Star Wars Battlefront 2 Planned for 2017 Release

[Worgen]

The real question though... will this actually be fleshed out and have single player campaign? If so, you might get my money. Might!

Well dice is known for quite good multi, but pretty crummy single player. Their best single player was Bad Company 2. Considering this is in dev while battlefield 1 is. While Ill bet it will have one, I have doubts about how good it could be.

Have to jump in there and correct you friend Battlefield 2: Modern Combat had the coolest single player campaign ever!!! Apparently not everyone thought so but jumping perspectives like that was awesome and I have no idea why they don't do that in any games ever since then. Sorry I know it's just a silly tangent but you brought back the good memories. Cheers

Really? I thought before bad company 2 they pretty much just took the multi levels and tossed some bots in.

I won't lie the AI was pretty dumb but the concept was amazing. You could switch places with any soldier on the battlefield. Pinned down by enemy fire. Switch to the sniper that just parachuted in on that building way over there (there was actually an amazing sniper level where you had like 4 snipers to keep alive by constantly switching between them). It also had this combo system where if you could chain together kill after kill even while switching you got crazy buffs that made you godlike if you could keep it up. Honestly one of the best modern shooter concepts I've ever played.

I always wanted to see that in a game, just swapping between solders like that. Would work great in something like cod, but I guess battlefield beat them too it.

 

[Lone_Wolf]

Will they make a campaign this time?

 

[Naldan]

I think it's revealing that the brilliant minds behind this game are the same to name the fourth entry in the series "2".

How long does anyone expect the "Battlefront 1" servers to last? Pretty soon, we're going to have online only games shut down the day of the next game's release.

http://swbstats.com/
As of the current time or writing there's only just under 21,000 people playing. At it's peak in the last 24 hours there were a grand smacking total of around 46,000 people playing. That's really not great for 3 platforms. There's some other links on there as well. At least battlefront is doing better than hardline but it's being blown out of the water by Battlefield 4.

Honestly though, I don't think Dice/EA will change anything at all so long as people keep buying the games they churn out.

I'd suggest this video by Super Bunnyhop about why this isn't an argument for those who do more than just play games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYjayrKRDs

It is frightening that there are so many games nowadays that are basically unplayable due to companies shutting down servers (and not even have the decency to let people create their own servers).

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

So....the first one is already being cast aside, a movie cash-in designed to get as much money as possible, as quickly as possible before being replaced in under two years? So glad I haven't spent money on this.