DICE has more than just Battlefield 4 to show at this year's E3.
Halo veteran Marcus Lehto's studio, Ridgeline, will now be joined by DICE on the project.
Battlefield Producer Jaqub Ajmal, who has worked on fan-fave entries such as BF3, BF4 and their DLCs, has announced he's departing DICE.
That's a bad sign but not unexpected given how EA managed the franchise post BF4.
Hopefully he will start his own company and be able to bring a new spin on the shooter genre.
DICE has heard the complaints about Battlefield V's realism (or lack thereof) and it seems the studio is making some changes.
Too bad they won't be changing the weapon attachments that don't do anything other than change appearance... wtf.
It's WWII man. There aren't a lot of weapon attachments and rail systems at this time in history. I was just happy to be able to get a reflex sight on my guns given the general availability of the era.
Guess when they realized some people took their, "if you don't like it, don't buy it" comment to heart, that they actually needed to appeal to the people who would buy the game, instead of the people who make a fuss about things they actually have no interest in spending money on.
It'd be nice if other publishers would take note on this, because it's what people have been preaching to them since gamergate got derailed by Sarkeesian and her supporters. Maybe in the future, they can actually gain some good will from gamers by saying the, "if you don't like it, don't buy it", to those who had no intention or interest in buying it in the first place, and if a developer wants to do something different for artistic reasons, do it in a place where your target audience isn't an established group of what is essentially a core part of the general gaming market, along with droves of typical casual gamers who don't get involved with the politics either way.
Great comment man, I cant agree enough. You should tweet Dice.
I feell though that the damage has already been done and that this will be the least successful BF game in years.
But isn't this exactly what all the haters wanted? Honestly, I'm disappointed they are caving. I hope they don't end up sucking the personality out of the game.
Looks like the pre-orders (money) is making them suddenly see the light.
If only I cared.
Yeah, once I saw the news about pre-orders being weak, I knew something would have to give.
Me too.
Also, I always have a little sigh of relief when I see people using that term correctly. I know it's an American thing to say "I could care less", but what does that even mean!?
I'm no grammar nazi but I'm the same way, just really bugs me to see it used incorrectly idk why.
Great they to hear they at least are waking up now, people want the classic Battlefield and not some fortnite costumization nightmare
They must be pretty pissed with all the leaks. Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo suprisingly no leaks yet, they must be running a tight ship.
Hope they have good surprises and not the crappy "surprise we have exclusive DLC for console Z"
cough cough Mirrors Edge 2
Bad Company 3! wishful thinking.lol I've put so many hours in BC2 on PS3/PC. Mirrors Edge would be great also.
Mirror's Edge 2 would be nice, though I'm a bit worried about it. When EA talked about the potential of a sequel they said that it was hard to do. They said the game had parkour and shooting, and that they weren't sure which direction they should go in, or which direction gamers wanted. To me that sounds like BS.
The game was a parkour game, it just featured some very poorly designed shooting that was completely optional, and the game even encouraged you not to use any weapons. So to me it seems like DICE wanted to make another parkour game, while EA wanted a shooter with parkour tacked on so they could market it against CoD. Just like they did with Medal of Honor, and just like they did with BF3 SP.
So if Mirror's Edge 2 does get announced, I hope it's actually Mirror's Edge 2, not Mirror of Duty: Parkour Edition.