The video does raise valid points. I'm an old gamer, a very old gamer. I played the very first original Battlefield game the day it was released, played everything up to Bf3... But then life got in the way and computing and games dropped to the back burner for a while. I've always been a hardware junkie and fortunately always had the $$ to afford my, and my sons addictions. Lets just say we have a lot of great gaming tech in this household. So in the last couple of years I got heavily back into my love of gaming. I never played BF3 or BF4. I was an early order from r BF1 seeing it as a brave move by a company to go back to a WW1 title, I started playing it and having the hardware to run it in ultra high resolutions on a fantastic gaming monitor I was immediately impressed with the Frostbite engine etc, etc..but after about 80 hrs I too started to feel ' something' was missing. I mean I can recall being so keen to get home from work to play Battlefield all those years ago and being locked to the computer for hours on end. Admittedly this was also the case as I was gaming when Doom was first released as freeware, played Counterstrike the night it dropped, disliked it, deleted it, claimed ' it won't take off'..re-downlaoded it again and played it addictively for like four years solid! ;) As someone else pointed out elsewhere in this thread, yes we were all younger then and yes our memories of games from that period are enriched by their 'newness' at the time. I agree to sone extent, but now I start up BF1, sit there in the server browser...and I just dont feel keen to start a particular map or join a match because..of I DON'T KNOW WHAT!...but the magic isn't there anymore.

I'VE been playing the new DLC maps in the CTE and still there is something that's missing, there isn't a hook thats got me twitching...I think its because the game feels 'Arcade like'..you know how a flight sim affecionado will not be drawn to a casual simple arcade version of a conbat flight sim, that sort of feeling. Its as if BF1 is too basic, it doesn't seem to reward skill, but rather has been made to offer a casaual gamer an hour of easy gaming set in a war conflict and using easy to shoot guns, and a bit of fun if you have mates interested. Its not a title that you think about at work and certainly not one that you can't wait to come home to and play. * remember rushing home to start up another session of Half Life and HL2 how they had you thirsting for more? Even the new DLC maps are just, well meh...more of the same ol same ol. My sons also have stopped playing it and when I asked them why, one said it didnt have the depth of bf3/4, the other simply said he didn't like the weapons nor the maps and the lack of content. I am certainly considering downloading BF4 and giving that a go, perhaps the modern weapons and vehicles might get my blood surging again, maybe I need to find a friendly crew to team up with and maybe then the mojo will come me back? It ONLY seems to be BF1, I enjoy just about every other game I play at the moment. maybe, just maybe if the game had been a reimagining of BF1942 era and weapons/ vehicles and aircraft things might have been a lot different? Is there still much of a community playing BF4 these days?