ThisGenGaming says "By now, you’ve probably seen the trailers for this year’s big shooters, Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. As I’m sure you are also aware, these 2 different franchises are going in 2 different directions, even down to the concept of combat itself. It’s certainly a breath of fresh air that we aren’t going to end up with 2 World War 2 shooters or anything like that. Unfortunately, with 1 of these games taking place in an alternate-history World War 1 while the other is a space-aged fight for life as we know it."
The VR industry has long awaited sign of true Call of Duty VR games, but will it ever happen? And does it need to happen?
I don't think it's in Activision's DNA to stick their neck out on something like this unfortunately. They've got a surefire winner with COD so why risk a winning formula.
fwiw, Firewall Zero Hour was more fun than COD for me, but obviously didn't have the same user base and budget
I wonder hypothetically if a non-VR COD style game were to integrate VR players, could you even balance such a thing out. I'm guessing no.
Highly unlikely at the moment. Executives are more concerned with being bought by Daddy Warbucks and golden parachutes than moving VR forward. They had a chance last gen but released a spaceship, combat demo instead. COD would increase VR awareness but if they were bought, the same thing that happened to other developers under Microsoft would happen to them.
Just consider, before being bought by Microsoft, Bethesda had Skyrim and Wolfenstein Cyber pilot. Ninja Theory had Hell Blade, Dexed and helped with Vader Immortal. Inxile had Mage's Tale. Double Fine had Psychonauts. ID Software had Doom VFR and Doom 3. Compulsion had We Happy Few: Uncle Jack Live.
Ever since the purchase of those developers, zero VR games announced or released. And since Microsoft continues to shun VR, Activision games like COD wouldn't have VR either under them.
Firewall, Crossfire, Pavlov, and whoever else makes an FPS game in VR, will have to do for the time being. Maybe Sony will make one like Killzone or Resistance in VR. Also surprised that Valve didn't put Counterstrike in VR.
I think the experience would be so different to traditional CoD and share so little with it that there would be no point in pinning the CoD label on it. I think Pavlov is about as close as you’ll get
For DICE to succeed with its next game, it has to return to the roots of the franchise. Atmospheric map design, clear and defined class-based gameplay, attention to detail, and total chaos. Battlefield 1 feels like every rock, every glint on your sniper rifle, every falling brick from a collapsing church, has been painstakingly considered. So much care went into the design of the game, from its soundtrack to its costume department. To stand a chance alongside the behemoths of Treyarch and Infinity Ward, DICE needs to recapture what made their old games so brilliant, otherwise it’s all over.
"DICE Needs To Recapture The Magic Of Battlefield 3 In The Next Game"
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...on a serious note, DICE needs to remove the Battlefield name.
Eh, bfbc2 was the peak for me, only ad dogfighting and the accommodations that come with it. Every BF after that was such an unsatisfying progression system for weapons and gear for the classes, 90% of the guns feel exactly the same when you unlock them, just felt boring in comparison. Not to mention the gimped destruction as the series progressed
I found Battlefield 1 to be overrated. The gameplay was simpler and less strategic than its predecessors. Battlefield 1 did have a woo-factor, but the gameplay got repetitive faster than Battlefield 4 in my opinion.
If DICE needs to return to the roots of the franchise then why would they look at Battlefield 1? BF1 is overly simplified and streamlined. What DICE should focus on is Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2. Those two games were the pinnacle of the franchise.
Cheaters & hackers have been causing grief on Battlefield 1, Hardline & BF4 servers, with nonstop DDoS attacks among other things. Unfortunately, EA has remained silent about it.
Not even if they paid me.. EA always do this with old games with less money potential, if this was Ultimate Team, they'd address and sort it faster than stories could spread. Why invest time in their products when they will just dump it in the following years? Then again EA never could see the forest for the trees.
I imagine after those games were given out for free a couple months back through Amazon, anything that makes people go to 2042 is a plus for them
Nah. I think they can't do anything about it or they want to sink money into fixing it.
EA owns all BF servers so yes, they can do something about it but they refuse to because they dont want ppl playing their old games instead of the new one. Its EA we’re talking about here
if this happened in 2042, they'd have something to say. which is weird, considering battlefield 1 has more players on steam right now.
Its so obvious that EA is doing this or hired ppl to mess up the games so that we’d be forced to have just 1 Battlefield working.
Honestly it’s probably the devs themselves. They did an update to bf4 way back that kinda made assault rifles doo doo in hopes that people would flock to BF1 cuz BF4 was too perfect
I think it will also, Call of Duty is just Call of Duty. It's a much more known franchise. I know the future and space theme is getting a lot of hate but it doesn't look all that bad really. That's where the game is that right now, until they make a total reboot or something. To me battlefield is just trying to seize the opportunity and see if it can take advantage of all that hate.
Ok. Now I'm not a Cod-shill, nor am I a BF fan. But this article, unfortunately, is true. Dethroning CoD in sales just like that is wishful thinking. I know, BF1 is definitely better than COD:IW+MWR. But we're talking about hard sales here where casuals, long time fans, exclusive marketing comes into play.
I think if BF1 only equalize in sales with COD:IW+MWR, it will be a massive victory on its own. BF3(15M), BF4 (8-9M) and BF:H (4M) certainly shows BF1 can do +15M Sales(in 2years), but I don't think the usual CoD-fan patrol army would let CoD fall behind 15M also.
Maybe Battlefield franchise can "completely overtake" COD franchise with BF2. But CoD is annual. Activision will have 3 chances, CoD2017, CoD2018, CoD2019 to mix some WW2 setting and maybe try fighting BF setting. BF2 won't come before 2018.
Some gamers just buy games because of the name. Dont care about quality, content, story. Its out and they buy it.
Just bring me some Battlefield Virgins from Call of Duty and I'll make them a sacrifice to the DICE gods
It may perform better. COD servers at launch typically run better then Battlefield servers. Look at Battlefield 4's 1st 10 months on PS4. As far as sales go, kings are meant to be dethrone, and this year, COD's crown will be crushed.