New Battlefield console game in the works [update 1]

Battlefield on consoles sucks! That xbox 360 one was dull and non-engaging. PC is better for these games.

Yay, another shitty sub-battlefield game for the consoles. Why isn't 2142 being ported? ******* fanboys.

This sucks cause I think Battlefield is an okay franchise but EAs doing this yearly shit like with all their games. Battlefields for the consoles always suck ass, forget about the single player game, why can't companies just go out and say that theres console games not meant for single player, especially when the single player mode is gonna suck anyway. I can almost guarentee that BF2 was the last BF game I will ever buy.

A Battlefield game that focuses on single-player and is being developed for next-gen consoles whose sole new feature is expanded online capability? That's just... my god, I can't even think of an analogy to match the stupidity of this move.

Modern Combat was bad enough, do they really need to continue the series on consoles? I mean, hell, I don't even have high hopes for BF2.5 -- oh, I'm sorry, BF2142.

Ian....it's the almighty dollar my friend. As long as gamers buy it...they will make it a yearly iteration. That's business 101 keep them coming back and paying for more.

*coughcough*Madden*coughcough*



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That is a terrible title.

I wish they would finish Battlefield 2 first... The game *still* crashes to desktop and its a year old.

I bet this has/will have the same core defect. Or is it a new engine?

Battlefield 2 was the only game that I actually regret purchasing. Talk about a slap in the face to anyone that played the PC version. They could of done better but they just ported what they had on the Xbox1. The 2142 sounds interesting since I prefer the futuristic to the tired old present military style. I will get all I need from CoD3 and like someone else said BF2 is the last title in this IP I purchase.

Here's an idea, how's about EA fixes their god-forsaken servers. I think the reason they're putting so much time into the single-player is so when their servers drop you for the thousandth time you can go play their lackluster campaign mode while you curse at the screen.

BF2 for PC is one of the best freaking multiplayer games I have ever played, hands down. That said, BF console outings, from my experience, suck majorly.

I loved battlefield 2 on the 360, and the original xbox. Online is so much fun for me that i can forgive the occasional crash, or mic problems.
So hey, awesome for me! Suckie suckie for all of you. And no, i never played the PC version do to my utter hate of anything that is not Apple.

That being said, i am now going into my fallout shelter. So no wireless mice get thrown at my direction.

Why do you people just shoot down anything out of the ordinary? Its not even like they're taking out the multiplayer too. If you dont want to play single player, dont. Also, Ian said "battlefields for consoles always suck," Im pretty sure they only came out with one Battlefield on consoles, which I didnt think was that bad. Give games a chance, damn, I cant belive how many fags are out there.

@skr1lls OK, you hate anything not Apple, but own a 360, made my MSFT? That said, I agree, I loved Battlefield 2 on the 360. I am disappointed they aren't porting 2142 to next gen...yet. If it proves popular on the PC, here's betting all my Microsoft points that DICE decides to port it over.

All of you think BF2 on the 360 was a port... But it's entirely different from the PC game.

"This time, however, EA and DICE want to focus on the one thing that has always been lacking in Battlefield games: single player."

But modern combat was mostly single player game, and it fared quite well at that. Not groundbraking or anything, but the whole line-of-sight player swap was neatly implemented.

Why oh why can't they just make a BF1942 2. Everything to come out of DICE since BF1942 has just been laughable, and now they're going to focus on a console that already breaks more than BF2 does, with the added benefit of 12-year-old pottymouths screaming obscenities in your ear.

EA has made Dice into a Battlefield factory...

Sounds like they're taking the series on console in an Operation Flashpoint sort of direction, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. That said, they'd be crazy to neglect the multiplayer as a result of the whole project becoming too ambitious.

As to BF2 proper, I see it as being a kind of charicature of PC gaming, its flaws and strengths magnified into big shiny noses and cauliflower ears. On one hand you have a game that takes a pig of a system to run well, loading times that let you finish most of a Mario Kart grand prix and a patching process that has driven me to doing a complete reinstall each time an update comes out. On the other hand you have these breathtaking, chaotic battles with sixty three other souls played out in a series of player-made set pieces that sometimes rival railroaded shooters for their awesomeness (except you have a squad of your friends to high five instead of whichever map maker at Infinity Ward made that tank burst through the wall).

I remember playing the xbox 360 one on live for the first time at a friends house..

I was a sniper, and the rifle doesn't move when proned. I kept the crosshairs at the door of a helicpoter, right at head level. 15 minutes later, there are a pile of corpses.

Too easy.