On BF3, first (proper level - not the train) level I think I died about 11-12 times in a row in quick succession. BF3 just feels more like a challenge, and I don't get nearly as rage filled when playing it.
You see, this is the reason Im going off BF3 already and have been losing the will to play a lot of shooters as much as I used to. If you go back to COD and COD 2, the games were pretty well balanced, no heavy focus on graphics, no stupidly hectic gameplay and the game lasted and made you go back for more (I still play COD2 occasionally as it was just that good). Now that the games are so heavily graphics focussed though, if you turn the difficulty down, you can get through in much less than half of the time it would take to get through COD on easy for example but you dont get through so fast on the harder modes just because they are stupidly hard at certain points and it takes you at least 5 deaths to find that single route that will let you avoid the magnetic bullets (even on normal difficulty I have yet to find a recent game that lasts more than 7hrs of gameplay). As for the storylines, is it me or are they not all the same anyway (I certainly think BF3 has nabbed all of its cues from MW MW2 and Blops in the way the story is told)? They dont add to the game in the same way as say Assasins creeds story does, they just fill in the loading screens.
I might sound like Im whinging and not very good at these games but I dont think Im that bad a player, I certainly used to put enough hours in online on SOF2, CS, COD, COD2, MW, BF2 etc and can still surprise my mates on console on the rare occasions that I give in and use one of those hatefull controllers as well as on the rare occasions I play online on PC (on MW2 I could consistently stay in the top 10% regardless of the map and quality of opposition). The games certainly look amazing now (on PC anyway) but I just think they have lost something in that quest for detailed graphics and would rather confuse you than actually give you gameplay and longevity.
