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[EverydayBeast]

I think the series has a long history now where everyone got to experience each one hands on for a good amount of time. Your EverydayBeast missed out on Battlefield 1-2142 so with that my favorite is still 1943 for the PSN

$15, digital delivery only, multiplayer only, high-definition production values, solid maps etc. Pretty much the jack of all trades. So what’s your favorite?

 

[JaxBriggs]

1942 + Desert Combat mod

Also wow look at the screen tearing in that pic.

 

[JaxBriggs]

Edit: Double post.

 

[AngryChinchilla]

Battlefield 2. I had almost 700 hours ranked. Was really my first online game that I got into.

 

[Zimbardo]

Bad Company 2.

those maps were great.

 

[RootCause]

Battlefield 2. I had almost 700 hours ranked. Was really my first online game that I got into.

That's the only battlefield game I've ever played. does the game work fine on the latest windows? It's been so long since I last played it.

Oh, and I bought BC, and BC2 for the one x. Hope I enjoy them.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Battlefield Vietnam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFn3kpqgPTc

 

[GC_DALBEN]

Battlefield 3, i played all of them, but the one i had most fun is bf3, aftermatch DLC maps are just perfect.

 

[Martinski43]

Battlefield 3 is the one i spent the most hours in.

 

[Senua]

 

[vixlar]

Battlefield Bad Company 2

Great graphics. It was really astounding to me when I saw their uniforms. you can see the threads!!! When one soldier spoke, you can see their lips moving (in kill cam). And the grapchics at general, are really great for an Xbox 360.

Better sound. But what really catch me is the sound. the sound of the weapons, explosions, debris from those explosions (in surround is fantastic), and the voices...

The voices. First, the voices changed if you were playin with american or russian team. All the voices. And the emotion on those voices. If you were losing you could hear how angry the "general" was. If a grenade was thrown, you could here the afraid on the voice of your fellow soldier. For me, this was like 50% of what made the game exciting.

Destruction. Almost everything can be destroyed. There's no "we cannot allow destroying that building because balance". This is war son!!! Campers behind a wall? Blow the wall!!! Snipers on the roof? Blow the roof!!! You can't acces to the com? Blow the entire house!!!!

Classes. The classes were so unbalanced that it generated a balance by itself. And most important, the classes were fun. Snipers with pokeball, assaults with infinite grenade launchers, enginers with explosive snipers, medics reviving everything like necromancers. This is war!!!!

The maps. No mice mazes. No corridors of death. Open fields with many ways to get to objective. It made each match different. And fun. Fun is the keyword in this game. Jungles, deserts, small rural areas, tiny islands, semi industrial zones... all was great!

Customization. Three especializations and seven weapons for class (plus handguns and shotguns) As simple as it gets. You're here to fight, not to

Vehicles. Vehicles are there for me to be destroyed.

There are many other things, like the scopes being a specialization, so most of time you're using them with iron sights, or that you can destroy mcoms with RPG. There some things I hated, like the stupid UAV. But in general, this is the FPS Multiplayer i have the most fun memories.

 

[autoduelist]

Battlefield Bad Company 2

Give me some C4 to take down some sniper nests and my trusty knife to kill some campers, and I'm happy.

 

[cablenut]

The daddy of the games. The Original battlefield 1942 the desert combat mod was fun.

 

[Martinski43]

Have played all Battlefield games but most of them where during before i got broadband, so they were LAN games. Battlefield 3 was the first in the series i dug into online.

 

[Blam]

Bad Company 2.

 

[CloudStrife_ca]

Battlefield 1942 hit all the right notes, best PSN game I've ever bought. I definitely put enough time to get my $15 worth and visually it was refreshing during a time of mostly grey shooters.

 

[That Damn Kid]

Bad Company 2

 

[Senua]

Battlefield 1942 hit all the right notes, best PSN game I've ever bought. I definitely put enough time to get my $15 worth and visually it was refreshing during a time of mostly grey shooters.

I assume you mean 1943.

 

[TransTrender]

Bad Company 2.

those maps were great.

Yup, my fave.
Really impressive considering I thought the original 1942 wouldn't be topped after some of those...less than good releases.

1942 + Desert Combat mod

Also wow look at the screen tearing in that pic.

Close second for me and yeah goddamn is that a troll pic with all that screen tearing?

 

[TheShocker]

BF4. It would be awesome to see that game get some X1X/Pro support. Won’t happen with the focus on BF1. That said, BF1 is a really good game but it just didn’t capture me like previous BF (and bad company) games.

 

[vocab]

2142 was the best battlefield.
BC2 was fun, but honestly I had so many issues with the netcode/hit detection with cars that I hated playing it a lot.
BF1 with the new expansions probably puts it in my top3 BF's of all time.
Battlefield 3 was the worst. The bloom/sun/lasersights/ obnoxious visual blue tint made the game unplayable. Never played BF4.

 

[Sosokrates]

Hardline
Lol

 

[Naked Lunch]

Battlefield 2 PC. The series has gone downhill ever since.
-Huge, sprawling maps. BFs maps pale in comparison in recent years. I miss Songhua Stalemate, Road to Jalalabad, and Highway Tampa so much. Certain maps were literal tank battles. Others were Infantry, others chopper based, some transport based. This is lost to DICE these days either making all-in-ones or just infantry only.
-Slower paced tactical gameplay slanted towards the hardcore (spawn only on squadleader - none of this spawn on anyone nonsense).
-Sprint stamina meters. BF these days has everyone running around 100 mph like theyre on crack.
-Still the best vehicle gameplay in the series.
-RTS-like elements with deep commander play. Voice communication between squad leaders and commanders. Squadleaders then communicated orders to the squad.
-Secondary missions like destroying commander assets (UAV towers, artillery) just added layers of depth and often where subtle keys to victory.
-Multiple version of conquest. Conquest assault on certain maps mixed things up.

Most of this required playing a well ran server with people serious enough to use all of the teamplay and communication elements. I played on servers where the commanders were very serious, and my clan was 20 deep, running multiple squads. It made the experience incredible.

All one has to do is play a full round of BF2 PC's version of Wake Island. One team starts with no flags, only aircraft carrier spawns - the attackers were given a ticket lead but they started the game in ticket bleed - meaning time was of the essence to get on land and start capping bases. Just getting to the island as the attacking team was a struggle and massive teamwork was needed. The attacking team's commander needed to soften up the beaches with arty and jets needed to take out the tanks on the island tips. Then once you finally got on land, every section was a struggle to push towards and control. Squad leaders NEEDED to stay alive, and squads needed to keep them alive to advance foot by foot up the island. A spec ops squad could push towards the enemy commander's arty assets and destroy them to finally swing balance towards the attackers. This entire gameplay experience is completely gone from the series, unlikely to return.

After BF2, my imagination ran wild to where the series would go 10 years later. I envisioned even bigger player counts 100v100 or 200v200. Battles set up like campaigns on multiple maps where the core fronts and territories were shifting even when you werent playing.

Sadly the series has since went full on casual and was dumbed down beyond belief. Very disappointing as no shooter since has scratched that military online itch. I played my fair share of BC2 and BF3 but they all paled in comparison. BF4's maps and especially vehicle gameplay are grade A trash. BF1 is so bad that once you press the aim button the game actually auto locks on to nearby targets. The series is now a complete joke.

 

[Ubername]

Wasn't this pretty much universally derided?

 

[Hawko]

I have played all of the games in the series (even the weird Bad Company mobile game for iOS) since Battlefield 1942. It's probably the video game franchise I've put the most hours into ever, and I've loved (almost) every second.

Battlefield 4 is definitely the best game in the series. Like a lot of fans of the series I I used to think it was Battlefield 2, but I went back to it recently and it felt horribly outdated. It was amazing for its time, but it is showing its age. If given the choice of either playing BF2 or BF4, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to choose the latter.

The fact that Battlefield 4 is so amazing just makes it that more frustrating that Battlefield 1 is such a let down in all respects apart from the visuals. What a wasted opportunity.

 

[Goatless]

Battlefield 2 was my first Battlefield and i loved every minute. I was sceptic about BF2142, still bought it but something just didn't work out. Lost connections and crashes, never had an more unstable game. BF2142 was also my last BF.

 

[MiguelItUp]

It's really hard to say. I think it's a combination of 1942, Battlefield 2, and Vietnam. I played them, SO MUCH. I had so many incredible memories too!

I will say out of the newer ones, Battlefield 1 is pretty high up there.

 

[ref]

Battlefield 2 and Bad Company 2

 

[F40]

BF4. Still play it more than any other game today.

 

[DonF]

EZ, bad Company 2. Best gunplay and sound, great graphics, Cool maps and mechanics. No other bf has come close since. Only thing that I would back port from the new games is the vaulting mechanic,

Spoiler

And the lootboxes

. Awesome music

 

[Rippa]

BF4. Still play it more than any other game today.

Came to post this exactly.

So much so that I purchased it for both consoles.

It would be nice to at least get pro/X enhancements.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Bad company 2.And bf4 for the helicopters.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

1942 + Desert Combat mod

God. So fucking good. So many nights staying up until sunrise playing that shit.

DC and BF2 are still the best for me. I've continued to purchase and play the successors but they just don't feel the same.

Style of play has really changed too and I think that has affected the more recent games for me. BF1 and BF2 were all about squads, voice chat and actually and playing with each other. Now it's just everyone running around by themselves in silence.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Battlefield 2 for me, but 1942 was also a ton of fun.

 

[DrNosegopher]

Battlefield Heroes, anyone? Definitely worse after P2W came in, but some of the most fun I've had and the first time I tried a F2P game.

 

[Rawker]

Definitely Vietnam, then bf2, 1942, and bf1. The whole package of Vietnam with the music, guns, traps, and helis was just so immersive and complete. The series progression has been great and where bf1 is today with the destruction, bullet physics, vehicles, weapons, and operations it is the culmination of all the past games with a setting in ww1 that suits the game perfectly. I really hope the next game is based on the Vietnam war because I prefer the more natural settings over the hard edge cities from bf2/3/4.

 

[WX3]

My favorite was Battlefield 2. Probably would have been 1942 but my PC could barely keep up.

 

[Ubername]

Definitely Vietnam, then bf2, 1942, and bf1. The whole package of Vietnam with the music, guns, traps, and helis was just so immersive and complete. The series progression has been great and where bf1 is today with the destruction, bullet physics, vehicles, weapons, and operations it is the culmination of all the past games with a setting in ww1 that suits the game perfectly. I really hope the next game is based on the Vietnam war because I prefer the more natural settings over the hard edge cities from bf2/3/4.

Bf heroes was stupid fun. Wasn't this one of the first f2p shooters? That wasn't shit

Crap quoted wrong guy.

 

[OneUh8]

Battlefield 2 was my favorite and most played. Loved 1942 and 2142 also.

 

[vocab]

Wasn't this pretty much universally derided?

Only by people that thought it was a reskinned bf2. Theres so many things it did right that other bfs did much poorly. Had a much well rounded map pool compared to bf2, and it had the best class system in the series. Plus mechs and titans are so good. Titan had bugs but fun as hell. Felt like some cqc gundam shit.

Also I hate that battlefield doesnt have commanders anymore.

 

[Paladin CL]

Battlefield Bad Company 2

Great graphics. It was really astounding to me when I saw their uniforms. you can see the threads!!! When one soldier spoke, you can see their lips moving (in kill cam). And the grapchics at general, are really great for an Xbox 360.

Better sound. But what really catch me is the sound. the sound of the weapons, explosions, debris from those explosions (in surround is fantastic), and the voices...

The voices. First, the voices changed if you were playin with american or russian team. All the voices. And the emotion on those voices. If you were losing you could hear how angry the "general" was. If a grenade was thrown, you could here the afraid on the voice of your fellow soldier. For me, this was like 50% of what made the game exciting.

Destruction. Almost everything can be destroyed. There's no "we cannot allow destroying that building because balance". This is war son!!! Campers behind a wall? Blow the wall!!! Snipers on the roof? Blow the roof!!! You can't acces to the com? Blow the entire house!!!!

Classes. The classes were so unbalanced that it generated a balance by itself. And most important, the classes were fun. Snipers with pokeball, assaults with infinite grenade launchers, enginers with explosive snipers, medics reviving everything like necromancers. This is war!!!!

The maps. No mice mazes. No corridors of death. Open fields with many ways to get to objective. It made each match different. And fun. Fun is the keyword in this game. Jungles, deserts, small rural areas, tiny islands, semi industrial zones... all was great!

Customization. Three especializations and seven weapons for class (plus handguns and shotguns) As simple as it gets. You're here to fight, not to

Vehicles. Vehicles are there for me to be destroyed.

There are many other things, like the scopes being a specialization, so most of time you're using them with iron sights, or that you can destroy mcoms with RPG. There some things I hated, like the stupid UAV. But in general, this is the FPS Multiplayer i have the most fun memories.

Yes!! In fact Bad Company 2 is one of my favorite FPS ever, I played and love it a lot!

 

[Catphish]

Battlefield 2. Loved playing medic.

 

[GTR R35_Supra RZ]

BF1+SeasonPass=X..games fn stunning and a joy to play every time i pop this game in.

 

[Senua]

BF1+SeasonPass=X1..games fn stunning and a joy to play every time i pop this game in.

lol

 

[Thanati]

1942 + Desert Combat mod

Also wow look at the screen tearing in that pic.

This, a million times! Best game and mod I’ve ever played.

 

[gravedanger]

1942. No question. It's a game that captured my attention like no other. In my top 3 games of all time.

 

[wipeout364]

Wasn't this pretty much universally derided?

This was another EA messaging fiasco if I remeber correctly. The game was one of the first with the ability to advertise in game I believe. It had some intrusive tech that at the time really upset PC gamers I remember many people on message boards talking about boycotting it which I myself did although in retrospect it seems pretty minor compared to todays intrusive data mining.

 

[SMOK3Y]

BF4 online was good fun on PS4

 

[xviper]

nothing will surpass Bad company 2, i think the Dice team who made Bad company 2 is gone, or they made it by a very lucky shot, everything else they made is trash in comparison

i don't want them to make Bad company 3 because i know they will completely fuck it up, let the masterpiece rest in peace

 

[World SkiFree]

Battlefield Heroes, anyone? Definitely worse after P2W came in, but some of the most fun I've had and the first time I tried a F2P game.

Yes! BH was terrific. I had a great time and never paid a dime. My character either wore standard greens or nothing but his whitey tighty underwear. Very fun experiences with that game.

I would still rank 1942 as the best (just too many classic BF42 moments to count) although I have not played newer entries as much. BF2 was awesome in the day (even played the ftp version that came out around the time of BH). 1943 is also cool but never played enough of it.

I am actually intrigued by Hardline’s campaign; plan to give that game a whirl if I get EA Access/Vault on Xbone.