Electronic Arts Drops Medal of Honor

[andy_h007]

I have solved all your problems with this franchise EA. Stop trying to copy COD in the worst way possible. Why not look back at your own backlog of medal of honor games? The original Medal of Honor and MOH Underground for PS1 were fantastic. MOH Allied Assault and it's expansions on PC were great as well. I'm not saying that a game in the style of the old school MOH for PS1 could stand up to modern standards without a serious overhaul (I still love MOH and have beaten it recently again, but I'm nostalgic).

I have lived through many generations of games. I remember a time when WW2 games were overdone and boring. Now a days modern military shooters are overdone and getting more and more boring. Why did EA take MOH to the modern day?

It seems to me that more people, older nostalgic and younger gamers alike, who have been deprived of WW2 style shooters for several years would jump at the chance for a new one now. Especially if it was made with the same love and care as the old MOH game. We need style EA. Your recent games have been pretty much nothing but extremely safe bets and gamers aren't buying them because they're bored.

Just my opinion.

 

[AToop]

At least we got this:
WAR TRULY IS HELL LOOK AT MY 4/10 WIFE

Got another op for you. Actually fuck it YOLO

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"We struggled with two challenges: the slowdown that impacted the entire sector and poor critical and commercial reception for Medal of Honor: Warfighter," he said. "Medal of Honor was an obvious miss. The game was solid, but the focus on combat authenticity did not resonate with consumers."

"Critics were polarized and gave the game scores which were, frankly, lower than it deserved," he added.

Right, it's never your problem; it's always everyone else's problem. ¬__¬ Heaven forbid you actually admit fault.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Back in 2007, Call of Duty 4 started the wave of modern military shooters that saved us from Yet Another World War 2 Game.

Actually, Battlefield 2 did that back in 2005.

OT: Eh...ehhh...I just can't work up enough effort to care. It didn't do anything new or interesting. That's what happens.

 

[MortisLegio]

EA "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY GENIUS"

Go to Hell EA, just go to Hell

They already made that game and it wasn't good either. (Dante's Inferno joke)

OT: I miss when Medal of Honor was about killing Nazis. EA, you killed this franchise when you decided to make it a Modern Military Shooter to compete with CoD. Had this series been doing something other than failing to be CoD, People might have rated it higher, but all that money that your competitor was making from one of their games was just so fucking tempting wasn't it? You could do something new or genuine but you decided to take your competitor head on in the dumbest way possible. EA, it's your fault that another series I really liked was killed off like so many other franchises and studios. Accept your mistakes and admit you messed up. It's your fault this series is gone, EA, so fuck you.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Stop the fucking review blaming, EA. The game was shit, deal with it.

This honestly pisses me off to no end recently. Almost every bloody time something gets canned, either we the gamers, or the reviewers get blamed for it, either because "PIRAAAAAATEZ!!!!!" or because "You gave us unfair low scores! Y_Y" ...

I also love how critics can be both "polarized" and "giving scores that are too low".

Maybe the critics were polarized about just shitty the game was and what low number to give it?

I suppose "the game is really bad" and "the game is really, REALLY bad" could be seen as polarization....

I think the day a game company came out and said "Yeah, we ran the franchise into the ground, our bad" would be the day the majority of gamers died of shock-induced aneurysms.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Ah, remember when Medal of Honor was good?

"Bandit, nine o-clock! Heads down!...THIRTY SECONDS!"
"Alright, when the ramp drops, move out. If you get lost, look for me!"
"TEN SECONDS!"
"Stay with me and we'll get through this. We gotta take that beach."
"Clear the raft!"
(BOOM!)

That was actually the game that got me into shooters. Such a pity that the series has fallen so far. I enjoyed the 2002 release of Medal of Honor and thought they were on the right track. Lots of work to do, but it could be done. And then, Warfighter came out. And I told myself that I was done with the series. Guess I really am now.

EA, if I may say. I think you're missing the point. Your response to this situation--saying the review scores are wrong--is a perfect summery of why everyone hates your company and what is wrong with your company. Fix that and you'd be amazed at how much better things would go for you.

 

[weirdee]

classic archvillain excuse: world not recognizing their greatness

 

[Beautiful End]

Oh, my glob! EA's comment has made me realize my mistake! It was MY fault all along; I just didn't understand the genius of the game and I dismissed it quickly. It was a lot for my brain to process and I tossed it away like the primitive person that I am. dang it, sucks to be wrong!

But seriously, just stop blaming everyone, EA. You make shitty games every now and then. own up to it. Have the balls to at least do that. Do it in the memory of MoH, a once-good game that you pretty much killed yourself probably in an attempt to beat Blops2 to the punch and it backfired. Shows you not to rush a product and do it right, huh?

Well, I suppose Battlefield is next.

Captcha: "Nice job". Nope, not on this one.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

you were great but lost the fight against mediocrity and dullness at the end.

Fucking YES!

Hopefully MoH is reincarnated next gen more in line with its original ethos.
Would love to see another WWII game with that kick ass music (thank you Michael Giacchino!)

 

[Slayer_2]

The game was solid, but the focus on combat authenticity did not resonate with consumers.

Authentic combat? Pray tell how does a linear game in which you can not only survive, but walk off multiple 7.62 rounds to the head realistic? Even if you had a vest on and it stopped the round, it'd still wind the fuck out of you. EA just can't admit their CoD wannabe failed, real surprise, but honestly, THAT is their excuse? REALLY?

 

[Strazdas]

Misleading title is misleading.

This is to be expected. a game that does not make tons of money? EA not a happy monster, EA go eat some game developers.

Capcha: circle of life
Oh you.

 

[Somebloke]

"Year-over year continuity"...

Now there you have stockmarket-minded people speaking and picking their idioms; "a yearly evaluation of growth" indeed. This, of course, requires a steady stream of new content to measure by -- anyone who ever had doubts about there being an imposed culture of mindlessly churning out endless iterations, just to make easy (...no matter how short-sighted...) money... well...

Maybe the cynic in me has it right, with what it has long been telling me:

It has for quite some time expected EA, now that they have and enforce Origin (which they'll tell you allows them to interact with their customers in ways they just can not with other services - sounds good, right?), to transform, first, their sports franchises to a subscription-ish model, which on the surface seems to make sense: those who play that sort of games will want continously updated rosters and other data and if they're in business, they'll surely recognise a similar sort of service agreement to what they enjoy at work, with all the patches and updates and other support produced and needed for the year debited, "incuded", "complimentary".
Of course; the second you actually looked at it, you'd realise you haven't got anything you didn't have before - the only difference is that your purchase now has become a persihable, with the title falling out of your library one year later and that the true purpose of the change, is to make you buy the game again and again and again, just in case you're one of those pesky people who is content with foregoing the latest shiniest year model and just keep driving the one from last year.

This would naturally find ways to creep over to other types of games as well - we wouldn't want the new Dead Space 7 to have to compete on the market with our own Mass Effect 9 from a fortnight ago, now, would we?

I have yet to see any clear indications of such a direction, but should it come to pass, I fully expect the shills to be just as rampant and full of apologetic nonsense as always.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

now it gets to go back and sit on the EA IP shelf for an indefinite amount of time until they decide to pull it back out in hopes the world has forgotten all about warfighter

 

[Spuds]

Back in 2007, Call of Duty 4 started the wave of modern military shooters that saved us from Yet Another World War 2 Game.

I wonder what the next thing will be that saves us from modern military shooters?

My guess is open-world shooters, and a few years from now we'll consider Far Cry 3 as the game that made the trend change.

Have you seen Farcry 3's multiplayer? I don't think its going to be saving anything

 

[Darks63]

And the only person who cared was the person whose foot it landed on.

Really not a series ive ever liked even the WW2 games felt less like fighting a war and more like James Bond the early years with one man defeating the Reich single handedly. But biased since i always like CoD better the WW2 ones at least.

 

[Kathinka]

well, i can't really feel sorry for a game so full of itself (and pretty large portions of the racism/'muhrica huray bullshit that relentlesly metastasizes through modern shooters nowadays)

however, the implications of EA euthanizing yet another large franchise because they failed epicly to make a decent game out of it are somewhat scary.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/me...ty-secret-fuels-the-flames-of-hatred-6399086/

 

[Nazulu]

For Fucks Sake! You don't have to kill franchises, just make them good. Give it to actual artists let them do what they want with it! Don't you understand? Stop stifling the creative arts you Evil Assholes!

I want to yell that into EA's ear.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Wait. Let me get this straight. Michael Pachter was RIGHT about something. ...Excuse me while I go looking for flying pigs.

Flying pigs?

Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQJIPpZvjQ

OT: Well, I have no idea whether it was good or bad as a game, since I didn't play it.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

You know what, stop bringing out crap just to copy another popular game brand and just make a good title. You wont beat Cod, its not worth trying. Instead do something new with, or old, go back to WW2 games. Or base your game within another real world conflict that doesnt get much attention.