effect 3 gets criticism for its ending. Giving 3 different cutscenes wouldve added alot but i guess they did it this way in case theres a sequel
Even with its heap of problems, it was genuinely a fun game with a solid multiplayer that tried to go against the norm. I’m just disappointed people didn’t give it a fair shake.
The multiplayer, as per the norm, was completely fucked at launch and people weren't giving up on 4 yet. By the time they fixed it everyone had already migrated back over to 4, which is a shame because it genuinely had great improvements over 4.
I really should've included this, one of the other collectables you can find are guns, I can't remember how many there are but it's not a lot. The swedish smg is found in swamp episode, which means the coke smugglers were using an antique swedish ww2 smg as a drop gun in the middle of the swamp.
Tfw the chief was technically the good guy all along, simply because he created a system that doesn't benefit loose cannons like the protagonist anymore, preventing mass destruction and bloodbath
Hardline was goated imo and is severely overlooked. The multiplayer dialogue as criminals was so awesome and sometimes funny. I still think about the commander calling me you “dumbfucks” when losing
You know, if Mendoza overdosed on cocaine when it exploded, 30:46 made ME overdose on laughter in real life. This moment right there is absolutely perfect. Every single part of this frame is a separate joke which is hillarious on its own but when they all combine together one may really suffer a heart attack from laughing too hard.
So this entire time, I watched this entire video thinking that it was a top quality video essay from some big youtuber. Turns out, its a top quality video essay from a small youtuber. Dear Master Ficus, please, continue making this good content. You literally locked me in for half a hour only to give me the biggest surprise of my life. Good video, good content, will continue to watch.
I scrolled down to read this comment, only to scroll back up and be shocked that the "small" youtuber ment under 1k instead of under 10k. Especially for how good this video was.
I hit the craziest trick shot in hardline beta weekend I’m 21 now still think about that tripple collateral through a moving car 360 no scope (%100 on accident but my friends didn’t need to know that)
The most fun I EVER had gaming was playing the Hardline beta. It felt like I was playing a movie, the atmospherics were insane. Cop cars, helicopters, robberies. Immaculate vibes, fun gunplay. All around lots of novel game design too!
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever watched a review or video talking about a specific game that actually went into its difficulties. I know it's such a small thing which in the video, but I almost almost never hear people talk about the difficulties and how well or poorly balanced they are.
despite all this game's shortcomings it remains *the* best battlefield game. hands down. a much less serious, much more casual battlefield title, with a lot of love put into it.
Honestly I love this game with all my heart, its wacky, its stupid, it makes no sence and has a pretty decent pacing which only goes up and up. Its battlefield, in its purest form. Its not an accurate game, or a realistic game, but its downright fun. It even manages to feel like the bad company team got hold of the reigns for a moment.
Scale-wise I think it'd make a ton more sense for Call of Duty to do a Cops and Robbers themed game than Battlefield. COD is known for its 6v6 small multiplayer gameplay which I think you can justify as being some sort of SWAT raid better than Hardline's "Open street war" thing with attack choppers and heavy weapons.
I just finished this game like a couple of weeks ago in my rush to catch up on the battlefield franchise before the multiplayer dies and it's gone forever like bad company 1 and 2. I pretty much missed out on the entire franchise growing up. And after playing the campaign of this game man, it gave me less of a battlefield 5 and more of a vibe of Payday 2 combined with rainbow six siege. Once again, I'm just talking about vibe. Now I can't play, not graphics, but the general vibe and atmosphere of the campaign. And the only thing I can really narrow it down to it is a few significant seeds and its color designs and the music that really gave it sometimes that siege Payday 2 vibe for some reason.
i honestly love this game! that or it reminds me of those cops shows i used to watch as a kid. really reminds me of like overdramatize CSI Miami show i really loved, good kind of corny :)
The only Battlefield games ive played were Bad Company 2, BF3, and owned but never installed BF4. Would love to see what you think of the Medal of Honor series.
Been years since I've played a Medal of Honor game, I remember enjoying it though. Played BF3 growing up and remember being really impressed, been a while though.
@@accountname9506 no. Strength of brawn or brains or numbers is literally what makes morals. But if you say that water flows uphill then it doesn't matter if you have big muscles, you're wrong and building a water mill backwards is just going to waste everyone's time and energy. Might makes you morally right, but it doesn't make you logically right.
my favourite part of the video was 25:31 when he noticed that he can get close to the propeller then immediately runs into it to see if he can take damage from it
I think if they gave out all the DLC with the full game for like, $20, this game would explode. Personally my favorite Battlefield to date; the level of player freedom you get is actually insane.
I grew up in government housing. I have memories of Cops coming around and hurting people, I remember being eight years old when I saw cops take my neighbor out into the street with his handcuffs tied behind his back, tripped him, and sent him falling face first into the concrete sidewalk making his nose explode into blood. The bloodstain was there for days. That was the first time I saw police brutality - it was not the last. Games like this really make me mad.
I don't understand why they didn't think to make a SWAT game instead. I could see it getting fleshed out to be almost like siege or ready or not before they were out
Love battlefield. Spent more time in hardline than any other ones. People just tried to cram it into the box of bf4 and compared it when they are not the same by any means
Honestly hardline had my favorite battlefield combat, I was max level with all bonuses unlocked in that game, before I had a job I would play it for days at a time
the multiplayer was super fun. Hotwire was entertaining as could be, Blood money and Heist were up there too, I'm just sad Hardline's multiplayer doesn't get the same love BF4 and BC2 get, in my mind they're all up there as some of the best Battlefield has to offer, though, I'm biased in favor of BF5 being the best, I just love WW2 games. The singleplayer felt bad, even back when the game came out. Thanks for this deep-ish dive on it. Good stuff.
the devs looked at the frostbite engine realized that it had all kinds of military assets in it and said how do we incorporate all of these into a game about corrupt cops
So, it’s actually accurate to the average modern American police experience. I am talking about committing misconduct not bat shit insane stunts and things
I mean they try to do unnecessary shit like that though. There's the infamous video of a cop ramming his car into a car with a pregnant woman in it because she didn't pull over quickly enough (she signaled she was doing so), flipping her car. He gets out and berates her while she's still upside down.
Honestly with leaving people handcuffed lying down there is technically a concept of positional asphyxiation which is taught in basically all hand cuffing courses that I imagine is a big no no especially with battlefield hardline which is what kills the realism for me.
Had to try and appeal to a certain demographic that hates another demographic. As shown by the type of things the "fans" find funny. Like how he thought a man getting unjustly murdered by a pig was funny enough to put up fanart of
I remember reading somewhere that the pistols are stronger than rifles in the campaign, but I could be wrong. And at 25:23 I'd just like to share that some modified M113 Bradleys are in use by police and SWAT teams See also: police BTR
I think you're right, the snipers and shotguns do more damage but the other rifles trade damage for fire rate, to the point that at least the revolver I used a lot did more damage per shot. The police do have some rad armored carriers, but the main gun on the tank takes training to use and a dedicated guy for it. Also I had no idea some police departments had access to M113 Bradleys, that's very cool and a little unnerving.
Making a Battlefield game thats a Cop Drama is like making a Jak and Daxter game thats nothing but demolish derby. Oh wait, they did. Still, someone new to follow.
i played this game from day one. never once finished the single player lol. me and my friends were quite high on the rankings for our mastering of the helicopters in the multiplayer. we truly did have a great time with it despite it being the weakest bf
This is the second comment I've seen saying this and now I'm genuinely curious, back in the Black Ops/ BF3 days it was a given that these two franchises were competitors, why do you say they're not? Again, not trying to be mean, genuinely curious.
@@masterficus Because Battlefield 1942 came out in 2002 and Call of Duty came out in 2003. Prior to Battlefield 3 Battlefield never really made many attempts to "compete" with Call of Duty because the two games were entirely different experiences. It would be the same as Halo trying to compete with Call of Duty, anything they'd do try and be "like" Call of Duty would feel cheap and rehashed, and wouldn't fit with the gameplay. Falling short of the standard COD set and disappointing the fans who didn't _want_ another Call of Duty experience at the same time. (Foreshadowing) Call of Duty had tight maps, short TTK, minimal engagement ranges, and generally did their best to make sure everyone felt like a one man army. Battlefield by contrast is exactly the opposite, big maps, long TTK, maximum engagement ranges, and a balancing system specifically designed to _disempower_ the individual player and incentivize teamwork through gameplay. You didn't have a loadout of your favourite gadgets, you had a role within a squad, and that squad had a role within the team. Sure you could change your weapons and unlock different gadgets but at the end of the day if you picked Engineer you were always gonna be an Engineer. If you want the RPG you're gonna need to switch to smaller guns and also take a repair tool, sorry, that's just how the classes work... Leave the one man army shit to Call of Duty. This is literally how we looked at it back then. If you wanted total freedom to pick any weapon for any class, you were probably just a COD geek who couldn't turn off the twitch shooter brain. And then Battlefield 4 came out, they made it so the classes barely mattered anymore, they caved to the lowest common denominator, and here we are... Battlefield... the elder franchise, the franchise that Call of Duty was originally trying to BE... reduced to "A Call of Duty competitor" Show us a little respect bro, we weren't just another series trying to ride the success of Call of Duty... we were part of the REASON Call of Duty succeeded. Battlefield had 32 v 32 multiplayer before COD or Halo CE even existed... I feel like a lot of people forget how insane of an achievement this was in 2001. Most computers were still using dial up back then, the idea of playing an FPS match with random strangers on the other side of the planet seemed like a thing of the future to the gamers of the 90s. Until BF1942 proved you could do it with SIXTY people at once... Then everything changed after that. Not to mention BF2 beat COD4 to the "modern warfare" craze by a whole 2 years. A lot of people forget Battlefield 3 was the ELEVENTH Battlefield game... Battlefield already had a long and storied history as a franchise _before_ it started competing with COD directly.
@@trainknut Ok I see what you're saying now, I took this from the perspective of a kid that only had the money for one shooter a year, so choosing COD/BF/Halo made them all appear to be direct competitors, but by that same logic Animal Crossing could be called a Doom competitor which doesn't track. COD and BF are different subgenres trying to achieve different experiences and while there's some overlap the target audience isn't the same, therefore not a direct competitor. I still think calling BF a COD competitor is technically true due to the portion of the audience that overlaps, but is an overgeneralization and probably misleading.
I would just like to note chapter 5 is completely beatbale on loud you just need to find a good choke point and stovk up on taser bolts, it is not east at all
Kind of a weird compliment to such a dumpster fire of a campaign, but this is one of the last EA titles where the character diversity felt somewhat natural and not just like a forced ESG score booster in my opinion
I have to give props to Infinite Warfare and Hardline for at least trying to branch out from the mold their respective franchises set.
An experiment worth trying, lot's of room for improvement but they did try to break free from the copy paste nature of AAA
That's how a lot of franchises hit their peaks, I found, by applying their best mechanics to something new. I wish they did more like this today.
@@masterficuscouldn’t agree more it’s nice to see something that isn’t just pmc or military operations that are “black ops”
@@masterficus I think the reason why both games never got the praise they deserved is because IW came in such a terrible time to make a futuristic game at a time when Sci-Fi Shooter fatigue was setting in. Hardline meanwhile had to compete with BF4 Which had more liberties in it's setting. You can't compete fighting in a game set in a Louisiana swamp in a cops vs robbers against Jets, different types of Tanks, APCs, Hovercrafts, Hovertanks with a railgun in the middle of a de-commissioned Soviet base in the middle of Arctic tundra.
its still toothless and mindless experience. They didnt experiment, they just dangled different toys in front of idiots.
The best way to play this campaign is by going to main menu after every mission so it feels like binging a tv show
"NEXT TIME ON HARDLINE"
"PREVIOUSLY IN HARDLINE"
I love it when games does stuff like this lol. Driver: San Francisco also did the same thing everytime you finished a Chapter of the game.
i felt hardline was an homage of serialized police tv shows, but played it completely straight and with not one ounce of self awareness or parody. the story barely made sense, but nothing in it was as baffling as the moment in battlefield 3 when you had to shoot your squad leader within milliseconds of a cutscene ending or else he opens fire on you despite neither you nor him having any reason to do so
I gotta admit I really appreciate how it commits to the bit. It never belittles itself and just lets the player have fun with the premise
Cole it's implied is a paranoid loon who would sooner shoot a Russian uniform than listen to reason from his subordinate. Campo spends the whole campaign bitching about Cole's attitude and command and the general impression is laid down that he's a gung ho glory hound who will stoop to surprising depths to advance his career. It's an intensely dramatic conclusion to the conflict but by that point the game had already invaded Iran and blown up Paris, so can you really judge a few more rounds of 5.56 thrown at the guy who's been belittling your work the whole time?
it would have been equally annoying as a self aware parody
I don't care there's a tank (tank?) wohoooo!
Playing it straight was what made it fun. It would be complete dogshit if they were trying to do a self aware parody.
"Killing people, off the books, with the protection of the police chief"
Sometimes these games can be scarily accurate
I think this entire game can be summarized with "Wow, that made 0 sense. But it was fun!"
My head cannon for this battlefield game. All of the gangs are different Political movements gearing up for Civil War selling drugs and dealing with cartels to get more firearms and fund their revolution that is why the police are so armed and that is why the suspects are so armed and why normal police tactics are being abandoned as America looms towards chaos.
The game doesn't support this, BUT that makes a ton of sense and I'm going to adopt that headcanon as well
That sounds way better and far more interesting than this.
@@masterficus they should’ve hired me as a storyboard Director hahaha I think a setting like this would be far more interesting and make a lot more sense with gameplay and why these gangsters have tanks, instead it’s just sympathetic soldiers defecting to the side of revolutionaries. Their game could’ve had a deep and compelling story about political extremism, and what happens when a government is pushed to the brink of collapse have the game stepped in gray there are no good guys or bad guys.
Heck, both COD and Battlefield don't even have any games that come from civil wars/guerrilla warfare POV's, only Far Cry. I would also want a African civil war game for COD, something similar to Bad Company in terms of story but more action packed like black ops.
@@allamericantrolling They should've explicitly established Hardline's story as a direct sequel to BF3 but with the nuke going off in Time's Square instead of being disarmed, causing the US to grow insanely paranoid and the police becoming fully militarized and massively expanded which would lead to an inevitable backlash thus setting off an American version of the Troubles or the Years of Lead.
Using windows 8 in 2024 is wild
I make many bad decisions
@@masterficusbest decision
@@masterficusnot installing windows 10 or windows 11 is a very good decision
@@kron7536 true
@@kron7536 i mean, win 8(8.1) is practiacally the same piece of garbage, but worse. I can understand running win 7, but win8 is just a worse win10.
I would LOVE a hardline type game set in the 1920s. The things they cohld do with that in a prohibition atmosphere would make for outstanding gameplay
Ew for me 1920s all the way to 50s is the most boring time period for me ever except for the 2 world wars,main reason I hated the mafia games 🤢
@bansenpy5553 it would still play like a battlefield game, the mafia games were alot different play style then battlefield
Ooo. Going at mob and their illegal liquor and drug sales damn that would be fun
@@bansenpy5553 yeah well there was kind of a giant economic failure that bankrupt a vast majority of the world and lots of people died as a result of both it and the world war and several disease plagues that ravaged the planet.
It should be in black and white like Hatred or Betrayer.
CinemaSins every time your amendments are violated lol
Hardline is great, honestly. I love the campaign because it's basically a 70s movie, and it was obviously a labor of love. Battlefield is no longer a series made by passionate people. Visceral was a gem of a company.
PEAK battlefield in my top 3 for sure
ngl, despite my criticisms, I probably spent more time arresting drug dealers in florida than shooting soldiers in any other battlefield campaign
"the game rewards you by doing non lethals with lethals" is all the gameplay type issues i have with BFH. It really didnt seem like some of the choices was made with any logic thinking. Still my favorite BF story to revisit.
Edit: Didnt seem like the choices were made to be inclusive or "fun" either. If you're a traditional CoD shoot em all then its no fun forcing arrests so no guns for that playstyle and its far from satisfying to be rewarded stuff from a different catagory. Locking the tazer or other tools behind arrests or maybe even non lethal options that gave a small amount of xp when doing arrests (like rubber bullets, batons etc.)
Too short development time with not enough focus is the core of many game issues but this battlefield feels way more plagued with it than others. like they spent too much time throwing ideas around at the table without locking them down before releasing the Design doc for the teams.
Your comment got me thinking, maybe reduce the number of lethals to the point that in a couple playthroughs you could try them all, and expand the number of non lethals and their effects. Have slightly different endings if your playthrough was mostly lethal or non lethal to tie gameplay style to the narrative. I think you're absolutely right on the short development time.
@@masterficus the vast majority of players i assume Finnish the story once or twice at most within the games life span. So balancing around more would be silly.
Changing the ending would be quite easy aswell with just 3-4 different cutscenes. Not going the mass effect route of having different mid points (unnecessary dev time for a cop drama) but just something that recognized the play through but sadly this wouldnt work with the stories as they tried to keep the leaderboard system from bf4 missions causing it to be segmented but didnt even make the leaderboard/points system well thought out. because they didnt keep the cop theme all the way through for theming and weighted it to only one gameplay style often making the player take choices in engagements that they didnt really want to make. Leading to worse outlook on the campaign as a whole. To be honest the leaderboard system is a good representation of everything wrong with bfh aswell. Not enough theme to make it immersive, not enough freedom to be 100% fun and seemingly not enough time to make it feel complete.
@@minio585 Why do we need branching paths in the cop drama? Are we so autistic now that we can't appreciate nominal choice without demanding 30+ endings for a fucking cop drama set in 80s Miami? It's fine as it is.
@@loserinasuit7880 im not saying 30 endings. All im saying is theres a reason why mass effect 3 gets criticism for its ending. Giving 3 different cutscenes wouldve added alot but i guess they did it this way in case theres a sequel
Even with its heap of problems, it was genuinely a fun game with a solid multiplayer that tried to go against the norm. I’m just disappointed people didn’t give it a fair shake.
The multiplayer, as per the norm, was completely fucked at launch and people weren't giving up on 4 yet. By the time they fixed it everyone had already migrated back over to 4, which is a shame because it genuinely had great improvements over 4.
Epilogue means the tail end of a story not the beginning. Regardless Great video, keep it up.
Whoops, I think "epilogue" is just more fun to say than "prologue" and my brain didn't catch it
I wish Hardline had skippable cutscenes. Being forced to sit through them just kills replay value, especially when some of them just drag on.
7:55 HOW DID A COP GET A SWEDISH LATE WW2 WEAPON?!
I really should've included this, one of the other collectables you can find are guns, I can't remember how many there are but it's not a lot. The swedish smg is found in swamp episode, which means the coke smugglers were using an antique swedish ww2 smg as a drop gun in the middle of the swamp.
It’s America, you can find it
various us spec ops used swedish k even in vietnam
Tfw the chief was technically the good guy all along, simply because he created a system that doesn't benefit loose cannons like the protagonist anymore, preventing mass destruction and bloodbath
Hardline was goated imo and is severely overlooked. The multiplayer dialogue as criminals was so awesome and sometimes funny. I still think about the commander calling me you “dumbfucks” when losing
You know, if Mendoza overdosed on cocaine when it exploded, 30:46 made ME overdose on laughter in real life. This moment right there is absolutely perfect. Every single part of this frame is a separate joke which is hillarious on its own but when they all combine together one may really suffer a heart attack from laughing too hard.
So this entire time, I watched this entire video thinking that it was a top quality video essay from some big youtuber. Turns out, its a top quality video essay from a small youtuber.
Dear Master Ficus, please, continue making this good content. You literally locked me in for half a hour only to give me the biggest surprise of my life. Good video, good content, will continue to watch.
My favorite genre of youtube video is “surprisingly good video essay that turns out to be by a really small youtuber”
I scrolled down to read this comment, only to scroll back up and be shocked that the "small" youtuber ment under 1k instead of under 10k. Especially for how good this video was.
I hit the craziest trick shot in hardline beta weekend I’m 21 now still think about that tripple collateral through a moving car 360 no scope (%100 on accident but my friends didn’t need to know that)
The most fun I EVER had gaming was playing the Hardline beta. It felt like I was playing a movie, the atmospherics were insane. Cop cars, helicopters, robberies. Immaculate vibes, fun gunplay. All around lots of novel game design too!
I know it was stupid but the campaign was so fun and Stoddard being Delsyns brother from infamous second son was an ironic funny touch😂
i want a hardline based on Shield, a TV show about corrupt cops
I'll assume you seen the ps2 game?
This feels like Max Payne 3 with characters who completely lack self awareness
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever watched a review or video talking about a specific game that actually went into its difficulties. I know it's such a small thing which in the video, but I almost almost never hear people talk about the difficulties and how well or poorly balanced they are.
I like hardline because the lack of attack helicopters, jets and armored vehicles made the game really enjoyable in a different way
despite all this game's shortcomings it remains *the* best battlefield game. hands down. a much less serious, much more casual battlefield title, with a lot of love put into it.
I gotta say bad company 2 is also pretty casual and just overall hilarious.
And it has the hotwire gamemode in it, literally second to none.
@@TheSquishyBoi didn't have death grips playing over the car's radio.
I heavily disagree.
@@Moonvive bi furry pfp, opinion instantly disregarded. check these statistics 95%/5%
So slept on man I loved this game
Hardline was fun ashell especially when I didn’t have a bunch of dumbasses telling me it sucked
Honestly
I love this game with all my heart, its wacky, its stupid, it makes no sence and has a pretty decent pacing which only goes up and up. Its battlefield, in its purest form.
Its not an accurate game, or a realistic game, but its downright fun.
It even manages to feel like the bad company team got hold of the reigns for a moment.
the multiplayer was fucking fire tho , especially with the rappel gun
Scale-wise I think it'd make a ton more sense for Call of Duty to do a Cops and Robbers themed game than Battlefield. COD is known for its 6v6 small multiplayer gameplay which I think you can justify as being some sort of SWAT raid better than Hardline's "Open street war" thing with attack choppers and heavy weapons.
I just finished this game like a couple of weeks ago in my rush to catch up on the battlefield franchise before the multiplayer dies and it's gone forever like bad company 1 and 2.
I pretty much missed out on the entire franchise growing up. And after playing the campaign of this game man, it gave me less of a battlefield 5 and more of a vibe of Payday 2 combined with rainbow six siege.
Once again, I'm just talking about vibe. Now I can't play, not graphics, but the general vibe and atmosphere of the campaign. And the only thing I can really narrow it down to it is a few significant seeds and its color designs and the music that really gave it sometimes that siege Payday 2 vibe for some reason.
They really went into the 80's cop drama aesthetic head first, sets it apart, in a good way I think
2:49 honestly pretty accurate to the police, except no way she would be complaining about that
i honestly love this game! that or it reminds me of those cops shows i used to watch as a kid. really reminds me of like overdramatize CSI Miami show i really loved, good kind of corny :)
i genuinely had so much fun playing this game when i was younger
The only Battlefield games ive played were Bad Company 2, BF3, and owned but never installed BF4. Would love to see what you think of the Medal of Honor series.
Been years since I've played a Medal of Honor game, I remember enjoying it though. Played BF3 growing up and remember being really impressed, been a while though.
Morally might DOES make right.
Logically might DOES NOT make right.
Hermunitics.
...do you mean the other way around?
@@accountname9506 no. Strength of brawn or brains or numbers is literally what makes morals.
But if you say that water flows uphill then it doesn't matter if you have big muscles, you're wrong and building a water mill backwards is just going to waste everyone's time and energy.
Might makes you morally right, but it doesn't make you logically right.
this is a great video, keep up the good content man
i wanna look around for other video essays you might've made
The campaign for Hardline was so goofy, but the multiplayer was so much fun. I miss it sometimes.
One of the best FPS I'm proud to 100% the gameplay can be goofy sometimes but it's fun to play
my favourite part of the video was 25:31 when he noticed that he can get close to the propeller then immediately runs into it to see if he can take damage from it
I think if they gave out all the DLC with the full game for like, $20, this game would explode. Personally my favorite Battlefield to date; the level of player freedom you get is actually insane.
I grew up in government housing.
I have memories of Cops coming around and hurting people, I remember being eight years old when I saw cops take my neighbor out into the street with his handcuffs tied behind his back, tripped him, and sent him falling face first into the concrete sidewalk making his nose explode into blood.
The bloodstain was there for days.
That was the first time I saw police brutality - it was not the last.
Games like this really make me mad.
Hardline multiplayer was really fun tho
I don't understand why they didn't think to make a SWAT game instead. I could see it getting fleshed out to be almost like siege or ready or not before they were out
Love battlefield. Spent more time in hardline than any other ones. People just tried to cram it into the box of bf4 and compared it when they are not the same by any means
Epilogue comes at the end, not the start
All I'm saying is that BF:H had the best multiplayer.
Honestly hardline had my favorite battlefield combat, I was max level with all bonuses unlocked in that game, before I had a job I would play it for days at a time
31:12 Raegan's admistration, the drug war and US police. Famous non-political topics
1:45 that dialogue sequence had more fucks than I gave about cop morals in this game...
Great content, I’d love to see more of this style from you.
being surprised cops dont go to internal affairs is like being surprised birds can fly
Did the algorithm pick this up? Nice work! Im glad you're getting more views. Great video!
HARDLINE is and will be my favorite topping out 1 and 5
This battle field game has some of the best / interesting guns that you will not find in any of the other battlefield games so there’s that!
Battlefield Hardline is such a banger tho fr. Love the multiplayer.
the multiplayer was super fun. Hotwire was entertaining as could be, Blood money and Heist were up there too, I'm just sad Hardline's multiplayer doesn't get the same love BF4 and BC2 get, in my mind they're all up there as some of the best Battlefield has to offer, though, I'm biased in favor of BF5 being the best, I just love WW2 games.
The singleplayer felt bad, even back when the game came out. Thanks for this deep-ish dive on it. Good stuff.
the devs looked at the frostbite engine realized that it had all kinds of military assets in it and said how do we incorporate all of these into a game about corrupt cops
Me: *Sees protagonist in jail*
Me: "Oh how'd that happen? Did he get framed? Was it a setup?"
Comments: *Lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit*
Me: "Oh."
So, it’s actually accurate to the average modern American police experience. I am talking about committing misconduct not bat shit insane stunts and things
I mean they try to do unnecessary shit like that though. There's the infamous video of a cop ramming his car into a car with a pregnant woman in it because she didn't pull over quickly enough (she signaled she was doing so), flipping her car. He gets out and berates her while she's still upside down.
Honestly with leaving people handcuffed lying down there is technically a concept of positional asphyxiation which is taught in basically all hand cuffing courses that I imagine is a big no no especially with battlefield hardline which is what kills the realism for me.
Hardline was GOATED
the multiplayer for this game is still populated and fun
Wasn't Battlefield's entire premise covering ww1 instead of ww2 like cod does? Why are we in a police drama
Had to try and appeal to a certain demographic that hates another demographic. As shown by the type of things the "fans" find funny. Like how he thought a man getting unjustly murdered by a pig was funny enough to put up fanart of
No, why would you think that? First BF game was 1942, a WW2 game, then 1943, another WW2 game
Tell me this guy doesn’t sound like knowledge hub!
I actually liked this game quite a lot, just feels like it wasn't supposed to be a battlefield title though
I remember reading somewhere that the pistols are stronger than rifles in the campaign, but I could be wrong.
And at 25:23 I'd just like to share that some modified M113 Bradleys are in use by police and SWAT teams
See also: police BTR
I think you're right, the snipers and shotguns do more damage but the other rifles trade damage for fire rate, to the point that at least the revolver I used a lot did more damage per shot.
The police do have some rad armored carriers, but the main gun on the tank takes training to use and a dedicated guy for it. Also I had no idea some police departments had access to M113 Bradleys, that's very cool and a little unnerving.
m113 bradley?
LAPD has a tank tho
I mean. Im not a fan of windows 10 myself but it takes major dedication to stick to windows 8 in year 2024
Still the best Multiplayer of the entire series
Man i really liked the multiplayer for hardline
Battlefield: Copaganda
And why do you think this game is copaganda?
Loved hardline because im a gun nerd. Wish they implemented the weapons and customization in 4 as a DLC after release
Making a Battlefield game thats a Cop Drama is like making a Jak and Daxter game thats nothing but demolish derby. Oh wait, they did. Still, someone new to follow.
Great video bro! I think you meant prologue when you said epilogue tho
Thanks man, and yeah I goofed prologue, epilogue is a fun word to say and I think that's why that happened
They say that Mendoza is ex special forces in the game
I thought u had way mo subs than u did, this is professionalish
This is basically Bad Boys the videogame and it's fucking cool
thats cap zipline and hook are very useful if you wanna speed through the game
i played this game from day one. never once finished the single player lol. me and my friends were quite high on the rankings for our mastering of the helicopters in the multiplayer. we truly did have a great time with it despite it being the weakest bf
love this game, thanks for the video 🤘
I loved hardline so much. Didn't play much of the campaign but that multiplayer was fun asf to me idk why people didn't like it tbh
Hardline was so interesting? I enjoyed it as a game but it’s a crazy concept
Remember guys this all ok for the police to do because they announced their intention beforehand
Said nobody who knows anything.
Epilogue is the end prologue is the beginning
I liked hardline cause of cops and robbers that’s honestly it, it was alright, was my second battlefield after 3 never played much of 4 until after
25:18 I really want to know how this rural militia got their hands on a Chinese main battle tank.
Me too man, me too.
Hard-line was a better game than it got credit for
Lmao this is either a deeply republican fantasy of cops or a deeply liberal fantasy of cops
Finally, true bipartisanship
10:39 so you can just bring the other two and there’s just literally no use for them
i miss when hardline used to be the worst battlefield game
There ain't no fucking way this guy just described Battlefield as a "Call of Duty competitor"
Lost me 3 seconds in.
This is the second comment I've seen saying this and now I'm genuinely curious, back in the Black Ops/ BF3 days it was a given that these two franchises were competitors, why do you say they're not?
Again, not trying to be mean, genuinely curious.
@@masterficus Because Battlefield 1942 came out in 2002 and Call of Duty came out in 2003.
Prior to Battlefield 3 Battlefield never really made many attempts to "compete" with Call of Duty because the two games were entirely different experiences. It would be the same as Halo trying to compete with Call of Duty, anything they'd do try and be "like" Call of Duty would feel cheap and rehashed, and wouldn't fit with the gameplay.
Falling short of the standard COD set and disappointing the fans who didn't _want_ another Call of Duty experience at the same time. (Foreshadowing)
Call of Duty had tight maps, short TTK, minimal engagement ranges, and generally did their best to make sure everyone felt like a one man army.
Battlefield by contrast is exactly the opposite, big maps, long TTK, maximum engagement ranges, and a balancing system specifically designed to _disempower_ the individual player and incentivize teamwork through gameplay.
You didn't have a loadout of your favourite gadgets, you had a role within a squad, and that squad had a role within the team.
Sure you could change your weapons and unlock different gadgets but at the end of the day if you picked Engineer you were always gonna be an Engineer.
If you want the RPG you're gonna need to switch to smaller guns and also take a repair tool, sorry, that's just how the classes work... Leave the one man army shit to Call of Duty.
This is literally how we looked at it back then. If you wanted total freedom to pick any weapon for any class, you were probably just a COD geek who couldn't turn off the twitch shooter brain.
And then Battlefield 4 came out, they made it so the classes barely mattered anymore, they caved to the lowest common denominator, and here we are... Battlefield... the elder franchise, the franchise that Call of Duty was originally trying to BE... reduced to "A Call of Duty competitor"
Show us a little respect bro, we weren't just another series trying to ride the success of Call of Duty... we were part of the REASON Call of Duty succeeded.
Battlefield had 32 v 32 multiplayer before COD or Halo CE even existed... I feel like a lot of people forget how insane of an achievement this was in 2001.
Most computers were still using dial up back then, the idea of playing an FPS match with random strangers on the other side of the planet seemed like a thing of the future to the gamers of the 90s.
Until BF1942 proved you could do it with SIXTY people at once... Then everything changed after that.
Not to mention BF2 beat COD4 to the "modern warfare" craze by a whole 2 years.
A lot of people forget Battlefield 3 was the ELEVENTH Battlefield game... Battlefield already had a long and storied history as a franchise _before_ it started competing with COD directly.
@@trainknut Ok I see what you're saying now, I took this from the perspective of a kid that only had the money for one shooter a year, so choosing COD/BF/Halo made them all appear to be direct competitors, but by that same logic Animal Crossing could be called a Doom competitor which doesn't track. COD and BF are different subgenres trying to achieve different experiences and while there's some overlap the target audience isn't the same, therefore not a direct competitor.
I still think calling BF a COD competitor is technically true due to the portion of the audience that overlaps, but is an overgeneralization and probably misleading.
I would just like to note chapter 5 is completely beatbale on loud you just need to find a good choke point and stovk up on taser bolts, it is not east at all
That's fair, I should've said non lethal but even then I didn't even try a loud playthrough of that episode.
MENDOOOOZZAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
6:50 why are there hooligans every single time? Are they part of some organization?
Kind of a weird compliment to such a dumpster fire of a campaign, but this is one of the last EA titles where the character diversity felt somewhat natural and not just like a forced ESG score booster in my opinion
You forgot an atrostophe
Yeah the story was goofy, but I enjoyed the multiplayer so much. Especially the hotwire gamemode.