Where did EA go wrong with Medal of Honor?

The recent news is that EA is done with Medal of Honor. The game is no longer in its yearly rotation. This means it could be shelved indefinitely. What went wrong with the series? Is there anything EA could do to fix it? If EA does start making more MoH games should they go back to the WW2 theme or try another war?

[NastyLeftHook0]

trying to be like call of duty. yeah, cod sells, so what? be original and make your games like you used to! REMEMBER MEDAL OF HONOR FRONTLINE? YEAH...

[DoomeDx]

Allied Assault FTW!

[IAMERROR]

They CODified it, MOH was the OG back in the day, Frontlines was a standout title.

[e-p-ayeaH]

MOH FRONTLINE at least got an HD version that was nice of them.

[dcbronco]

CoD is what MoH was supposed to be. Infinity Ward(not as a company then) were coders for EA. They made a CoD demo for EA as a new direction for MoH. EA refused the idea and wanted to keep making cookies. CoD is now huge and EA is desperately trying to get back into that genre. One of the dumbest decisions ever in gaming.

[Kratoscar2008]

I would LOVE to see WW2 to be a plot point again, im really tired of modern combat, i want to kill Nazis again.

MoH Frontlines was awesome, i still play it from time to time, the D-Day mission is perhaps my favorite mission in any shooter.

A shame this series will die, it died with Honor (I dont consider the modern combat games MoH material)

[e-p-ayeaH]

WW2 FPS aren't mainstream anymore unless we get another saving private ryan kind of movie which i doubt.

[Kratoscar2008]

That damm spielberg he should be making another WW2 movie or a game (Instead of that lame boomblox).

[SPAM-FRITTER-123]

There are still plenty of WW2 shooters being released on PC, just not for the casual(Console) crowd who WANT CoD every year.

[boldscot]

They tried to grab the COD money and stopped trying to make great games.
Now we are in the same situation as we were a few years back with the FPS market over saturated with modern shooters rather then WW2 and most of them are pathetic attempts to cash in on COD's money making success.

[up2snuff]

Give it to the guys at Respawn who made the first MOH. Copy COD and give it dedicated servers...end of story.

[dcbronco]

They also made the first CoD.

[Cam977]

Rising Sun was the first average one in my books.

[shackdaddy]

Pacific assault was mine. Rising sun actually got slightly better and then the quality went back down again after that.

Airborne was good too but had a lot of bugs.

[Cam977]

I too enjoyed Airbone and I would've preferred it if they developed the formula rather than jump into the modern era which led to the series' ultimate demise.

[venom06]

THEY DIDNT GO WRONG WITH MEDAL OF HONOR.... the problem is CoD fanboy review sites that have CoD so far up their "you-know-whats" that it clouds there jugdement on ANY military FPS with killstreaks... NO MATTER WHAT THE GAME IS.... they did the same crap with Homefront.. why, because it had killstreaks so that automatically meant it was "too CoD".. GTFO, both games Medal of Honor and Homefront were decent and nowhere near as bad as the fanboy reviewers made them out to be. This will be the case with any military FPS in the future. No matter how different, or innovative it is, if it has anything that resembles a killstreak, the CoD fanboy reviewers (IGN, KOTAKU, etc) will slaughter it without given it a fair chance.

[dcbronco]

I haven't played the MP of MoH 2. But it was far better than CoD on the first. No arcady bs.

[Tzuno]

they changed everything in a cod whore.

[shackdaddy]

They changed everything about the game a while ago and it lost all of its charm.

The game used to be about WWII espionage then went all CoD on everyone and they started obsessing over "authenticity".

Go back to WWII and let me blow up a submarine or sneak into a German officers pub again. Those are the type of experiences that made me love MoH.

Airborne was a great game with flaws. Expand on that.

[InTheLab]

They abandoned the ideas of MoH Airborne like leveling weapons during the sp campaign and open ended hubs. They took a huge step back with MoH and MoH WF was complete trash...but at least lean is back.

MoH's mp was completely broken. Can't tell you how often I spawned in front of a camper. I often times had to leave the match.

MoH WF mp was slightly better but the UI is all screwed up so you never really felt comfortable about where you were and what you were doing.

[cyclindk]

They wouldn't need to "replace" it if they'd just get there heads out of their a$$es on MoH... Airborne, for all it's faults, was a peek at the kind of innovation the MoH series needs to reinvigorate the franchise.

Don't look at CoD

Don't look at Battlefield

Make MoH its own game!

[WeaseL]

2015 inc

[isarai]

EA as a whole just went to shit halfway through this generation. Started of with a bang showing games with great content, creativity, unique ideas, and overall great value for you dollar. Then somewhere along the lines they just started scamming money out of every game they could, with online passes even for games that don't feature online, gimped content, and mainstreaming/casualizing everything while leaving just about every game making me wish i never bought it.

[squarecircle]

Many reasons;

Modern day setting is an over saturated market, hell even Cod is trying to get away from it..

It was labelled as inferior Battlefield, a game to hold you over until the next Battlefield instalment arrived.

They tried to compete with cod, but as many games have shown us in the past; it NEVER works!

MoH 2010 and MoH Warfighter are way too linear. What happened to multiple routes of the old MoH? Or the open battlefields of Airborne? No-one wants to be funnelled down invisible hallways with you activating set pieces...