Battlefield 4 reveal coming on March 26th

[Johnnytoxic]

Looks amazing

 

[Soulja]

Has any MP info been released?

 

[Russinating]

So I'm confused. If you can pre-order this for the 360 then surely it won't be a 720 launch title?

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

So I'm confused. If you can pre-order this for the 360 then surely it won't be a 720 launch title?

Could be released on both consoles simultaneously.

 

[JonnyGeee]

if the 720 comes out It would prolly be on both platforms. Not everyone is going to get a 720 when it first comes out!

 

[Russinating]

That to me suggests we won't have any larger maps or team sizes then, unless 720 players can only be against other 720 players and visa versa.

 

[Morba]

I don't care for single player, or how good cut scenes look, or any of that crap. How does it look and perform in multiplayer, that is all that matters

 

[Russinating]

^ Indeed. Got bored a couple of minutes into the teaser, especially with the slow play style so it was nice and smooth.

 

[Fr0dders]

Has any MP info been released?

Nope. That won't come out till E3.

if the 720 comes out It would prolly be on both platforms. Not everyone is going to get a 720 when it first comes out!

They are talking about an October release, the same sort of release date as the Xbox 720.

I think we'll get a release across both consoles. with the Xbox 720 having a vastly superior game. Leaks suggest 60fps and 64 players in MP, vs 30fps and 24 players on the 360.

The game will be released on 360 and PS3, but will be a heavily cut down version of what you can get on the PS4 and 720.

Same goes with COD who are launching their next game around the same time.

This is worth a read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/mar/27/battlefield-4-preview

That to me suggests we won't have any larger maps or team sizes then, unless 720 players can only be against other 720 players and visa versa.

Microsoft haven't even announced the next Xbox yet, let alone whether the 720 will be backwards compatible with the 360 in multiplayer. I don't think sony has clarified if PS3 players can play against PS4 players.

I reckon not. Once you switch, you will then only play with other people on the same machine.

If you think about the work involved in having 360 players play against 720 players in the same game, its huge, and will hold everybody (not just Battlefield) back. No way will you be able to play against 720 players using your 360.

 

[Tom84]

Looks epic but then so did the first reveal of BF3 and that turned out to be a bit meh.

This is going to be a launch title for the next gen then? Might leave off and pick it up on one of those consoles then....

 

[kinger8938]

Pc footage ofcourse

They would be silly not to bring this to the next consoles

 

[Firestar_3x]

I don't care for single player, or how good cut scenes look, or any of that crap. How does it look and perform in multiplayer, that is all that matters

Indeed, imho they should ditch SP and focus on additional MP maps.

 

[Morba]

I can understand an SP element to the game, but FPS is all about multiplayer and has been for over 15 years now.

 

[TheVoice]

FPS is all about multiplayer and has been for over 15 years now.

Battlefield is all about multiplayer, you mean. There are plenty of good single-player FPS games around.

 

[Morba]

Battlefield is all about multiplayer, you mean. There are plenty of good single-player FPS games around.

Nope. single player is boring, far too predictable and just generally crap.
FPS SP stuff was great when multiplayer wasn't an option or connections were rubbish - early quake days, doom, or duke nukem for example, but as soon as things like CS, Q3, UT became popular it was obvious that FPS's future was all about the MP element.

 

[Fr0dders]

I'd love to see them separate the two out as separate games.

Make the SP an £10 DLC and see how well it sells.

The only games with a single player worth playing aren't straight up FPS titles.

 

[TheVoice]

Nope. single player is boring, far too predictable and just generally crap.
FPS SP stuff was great when multiplayer wasn't an option or connections were rubbish - early quake days, doom, or duke nukem for example, but as soon as things like CS, Q3, UT became popular it was obvious that FPS's future was all about the MP element.

That's just not true though. What about Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Far Cry 3 etc?

 

[Fr0dders]

Half life is 8 years old now. FPS gaming has moved on.

Far Cry 3 isn't just an FPS, its now almost a First Person RPG, exploring game. Bioshock also has heavy RPG elements that make it more than just an FPS.

I think the battlefield fans would cry just as hard if they tried to turn Battlefield into a rpg esque single player game.

 

[Tom84]

I can understand an SP element to the game, but FPS is all about multiplayer and has been for over 15 years now.

Utter rubbish

 

[TheVoice]

I think the battlefield fans would cry just as hard if they tried to turn Battlefield into a rpg esque single player game.

Nobody's trying to turn it into an RPG. The point is that FPS games don't have to be generic (because they aren't, as my examples above prove), we've just come to expect it from these military shooters because that's a) all the developers are capable of, and/or b) that's all the audience wants/expects.

I'm not asking for a campaign on the same level as Spec Ops: The Line (an excellent game, by the way) but there's no reason they couldn't move away from the "pleasure in killing" approach. You never heard team-members praising each other about killing enemies in the proper Rainbow Six games or swearing every other sentence. The developers could, if they wanted, take the single player campaign to a more serious level whilst leaving the multiplayer intact.