Game, its not me, its you.

[Bob_McMillan]

OT: Mulitplayer should be service based rather than product based. You would hope that your game WOULD be continually updated. Having a static multiplayer is a sure fired way of making your game not played

I personally cannot imagine playing a multiplayer game for as long as people might play CS GO or maybe LoL. It's just not my thing, and while I agree that multiplayer games should not be static, I'd be totally fine if the updates only lasted a year or two. I don't want some CoD bullshit where you need to buy a new game every year to keep things fresh, but for certain games I'd rather developers just set a roadmap for content they want to do and accomplish it. Live service content always seems much worse and sparse compared to planned content.

Battlefield both used to do that and it was awful.

Which one? I've only played until Battlefield 1, but I don't think even in BFV they did the "weapons in loot crate" thing. Although the weapon unlock system was apparently just as terrible.

OT: Since I'm talking about Battlefield... BF4 is my longest played multiplayer game. I've got a ton of great memories with friends, and I got closer to many of my batchmates in school. Despite the terrible launch and the general same-iness with BF3, I think BF4 might be the perfect game in the series. After all, they did spend like 3 or 4 years fixing the damn thing. My whole YouTube feed was just Battlefield content, I was following maybe 4 or 5 YouTubers who did Battlefield content. It was like a Battlefield cinematic universe, it was great.

When BF1 came around though, everything fell apart. The game was cinematic, yeah. Very immersive too. Even then new gamemodes were great. But the basic gameplay just wasn't the same. Instead of a sandbox, you had a guided tour of World War 1. There was no real way to keep things fresh, the game was designed to be played one way. Every match felt the same, there wasn't even any joy to be had in mastering gunplay or vehicle combat. Me and my friends just stopped playing (in fact, many of us went back to BF4).

After 4 years and a new game, Battlefield still hasn't managed to capture my attention again. Not a single YouTuber I followed back then still makes content for the franchise. Hell, some of the channels have actually died.

I am encouraged that some of the leaks about this year's installment say that the franchise will be going back to the BF3 style. I think their experimentation with historical shooters has gone on for too long, and they just need a game that plays well.

 

[laggyteabag]

Since I'm talking about Battlefield... BF4 is my longest played multiplayer game. I've got a ton of great memories with friends, and I got closer to many of my batchmates in school. Despite the terrible launch and the general same-iness with BF3, I think BF4 might be the perfect game in the series. After all, they did spend like 3 or 4 years fixing the damn thing. My whole YouTube feed was just Battlefield content, I was following maybe 4 or 5 YouTubers who did Battlefield content. It was like a Battlefield cinematic universe, it was great.

When BF1 came around though, everything fell apart. The game was cinematic, yeah. Very immersive too. Even then new gamemodes were great. But the basic gameplay just wasn't the same. Instead of a sandbox, you had a guided tour of World War 1. There was no real way to keep things fresh, the game was designed to be played one way. Every match felt the same, there wasn't even any joy to be had in mastering gunplay or vehicle combat. Me and my friends just stopped playing (in fact, many of us went back to BF4).

After 4 years and a new game, Battlefield still hasn't managed to capture my attention again. Not a single YouTuber I followed back then still makes content for the franchise. Hell, some of the channels have actually died.

I am encouraged that some of the leaks about this year's installment say that the franchise will be going back to the BF3 style. I think their experimentation with historical shooters has gone on for too long, and they just need a game that plays well.

Oh man, Battlefield was the best.

BFBC2 was incredible - I didn't really play all that much BF3 - but BF4 was a fantastic game, when all was said and done. I put almost 400 hours into BF4, alone. Then the franchise just kind of... lost me.

I didn't care much for BF1, and I barely even touched BF5. And I completely forget about Hardline, most of the time.

I can't really put my finger on where the series went wrong, or exactly why the newer games just do not appeal to me, but something was lost after 4, and the series hasn't got it back, yet.

And as you say, it doesn't just appear to be me. I used to be subsribed to LevelCap, Matimi0 and JackFrags, and all 3 would basically just pump out various forms of Battlefield 4 content - and then BF1 came out, and JackFrags and Matimi0 just left the franchise, and barely even came back for 5. LevelCap stuck around with both games for a while, but is now mostly a gaming news channel.

I don't blame them, of course. Neither game held my interest, so I shouldn't expect them to hold onto theirs, so they have all seemingly moved on to other games or formats, only returning to BF3 or BF4 once every few months for nostalgia.

I guess Battlefield just isn't good for views, anymore.

I do miss Battlefield, and I do hope that they recover whatever magic has been lost.