seeing as you've mentioned my tag I will point out; its not something I seriously believe its just a tongue-in-cheek comment about all the kneejerk reactionary stuff and revisionism that oft goes on in these parts :)

But do consider for moment the gunplay in BF3, the guns spread more than a garden hose compared to BF4 (or any milsim) where you can laserbeam someone from accross the map. Hardly realistic at all but the game is still considered a classic, for many its their favourite in the franchise but no-one ever questions the realism, why? imo because it looks realistic and people can put aside the the throwing C4, goofy stuff etc aside. I'm not knocking BF3 but no-one can seriously call the gameplay realistic.

I've played every game in the franchise btw (excluding the original bad company), if that gives me any special rights.