Wow, you both must be losers. Spending hours on battlefront like the rest. Some of these losers spend over 8 hours in this game. Shooting these other people trying to have fun. I hate those losers who do that. One to mention "oopsyoudead" sorry fuck.
@@omegamark100 lol you're mad because you can't spell excited? when does having proper grammar dictate a person is fun or not? Also don't like your own comment, it's pretty stupid.
@@Mrbunss Someone who goes to a star wars game review correcting misspellings on a 3 day old comment? Christ you really are a fun dude. Glad that it took at least 51 people before someone like you showed up lol.
@@Dorkaxe Tell me about it. I got the Star Wars special edition ps4 which came with the game yet i still had to pay more money to unlock the extra content
I got the mini-fridge edition, I wanted to give the fridge to my friend who also loves battlefront as a christmas gift. It functionally was awful, as it couldn't even get down to a good temp to cool down drinks, AND I didn't get the season pass. I was so blinded by BATTLEFRONT that I threw caution to the wind. I feel like there's a camaraderie with launch/pre-order customers of that first battlefront. I learned my lesson and didn't even buy BF2.
@@Dorkaxe thats crazy. i never even knew you could get them, im not sure if they were released in the UK the fridge looks pretty cool but i doubt its as cool in real life. Was it the deluxe edition that came with the fridge? thats what came with my playstation. its still crazy to think that even after buying an exclusive playstation which was made for the game i had to pay more money to get the full game. Im glad EA have semi stopped doing stuff like that though.
@@Dorkaxe You wanna talk about camaraderie from mediocrity...Launch players from Destiny know where its at, oof. 1st game I ever bought the special edition for, pre-order...and because of that, the last, too.
Bro that was the only way to kill the heros efficiently unless you came with one of the fighters or bombers and personally dealt with a single hero. Then BF2 you could finally play as heros
I weirdly have a lot of nostalgia for this one, because when it first came out me and my friend would play it a lot. I sucked at it, A LOT, so i never got into it on my own time. Im excited to dive in deeper with it via this video.
it's so weird reading that you have actual NOSTALGIA for the game. I actually was surprised noticing it's been already 6 whole years since the game released so it makes sense. However, I've never played it and my nostalgic feelings are directed towards Star Wars Battlefront (2004).
Hero Hunt used to be even worse before they changed it a few months after launch. At launch, the player who got the last hit on the hero became the hero next. There was no damage tallying or anything. It was just a dumb kill stealing competition with no skill involved.
Not only that, but then after the initial version, DICE for some reason had a literal Wheel Of Fortune, based on how much damage the top 3 players did, but all of your damage progress and the size of your slot on the wheel was removed after a new hero was selected. So basically, you could do the most amount of damage of all the players, STILL lose and not get picked, and then have to do it all over again
Yeah, Hero Hunt was an objectively pretty bad game mode that I happened to enjoy for some reason. It played better on that Swamp Crash Site map, where I fondly remember playing as the Emperor stalking players through the dark woods
The fact that we had to deal with EA as the sole publisher for SW games for nearly a decade was absolutely insulting. Only 4 triple A releases and 2 of them were soulless cashgrabs, and the amount of games that were cancelled is actually unreal. Hopefully we'll start to see another golden age of SW games again after their exclusive contract officially expire.
@@RogueRaichu assassins creed came from Ubisoft so I disagree. What does EA have? Shitty sports games, a generic shooter, and really bad Star Wars games
@@willcavanaugh2042lol right how TF did he say that an not edit it out or put something on screen it's literally like he actually believes they are brothers smh
I remember getting over this game pretty quick at launch, just the total lack of content, basically no offline play, the fact you needed a season pass... still less egregious as Battlefront 2017 at launch but a pretty stark reminder of how the game industry loves to sell you half baked products then charge you for the rest of the experience that you should have gotten in the first place. Still haven't revisited it, might do it now that you can play walker assault with bots. Anyway, donkey donkey donkey, Darth Vader is not Luke's brother!
I wasn't, but I love the obi-wan anakin brotherly bond angle as well. I just wanted to deliberately say the most obvious star wars fact of all time incorrectly, because who on earth wouldn't know vader is luke's father lol It just seems so absurd that it became funny to me.
Holy shit, I can't believe I put up with this game all those years ago. I bought a Playstation 4 back in late 2015, and this was my first multiplayer game I ever really played. In hindsight I just find it amazing that I put up with how bad the game was, considering the extremely apparent flaws even I knew about nearly 6 years ago. I played the game at launch and became my favorite game that I would play nearly every day up until the Death Star DLC. To this day I still prefer it over the sequel, despite the fact that the sequel is a better game in nearly every possible way, probably because of how good 12 year old me was at this game. I put up with the season pass, the DLC content, the base game content, the EE4, the overpowered heroes, the underpowered heroes, the bugs, the glitches, everything. But this game was to me how Halo 3 was to hundreds of thousands of kids back in 2007. I wish I was a kid again, I can't enjoy games like I used to anymore.
When this game dropped, the graphics were definitely it's highest selling point what with contributing to the immersion factor of the game. When it dropped, I had never seen a game that looked so graphically stunning before and I distinctly remember this being the first time I really felt a new frontier was being pushed toward photorealism in gaming. I remember asking my dad to buy it for me on launch from my local gamestop. I was sitting in my pre cal class thinking nonstop about getting home to play ot finally after having been impressed with the beta. And it did its job for a while but the amount of content available at launch you could cycle through in about 3 hours I think, which is what I did. Then, all the spirit I initially had for the game vanished. Which was especially odd, since I am an enormous fan of Star Wars and that was the best looking game I had ever played. But there wasn't any pretense at all in my lack of interest at that point. I blankly just did not feel motivated to keep playing at all. The appetite would come up again every so often when the dlc would be made free for promotional events but aside from that, I learned an invaluable lesson in what to expect of the EA Star Wars product. When BF2 was announced and released, it was the first time in my life I distinctly remember being completely and utterly ambivalent about a Star Wars game. The news of the state of the lootboxes at the time was coming out and the marketing toward the prequels in my eyes was utterly disingenuous with an insulting paucity of content that actually represented that era on release. The game was in such a skeletal state that more than just ambivalence, I felt actual disgust for the product they were peddling. And that was the first time that not only did i feel ambivalence, but that i received a Star Wars product's release with actual hostility. I didn't pick that game up on launch and waited till it was on sale for 5 dollars around the time that the Geonosis update was being released. The game at its final state before being abandoned is still bare minimum what should have been delivered on launch and I will never forget the travesty EA made out of Star Wars under its control.
I never picked up either of the star wars battlefront games because I was already boycotting EA at the time. But I get how you feel. Mainly because EA ruined the need for speed games. That series used to be one of my favorite franchises and now its been abandoned. EA tends to do that with whatever they can get their grubby little hands on. Also thank you so much for including proper comma's and periods in your comment. Since its pretty long, it would have been a nightmare to read if it was all one big blob of text.
@@RonaldAsks No, he is right. It is so trash. Even with the new classes that were added after launch, they weren't able to even make them unique from each other
Also, let's please address the elephant on the room. RAGDOLLS BF 2015 ragdolls are just oh so satisfying. BF II ragdolls are just Unity Indie Game level
My one best memory with Battlefront (2015) was on one of my last days at high school, my teacher let me bring my humongous vcr Xbox to class to play games with my friends on the smart board’s projector. Towards the end of one of our classes, I actually convinced my teacher, one that I’d come to see as a good mentor and friend, to play one of the co-op missions with me. He picked the Beggar’s canyon mission so he was my wing-mate in that short but sweet X-wing based mission. I’ll never forget the smiles he had on his face and his laughter of just pure enjoyment when we were taking on TIE squads together.
Its really disappointing to see long, well researched and thought out videos get abandoned by the algorithm. Instead we get 10 minute clickbait videos with no real effort behind them.
If you'd like to give me money, here is my patreon link: www.patreon.com/dorkaxe I will also be using this comment for any corrections to mistakes I made in the video. 1. Not really a mistake, but still: The Season Pass was initially 50 bucks when the game came out apparently. Can't believe I missed that and didn't mention it in the video.
56:37 Ha you think that's bad? Before the last update, the hero was given to the person who dealt the final blow. So everyone would just run away or hide until the hero got to 10% health. You could deal 99% of the damage on every hero and still never get to play as the hero the entire match.
For me it’s a mixed bag to be honest. 2015 has a lot more life and personality than 2017 even to this day. 2017 has far better hero combat and balancing/vehicles and the reinforcement classes are cool. Not to mention how much content there is. Basically to keep it somewhat brief, the arcade like power up system in 2015 is fun. 2015 has two modes I’d play over any 2017 any day. (Cargo and Walker assault) And most importantly. The “base troopers” gameplay felt wayyyyy better with the variety of weapons and star card loadouts! You want to be a sniper who also plays tanky? Sure! You want to be a guns a blazing crazy guy who goes out with explosive shot and tons of grenades? Sure! You want to be a bit more of a support player with Dioxis grenade and healing droid thing? Sure! 2017’s major flaw is it’s restrictive class system regular trooper gameplay, I’m always trying to become a hero/vehicle/reinforcement in 2017 battlefront because frankly… I don’t 100% like any of the classes and how they work. So in 2017 I have to be patient and wait a few minutes of boring base gameplay before I can pick a hero and get to the actual good stuff. Where in 2015 I actually liked the base trooper gameplay, possibly more than the heros. In conclusion, if you love hero gameplay above all else. 2017 is easily the pick for you. Hop onto Heros V Villains and play that constantly. If you want to enjoy things other than the special classes of the game (or ships but I don’t like ships even though they are much better in 2017) Pick 2015 any day.
The amount of detail and research you do for these videos is just amazing and very well done man, your opinions are well presented and your video are always well laid out but the research and depth you dive into is what constantly impresses me. Amazing job as always keep them coming!! :)
I know it is not a shooter, but ya might possibly be interested in trying out Star Wars Empire at War. It is a fantastic Real Time Strategy made by Petroglyph Games. I have a feeling that if you like Star Wars ya may enjoy that game too.
Battlefront 2 is so good now, so I'm so excited to see you review it. I don't know if I'd say it was better than the originals, but that might just be nostalgia, but it deffently stacks up.
I do understand that, the heroes are extremely strong, but in my opinion, they are too weak in both Battlefront 2 games. Nothing worse than becoming Darth Vader and being completely destroyed by a stupid rebel soldier with a vanguard.
I remember just playing Walker Assault/Survival over and over again with my little brother for like a year, and we couldn't do anything online because it's a PS4 and we didn't have PS Plus. I have some good memories from that, but even back then I knew that this game was pretty terrible. It had its moments for sure, and it had the skeleton of a great game, but it just failed to go those final steps to become fleshed out and really enjoyable. Great video my dude.
Thanks a lot! I feel your pain. My friends and I played BF1/2 on the ps2 and xbox locally a lot back then, so all I really cared about was the split-screen and offline content. We tried it for one night and they never wanted to play it again. Sad days.
This was great! Battlefront 2015 used to be my go to game when it first released (I was pretty young) and it still holds a special place in my heart, but I can’t refute it’s probably the worst in the franchise. I’m looking forward to your video on the sequel (no rush), I started getting into it recently and it’s an improvement on 2015’s in just about every way. it’ll be interesting to hear your take on it!
Over time I've gained more nostalgia for this game, I played it a lot though back when it came out and constantly criticized the game for many of it's flaws, the glitches and community surrounding this game made for plenty of fun too.
This is actually a fantastic review, however I spot one issue. I feel like the experience would be skewered if you are purposefully trying to complete the hutt contracts one after another quickly for a review, however you could argue that some players do this already so that shouldn’t be a problem in the first place.
Is it bad all my memories from this are from the singleplayer walker assault? Like I would just chill out and slaughter terribly coded ai and waste my Friday doing that.
Not at all, taco god. I imagine a lot of my time would be spent there as well if there were a few more modes offline and a galactic conquest or something. Definitely wouldn't mind playing droid run or hero hunt with dingus AI bots.
I’ll let Darth Vader being Lukes brother slide for this time, amazing review! I acually enjoyed this game more than I thought I’d would. My main game mode was Walker Assault and I got pretty good at it. It was waaay more forgiving than it’s sequel, witch by my book, gorgeous as it might be, is still a pay to win of epic proportions. Thank you for the video and the memories.
Ummmm......? Have you played battlefront 2 in the last 2 years? They removed loot boxes, you don't have to pay to unlock a hero and the progression was completely reworked. The only thing you can buy with credits is cosmetics and even then you have the celebration edition which gives you all the cosmetics (except for a few that can't be unlocked through credits) the game is almost a masterpiece
Thank you for this video. Honestly, I personally prefer Battlefront 1 2015 over Battlefront II 2017. The "Star Wars" feeling and atmosphere was never captured better than in this game. Yes, the game is restricted to the Original Trilogy, but it holds a very special place in my heart. It is my favorite SW game ever. I never had the same amount of fun in Battlefront 2, although, it certainly improved some aspects. I personally still prefered the overall gameplay. I just miss the classes and I even prefer the Pick-ups over the battle point system. I elaborated on my opinion about Battlefront 2015 in the comments section of your Battlefront II 2017 Critique.
Never played Battlefront 2015, saw the trailers when I was younger and realized before it release that it wouldn't be that good or like original I grew up on and never bought it. Game came out and I was right, but I still watch videos about every now and then. I think you'll enjoy battlefront 2 a little more. Game play was a lot better bringing back classes but new problems arrived in the loot box fiasco and Battle Points. Take as much time as you need for the video
Amazing game. Much better than the second one. I still prefer the og battlefront from 2003 though. Once you gave this game your time to perfect the controls and power ups paired with the jetpack it will reward you. I'm max rank on all platforms. Battlefront 2 reboot time to kill is way to high. Leading to very boring gameplay. You cannot pop off without playing as a hero constantly. And I'd argue they can be more op in battlefront 2 actually.
bro that ending with all the contrived star wars quotes is some community level shit good job. (also thanks for the shout out, that means a lot) Edit: donkey donkey donkey
Ngl, to this day this game is still one of my favorite multiplayer games I've ever had the chance to play while it was active. The gunplay was fluid (Battlefront 2's gunplay often feels wonky and bloomy), the maps were fantastic (almost every battlefront 2 map has lanes and ends up in a funnel in Galactic Assault), I enjoyed the freedom to make my own kit, and the effects/backgrounds/map events (Super Star Destroyer crashing/Fights above) are all phenomenal and add to the environment (Battlefront 2 can't even make a proper explosion outside of a cutscene). There are things BF2 did better like the spawn screen vehicle/hero system and having more content (expected from a sequel game) but the core gameplay was gutted IMO.
Yep, the freedom of choice was amazing in 2015. And wayyyy more weapons was a massive positive for me personally, unlike the OP’s opinion in the video I loved the massive diversity of star cards and weapons. When the DLC was getting released I always was more interested in the new blasters/star cards than the new maps and game modes. I’ve grown to not dislike Battlefront 2 2017 as much as I used to, but there’s still a quality to 2015 that is special and unique to this day! I even loved the ridiculous hero pickups and vehicle pickups. Battlefront 2015 isn’t/wasn’t a competitive gaming experience in any way. Tons of cheese and ridiculousness. But that’s part of what made it AMAZING. Not to mention 2015 Cargo>All 2017 game modes imo. Back at the game’s height I could enjoy endless hours of Cargo or Walker Assault, when 2017 dropped it took me like maybe a week before I got bored of the core gameplay. In battlefront 2, you almost never hear people loving the core “classes” and for a reason. They’re kind of boring. You’re always trying to go for a hero/vehicle/reinforcement. And while I agree all of those plus space battles are WAY better in 2017. The core gameplay aka regular troopers is seriously lacking in the 2017 version and never really got addressed.
Guy named "let go of your hate" trolling everyone from an unreachable position throwing down OP toxic grenades. I really like that there is a very spiritual theme through the star wars story as it gives what looks like a normal shooter a bit more depth. That is a great chance to not let you lose your zen focus, ie the force, as it give you the best chance at countering it.
I feel like these games should've had small team modes similar to domination. Like a small scale capitol supremacy. I feel like supremacy was the best game mode between the 2 EA star wars games.
For all it's flaws and disappointments compared to the originals this game really makes you feel like you are in a movie which is pretty special. Battlefront 2 EA doesn't have that same amazing feeling but it is the much better video game although less polished. I have played both EA battlefronts +100hrs and love them despite how premature and "underbaked" they feel compared to the original
I agree, i know that the sequel to this is a much better game, but something about playing the 2015 battlefront just felt more special. The Bespin dlc was some of the most fun i have ever had in a game.
Yep, spot on. Battlefront 2 is a miles better game, but for some reason feels like its always missing that level of addictiveness that Battlefront 1 had.
The guns were Honestly fun in this game. The shotgun could be used with focus fire as a slug shot, and the bo rifle spreading through the game like an infection was cool.
I've been playing it lately and honestly it can be really good at times. Most of the mods are fun, the maps are good, the dlcs are great, the heroes are very cool, the weapons and loadouts are a lot, ect.
Amazing review, this must've taken so much time and effort. It's one of my favourite games of the last decade. Look forward to your review of the sequel, that game wasn't as good imo
The prequal trilogy were weird movies that were bad at times but the idea and presentation of armies of clones fighting armies of droids was such an awesome idea to me. It is the coolest era of star wars in my opinion. The animated clone wars shows (both of them) do such a good job of fleshing out what was left out of the movie. I love DICES BF2 because I can play the clone wars era.
Egregious business practices aside, this game was hella fun back in the day. It was actually my first ever console game (I had only played on Nintendo platforms before this) and it introduced me to the FPS genre. Most might not like it, but this game holds a special place in my heart.
Just sad they held so much back..didn’t have the clone wars included or conquest. That part hurt the most and led to me not wanting to have it in my selection anymore I think for the final time cause I sold it before and got it again later. Still found out you gotta be online to get more out of this game and it’s just sad. Battlefront 2 improved so much more plus included campaign and clone wars. That one I still have. You hit a lot of points I agree with.
This game is 100% call of duty: Star Wars, except worse with micro transactions and no campaign. The gun unlocks, the online focus, it’s incredible they called it battlefront. That’s the biggest problem with it for me is the name.
Weirdly, this might be my favorite Battlefront. I think I'll always love 2005 B2 the most but I absolutely love 2015. Has a lot of problems but it's the one I enjoy the most now days.
The piss poor campaign and trash story they added to BF 2 was just a slap in the face. Ppl clearly asked for the same content offline with a galactic conquest sandbox. Nobody gaf about story, which is why the real BF games didn't need them even tho they added a basic one for BF 2
I bought this game and all the DLC content on sale for 2 dollars back in 2020 - that's still a little pricey for what this game is. Still, I had fun for about 30 minutes.
I got this game as its live service ended, and you could say I was lucky to get everything from the DLCs. I also look forward to that Battlefront 2 review, as I played that from it’s beta to well beyond its end of live service. Can’t wait!
Tremendous review, really like your commentary. Subbed and hoping to see more from you. I hold a lot of nostalgia for this game weirdly. I had just finished university and it was the first time-sink game I focused on which probably played a part. I knew it was barebones and like a pleb, I even bought the DLC. I found the basic, arcade-style very fun but I remember sitting on my chair one night and I just hit a wall with this game. There was zero progression & satisfaction from the same scenarios and maps. A very strange game. I fell into the mindlessness of it which is unlike me to be honest as I typically prefer feedback in terms of progression, story and interesting gameplay. Great video.
Imagine seeing you here! I loved this game back at its height. It’s by 0 means a competitive gaming experience but that’s not what it’s for at all either. Battlefront 2017 may be a better game in almost every measurable way yet I find myself having a lot more fun with 2015, apart from hero/ships gameplay which is admittedly far superior in the 2017 battlefront. I also like 2017’s reinforcement class. Basically, 2015 felt way better as a “regular trooper” while 2017’s class system sounds interesting at face value, it gets old very quick as a base gameplay experience (at least for me) where I could play hours upon hours of Cargo as a regular class troop in battlefront 2015 and never get bored. The endless amount of weapons and star card loadouts in 2015 is just plain fun, especially when the game had more (and less experienced) players. Love the shiny hunting man! Keep it up!
I personally played the hell out of the originals and still do today. I tried it online, but only a couple times. I loved the immersion of taking part in a battle on a SW battlefield... without a 15 year old talking about my mother and tea bagging me
This is one of the highest quality videos I've ever seen and it having less than a million views is astounding, the time and effort put into this hour long review really shows. I never watch videos this long and usually find them boring but this was certainly an exception. can't wait to see your bf2 review!
Wholeheartedly agree with this, I was so excited when this was announced spent a lot of money on it on launch and I played because I felt like I had too. However Ea's battlefront 2 now is a very fun game, at launch it was a shitshow but after the small team working on it polished it off a lot and brought us tons of free dlc I put it up there with the originals. Still somehow don't know why galactic conquest hasn't even remade it's the best thing ever made
AAA game publishers are not concerned with making a good game. They are concerned with making a profitable game. If a profitable game also happens to be good, that's the cherry on top. For the last probably 10 or so years game publishers have been getting more and more terrible in their design and practices, ordering studios to do the absolute bare minimum possible to sell a game and setting ridiculous deadlines in which to do it. Consumers are just as much to blame for this behavior because they keep rewarding it with pre-orders and microtransactions. It's like every major release in a major franchise with few exceptions breaks the previous record held by the previous major release in the franchise. Studios do not care about your feelings, they only care about transferring money from your wallet into their bank account and as long as that keeps happening, no amount of complaining will result in changed behavior.
I never understand why games don't take the assist counts as kills from battlefield. If you do the most dmg to someone then someone comes in and takes it it'll still be considered a kill for you
I dunno if anyone has said this yet, but there were originally going to be no heroes released with the Outer Rim dlc, but they decided to make Greedo and Nien Numb because they already had the face models from the soldiers.
I think most of your complaints come from being bad at the game. People look back at the old games with nostalgia because they played singleplayer and not in multiplayer lobbies. starting your video with a montage of you being out of position (and moving very slowly, basically begging to get killed) and then dying to a hero (as if the heroes in the older games weren't unbalanced) does not do well for you
as someone who was very disappointed by this game on release and hated it because i was such a fan of the originals, looking back, it isn't bad. It's very fun in fact. Fun, multiplayer very casual game, not much to really talk about anymore
I understand an hour long video may not be for everybody, but commenting on it after only watching 20 seconds isn't a good look. When I discuss the online portion of the game, I'm pretty generous and admit that I had a good time. There would be no reason for you to think me being "bad" would influence my complaints if you got that far.
@@Dorkaxe i will admit that I commented around 20 minutes in and did finish watching the video. I still think your initial critiques (around half of the video) are very tired. I am also glad that you corrected your mistake in earlier videos talking about the graphics of this game. It would be very stupid to pretend that the new games don't at least look very good. I'm just sick and tired on the endless ragging on this game- and I mean I get it. In 2014 I had the same complaints. But that was 2014. And after I played it for an extended period of time I came to the conclusion that it was nowhere near as bad as many initially said it was. Solid 3/5 game maybe even higher, in my opinion. also I do think you edited and scripted this video very well even if i disagreed on some parts so good job.
Great video. I don’t like the idea of having to unlock weapons, especially weapon classes in games. Sure, you can have some unlockables but the core weapon gameplay should be completely available from first launch. One thing I really miss about old shooters. Everyone is on equal footing, it comes down to skill. Even in Halo, everyone can gain access to the weapons it’s just a battle to control them. Old Battlefront had great gameplay that was enough to carry it without the desire to grind for unlockables. Mastering classes is extremely satisfying. This will come down to personal preferences but I like to fire up a game and just play, not worry about my rank or what the next unlockable is, then get pissed when it’s taking forever to unlock it. I did enjoy my time with Battlefront 2015, it was visually stunning and a very aesthetic experience, and had its gameplay moments. As a product though, it is a poor game, nowhere near enough content at launch, and never enough single player. I also found heroes to be rather clunky in this game, other than Fett. Didn’t use the DLC heroes though. I also miss the way vehicles worked in older Battlefront, especially 2004. Fighting against a rebel landspeeder was epic and the battle to seize them online was always enjoyable. Again, the old game was engaging enough that it didn’t need extra fluff to bring you back. It’s a shame we will never see a game on the caliber of the original Battlefront.
The vehicle change was the nail in the coffin for me. I don't want to unlock vehicles. They're vehicles. They should be on the map. These are literally the developers who made BATTLEFIELD... WHAT were they thinking
Still liked this battlefront wayyyy better than battlefront 2 even after the rehaul. Combat felt WAYYY better and small game modes like heroes vs villains and blast were way more fun and enjoyable
You're right that this game should not have been called battlefront for what it represents. BUT you didn't include the steadfast communities that stayed through the now 6 years. I don't know if it's was because you were on ps4 or if you just didn't know, but the community offers tournaments for high end players and it host lobbies to the DLC so people can clear contracts and have fun with these sadly exclusive modes. I disagree with you on the note that it should have had conquest, ( I know it is called battlefront and was just for money ) but a game that offers so much speed and momentum doesn't play well with so much freedom. If you were to take the new battlefront 2 and only have jet troopers it would be chaos, the choice to make more linear game modes I think was smart to keep the action centered and not spreading the players in the match too thin with high mobility the game offers. Some of the game modes the game introduced were also frowned upon, the one getting the most hate was probably the starfighter mode, as it didn't feature space battles unless you had money for DLC. Other game modes were on the other hand praised like walker assault and hero hunt, and dice was framed for being lacy not adding them to battlefront 2. I will agree that hero hunt did favor high end players and the way it ends, as you pointed out, is bad. Though the core of feeling strong against an opposition that keeps coming at you in greater numbers can be fun and a challenge ( + Boosk and Vader are by far better than palps ). I sound like a big fanboy, and I am. I played against "pros" in some tournaments and have over 700 hours of active playtime. I know the game ain't nice to newcomers or the average player, but to the senior player like myself I find it fun and engaging to have that little minigame with the reload, even though I know the timings by memory it still gives a little depth to an otherwise bland shooting experience. Some of the weapons also has specific patters to make them shoot faster, and the freedom the loadouts gives is fun to play around with. I again stress, this game should not have been called battlefront, I very much agree. Still I find the game amazing :)
“How I met my wife through battlefront’s partner system”
Oh my god. This is one of the funniest comments I have heard in a long time. 😂
s tier comment
Wow, you both must be losers. Spending hours on battlefront like the rest. Some of these losers spend over 8 hours in this game. Shooting these other people trying to have fun. I hate those losers who do that. One to mention "oopsyoudead" sorry fuck.
Didn't think I would ever get exited seeing battlefront 2015 in my feed until now
A wild Maki has been spotted!
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@@Mrbunss you seem like a fun person
@@omegamark100 lol you're mad because you can't spell excited? when does having proper grammar dictate a person is fun or not? Also don't like your own comment, it's pretty stupid.
@@Mrbunss Someone who goes to a star wars game review correcting misspellings on a 3 day old comment? Christ you really are a fun dude. Glad that it took at least 51 people before someone like you showed up lol.
at launch the season pass was $60 which i payed for along with the $60 game. $120 for the game + the DLC at launch was definitely not worth it
Holy fucking shit, you're right. That's unreal. Just insulting. The first star wars game they make and they pull that shit.
@@Dorkaxe Tell me about it. I got the Star Wars special edition ps4 which came with the game yet i still had to pay more money to unlock the extra content
I got the mini-fridge edition, I wanted to give the fridge to my friend who also loves battlefront as a christmas gift. It functionally was awful, as it couldn't even get down to a good temp to cool down drinks, AND I didn't get the season pass. I was so blinded by BATTLEFRONT that I threw caution to the wind. I feel like there's a camaraderie with launch/pre-order customers of that first battlefront. I learned my lesson and didn't even buy BF2.
@@Dorkaxe thats crazy. i never even knew you could get them, im not sure if they were released in the UK the fridge looks pretty cool but i doubt its as cool in real life. Was it the deluxe edition that came with the fridge? thats what came with my playstation. its still crazy to think that even after buying an exclusive playstation which was made for the game i had to pay more money to get the full game. Im glad EA have semi stopped doing stuff like that though.
@@Dorkaxe You wanna talk about camaraderie from mediocrity...Launch players from Destiny know where its at, oof. 1st game I ever bought the special edition for, pre-order...and because of that, the last, too.
THe main takeaway from this is that you can kill Droidekas by tricking/pushign them off ledges in the OG BF.
Bro that was the only way to kill the heros efficiently unless you came with one of the fighters or bombers and personally dealt with a single hero. Then BF2 you could finally play as heros
I weirdly have a lot of nostalgia for this one, because when it first came out me and my friend would play it a lot. I sucked at it, A LOT, so i never got into it on my own time. Im excited to dive in deeper with it via this video.
Same situation for me. Although tbh I did get into it in my own time, and to be honest I really loved this game.
it's so weird reading that you have actual NOSTALGIA for the game. I actually was surprised noticing it's been already 6 whole years since the game released so it makes sense. However, I've never played it and my nostalgic feelings are directed towards Star Wars Battlefront (2004).
Same lol, it’s so crazy to think I played this right when I was still in middle school and now I’m in my second year of college now
Imagine listing pronouns in your TH-cam description, fucking cringe.
@@Khoros-Mythos Who asked?
Hero Hunt used to be even worse before they changed it a few months after launch. At launch, the player who got the last hit on the hero became the hero next. There was no damage tallying or anything. It was just a dumb kill stealing competition with no skill involved.
Not only that, but then after the initial version, DICE for some reason had a literal Wheel Of Fortune, based on how much damage the top 3 players did, but all of your damage progress and the size of your slot on the wheel was removed after a new hero was selected. So basically, you could do the most amount of damage of all the players, STILL lose and not get picked, and then have to do it all over again
Hey kill stealing is a skill 😂
Yeah, Hero Hunt was an objectively pretty bad game mode that I happened to enjoy for some reason. It played better on that Swamp Crash Site map, where I fondly remember playing as the Emperor stalking players through the dark woods
The fact that we had to deal with EA as the sole publisher for SW games for nearly a decade was absolutely insulting. Only 4 triple A releases and 2 of them were soulless cashgrabs, and the amount of games that were cancelled is actually unreal.
Hopefully we'll start to see another golden age of SW games again after their exclusive contract officially expire.
PREACH. Fucking insanity that they had the sole rights to STAR WARS and couldn't capitalize on that. Embarrassing.
At least Ubisoft never got exclusive rights. Unpopular opinion but Ubisoft is worse than EA.
Tell me about. Remember in 2005 were we got like 5 star wars games and they were all great
@@Dorkaxe very embarrassing indeed. Part of me feels like the most time consuming part was making the game look realistic and like star wars.
@@RogueRaichu assassins creed came from Ubisoft so I disagree. What does EA have? Shitty sports games, a generic shooter, and really bad Star Wars games
Amazing. Every word of what you just said was right.
Except that Vader is Luke’s brother but we can just forget about that…
You subverted my expectations
@@willcavanaugh2042lol right how TF did he say that an not edit it out or put something on screen it's literally like he actually believes they are brothers smh
I remember getting over this game pretty quick at launch, just the total lack of content, basically no offline play, the fact you needed a season pass... still less egregious as Battlefront 2017 at launch but a pretty stark reminder of how the game industry loves to sell you half baked products then charge you for the rest of the experience that you should have gotten in the first place. Still haven't revisited it, might do it now that you can play walker assault with bots.
Anyway, donkey donkey donkey, Darth Vader is not Luke's brother!
Pretty sure he said it as a joke and wasn't really meaning it
I think he was referring to Darth Vader being Obi-wans brother
I wasn't, but I love the obi-wan anakin brotherly bond angle as well. I just wanted to deliberately say the most obvious star wars fact of all time incorrectly, because who on earth wouldn't know vader is luke's father lol It just seems so absurd that it became funny to me.
@@Dorkaxe Gotcha. It confused me at first but when I thought about it I had thought maybe you just worded it funny.
@@Dorkaxe seeing as you didn't know who Dengar is I'm having a hard time believing this
Holy shit, I can't believe I put up with this game all those years ago. I bought a Playstation 4 back in late 2015, and this was my first multiplayer game I ever really played. In hindsight I just find it amazing that I put up with how bad the game was, considering the extremely apparent flaws even I knew about nearly 6 years ago. I played the game at launch and became my favorite game that I would play nearly every day up until the Death Star DLC. To this day I still prefer it over the sequel, despite the fact that the sequel is a better game in nearly every possible way, probably because of how good 12 year old me was at this game. I put up with the season pass, the DLC content, the base game content, the EE4, the overpowered heroes, the underpowered heroes, the bugs, the glitches, everything. But this game was to me how Halo 3 was to hundreds of thousands of kids back in 2007. I wish I was a kid again, I can't enjoy games like I used to anymore.
you are still young...
@@PepeBote11a that's the idea.
I fondly remember the gameplay and the maps. Everything surrounding that was so bad though
@@PepeBote11a so?
@@ajax3017 you’re still a kid so you can enjoy games like you “used to”
When this game dropped, the graphics were definitely it's highest selling point what with contributing to the immersion factor of the game. When it dropped, I had never seen a game that looked so graphically stunning before and I distinctly remember this being the first time I really felt a new frontier was being pushed toward photorealism in gaming. I remember asking my dad to buy it for me on launch from my local gamestop. I was sitting in my pre cal class thinking nonstop about getting home to play ot finally after having been impressed with the beta. And it did its job for a while but the amount of content available at launch you could cycle through in about 3 hours I think, which is what I did. Then, all the spirit I initially had for the game vanished. Which was especially odd, since I am an enormous fan of Star Wars and that was the best looking game I had ever played. But there wasn't any pretense at all in my lack of interest at that point. I blankly just did not feel motivated to keep playing at all. The appetite would come up again every so often when the dlc would be made free for promotional events but aside from that, I learned an invaluable lesson in what to expect of the EA Star Wars product. When BF2 was announced and released, it was the first time in my life I distinctly remember being completely and utterly ambivalent about a Star Wars game. The news of the state of the lootboxes at the time was coming out and the marketing toward the prequels in my eyes was utterly disingenuous with an insulting paucity of content that actually represented that era on release. The game was in such a skeletal state that more than just ambivalence, I felt actual disgust for the product they were peddling. And that was the first time that not only did i feel ambivalence, but that i received a Star Wars product's release with actual hostility. I didn't pick that game up on launch and waited till it was on sale for 5 dollars around the time that the Geonosis update was being released. The game at its final state before being abandoned is still bare minimum what should have been delivered on launch and I will never forget the travesty EA made out of Star Wars under its control.
I never picked up either of the star wars battlefront games because I was already boycotting EA at the time.
But I get how you feel. Mainly because EA ruined the need for speed games. That series used to be one of my favorite franchises and now its been abandoned.
EA tends to do that with whatever they can get their grubby little hands on.
Also thank you so much for including proper comma's and periods in your comment. Since its pretty long, it would have been a nightmare to read if it was all one big blob of text.
Battlefront 2 is almost a masterpiece. Sadly they had to go work on battlefield 2042 which looks like a masterpiece so far
@@RonaldAsks "the great fall for greater to rise"- I just made this but I think its fitting
@@emperorarkoos2919 yeah, act man made a video called the fall and rise of star wars battlefront 2. So it definitely fits
@@RonaldAsks yeah I've seen it,as a fan of the game it flet good to hear praise for the game (espcailly from someone who used to hate the game).
“The only other lightsaber user is of course Luke Skywalker brother darth Vader” think you mean father
it's his brother dude Anakin had 2 kids twin boys luke and vader and vader fell from grace c'mon man watch the movies
vader is luke's brother.
Vader: i find your lack of faith disturbing
I can’t wait for the Battlefront 2 review to be 3 hours long
Hah imo that game was way worse. It isn’t fair nor fun
@@Taskmaster-nc8eh they fixed it tho
Same. I would like him to talk about map design, hero design, and modes.
@@Taskmaster-nc8eh shows you haven't played since launch
@@RonaldAsks No, he is right. It is so trash. Even with the new classes that were added after launch, they weren't able to even make them unique from each other
Also, let's please address the elephant on the room.
RAGDOLLS
BF 2015 ragdolls are just oh so satisfying.
BF II ragdolls are just Unity Indie Game level
"Im not spending 10 hours in vehicles fuck off" is going in the top 10 dorkaxe quotes of all time
Did this dude just call darth Vader Luke’s brother?
My one best memory with Battlefront (2015) was on one of my last days at high school, my teacher let me bring my humongous vcr Xbox to class to play games with my friends on the smart board’s projector. Towards the end of one of our classes, I actually convinced my teacher, one that I’d come to see as a good mentor and friend, to play one of the co-op missions with me. He picked the Beggar’s canyon mission so he was my wing-mate in that short but sweet X-wing based mission. I’ll never forget the smiles he had on his face and his laughter of just pure enjoyment when we were taking on TIE squads together.
51:17 did you call Vader Luke’s brother
your underrated dude, you deserve more viewers smh
Its really disappointing to see long, well researched and thought out videos get abandoned by the algorithm. Instead we get 10 minute clickbait videos with no real effort behind them.
If you'd like to give me money, here is my patreon link: www.patreon.com/dorkaxe
I will also be using this comment for any corrections to mistakes I made in the video.
1. Not really a mistake, but still: The Season Pass was initially 50 bucks when the game came out apparently. Can't believe I missed that and didn't mention it in the video.
56:37 Ha you think that's bad? Before the last update, the hero was given to the person who dealt the final blow. So everyone would just run away or hide until the hero got to 10% health. You could deal 99% of the damage on every hero and still never get to play as the hero the entire match.
I remember reading about that on some reddit posts. No idea how DICE would think THAT would be a good idea.
The helmetless option, combined with literally everybody running the jet pack ruined this game for me
51:19 his brother?
oh shit i just saw the end
All of the flaws stated are correct but I still fucking love this game
I'm really sad this game is dead i unironcally like it more than the new battlefront 2
For me it’s a mixed bag to be honest.
2015 has a lot more life and personality than 2017 even to this day.
2017 has far better hero combat and balancing/vehicles and the reinforcement classes are cool. Not to mention how much content there is.
Basically to keep it somewhat brief, the arcade like power up system in 2015 is fun. 2015 has two modes I’d play over any 2017 any day. (Cargo and Walker assault) And most importantly. The “base troopers” gameplay felt wayyyyy better with the variety of weapons and star card loadouts!
You want to be a sniper who also plays tanky? Sure!
You want to be a guns a blazing crazy guy who goes out with explosive shot and tons of grenades? Sure!
You want to be a bit more of a support player with Dioxis grenade and healing droid thing? Sure!
2017’s major flaw is it’s restrictive class system regular trooper gameplay, I’m always trying to become a hero/vehicle/reinforcement in 2017 battlefront because frankly… I don’t 100% like any of the classes and how they work.
So in 2017 I have to be patient and wait a few minutes of boring base gameplay before I can pick a hero and get to the actual good stuff.
Where in 2015 I actually liked the base trooper gameplay, possibly more than the heros.
In conclusion, if you love hero gameplay above all else. 2017 is easily the pick for you. Hop onto Heros V Villains and play that constantly.
If you want to enjoy things other than the special classes of the game (or ships but I don’t like ships even though they are much better in 2017)
Pick 2015 any day.
The amount of detail and research you do for these videos is just amazing and very well done man, your opinions are well presented and your video are always well laid out but the research and depth you dive into is what constantly impresses me.
Amazing job as always keep them coming!! :)
How do you only have 4k subs? I thought you would have at least 500k by just watching your video and listening to you. Boy you are underated!
Great commentary on this rendition of Battlefront. Can't wait for Battlefront 2 2017!
I personally loved this game but I do agree with some of the points you made, you need to do a review of Battlefront 2 now, it is so much better
I know it is not a shooter, but ya might possibly be interested in trying out Star Wars Empire at War. It is a fantastic Real Time Strategy made by Petroglyph Games. I have a feeling that if you like Star Wars ya may enjoy that game too.
TH-cam didn't let me know what the heck?
Edit: I am refering to the uplaod of this video for anyone who is confused.
Battlefront 2 is so good now, so I'm so excited to see you review it. I don't know if I'd say it was better than the originals, but that might just be nostalgia, but it deffently stacks up.
I do understand that, the heroes are extremely strong, but in my opinion, they are too weak in both Battlefront 2 games. Nothing worse than becoming Darth Vader and being completely destroyed by a stupid rebel soldier with a vanguard.
This game was an insult to the original two. Yes, the few maps they had were gorgeous, but other than that the quality was sad.
I remember just playing Walker Assault/Survival over and over again with my little brother for like a year, and we couldn't do anything online because it's a PS4 and we didn't have PS Plus. I have some good memories from that, but even back then I knew that this game was pretty terrible. It had its moments for sure, and it had the skeleton of a great game, but it just failed to go those final steps to become fleshed out and really enjoyable. Great video my dude.
Thanks a lot! I feel your pain. My friends and I played BF1/2 on the ps2 and xbox locally a lot back then, so all I really cared about was the split-screen and offline content. We tried it for one night and they never wanted to play it again. Sad days.
This was great! Battlefront 2015 used to be my go to game when it first released (I was pretty young) and it still holds a special place in my heart, but I can’t refute it’s probably the worst in the franchise. I’m looking forward to your video on the sequel (no rush), I started getting into it recently and it’s an improvement on 2015’s in just about every way. it’ll be interesting to hear your take on it!
Over time I've gained more nostalgia for this game, I played it a lot though back when it came out and constantly criticized the game for many of it's flaws, the glitches and community surrounding this game made for plenty of fun too.
Man this came out my freshman year of college. How things change
This is actually a fantastic review, however I spot one issue. I feel like the experience would be skewered if you are purposefully trying to complete the hutt contracts one after another quickly for a review, however you could argue that some players do this already so that shouldn’t be a problem in the first place.
Is it bad all my memories from this are from the singleplayer walker assault? Like I would just chill out and slaughter terribly coded ai and waste my Friday doing that.
Not at all, taco god. I imagine a lot of my time would be spent there as well if there were a few more modes offline and a galactic conquest or something. Definitely wouldn't mind playing droid run or hero hunt with dingus AI bots.
I know there was no clown wars, But DAMN I love this game still!
I’ll let Darth Vader being Lukes brother slide for this time, amazing review! I acually enjoyed this game more than I thought I’d would. My main game mode was Walker Assault and I got pretty good at it. It was waaay more forgiving than it’s sequel, witch by my book, gorgeous as it might be, is still a pay to win of epic proportions. Thank you for the video and the memories.
Ummmm......? Have you played battlefront 2 in the last 2 years? They removed loot boxes, you don't have to pay to unlock a hero and the progression was completely reworked. The only thing you can buy with credits is cosmetics and even then you have the celebration edition which gives you all the cosmetics (except for a few that can't be unlocked through credits) the game is almost a masterpiece
What I'm trying to say is that it's not pay to win
Literally everything bad about the launch of Battlefront 2 is gone, dude. Clearly you haven’t played the game since 2018
Thank you for this video.
Honestly, I personally prefer Battlefront 1 2015 over Battlefront II 2017.
The "Star Wars" feeling and atmosphere was never captured better than in this game. Yes, the game is restricted to the Original Trilogy, but it holds a very special place in my heart. It is my favorite SW game ever. I never had the same amount of fun in Battlefront 2, although, it certainly improved some aspects. I personally still prefered the overall gameplay. I just miss the classes and I even prefer the Pick-ups over the battle point system.
I elaborated on my opinion about Battlefront 2015 in the comments section of your Battlefront II 2017 Critique.
Never played Battlefront 2015, saw the trailers when I was younger and realized before it release that it wouldn't be that good or like original I grew up on and never bought it. Game came out and I was right, but I still watch videos about every now and then. I think you'll enjoy battlefront 2 a little more. Game play was a lot better bringing back classes but new problems arrived in the loot box fiasco and Battle Points. Take as much time as you need for the video
Amazing game. Much better than the second one. I still prefer the og battlefront from 2003 though. Once you gave this game your time to perfect the controls and power ups paired with the jetpack it will reward you. I'm max rank on all platforms. Battlefront 2 reboot time to kill is way to high. Leading to very boring gameplay. You cannot pop off without playing as a hero constantly. And I'd argue they can be more op in battlefront 2 actually.
bro that ending with all the contrived star wars quotes is some community level shit good job. (also thanks for the shout out, that means a lot)
Edit: donkey donkey donkey
Thanks buddy, and no problem! Hope the algorithm picks up on this video soon to get you some peeps watching that work of art OoT video.
Ngl, to this day this game is still one of my favorite multiplayer games I've ever had the chance to play while it was active. The gunplay was fluid (Battlefront 2's gunplay often feels wonky and bloomy), the maps were fantastic (almost every battlefront 2 map has lanes and ends up in a funnel in Galactic Assault), I enjoyed the freedom to make my own kit, and the effects/backgrounds/map events (Super Star Destroyer crashing/Fights above) are all phenomenal and add to the environment (Battlefront 2 can't even make a proper explosion outside of a cutscene). There are things BF2 did better like the spawn screen vehicle/hero system and having more content (expected from a sequel game) but the core gameplay was gutted IMO.
Yep, the freedom of choice was amazing in 2015. And wayyyy more weapons was a massive positive for me personally, unlike the OP’s opinion in the video I loved the massive diversity of star cards and weapons. When the DLC was getting released I always was more interested in the new blasters/star cards than the new maps and game modes. I’ve grown to not dislike Battlefront 2 2017 as much as I used to, but there’s still a quality to 2015 that is special and unique to this day!
I even loved the ridiculous hero pickups and vehicle pickups. Battlefront 2015 isn’t/wasn’t a competitive gaming experience in any way. Tons of cheese and ridiculousness. But that’s part of what made it AMAZING. Not to mention 2015 Cargo>All 2017 game modes imo.
Back at the game’s height I could enjoy endless hours of Cargo or Walker Assault, when 2017 dropped it took me like maybe a week before I got bored of the core gameplay.
In battlefront 2, you almost never hear people loving the core “classes” and for a reason. They’re kind of boring. You’re always trying to go for a hero/vehicle/reinforcement. And while I agree all of those plus space battles are WAY better in 2017. The core gameplay aka regular troopers is seriously lacking in the 2017 version and never really got addressed.
Guy named "let go of your hate" trolling everyone from an unreachable position throwing down OP toxic grenades. I really like that there is a very spiritual theme through the star wars story as it gives what looks like a normal shooter a bit more depth. That is a great chance to not let you lose your zen focus, ie the force, as it give you the best chance at countering it.
I feel like these games should've had small team modes similar to domination. Like a small scale capitol supremacy. I feel like supremacy was the best game mode between the 2 EA star wars games.
For all it's flaws and disappointments compared to the originals this game really makes you feel like you are in a movie which is pretty special.
Battlefront 2 EA doesn't have that same amazing feeling but it is the much better video game although less polished. I have played both EA battlefronts +100hrs and love them despite how premature and "underbaked" they feel compared to the original
I agree, i know that the sequel to this is a much better game, but something about playing the 2015 battlefront just felt more special. The Bespin dlc was some of the most fun i have ever had in a game.
Yep, spot on. Battlefront 2 is a miles better game, but for some reason feels like its always missing that level of addictiveness that Battlefront 1 had.
2 years? 2 years?! They gave a team Star Wars and only gave them 2 years?!?! Fuck EA man.
13:30 modern warfare 3 (the original) had one of the best tower defense modes I’ve seen in a shooter, imagine if Dice used that style as a base? Smh
I only recently picked up Battlefront 2 and have enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, looking forward to your thoughts on it.
The guns were Honestly fun in this game. The shotgun could be used with focus fire as a slug shot, and the bo rifle spreading through the game like an infection was cool.
I've been playing it lately and honestly it can be really good at times. Most of the mods are fun, the maps are good, the dlcs are great, the heroes are very cool, the weapons and loadouts are a lot, ect.
The season pass was 50 bucks when it launched.
Amazing review, this must've taken so much time and effort.
It's one of my favourite games of the last decade.
Look forward to your review of the sequel, that game wasn't as good imo
Bro for how few subscribers you have your content is out of this world. I’m subbing to you.
Thi man is both gonna love and hate dice battlefront 2 cannot wait to see the review
The prequal trilogy were weird movies that were bad at times but the idea and presentation of armies of clones fighting armies of droids was such an awesome idea to me. It is the coolest era of star wars in my opinion. The animated clone wars shows (both of them) do such a good job of fleshing out what was left out of the movie. I love DICES BF2 because I can play the clone wars era.
Would be cool if after BF2017, you do vidoes on the spin off psp games.
Egregious business practices aside, this game was hella fun back in the day. It was actually my first ever console game (I had only played on Nintendo platforms before this) and it introduced me to the FPS genre. Most might not like it, but this game holds a special place in my heart.
Just sad they held so much back..didn’t have the clone wars included or conquest. That part hurt the most and led to me not wanting to have it in my selection anymore I think for the final time cause I sold it before and got it again later. Still found out you gotta be online to get more out of this game and it’s just sad. Battlefront 2 improved so much more plus included campaign and clone wars. That one I still have. You hit a lot of points I agree with.
This game is 100% call of duty: Star Wars, except worse with micro transactions and no campaign. The gun unlocks, the online focus, it’s incredible they called it battlefront. That’s the biggest problem with it for me is the name.
Weirdly, this might be my favorite Battlefront. I think I'll always love 2005 B2 the most but I absolutely love 2015. Has a lot of problems but it's the one I enjoy the most now days.
The piss poor campaign and trash story they added to BF 2 was just a slap in the face. Ppl clearly asked for the same content offline with a galactic conquest sandbox. Nobody gaf about story, which is why the real BF games didn't need them even tho they added a basic one for BF 2
I bought this game and all the DLC content on sale for 2 dollars back in 2020 - that's still a little pricey for what this game is. Still, I had fun for about 30 minutes.
53:03 Fun fact, Clone Wars Greedo is voiced by Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob
I got this game as its live service ended, and you could say I was lucky to get everything from the DLCs. I also look forward to that Battlefront 2 review, as I played that from it’s beta to well beyond its end of live service. Can’t wait!
shouldve had a subtitle
Tremendous review, really like your commentary. Subbed and hoping to see more from you.
I hold a lot of nostalgia for this game weirdly. I had just finished university and it was the first time-sink game I focused on which probably played a part. I knew it was barebones and like a pleb, I even bought the DLC. I found the basic, arcade-style very fun but I remember sitting on my chair one night and I just hit a wall with this game. There was zero progression & satisfaction from the same scenarios and maps. A very strange game. I fell into the mindlessness of it which is unlike me to be honest as I typically prefer feedback in terms of progression, story and interesting gameplay.
Great video.
Imagine seeing you here!
I loved this game back at its height. It’s by 0 means a competitive gaming experience but that’s not what it’s for at all either. Battlefront 2017 may be a better game in almost every measurable way yet I find myself having a lot more fun with 2015, apart from hero/ships gameplay which is admittedly far superior in the 2017 battlefront. I also like 2017’s reinforcement class.
Basically, 2015 felt way better as a “regular trooper” while 2017’s class system sounds interesting at face value, it gets old very quick as a base gameplay experience (at least for me) where I could play hours upon hours of Cargo as a regular class troop in battlefront 2015 and never get bored.
The endless amount of weapons and star card loadouts in 2015 is just plain fun, especially when the game had more (and less experienced) players.
Love the shiny hunting man! Keep it up!
I personally played the hell out of the originals and still do today. I tried it online, but only a couple times. I loved the immersion of taking part in a battle on a SW battlefield... without a 15 year old talking about my mother and tea bagging me
The singleplayer missions were fun when you played with a friend, otherwise they were really boring
Darth Vader as Luke's brother imagine that twist.
Never had xbox live so I couldn't play 90% of the game, which was a bummer, but was a blast watching youtubers livestream this after school.
This is one of the highest quality videos I've ever seen and it having less than a million views is astounding, the time and effort put into this hour long review really shows. I never watch videos this long and usually find them boring but this was certainly an exception. can't wait to see your bf2 review!
That's huge praise, thanks a lot!
I am dying, the endor speeder chase from the tutorial, that also exists in one of the Lego StarWars Games
2015 was also a time when EA was blatantly, completely and openly against single player games because they did profit like Battlefield or FIFA
I kinda hate how much I enjoyed this game when it came out. Only four maps and unbalanced as hell
Wholeheartedly agree with this, I was so excited when this was announced spent a lot of money on it on launch and I played because I felt like I had too. However Ea's battlefront 2 now is a very fun game, at launch it was a shitshow but after the small team working on it polished it off a lot and brought us tons of free dlc I put it up there with the originals. Still somehow don't know why galactic conquest hasn't even remade it's the best thing ever made
The air combat is legit just spinning a wheel
Greedo is actually very OP his traits also bootst his pistol damage and he can tear through heroes easily
AAA game publishers are not concerned with making a good game. They are concerned with making a profitable game. If a profitable game also happens to be good, that's the cherry on top. For the last probably 10 or so years game publishers have been getting more and more terrible in their design and practices, ordering studios to do the absolute bare minimum possible to sell a game and setting ridiculous deadlines in which to do it.
Consumers are just as much to blame for this behavior because they keep rewarding it with pre-orders and microtransactions. It's like every major release in a major franchise with few exceptions breaks the previous record held by the previous major release in the franchise. Studios do not care about your feelings, they only care about transferring money from your wallet into their bank account and as long as that keeps happening, no amount of complaining will result in changed behavior.
I never understand why games don't take the assist counts as kills from battlefield. If you do the most dmg to someone then someone comes in and takes it it'll still be considered a kill for you
Great insight as awlays
I dunno if anyone has said this yet, but there were originally going to be no heroes released with the Outer Rim dlc, but they decided to make Greedo and Nien Numb because they already had the face models from the soldiers.
This games gun play is way better than 2017 battlefront by a long shot
We all know luke brothers is darth vader thats just common knowledge
I think most of your complaints come from being bad at the game. People look back at the old games with nostalgia because they played singleplayer and not in multiplayer lobbies.
starting your video with a montage of you being out of position (and moving very slowly, basically begging to get killed) and then dying to a hero (as if the heroes in the older games weren't unbalanced) does not do well for you
as someone who was very disappointed by this game on release and hated it because i was such a fan of the originals, looking back, it isn't bad. It's very fun in fact. Fun, multiplayer very casual game, not much to really talk about anymore
I understand an hour long video may not be for everybody, but commenting on it after only watching 20 seconds isn't a good look. When I discuss the online portion of the game, I'm pretty generous and admit that I had a good time. There would be no reason for you to think me being "bad" would influence my complaints if you got that far.
@@Dorkaxe i will admit that I commented around 20 minutes in and did finish watching the video. I still think your initial critiques (around half of the video) are very tired. I am also glad that you corrected your mistake in earlier videos talking about the graphics of this game. It would be very stupid to pretend that the new games don't at least look very good. I'm just sick and tired on the endless ragging on this game- and I mean I get it. In 2014 I had the same complaints. But that was 2014. And after I played it for an extended period of time I came to the conclusion that it was nowhere near as bad as many initially said it was. Solid 3/5 game maybe even higher, in my opinion.
also I do think you edited and scripted this video very well even if i disagreed on some parts so good job.
Not this ship, sister
Great video. I don’t like the idea of having to unlock weapons, especially weapon classes in games. Sure, you can have some unlockables but the core weapon gameplay should be completely available from first launch. One thing I really miss about old shooters. Everyone is on equal footing, it comes down to skill. Even in Halo, everyone can gain access to the weapons it’s just a battle to control them. Old Battlefront had great gameplay that was enough to carry it without the desire to grind for unlockables. Mastering classes is extremely satisfying. This will come down to personal preferences but I like to fire up a game and just play, not worry about my rank or what the next unlockable is, then get pissed when it’s taking forever to unlock it. I did enjoy my time with Battlefront 2015, it was visually stunning and a very aesthetic experience, and had its gameplay moments. As a product though, it is a poor game, nowhere near enough content at launch, and never enough single player. I also found heroes to be rather clunky in this game, other than Fett. Didn’t use the DLC heroes though. I also miss the way vehicles worked in older Battlefront, especially 2004. Fighting against a rebel landspeeder was epic and the battle to seize them online was always enjoyable. Again, the old game was engaging enough that it didn’t need extra fluff to bring you back. It’s a shame we will never see a game on the caliber of the original Battlefront.
The vehicle change was the nail in the coffin for me. I don't want to unlock vehicles. They're vehicles. They should be on the map. These are literally the developers who made BATTLEFIELD... WHAT were they thinking
Coming from someone who loved this game; this is an extremely fair review.
Still liked this battlefront wayyyy better than battlefront 2 even after the rehaul. Combat felt WAYYY better and small game modes like heroes vs villains and blast were way more fun and enjoyable
Cargo>>>>>>All 2017 game modes.
2017 is carried by great hero/ship/reinforcement combat. The core troopers experience is far worse at least IMO.
@@locustboy8448 completely agree with all that was said
This game rewards skill whereas bf2 rewards camping with lightsabers
Through the floor is something I am going to start saying.
battlefront 2 (2017) review on the way 👀?
You're right that this game should not have been called battlefront for what it represents. BUT you didn't include the steadfast communities that stayed through the now 6 years. I don't know if it's was because you were on ps4 or if you just didn't know, but the community offers tournaments for high end players and it host lobbies to the DLC so people can clear contracts and have fun with these sadly exclusive modes.
I disagree with you on the note that it should have had conquest, ( I know it is called battlefront and was just for money ) but a game that offers so much speed and momentum doesn't play well with so much freedom. If you were to take the new battlefront 2 and only have jet troopers it would be chaos, the choice to make more linear game modes I think was smart to keep the action centered and not spreading the players in the match too thin with high mobility the game offers.
Some of the game modes the game introduced were also frowned upon, the one getting the most hate was probably the starfighter mode, as it didn't feature space battles unless you had money for DLC. Other game modes were on the other hand praised like walker assault and hero hunt, and dice was framed for being lacy not adding them to battlefront 2. I will agree that hero hunt did favor high end players and the way it ends, as you pointed out, is bad. Though the core of feeling strong against an opposition that keeps coming at you in greater numbers can be fun and a challenge ( + Boosk and Vader are by far better than palps ).
I sound like a big fanboy, and I am. I played against "pros" in some tournaments and have over 700 hours of active playtime. I know the game ain't nice to newcomers or the average player, but to the senior player like myself I find it fun and engaging to have that little minigame with the reload, even though I know the timings by memory it still gives a little depth to an otherwise bland shooting experience. Some of the weapons also has specific patters to make them shoot faster, and the freedom the loadouts gives is fun to play around with.
I again stress, this game should not have been called battlefront, I very much agree.
Still I find the game amazing :)
EA destroys my childhood. New at 11.
so expect to see battlefront 2 2017 in the near future?