During yesterday’s VGX 2013 live show Respawn Entertainment co-founder had some reassuring words for those competitive online gamers that don’t really care about having the story interfere with Titanfall‘s deathmatches, explaining that it won’t “ruin” the multiplayer experience.
“Jason and Vince just got fired!” A lead artist shouted, as he rode in on one of the many small kick-push scooters that would typically lay around the studio. He quickly scooted away to some other part of the office space to spread that shocking message.
A friend worked there in production and was miserable due to working with IW and with ATVI. When he complained to his VP about it, he was told...be glad you have a job and are making games.
Sounds about right, but is also sounds like something Infinity Ward would say. They made their own bed and cashed in hard to do it. F em.
That sucks, but that’s corporate America. I mean, they could’ve turned down the money and leave to Respawn too. At least they got something, my corporation would’ve probably expected everyone to go back to normal.
daaaym
"oh we're running ur life? pff get over it, like honestly"
scum
I mean, if my company wants to give me a bonus and raise my salary by 50%, I'd get over whatever the hell they wanted me to. 🤷♂️
It seems there might be more Star Wars stuff on the way from Respawn's parent company EA according to Respawn boss Vince Zampella.
we need this Star Wars UNcharted type of game:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
This looks way more impressive than Survivor imo, and is from 2012 I think!!
1313 was going to be tough. Savage cancellation by Disney. Jedi FO/S was imo built off the carcus of 1313 but 1313 to me looked and sounded more compelling for its time. How about a Bioware Star Wars? Please?
I don’t think I could trust the Bioware of today with Star Wars
It already makes me nervous with Ubisoft doing an open world SW game
I honestly can’t even which multi platform developer could do SW justice outside of Respawn.
Ofc there's more, it's Disney, they will milk until it's powder. We know Quantic has a game, KOTOR should still be a thing. Jedi and other EA games, VR, etc. I'm all for more but we knew Disney would bleed it dry. I just hope for more SP and RPG as opposed to mp.
Mobile games and GOAS games?
Xdefiant but with Star Wars probably
Respawn Entertainment -- and head of the entire Battlefield franchise -- Vince Zampella -- thinks Battlefield 2042 strayed too far from the franchise.
All they needed to do was make a better bf4 game with a different story and better online multiplayer
Agreed. Though BF4 was similarly broken at launch, along with every BF game since then. I think DICE needs to either take more time or reign in the scope of what they do. If they consistently can't release a working game it's because they're building games they know they don't have enough time to finish.
Or make Bad Company 3.
They've already assigned Ridgeline Games developing the next BF campaign.
Let DiCE and Ripple Effect handle the multiplayer side of things.
And release it not before 2025 and focus on current-gen platforms from ground up.
The problem is current gen is growing too slowly because of supply that could get worse.
Yes. For multiplayer, all we wanted was better graphics, more maps, more destruction, more class items, etc.
DICE kept pushing for what they wanted and not what gamers wanted.
If I remember reading correctly Vince made Devs go back and play older BF titles after the mess of BF2042 to understand what it was what made BF special.
I also remember reading that a lot of Devs that made the classic BF games were put on BF Portal duties which for me is baffling.
Vince has a good track record of changing things for the better so whilst BF2042 was a average game, I'm optimistic for the next installment.
Ever since Battlefield 1 the Battlefield franchise has gotten less-and-less immersive. The combination of historical inaccuracy [when set in an historical setting] and imbalanced classes is what drove me away from the series. I however, didn’t start playing battlefield until battlefield 4, so I can’t speak for long-term fans of series.
Unless they went really wild with it's inaccuracy, I doubt many people care about some inaccuracies as long as it captures an idea of WW1 and it's fun.
Was Levelution not well liked?
I only started playing BF games last year and really like the BF4 stuff. I don't know why they haven't done that again. (aside from the massive amount of work that must take to make a level with evolution.)
It kinda depended on the map and how the ‘levelution’ affected it. If you’re an assault type that ran/drove to every flag, I don’t think it made a whole lot of difference on how it affected your match, but if you’re playing as a sniper or are mostly in a boat, and ‘suddenly’ there’s a huge storm, you’d lose your long-range targets and ‘boating’ was more difficult.
I think for most players, some of the stuff was cool the first few times, and after that it was a ‘shrugs’ moment. Siege of Shanghai was probably the best map, in that the tower is pretty much the heart of that map, and flattening the tower made that flag far more vulnerable to take-overs.
As we’ve been saying for years; All Battlefield needs to do/be, is be a Battlefield game. That’s it. That’s all.
It doesn’t need to copy all kinds of features from other games. It doesn’t need legends, or heroes, or battle royale, or whatever. Just 10-12 cool gorgeous fun maps, 32 vs 32 players, 5/6 flag conquest. That’s it. 4 classes, good balance between solo-play & squad-play. Good balance between vehicles & infantry gameplay.
A good Battlefield match is short but sweet (20-30 minutes), and ensures that YOU -can- make a difference, regardless of your individual play-style. That’s what made it special. If you’re on a ridiculously huge map with insane amounts of other players, you’re not really going to feel you’re making a significant contribution. Not to mention when half the folks on the map are bots, of course.
Will the multi-player experience ruin the story? The campaigns were my favorite part of COD2, MW, and MW2.
Story never ruins multiplayer. It's usually the other way around.
I believe the words he used were "not going to ruin the TRADITIONAL experience"
Wait, there's a story?
The stories simple, 2 factions with different perspectives and wanting control over some resource.