Gaming Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) & Battlefront 2 (2017) [Mod Approved]

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My DLC predictions:
Heroes -
Obi-Wan
Anakin
Ahsoka
Jyn
Finn (Confirmed)
Poe
Rose

Villains -
Grievous
Dooku
Ventress
Kreenic
Phasma (Confirmed)
Hux
Snoke

 

I'd love to see Ahsoka included as a Hero in this. I wonder if they'd use the TCW younger version or the Rebels older one.

 

Skins to have both? Though unless they could change the height with no difficulty, it might be better sticking to one.

 

I'd imagine they'd probably use the Rebels version just to be on par height-wise with the rest of the heroes/villains. If I'm not mistaken, only Yoda is short one of the bunch.

 

How long did the campaign take you all to finish? Is it just tacked on? I'm trying to justify buying this game but I can't just yet. I passed on the last one because of the criticism it received.

 

The campaign is short, but a very well crafted one. I'd say it stand on its own, and I might say it is the better developed/produced part of the package (the other being multiplayer, that needs some serious work as now it is in my opinion a good game with stellar presentation held back by contradicting and controversial mechanisms). And one more chapter arrives in December.

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I took my time (including looking for collectables) and it took just under 6 hours. I really enjoyed it, it's probably the best single player Star Wars experience I've had since X-wing Alliance and Force Commander (I never really thought that much of the TFU games). I'm hard of hearing so put the subtitles on; there's a lot of out-of-cutscene storytelling throughout that you shouldn't miss.

 

Bought it and wowwww, Galactic Assault really gives you the feel of being in a Star Wars warzone it's unreal (also pretty difficult to not die 1000 times but I haven't hit up an FPS in awhile )

Most blown away by Starfighter Assault-- handles are literally the best thing since Rogue Squadron, magnitude of battles is awesome, the ability to hit objectives or dogfight is fun as hell. And the locations (in multiplayer + the campaign) are sick-- flying through the Death Star remains?! Past beldons at Bespin?!

Visually everything is stunning and after the microtransactions drama I'm as pumped for this as I was originally. Excited for the DLC, GIVE ME KENOBI

THIS SO MUCH. And there's something about Han Solo's shoulder charge that's just so unmistakably Han. Such great detail.

 

It's good to see no buyer's remorse here. I haven't bought a new game at launch in a very long time. Nowadays I typically wait for a year or so after a bunch of patches and content have been released and the price has dropped substantially before I buy a game (which is also how I dodged all the Assassin's Creed Unity drama ).

I'm intrigued by the single player campaign but have read online that it looks like EA might add another chapter to it down the road and that as is it seems like the narrative is a bit unfinished. So that's more incentive for me to just wait, as multiplayer isn't enough to lure me, even if it is currently on sale on Xbox for like $50.

 

Considering the single player campaign is maybe about 8 hours or so (including any additional chapters) of gameplay, I really can't see how that would be a selling point to anyone. I know SW fans have been craving a single player game for years since TFU2 was released, but I never thought of Battlefront in the same genre. Yes, I remember the original BF games had something of the equivalent of a "single player campaign", but I probably tried it for about an hour or so and logged back online. Obviously an 8 hour offline game wouldn't warrant a $50+ retail price.

 

1. From what i've seen, the BFII campaign hits around 4 hours. There's no way DLC chapters will extend that by double, even if they add more story DLC for each new ST movie.

2. 50+ for an 8 hour game is pretty standard. Bioshock, Dead Space, Spec Ops, etc. Some of these games had multiplayer, but no one played them so I don't really could that.

 

I thought someone had mentioned earlier that it was 6 hours (before the next chapter is released). I have yet to buy any single player game that is under 10 hours of actual gameplay for upwards of $50 retail. Jeez; even the new "Frozen Wilds" DLC from Horizon Zero Dawn is said to be about 12-15 hours' worth.

 

Honestly, I know people were craving for a Star Wars single-player experience, but what we got in BF2 was not the best they could've done. If you're going to have only 12 missions, you shouldn't have about half of those being from the POV of other characters. I know people liked playing Leia, Han, Luke, Lando and Kylo, but that came at the expense of giving us even less time with the so-called main character Iden Versio. We got nearly nothing from her backstory and I'm forced to buy or listen to an online audiobook of the Inferno Squad novel to get backstory that should've been given in the game. I know this is a FPS game and FPS games are notorious for their low effort, low quality single-player campaigns, but this was the first SW single player campaign in years. I haven't played a single player SW game since The Old Republic game which came out in 2011.

Yes, the game looks gorgeous. I love seeing new planets on current gen systems. But I'm still waiting desperately for a solid, long story-driven game with tens of hours of content. With the exclusivity rights EA has for the SW ip, and EA's history of making game that aren't received well with forced microtransactions, it looks like I'm going to have to wait a long time before we get another story-driven SW game. That's not good and Disney should rethink their deal with EA because it could hurt the image of their brand if SW games continue to be equated with a controversial, highly unpopular company like EA.

This campaign could've been better without the film characters being ham-fisted in. The game is supposed to be about Iden Versio and should've remained that way. The Inferno Squad was really only a story factor for what...the first 1-2 missions? The entire story was just random. They made Project Cinder seem like it was this big thing, then you play the game and that's not even brought up after the 4th mission. I still don't really know WTF it even was. It seemed like some sort of weather modification weapon, but there's so little actual story in the game, you're left to fill in the blanks because they do such a poor job at actually having a good story that explains everything. The cinematic sequences are there purely just to set you up for the next mission with as little story as possible. Only enough to set up the next mission. This crap passes as STORY in FPS games today which is sad and laughable.

The story campaign for me was honestly a 6.8/10 for me and it's only that high because the graphics were so nice and the shooting mechanics were good too.

I don't mind her becoming a rebel either. That's a big complaint I'm hearing from people. The issue is the length of the story for me more than anything and how poorly developed the character was.

 

I was sceptical that this would happen, but it's good that it has. This has even had a small impact at the investor level too.

With a bit of luck, it'll render the whole rotten mechanism toxic enough to deter developers from considering it on future games.

 

Well also consider those pieces of **** that made the old Battlefront game decided that we didn't want another X-Wing, we wanted more Battlefront... so people are probably viewing the SP campaign as a very inadequate putty to fill the gap of a missing decent sim.

 

It's def closer to 4 than 8, and unfortunately does suffer from being so short-- there's really not much time for character development (and I echo other comments here that the plot's a little canned to boot).

That said it does provide a solid *framework* for DLC and could see them adding it on to a bunch, even beyond the next "chapter."

 

Every report i've seen has said around four hours. Even then, expecting a DLC chapter to contain another two hours of gameplay is... unlikely.

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/star-wars-battlefront-ii-review/1900-6416810/

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/17/star-wars-battlefront-2-review

https://kotaku.com/star-wars-battlefront-ii-the-kotaku-review-1820477183

There's a difference between a linear single player game and an open world "sandbox" game. Horizon Zero Dawn is a sandbox game where the actual meat of the time you'll spend playing is found in side quests, collectibles, and general exploration. The time you'll actually spend on the "Main Story" is going to, almost always, be below the 8 hour story mark. It all comes back to a cost/benefit, where a short but superb experience is worth around as much as a meatier but less satisfying experience. Hence why The Witcher 3's side-quests are so revered, as they all feel like they're on the same level as the main story missions.

 

Well no one can convince me that any game that's been released this year is better story-wise than HZD; but that's a discussion for another thread.

 

This year? Meh. Maybe. Still, i'd say that linear narratives almost always have better stories than open world, because the developers are able to plan out the story beats and flow a lot better.

But yeah, that's not really for this thread.

 

Well, this patch was the final straw. My game became unplayable for multiplayer and arcade mode because of the following reasons:

• Inactive abilities in online multiplayer matches and arcade mode
• Multiple online multiplayer matches giving no credits
• Constant character/vehicle freezing while in-game
• Consistently being dropped from online matches
• Star cards selection kept being reset

I wasn't the only one experiencing these issue just mere hours ago, my friends were having trouble too. So I took my complaints to Microsoft's customer service and requested a refund. Took about ten minutes and I successfully got my digital copy of the game refunded. They had to check into my complaints to warrant a refund under these circumstances, in which they did.

I'm done with giving money to EA. No more new games purchases from them. No more EA Access subscriptions. I am done. I will pick up the game again later on when it's cheaper and everything has been reasonably ironed out, but I will be buying a used copy.

Now with Belgium classifying the lootbox system for all games as "gambling", I hope their successful in getting the rest of the EU to ban these types of games. And I really hope Disney it taking note of EA's handling of the Star Wars brand and will take away at the very least their exclusive licence to create new Star Wars games.

 

To be honest, Battlefront needs to die as a concept. So long as you aim for the literal dumbest and most toxic gamer crowds - first person shooter numpties - you're going to keep having this compromised experience. It'll have to cater to their casual interest in Star Wars and short attention span (hence why Fallout 4 was so awful) and therefore will suck anything Star Wars-y out of the game except visuals and sounds.
You need it in the hands of a smaller studio with a focus on Star Wars, not on revenue and broad appeal. Think Ghost Recon: Wildlands gameplay, with different planets and multiplayer skirmishes built in...

 

Have you even played the game yet Ender?
As for the latest patch, the connection problems lasted a couple hours.

 

I was going to buy a PS4 and this game but after seeing all of the bull i'm glad i never did.If it had been 10-12 hours long,Microtransaction for skins then,and only then would i have bought this with all of this oopla going on,but,sadly no.

 

You wonder why I was reluctant to buy the game on launch. Within at least a few months they'll have resolved most of the issues, new DLC will have been released, and the price of the game will be down about $20 or so.

This link pretty much echoes what we've been talking about. There's a little spoiler about the single-player campaign which I skipped over, but most of it is fine for anyone interested in the game; whether they own it or not.

http://www.businessinsider.com/revi...-battlefront-ii-you-should-hold-off-for-now-5