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[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-male-sexualization-exist-in-the-context-of-media-and-sexism-read-op-or-stfu.91970/

READ OP OR STFU

Civil discourse triumphs

Women do not get to laugh, they fear appearing sexual as at best it can result in a loss of respect while at worst it can result in death.

Almost all men regardless of age and looks can get the girl or the job or whatever else they want.

[benjipwns]

Almost all men regardless of age and looks can get the girl or the job or whatever else they want.

This power is why incels are the second biggest threat to human civilization.

[clothedmacuser]

Almost all men regardless of age and looks can get the girl or the job or whatever else they want.

Pretty true.  The only thing holding my career back is that I don't want to join job culture. Work is for unenlightened proles.

 

[benjipwns]

Men are rarely harangued about needing to wear a certain amount of makeup, about whether their outfit is too ____ or ____ for fear of unwanted sexual advances, or become uncomfortably leered at by their peers as pre-teens going through puberty.

What if they're nooglers.

[stufte]

"There is no stigma associated with men and being "sexual.""

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSHIT.

[clothedmacuser]

"There is no stigma associated with men and being "sexual.""

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSHIT.

[Propagandhim]

  Almost all men regardless of age and looks can get the girl or the job or whatever else they want.

Institutional racism btfo

[headwalk]

women and careers are merely hindrances in the pursuit of a respectable KDR.

[thisismyusername]

I didn't even know what a fursona was until I googled "I wanna fuck the rabbit from Zootopia". Now I'm learning all kinds of things about myself!

OwO! Wutz dis?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-one-reads-ops-no-more-they-only-read-the-titles-and-it-pisses-me-off-it-creates-a-roundabout-way-for-discussion-thats-pure-reaction.91980/

[thisismyusername]

Men have to prove they are the best at everything, including being women

Edit: Damn! You can't even say it on TheBire.  It's too hot to handle!

*click* Ok, I wasn't expecting that to be word-filtered. That's hilarious, bork.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-one-reads-ops-no-more-they-only-read-the-titles-and-it-pisses-me-off-it-creates-a-roundabout-way-for-discussion-thats-pure-reaction.91980/

lmao all the best era memes

[tummyfat]

Judy Hops? More like Judy Hops on this diiiiccckkkk

[Vertigo]

How can anyone say that REE hates women? Everyone on that forum is transitioning to be women.

Yeah very ugly ones.

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-sexually-harassed-on-bernie-sanders’-campaign-and-no-one-cared

Reee's fave subjects Bernie sanders, bernie 'bro's' and sexual harassment.

The story is a shrill stretch from a woman that should have called police asap when that creep stroked her neck.

[bork]

Why does ResetERA.com allow WWE content to be hosted on their forums? Pro-Trump, tons of toxic masculinity, all females are objectified and exploited with sexualized character designs, promotion of capitalist tropes, very little coverage of the dangers of climate chaos, history of marrec like homophobia and transphobia, has held events in Russia and Brazil, etc.

[benjipwns]

It always seemed clear the "Bernie bro" culture seeped down from the top, so this awfulness isn't surprising.

Concerning, but unsurprising that the first post about harrasement in the Bernie campaign has this tone for the second time.

Official Staff Communication
Please do not handwave or distract from this story with allegations that occurred among other campaigns. Focus on this story and do not dismiss these claims as a political attack. Thank you.

[nachobro]

an excellent episode of raw. not only did trump the master give us a commercial free raw, but i was kept up to date on all the meal deals at kfc throughout the episode. it was great to see such enthusiasm for yum brands from the commentary.

[benjipwns]

Trump's 2020 ads should be like that one.

[benjipwns]

they had to lock the thread about the Alien mobile game "pending a reboot"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alien-blackout-announced-survival-horror-mobile-game-see-staff-post.91801/page-7#post-16624162

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alien-blackout-trailer-story-driven-stealth-puzzler-announced-for-ios-android-5-no-iap.91821/#post-16624586

[TVC15]

Pretty sure even Marx recognized that people wanted to be productive, which is what the alienation from your own labor thing is about. I mean, if you want to know what it's like to be undignified while not working, just ask incelsiorlef.

But why would Marx be right about this when he was so wrong about everything else?

[nachobro]

Trump's 2020 ads should be like that one.

Comments are disabled for this video.

truly a loss for the ages, there would be some real winners in there for sure

[benjipwns]

But why would Marx be right about this when he was so wrong about everything else?

He wasn't wrong, reality just hasn't caught up with his science yet.

[TVC15]

But why would Marx be right about this when he was so wrong about everything else?

He wasn't wrong, reality just hasn't caught up with his science yet.

So you’re saying Marx was sent from the future like the terminator, but instead of killing people, his goal was to infect college students with a mind disease that made them want to find self-identification in mindless servitude?

[clothedmacuser]

But why would Marx be right about this when he was so wrong about everything else?

He wasn't wrong, reality just hasn't caught up with his science yet.

So you’re saying Marx was sent from the future like the terminator, but instead of killing people, his goal was to infect college students with a mind disease that made them want to find self-identification in mindless servitude?

He created Job Culture.

[TVC15]

But why would Marx be right about this when he was so wrong about everything else?

He wasn't wrong, reality just hasn't caught up with his science yet.

So you’re saying Marx was sent from the future like the terminator, but instead of killing people, his goal was to infect college students with a mind disease that made them want to find self-identification in mindless servitude?

He created Job Culture.

I never read Iain Bank’s sci-fi stuff. You’re going to have to unpack this metaphor for me.

[benjipwns]

No, no, he was from the past, he just received the divine truth about the march of history then never finished explaining it before he died. But BIG CONSERVATIVE MONEY continues to manipulate reality so nobody can figure out the missing parts. Like how they put intelligent design in textbooks. And buy ads on YouTube. And run video game forums.

[TVC15]

No, no, he was from the past, he just received the divine truth about the march of history then never finished explaining it before he died. But BIG CONSERVATIVE MONEY continues to manipulate reality so nobody can figure out the missing parts. Like how they put intelligent design in textbooks. And buy ads on YouTube. And run video game forums.

benjipwns

[benjipwns]

poliera is trying to banish AOC Sandy talk off to an OT of its own

just like some were demanding here... is this an alt-right site too?

[benjipwns]

Whoever does the SOTU response, it needs to be a woman of color. Whether that's Ayanna, AOC, Ilhan, or anyone else. For maximum anger from the GOP.

Auntie Maxine

Accept no substitutes.

[benjipwns]

“Sandy” = “Barry”

It’s just racist signaling that this person is vapid, fake, and wants to be white.

i don't think that came out the way you wanted it to

[Drainage]

they had to lock the thread about the Alien mobile game "pending a reboot"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alien-blackout-announced-survival-horror-mobile-game-see-staff-post.91801/page-7#post-16624162

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alien-blackout-trailer-story-driven-stealth-puzzler-announced-for-ios-android-5-no-iap.91821/#post-16624586

Just rebootera and get it over with amirite

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-white-jesus-still-a-thing.91825/page-7#post-16636550

I defer to established experts on method and conclusion, although I find the philosophy of Skepticism interesting on its own merits) and have already declared a complete lack of credentials - I'm an avid but not-even amateur consumer of written and filmed historical material - and as an adult have been amazed at how frequently history is revised and how "live" a previously well understood history could be.

What I was reacting to was a posted statement that there's overwhelming historical "evidence" as opposed to consensus, agreement or scholarship, which is a more digestible term for laypersons - the audience of this forum - and "evidence" to the average person would be considered documentation, physical objects and so on, which is wholly separate from the scholarly consensus that in Jesus' case is arrived at rationally and in my view, correctly based on the rational and well understood historical techniques you infer in your post.

So rather than arguing, to clarify my original intent: As you know, there is zero contemporary written material or recorded witness evidence of the eventual gospel Jesus or even a clearly identified candidate. Which as you also infer, is quite common for many undisputed, real, historical figures - who as you again correctly infer - can be contextualized by even some of the negative space around their historicity (let's use deliberately burned records or vandalism as an example of that). So if I dared go onto a platform where historians or scholars were talking about this subject, I'd be much less careless with the word "evidence," but I think you can at least see why I'd use that word in this conversation.

I also wouldn't dare suggest that recent outlier scholarship positions on any historical figure were correct, or even necessarily worthy of consideration by laypersons (that's how conspiracy theories are made) but in history and other fields, it is precisely those (respectable) outlier voices that sometimes push the consensus to consider or adopt new or revised conclusions.

Religion and history also both suffer the same types of problems related to deliberate and dishonest obfuscation, destruction and suppression of contrary evidence, sometimes for the same reasons, sometimes for more innocent ones. Literacy and politics and natural disasters have continually eroded or exposed the outlines of history.

So while the historicity of Jesus is at least for the moment, a very, very solid conclusion and consensus, it would be naive to suggest that in two thousand years of the effects of the life of Jesus on the western and the rest of the world, that no deliberate attempts were made to establish history and evidence where none existed, and that's a lens that modern historians always have to view things - and at least until the present day, the majority of Christian history was controlled by people of that same faith (true also of other religious, political ethnic and other histories for obvious reasons).

In fact, the original thread is a dude asking why a person described in the New Testament as having "burnt brass skin and hair like (or the color of) sheep's wool" (itself an irrelevant "post-resurrection" vision from Revelations, not a description of Jesus as an earthly man. As far as we know, there is no contemporary physical description of Jesus of Nazareth as a person) is portrayed as a white guy with silky reddish brown hair. Which is obviously a facet and element of history itself.


Pilate is maybe a good example of your point and mine. He's mentioned many, many times in the Bible and apocrypha - and that in itself is interesting because he's a rare unifying element that definitely has historical basis. We have great written and physical evidence that Pontius Pilate was a prefect of Jude's contemporaneously with the amount of Christ's life - so that in itself tells us that the often otherwise disagreeing gospel writers, were definitely writing about a historicaly extant period and describing what we believe to be a real person - and using grounded basis for an important figure in that life - Pilate would have been a weird target to go after, 50-100 years after Jesus died - and potentially an element that could disprove a fictional account of Jesus (hasn't so far). Herod too was real and a similar consideration. But that also reminds us that there's often physical dateable evidence of major persons and events, even if that's not always or even usually the case. Which again, is my only rigid point.

But tremendous effort has gone into finding specifically physical evidence of Jesus without success - more so than many other comparable persons, so that failure doesn't prove anything, but it is added to the discussion and scholarship,and frequently exposing related material (like the Pilate stone itself). So to reiterate my point, semantics aside, there still isn't a physical object or document as a proof or evidence. There's a vast trove of subsequent (and some relevant prior) physical evidence that leads us to conclude he did in fact exist. But that's obviously not a permanent conclusion, by definition.

Using a personal example, my high school history curriculum of about thirty five years ago, contained MANY abject falsehoods, errors, revised facts and even incorrect persons that have since been revised and are now consensus, about medieval Britain, especially Scotland, and even World War I. Some of this is just revised opinions about individuals and intent (Mary Queen of Scots affair with David Rizzio for example) but some of it is more striking. Many of those were scholarly errors or misinterpretations by well-regarded historians - and new scholarship and consensus have gradually updated those histories and the curriculum that relies on them.

Not arguing, but to clarifiy my earlier positions and post.


I defer to established experts on method and conclusion, (although I find the philosophy of Skepticism interesting on its own merits) and have already declared a complete lack of credentials - I'm an avid but not-even amateur consumer of written and filmed historical material - and as an adult have been amazed at how frequently history is revised and how "live" a previously well understood history could be.

What I was reacting to was a posted statement that there's overwhelming historical "evidence" as opposed to consensus, agreement or scholarship, which is a more digestible term for laypersons - the audience of this forum - and "evidence" to the average person would be considered documentation, physical objects and so on, which is wholly separate from the scholarly consensus that in Jesus' case is arrived at rationally and in my view, correctly based on the rational and well understood historical techniques you infer in your post.

So rather than arguing, to clarify my original intent: As you know, there is zero contemporary written material or recorded witness evidence of the eventual gospel Jesus or even a clearly identified candidate. Which as you also infer, is quite common for many undisputed, real, historical figures - who as you again correctly infer - can be contextualized by even some of the negative space around their historicity (let's use deliberately burned records or vandalism as an example of that). So if I dared go onto a platform where historians or scholars were talking about this subject, I'd be much less careless with the word "evidence," but I think you can at least see why I'd use that word in this conversation.

I also wouldn't dare suggest that recent outlier scholarship positions on any historical figure were correct, or even necessarily worthy of consideration by laypersons (that's how conspiracy theories are made) but in history and other fields, it is precisely those (respectable) outlier voices that sometimes push the consensus to consider or adopt new or revised conclusions.

Religion and history also both suffer the same types of problems related to deliberate and dishonest obfuscation, destruction and suppression of contrary evidence, sometimes for the same reasons, sometimes for more innocent ones. Literacy and politics and natural disasters have continually eroded or exposed the outlines of history.

So while the historicity of Jesus is at least for the moment, a very, very solid conclusion and consensus, it would be naive to suggest that in two thousand years of the effects of the life of Jesus on the western and the rest of the world, that no deliberate attempts were made to establish history and evidence where none existed, and that's a cloudy lens that modern historians always have to view things - and at least until the present day, the majority of Christian history was controlled by people of that same faith (true also of other religious, political ethnic and other histories for obvious reasons).

In fact, the original thread is a dude asking why a person described in the New Testament as having "burnt brass skin and hair like (or the color of) sheep's wool" (itself an irrelevant "post-resurrection" vision from Revelations, not a description of Jesus as an earthly man. As far as we know, there is no contemporary physical description of Jesus of Nazareth as a person) is portrayed as a white guy with silky reddish brown hair. Which is obviously a facet and element of history itself.


Pilate is maybe a good example of your point and mine. He's mentioned many, many times in the Bible and apocrypha - and that in itself is interesting because he's a rare unifying element that definitely has historical basis. We have great written and physical evidence that Pontius Pilate was a prefect of Jude's contemporaneously with the amount of Christ's life - so that in itself tells us that the often otherwise disagreeing gospel writers, were definitely writing about a historicaly extant period and describing what we believe to be a real person - and using grounded basis for an important figure in that life - Pilate would have been a weird target to go after, 50-100 years after Jesus died - and potentially an element that could disprove a fictional account of Jesus (hasn't so far). Herod too was real and a similar consideration. But that also reminds us that there's often physical dateable evidence of major persons and events, even if that's not always or even usually the case. Which again, is my only rigid point.

But tremendous effort has gone into finding specifically physical evidence of Jesus without success - more so than many other comparable persons, so that failure doesn't prove anything, but it is added to the discussion and scholarship,and frequently exposing related material (like the Pilate stone itself). So to reiterate my point, semantics aside, there still isn't a physical object or document as a proof or evidence. There's a vast trove of subsequent (and some relevant prior) physical evidence that leads us to conclude he did in fact exist. But that's obviously not a permanent conclusion, by definition.

Using a personal example, my high school history curriculum of about thirty five years ago, contained MANY abject falsehoods, errors, revised facts and even incorrect persons that have since been revised and are now consensus, about medieval Britain, especially Scotland, and even World War I. Some of this is just revised opinions about individuals and intent (Mary Queen of Scots affair with David Rizzio for example) but some of it is more striking. Many of those were scholarly errors or misinterpretations by well-regarded historians - and new scholarship and consensus have gradually updated those histories and the curriculum that relies on them.

[benjipwns]

the Halo lore is getting out of control

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-white-jesus-still-a-thing.91825/page-7#post-16636550

I defer to established experts on method and conclusion, although I find the philosophy of Skepticism interesting on its own merits) and have already declared a complete lack of credentials - I'm an

This man has a tumor in his brain.  Somebody warn him!

[benjipwns]

HALO INFINITE SCRIPT LEAK

Master Chief (not of the Covenant) John Spartan (named after the historic enemy of Athens, but not Persia who was an enemy of the collective Greek city states) enters. Cortana turns "seashells, toxic masculinity construct awaits." John Spartan rockets into the air. A Halo is infinite.

The End.

[bork]

Very good summary of why RE is REEEEEEEEEE from Resetera's favorite host, Joe Rogan:

[nachobro]

is it cause they don't workout and take dmt?

[benjipwns]

There's a lot of great and relevant moral teaching in the new testament and other books - but you're not going to find proof in a book. If faith doesn't lead you to believe outside of evidence then you should come to terms with that and there's nothing wrong with following a moral code you believe in (and can rationally justify) while ignoring the supernatural aspects. Maybe God will find you? Some folks find spiritual or transcendent comfort through art or science or cosmology and so on.

Edit. That sounded way more hippy and edgelord than I intended it to

he makes 20 posts a day on ResetERA.com, almost zero of them about Halo or even games except for today when somebody picked up on something he tweeted...this is the weirdest midlife crisis I've seen, except that he's gotta be older than that by now

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/franklez/status/1081270180624326657

[benjipwns]

At least he's loaded?

someone needs to get the gun away from him then, safety first

[benjipwns]

I wish I could monetize Halo twitter comments that don't contain any information. The I could buy that crazy Sony short throw projector.

For context, it was the usual rinse repeat thread about how there's only one "true" flavor of Halo, and I was doing my continuing reminder that consensus is not decided by folks agreeing on one twitter thread in that conversation - and because it's Twitter, I almost always have to over explain that position to prevent people taking it out of context and trying to infer meaning or conclusions from. It's either that or remain completely aloof from conversations about the game that I find illuminating and essential to doing my job. In this one in particular, I also noted that even if you used math to poll every single Halo conversation ever, and average out what the game being discussed would look like, feature by feature, setting by setting, tune by tune, you would end up with an "objective" game that likely wouldn't match a single person's "subjective" view of what it should be.

I can tell you without even reading the thread, that there's no meaningful indications from me in it other than the bland and unsurprising revelation that I am currently enjoying our MP playstests. UnlessI get donged on, obviously.


Maybe there's an opportunity here for a meta-thread, about this response. Mods, can I get ad revenue share? Because I will say crazier stuff on twitter for sure.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

if i could fly i'd go to the fucking moon, what kind of stupid fucking question is that?

[benjipwns]

oh look, shosta's favorite:

Hopefully this game doesn't have another MCC launch, and hopefully the majority of reviews won't come from fucking press events.

[PogiJones]

A reasonable take

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gov-bill-haslam-grants-full-clemency-to-cyntoia-brown-sets-aug-7-release-from-prison.91859/post-16634264

My hopefully-reasonable take is that murdering a man in his sleep and stealing his possessions, certainly valued at way over a felony amount with the Ford F150 thrown in, to give to another person results in a life sentence.

The extenuating circumstances of her being a sex trafficked juvenile at the mercy of her pimp should/would commute that life sentence to a term much shorter. 14 years likely being more than justified at this point.

Her apparently being a model prisoner and having shown a positive rehabilitation by getting her GED and a degree shows that she should be given a chance at life as an adult that she wasn’t afforded as a child.

Followed by typical REEEEE

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gov-bill-haslam-grants-full-clemency-to-cyntoia-brown-sets-aug-7-release-from-prison.91859/post-16634323

*16 year old girl, a CHILD SEX SLAVE, repeatedly raped, drugged, assaulted, forced into sex work, again, A CHILD SEX SLAVE, finds herself in a room with a fucking pedophile whos showing off his massive gun collection and feels threatened because, once again, she is a CHILD SEX SLAVE and has no way to defend herself if he decides to rape/murder her (I mean it's already rape because you know CHILD SEX SLAVE but you know what I mean) so kills him, a pedophile*

y'all motherfuckers: but what about the PEDO's life smdh

Era really hates women and it's not even subtle l m f a o

 

How did we forget about Persephone in the WOTY Poster discussions? 

We all slept on this one, really underappreciated.

[benjipwns]

these are probably better for shosta:

I love when OP says American's have terrible chants but compares it to Football fan's chants as if Football is massively popular here.

Go to a hockey game OP, you'll see chants for days.

Just a reminder that a mate of mine went from using a tool that's considered a hack to take pictures of Battlefield to working at DICE in their media department.

Use photo tools, people. Even they're considered hacks.

[benjipwns]

How did we forget about Persephone in the WOTY Poster discussions? 

We all slept on this one, really underappreciated.

for starting the "era's women problem" thread she probably should win Era's Woman of the Year, yes

hopefully this post combined with that child sex slave freak out indicates something as good is coming:

Mmm can't wait to run out of both antidepressents and birth control which regulates my insanely heavy periods. Because depression, anxiety, OCD and bad PMS is sure to be a winning combo.

[benjipwns]

MP1st Staff

ALEX CO
Editor-in-Chief
Alex Co wanted to write about games for a living ever since he picked up his first gaming magazine way back then. The stars aligned or just by dumb luck, that became reality. Now, Alex is the co-owner of MP1st and living the dream with his wife and two daughters while swearing loudly in every multplayer match.

MACK ASHWORTH
Managing Editor
Writer of Articles, Maker of Videos, and Topper of Leaderboards. Currently attempting to conquer Westeros.

DEN KOVACS
Senior Staff Writer
Den Kovacs joined MP1st in 2013 as a writer and continues to publish news and reviews for the site, even after a brief hiatus from MP1st in 2016. He is known for his cram-it-down-your-throat tweets, his stellar writing ability when it comes to video games, and his die-hard conviction for ethics in the games industry.

[benjipwns]

lol they reviewed four games in all of 2018: Battlefield V, Black Ops, Spider-Man and Monster Hunter World, three of which were by Alex Co

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

its not the quantity, its the ethicisizm

[benjipwns]

SWALLOW IT DOWN SHOSTA

Like the war the game is based on, Battlefield V was met with incredible backlash and skepticism when it was announced earlier this year. Unlike its predecessor that took the FPS genre and the series to a new and virtually unexplored era, Battlefield V was heading back home to its World War 2 roots, and the expectations on DICE were massive.

“Historical accuracy,” and “Historical authenticity,” became the battle cry of a community that expected something DICE hadn’t even promised. Thread after thread, comment after comment, everywhere Battlefield V was, so were the people angriest about its direction. They said the game would fail. They rallied around its supposed low pre-order numbers. They relished in the outrage that many of them would probably denounce if it were some other subject. It seemed to plenty of people that the ones criticizing the game forgot that it is just that — a game. But is Battlefield V a good one?

Since Battlefield 1, DICE has opted out of its cliché, and disastrous single-player campaigns of past Battlefield titles (They sucked, and that’s a fact) and have decided its far more entertaining and relevant to tell the stories you don’t hear about in documentaries, TV shows, and movies. These War Stories, as DICE calls them, tell the tales of incredible feats by the underdogs, and in Battlefield V, it’s no different.

DICE does a beautiful job of executing high action and emotion in an anthology-esque single-player campaign. With excellent voice acting and mo-cap, I felt like I was watching an HBO series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. That’s not to say it’s the best single-player portion of a shooter of all time, but it is the best single-player portion of any Battlefield game to date. Quick side tip for those who hate playing the single-player of a game mainly focused on multiplayer: You can unlock unique weapons by completing those chapters.

Let’s get to the bread and butter of this review – The Multiplayer. After spending 10 hours of gunning down Nazis, hearing the agony of being shot, the cries for a medic, and being wowed by the locations this game goes to, I have to say upfront that this is the best Battlefield multiplayer since Battlefield 3. DICE took what Battlefield 1 did right, but gave it that addicting “I want to play this game until the sun comes back up,” feeling that only Battlefield 3 had. You might ask yourself how this can be, and I’m surprised by my feelings myself.

This is coming from someone who has had a love-hate relationship franchise ever since Battlefield 3 launched. I spent a lot of time praising the game, and it’s what pushed me to join Battlefieldo as a staff writer because I loved it so much way back in 2013. But then Battlefield 4 came out. It was a disaster. I despised my colleagues in the press for rating the game so good because they played it as a press event instead of a live setting, so their review didn’t reflect at all the broken state the game was in and stayed in for six months.

So as someone who has been branded as an “extremely negative hater” by some in the community, I think it’s incredible that DICE has finally created a Battlefield title that has restocked the adrenaline I get when playing the multiplayer.

Battlefield V keeps the same formula as previous titles with four classes that players can choose from; Assault, Medic, Support, and Recon. Some might say it’s a tired formula, that you can’t teach an old class new tricks, but DICE makes the game so they don’t care what some might say, because they’ve revamped these classes to not only better suit the game’s setting, but to also improve the quality of life of players when they choose those classes.

What About Muh Historical Accuracy?

Probably the most controversial bit of Battlefield V is the customization in the game because you can customize just about anything (except vehicles which will come post-launch), including gender and race; a surprise, to be sure, but a one that’s welcomed by some (including me). Many in the community loathe this change because they expected the game to be historically accurate in looks, but I’m incredibly happy that DICE have stepped away from believing that only their majority male audience needs to be catered to. Women, people of color, and more have made it apparent that they are players too, and that representation in a historically fictional piece of entertainment is important. That last part is essential for some readers to understand because it gives context and reasoning to why DICE has gone this direction. This isn’t a period piece, it’s a video game and needs to be treated like one.

DICE thinks the same way because the character customization I mentioned before is beyond what I imagined. Overcoats, masks, helmets, and… Characters? Yes, characters. You can choose from a wide range of characters to play as in the multiplayer, all from different races and genders.

One of, if not the biggest, issues I have with this game is the fact that DICE has once again failed to launch Battlefield with features it has announced before launch and features expected to be included with the game by default. What are these features? Vehicle customization, a rental server program for community managed servers, body dragging soldiers, iconic locations and battles like D-Day and Operation Market Garden, the rest of the main factions that fought in World War 2 like the Americans, French, Japanese, and Russians. These things coming post-launch is not only annoying but pure madness for a game literally about a war that the entire world was fighting in.

EA and DICE’s decision to run with a games-as-a-service model has been questionable. Vague information floats around to what it even is, if it’ll also include any of those factions, and if the game will last more than three years. Communication from the company has improved incredibly over the past few years, but it is still falling short.

DICE’s Battlefield V sets a new bar for World War 2 shooters by having an incredible arsenal of maps, player customization, weapons, and gameplay features new to the series, despite its shortcomings in many areas players would expect to see on launch day.

Score: 8.5/10

Pros:
Fantastic gunplay
Map and sound design are incredible
Grand Operations is the best new game mode DICE have introduced to the series
Class changes give players more freedom to play how they want
A vast amount of great customization

Cons:
Fortifications aren’t good
Vehicles seem like an afterthought, aren’t powerful enough
Lack of iconic locations, battles, and factions

Battlefield 5 review copy provided by publisher. You can read MP1st’s review and scoring policy right here. All credit for the headline goes to iRAWRasaurus of ResetEra and their excellent OT which can be found here.

DEN KOVACS
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[benjipwns]

i can't stop thinking about that first sentence

[PogiJones]

Like the war the game is based on, Battlefield V was met with incredible backlash and skepticism when it was announced earlier this year.

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[PogiJones]

It really is a work of art, yeah

[benjipwns]

"Another war? But they said the last one was the war to end all wars? Total ripoff! And Germany vs. France/Britain AGAIN?!? Think of something new already!"

[PogiJones]

We are pleased to announce World War 2 coming later this year

[benjipwns]

"What's next? The Germans taking a shortcut through the Low Countries again?"

[benjipwns]

"And we aren't even getting an Eastern Front at launch?!?!? WTF!"

[PogiJones]

This one's missing features the first one had. Where's my chemical warfare?

[benjipwns]

"Bet the American expansion pack comes last this time too."