I got into BF3 when Close Quarters was released and played until bf4 and I can hands down say it was the BEST fps gaming experience ever.. sadly fps will never be this fun, enjoyable or immersive ever again. :(
@@realtyrnezthe over competitive nature of most gamers nowadays and the average skill floor being so much higher than it used to be. Everybody and I mean everybody used to suck back then and that made it fun.
bf3 raised me. The most memorable moments were in the metro map where usually the russians had all sectors and we were stuck in the first spawn trying to fight our way out but ultimately failing cause there were either too many sweats or too many snipers. Damn i love this game
Lol I spent my childhood replaying the campaign over and over again and thinking that montes was the coolest guy ever and that he was my best friend. I was always furious when he died. 😂
Seriously this and playing rush on damavand peak where’d you see everyone jumping off the cliff parachuting down. Was borderlined cinematic and still one of my favorite moments in any FPS to date
3:05 server browser has a bug where if the region “south us” is enabled it will only show that there are no servers. So when browsing, hit every other region except that and it will show all servers. I’m probably wasting my energy with this comment because you’ll probably not play this game again but if you do, here’s a tip. The end of battlefield 3 will truly be the end of an era. And after 4 shuts down. That will probably be the end of my battlefield days. They were great. And I never regret a second of it.
@@XDMIIIIIIIIIthankfully that's not really the case at least for now. I've found full lobbies of random maps on quick match. Sadly the browser is gone, but there's at least one server that still has multiple maps.
I actually played it again today and I was flabbergast by the audio, pairing it with Dolby Atmos. The audio sounded so clear, and the front and rear audio sound so marvelous. I didn't know it could sound this so good, back then I was just playing it with nothing but cheap shits xD
Yea the sound design is quite impressive. The immersion you get with a high quality set of gaming headphones is unbelievable. Played BF3 for a little over a year till I got me a Tritton 720+ headset. Felt relieved to finally communicate with squad and team mates
Dude I loved battlefield 3. To me BF3 and BF4 are top tier. The SV98 was my go to sniper and rush was my go to game mode. If I had to pick which to to be remade, I wouldn't be mad at what the popular vote chose. Good times msn.
@@joemellon7182I may end up getting BF4 again on my Xbox x. I played both of them at there peak but BF3 will always have a special place in my heart as one of my favorite games. But I’ll probably just get BF4 because apparently there is still a really good player base and I enjoyed BF4 at its peak as well and if BF3 doesn’t have a solid player base then I may just go to BF4 instead.
@@HarmonicMan4 I’ve played bf4 nonstop for almost a decade. After playing hell divers 2 that cut the streak tbh. I don’t play bf4 anymore but I definitely support it
I go back and play BF3’s campaign literally every year. So many good memories, wish they still made games like this, the sound design, the graphics, the set pieces- amazing.
@@djangorestraind596 I could only imagine how good that was, for me my teenage prime was during BF4s prime which is still great, but as a kid I remember playing BF3 campaign all the time but I never had PS+ so I couldn't play online. To this day BF3's campaign is my favourite ever no matter how 'mid' the story actually was
It was quite an experience, also meeting up with your homies online and reviving and going alon as a squad. Makes me realized we don't play many more games together anymore.
@@melo5550 It's still epic. As a matter of fact, there is a massive rise of new players in the servers. But this is especially the case in with the pc version.
Nice keep playing it. It was amazing back in the day no words to describe it. The player base in the millions ..... the hype was so enjoyable the best experience ever and I still play bf3 & bf4 weekly. Mr battlefield has now started his own shooter studio named TTK games and I wonder if he can come out with a likewise game as bf3 in the future.. be sure to check it out ...
it was magical. I lived and breathed it in its heyday on Xbox 360. Soooo many fun late night sessions with friends stomping lobbies or coming back to help the team win from behind. I remember getting kicked when I'd kill the admin or their buddies just because I was lvl 100, there weren't many of us around back then lol. AEK+ kobra sight+ heavy barrel+ front grip ftw lol. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...it was truly magical
Right now at 6:47AM on PlayStation 3, BATTLEFIELD 3 has 2 full 24/24 servers one of them has 3 people waiting in the Queue, one server has 23/24, one at 14/24, one at 13/24, one at 4/8, one at 4/24, and one at 1/24. 6 are private servers and two are DICE.
I had pre-ordered this game when it was first announced, and I still remember the elongated neck glitch in the Beta as well as during the intial release 😂. How the time flies 😢
Also spoiler, Dima didn't die in bf3 but in bf4, when we get trapped in a chinese high security prison, we encounter him still with the nuclear explosion burns on his face. He will eventually die at the end of the mission as we free ourselves outside the jail.
@@Bushberry For me it was because the actors are different so he is called Dima, but looks different to BF3 Dima. Story wise it as the same DIma though
and the HUD UI was beautiful too, still remember playing the beta on 360 at op metro. What a beautiful time it was to be alive, best game I ever played in my life.
I remember when the attackers on Metro rush had an LAV at that first set of mcoms in the beta, lmao. Was wild. My fav shooter game of all time by far. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...was truly a magical time. So many late nights with friends stomping lobbies or helping the team come back from behind to win
Built my first PC for this game, still have my original install on a slow ass old hard drive lol. Used to come home from school and play until the early AM every night, easily my favourite MP game of all time. I really think all these old beloved MP games need to be dropped to $5 as a standard, would keep them alive a lot longer.
This game brings treasured memories for me. I played it with my father and with some friends of school in PS3 and we had a clan there with a lot of people. I made a lot of friends and some still playing with me other games until today. Nowadays I miss that time and this game so much and I think we will never have another experience like this anymore since the gaming industry only thinks about making a profit and doesn't do anything of quality anymore.
I feel the same, except I lived and breathed BF3 in its heyday on Xbox 360. I was really sad when the BFstats websites abruptly went out of business years ago too, even years later after I stopped playing all the time I was top percentage MVP, medic, winning percentage, etc among couple top percent in multiple weapons. Nothing else has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after, was truly a magical time. Sooooo many hectic heart pumping adrenaline filled fun nights winning matching handedly or coming from behind to help the team win. Games these days truly don't feel the same. It feels like all the passion is gone and replaced by pure greed...the consumers are basically unpaid beta testers these days. I have a gaming pc and all 3 consoles but not much excites me as much these days. Squad, DayZ, Arma, The Division games have scratched an itch in some ways, Tarkov did for awhile for me but then the viral wiggle video really confirmed what I had believed and suspected for a long time that the game was absolutely infested badly with cheaters
The bf3 maps were the absolute best. I switched over from cod to bo3 and I always played more realistically on bf3. Wouldn’t get nearly as many kills per game but it was so much more fun. Those maps were everything especially the DLC’s
January 1st, 2024 MY SERVER BROWSER SETTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS: PLAYERS: ANY(unselect all options) MODE: ANY(unselect all options) MAP: ANY(unselect all options) PRESET: 2[5](Normal and Custom) RANKED: ANY(unselect all options) REGION: ANY(All unselected) The trick is to unselect almost everything in the menu. What you have to do to have them show up is to have 'Normal' and 'Custom' selected on "PRESET", this ensures that the Server Browser doesn't encounter an error from loading all 1000+ server listings at once. I also have "[×]Show Premium servers" selected and, "[×]Include and show games where the server is full". These options are at the very bottom. I understand this may not make full sense, so if you have questions: ask.
Never forgetting the time I wanted to get battlefield 3 at the gamestore but then the guy behind the cashier was like "For 10 extra bucks you can buy the new game BF4" and I did, had a blast! unlocked the phantom bow (the legit grindy way before it became free...) and honestly had a lot of fun
Yes BF3 was the best all around. The multiplayer with the squads and squad leader setup was awesome. It definitely should have been remastered and/or the new battlefields should follow the same gameplay.
I have been playing bf3 on and off since November 2011...i bought bf4 a year after it's release and the experience could never compare to bf3. Its hard to explain but is like i remember it had this short period in bf3 where just because you saw an enemy didnt mean you had to get hostile toward eachother. A ton of good people were playing bf3 on ps3 back in the day. Took me years just to go back to cod. It was my first battlefield and no other bf has come close to replicating what we had on bf3.
Recently hoped back onto it on ps3 and found there was only a few servers left (about 5 going at once). It was still very enjoyable until I got banned by toxic admins on several of the remaining servers believing I was cheating, purely because i was playing on an account with no bf3 playtime before and was outplaying these max rank admins…. And then it got worse as I’ve now found out the offical servers are now full of actual cheaters with 1 shot weapons and wallhacks.
I was raised in call of duty but when bf3 dropped it just raised the bar for me for a game in every aspect and I was hooked on battlefield every since It really is such a sad story that most of the talent that created this game and four aren't even with dice anymore and well most likely never see this kind of game again coming from dice or EA unless they get the wise idea to do a remaster of 3 or 4
i played the beta when i was 13 back when my 360 had the "open tray" error and couldnt read any games but ended up getting a new 360 with this game when mw3 came out. good times
Bf3 was the golden age of the franchise. If only we could get a battlefield game that is a mix between bf3 and bf4 then id never play another game ever again 😂
Dice can’t write codes at BF3 and BF4 levels anymore. Dice should’ve cut and paste BF3 & 4 platform with 2020s weapons, air craft and vehicles for 2042.
I saw that plane clip on AmazingFilms247's TH-cam channel back when BF3 was popular, what a time that was. Now I'm staring at BF1 and BF5 for ~$4 each, where both have too many hackers and cheaters in their multiplayer modes unless you join community servers. BF3 remains iconic.
BF3 should have been remastered but not in the likes of MW2. Both were classics at the time and honestly deserve to live on forever if possible. I have yet to find another game that come close to it although I transition to R6 Siege for a while.
To be honest i played bf3 once and i didn't enjoy it but that doesn't mean that people that do enjoy it shouldn't have the possibility to play it i know my personal favourite is bc2
I can't even get the game to run. I install it, launch it. It opens a web browser and then when I hit quick match, the game says it's joining, but never shows me the game. Horrible.
Well guys, this was 12 years ago. Some of us were 10 or 12 living life in simpler times when CoD MW3, Minecraft and BF 3 was where we spent time with childhood friends, time flies... Hope you all are doing well still
Me an buddy was just talking about it lol we love the games we was talking about how they need to remaster these games don't mess with the play style or game play we love the graphics they just need to be updated a little bit not enhanced to the point it strains the eyes every thing about this battle field was amazing 🤩
I NEVER played BF3 or BF4, never had a good enough pc to do that :( Now that i'm 21 and finally got a job, it will take me some months to build my pc and be able to do it. But it seems like i don't have much time, unfortunately. And...what about BF4? How much time do you guys think it will last from now? I plan on playing BF3 and BF4, mainly BF4.
I just bought this from ea store since they had a sale offering an 85% discount. Is it still worth it to play in 2024 in multiplayer lobbies? are there barely servers in the game?
Sad to say i never really got into bf3 i was playing bo2 at the time really wish i did tho i started really playing it anf getting into it basically right before it died my first real battlefield game was 4 and i live 4 with all my heart but wish i was there for this masterpiece
Man I remember in 2011, that before I had a new PC, and BF3 was in beta, I hat to play it on my oldnotebook from 2009 or so in 640p or something. Then when It finally was released I played the morning it got released on my then "top notch" pc with the i7 2600k, 16gb Ram, and amd 6950. Played quite a bunch with my friends, and I remember well the Seine Map, of course Metro, and then later I was happy to visit again Strike on Karkand etc. It was quite fun, even tough I always sucked at living long using a plane. This very PC I used until last month, and I finally got a new one, to drive 4K, and I've been thinking about revisiting Bf3... Maybe I should before they shut the servers forever. I hope they can make some kind of Fan-Revival liek with Bf2142, which I also loved the Settings, and the Titan mode especially. Its videos like this that remind you how fast time has gone, as I can picture myself sitting there playing with my friends, and all of a sudden 13 Years have gone by! I remember well in 2011, there were many nice games coming out, like Skyrim too. Member?
I had this on PS3, stuck with 24 player matches. The game however, was mind blowingly good for its time. The graphics (even at 30 fps) were incredible, destruction, gunplay, voice lines etc were insane. Initially you'd get like 10 kills and 25 deaths but that's okay, you still got a bunch of points by being a team player. Got the Steam version recently, and to put it shortly, the experience was severely depressing. Long live BF3.
As do I. The memories are unmatched. The chaos on metro, the shenanigans on firestorm. The hype on Caspian border. I will never forget. I loved bf3 so much, I practically invented missle dodging, before they over buffed missiles. And became the top 6th pilot in U.S. On battlelog. With my number 4 european friend alizarin fox. What a time it was.
Best game ever still looks sick I just cant belive and relased in 2011 and still looks sick. I want to play this masterpeice once again in my life, best game ever
My best memories are playing battlefield 3 . it bought as pre order for my birthday an i really want everyone to know I miss the DayZ of this game wish it had ah remaster for series s,x like instead of ww2 ,robo woman
Definitely one of my favorite Battlefield games. I spent so many hours on this game since it's prime year. Rush and TDM were the modes I played the most.
Agreed. Campaign was lighthearted and funny but somewhat serious when it needed to be. Multiplayer was amazing, a few balance changes could have been useful but overall the best Multiplayer is bad company 2, along with BF3
My dad bought me a ps3 a few years ago for 50€ and then he found 7 games for 20€ I think and bought it for me. I played bf3 and bf4 on it and really liked it. Sadly I didn’t have wifi back then but fortunately I still play bf4 online
Giant BF3 fan here. PC player tho. 1. The situation is drastically better on PC (even if finding a full server can be kinda hard) 2. Yes, BF3 is next. idk about next year but by 2025 it might finally have its last hoorah. I'll be there to witness it, I promise 3. But despite that PC has Project Rome for BC2 and Venice Unleashed for BF3. If that makes you feel better, despite EA's efforts BC2 and BF3 can live forever on PC by running on custom backend 4. BF3 is last unquestionably great game in the series. Even if it took way too much from CoD, it still was promising and everyone felt hopeful for the future 5. I hope they never remaster BF3. Not only is it hard to actually remaster a 10 year old game, they also will NEVER satisfy everybody, there is no way they will implement all of the maps, weapons, vehicles from all DLCs and if the game won't have monetization + support - it will die faster than VU on launch. Fuck that, I'd rather see more remade BF3 content in Portal and/or future games
That was THE fps game and since then I felt a little bit something like that towards The Finals - but, no vehicles, no military stuff, not the same. Maybe the trolling factor is similar :D
I played bf3 until it was dead... I woke up every day befor highschool and played. The only class id play is support i had like almost 200k ammo resupplys 😂
Battlefield 3 is the best battlefield game. Because if it’s the campaign or the multiplayer then we have a battlefield game of the live action TV series at your home. I think the game needs to be remastered like there should be a remastered version coming out one time and we have so because in Porto it’s not.
Yeah pls remaster! I had never really the opportunity to play this game. My first up to date console was ps4 back in the days and there I played bf4. Amazing experiences and memories, but I would love to play bf3 one day! Not as bf portals, the original!
What upsets me is everyone on pc could stop playing 2042 right now and go play this and breath life into the servers once again and itd be what everyone wants.
2:26 "While I said BF3 is realistic, people were just doing some of the unrealistic things" Because IT'S AN ARCADE GAME. Having realistic details, scenery and slower paced gameplay than COD doesn't make a game realistic
I got into BF3 when Close Quarters was released and played until bf4 and I can hands down say it was the BEST fps gaming experience ever.. sadly fps will never be this fun, enjoyable or immersive ever again. :(
what would you say is causing this?
Joe Biden@@realtyrnez
It was soo so good, id do anything to get it back
@@realtyrnezthe over competitive nature of most gamers nowadays and the average skill floor being so much higher than it used to be. Everybody and I mean everybody used to suck back then and that made it fun.
@@realtyrnezThe devs focusing on fast casual gameplay instead of immersiveness, tactics and slow movement/gameplay
bf3 raised me. The most memorable moments were in the metro map where usually the russians had all sectors and we were stuck in the first spawn trying to fight our way out but ultimately failing cause there were either too many sweats or too many snipers. Damn i love this game
I was wondering where can I find a no sweat lobby
Yeah, Metro chaos was the best! Constant grenade expodes, smoke, I didn't see shit and was so cool.
Lol I spent my childhood replaying the campaign over and over again and thinking that montes was the coolest guy ever and that he was my best friend. I was always furious when he died. 😂
Seriously this and playing rush on damavand peak where’d you see everyone jumping off the cliff parachuting down. Was borderlined cinematic and still one of my favorite moments in any FPS to date
Why nobody play? Why? 😭😭
3:05 server browser has a bug where if the region “south us” is enabled it will only show that there are no servers. So when browsing, hit every other region except that and it will show all servers. I’m probably wasting my energy with this comment because you’ll probably not play this game again but if you do, here’s a tip.
The end of battlefield 3 will truly be the end of an era. And after 4 shuts down. That will probably be the end of my battlefield days. They were great. And I never regret a second of it.
I’ll have to double check but I swear I checked and I had all regions checked
@@Bushberryyou aren't supposed to have all regions checked
Bf1 is still good
Updating and installing the disc on my 360 as I type this cause I'm seeing if online is still a thing with this game currently
@@thereaper9149it is we all gotta come on bf3 for one last good ho-rah
Fuck I miss the old days of BF3 on my PS3…
Still works on PS3 ;)
@@Frojjnot for long unfortunately
@@FrojjBF4 is barely alive on PS4. I can only imagine BF3 on PS3, must have like two half filled lobbies running the same map 24/7
@@XDMIIIIIIIIIthankfully that's not really the case at least for now. I've found full lobbies of random maps on quick match. Sadly the browser is gone, but there's at least one server that still has multiple maps.
Reading and crying....
BF3 is/was the best online shooter ever made!!! They should do a remake I agree
I disagree with a remake just because I know they will find a way to fuck it up
You wanna play BF3 with rainbow skins and Soldiers, Wanna play BF3 that requires a 3070 as minimum requiriments....
If you wanna keep playing BF3, check it out on PC. Lots of privately run, public servers. Can still get onto Premium servers too
don't i have to use a browser?
@@kingalton10 yes. It has always been like this.
I find that any in north america are barely populated and there's maybe one or two at a time on pc. Not really feasible to jump on whenever you want
lmao its dead over there too
I bought it when it was like $2 on steam but I couldn't join a single server cause the web browser thingy just loads infinitely
Such a golden time of my childhood I remember telling all my buddies about it and them leaving call to duty in the dust to enjoy battlefiles
Console servers are dead, but pretty sure the PC ones are still kicking. PC is the place to be anyway.
Sure it doesn't even work
Xbox usually has 3 servers full at peak hours
PC servers are working, tried today. BF3 is wonderful
@@UnboxRacing steam version?
i just bought it on steam due to your comment, thank you@@UnboxRacing
I actually played it again today and I was flabbergast by the audio, pairing it with Dolby Atmos. The audio sounded so clear, and the front and rear audio sound so marvelous. I didn't know it could sound this so good, back then I was just playing it with nothing but cheap shits xD
Was this on console or pc mate ?
Yea the sound design is quite impressive. The immersion you get with a high quality set of gaming headphones is unbelievable.
Played BF3 for a little over a year till I got me a Tritton 720+ headset. Felt relieved to finally communicate with squad and team mates
I have completely stopped playing any and all video games. But BF 3 is the only game I still would want to play an unhealthy amounts of hours off
Me too
Came here to say same here, video games don't do anything for me anymore after living through the golden age of them.
The best team death match in any shooter too. Especially on the canals map. Too many nights where I’d play that game and the sun is coming up
Dude I loved battlefield 3. To me BF3 and BF4 are top tier. The SV98 was my go to sniper and rush was my go to game mode. If I had to pick which to to be remade, I wouldn't be mad at what the popular vote chose. Good times msn.
I love bf4 but on consoles the frames are shit. Complete shit. But I still love playing it every day.
@@joemellon7182I may end up getting BF4 again on my Xbox x.
I played both of them at there peak but BF3 will always have a special place in my heart as one of my favorite games. But I’ll probably just get BF4 because apparently there is still a really good player base and I enjoyed BF4 at its peak as well and if BF3 doesn’t have a solid player base then I may just go to BF4 instead.
@@HarmonicMan4 I’ve played bf4 nonstop for almost a decade. After playing hell divers 2 that cut the streak tbh. I don’t play bf4 anymore but I definitely support it
I go back and play BF3’s campaign literally every year. So many good memories, wish they still made games like this, the sound design, the graphics, the set pieces- amazing.
The sound design was absolutely incredible. I dont think any game has been at that level since.
Unfortunately I was a bit too young when it released, Lucky are those who played it in its prime.
I got to play it in its prime in my prime teenage years
@@djangorestraind596Must've been amazing playing Battlefield at a time where DICE was much more competent. You still play Battlefield today?
@@djangorestraind596 I could only imagine how good that was, for me my teenage prime was during BF4s prime which is still great, but as a kid I remember playing BF3 campaign all the time but I never had PS+ so I couldn't play online. To this day BF3's campaign is my favourite ever no matter how 'mid' the story actually was
It was quite an experience, also meeting up with your homies online and reviving and going alon as a squad. Makes me realized we don't play many more games together anymore.
I never played the BF3 multiplayer, but the menu intro was pretty sick whenever I opened it up.
why?
Damn you missed out on a lot bro. The multiplayer days were epic.
As a former poor kid with limited internet connection, I know that feel brah. Long live the campaigners
@@fuzzo-zr6ztlol
@@melo5550 It's still epic.
As a matter of fact, there is a massive rise of new players in the servers.
But this is especially the case in with the pc version.
I just got BF3 on my Xbox series X and honestly... I get the hype. I can only imagine how good it would have been back in the day.
Nice keep playing it. It was amazing back in the day no words to describe it. The player base in the millions ..... the hype was so enjoyable the best experience ever and I still play bf3 & bf4 weekly. Mr battlefield has now started his own shooter studio named TTK games and I wonder if he can come out with a likewise game as bf3 in the future.. be sure to check it out ...
I know im a couple months late, but are you able to finds games on console? I've been thinking of buying bf3 but dont know if its worth it
@@elcowboy2613 I play to this day. There are mainly 2 servers full all times of the day. (Europe region)
it was magical. I lived and breathed it in its heyday on Xbox 360. Soooo many fun late night sessions with friends stomping lobbies or coming back to help the team win from behind. I remember getting kicked when I'd kill the admin or their buddies just because I was lvl 100, there weren't many of us around back then lol. AEK+ kobra sight+ heavy barrel+ front grip ftw lol. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...it was truly magical
Me too until I got a bug during comrades where my checkpoint loads and it says mission failed and I can’t fix it
Right now at 6:47AM on PlayStation 3, BATTLEFIELD 3 has 2 full 24/24 servers one of them has 3 people waiting in the Queue, one server has 23/24, one at 14/24, one at 13/24, one at 4/8, one at 4/24, and one at 1/24. 6 are private servers and two are DICE.
LOL so little compare to crack servers which are huge
@@borjan.Is that on PC?
@@co.1157 yes
It's free for gamepass users, premium with all dlcs too.
There're still servers playable
I had pre-ordered this game when it was first announced, and I still remember the elongated neck glitch in the Beta as well as during the intial release 😂.
How the time flies 😢
To be technical, Dima does die but not in BF3 but dies in BF4 instead.
Also spoiler, Dima didn't die in bf3 but in bf4, when we get trapped in a chinese high security prison, we encounter him still with the nuclear explosion burns on his face. He will eventually die at the end of the mission as we free ourselves outside the jail.
How do I not remember this
@@Bushberry it happens lol
@@Bushberry For me it was because the actors are different so he is called Dima, but looks different to BF3 Dima. Story wise it as the same DIma though
and the HUD UI was beautiful too, still remember playing the beta on 360 at op metro. What a beautiful time it was to be alive, best game I ever played in my life.
I remember when the attackers on Metro rush had an LAV at that first set of mcoms in the beta, lmao. Was wild. My fav shooter game of all time by far. Nothing else in gaming has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after...was truly a magical time. So many late nights with friends stomping lobbies or helping the team come back from behind to win
Built my first PC for this game, still have my original install on a slow ass old hard drive lol. Used to come home from school and play until the early AM every night, easily my favourite MP game of all time.
I really think all these old beloved MP games need to be dropped to $5 as a standard, would keep them alive a lot longer.
Seriously, after all these years the DLCs are still quite pricey.
This game brings treasured memories for me. I played it with my father and with some friends of school in PS3 and we had a clan there with a lot of people. I made a lot of friends and some still playing with me other games until today. Nowadays I miss that time and this game so much and I think we will never have another experience like this anymore since the gaming industry only thinks about making a profit and doesn't do anything of quality anymore.
I feel the same, except I lived and breathed BF3 in its heyday on Xbox 360. I was really sad when the BFstats websites abruptly went out of business years ago too, even years later after I stopped playing all the time I was top percentage MVP, medic, winning percentage, etc among couple top percent in multiple weapons. Nothing else has ever measured up to late 2011 when BF3 came out then Skyrim shortly after, was truly a magical time. Sooooo many hectic heart pumping adrenaline filled fun nights winning matching handedly or coming from behind to help the team win. Games these days truly don't feel the same. It feels like all the passion is gone and replaced by pure greed...the consumers are basically unpaid beta testers these days. I have a gaming pc and all 3 consoles but not much excites me as much these days. Squad, DayZ, Arma, The Division games have scratched an itch in some ways, Tarkov did for awhile for me but then the viral wiggle video really confirmed what I had believed and suspected for a long time that the game was absolutely infested badly with cheaters
@@SolidSnake4Ever2003BF3 is a treasure I agree. I remember playing the knife only servers back in middle school…I got really good to.
There are still about 4-5 servers running on xbox at peak hours. This game needs to stay alive for a remaster
“bf3 portal mode is the definition of ‘we have bf3 at home’” This is the best description of bf3 portal I have heard
That I might need a towel comment is so true that menu music was so good it really got the blood flowing and ready for battle for sure
I got into Battlefield 3 on 2024 because its servers will shut down on November 7. Gotta get that platinum trophy asap.
The bf3 maps were the absolute best. I switched over from cod to bo3 and I always played more realistically on bf3. Wouldn’t get nearly as many kills per game but it was so much more fun. Those maps were everything especially the DLC’s
January 1st, 2024
MY SERVER BROWSER SETTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
PLAYERS: ANY(unselect all options)
MODE: ANY(unselect all options)
MAP: ANY(unselect all options)
PRESET: 2[5](Normal and Custom)
RANKED: ANY(unselect all options)
REGION: ANY(All unselected)
The trick is to unselect almost everything in the menu. What you have to do to have them show up is to have 'Normal' and 'Custom' selected on "PRESET", this ensures that the Server Browser doesn't encounter an error from loading all 1000+ server listings at once.
I also have "[×]Show Premium servers" selected and, "[×]Include and show games where the server is full". These options are at the very bottom.
I understand this may not make full sense, so if you have questions: ask.
Thank you!
@@sedgelord2760 you're welcome, have fun!
Great video. I love seeing analysis videos like these from smaller channels. Goes to show how influential the game is.
Much appreciated!
@@Bushberry Hello, you had the server browser settings wrong. I can help you fix them to show all of the servers that were invisible.
Never forgetting the time I wanted to get battlefield 3 at the gamestore but then the guy behind the cashier was like "For 10 extra bucks you can buy the new game BF4" and I did, had a blast! unlocked the phantom bow (the legit grindy way before it became free...) and honestly had a lot of fun
Noshar canals conquest on the PS3 was so much fun everyone was obsessed with stealing all 3 helicopters and spawn killing everyone on the ship 🛳️
Yes BF3 was the best all around. The multiplayer with the squads and squad leader setup was awesome. It definitely should have been remastered and/or the new battlefields should follow the same gameplay.
I really think EA should do a masters collection of all the Battlefield games, kinda like what HALO did.
can u tell how do u make it work cuz the game keeps asking me for activating product key and even tho ive deleted the license file
I have been playing bf3 on and off since November 2011...i bought bf4 a year after it's release and the experience could never compare to bf3. Its hard to explain but is like i remember it had this short period in bf3 where just because you saw an enemy didnt mean you had to get hostile toward eachother. A ton of good people were playing bf3 on ps3 back in the day. Took me years just to go back to cod. It was my first battlefield and no other bf has come close to replicating what we had on bf3.
There is an massive increase of new players on the pc version.
So there is more than enough to choose regarding servers and maps.
yup got on was very suprised to see many new players most likely to do with how often the game goes on sale
The game made me change from COD the guy is right battlefield 3 in its day blew away all competition
Recently hoped back onto it on ps3 and found there was only a few servers left (about 5 going at once). It was still very enjoyable until I got banned by toxic admins on several of the remaining servers believing I was cheating, purely because i was playing on an account with no bf3 playtime before and was outplaying these max rank admins…. And then it got worse as I’ve now found out the offical servers are now full of actual cheaters with 1 shot weapons and wallhacks.
What is your PSN?
Bf3 in its prime is my first battlefield experience
Just have them remake this game and I'll be happy.
I was raised in call of duty but when bf3 dropped it just raised the bar for me for a game in every aspect and I was hooked on battlefield every since
It really is such a sad story that most of the talent that created this game and four aren't even with dice anymore and well most likely never see this kind of game again coming from dice or EA unless they get the wise idea to do a remaster of 3 or 4
Actually PC has a good number of active servers on it. I just made a new rush server on PC [Gold] Good Old BF3.. Almost always full on weekends
i played the beta when i was 13 back when my 360 had the "open tray" error and couldnt read any games but ended up getting a new 360 with this game when mw3 came out. good times
Bf3 was the golden age of the franchise. If only we could get a battlefield game that is a mix between bf3 and bf4 then id never play another game ever again 😂
Dice can’t write codes at BF3 and BF4 levels anymore. Dice should’ve cut and paste BF3 & 4 platform with 2020s weapons, air craft and vehicles for 2042.
PC still has quite a few full servers. Still play the game everyday. Damn. I need to make another video. Don't judge. I'm fat and lazy!!!
I play Bf3 on PS3
Up to 300 people playing usually here in 2024
And it’s a big fun
I saw that plane clip on AmazingFilms247's TH-cam channel back when BF3 was popular, what a time that was. Now I'm staring at BF1 and BF5 for ~$4 each, where both have too many hackers and cheaters in their multiplayer modes unless you join community servers. BF3 remains iconic.
I just bought the game today on PC and hearing all this stuff that it's dead and/or unplayable just makes me sad
BRO JUST HAVE FUN 😁
i miss my childhood playing this 😢
BF3 should have been remastered but not in the likes of MW2. Both were classics at the time and honestly deserve to live on forever if possible. I have yet to find another game that come close to it although I transition to R6 Siege for a while.
To be honest i played bf3 once and i didn't enjoy it but that doesn't mean that people that do enjoy it shouldn't have the possibility to play it i know my personal favourite is bc2
BF3 was peak
Is anyone on this game rn and it keeps saying failed to connect to ea servers?
I can't even get the game to run. I install it, launch it. It opens a web browser and then when I hit quick match, the game says it's joining, but never shows me the game. Horrible.
Quick match is not how you do it. Use the server browser.
Well guys, this was 12 years ago. Some of us were 10 or 12 living life in simpler times when CoD MW3, Minecraft and BF 3 was where we spent time with childhood friends, time flies... Hope you all are doing well still
Ea is shutting down 3 last gen [ps3/360] hardline and 4
Me an buddy was just talking about it lol we love the games we was talking about how they need to remaster these games don't mess with the play style or game play we love the graphics they just need to be updated a little bit not enhanced to the point it strains the eyes every thing about this battle field was amazing 🤩
I NEVER played BF3 or BF4, never had a good enough pc to do that :(
Now that i'm 21 and finally got a job, it will take me some months to build my pc and be able to do it. But it seems like i don't have much time, unfortunately. And...what about BF4? How much time do you guys think it will last from now?
I plan on playing BF3 and BF4, mainly BF4.
I really think if EA/DICE shut down BF3 and 4 Battlefield will never recover unless it is rebooted.
I just bought this from ea store since they had a sale offering an 85% discount. Is it still worth it to play in 2024 in multiplayer lobbies? are there barely servers in the game?
I can’t get a game on 360 is it glitched?
Oh bro the lag is next level, I’m sometimes in the 4th dimension with the amount of lag I’m experiencing
I've had a different experience, I went back to bf3 recently and found a few actually full games which surprised me
Sad to say i never really got into bf3 i was playing bo2 at the time really wish i did tho i started really playing it anf getting into it basically right before it died my first real battlefield game was 4 and i live 4 with all my heart but wish i was there for this masterpiece
Man I remember in 2011, that before I had a new PC, and BF3 was in beta, I hat to play it on my oldnotebook from 2009 or so in 640p or something. Then when It finally was released I played the morning it got released on my then "top notch" pc with the i7 2600k, 16gb Ram, and amd 6950. Played quite a bunch with my friends, and I remember well the Seine Map, of course Metro, and then later I was happy to visit again Strike on Karkand etc. It was quite fun, even tough I always sucked at living long using a plane. This very PC I used until last month, and I finally got a new one, to drive 4K, and I've been thinking about revisiting Bf3... Maybe I should before they shut the servers forever. I hope they can make some kind of Fan-Revival liek with Bf2142, which I also loved the Settings, and the Titan mode especially. Its videos like this that remind you how fast time has gone, as I can picture myself sitting there playing with my friends, and all of a sudden 13 Years have gone by! I remember well in 2011, there were many nice games coming out, like Skyrim too. Member?
well put together video
Thank you!
BFBC2 & BF3...
Absolutely iconic and hold the nearest and dearest place in my 32 year old heart.
Miss the days of loading up bf3 back when I didn’t have to buy ps plus either and could just play for free
I had this on PS3, stuck with 24 player matches. The game however, was mind blowingly good for its time. The graphics (even at 30 fps) were incredible, destruction, gunplay, voice lines etc were insane. Initially you'd get like 10 kills and 25 deaths but that's okay, you still got a bunch of points by being a team player. Got the Steam version recently, and to put it shortly, the experience was severely depressing. Long live BF3.
Pre ordered bf3 was my 1st game i ever played online… then bf4 after that being an adult hit… miss those days.😢
As do I. The memories are unmatched. The chaos on metro, the shenanigans on firestorm. The hype on Caspian border. I will never forget. I loved bf3 so much, I practically invented missle dodging, before they over buffed missiles. And became the top 6th pilot in U.S. On battlelog. With my number 4 european friend alizarin fox. What a time it was.
When games were games.
Bf3 will forever be the best war game ever for me❤
Best game ever still looks sick I just cant belive and relased in 2011 and still looks sick. I want to play this masterpeice once again in my life, best game ever
Shoutout to the players who were playing when you could fly on top of buildings with the MAV
Well on pc it is tons of lobbies
nah
yes @@TheVieverselis
Still only 97 people playing
@@hogman3543and will get your ass opened in half a second
How do you get the footage so colorful? Im on Ultra Video settings, and it looks very pale anyway.
I change the saturation on my monitor to about 80 something but I also have a capture card set to about 80 something.
My best memories are playing battlefield 3 . it bought as pre order for my birthday an i really want everyone to know I miss the DayZ of this game wish it had ah remaster for series s,x like instead of ww2 ,robo woman
Definitely one of my favorite Battlefield games. I spent so many hours on this game since it's prime year. Rush and TDM were the modes I played the most.
Body Cam is on a new lvl.
Bad company is not realistic, bad company is the definition of personality in videogames 😂
Agreed. Campaign was lighthearted and funny but somewhat serious when it needed to be. Multiplayer was amazing, a few balance changes could have been useful but overall the best Multiplayer is bad company 2, along with BF3
My dad bought me a ps3 a few years ago for 50€ and then he found 7 games for 20€ I think and bought it for me. I played bf3 and bf4 on it and really liked it. Sadly I didn’t have wifi back then but fortunately I still play bf4 online
Giant BF3 fan here. PC player tho.
1. The situation is drastically better on PC (even if finding a full server can be kinda hard)
2. Yes, BF3 is next. idk about next year but by 2025 it might finally have its last hoorah. I'll be there to witness it, I promise
3. But despite that PC has Project Rome for BC2 and Venice Unleashed for BF3. If that makes you feel better, despite EA's efforts BC2 and BF3 can live forever on PC by running on custom backend
4. BF3 is last unquestionably great game in the series. Even if it took way too much from CoD, it still was promising and everyone felt hopeful for the future
5. I hope they never remaster BF3. Not only is it hard to actually remaster a 10 year old game, they also will NEVER satisfy everybody, there is no way they will implement all of the maps, weapons, vehicles from all DLCs and if the game won't have monetization + support - it will die faster than VU on launch. Fuck that, I'd rather see more remade BF3 content in Portal and/or future games
i love me a good match on markaz monolith, bandar desert and strike at karkand
I went to bf3 after bad company 2. And that was really the best battlefield title ever. The main theme bro, the main theme...
That was THE fps game and since then I felt a little bit something like that towards The Finals - but, no vehicles, no military stuff, not the same. Maybe the trolling factor is similar :D
I played bf3 until it was dead... I woke up every day befor highschool and played.
The only class id play is support i had like almost 200k ammo resupplys 😂
Well the game is pretty alive on PC, at least the EU servers.
I played bf3 today and ps3 and there was three servers with active players
Battlefield 3 is the best battlefield game. Because if it’s the campaign or the multiplayer then we have a battlefield game of the live action TV series at your home. I think the game needs to be remastered like there should be a remastered version coming out one time and we have so because in Porto it’s not.
Yeah pls remaster!
I had never really the opportunity to play this game. My first up to date console was ps4 back in the days and there I played bf4. Amazing experiences and memories, but I would love to play bf3 one day! Not as bf portals, the original!
i cant even start the game since 3 years
What upsets me is everyone on pc could stop playing 2042 right now and go play this and breath life into the servers once again and itd be what everyone wants.
Some people will never know about "aim for the Doritos" or "PTFO". Great times.
is this game working cus its now on sale and i am deciding to buy it?
many people say that is not working.
Nope, not really. You are better off pirating it, plus you can play on their servers, which are very active
never has such a badass marine corps recruitment project been made
Still 6-7 regular servers on 360. Playing daily at the moment ❤
if they remastered bf3 on the new consoles and made it EXACTLY how it was i bet people would play it again
I had played this game from 2012-2021 religously! Booming servers and I could stay on for hours. BRING THIS BACK no changes, only updates.
So did it shutdown now?
2:26 "While I said BF3 is realistic, people were just doing some of the unrealistic things"
Because IT'S AN ARCADE GAME. Having realistic details, scenery and slower paced gameplay than COD doesn't make a game realistic
True.
bf4 was the best for me and even today i still play it time to time
same yeah me too
Bf3 was better but bf4 was definitely the way next game should always go not like now where next games are downgrades etc