By Stella Chung
"Battlefield 2042's highpoint is its powerful Portal mode, which lets you relive the series' past glories and tweak them to your liking. Its current batch of modes is overstuffed with players and utter chaos, though Hazard Zone scales things down in an interesting, high-stakes way."
Battlefield 2042's Rush Mode faces criticism due to passive playstyles that hinder objective-based gameplay.
Battlefield franchise boss thinks Battlefield "absolutely can" outsell Call of Duty, but says they're not targeting that with the next entry.
Feel like if that were true, we would have seen it during the BF3/4 era. Just focus first on releasing a Battlefield that's actually feature complete, well put together, that people actually want to play right out of the gate. Hoping Zampella can make this happen.
The best opportunity was BF1 vs. Infinite Warfare. I've never actually seen a worldwide sales comparison so I'm not convinced BF1 didn't eventually win, but I do know COD sold better in the US at launch, because it was the NPD #1 that year, while BF was #2.
The best opportunity was with BC2 and BF3. BF4 dropped the ball with a short campaign and bugged multiplayer at launch
Release a decent game and let the mouth to eat do the rest.. you choose to release another BF4 then blame yourselves for it
@SonyStyled
Definitely not BC2. I love the Bad Company games (even though everyone always pretends the first one didn't exist), but even though BC2 has achieved great respect in hindsight, at the time it came out a lot of casuals who bought COD every year either didn't know of Battlefield's existence or saw it as a knockoff of COD. Plus coming out in spring 2010 it was competing against MW2 (the original one) which came out the prior fall.
I mean, the title of the game doesn't have a lot to do with how it sells. The next game is not going to change things but Zampella course change the course of the series towards something that's more on track with that those big player numbers.
With that said, battlefield fans might not want that. To acquire the wider audience they would probably need to betray a lot of the series design principles. Call of Duty is as popular as it is because it is as simple as it is.
In his defense, BF2042 did turn things around eventually though still falls short of franchise expectations if you based it on BF4, BF3, BF1.
Hated it at lunch, came back a two years after and it was an absolute blast. Not sure how it did sales wise to be called failure or success but BF2042 is a pretty good game .
We don't need more games ruined. It's like that company puts water on their bread before they eat it.
Here we go again with rubbing mouths. BF has been a flop consistently since BF4, and I mean flop as in disappointing to the fan base due to the technical issues each has had and the gameplay changes needlessly made. Shut up and make a good BF before hyping up another potential disappointment.
Bro gave one pretty decent interview and answered the questions he was asked. Not really his fault if people want to cherry pick quotes for "content".
Stick to reading source https://www.ign.com/article...
I don't mind them claiming BF2042 wasn't a failure so long as they learned from it and use that experience moving forward into the new game, it was terrible at launch but towards the end it got a bit better. I don't want to see the same thing play out with the new BF though because the ones who are still interested in the franchise have been pretty vocal with what they want and don't want from Battlefield.
Battlefield 2042 may no longer be receiving new seasons, but it's already been confirmed that a new Halloween event will hit the game later this year.
I'd give it a 6/10 personally, not much going for 2042. Portal mode is where the game has potential. They need to build and expand on what fans want, which is the older games in Portal. I haven't touched 2042 in 4+ days now, been playing Forza and Halo Infinite which imo is the best shooter of next gen so far. I haven't felt a desire to hop back on as content is rather light and bugs have plagued the experience. I've played BF since '08 and it's sad to see how the franchise has gone downhill after 2013. EA really needs to look inward to see what's consistently going wrong with the BF franchise and why fans are always disappointed in their games. With paid CoD finally dying out (worst sales since CoD 4), BF has potential to take hold but their design/QA choices are killing them. Put more resources and effort into Portal and 2042 and drop Hazard Zone, make Portal separate or Free to Play. The fact they launched a first person shooter in 2021 without voice chat is alarming and quite indicative of EA's rushed development culture. They have to adapt somehow or else I suspect this game will drop quickly come 2022 as players look forward to other games. Give fans a high quality experience and they will pay, otherwise, let the BF franchise die to the sands of time.
People still trust IGN reviews?
"7/10 too much bug" - IGN
Like damn what happen EA? all these years in development for this crap? like where's the traditional FPS modes ? Teamdeath, Killtags, Capture the flag, like no close quarter matches ? for real though ? I spend half of the match running back to the action. This is a boring hot mess even with 128 player matches. Just remaster and give me BF4 cause this aint it. Sorry to say but I'm going back to playing Cold War this $#@& sucks.
If it wasn't a Battlefield game, they would rate it lower than a 7.