Battlefield Hardline... My 2 Cents

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Jesus Christ.

 

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/28/5757356/battlefield-hardline-trailer

 

I don't know what to think about this game to be honest but i'll try explain.

 

So to start with Battlefield 4 was obviously the last one in the series because this is not battlefield at all, in fact i'm not even fully sure if the trailer is a joke or not.

 

GrandTheftBattleField

Are all games games turning into this now? I got about 1 minute into the video when they first mentioned the "heist' game mode. At first i I thought "oh yeah i guess that'd be alright" then they went to mention the rest of the multiplayer modes. "Rescue Mode" "HotWire Mode" and "BloodMoney Mode" I then realized that who ever made the post BF4 games is either dead or fired because this game is NOT battlefield.

Ok, so aside from the game not being Battlefield anymore what else is wrong?

Well the "GrandTheft" part of title will be explained here. Now any idiot like me could see that they Hardline and GTA V have something in common, but the fact that the game is somewhat based around heists and things alike makes this game practically a first person, linear and prettier (due to PC version) version of Grand Theft Auto 5. What is it with companies these days? This industry is so bad and some of the once were amazing companies are now complete shit!

There is no tin foil hat on my head, the guys at dice or EA looked at Grand Theft Auto's major success and thought "let's just do exactly that with our own twist". Now yes that is the way art goes, you take someone's idea and make it into your own with some sort of different thing or twist to it but.. HOLY SHIT THIS ISN'T CREATIVE LET ALONE BEING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE BATTLEFIELD SERIES.

 

Random Call Outs

Here I will just mention all the stupid little thing said in this video which are either contradictions or just flat out dumb.

"Fans have come to expect one thing when they hear the word 'Battlefield', 'all out warfare'" - I don't know? Have we come to expect that? I know that I don't think that, I may have post 2011 but since then I thought more "Over the top un-finished fun set in a near future environment with vehicles, an alternative to Call of Duty". Now i'm thinking "Full blown farmers, award winning milkers, Copy & Pasta professionals and 'i guess it could be fun in theory but it quite probably won't be'".

 

There are no quotes here but i noticed that within the first 45 seconds of the trailer there were ALREADY weed references. Now although that may end up being a funny mission and a couple of laughs, the fact that it was in in the trailer at least twice and mentioned in full once is sort just a fish net for grabbing weed smokers (mainly the swag 15 year old cod players).

"Hunting down campers has never been this much fun" - Yeah, right. We don't want to god damn hear that! Camping is the epitome of asshole gamers. You're job is to try eliminate that not glorify it, Jesus wept. 

"After delivering amazing story telling in games like 'Dead Space"' - Well I guess they couldn't exactly say after delivering amazing story telling in games like Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. Because otherwise I would've shat myself laughing.

 

Over all the game makes me think of the likes of Payday: The Heist, which is a respectable game and is original, how ever this 'battlefield' game is not. When they had the Medal of Honor series going they would release BF one year and then MoH the next, now that they've unforntuantely got rid of MoH i'm guessing that they're gonna bring out the series every year which is fucking horrible. If they made the game with a new title to replace MoH and keep the BF series Bi-Yearly then that could work but they've completely screwed up now, yay, not. The company is trying to be cool, hip and swag but it's failing miserably.


Will I buy this game? Most likely yes, 1. I'm and idiot and 2. I am an enthusiast and I will want to see and experience the what will be amazing visual effects. There is no doubt the game will look good and i definitely cannot judge it in full until i've played it, so yes I will get it.

If you''ve made it this far then thanks for reading an please leave some comments down bellow with your thoughts or your constructive criticism. Now i'll be off to play Watch Dogs for the first time, a game i've been excited about for over a year of which I have now heard will be a disappointment. Ohh the gaming industry.. 

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With GTA5 and Payday getting sales, I don't blame them for adopting some of the play styles. I'm not against it, as long as it works. To me, this is just one more game. It's not Battlefield, it's a different game. I'm not partial to the Battlefield series because there's always something that upsets me about each and every Battlefield game. So I wouldn't be against the idea of changing Battlefield entirely.

I really like games that allow me some freedom of choice. Destructible environments that move away from scripted events. The trailer seems to deliver that. Trouble is, we all know this game is gonna blow in some way. It won't include much of what we've seen in the trailer. Or the events that are supposed to impress us will be heavily scripted and buggy. I can see some features, like the battlefield scanner, which are completely noob friendly. I would hope that doesn't make it into the multiplayer.

Take our money, you thieving cunts! Until we get more DLC for games that do not work. I always buy games to see what everyone is complaining about.

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I doubt I'm going to buy it. I prefer games that are objective based and include both infantry and vehicles. I don't find this to be too surprising since the first shooter I really played was Star Wars Battlefront.

Based off the fact that it seems like it will be a lot more infantry focused, I think this will be a big attempt to grab more CoD players.

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Hahaha yes exactly! As long as they don't push it too far it's a pretty good marketing stunt but it'll turn into this kind of 'friendship' where you either are solid and loyal with a bunch of best friends or big a famous with a bunch of hype followers and sheep that will follow while it's cool and then be as far away from you as possible when it's lame. Yeah exactly!Ii always buy them too. You literally cannot have a valid place to stand for judging unless you've actually played. Except in this case we're judging the trailer which is fine. So i guess we just wait to till this POS comes out lol.

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Yeah I like what battlefield is supposed to and is what it's selling point is, vehicles. I think that they will still be there but they will be controlled, so the vehicles will only be there in some missions for a certain amount of time and then in multiplayer you won't be able to fly around for 30 mins coz it'll probably just drop you into and out of a heli when it wants :/

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I'm not going to judge it until I get my hands on this, but as a long-time Battlefield fan, it looks promising and fresh. I'm only worried that they are going to mess it up similar to BF4. Heck, bf4 has only been out for 7 months, and dice is already pushing a new game.

Dice has a talented team, I just hope they spend time for make it awesome, because I will wait if it means a better game.

All I can do is wait and see.

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We're so sure that this game is going to be shit hahaha. As long as I can glitch through the map and shoot people, I'll enjoy it. Or better yet, take vehicles into areas they aren't supposed to go. Ya know? Generally just break the fucking game and ruin it for everyone else.

Are you hyped for this shit game, kids?!?! YEEEAAHH!

Look at these Gryffindor scrubs

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Sigh... yet another uninteresting uninspired EA game,oh well better move along

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I just literally cannot see how it can be even remotely related to BF after seeing that trailer haha. And then what ruined Watch Dogs will surely make it's way over to BF and put it just nicely into a wooden casket 6 feet bellow, god damn hype. I actually played Watch Dogs for approx 5-10 minutes with an i5 4650, 780ti, and 16gbs of ram and it crashed and exited after being put to med/high settings because max was at 17fps! It very desperately needs more than the 337.88 drivers. I'm not gonna touch for at least one month because 780ti crashes? Really?

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it is Visceral that's going to be behind Hardpoint.


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needs more dlc


I'm surprised the trailer didn't say a word about dlc. Frankly I think EA should now just announce the dlcs before even revealing their games

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and DICE announced that they will still remain "committed" to bf4. Whatever that means...

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I heard rumors that the next battlefield game was going to be Medal of Honor, but marketed as Battlefield so it'd sell copies... god do I wish that was true right about now... 

I won't totally disregard it until I see that the game is truly a flop... but even if it's not a flop, whatever it is, won't be classified as Battlefield in my books.

I guess I'll be playing cs go and Bf3 for another year... sigh 

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I watched the video...as soon as the words "war on crime" spewed out I completely lost interest and closed the tab. What the hell EA? Are you f**kin kidding me? It isn't bad enough you goofed with BF4, but now you are basically throwing the BF franchise in the garbage? Its damn good that previous battlefields *ahem* BF2, BF3. BF2142, are all great games, so I won't have to worry about the monkey that is EA throwing poo all over the place; I will simply not visit the zoo that is today's game industry. 2014 had so much hope for gaming, and I have pretty much given up on most new games this year.

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To add too the situation, here is the newest shitty 45 second trailer of the game, also read the description, it's almost as bad as the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M56_O7a_aKQ

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BF4 is garbage anyway who cares if they make a different game?

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I don't understand why this has to be a 'battlefield' branded game... Why don't they just advertise it as a frostbite engine game...

 

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Because it shares team based elements with Battlefield I assume. 

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Money/marketing

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i dunno... the trailer looks badass... GTA meets bad boys... tres early Michael Bay.