@@kikoplayz3495 because who would want to be in WW1? A sad end to a generation like that, these people went through so much shit I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes for 1 second, I give them absolute respect because I wouldn’t have the balls to charge into machine gun fire, storm a trench, sit in a trench for months, or weeks on end and I wouldn’t have the courage to serve in the military and fight a war so yeah they were born in the wrong generation because most died horrible deaths, everyone in Europe lost either a mother, a father, son or atleast a family member, entire villages and cities were wiped out
@@Chuked well if you're to me about the disrepect of "well they were born in the wrong generation" then, stop, and think of what you said. Do you think they wanted to be born in a generation where a world war happened and they had to serve in it, you can say this for all wars and imo it would still be a great disrepect for saying that tey were born in the wrong generation, because they had no control over when their moms were to give birth to them
Gluty Maximusy yeah it really does. But I also think it means that you're supposed to die in each section in order to move on to the end of the mission.
I think the point here is that it's not what probably most of us expected - you know, a standard campaign where the protagonist makes it through against all odds on the frontline; instead, you die multiple times as multiple people.
Overpriced CsGo skin true but the greater meaning is that in reality they weren't expected to survive in ww1 in real life or any war if you are on the front line
People as young as 13 were on the western front in the war. They lied about their age because they saw the war as ‘an adventure’. Little did they know they would get the world’s first taste of modern war.
One thing that BF1 did in this game unlike most shooters, is that it showed how the war you play in was not fun and games for those involved whatsoever
What really hit me we’re those shell shocked people. There were people standing there, waiting to be killed, people covering their ears, there were people screaming, so many war cries, etc. This game really shows you how gritty a war can get, and like you said; it teaches the younger audience that war isn’t cool, fun and games.
@National Socialist there's a part of the game where you use white phosphorous and bombard a camp full of soldiers but then when you kill everyone and go to one of the camp's part that's full of "enemies" you realize that they were actually civilians and that the soldiers were actually helping them
This is one of my favorite openings for a game. When you die, you don’t respawn and try again, you go to another guy and you realize everyone you play as is on borrowed time and will get to you eventually. While the rest of the campaign and multiplayer was good, this was the highlight of the game imo.
One of subtle details that makes this so great are the few German soldiers you don't see fighting. They're just standing there, shell shocked , obvious to their hellish surroundings.
World War One was truly a horrific war. Never before was a war fought on such scale with such sophisticated weaponry. There were flamethrowers, tanks, air planes, chemical weapons, and machine guns pitted against old school tactics.
Arthur Morgan ww1 seems so much more brutal, being trapped in a disease ridden trench and then being ordered by your superiors to charge across no mans land only for hundreds of troops to be mowed down by machine guns.
@@imsorryyoutube6774This is probably not what you were thinking of but Verdun's another example of drawn out death cries. There'd usually be one death cry sound effect playing in any combat situation to add to the experience
Dream a Little Dream of Me was not published until 1931. This implies that the soldier in the cutscene survived the war, and is probably at his home back in the US about 14 years later, and is still suffering from PTSD. Also implies that the first mission is a past memory. And even that the reason he knows the names and year of birth of those killed in this battle may be because they were his friends who did not survive.
Yes it is obvious he is in some kind of hospital and is having a PTSD flashback. He doesn't look any older tho, it looks like it happened immediately after the war so maybe they just made a mistake adding the song.
1:02 is the most terrifying part of the game for me when the fighting gets so close you have fight them off with your bare hands it just shows how hard a person will go to survive
I was about on comment on this, The part where he bashes this dudes face it is. Scary, It shows how the soldier getting hit is reacting each strike. This is the rea lwar, Not guns with lasers or jetpacks. Brute, Pain Death Surrounding. Its deadly
Wait until you see the weapons and trench clubs soldiers made on the battlefield. I saw a collection of things like nail bats, maces, clubs, bayonets, knives, and much, much more at a museum near Fort Douaumont in Verdun. WW1 was particularly awful because every time soldiers crossed No Man's Land and reached the opposing trench, both sides would have to resort to close quarters combat. Look up "WW1 melee weapons" to see what I mean.
What's really interesting though, is that at 1:02 when the French soldier is bashing the german on the ground, the French solider yells: "Je vais te saigner!" which translates to: "I'll make you bleed!"
I remember I got this for my 14th birthday and after or before the cake, (don’t remember), my friends sat down and watched me play the intro. During the first cutscene, all of us were silent, impressed and intrigued by the horror of this game. A time I will always remember.
I remember, the first time I got the ps4 fresh from Bangkok I bought it to be the first game for it too, I heard great things about this, and I just sat in my seat amazed a shock watching this intro, best moment of my life, really made me feel like I was in combat;-;
The attention to detail is truly amazing, at 7:13 I bet you didn't notice the German soldier who is almost walking like a zombie back towards his line......yep he's shell shocked, soon after he gets gunned down by the player. It really shows how the war brought out the worst in us, but it also brought out the best
Despite what both the Geneva and Hague Conventions tell you, there are no rules in war. War is about death and dying; it is about gaining the advantage; as World War I demonstrated.
the only one of those soldiers I ended up gunning down intentionally was the one that was laying on the ground, horribly injured with no one to help, even made sure to make it a precise headshot just to help him out
Just a correction, it wasn't BF2 - It was Battlefield 2 Modern Combat for consoles but i agree, a really good move especially at the game that is supposed to make people aware of how easy it is for one to die, even if they're knights in the sky, ghosts in desert or rats in mud.
It's not the respawning you like. It's the fact that they assigned names and date of birth/ date of death each time you spawn that makes it far more impactful. They might have used actual real names of people who died in WWI.
When I first played the prologue no lie I was really starting to tear up especially when the two soldiers were deciding whether or not to shoot each other and the speech afterwards
i dont know why anyone would cry. no one knew ww1 fucking existed (as in no one cares until BF1 came) so you shouldnt have feelings for it until a few years ago.
Also he actually emptied the mags before reloading because there's no such thing as an ammo counter back then, even now it's still pretty limited in use
The brutality of war can be seen very clearly in ww1 imagine you're almost feet away from the enemy and out of bullets having to resort to using rocks of pieces of sheet metal you find on the floor.
Anihilist Back then PTSD was just seen as cowardice, these days it's very important to keep an eye on. So in a way it was a shitty comment to just kill the guy, but back then he would have either died or lived his life waking at night reliving the horrors he went through, unable to function in society who might look down on his behavior.
"Every once in awhile we hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds so the world beyond the war glimmers.... Just out of reach" That's a great quote.
The war is the world and the world is the war But every behind on a gun sight is a human being We are those people We are the jaded we are the naive We are the honorable and the criminal We are bound for legend and lost to history We are knights in the sky We are ghost in a desert And rats in a mud This is our stories
No tutorial, no long opening cutscene, no anything. It just throws you right into the thick of it. One of, if not, the best war game I think I’ve ever played
Despite its historically inaccurate guns, this is one of the greatest opening to a war game ever. It makes the point up front that you are not the action hero, you are one of the nameless millions bound for the grave marching into pure hellish bloodshed. You won’t survive. It is brilliant and very true to the unrelenting nature of World War 1 and war as a whole. The detail of the shell shocked German soldiers found in the fields is also brilliantly horrifying. They just stumble almost unaware to the world around them. Dazed in some twisted sense of peace. This of course is seconds before they are killed. Thank you dice, for this amazing and terrible opening.
It changed the world forever because during WW1 there was great advancement in medicine and weapons technology creating tanks, penicillin, food , and more and more advance guns to conquer the other side. As years went by more and more weapons and tech were made.. it's truly terrifying that if it wasn't for war we probably wouldn't came up with most of the things we have today
@@DatboiDemonXYes, but many of them never saw service. But, I don't blame the devs for that. A real historically accurate WW1 shooter would have been nothing but MGs and bolt-action rifles.
8:39 from here to the end really stuck out to me. The music score combined with the zeppelin falling from the sky on fire, the the flame thrower troopers and gas while artillery goes off everywhere just illustrates the chaos of trench warfare so terribly well.
Honestly, from an artistic standpoint, this is one of the most effective openings to a game, or even a fucking movie, that I have ever seen. It conveys such emotion. When I first played through this, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor because I wasn't expecting such depth from a game from the BF franchise. War is Hell.
In the last part, after the tank Instead of fighting I decided to just stand in the middle of everything and decided to just watch everything of course I fought at the end but during those very few minutes of standing I just thought "Wow, war is hell on earth"
What I really like about this first mission is that it destroys the myth that war is survivable, which is often indirectly supported by fps games. It doesn't matter how skilled you are in the first few sections, no matter how many lives you take, you will die, and there was never anything you could've done about it.
For once, maybe we'll have a war game that actually portrays the futility and pointlessness of war, and that every soldier is a human who just wants to live.
Fucking Chills every time i watch this. '60 million soldiers fought and died' 'it solved nothing' appreciate and respect your elders, this isn't even a chip off what they experienced. (obv ww2)
9.7-10 Million deaths were military personal, those are in combat deaths not deaths from disease or other aliments after the war associated with it. 10-11 million civilians lost theirs lives as well. Roughly, 60 million people participated in the war.
Probably one of the greatest openings to any shooter I have seen in a long time. Usually, there are scenes like this in other games that merely just flip the narrative up on its head in order for the player to continue playing along without dissonance. They are usually made out to be a one man army, and thus they feel they are because the game reinforces that fact. Not here. It's clear from the moment that you are thrown back into the flashback that you are not special. You are not the savior of mankind, you are not a super human, you are not the hero. You are nobody. You are just another soldier that is about to become a statistic in a field where millions of others share that same fate. You are not expected to survive.
The music in the background is just incredible. It really gave me the chills because it represents the physiological trauma the soldiers are going through at the young ages shown. I just love this opening because not many games depict war like this game does. The music, the setting, the detail, and everything about this opening sets the bar really high for the rest of the game.
omg this was an amazing Opening to a game i have not seen this in forever. the story looks powerful and the Music was bad ass as well i am calling this now Battlefield to be the game of the year 2016 in more than 1 area
"Heres a deal, you get to live forever, and have 3 million dollars, but a hyper intelligent and immortal snail is hunting you, and if it touches you, you die an extremely painful death. Would you take it?" Me and the snail after we both outlive humanity, and the sun is dying 11:15
I thought DICE was only gonna go up from here. Sucks getting older and having the people who make the games you love just make shittier and shittier decisions
To die in some fucking mud drenched field crying for your mother when you should be home, with people who love you all because someone who is ostensibly is supposed to protect you and yours says it's time to cull the youngest, the most hopeful, the brightest, and tell them that they shall no grow old while they have the audacity to go on living. Truly nothing is so universally reviled and universally discussed as warfare. "If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori." But it's a game, and I think that it's good that games can help us feel even a modicum of that so we try and do better in the real world.
I remember being stunned at how serious the campaign was at the beginning, it set an entirely different tone for the game and I really appreciate how DICE decided to make the campaign opening so grim to remind us that unlike several of the previous Battlefield installments, this one was based on a real war, where real people fought and died.
It’s so heartwarming that even tho they were enemies to each other, they never wanted to fight each other anyways, because they are just human beings to each other 11:30
Fun fact: The Harlem hell fighters were African American troops who were given to the French military to use because white American generals believed a black soldier should never fight under the American flag, The Harlem hell fighters were given nicer French uniforms and helmets by the French and were treated more equally than their white American counterparts. America also gave the minimum medals to the Harlem hell fighters so France gave them their own medals. France was also a safe haven for Black folk due to it being the only country where looks didn’t matter at the time only your work ethic. They abolished slavery before the end of the 1790’s. The first country ever to abolish it.(sadly Napoleon brought it back for a couple years)
Easily one of my most favourite FPS missions. So much emotion. Little details like showing the person's name and birth/death date, the shell shocked soldiers, the hopelessness of it all in the final segment where you feel it's an utter massacre with last man left standing. This game inspired me to research and learn about ww1 as I didn't know much before. What an awful part of history for both sides.
