Battlefront
So I just read today that now Battlefront won’t even have a class system. It will instead have personal customization. I think everyone kinda saw that coming. I’ve already talked in a previous comic blog extensively about why this game is turning out to be an insult and shouldn’t be purchased if you truly respect what was once the Battlefront franchise.
But today’s blog is about how everyone is going to buy it anyways. Gaming is at this point about trends. What’s hot, what’s not. Everyone’s going to buy Battlefront. We can complain as much as we like but EA knows it’s going to be bought by multiple tiers of fanboys. First Star Wars fans who will love it simply for the thrill of playing a new Star Wars game. Then we have their regular buyers who frequent the Battlefield franchise. Those two combined are some big numbers. Enough numbers to have people talking about it, which leads to the next wave of people who cave because their friends are playing it.
In the end, everyone who hates the game owns it anyways. Because Star Wars Battlefront will be hot. The hype train’s already rolling. Reviewers aren’t going to give it a low score simply because it’s not anything like its predecessors. It’ll be a high scored, critically acclaimed money maker.
When I read about the lack of a class system, I check out the comments in the article. Everyone is complaining but in the end, EA doesn’t give a rats ass what we think of them. You think they care that they were voted the worst company in America twice? Their board probably laughed when they got that news while they were counting their endless profits. If their profits had taken a hit because of it, it’d be a different story. They speak one language, and that’s sales. And so long as people buy this game, our thoughts about them are meaningless.
Frankly, I think I’d have little to no issue with the game if it had a different name… even then, I guess I should just take it by what they’ve said previously about it being a reboot rather than a sequel.
Perhaps the biggest change between this Battlefront and the previous ones is that it’s being developed by a completely different studio (after the serious changing hands a million times during its dark era post-Battlefront 2). Honestly, I don’t think I’m too surprised about it being the way it is. Unless the developer created the original product, most like to make new games with their own touches and styles, and DICE isn’t really going to be much different.
Not that I disagree with much of what you’re saying. A game’s popularity is largely about whether or not it’s trending, not whether or not it’s good — whether or not it’s trending is most important, and why it’s trending will be influenced by many more factors rather than the fact that it’s “good” or “bad”, games with a lot of hype (and half-decent multiplayer) are particularly likely to start well and sustain themselves.
I don’t think the game should be given a lower score because it’s not like Battlefront/Battlefront 2, but I do think is should be made *very* clear that when they say reboot, they mean reboot. I think it’s a bit misleading to stick with the name and have every piece of marketing material look like an improved graphics version of BF1/2… especially when they’ve not shown *any* public footage of 1st or 3rd person gameplay. The (public) trailers we’ve seen really don’t count — they could be completely different games with a UI and objectives in your view and mind, but without those it can just look like more of the same. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing, if it actually was more of the same.
Really overblown comment, but yeah. I’m mostly just frustrated that they’ve stuck with this name and not made it clear in trailers/screenshots/etc. that it isn’t the same as the previous games. Besides that, I don’t think it should be judged too harshly for what it is — which could be a pretty fun Star Wars game. Expectations make a big difference though, and I think people are (unsurprisingly) going to be expecting a different game. Hope this wasn’t structured too awfully.
Nah you pretty much hit every point on the head. A different name would have been more appropriate and would have saved it a bad rep, BUT EA’s thoughts are “hey, the internet wants a game called Battlefront so lets give it to them” and yeah, that’s it. It will still have the core foundation of a big battle ground filled with lots of AI controlled enemies and allies. Maybe it’ll still feel like it despite the changes. But to be honest, they need to actually show people the game if they expect the bad rep to die down. E3 is a month away so I guess we’ll see.
This is making me feel even less connected to games then i thought XD. I won’t be picking up the game since well i’ll be honest i only know about it from your comics x3
hahaha it’s all good. It’s only caused me strife so perhaps you’ve lucked out by not being a part of this craze haha
Nobody still has principals these days, spot on!
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