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Polygon: Visceral's Battlefield game has a police theme, is due later this year
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I was agreeing through sarcasm.
ahh gotcha! : )
Just make sure not to disturb the crying homeless woman..
XANDER CAGE
Member
I feel like I remember everyone hand-wringing over Battlefield 2's setting when it was first announced, and now look where we are.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I love Battlefield, but the military theme is already bad enough. Cops? No way. I've had too many direct experiences with the police to buy any game that tries to glorify them.
B_Spooky13
Member
Yearly Battlefield?
Technically it already been done by DICE.
UnlovedJew
Member
How the hell could a 64- player cop shooter work? It's kinda disappointed that Visceral's talent is going towards this rather than a new Star Wars game.
How would this even negatively effect DICE's Battlefield work? Can't you just...not play the Visceral games?
Messofanego
Banned
Police theme? Aww yeah
Burgerface
Neo Member
Got burned buying BF4 day 1, definitely going to be waiting a while to purchase this one.
ChiliManiac
Banned
Some type of Urban Warfare / SWAT game?
BF3 was their last chance for me. No BF will ever capture the fun of BF1942, BFV, and BF2.
FriedConsole
Banned
Yep. Order of Battlefields
BF1942, > BF2 > The rest
Battlefield Vietnam was crap tho. The aircraft was too overpowered.
Stereotyping an entire group of people based on a few bad experiences is pretty rich coming from you.
Vinterbird
Member
You're also getting a Star Wars game and an original IP from them in the future.
LiquidSolid
Member
Looking forward to a broken game being released under a strict schedule, a bunch of Visceral employees being laid off and the rest of the studio being rebranded DICE Redwood.
EA are the most predictable publisher on the planet, you just know they're going to fuck something up and then shuffle things around in an attempt to hide how shitty they are. Best of all, the shuffling just results in more fuck ups.
EA are the most predictable publisher on the planet, you just know they're going to fuck something up and then shuffle things around in an attempt to hide how shitty they are. Best of all, the shuffling just results in more fuck ups.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
It might just be THIS! :O
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/policewarfare/police-warfare
It was always rumored that they got picked up.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/police-warfare-kickstarter-suddenly-and-mysteriously-cancelled/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/policewarfare/police-warfare
It was always rumored that they got picked up.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/21/police-warfare-kickstarter-suddenly-and-mysteriously-cancelled/
According to one of the animators working on Police Warfare, development was halted or cancelled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrkw8HYXJE
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Yeah, these.
I have no reason not to expect something pretty cool. Wait and see.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
The Treyarch games were better than the IF games and Visceral are competent. Maybe they'll be decent.
Messofanego
Banned
Yeah, having the Battlefield name attached would just sound weird.
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spindoctor
Member
That's not how I remember it. People loved Desert Combat and many (including myself) were looking forward to BF2.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
I thought Black Ops 2 had some thoughtfulness to its near future depicition, at least enough to stimulate some debate. But not really enough for this subject matter.
I would be both astounded and really impressed if a thoughtful, balanced look at the deeper issues here came out of this shooter.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
DLC like BF Vietnam or a stand alone game?
Glorified G
Member
Different dev? Hopefully the sp doesn't suck
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Police themed? That doesn't sound Battlefield at all! Sounds like they took some other game in development and named it Battlefield.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
SP might be the high point of this version. Visceral is pretty good with SP.
As long as it isn't 5hrs long!
I'm starting to think it's even more likely this rumor, if true, is based on the halted Police Warfare kickstarter.
1. Police Warfare kickstarter mysteriously cancelled. Elastic Games said more news would be forthcoming. No news has come out since.
2. Elastic Games doesn't seem to exist anymore. Their website, Twitter, Facebook all disappeared within the last few months.
3. Their studio was located in Montreal, Canada. While Visceral Montreal is no longer around, they could have taken jobs at EA Montreal, who then could transfer them to Visceral proper. Or EA could have picked up the project from them and given it to Visceral.
4. Polygon now has info that a Police themed Battlefield is on the way.
It's not that farfetched now that I think about it. I'm sure I'm missing some pieces of info here, but you get my point.
1. Police Warfare kickstarter mysteriously cancelled. Elastic Games said more news would be forthcoming. No news has come out since.
2. Elastic Games doesn't seem to exist anymore. Their website, Twitter, Facebook all disappeared within the last few months.
3. Their studio was located in Montreal, Canada. While Visceral Montreal is no longer around, they could have taken jobs at EA Montreal, who then could transfer them to Visceral proper. Or EA could have picked up the project from them and given it to Visceral.
4. Polygon now has info that a Police themed Battlefield is on the way.
It's not that farfetched now that I think about it. I'm sure I'm missing some pieces of info here, but you get my point.
Noisepurge
Member
we will hardly have time to play through the Map Packs of Battlefield 4 until we should be buying a new game already, a new Premium already and start grinding for the same guns & equipment again
Battlefield games should come out every 2 to 3 years.
Super Stardust
Member
I have a feeling that if titanfall does well you will definitely be seeing a new future battlefield with mechs
Messofanego
Banned
Yo, pass me that tin foil hat, I'm a believer now! Seriously, something is fishy.
Well if you know the staff on the project we could go look at where they are.
franknbeans
Member
I guess this means we've officially run out of countries to go to war with. Time for the war on drugs
Messofanego
Banned
There were no names listed on the KS so I guess we'll never know unless if we see the same face again in a dev diary for this new game. Most people were speculating the cancellation was because it was picked up by a publisher.
Messofanego
Banned
I don't know if we're ready after Call of Juarez: The Cartel. At least the racism in real life for the war on drugs was present in the game, too.
How about we go back to treating games as special things to build, innovate on, and create a fanbase that looks forward to each new release instead of having watered down indistinguishable crap shoved down our throats every 11 months, complete with season passes that don't even get to run their course before the community jumps ship?
That's the bigger issue. Its not about the developers, they come and go. This is about the usual pimps watering down the market in the name of profit.