Analyst Predicts Warfighter Disaster

[MammothBlade]

Hey, Linkin Park isn't all that bad... *dodges shoe throwing*

Well I'm not surprised that this is threatening to bomb, its marketing/publicity is terrible and I would never have known MOH Warfighter existed if not for this article. As for the game itself, I don't know enough to tell but I expect it will be the same bland generic modern military shooter BS.

Medal of Honor should go back to World War II, it was a mistake to send it in this direction and honestly, it would have performed much better if EA had waited it out and tried to differentiate MoH from CoD through its continued setting in WWII.

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I actually really liked the original, the single player specifically. I really appreciated the more grounded(not 'realistic' but grounded). It was criminally short but I actually really dug it while it lasted and left me wanting more.

The grounded aspect made a lot of it feel more like a sequel to Cod 4 than MW2 or 3.

I enjoyed the multiplayer beta for warfighter and I really liked how each class had a unique playstyle dictated by abilities rather than slow(LMG) medium(AR) fast(SMG) that usually ends up happening in many of these games. That said it didn't wow me and suck me in, however I am hoping for good things from the single player.

 

[thethird0611]

Well... after so many people posting about how its just a COD clone...

I really hope that Warfighter does well, and I would certainly pre-order if I had the money at the moment. I play with a bunch of past and current soldiers in all different parts of the military, and they were excited about it to. Heck, ill never forget the comment a recent retired (not happy about it either, after 18 years) airborne sniper said when we were playing.

Me: Whats a M-K-19?
Him: WHAT! They have Mark 19's?
Me: Yeah, its a killstreak for so-and-so.
Him: Its a tri-pod mounted grenade launcher. Dude, you have to let me see that.
(I put it down in a safe location and fire it)
Him: Oh my god that sounds just like a MK 19. That is awesome.

All the while he is just sitting there excited. Seriously, who cares if its EA. The development company took time and care with this, and the game play is great squad based combat. Who cares if you have an immediate bias against EA, its a damn good game.

 

[Simalacrum]

Ok, so since I've kind of stopped following video games as of late (I've come back to The Escapist lately, but thats more for the forums than gaming), so I think these days I could represent a typical 'casual' gamer, one who doesn't follow the industry and such but casually looks at games I might want to get.

As such a person, this is literally the first time I've heard about this game.

?I personally don't think that bodes well, considering Medal of Honor was once one of the most recognisable franchises in the industry.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Oh wow.
I didn't know Captain obvious was now working as an Analyst predicting game sales.

Is there anybody out there who really wants to have this game?
Like at all?

Yeah, me. I'm a fan of first person shooters, and Medal of Honor's multiplayer made some pretty neat steps in personalizing your player from what I played of the beta. And the multiplayer is decent enough fun, worth a couple of hours of play time.

But seeing as how there are games I want much more, I'm inclined to agree with this guy. Honestly, what are they thinking?

 

[Darth_Payn]

Here's a hint EA: you already have Battlefield, so don't drag MoH into this sludge of grey-brown samey shooters, & DO NOT promote an action game with those mopey whiners in Linkin Park (it's called "setting the right tone", so which is it?), and I still have no idea how they got into the transformers movies!

 

[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