Star Wars Battlefront

Season passes usually don't.

Anyone know how much the individual DLC packs will be once they start releasing then? I know that means later access to them and likely more money in the long run, but $15-$20 (I assume) over several months might be easier to swallow if I know what I'm going to get, and then maybe I can cherry pick if some of them end up being duds.

Most of the time in my experience, the season's pass is the same price as (x-1) times the price of the packs individually, where x is the total number of packs.

Jakku free DLC on 12/1 for preorders, 12/8 for everyone else.

Zero Punctuation reviews

I got a chance to play it for a while, though not multiplayer. I'm a fan of the game, for sure, but not a fan of the range of options. I think I'll hold out on buying it until there are more stages and hopefully more game modes.

I also dislike the mode they make you play offline (having your kills not count until you pick up your opponent's swag in combination with constantly spawning enemies and crappy AI allies is more tedious than anything - I mostly ended up playing Survival instead), but I've been told the online modes are much better so I'm not all that bothered by that. I do hope they expand those options offline later, though.

edited 19th Dec '15 1:32:17 PM by KnownUnknown

No space battles, no The Force Awakens content.

Well yeah, they need to have something to sell the next game in 2017 since they seem opposed to Clone Wars content.

Eh, they may put in Clone Wars stuff in the next game.

Would have liked a Fighter Squadron that took place above Starkiller Base and Maz's castle, though.

edited 24th Dec '15 6:27:15 AM by theLibrarian

There's no Clone Wars or prequels either. They said "original trilogy only".

I know. That's why I said next game.

Battlefront 2 is so much better than BF 2015 it's not even funny. And BF 2 is just entertaining but average.

I just wanted BF 2 on modern consoles, with enough of a playerbase that I could actually play online. Guess that was too much to hope for in today's COD-centered market.

Honestly, they could re-use the same maps and classes and I'd buy it.

edited 24th Dec '15 10:12:54 AM by Yinyang107

So basically the verdict since launch is it's a shiny but horridly overpriced pile of meh?

Makes for a great Christmas present for casual players, or those whom tend to pick more of what their other friends are playing. Lots of friends I know here that don't fall under the hardcore gamer category actually like it.

Anybody who remembers the original, though... oh boy, avoid getting them this at all costs.

My brother and I played the first two all the time and he loves it.

It was really sad seeing the Giant Bomb team of veterans play BF 1 for the first time(aside for Drew Scanlon who played it before IIRC)on their stream after reviewing the new one a few days before and see them all pretty much go "Wait, why couldn't the new one have this? You can just jump into vehicles?! Holy shit, there's a Risk style game mode! What do you mean Yoda is playable in the next one? This is amazing! Why didn't the new one have this, it would've fixed pretty much all our negatives about it".

edited 24th Dec '15 11:51:52 AM by LordofLore

Because DICE is stuck in their own model instead of looking to the originals for inspiration. Just because they STARTED as Battlefield clones doesn't mean they stayed there.

Which we can likely blame EA for, unless it was there own choice which I would be quite surprised by....

Ironically it might've been the fans that screwed the decision-making this time. Most folks were requesting for DICE to not make the game a Battlefield clone and keep things arcadey from the early phases, but guess what the fanbase is wishing it copied now?

Honestly Battlefront 2015 would've been better if they ripped more off from Battlefield 3 and 4 like 4 man squads and just being able to get in a vehicle like the old Battlefront did.

The old Battlefront's were already basically just "Battlefield but faster and Star Wars" and DICE didn't really need to change that formula at all. It's interesting to see them try and make it more than just "Star Wars Battlefield" but every decision they made seems very arbitrary to me.

I know comparing things to Call of Duty is usually frowned upon (and with good reason) but look at how Black Ops 3 managed to make a game that unambiguously still felt like a "Call of Duty" game yet still feel fairly damn fresh. Granted they did by basically taking "the best" of a bunch of other shooters and cramming it into the Co D formula but the whole package feels remarkably consistent and all the "parts" work together. Battlefront 2015, on the other hand, feels like a game that has no idea what it want's to do. Does it want to be Battlefield with wide open maps, or Call of Duty with easily usable hitscan weapons, or something like Quake with weapon pickups and shit (lacking all of the actual strategy and complexity of Quake's pickup system mind you), or does it want to be Love Live or Yu-Gi-Oh or Hearthstone or whatver with all this emphasis on stupid card bullshit?

edited 24th Dec '15 9:54:22 PM by RoboZombie

I got the PS 4 Battlefront bundle for X-Mas, so I'm downloading Battlefront now. It's cool of the game to let you "demo" it while it's downloading. I love how everything looks and feels. Too bad the game is mediocre.

Sequel?

(Just realized this thread hasn't moved much since the game came out. Yeeesh, glad I skipped)

Oh dear...

My God...it's been 5 months since this thread moved at all.