User blog comment:Flamesword300/battlefield 3 is not realistic or a war simulator/@comment-3171236-20130328004944

The best thing to have is a mix between realism and fun.

You want a story or elements of your game to be realistic, but you want the game to be fun.

If you want realism, World War II Online would have been your game. If you wanted to pilot a vehicle, it would've been next to impossible to pilot without a flight stick of some sort, and you would often be wandering the map for over half an hour looking for a good fight to join.