https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyaR2sSBkA
>yfw these beautiful visuals were used for a mediocre online shooter, one of the most stale forms of vidya
>yfw they will never release a real Star Wars game again
>yfw EA incompetence
>>319999017
The entirety of the budget was put into making it look good.
They already greenlit the sequel, which means with all the visual assets already set up, the budget can go to better gameplay.
Battlefront II: 2 will turn out better, just hold on. Or kill yourself now because you're probably one of those memers that likes to whine about Jar Jar, and nothing's ever going to be good enough for you.
>>319999114
>buying EA games
>ever
nope, I would rather buy one of them anus inverter devices that they use to skin foxes and use it on myself.
>>319999017
I spent $110 preordering the deluxe edition since friends were all getting it (I'm 30 and work in engineering so, it's popular). I knew it was a waste when I bought it, but at least I had a group of dedicated friends who I knew who would play it. One buddy took 2 weeks off when those who pre-ordered got early access and he got to level 50 before I even downloaded the game when it went public.
Anyway, it's fun but casualized. I admit, I'm old. I grew up on HL1 and it's mods. I got good at Counter Strike but never THAT good. I just don't have the twitch reflexes in me anymore. SWBF is fun and accessible but there's little content. I got to level 40 in I think 30-40 hours (I have 205+ hours on record, but I alt tab out of the game most of the time).
A few of my friends are still in the 30-'s range but it's lots of fun to get together and help dominate the enemy. They really need to bring back HL1 and ye old private servers and voicecomm, but they won't. The battle of Jakku is honestly a shitty map.
It's worth like $20 when the whole thing goes on sale, if you want to deal with level 50+ people wrecking your shit out of the gate.
>>319999017
Star Wars is a mediocre series in general so it fits, it's like poetry it rhymes.
>>319999626
OP here, played the beta and that was pretty much confirming all my worst fears.
What we really need are solid single player games, and not more of this tryhard online garbage that's going to be casualized to hell anyways.
>>319999114
>EA
>DICE
>improving their games
>implying they aren't just going to ramp up the marketing budget and give 100 euros to some intern to make up ideas, then calling it a day
>>319999814
Ya, I knew too in the beta it was barren although nice to look at.
But the problem is, vidya is a $91.7 billion dollar a year industry. You can ignore games, but for every veteran that ignores it there's 10 people who will buy it.
Shit, even I knew it was a bad purchase, but I did so anyway because my friends and co-workers were doing it.
Vidya has turned to a marketing game pure and simple. People who want simplified mechanics vastly outnumber those who are "hardcore" gamers. You can make a profit by pandering to casuals over vets.
>>319999748
We are posting on a site dedicated to anime and manga. Star Wars should be honored on this site, by your logic
>>320000032
My friend tried to make me buy it for the ps4, so yeah I know. I had some fun 2-3 hours in the beta, but that was pretty much it for me.
>>320000032
Just like with movies. There will always be all kind of games made.
I couldn't even find a match on pc 3 hours ago
this game is dead
also
>>320000000
>play on nostalgia for the older market which has lots of $$$ to throw around
>release a half completed (with all the DLC) game
>get $$$ from the first wave of buyers
>they complain
>wait for the second star wars sequel
>release a complete game
>they rebuy it and a bunch of fence sitters buy it too
>rinse and repeat
This is what happens when something becomes too popular. Video games aren't a bunch of nerds anymore. It's moms, and frat bros, and older guys with lots of money to throw around who don't have the time to research and just buy what looks cool.
The only reason the game looks so good is because they had mostly static lighting conditions and only had to make the maps look good at one time of day
>>320000032
I like this anon.
>>320000760
>mfw they could have had day and night transitions if they had longer lasting maps.
>>319999017
Just imagine a Jedi Knight game with this visuals...
>>320000919
And the game would have been twice the size because most of the shadows are prebaked right into the textures
>>320000938
>>320000919
>longer lasting maps
>in a shooter that takes the worst of COD and Battlefield
>>320000938
Kill me already, family. I have become too old for this world.
>>320002008*kills you*
>>320000481
The issue still remains
Splitting between big studio and indie does not fix it.
It locks big studios into a cycle of low risk shit and keeps new start up devs out for being "too risky"
>>320000938
>>320002081*it was a mirage*
>>319999114
>Dice Sweden fucked Battlefield so hard DICE LA, the guys who made Warfighter and MoH 2010, had to fix the game
Let that sink in.
>>319999114
Fuck off EA shill. There is no believable future where EA actually improves upon a game. They're basically the Midas of the gaming industry but instead of gold everything turns into liquified shit.
EA cares naught for the quality of the products they release. It's all about how much they can squeeze out of the people who buy it and how little effort they need to put in to get the most amount of profit.
You think an increased budget will equate to a better game? Are you actually that naive? You know why they put so much effort into the looks? Because that's all that's important to them. They don't care about the gameplay or the content, it's all about trying to push their product. So people will look at gameplay for the game and say "Wow this looks amazing!" and then proceed to buy it. Then they play it and realize it's shallow, the appeal is all aesthetic. Why do you think betas for games are prioritzed to Youtubers and Twitch streamers now? They want people to see the game without being able to play it themselves. Because people will trick themselves into thinking a game is good based off bullshots and trailers alone, particularly if they already have vested interest in the series. Once you buy the game EA doesn't give two fucking shits about your enjoyment or the quality, it's literally all about that initial purchase and then if you're dumb enough to buy add-ons and DLC that's just icing on the cake.
So go ahead and keep tossing money at EA, they can only get better from here right?
>>320000000
