Honestly if they didn’t shit the bed and “realistically” portrayed WW1 I probably would have bought the game. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off and spraying people down like it’s CoD all the time is a serious turnoff. The video I saw from
@MrJokerRager of the French soldier with the HUD removed looked pretty neat and would be a near perfect way I’d want to see the game presented.
that's why you play operations, best thing dice ever added (and promptly fucked up in BFV). even with the usual dice-jank and questionable "historical accuracy" BF1 was still a fun, casual large scale shooter. it will probably take a long while till a game comes around that will give me the same feel to hunker down with 8-10 randoms desperately holding a spot while hordes of the enemy constantly throw themselves into your line of fire. not even you typical omaha beach map could give you that. game's also fucking gorgeous.
another thing is that battlefield games never really were realistic. I know that's a stupid argument, especially after redditors liked to throw it around after BFV, but what the games where good at was giving you the "feel" of that conflict (black germans portrayed as proto-nazis were still stupid as fuck tho where it took me right out of the game at one point standing knee-deep in snow in some slav shithole with some ymca level larper popping up next to me, only to think WAT?! - and that was after several dozen hours into the game).
all they would've needed to do is push classic instead of their casual mode or their retarded "hardcore" mode and it would've been a 9/10 game.
(not the best video, but surprisingly there aren't that many of brusilov and where I don't have to facepalm every minute).
also never got warm with bf4, every time I tried to get into it it was either an absolute shitshow or just meh. launch gave BFV a run for it's money (after dropping bf3 like a hot potato just because it's 2 year due date was up), naval strike was utter shit and proved that dice can't even copy simple titan mode from 2142 without fucking it up. luckily LA took over at that point but they could only fix so much. last time I tried it was either smoke spam or FLIR, and playing in black&white isn't my thing, sorry.
besides, at that point I already got my "modern" battlefield fix from hardline, which outshined bf4 in almost every way (maps, balance, modes, even their levolution gimmick), but was torpedo'd by EA right out of the gate. damn shame, and one of the reasons I'm adamant everyone a dice needs their balls stapled to a desk. the only reason they
sell sold games was being in charge of the mainline titles and battlefront - nothing more. in a better timeline hardline would've been bf5 and dice reduced to engine support. also keeping visceral alive instead of those dumbfuck swecucks.
I have no faith in DICE's ability to make good BF games anymore. I think they're another dev that EA's touch of shit has ruined.
imo I still don't think it was really EA. their only fault was probably giving dice sweden too much rope to hang themselves with since they were EA's premier FPS studio. usually in cases like this it's because the publisher
didn't nip shit in the bud for too long. just look at naughty dog. heck what we know about bioware and how they got away with shit is another good example.
EAs target demographic doesn't have the patience to sit in trenches trading shots at each other with 5 round magazine bolt action rifles. Or the attention span.
the amount of salt I farmed just having minimal map awareness and actually using all the tools at my disposal - like flak guns to shut down planewhores the second they pop up - was immeasurable. turns out blindly rushing down an alley with your cheesy auto while I'm sitting at the end with a LMG primed on the entrance isn't the smartest move. not the first time, certainly not the fifth time.
it's not even hard, I don't know why a lot of people are so fucking bad.
You know what would be better? An FPS where it could have its own setting and have both males and females fighting forces of evil.
Corporate mandated shit right here.
lot of people would have no problem with that, fuck they'd probably like it even more, just look how overwatch sold due to the waifu-factor alone.
literally all dice had to do was a) go full war of the worlds in BF1 b) full steampunk alternate reality in BFV. adapt paolo parente's dust setting (remember bad company's humor?) and that shit would literally fly of the shelves. but nope, gotta have black germans and some lone norwegian girl soloing a whole map because current year.
