GameTap writes: "A funny thing happened while playing in the Ascension map in Battlefield: Bad Company, the latest incarnation of the first-person shooter series that originally started on the PC. Our squad, which topped out at around five or six members, had managed to blow up two sets of gold crates in two separate enemy bases, opening up the third and final area where the last two crates were hidden.
Unfortunately, getting to these crates would prove to be difficult for a variety of reasons. The first is that there's only one major entry point into the castle-like structure where these two crates are hidden. The second is that when you're on the offensive and have beaten the defenders back to their final staging area, they have the benefit of spawning directly inside the structure after being killed, allowing them to set up position near the main entry point as well as at side points that can only be accessed by blowing a hole through them. Third, when you're on the attack and happen to be killed, you'll more than likely spawn outside the structure and have to fight through the defensive positions all over again despite the fact that you can either select to spawn at your base or with the squad."
With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.
Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.
When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:
“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.
Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."
(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.
BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same
If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit
Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.
EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.