Star Wars Battlefront worth $30?

[MBrown]

Its on sale on Origin for $30. Is it worth it?

 

[JTsyo]

I would say $30 for game + Premium is what you want to pay. Right now they'll give you the game for $30 and then charge you $40 or $50 for the DLC.

 

[KentState]

I would be afraid that the user base would be rather small, especially on the PC. Seems like it's more popular on the consoles.

 

[Zenoth]

I'd just wait for the inevitable Battlefront 2 whenever Episode 8 gets out (should be holidays 2017, so BF2 should come out around that time). In the meantime there's just much better Star Wars games to play, including the 'original' BF and BF2, along with KOTOR (1 and 2), The Force Unleashed (first one), The Old Republic (at least for the campaigns) and a good bunch more (Republic Commando, etc, etc). If, for some reason, you absolutely want to play Battlefront, then wait for a better sale, one that would include everything for around $30 or so (or even less; I for one wouldn't even pay $20 for all of it, I'm just waiting for BF2).

 

[IVIX1]

No.

 

[Sonikku]

I like it, but I basically got it for free so it's hard to feel ripped off. I like Fighter Squadron. Even more impressive than the visuals is the audio, as the imperial targeting computer locks onto rebel scum before I blow them away. "I have you now!"

 

[Fire&Blood]

Its on sale on Origin for $30. Is it worth it?

Nope. I got it myself, there is about $15-20 worth of game in there, the rest is pure disappointment.

EA tried to collect $60-$130 for this game, yet it has no intro. Probably the franchise to make a video game for yet Battlefront has no story mode.
If there is a game friendly franchise that can let it's games scratch the itch that even the movies/books it was based on can't, it's Star Wars. I think GTA V holds the sales record with ~50 million copies sold. If Disney were to continue the story via a RPG game instead of a movie, or if TFA were actually a game and
the movie was just parts of it sprinkled throughout the game, they would beat the GTA V record that no one else can.
When Endor looks this good on a monitor or a TV screen, it's begging to be a part of a story driven game.

It does look great and runs very well, at times it almost scratches the star wars itch but not for more than $20. Overall it feels like a DLC for a game that has been released already. No cohesion, content fillers and tutorials that have been cut into more content fillers. Even the multiplayer is a botched job.

If you buy it for $30 or more, you will experience a combo of feelings a 4yr old does when he is caught and punished for eating a cookie without permission.
Yeah, you are eating a cookie, but the tears you are shedding over being punished are on the cookie and ruining the flavor.

 

[Raduque]

With no single player campaign, I wouldn't even pay $1 for it.

 

[Tarvaln]

I bought it a few days ago and it's pretty fun. The Heroes modes are really fun. Heroes aren't as op as they were in Battlefront 2 but they are badass.

The first day I couldn't find a match for a couple of modes. This weekend though, I haven't had any problems finding matches on any modes.

There are single player missions and battles you can do but no overall campaign. I don't really think it needs one. I played Battlefront 2 back on '05 and I can't recall the story in the campaign being that great.

I do miss the Galactic Conquest mode from Battlefront 2 and I don't see why that mode couldn't be added in later.

I also kinda miss the space battles from Battlefront 2 but again, no reason they can't be added in later or as an expansion. I'm decently sure they are working on it.

So, is it worth $30 for the base game? If you like Star Wars, Pew Pew, and Lightsabers. Yes. But that's not the best deal out there. There are ways to get a better deal out there. Like, if you were buying avocados from Mexico.

 

[Ackmed]

I'd say so, yes. Not the best game, but far from the worst. It is actually fun, even though they pissed me off nerfing a few things last patch. Even fun to play with a friend offline, do that all the time.

 

[TeknoBug]

Barely $5, it's fun for like a week (or in my case, 10 hours on EA Access).

 

[Midwayman]

You'll probably be bored of it in a weekend. Is that worth $30 to you? I'm passing just on principle. EA doesn't deserve any money for the crap job they did on the game. Buying it just encourage more ultra casual games without hardly any content in the base game.

 

[Fire&Blood]

What a cash grab. I knew that even before I caved in to the 50% discount but I had no idea there were so many more things about the game to hate EA for until I tried to make myself play more of it. Even when I manage to do so, in a online based game that sold more than 12 million copies, I have to wait to be matched(?) with a populated server for most of battle types, at which point, the lack of content really shows.

Star Wars is the ultimate gaming franchise, a FPS, RPG or even an RTS easily fit into it's lore, even many of it's objects and environments are GPU friendly, easier to render masks and armors or fine nuances of space rather than faces and lifelike environments.


Excellent execution by EA, riding TFA's coattails to a 8 digit sales count. They knew exactly what they were doing, such a bold move to charge $100+ upfront for a content skinny game which never dropped below $30. Guesstimating average price per copy at $45 even though the majority paid full price or the even fuller price means EA scored half a billion dollars in revenue on Battlefront and with majority of sales delivered digitally, EA dodges retail channel fees and spends less on physical copies saving "a few bucks" in the process.

I remember reading the article when EA first announced it's 10 year exclusivity deal, saw in comments someone reacted brilliantly with "may the sith be with you" considering the date of EA's announcement.

Fun fact: IGN gave Battlefront a 8/10 and 5.9 to Alien:Isolation.
Even praised it for it's 13 maps, as if the previous game didn't have three times as many.

The good news is that EA has managed to alienate me as as consumer almost completely, just a few more games to ruin and I uninstall Origin permanently. If EA can finish off my interest in Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect and Battlefield, we can finally part ways. Battlefront alone earns them their third worst company award IMO yet there is more to come...

 

[Oyeve]

I got mine as a gift from the GF. I still feel ripped off. Looks great, boring as fuck all.

 

[clamum]

I think it's worth $30. Graphics and sound are damn amazing IMO. I feel kind of like it's Battlefield 4 in the Star Wars universe (I'm being kinda general here, but roughly). My only complaint with the game is it's fucking HARD. I get horribly raped every time I play so honestly I don't play much (though I realize that's part of the problem, not enough practice).

 

[Midwayman]

My only complaint with the game is it's fucking HARD. I get horribly raped every time I play so honestly I don't play much (though I realize that's part of the problem, not enough practice).

Its just about the simplest, easier shooter I can remember. I mean you may suck, but the game isn't hard.

 

[Newbian]

You do have to use origin so unless they pay you it's usually not worth it.

 

[thejunglegod]

With no single player campaign, I wouldn't even pay $1 for it.

This.

 

[Nograts]

Game is total crap, worth about 3$ for 2 hours of amusement. I jumped at it when it released because Battlefront 2 on the original X-Box years ago was totally awesome. EA screwed the pooch on this one, big time.

 

[shortylickens]

Is it the community or the game itself that sucks?

 

[Nograts]

Is it the community or the game itself that sucks?

Well I only played it on release week and the community is meh, I don't even remember if there is a chat feature so...might not be much "community".

The game is just very bland. It's very hard to describe honestly.

 

[JTsyo]

They released more Turning point maps so now I've giving it another shot. The PC community is small so it can take awhile to find a server during non-peak hours. The game attracts casual players and is a simple shooter. If you go in knowing that you can have fun. If you played the older Battlefronts or Battlefield, you'll be disappointed.

 

[shortylickens]

They released more Turning point maps so now I've giving it another shot. The PC community is small so it can take awhile to find a server during non-peak hours. The game attracts casual players and is a simple shooter. If you go in knowing that you can have fun. If you played the older Battlefronts or Battlefield, you'll be disappointed.

Well, I have, so, I will. I guess.

 

[TeknoBug]

Not really, if you have an Xbox One sub EA Access for a month and play it for 10 hours. That's about the amount of time you'll have fun with that game, after that it gets tedious, dull and boring.

 

[Sonikku]

Its just about the simplest, easier shooter I can remember. I mean you may suck, but the game isn't hard.

You can not always attribute to dying regularly to sucking in BF however. It's widely unbalanced. Being a Stormtrooper in snow white colored armor on Endor for instance while the rebels wear camo makes for a huge tactical disadvantage. Fighter Squadron too accurately recreates the hapless feeling of sitting in an unshielded piece of tin foil with big fat solar panels going up against small and nimble shielded A-Wings. Perhaps I would not mind that so much if Imperials could offset quality with quantity, 15 player ties vs 10 rebel snubs for instance. But it's always 10 on 10 so whichever side has better ships (Rebels) win nine times out of ten.