Analyst Predicts Warfighter Disaster

[Tarkand]

Next week, I'm going to complain about people who say "Differentiate" to sound smart, when they should say "Differ".

Can one sign up to your newsletter?

 

[nexus]

Aside from Medal of Honor being mediocre and an attempted cash-in on the Call of Duty formula. . . (obviously)

What's more bizarre, is the fact EA is intent on cannibalizing it's own market. They already have Battlefield 3. There will be no games whatsoever EA could release that would rival BF3, they already have that market cornered. As far as EA is concerned with the "shooter audience", with BF3 what they get is what they get. I would be surprised if this breaks 500,000. They're just eating their own tail on this one.

 

[Tien Shen]

Yes lets release another FPS in a market saturated with not only competitors' titles but your own as well. Makes sense.

 

[Grumpy Ginger]

The name Warfighter does sound like some sort of parody of a macho war fantasy regardless of me hearing something that it is a term actually used within US military slang

 

[shintakie10]

Let that be a lesson to you kids. Got no qualifications? You can still get a job as a sales analyst!
In all seriousness, just as I was reading this, my 11 year old brother asked me what I was reading about, and I told him "The new Medal of Honor Game" and he looked at me and said "What? Another one? But didn't the last one not sell so well?"

Your 11 year old brother must follow odd gamin news quite religiously to know that the last medal of honor game didn't sell so well.

Also, this analyst has actually been quite right more than a few times. Of course some of his predictions seem obvious to us outside of the gamin industry, but what is obvious to us doesn't always seem obvious to them (the flip side of that is also true).

 

[senordesol]

I wanted this to be a decent game. So hard.

I don't hate EA, but I think they've got to fire some of the people at the top and go with some serious rebranding.

When I first heard that they were going to go for sort of a world-wide Special Forces Tour de Force, my first thought was 'FUCK YES! Actually recreating some of the most difficult SpecOps missions that actually happened would be a great idea.' but no...as I understand it; that stuff is only happening in MP and the SP campaign is just going to be as bland as the other one featuring the inexplicable return of characters who made no impact in the first title.

*Sigh* Please see the light EA. Please come to your senses.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Not even fucking surprised. However I am surprised that this game even exists. I only just heard about it a few days ago. How the hell did the last one sell enough copies to justify this?

I know this has so little to do with the article in question, but that tie in song is so droning and bland it's numbing. At least it fits the tone of the game. BAZAM!

In other words, it's a song from Linkin Park.

 

[jp201]

Never a good sign to see review copies held until release.

 

[Bindal]

Anyone surprised? I'm not. The game seems to be a copy of the previous MoH (which failed) and that actually good games are released shortly before and after it doesn't help the case, either (XCOM, AC3, heck even BO2 seems promising this time).
This game was basically MADE to be a failure...

Compared to previous games such as Blops and World at War, with the Nuketown Zombies DLC map, there is 6 maps compared to the normal 1 or 2.

Not EXACTLY true. Yes, with the Nuketown Zombies, we got "six" maps out of the box (five of them being spread over TranZit - I still would count them, tho), but neither WaW and BO had only 1 or 2 maps. WaW started with one map, but each of the three mappacks for it added a Zombie Map, causing it to have four at the end.
And BO2 started with two plus Dead Ops (the game counts it as map, even it is a own game) and with the Hardened/Prestige Edition, the console-players got the WaW-Maps as well, so they had Six out of the box.
And every DLC also added one map except the last one, Rezurrection. That one added FIVE - the four WaW-Maps and Moon. (Moon was free for those, who already owned the WaW-Maps from the Hardened/Presite Edition).
Either way, this is the game with the most Zombie maps in the default package and we can again expect more to come later down the line...
(But this is going too off-topic, so let's just end it here)

 

[Kiardras]

Ooooh now they want to "predict" disasters

They should have "predicted" Mass Effect's 3 ending.

Let me get EA some water for that burn. Well played

 

[Pandalisk]

I'm actually worried about EA the worse they do the more they'll probably try and cling to what they consider "safe" investments. The only EA game i love is DeadSpace and there already talking about stopping that after the third game. Makes me most depressed, why do you hate my money EA?

 

[Erttheking]

Well, if this does bite them in the ass then we can kiss Crysis, Dead Space and sports games goodbye. But yeah, EA's stocks aren't going that great, a few more bad games might do it for them, or at the least really hurt them. Hopefully.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Stock-Plummets-43822.html

....why yes I am still bitter about ME3.

 

[natster43]

Well it looks pretty much exactly like Battlefield 3, why would I want another shooter that looks exactly like Battlefield 3? I already have Battlefield 3 with Premium, I am not going to buy another modern day shooter when I already have one, especially when they look so much alike as it is.

 

[AstaresPanda]

what now the little girl is going to for fill her destiny and join the USA ARMY to avenge her farther. Fuck me this video reeks of band masturbated patting themselves on the back for milking something tragic mixing it up with a video game a Shitty video game to justify it and then to top it off this lazy ass fucking song with far bigger budget then it deserved. US army recruiting tactics are low but then its just sad using this kinda shit. Impressionable youth tactics for the win, this band is popular with kids these days and so is video games. Soo0o0o0o, the biggest boost this game will get is the fact its got BF4 beta, which i feel really ripped off having got BF3

 

[Squilookle]

I think we may be surprised at how many people around the globe might consider getting it just because their nationality is represented.

That said, it's going to have an uphill struggle to overcome it's predecessor's reputation, even if it turns out to be a good game, which I'm dubious about.

It won't kill EA, but I sure hope that it forces them to review the way they strongarm developers and not give them much creative freedom.

...but I doubt it.

 

[blackrave]

I really hope MoH bombs (in scale of thermonuclear bomb)
And then their rotting corpse gets bought by Zinga
These bastards must pay for things they did to C&C franchise

Also Linkin Park last good album was Meteora, after it was just meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

 

[yuval152]

I already knew that when I played the beta, one of the worst games of 2012.

Maybe this will be the thing that finally kills EA, or at least takes away most of it's power. We can only hope.

Ninja'd. I really hope it happens.

are you kidding? I mean I seriously hope you're not serious. EA won't "die"... but they may start changing some of their strategies for the next fiscal year.

Then again, everything ELSE has been a success sooo... we'll see.

I said I hope it happens I never said it will happen.

 

[The White Hunter]

I agree the last game was pretty good, especially the campaign. The title was just "Medal of Honor" wasn't it? That's what my box says at any rate.

Yeah, exactly why the title sucked, made me think of the real first MoH, the WW2 one. The campaign was good, the multiplayer was pretty meh, but a prologue to BF3.

Overall BF3 was pretty meh, I much prefered Bad Company 2. It was a much more unique experience, with much more destruction on hand.

The multiplayer in MoH 2010 was decent enough, but not gripping enough to keep me hooked, it was playable and some modes wre excellent, others truly awful, I can't remember the stupid names though. What got me was it was basically a half-asssed hardcore mode all the time.

Also the multiplayer trophies were bullshit. Not even like BF3 where they were just too easy. Just bullshit. Killstreaks weren't needed in the first place don't focus trophchievements on them!

 

[The White Hunter]

I also predict that it will be outsold, much like everything else, by CoDBlops 2 (so, is the new zombies mode like Left 4 DEad or what? Seriously I want an explanation.).

Okay, this is based on what we know.

There is three modes this time around:

TranZit
Survival (standard Nazi Zombies)
and 4z4 (Grief).

TeanZit:

-At least five locations are located in the world: A bus stop, diner, farm, an industrial type of area, and a town. Each one appears to escalate in difficulty as the player traverses across the world.
-A method of transportation, the upgradeable Bus. Zombies can latch onto it while it is in motion, and players can climb up to its roof or fight inside the bus to defend it.
-Four all new playable characters.
-Some previous Perk-a-Colas will make a return, such as Speed Cola.
-The girl that was first seen on the teaser poster of Black Ops II appears as a playable character.
-A new type of zombie, the Electrical Zombie.
-Power ups will return, such as Max Ammo.
-Buildables, a new system that allows players to build objects from individual items in the world. Currently, the only confirmed one is the Assault Shield.

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/TranZit

Survival: Same as it has always been.

4z4: Where matches of two to eight players in various team-sizes try to outlast each other in the zombie outbreak. The teams cannot directly harm one another but they can still hinder each other by blocking the enemy team's way or luring zombies towards them.

Compared to previous games such as Blops and World at War, with the Nuketown Zombies DLC map, there is 6 maps compared to the normal 1 or 2.

Warfighter is EA's black ops,

To be fair, Black Ops 2 this time is doing a lot more changes and more innovations then MW3 ever did.

Not too arsed about survival, it was fun in W@W but I disliked it in Black Ops, the zombies barely seemed to respond to bullets and the difficulty escalated too fast for my tastes, especially since I'd prefer to dick about a bit.

As for TranZit I already knew those details but I don't understand the mode yet really, if it's like left 4 dead we may have a winner, but if it's just like survival with a quick travel between locations then meh.

How many Zombies maps are there this time? Blops was stingy as hell with them, not to mention the best maps were the W@W ones.

And yeah Blops 2 is supposedly innovating, but I'll believe that more when I see it, the non-linear story I expect to be fairly inconsequential, unless of course there's a story where this magnificent beast is alive in the form of some kind of terminator:


Best Character in COD. I demand a spin off where he teams up with Price int he future to fight Space Nazis.

 

[Cormyre]

Wow, I forgot all about this game... guess marketing didn't do well for them in my case.