Star Wars: Battlefront

[crabra comander]

It sucks being a sucker for these franchises. I will buy a Godzilla game just because i know that Gman is in it

This does look good though...dog fights look a bit like Starfox with barrel rolls on command and limited thrust.

Like Old Ken said, lol no one wants a AT-AT running up a mountain to kill campers...looks like you get thrown into the thick of things no matter what. Also, I'm not standing around if i see someone levitate...I'm gonna ve on the other side of the map, good luck catching me lord Vader.

 

[Philly]

Nothing will ever be as awesomely balanced and such a huge step forward as battlefield 2.

None of you could hang with me in it.

I'm getting a ps4 anyway... I will have this on release.

Walkers on rails.........

Really?

Your complaining about THAT?

You guys SAW empire, RIGHT?

Looks pretty boring being an AT-AT driver....

You would have kids trying to walk up mountain ridges and looking like morons instead of going point a-b objective straight line boringness...

You are the General Veers of the situation.

Go forward... Go forward.... Go forward some more......

TARGET, MAXIMUM FIRE POWER!!!

Yep, sounds like they nailed it.

Kind of like on Operation firestorm when they spend 10 mins driving up the mountain only for us to take a pass in the Havok and wipe them out

 

[Riceball]

Yes, the interviewer was really annoying.

The interviewer may have been annoying but not the interviewee, I really liked her accent, particularly the way she rolled her Rs.

 

[Wolfsburg]

Totally agree. I'm baffled why people are actually upset that AT-ATs aren't fully controllable. Do you really want that? They would look ridiculous gallivanting all over the battle field, trying to climb mountains, getting stuck on terrain, etc. They walk from point A to point B. That's it. If people would stop to think for just a moment, I think they'd realize AT-ATs probably wouldn't actually be that fun to pilot and would probably look silly for everyone else watching them from the ground.

Nothing will ever be as awesomely balanced and such a huge step forward as battlefield 2.

None of you could hang with me in it.

I'm getting a ps4 anyway... I will have this on release.

Walkers on rails.........

Really?

Your complaining about THAT?

You guys SAW empire, RIGHT?

Looks pretty boring being an AT-AT driver....

You would have kids trying to walk up mountain ridges and looking like morons instead of going point a-b objective straight line boringness...

You are the General Veers of the situation.

Go forward... Go forward.... Go forward some more......

TARGET, MAXIMUM FIRE POWER!!!

Yep, sounds like they nailed it.

 

[Solo4114]

It's because it's a loss of functionality, basically. AT-ATs were pilotable to a limited extent in Battlefront 2. On the Hoth map, and I think the other snow map, you could steer them left or right, as they walked forward, and aim the head to shoot the main and secondary lasers. In this, it sounds like all you do is aim the head and use the weapons systems.

I agree that it isn't a big deal, but I think it also ties into how people are somewhat displeased that the focus seems to eb on infantry rather than anyone-can-drive-them vehicles. It sounds like, instead of there being a hangar of snowspeeders that you can hop into at the spawn, you have to run somewhere, grab a powerup, and then fly a speeder. I think that's slightly more of a problem, but I'm really just gonna wait and see with this one.

Some of this may also be people who allowed themselves to get hyped up at the possibilities that would be offered by Battlefield with a Star Wars skin, and are now disappointed that that's not exactly what the game is. Frankly, as someone whose expectations were never very high, I still haven't seen anything that says "Skip this game," but I haven't seen anything yet that says "Buy this game."

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I dunno, it all sounds...fine...to me. Nothing ZOMGAMAZEBALLS, but also nothing awful. I didn't have particularly high expectations for this, though.

I'll wait until it's released to judge (not going to preorder it though). However, to me the announcement was like being told you're getting a date with the Playmate of the Year and then week by week bad news starts coming out. First she has incurable burping. Okay I can deal with that. Next week they say she has Tourettes. No problem we'll order in. A week later it comes out she has horrible BO. Um okay I think I'm done now.

 

[Treadwell]

I'll have plenty of time to soak in reviews before I buy it in late 2016 when used copies are under $30.

(I haven't paid full price for a console game in 30 years)

 

[Treadwell]

ROTJ E-11's on ESB Hoth? :unsure

The DH-17s are ROTJ, too.

But that's okay, it's reasonable that those varieties were in used "just off screen" at the time of ESB.

 

[The Terminator]

The interviewer may have been annoying but not the interviewee, I really liked her accent, particularly the way she rolled her Rs.

She's icelandic Ingvarsdottir = "Ingvar's daughter"

 

[Solo4114]

DICE is a Swedish company, so it's reasonable to think she might be Swedish.

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I'll wait until it's released to judge (not going to preorder it though). However, to me the announcement was like being told you're getting a date with the Playmate of the Year and then week by week bad news starts coming out. First she has incurable burping. Okay I can deal with that. Next week they say she has Tourettes. No problem we'll order in. A week later it comes out she has horrible BO. Um okay I think I'm done now.

I guess. I just don't get THAT excited about video game announcements anymore. There's so much hype that surrounds them, and the actual end product just never reaches the level that I can imagine, so I just...don't imagine anymore. I wait and see and recognize that the video game industry is rarely revolutionary, and much more iterative in its approach to progress and game design.

 

[Riceball]

I'm going with her being Icelandic, maybe she immigrated. I'm not that familiar with the Swedish accent but it didn't sound Swedish to me, I couldn't recognize it all, esp. with all of the lightly rolling Rs. Wherever she's from, that's one sexy accent.

 

[The Terminator]

DICE is a Swedish company, so it's reasonable to think she might be Swedish.

No Swedish accent and no Swedish last name

 

[The Wook]

Forgive my ignorance, but will this game allow you to play, via FPS, Han Solo or Chewbacca? If not, are there any such FPS games out there were you can play as Han or Chewie?

Thanks,

The Wook

ps~that interviewee has got to be icelandic. she looks just like another Icelandic cutie, Nanna Hillmarsdottir from the band Of Monsters and Men: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2849/9216571641_83f1a5bf09_b.jpg

 

[Solo4114]

Not to my knowledge. My recollection is that Battlefront 2 allowed you to briefly play as Chewie on the Endor map and Han on another map (forget which one) when you unlocked a hero, but it was only until you died and respawned.

To date, there really is no "Han Solo simulator" game. The closest I've gotten is the original Privateer, and X-Wing Alliance, and maybe aspects of the first Dark Forces game before Kyle Katarn got a glowbat.

 

[The Wook]

Not to my knowledge.

Ok, thanks, Solo. All I can say, is, WHY THE HELL ISN'T THERE AN FPS WITH HAN AND CHEWIE??!! What the Hell are they waiting for?! I'm not much of a gamer, except for the Halo series, but man, I would stand in line to play Chewie with his bowcaster in FPS!

The Wook

 

[Solo4114]

Ok, thanks, Solo. All I can say, is, WHY THE HELL ISN'T THERE AN FPS WITH HAN AND CHEWIE??!! What the Hell are they waiting for?! I'm not much of a gamer, except for the Halo series, but man, I would stand in line to play Chewie with his bowcaster in FPS!

The Wook

Beats me! I've been hoping and wishing that someone will make such a game since, oh, 1990 or so? Basically, I'd love to play an FPS/RPG/space sim hybrid where you fly around the galaxy in a variety of customizable craft, trading, smuggling, and fighting for a living in the Star Wars underworld. Maybe not as Han Solo himself, but at least as someone like him. Sadly, nobody's interested.

 

[The Wook]

Beats me! I've been hoping and wishing that someone will make such a game since, oh, 1990 or so? Basically, I'd love to play an FPS/RPG/space sim hybrid where you fly around the galaxy in a variety of customizable craft, trading, smuggling, and fighting for a living in the Star Wars underworld. Maybe not as Han Solo himself, but at least as someone like him. Sadly, nobody's interested.

I care.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Ok, thanks, Solo. All I can say, is, WHY THE HELL ISN'T THERE AN FPS WITH HAN AND CHEWIE??!! What the Hell are they waiting for?! I'm not much of a gamer, except for the Halo series, but man, I would stand in line to play Chewie with his bowcaster in FPS!

The Wook

That has been what every SW game fan has been saying to Lucafilm/LucasArts since they stopped making cool games! X-Wing Alliance let you fly a freighter and move cargo around, but nothing that was exactly like a smuggler game.

 

[The Wook]

That has been what every SW game fan has been saying to Lucafilm/LucasArts since they stopped making cool games! X-Wing Alliance let you fly a freighter and move cargo around, but nothing that was exactly like a smuggler game.

Maybe the Mouse, with those big ears, will hear our cries!

 

[Wetwired]

Been playing the closed alpha for a couple of hours. It looks great and hits all the SW notes, the gameplay so far is meh.