Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
I don't really see the big deal people are making over the time frame they are releasing BF4 in. They've said BF4 beta will be in Autumn 2013. BF2 came out just over a year after BF Vietnam, 2142 came out just over a year after BF2. The current timetable would put BF4 ~2 years after the release of BF3.
However, if it's just a slightly shittier reworked version of BF3 then it will fulfil all of the CODesque prophecies.
Probably because BF3 is little more than a polished turd.
Although there were other titles released between them, there were 5-6 years between BF2 and BF3...and look at the amazing improvements we got with all that development time: less "true" destruction than was present in BC2, pisspoor clientside detection and generally abysmal netcode, shoddy map design on maps that are actually smaller in overall scale, etc. etc. etc. Now imagine the greatness that will result from designing the next title in half that amount of time.
BF2 was a game that could make you think DICE had maybe, just maybe, created the best multiplayer FPS game (and franchise) ever. Now it just seems like BF is fated to be the "next CoD". Anyone who thought BF4 was years down the road and would un-do all of this premium nonsense and the "inevitable" shift towards microtransactions, was nuttier than squirrel shit. The writing is on the wall.
I don't blame DICE for trying to beat the competition at their own (very profitable) game, literally and figuratively, but I just hope some developer with chutzpah steps up to fill the void. There are still plenty of people who want and expect more from their games.
