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What makes the Battlefield series special in comparison to other FPS Games

Simply put, it is the combined arms nature of Battlefield which makes it so enduring. There are so many video games that having shooting in them. However, only one truly integrates vehicular combat and infantry combat together.

This is why in its opening week in this month; players will once again complain that this is not the game, they though it was. However, it is simply Battlefield, a series uniquely standing out amongst a crowd of imitators.

The Call of Duty crowd are always complaining on the streams about how slow it is. Some players enjoy that sandbox experience. Think of it is as similar to Arma rather than the run and gun games.

The run and gun games are really boring and I stay clear of them. What I want is teamwork and strategy.

This is why I have gravitated towards RTS games and in the Battlefield 2 era, I loved the idea of the Commander mode.

Battlefield 6 is that type of game for a person who wants to be more than just a frontline soldier. I think the only game that I really enjoyed the frantic run and gun battles was in the Star Wars Battlefront games. However, those games were different in their maps, vehicles and weapons. Star Wars lends itself to such frantic style of gameplay. However, modern combat is more grounded in the realities of combat in the here and now. Call of Duty is simply too quick for me.

Battlefield provides what Call of Duty cannot, a sense of cohesion in the chaos. How much cohesion is up to the players. Some play in clans or groups and act like squads with precision. Most of the time it’s just organized chaos in here. However, that’s really the way I like it.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 looks interesting, but the gameplay is simply too fast for me; the game seems to try to recreate the arena shooters of the 1990s, where reflexes were the key to victory.

Battlefield 6 will be successful simply because it is trying to appeal more than players with fast reflexes. Everyone can play a role; sometimes a player wants to be more than soldier running and gunning.

This is why I am looking forward to enjoying this game.

The Google Empire: Why we need more search engines other than Google

The usage of “network” effect to basically dismiss calls for other search engines or any other institution is a common phrase. The people who use it to say there is something transhistorical about Google and that people should be just accept Google. The thing that Google has is the ability to just control the access to information and also installing their search services on every Android device here. Microsoft got in trouble for the same thing, but now they are basically the underdogs here in the search space with Bing, which is good but is basically unable to gain traction because Google keeps people within their systems. This means that people only see Google and not other competitors.

I use Google’s products as they are not incompetent at making email services such as Gmail. However, they are often used as the only service and the “nerds” or power” users are trying to use other products. For example, think about DuckDuckGo or other search engines such as Bing as I mentioned earlier. However, Bing is the only one that is capable of challenging Google. In the early 2010s, its market share was higher than it is now but it is unable to get beyond a small percentage.

We need more search engine choices.

Why is that we allow people to congregate in the “best”

This best is being propped up with all sorts of trickery and manipulations. The most important thing that can happen now is that we need to break up the app stores of both Google and Apple. This duopoly has allowed for the ossification of many aspects of the internet. It has led to the decline in the quality of desktop sites. Previously, desktop sites had all their charm and qualities. Now it the same throughout and it is not interesting now. Even the corporate sites, the front page of a company’s brand have become little more than portals to their social media sites.

We need competition and while we may have alternatives, we do not currently have competition.

Search engines should be an area of competition and growth and not beholden to only one company. The internet is a space without any limit in space only bandwidth. We should have many choices.

Battlefield 2042: A Compromise between COD Gamers and Battlefield Gamers

Battlefield 2042 is considered by many to be a dark horse in the franchise. I would even say that it is dark age. While the game was successful on launch, it seems that the streamers and video makers on YouTube have been more negative on it than in comparison to Battlefield 1. Even on the Battlefield subreddit, there is more negative reactions to it than positive reactions. Here are my thoughts on the game.

Battlefield 2042 is a game that seeks to replicate 2006’s Battlefield 2142 without it going into far future history. One of the reasons I speculate this is because to the ossification of the modern warfare themes in FPS games since the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The 2007 release of Modern Warfare was immensely successful and turned Call of Duty from a game about World War 2 to a game series that just happened to have World War 2 as an occasional setting.

Battlefield 2042 is a intriguing game with some flaws in it. My main issue with it is the skins in the game. While some people may say that is mostly about aesthetics, I see it as how the games have been becoming less serious. Running around with women soldiers who shoot you in the back or in close quarters isn’t believable even with all the various science-fiction elements in it.

The thing that I like about it is the maps in the game.

One of the maps take place in a South Korean city which is centered around the struggle for a data center.

The data center looks likes more futuristic in comparison to the rest of the map here. It has a great atmosphere which contrasts with the rest of everything else you see here.

In many ways, the old Battlefield games before Battlefield 3 were rather bland graphically. With the Frostbite engine, Battlefield 2142 would have looked much better and more stylistically interesting here at representing the 22nd Century. With AI becoming more important in our society, it may be possible to remake these games.