Oh, oh, oh,
http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/video

I was going to post this about a week and a half ago but couldnt find any decent info.

While a dumbed down version of BF, looks kakking awesome.

Very cool. I suck at games like BF so a dumbed down version is good for me.
Free is also good for me.

Thanks for posting.

I don't know.

I'm not against the "cartoon" art style, I love what Team Fortress 2 looks like, but it doesn't seem appealing to me in this case. I mean, what TF2 does with the player models makes the whole experience much more lively but in this game, it seems the character models are chiseled from wood. Not to mention, I hope I don't get blinded by color if I played this. Sure, making it like a Saturday morning cartoon show allows the developers to sidestep any "realism" issues when it comes to the environment and opens up a large palette of coloring, but damn, they could mute things like the grass and the trees abit. To be honest, maybe GREEN is better than the degrees of BROWN we get these days in battlefield-like games.

But it's free so I can't complain.

I never really got into these "open environment" battlefield games. For my tastes, I'm a more everyone-into-a-cramped-map type person simply because there is more teammate interaction. Like in Wolf:Enemy Territory and, er, TF2. Nothing like planning rush with teammates to take down an objective instead of grabbing the nearest vehicle and flying around everywhere.

As for this game, I'm guessing the "Nazi" army is now the "National" army. It's interesting that they are using a MP-40 like weapon while the "Royal" army uses strange thing which looks like a cross between the WW2 Soviet SK machine gun and the Star War's T21.

Holy ****, that looks like alot of fun.

Did you see the guys riding on the airplanes? HILARIOUS

And some of the stuff the narrator said was pretty funny.

Free? Hot damn!

Looks fun! And free!

But....

that's awesome! I WANT!

Neato. I'll have to try it out sometime when it's released.

Haha, I liked the "You don't download it on bit torrent!" bit.

You sir never played a good BF1942 server, or properly used the bf2 squad system.

Cartoon Nazis FTW!

Haha. Squad system.

Cute

They're sort of trying to be like TF2... but it doesn't look as good.

I'll wait and see what comes of it.

It looks like a cross between TF2 and BF1942.

It's free so I might as well check it out. Does it kind of bother anyone else that it seems like they're making light of WW2, though?

No, theres already far too many HYPER-REALISM WW2 games.

Not to mention the "realistic" WW2 games that give a disgusting portrayal of WW2, showing Americans as total heroes, Brits as incompetent, French as incom- oh wait, and Germans as hideous blood sucking beasts that wear four inch thick iron suits of armor.

They like to big it up since its the last war where they had a clear victory.

I think HEINRICH VON SCHNEITZAL wants a word with you.

fixed.



Uhh, what? Haven't seen that one.

I was thinking more like BF1942 and something like, I dunno, Toontown.



Then play Return to Castle: Wolfenstein. Damn bio-engineered Germans with their suits of armor, they take so many hits.

Yes, it is "realistic". It's based on facts.

The WW2 jokes seemed kind of off color, but I forgave them. Then the gameplay looked fun, but really really poorly done. You can see clipping every 2 seconds, the vehicle movements look jittery and poorly done, and the animations don't look fluid at all. Of course I'll try it, but something feels wrong.

Yeah, I realize it's free. Doesn't mean I suddenly don't have expectations.

You haven't played about half the medal of honour series then?

Nobody was portrayed as anything in the MoH series. It was one long, boring, unrealistic spam fest where you single handedly kill waves of faceless Germans. Granted I stopped playing after Spearhead because of that, but I got no indication that anything was going to be different. CoD was mostly the same with some dialog and a bunch of scripting to hide it.

wow that looks like a lot of fun! can't wait

what?

RtCW isn't a realistic war game. Exactly what facts are you referring to that say Nazi's created zombies, mutants, and robotic battle suits?

War games are only 'realistic' in the sense that you can't slow-mo bullet dodge through the air with dual uzi's. And even then there's a fair bit of liberty taken. They're more inspired from war events than recreating them exactly.

Other than being free, it looks like trash.

Actually I was referring more to the newer MoH games that have giant Nazi DOOM FORTRESSES with SS agents that need four sniper bullets to the head in order to kill them.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein was never meant to be serious, I don't have a problem with that.

Please, dear God, tell me you're joking.

Also. Realistic != factual. If you can't recognize THAT, then this discussion is over.

I smell Zero Punctuation.

Yes, indeed.

I remember how, in MoH:AA, all the machine guns on Normandy beach seemed to fire at complete random...until the player came into the line of sight. At that moment every gun on the beach was immediately fixed on the player and never let go. It was ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that every other NPC that died on the beach was a scripted event.

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One day I am going to facepalm so freaking hard from one of your posts I will knock myself out cold.

I hope that wasn't too cryptic for you. Read it carefully, you'll figure it out.

Wow, this game seems like a really smart move. Bf1942 was a blast, but mostly because of the hijinks that would ensue from people playing the game in ways that probably weren't intended. You could have great fun just playing on a public server with other random people. Looks like they're really working that angle for this installment.



Ha ha, yeah. Wicked. YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANYTIME.

god no, the masked SS guys of doom that carried and fired MG42s from the hip and took multiple grenadings.

Hell I hit one with a Panzerfaust once and it didnt die...

JM, stop arguing semantics just to make yourself look smarter than everyone else. We all know each other too well around here for that.

Translation: No one likes you. Go away.

You're a terrible human being.

I don't like dumbed down gameplay.

It's not dumbed down. Gameplay is the point of this game...