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[Scrawnton]

Yeah I'm placing my bets on this. It moves them away from the trappings of actual WW1 and Alternate-WW1 sounds a lot better in marketing than the other conflicts at that time. There's also a clearly American guy on the cover which makes it more possible.

You also escape the fantasy/cyberpunk angle of it if it's just a continuation of a war and is still grounded in historical reality.

 

[SuperSah]

Where can we watch this reveal?

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

So the DLC contains themed items instead of maps.

I wonder if they're going to do the microtransaction supported online route instead of a season pass.

Woa now that you said that. Would be cool.

 

[Plum]

I do like how the big franchises are actually trying out some new settings for once. Even though FC was just Far Cry Without Guns it was a breath of fresh air, I'm hoping this is too.

 

[Olengie]

I am oddly excited for Battlefield 1

 

[Surfinn]

This look/feel identifies a consumer with the franchise they have (I'm assuming) come to love. Calling it "lack of creativity" is pretty off-base. What they look for in a key-image is not something incredibly creative or amazing, they want something quickly identifiable to relate to consumers.



all uncharted covers are incredibly similiar.

drake in dramatic pose / dangerous situation. uncharted logo large and featured

Like I said, look at the colors used alone. The covers are vastly different from what the BF series offers and don't suffer because of it.

The logo/main characters is what people recognize.

 

[LiK]

why the hell are they making people wait so long for a trailer? no wonder everyone is just leaking stuff and revealing info on Twitter.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

If they even remotely follow the COD Supply Drop RNG gambling system I'm out.

 

[DesertFox]

What's with people thinking the WW1 setting = boring game. This is a videogame, WW1 can be the theme without them staying 100% true to it.

It's not WWI that's the problem, it's the question of how the hell are they going to make the Battlefield formula fit in that setting.

My favorite thing to do in BF4 is hop in a chopper and provide air support and drop players off at capture points.

That role can't exist in a WWI game. What aircraft will there be? Biplanes?

Sure, WWI is in interesting setting, it's just not interesting for a Battlefield game in my opinion.

 

[Compsiox]

If they even remotely follow the COD Supply Drop RNG gambling system I'm out.

What wrong with it aside from guns being in it?

 

[Fersis]

Man i hope it's not just a trailer but straight up gameplay

 

[Piccoro]

Where can we watch this reveal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDqkEvKwI6M

3 hours to go!

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

If they even remotely follow the COD Supply Drop RNG gambling system I'm out.

Don't they have something similar set up in Battlefield 4? Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Scrawnton]

I like how it is World War One though because the war was gong on 100 years ago. It's a better time than ever to use WW1 as a setting for a Battlefield game.

It doesn't have to be a piece that glorifies the war. It could be one that entertains, educates, and also pays respect.

 

[draughn101]

At first, I was adamant about this being an alt-WW1 since regular WW1 doesn't get enough representation but if this is, in the larger sense, the antithesis of the current trend of gaming (non-white character fronting what may not be a spin-off, displaying WW1 weaponry, looking swagger as all hell, not using the traditional numbering system), then I'll count it.

There's a ton of cool things they can do with this. The Harlem Hellfighters angle is awesome! I'd love to fight in the Alps. This could be really cool, especially with those Battlefront graphics.

It's not WWI that's the problem, it's the question of how the hell are they going to make the Battlefield formula fit in that setting.

My favorite thing to do in BF4 is hop in a chopper and provide air support and drop players off at capture points.

That role can't exist in a WWI game. What aircraft will there be? Biplanes?

Sure, WWI is in interesting setting, it's just not interesting for a Battlefield game in my opinion.

That's the most coherent argument against that we've had yet. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I think them saying that they are "getting back to their roots" is going to play into this,

 

[Plum]

why the hell are they making people wait so long for a trailer? no wonder everyone is just leaking stuff and revealing info on Twitter.

You think this is tedious? You must have forgotten the Far Cry: Primal "reveal". More than a day of a slowly zooming in cave painting which then slowly zoomed out. The game was leaked like 10 hours in.

But yeah, they should just reveal it already.

 

[SuperSah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDqkEvKwI6M

3 hours to go!

 

[Nirolak]

gonna be the twist!

Fighting the aliens was the whole point of Starship Troopers!

Also it'd be a lot of fun to blend the very right wing pro-militaristic, meritocratic thematics of the book with the total lampooning of xenophobia, propaganda, and the military complex from the film, but Call of Duty: BioShock is probably not happening.

 

[RealityCheque]

Man i hope it's not just a trailer but straight up gameplay

Seconded. I'm beyond bored with Hollywood style trailers for every game.

Show. Me. The. Actual. Gameplay.

 

[moai]

This sucks. No choppers, no cool tech. They could at least go back to wwII. I hope it is an alternate history with advanced tech or im out.

 

[Cheat Code]

Infinity Ward can have all the spaceships they want but DICE have made a game where the cover man is holding a C96 and therefore receive all my money.

 

[Imbarkus]

I would *love* Starship Troopers CoD, but sadly I don't see any aliens or the very important tonal overtones of that book.

If you ask me, the tonal overtones are all there, the series is just remarkably not at all self-aware about it. Black Ops 2 maybe came closest.

 

[Blues1990]

It's not WWI that's the problem, it's the question of how the hell are they going to make the Battlefield formula fit in that setting.

My favorite thing to do in BF4 is hop in a chopper and provide air support and drop players off at capture points.

That role can't exist in a WWI game. What aircraft will there be? Bi-planes?

Sure, WWI is in interesting setting, it's just not interesting for a Battlefield game in my opinion.

Verdun: 1914-1918 says hello, mate.

You'd be surprised how claustrophobic it was when a mustard gas cloud had landed, and not only did you have to avoid gunfire from enemy forces, the gas mask you worn had limited your field of vision.

 

[Summer Haze]

It's not WWI that's the problem, it's the question of how the hell are they going to make the Battlefield formula fit in that setting.

My favorite thing to do in BF4 is hop in a chopper and provide air support and drop players off at capture points.

That role can't exist in a WWI game. What aircraft will there be? Biplanes?

By taking artistic/historical liberties, I guess, which is my point.

 

[LiK]

You think this is tedious? You must have forgotten the Far Cry: Primal "reveal". More than a day of a slowly zooming in cave painting which then slowly zoomed out. The game was leaked like 10 hours in.

But yeah, they should just reveal it already.

i actually didn't pay much attention to Primal, phew.

This sucks. No choppers, no cool tech. They could at least go back to wwII. I hope it is an alternate history with advanced tech or im out.

fight with courage!

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

What wrong with it aside from guns being in it?

Its weighted gambling. It's been proven that you are more likely to get new weapons when you pay real money than using in game currency.

Don't they have something similar set up in Battlefield 4? Wouldn't surprise me.

Nope. You could but battlepacks yes, but they only contained cosmetic items. Everything else could he unlocked through normal gameplay.

 

[Palculator]

I hope it is an alternate history with advanced tech or im out.

To each their own. I'm out if it is that (which seems more likely by the second.)

 

[Parapraxis]

This sucks. No choppers, no cool tech. They could at least go back to wwII. I hope it is an alternate history with advanced tech or im out.

Battlefield 1 is set in alternate history World War I

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/6/11608808/battlefield-1-reveal-world-war-i-ea

 

[Tecnniqe]

This sucks. No choppers, no cool tech. They could at least go back to wwII. I hope it is an alternate history with advanced tech or im out.

Poster looks like something out of Wolfenstein to me so i expect alternate history stuff to be the thing here

 

[RowdyReverb]

Seconded. I'm beyond bored with Hollywood style trailers for every game.

Show. Me. The. Actual. Gameplay.

Probably trailer now, gameplay at E3 at either MS or Sony's conference

 

[J4g3r]

I would *love* Starship Troopers CoD, but sadly I don't see any aliens or the very important tonal overtones of that book.

It would make much more sense over the Zombies mode, for sure.

 

[Nirolak]

If you ask me, the tonal overtones are all there, the series is just remarkably not at all self-aware about it. Black Ops 2 maybe came closest.

Okay yes, that's fair. Ideally I want something that's totally self aware and pulling from both implementations (on opposite sides of the political spectrum) of the plotline, since that'd fit both directions the series has gone, and would actually be an interesting product to discuss.

 

[Kinyou]

They better use that classic Battlefield theme and none of that dubstep bs.

I loved that "dubstep bs". wonder how they'll modify it to make it more old timey. Maybe they'll make it slower and more somber.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Battlefield 1 is set in alternate history World War I

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/6/11608808/battlefield-1-reveal-world-war-i-ea

Nowhere in that story is their proof of that.

Click bait.

 

[LiK]

It would make much more sense over the Zombies mode, for sure.

i would be sooo happy if they finally got rid of zombies and went with aliens. CoD Ghosts tried that but the aliens were lame.

 

[draughn101]

Battlefield 1 is set in alternate history World War I

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/6/11608808/battlefield-1-reveal-world-war-i-ea

Not one mention of alternate history in the article.

 

[StriKeVillain]

Nowhere in that story is their proof of that.

Click bait.

Yup. They know as much as us.

 

[mckmas8808]

Harlem Hellfighters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/369th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

Isn't that a Harlem Hellfighter on the cover of the poster?

 

[packy34]

Yeah, it's a wonder they are still even in business or that tons of people still play their previous games years after release.

Because they're fun and they get fixed.

 

[Plum]

Probably trailer now, gameplay at E3 at either MS or Sony's conference

Most likely MS's. Battlefield 4's disastrous gameplay was at there's and I think so was Hardline. Sony's in bed with CoD now.

 

[Se_7_eN]

WW 1 is going to be VERY refreshing from the modern / futuristic setting of most shooters today.... So damn excited!

 

[whyman]

It's not WWI that's the problem, it's the question of how the hell are they going to make the Battlefield formula fit in that setting.

My favorite thing to do in BF4 is hop in a chopper and provide air support and drop players off at capture points.

That role can't exist in a WWI game. What aircraft will there be? Biplanes?

Sure, WWI is in interesting setting, it's just not interesting for a Battlefield game in my opinion.

Battlefield formula and BF4 dont go together. The true Battlefield formula can only be found in Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2. You can find signs of it in Bad Company 2. The rest is trash, its not Battlefield after 2 really. They tried to hard to go after COD. I hope this changes things. I have been playing the series from the launch of 1942, it's time to bring back the real Battlefield formula.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Yup. They know as much as us.

SO far we have proved every image in that poster is faithful to the time.

 

[Disxo]

Yes!
I love shooters from that era

 

[draughn101]

Poster looks like something out of Wolfenstein to me so i expect alternate history stuff to be the thing here

Again, everything in that poster is authentic to the time period. Not piece of equipment or clothing is linked to anything other than WWI.

 

[DOWN]

I like Battlefield campaigns tbh so I'm super excited

 

[Proxy]

Most likely MS's. Battlefield 4's disastrous gameplay was at there's and I think so was Hardline. Sony's in bed with CoD now.

Hardline was Sony as was Battlefront.

 

[DesertFox]

Verdun: 1914-1918 says hello, mate.

You'd be surprised how claustrophobic it was when a mustard gas cloud had landed, and not only did you have to avoid gunfire from enemy forces, the gas mask you worn had limited your field of vision.

By taking artistic/historical liberties, I guess, which is my point.

True, an alternate reality with some additional tech spliced in could make it very interesting.

This reveal will be interesting. I thought 2143/Futuristic was a lock...

 

[Fluffhead14]

Verdun: 1914-1918 says hello, mate.

You'd be surprised how claustrophobic it was when a mustard gas cloud had landed, and not only did you have to avoid gunfire from enemy forces, the gas mask you worn had limited your field of vision.

doesn't really sound like much fun to play.

 

[MilkyJoe]

SO far we have proved every image in that poster is faithful to the time.

Again, everything in that poster is authentic to the time period. Not piece of equipment or clothing is linked to anything other than WWI.

Correct