I don't think the DICE representative was talking about a true sandbox, where you just get dropped in the game and have to figure out what to do and set your own goals.I personally like a clear direction in a game, however I like to choose for myself how to solve an issue.
I like missions where you need to get to postion X, and you can choose for yourself how to get there.
I personally do not like sandbox games in the sense that you're dumped in a sandbox and can choose everything you wish to do. Give me a mission to solve in an open world. With different pacings through the ride.
How were they in BF2? Because there were jets in BF2 right?
Great. Because we all know the most memorable games are born when publishers push devs to top other devs, and not when a game is an original creation driven by love and the desire to make a dream into a reality."This November, we're launching Battlefield 3. It's going up against the next Call of Duty, which is presently the number one game in the game industry," he said. "A game that last year did $400 million dollars in revenue on day one. [Battlefield 3] is designed to take that game down."
Haha exactly. It's clear DICE is trying to beat the Mainstreamers at their own game ... by making a game that is even MORE mainstream. Ugh, wonderful guys.http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/battlefield-3/1160106p1.html
Great. Because we all know the most memorable games are born when publishers push devs to top other devs, and not when a game is an original creation driven by love and the desire to make a dream into a reality.
This is really starting to seem more like Bad Company 2.5 than a fresh start for the BF series. I mean, when you're gunning for the biggest share of all the 13-year-olds and console gamers, exactly how finesse'd should really expect this game to be?
I guess it was balanced out by all the team killing that took place before anyone actually managed to get into one.
In other words, BF3's goal is to BE the next CoD. No thanks, I was hoping for more.
I understand completley what you're saying, but any time that a company repeatedly sets its goals for success as "taking down X or Y" they are already limiting themselves.Becoming more popular than something does not necessarily mean becoming it. I can't argue them developing the game with the plan to overtake CoD will not hurt the final product but it doesn't mean BF3 will actually be CoD.
I expected to read an article about DICE developers talking about how they're replicating exact features that make CoD great or some other nonsense. Instead it was advertising and marketing mumbo jumbo from the EA CEO. Less sensationalism please.
I hated the jets in BF2, guys with 120-2 K/D ratios spiraling around above the spawns just raping...... The maps were too small for fun fixed wing aircraft.