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Are you getting Battlefield 5?

Yes 11 25.00%
 
No 33 75.00%
 
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VGPolyglot said:
Faelco said:
Not interested in it.

There is a difference between "not exactly accurate" and "handicapped British woman fighting with a katana on the front lines of Omaha Beach".

That sounds awesome.

Could be awesome. I'm a huge fan of Nier Automata after all.

 

But they shouldn't call that a WW2 game. Make the same thing in the future or an alternative reality, and no problem. This looks ridiculous. 



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If it wasn't for the fact it was trying to go for a WW2 feel and look, I may be interested. As is, it looks like a steaming pile of garbage that feels more as an insult then it does a game.



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Faelco said:
VGPolyglot said:

That sounds awesome.

Could be awesome. I'm a huge fan of Nier Automata after all.

 

But they shouldn't call that a WW2 game. Make the same thing in the future or an alternative reality, and no problem. This looks ridiculous. 

What's wrong with making it set in WWII? Would you also object to Wolfenstein 3D because it takes place in WWII despite having a mecha-Hitler as a final boss?



VGPolyglot said:
Faelco said:

Could be awesome. I'm a huge fan of Nier Automata after all.

 

But they shouldn't call that a WW2 game. Make the same thing in the future or an alternative reality, and no problem. This looks ridiculous. 

What's wrong with making it set in WWII? Would you also object to Wolfenstein 3D because it takes place in WWII despite having a mecha-Hitler as a final boss?

Like I said, alternative reality. So far, Battlefield has always been about a realistic setting (as much as possible). 

 

If it was a spin off, or if they changed the marketing and made it about a fun/fantasy take on WW2, sure, no problem. But trying to keep the same image for the IP while not respecting it at all will obviously annoy fans. 

 

If you tell me "What if you fought Mecha Hitler with a chicken-launcher, it would be awesome and crazy!", I'll be way more interested than "You're going to play a soldier during real looking WW2 battles, true to the roots of the IP. Oh, but you'll be a woman with a steampunk prosthetic arm killing Germans with a katana on the front lines.". And the bothering part in there is the bolded one, not the woman. Put a woman sniper, support, in the resistance, in secret mission or in the Russian army, no problem. Give her a prosthetic arm, a katana, and put her in the front lines of the Western front, and it's more problematic.

 

I don't care that much about BF, but I understand the pissed off fans. They should assume fully a change of tone, or respect the tone they had so far. A mix of both seems off-balance.



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Faelco said:
VGPolyglot said:

What's wrong with making it set in WWII? Would you also object to Wolfenstein 3D because it takes place in WWII despite having a mecha-Hitler as a final boss?

Like I said, alternative reality. So far, Battlefield has always been about a realistic setting (as much as possible). 

 

If it was a spin off, or if they changed the marketing and made it about a fun/fantasy take on WW2, sure, no problem. But trying to keep the same image for the IP while not respecting it at all will obviously annoy fans. 

 

If you tell me "What if you fought Mecha Hitler with a chicken-launcher, it would be awesome and crazy!", I'll be way more interested than "You're going to play a soldier during real looking WW2 battles, true to the roots of the IP. Oh, but you'll be a woman with a steampunk prosthetic arm killing Germans with a katana on the front lines.". And the bothering part in there is the bolded one, not the woman. Put a woman sniper, support, in the resistance, in secret mission or in the Russian army, no problem. Give her a prosthetic arm, a katana, and put her in the front lines of the Western front, and it's more problematic.

 

I don't care that much about BF, but I understand the pissed off fans. They should assume fully a change of tone, or respect the tone they had so far. A mix of both seems off-balance.

Did EA/Dice ever claim that Battlefield was supposed to be a completely accurate representation of WWII?



VGPolyglot said:
Faelco said:

Like I said, alternative reality. So far, Battlefield has always been about a realistic setting (as much as possible). 

 

If it was a spin off, or if they changed the marketing and made it about a fun/fantasy take on WW2, sure, no problem. But trying to keep the same image for the IP while not respecting it at all will obviously annoy fans. 

 

If you tell me "What if you fought Mecha Hitler with a chicken-launcher, it would be awesome and crazy!", I'll be way more interested than "You're going to play a soldier during real looking WW2 battles, true to the roots of the IP. Oh, but you'll be a woman with a steampunk prosthetic arm killing Germans with a katana on the front lines.". And the bothering part in there is the bolded one, not the woman. Put a woman sniper, support, in the resistance, in secret mission or in the Russian army, no problem. Give her a prosthetic arm, a katana, and put her in the front lines of the Western front, and it's more problematic.

 

I don't care that much about BF, but I understand the pissed off fans. They should assume fully a change of tone, or respect the tone they had so far. A mix of both seems off-balance.

Did EA/Dice ever claim that Battlefield was supposed to be a completely accurate representation of WWII?

It doesn't matter what EA said if that's what the fans liked about the series.

 

And I never said "completely accurate", I talked more about an "accurate feeling", or rather "historical feeling". I'm not a fan of CoD or BF, but in the few games I played, I liked the fact that I could imagine myself in the conflict, be immersed in it even if it wasn't 100% accurate. This one has too many immersion-breaking element for that. So the player who played the previous games for this reason can rightfully say that they won't buy this one.

 

FIFA is not accurate either, but if you put women and guys in wheelchair with plane reactors behind them in the next game (with same stats and in the same teams as the guys), I would understand if the fans got pissed off. 

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I see you are a person that speaks up against what is wrong and that is hard to find in the world.

Are you activist in terms of boycotting other products with other serious society and world problems?
I know you are against ultra-inclusion of females in media. I guess that are other issues like war, child exploration, famine, etc.
What other issues do you recomend we should be boycotting products that you think are serious?

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Chazore said:

I don't mind female soldiers in BFV, because we actually had them in WWII. My main gripe is that EA are simply tossing in dolled up pretty female soldiers (let's be honest, WWII had a lot of non pretty soldiers, both male & female), while ignoring to add in actual well know female soldiers from WWII, like Russia's famous female snipers, or the Night Witches.

 

The advanced prosthetics and camo just make the game more cartoony and akin to Fornite, which isn't a good look for the franchise. 

It's closer to Wolfenstein, than it is to Fortnite.



I might just skip them all. That H1Z1 demo was fun so I'm probably just gonna stick with that when I want to shoot somebody.