The Battlefront We Never Got - Investigating Star Wars Battlefront 3
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[video=youtube;iMpFYjLX4Yw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpFYjLX4Yw[/video]
Still get depressed whenever I hear the story of this game, I remember looking forward to it for years when I was younger. Crazy that we're still learning new things about it even today.
Every time I see Battlefront 3 it becomes more and more a punch in the gut to what we may never get
[QUOTE=Blind Lulu;51591203]whoever made the decision to can this game can go choke on every dick on the planet.[/QUOTE]
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escuse me, but i really think the game is getting over romanticised at this point, from i have been looking at least, and im pretty while this battlefront from Dice is far from perfect, the saga has the potencial of becoming a far better game if a plot is installed in the series.
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You can't blame everything bad in Star Wars on George
I don't know how they fucked the new BF so hard. Legit if all they did was remake BF2 they'd be swimming in a lot more money and have a lot more active players. Fuck the movie. Wait for the next one and release the game with that if you need more time.
is it a hugely unpopular opinion that I don't really give a shit that this got canned? it looks exactly like battlefront 2
not that dice battlefront wasn't utterly shallow and a massive letdown, but yeah
So...Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is essentially a watered down version of BF3?
[QUOTE=Turnips5;51591352]is it a hugely unpopular opinion that I don't really give a shit that this got canned? it looks exactly like battlefront 2
not that dice battlefront wasn't utterly shallow and a massive letdown, but yeah[/QUOTE]
Yep it is an unpopular opinion. It was supposed to release a couple years after BF2, and was nearly complete. Yet the Great Recession hit, and bankrupted Free Radical. By the time the footage was leaked it was already canned.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;51591352]is it a hugely unpopular opinion that I don't really give a shit that this got canned? it looks exactly like battlefront 2
not that dice battlefront wasn't utterly shallow and a massive letdown, but yeah[/QUOTE]
I mean it's basically Battlefront 2 with New and improved features such as space to ground becoming a seamless experience! Isn't that what sequels are meant to be?
Im more mad, eternally mad that there won't be a Timesplitters 4.
Fucking Lucasarts.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;51591352]is it a hugely unpopular opinion that I don't really give a shit that this got canned? it looks exactly like battlefront 2
not that dice battlefront wasn't utterly shallow and a massive letdown, but yeah[/QUOTE]
"Battlefront 2 But Bigger And Better" was pretty much exactly what every Battlefront fan was looking for, though.
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;51592271]"Battlefront 2 But Bigger And Better" was pretty much exactly what every Battlefront fan was looking for, though.[/QUOTE]
yeah i'd take seamless ground to air battles over battlefield star wars any day
[QUOTE=Mobon1;51592334]yeah i'd take seamless ground to air battles over [B]battlefield star wars any day[/B][/QUOTE]
I still don't get why people still say this, if EA Battlefront was anything like Battlefield it would've been a lot better than it is the now because it essentially was a Battlefield game with a Star Wars skin, even the names are similar.
EA Battlefront tried to NOT be Battlefield and that's how we have what we got.
[QUOTE=Mobon1;51592334]yeah i'd take seamless ground to air battles over battlefield star wars any day[/QUOTE]
Battlefront is nothing like Battlefield though
The original Battlefronts are closer to Battlefield then Battlefront.
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[QUOTE=Takuat;51591277]You can't blame everything bad in Star Wars on George[/QUOTE]
The video explains it, kind of. Free Radical says its LucasArts fault, LucasArts says its FreeRadicals.
Mostly boils down to money.
This dude recently uploaded footage of the first mission if anyone wants to have a look [B](LOUD VOLUME WARNING)[/B]:
[video=youtube;GvthAFhlZiM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvthAFhlZiM[/video]
[video=youtube;kXc7jDpemE0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXc7jDpemE0[/video]
[QUOTE=Joshii;51592730]I still don't get why people still say this, if EA Battlefront was anything like Battlefield it would've been a lot better than it is the now because it essentially was a Battlefield game with a Star Wars skin, even the names are similar.
EA Battlefront tried to NOT be Battlefield and that's how we have what we got.[/QUOTE]
I disagree.
EA tried to be Battlefield while also not being Battlefield instead of trying to just be Battlefront.
[QUOTE=MadPro119;51592863]I disagree.
EA tried to be Battlefield while also not being Battlefield instead of trying to just be Battlefront.[/QUOTE]
I would say the original Battlefront pretty much is Battlefield whereas EA Battlefront tried so hard to not be Battlefield only to deliver a game with lackluster content compared to Battlefront 1/2
IIRC, DICE didn't want to just remake Battlefield
[QUOTE=Tuskin;51592947]IIRC, DICE didn't want to just remake Battlefield[/QUOTE]
I totally get that, but I would say the biggest problem with the new Battlefront personally, is that it is an already established series so people already have expectations when going into the game, and the new one didn't have a lot of those expectations met for a lot of people including me hence a lot of disappointment.
[QUOTE=Joshii;51592965]I totally get that, but I would say the biggest problem with the new Battlefront personally, is that it is an already established series so people already have expectations when going into the game, and the new one didn't have a lot of those expectations met for a lot of people including me hence a lot of disappointment.[/QUOTE]
Also it really is just a meh game in general. I don't know anybody who enjoyed it past the initial "WHOOP STARWARS" buzz.
Can't believe Free Radical chose to make a forgettable mediocre FPS game over Star Wars Battlefront 3
[QUOTE=Wormy;51593700]I remember some people said Lucasarts' CEO or whatever was responsible for canning Battlefront 3 while in development, does anyone really know if that was the case?[/QUOTE]
pretty much yeah. lucasarts was ran by the worst kind of fucking penny pinching suits who were so bent on not spending that they cancelled complete games just so they wouldn't have to spend money on actually fucking releasing them
george was also responsible for a ton of shot down games and killed others by suggesting juvenile shit and no one could question him because everyone was told his word was law. but he didn't have anything to do with bf3 that's solely between free radical deciding their own shitty pet projects were more important and lucasarts execs being fucking malicious shits
[QUOTE=Wormy;51593700]I remember some people said Lucasarts' CEO or whatever was responsible for canning Battlefront 3 while in development, does anyone really know if that was the case?[/QUOTE]
I believe Doak has a write up on Gamasutra about how Free Radical went down the shitter.
[editline]28th December 2016[/editline]
Not written by Doak, but is very thorough.
[url]http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanShah/20160531/273774/Time_to_Split_The_Life_and_Death_of_the_Free_Radicals.php[/url]
[QUOTE=Wormy;51593700]I remember some people said Lucasarts' CEO or whatever was responsible for canning Battlefront 3 while in development, does anyone really know if that was the case?[/QUOTE]
There's a HUGE writeup on Game Informer about the fall of LucasArts, [URL="http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/02/12/fall-of-the-empire-how-inner-turmoil-brought-down-a-legendary-studio.aspx?PostPageIndex=4"]including a section about Battlefront III[/URL]. The whole thing is a fantastic read really.
99% done with 'only a few weeks of bug testing left' sounds like an untrue claim to me. You don't cancel what is essentially a finished product at the last minute, then gut it for portables just because a few deadlines have been missed.
I really wish publishers would give ambitious projects more of a chance. You don't win big by playing the penny slots.
[QUOTE=freakypred;51596167]99% done with 'only a few weeks of bug testing left' sounds like an untrue claim to me. You don't cancel what is essentially a finished product at the last minute, then gut it for portables just because a few deadlines have been missed.
I really wish publishers would give ambitious projects more of a chance. You don't win big by playing the penny slots.[/QUOTE]
Every gameplay video i've seen looks like it just needs a bit of tuning up but nothimg too bad
In some sort of alternate universe, I'm enjoying this game alongside Rogue Squadron 4
[QUOTE=freakypred;51596167]99% done with 'only a few weeks of bug testing left' sounds like an untrue claim to me. You don't cancel what is essentially a finished product at the last minute, then gut it for portables just because a few deadlines have been missed.
I really wish publishers would give ambitious projects more of a chance. You don't win big by playing the penny slots.[/QUOTE]
have you seen the framerates in the video?
looks like it still had a lot of performance issues to iron out
The leaked builds are supposedly older then the final build
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