Star Wars: Battlefront - Great Teaser, Now What?

[lukesparow]

Battlefront, in my opinion, were the only Star Wars games to really be any sort of decent in terms of the world.

When you play a jedi, or everyone is a jedi (ToR), it loses it's fun.

And if Dice is going to be doing something with it similar to Battlefield, I'm not going to say I'm not stoked as hell.

While they were out there in that type of way, have you ever heard of the Jedi Knight games? I personally think especially Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast does this much better than any other Star Wars games.

Played a bit of Jedi Academy and I own Outcast, but I've just never been one to want play a jedi. I bought a huge collectors pack because of Republic Commando, Battlefront, and Battlefront 2. It had KotoR and Outcast in it. Never even installed them.

Maybe I'll give them a shot sometime.

I can see where you're coming from. Jedi's can be quite overused. However, you should know that at least the first couple hours of Jedi Outcast are about you gunning down Stormtroopers. You don't get a lightsaber or force powers for quite a while. I personally think it's very well balanced, and you should definitely at least give that one a try!

It'd be a crime not to at least try that one!

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

New Battlefront? From DICE? I'm very hopeful. This came as a welcome suprise for me, so I'm ready to wait for whatever comes out. If its even one little bit better than Battlefront II, it would have been worth it, even if only a bit, and I'm expecting better then that.

 

[-Dragmire-]

So I heard that EA hired Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf [http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/] to do their public relations speeches from now on.

Anyway, I was excited about Battlefront but after the Battlefield 4 débâcle I'm not so sure any more. Maybe it's a lesson learned for the developers at DICE but if EA starts to hammer about releasing it earlier (which is highly probable) than it might be the nail to the coffin for DICE.

But I won't shed a tear if or when that happens.

I'm not totally sure EA will press as hard. They've pissed off the investors with Battlefield 4. Money talks loudly.

Investors typically want a fast return for their investment, they may be a bit more patient now that they can see the financial results of rushing a release.


... Maybe.

 

[Cpt. Slow]

they may be a bit more patient now that they can see the financial results of rushing a release.... Maybe.

Nah, they were pissed that the DLC production train came to a grinding halt because DICE promised to keep working on the broken game itself. It would not surprise me that in a month or two they will say that the game has been fixed and stick their head in the sand. And of course start working on bug free *cough* version of Star Wars Battlefront.

Although I can't foresee how large the shit storm will be when that happens. 9 out of 10 companies are there for the money which is fair because, well that is how the world spins. But a little bit of more listening to your consumers can go a long way.

 

[SonicWaffle]

The most important thing the game needs is for it to be 3rd Person primarily. If it's a solely FPS, people will just declare it a Star Wars reskin of Battlefield. And if we wanted that, I'd go back to the Star Wars: First Strike mod for Battlefield 2142

Speak for yourself; I want a Star Wars re-skin of Battlefield (which is EXACTLY what the first 2 Battlefronts were). Third-person is awful for shooters unless it's cover-based. Since DICE does first-person so well, they'd be better off doing it first-person.

Nah, I'm firmly in the third-person camp. It's just so much more fun to play than a game where you're stuck looking through a letterbox and sniping at guys in the distance.

Of course, some kind of cover mechanic would make sense; given that these are huge battlefields which will end up littered with the husks of battered vehicles or in extremely uneven terrain (the Kashykk level from the original is a good example, or that one which was a sniper's paradise and reminds me of Peach Trees from Dredd) it'd be foolish to expect trained/programmed soldiers not to use the landscape to their advantage. Given the prominence in previous Battlefront games of rockets, grenades, shielded enemies and fuck-off huge vehicles, it should be easy to balance things so that matches don't become meerkat battles of players popping up and down from the same piece of cover. Add in the destructive scenery from Battlefield, and you'd have a shooter which uses cover but doesn't allow it to bog down the pace of matches because nobody can stay in the same place for too long.

 

[Squilookle]

Am I the only one who was a bit pissed off by the teaser? Great that it's being made- I get that, but the decision to show the Battle of Hoth happening in a freaking blizzard only seems to reinforce DICE's mentality of spectacle and game-engine porn over actual gameplay. Who the hell wants to replay that battle with 10-foot visibility?

Purists would certainly have hated to see any major change, while those who liked the concept, but not the original execution, would have hated to see the newest entry in the series stick to the original formula.

I don't think I even once came across someone who liked the concept and not the execution. Especially the second game, where they went all out cramming as much stuff in, including perhaps the only complete set of instant action and singleplayer campaigns for this type of game ever made. Sure there were some rough edges, but the games were still masterpieces.

If the new one doesn't have 3rd person view and bots available for every map and mode, then it's a failure in my eyes.

 

[Fidelias]

All I want from the new Battlefront are three things: Offline single-player, offline Co-Op, and a galactic conquest mode. If it has these three things, then it should be great. But if Dice cuts out even one of these features, it just won't be Battlefront anymore. Hopefully they don't screw it up, but I've got a nagging suspicion they'll just try and make it into a new Battlefield game.