Battlefield 1 announced! Alternate reality WW1 game. Oct 18 2016. Teaser here!

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**GloomyFenix**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
I am kind of sad that this is coming out for the Verdun guys though. They did a lot of great work and did pretty much all the hard work, risk taking, and testing ideas and now odds are a good portion of their potential audience is gonna get taken from them. I would be extremely surprised if battlefield one wasn't partially inspired by the fact that Verdun was pretty warmly received, although EA wouldn't admit it in a million years. (of course on the flipside, it's not like verdun had a copyright on it.

Yeah, it's really sad that just because a triple-A company like EA (even though I feel their products don't really deserve the title of triple-A) makes a videogame based on WW1, most of the casual players looking for new fresh FPS experiences will be looking at some WW1-skinned-Battlefield-nearly-as-identical-as-the-previous-ones while missing such a good game as Verdun (yep, I'm not precisely a huge fan of EA, as you may have noticed).

The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
It's an alternate version of WW1. Not the real WW1

Even though this is true, this feels more an excuse than a feature to me. I love realistic games, and if I finally give it a try (probably at a friend's house) I imagine myself talking with someone like this:

Me after 4 mins of in-game experience: "But this does not feel WW1-ish at all! Every time I enter a server most of the players fight with sub-machine guns just because they've unlocked them"
Random friend friendly enough to let me play such game: "Welp, you know, this is an alternate version of WW1, not the real one~"

Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Not sure about the practicality of this helmet.

Spoiler:

That one must be an alternate method to protect the eyes from shrapnel, I presume

**GloomyFenix**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
On the whole "alternate vs reality" thing, I'd be very down for more alternate history games. They just need to do service to the original history and keep it feel familiar. I don't care if they go full DUST and have walking tanks and whatnot, they just need to keep the feel of the period around, as obviously most equipment wouldn't have been replaced overnight. Battlefield 1 could be great if they decided to focus on what could have happened had the war continued to 1919 (and there were a lot of crazy plans and new weapons that would've been brought into it had that occured)

Battlefield 1942 for example had an awesome "battlefield 1946" expansion pack called secret weapons or something like that, and it was awesome. Jets, super heavy tanks, jetpacks, etc. It was really awesome and a breath of fresh air built upon an already solid game. The thing was it was built on the base game, so most of the time players were still running around with their same weapons and equipment, and regular tanks/planes were still around. It was just the new crazy stuff was added in as well, which made it feel like the war was evolving, and hadn't just changed overnight.

Yeah, I know I can't blame DICE for not making overly realistic games, if they like creating those type of games good for them, and I wish them the best luck, just like to every other company out there. It's just that I'm so used (and tired) of hearing people saying they make extra-realistic videogames when they're not that I've started thinking about DICE as a company that tries to make realistic games, that's why I judge their games like that. I know I shouldn't do that, but sometimes I fail (just like before)