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Star Wars Battlefront trailer

Sounds like EA and DICE are doing whatever they want with the game or Disney has given them a huge list of off limits stuff.

I'll never buy it with those limitations in place.
 
I can't say what I really want to say about this without breaking several forum rules.

I'm fairly disappointed this isn't a new battlefront.
 
Soooooo...it's just Star Wars: Battlefield 4? I admittedly am not a big Star Wars person, so I didn't bother paying much attention to this game. I'll say that I had no faith in DICE after BF4, and it kind of just seems that they coated Battlefield in Star Wars, IMO.
 
Lil Frier said:
Soooooo...it's just Star Wars: Battlefield 4? I admittedly am not a big Star Wars person, so I didn't bother paying much attention to this game. I'll say that I had no faith in DICE after BF4, and it kind of just seems that they coated Battlefield in Star Wars, IMO.
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Pretty much. I do wonder how much of this is because of some clause in the contract from Disney that prevents them from touching the story or doing any type of space combat.
 
This seems to be getting a lot of negative feedback so I now wonder if it will sell poorly enough and Disney will pull the contract on the games heh.

Honestly EA should have given the game to Bioware, at least make a Star Wars RPG.
 
I am sort of mixed on this one. I mean, it looks like it has some decent graphics, really no single player campaign? Ok I get it that Disney doesn't want story leaks for the upcomming movies, but all they had to do was do more of the clone wars storylines that are already out there and people would have been happy.

I can understand the 40 player limit to an extent (seriously at this graphics level, 40 characters on screen will is a LOT of polies). I would have liked to have seen 64 or 128, but we all know that the consoles can't handle that.
 
Fallen Kell said:
I mean, it looks like it has some decent graphics
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Thats because they are using 8k or 16k textures and rendering at 1 frame per minute 😛 It might be using real in engine assets, but it sure wont look anywhere close to that good on anything besides quad GTX titan X's. And even then I doubt it'd look as good as that teaser did.
 
Either that is the best damn looking video game for the next five years or almost all of the trailer was prerendered in which case that is a huge red flag. A trailer for a game without in-game graphics is like an online dating profile for a girl with a "great personality" who hasn't yet had a chance to upload her pic.

Edit: on YouTube nukemdukem has a 40 min commentary. It says gameplay footage. Damn it does look pretty. Er correction it is using gameplay engine but isn't actual gameplay; I wonder if they are using artificially small environments or something to make it look so nice.
 
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This will be the first game to use Dolby Atmos Object-based audio so they can place individual sounds at any location. Exclusive to the PC version though. This seems like a no-brainer to me, to be able to place sound effects anywhere you want for a video game. Don't think it'll be long before support shows up on the PS4 and XB1 since it's already become a thing for some Blu-Ray movies.
 
Blanky said:
Either that is the best damn looking video game for the next five years or almost all of the trailer was prerendered in which case that is a huge red flag. A trailer for a game without in-game graphics is like an online dating profile for a girl with a "great personality" who hasn't yet had a chance to upload her pic.

Edit: on YouTube nukemdukem has a 40 min commentary. It says gameplay footage. Damn it does look pretty. Er correction it is using gameplay engine but isn't actual gameplay; I wonder if they are using artificially small environments or something to make it look so nice.
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You must be new to game trailers or something, because this is what they've done for a while now. They make videos out of the game engine but it's all pre-rendered so it'll never look as good as it does in motion. These early teasers are meant to get you interested and excited, then you'll see actual gameplay later.
 
gorcorps said:
You must be new to game trailers or something, because this is what they've done for a while now. They make videos out of the game engine but it's all pre-rendered so it'll never look as good as it does in motion. These early teasers are meant to get you interested and excited, then you'll see actual gameplay later.
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While I know gameplay isn't going to look nearly as good as this trailer, at least it does give some evidence on the actual gameplay graphics since they used in-game engine vs full blown CGI.
 
No space combat makes sense to me. I almost never fly in Battlefield and I would guess I am not alone on that front. Why limit maps to only flying when some people don't play that way?
 
SAWYER said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwW...-ramp&cid=37936&ts=1429292419902&sf37440866=1

40 players
no single player
no space battles
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You forgot to add no Prequel trilogy content, no Clone Wars whatsoever.
The 40 players is for one game mode, too, called 'Walker' or something, which the Empire have to protect an AT-AT and the Rebels have to blow it up... Hardly enthralling.
There's no galactic conquest, its going to be bland game modes.
No classes in the game.
There is a single player-esque element called 'missions' which can be done co-op with bots, but they're about ten minutes long according to something I read.
Oh, and there's only 10 maps (or 12?) at launch on four planets... With more coming in the neat and tidy form of goddamn DLC... Of which they're already announcing season passes and delux/collectors/special editions, etc.

No, I for one will not be buying this disgraceful excuse of a game. It's got a whole third of the content from the original pair and that's probably being generous. Amazing how they can take such a step back...
 
jaha2000 said:
No space combat makes sense to me. I almost never fly in Battlefield and I would guess I am not alone on that front. Why limit maps to only flying when some people don't play that way?
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There's no reason they couldn't do what they did in Battlefront II and Battlefield, have transport based vehicles used for the sole purpose moving men from one place to another. They had four (well technically 3) vehicles in Battlefront II that just got a group of players from one ship to the enemy ship. If you don't like flying, just board that, or fly a fighter right into the heart of the ship and go nuts.
To boot, if people don't like flying, they could just stay away from flying based maps. It doesn't make sense at all, one of the greatest parts of BFII has been left out and there's no reason at all that justifies it...
 
DHMB said:
Oh, and there's only 10 maps (or 12?) at launch on four planets... With more coming in the neat and tidy form of goddamn DLC... Of which they're already announcing season passes and delux/collectors/special editions, etc.

No, I for one will not be buying this disgraceful excuse of a game. It's got a whole third of the content from the original pair and that's probably being generous. Amazing how they can take such a step back...
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Pretty much what I said I hated about Forza 5, but people defend that game to the death, for some reason.
 
Lil Frier said:
Pretty much what I said I hated about Forza 5, but people defend that game to the death, for some reason.
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No, I would quite agree. I adored Forza 4, I thoroughly enjoyed many aspects of Horizon and Horizon 2, though neither had any of the clout that Forza 4 had... Again, as it seems with many sequels/redos/etc, they take a monstrous step back for frankly astounding reasons.
Forza 5 felt like half a game, it was a contender to PS4's Killzone, a graphical hammer to show off their new tech, little realising apparently that one of their flagship titles, indeed arguably the best racing series to date, was a shadow of what Forza 4 was... It just wasn't a full game.

I jumped ship pretty quickly from XBOne to PS4, I would've liked to play a few titles like the Halo:MCC, but I was overall happy with the move. The PS4's been as bad as the rest for the above, though, look at Order: 1886, an astoundingly graphical game, no question, but just dour as Hell and it took me under six hours to complete which would've been bad enough if that was ALL gameplay and a third of it hadn't been made up of unskippable cinematics and story segments and another third being obligatory stealth based missions. 🙄

Still... Games that look perfect border on the horizon. The Witcher III looks incredible, as does Rainbow Six: Siege, The Division, Mad Max, etc. Bloodborne was brilliant, Dark Souls 2 made a lot of good additions to what was already an excellent formula and other games over the past year have been exceptional... Its just a shame that for every gem there seems to be a handful of outright lumps of coal and that's the record all platforms will have this generation, I would've thought.
 
DHMB said:
You forgot to add no Prequel trilogy content, no Clone Wars whatsoever.
The 40 players is for one game mode, too, called 'Walker' or something, which the Empire have to protect an AT-AT and the Rebels have to blow it up... Hardly enthralling.
There's no galactic conquest, its going to be bland game modes.
No classes in the game.
There is a single player-esque element called 'missions' which can be done co-op with bots, but they're about ten minutes long according to something I read.
Oh, and there's only 10 maps (or 12?) at launch on four planets... With more coming in the neat and tidy form of goddamn DLC... Of which they're already announcing season passes and delux/collectors/special editions, etc.

No, I for one will not be buying this disgraceful excuse of a game. It's got a whole third of the content from the original pair and that's probably being generous. Amazing how they can take such a step back...
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The problem I have with DLC like that is they announce it months in advance of the game. They shouldn't say anything and just release the game and offer a pass for the future DLC packs then. When you tell people "we will release more later in additional packs" it just seems like you're an idiot who can't keep your mouth shut lol. I mean DLC is fine but announcing it before you even ship a game is shady to me. Doesn't always make the game bad but I'd feel better about it if I didn't know what was in the initial release.
 
I have no issue with the existence of DLC. I don't think that you could really pick a date to announce that would change perception, especially when you're talking about it in a time where every game gets it. Not announcing it now, then having the DLC release in 2-3 months, with only an announcement a week before, wouldn't magically make things better. People would still see it coming a mile away.

The problem I (along with most) have is all about the value. CoD charged $50 for its DLC. I can't even tell you what comes in it because it's such a horrid price that I don't even care--nothing is going to be worth nearly doubling the price of the game (and making it more than double for someone with GCU). The same went for Forza--the Season Pass was a monetary joke beyond words. I could just ignore its existence before, but when they took out 60% of the cars in FM4 because of things like disc space and graphical improvements, it looks worse when they manage to churn out the worst-priced DLC in gaming without a hitch.

You obviously have the add-on crap like Madden's MUT cards and NBA 2K's VC Points as well. You have The Witcher 3's developer rag on everyone else for having paid DLC, and saying DLC would be free on TW3, then they come out and say that paid DLC will exist in that game. Oh, and they put it with the "if you don't like it, don't buy it," mentality attached? Come on, man.

Mario Kart 8 is the only game in probably 8 years where I felt like the DLC was a good deal. $12 for them to up the game's content by roughly 40%? That's a steal in a culture where it's $20-50 for about a 20% increase, if not less.
 
I am excited for this, looking forward to it.

As for the bemoaning of what is missing,... well, it's not even released yet. So, I'll wait before I lose my shit.
 
DHMB said:
You forgot to add no Prequel trilogy content, no Clone Wars whatsoever.
The 40 players is for one game mode, too, called 'Walker' or something, which the Empire have to protect an AT-AT and the Rebels have to blow it up... Hardly enthralling.
There's no galactic conquest, its going to be bland game modes.
No classes in the game.
There is a single player-esque element called 'missions' which can be done co-op with bots, but they're about ten minutes long according to something I read.
Oh, and there's only 10 maps (or 12?) at launch on four planets... With more coming in the neat and tidy form of goddamn DLC... Of which they're already announcing season passes and delux/collectors/special editions, etc.

No, I for one will not be buying this disgraceful excuse of a game. It's got a whole third of the content from the original pair and that's probably being generous. Amazing how they can take such a step back...
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Wow if that's the case, I might not buy it either.

Hate how the whole gaming industry now is produce a game w/ half the content it should have, charge $60, then charge another $20 every 2 months for DLC stuff.
 
Newell Steamer said:
I am excited for this, looking forward to it.

As for the bemoaning of what is missing,... well, it's not even released yet. So, I'll wait before I lose my shit.
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Wait? These things are announced already. We know there won't be space battles, single player campaign etc. So we don't have to wait to scratch it off out list of games to buy if those things mean something to us.
 
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