Medal of Honor was shallow and boring. It tried so hard to emulate Call of Duty it ended up copying it. I hoped they would do something different as Call of Duty is as shallow and boring as it gets but apparently, companies don't like taking risks.
Medal of Honor Sales Are Not Amazing
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Too many people trying to do the same thing. Hey EA why not make up a war? Everyone is bored with the middle east. Why not make a game based during the Cold War but a different timeline where Russia and the US actually fight? Or what about the future with a war between the US and China?
What about something completely different from any war ever done, maybe WWII ended differently and now its 2020 with Germany and Japan owning half the world and the US, Russia and China team up to fight them. Just give us something new and exciting. All this processing power and nice tvs and we have to stare at 5,000 shades of brown? How about a little color as well.
What about something completely different from any war ever done, maybe WWII ended differently and now its 2020 with Germany and Japan owning half the world and the US, Russia and China team up to fight them. Just give us something new and exciting. All this processing power and nice tvs and we have to stare at 5,000 shades of brown? How about a little color as well.
It would be impressive if it wasnt a AAA title and selling anything more than 1 million units was pure profit. It would be like a summer blockbuster movie getting only 15 million in the opening weekend. Successful sales are relative to the hype/quality/production cost of the product.Trogdor1138 said:
My question is why oh WHY did MOH choose to go modern?
Back in the days of the PS1/PS2 there were nothing but WW2 shooters, and there was ridiculess amounts of them, but overall MOH was probably the most well known game of the bunch.
Nowadays the market is full of not WW2 shooters, but Modern combat based shooters. So releasing a MOH WW2 based game now would have been perfect since you have a niche that people would buy just to have something different from all the modern shooters out there, and then be the best of WW2 shooters again.
But no, you copied MW2 and got fucked. Buncha idiots deserved it. Speaking of which, I think i'm gonna download Allied Assault for old times sake and play an actually fun MOH game
Back in the days of the PS1/PS2 there were nothing but WW2 shooters, and there was ridiculess amounts of them, but overall MOH was probably the most well known game of the bunch.
Nowadays the market is full of not WW2 shooters, but Modern combat based shooters. So releasing a MOH WW2 based game now would have been perfect since you have a niche that people would buy just to have something different from all the modern shooters out there, and then be the best of WW2 shooters again.
But no, you copied MW2 and got fucked. Buncha idiots deserved it. Speaking of which, I think i'm gonna download Allied Assault for old times sake and play an actually fun MOH game
So you're saying that MoH development and marketing cost is over 180 millions dollar? That's more than most triple AAA movies.Wicky_42 said:
I'm pretty sure it's much less than 180 millions. EA made their profits. They are whining because they couldn't get more out of it.
When he says that his game's protagonists "have the power to resonate with FPS gamers everywhere" solely because they are "so elite, so tough," I get the sense that he's describing the juvenile twelve-year-old militarists who are already hooked on MW2.Greg Tito said:
what i did with BRUUUUUUUUUTALLL LEGEND.
I am a cheap bastard (and also don't like paying $60 for a game with 5 hours of single player, by all accounts) so will wait until sometime in February when I can get it fo 50% off on Steam.
And yeah I will be paying full price for Black Ops on day one. Heck, if this wasn't MoH and was another Battlefield: Bad Company game I'd be buying it right now.
And yeah I will be paying full price for Black Ops on day one. Heck, if this wasn't MoH and was another Battlefield: Bad Company game I'd be buying it right now.
Note to EA; you of all people should have learnt from Sega when they tried to preempt the arrival of the PS2 and steal Sony's thunder by launching the Dreamcast early. And they had the superior product; whereas you brought nothing new to an already saturated market.
Back to the drawing board guys.
Back to the drawing board guys.
Well said. EA only did themselves a disservice by further urinating into the same ocean of recycled ideas and Call of Duty idolization as everyone else. Time has has shown with other titles that taking a distinct path has its rewards by establishing possibly new franchises or innovations for gameplay, and EA should have learned this from the likes of Deadspace and Mirror's Edge. The "can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality is a myopic and shallow maneuver in the face of successful competition that only self-detonates when that same competition will almost always triumph through experience against a failed reproduction. They may as well have tried pawning off a post-apocalyptic shooter around New Vegas' release because it is a nigh-Sisyphean task to try and surmount an established game through mimicry.InterAirplay said:
The only favorable and unique aspect that EA touted for Medal of Honor was the "respect for the soldiers," which quite honestly translates as a very empty promise offering no proper insight or benefit towards the actual game.
EA already made that game. It was called Battlefield Bad Company 2. And there was nothing wrong with it. They should have focused their efforts on cranking out some more expansion packs for it like the upcoming Vietnam expansion. Or at the very least included destruction 2.0 in Medal of Honor. Admit it. That game would be ten times more fun if you could blow buildings up at will. I'm actually kind of hoping the new COD game tanks too so we can finally be done with this whole modern military shooter fps nonsense.InterAirplay said: