Your telling me DICE had help and still didnt ship a finished and stable game.
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Visceral showed off their new game to the press today
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Your telling me DICE had help and still didnt ship a finished and stable game.
There's like 3 phones there with a cracked screen!
When I take the bus or the train I'm always shocked by the amount of people I see with cracked phones, some I even saw with two cracked phones at the same time, how can people be so careless with devices that cost nearly a grand is beyond me.
When I take the bus or the train I'm always shocked by the amount of people I see with cracked phones, some I even saw with two cracked phones at the same time, how can people be so careless with devices that cost nearly a grand is beyond me.
ShadowgeistX
Member
It's the decoy used when your phone gets confiscated so you can pull out your awesome camera phone for the real deal.
Probably not though, but how funny would that be?
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I'm not going to buy any other Dead Space after experiencing the failure that was 3. I still can't get over how bad that game was.
SwiftDeath
Member
All right who had the flip phone?
Or the decoy you hand to visceral while your Note 3 is tucked away in your anal cavity.
I expect the leaked images to appear shortly thanks to the efforts of this true journalist.
Ricky Ricardo
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SeventhSon
Member
This like The Dark Knight.
block tower
Member
who are you and what do you know!? lol.
That franchise is officially on hold for foreseeable future.
Roland1979
Junior Member
Don't forget the ankle back-up phones.
Don't forget designed to played in co-op.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Seems like there is a danger of coming across as tone deaf here, still...
Did anyone else play Urban Chaos from Rocksteady? Could be fun if handled right.
I will miss you, Dead Space. You were literally the only serious AAA horror effort last generation, and that turned out to be quite an accomplishment.
This isn't Battlefield. Visceral has not ever released a Battlefield game, nor an FPS since that 007: Agent Under Fire game. Does no one remember Amy Hennig joining them just a few months ago to work on an unannounced Star Wars project? The sites that reported Battlefield: SWAT aren't reputable, and there's no evidence for it. That's all coming from places with no real track record. The only place that has integrity to their reports is Polygon, and all that was said was contractors could work on a "rumored police-themed Battlefield title" by Visceral, said a source. So, how in the world did the news then jump to Battlefield: SWAT as a confirmed thing without a soul in the media picking it up?
TL;DR: It's Star Wars related, not Battlefield.
TL;DR: It's Star Wars related, not Battlefield.
I prefer to live in the optimistic, "Dear God, let's hope not" world.
NexusGamer
Member
I really don't think EA can pull off a good BF game on yearly basis
I was thinking the same thing. Screw the mystery game. I want to know who's phone that is
Lord of Castamere
Member
The developers have though they almost all worked on Battlefield 4. Read the link he posted.
The Star Wars title is >than a year old, and is open world.
Do you honesty think that they had gameplay ready and opted to show that instead of say Battlefront to the press before E3?
Clearly whatever game they showed is releasing soon and they want to give the previewers time to write pieces so they're ready immediately after it's revealed at E3.
Intheflorsh
Banned
There was a time when I would have been excited. 
1. Battlefront is a DICE game, not Visceral. Not sure if you meant Battlefield there.
2. Yes, it is more than a year old. Meaning, they could very well have something put together.
3. If it was releasing soon like you said, why was it not shown at Judges' Week last week? I think EA would love to have their new Battlefield game put into consideration for that. Further more, if it is coming to Game Informer, it is likely not releasing this year.
TetraGenesis
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I laughed SO hard.
Monkey Pants
Outpost Games Creative Director
*Opens door, sticks head in, nods, closes door*
SapientWolf
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I've been playing BF4 nonstop since launch. I think the game was in playable shape a month or two after launch but most of the servers were garbage up until quite recently.
Lord of Castamere
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Sw Visceral went into pre-development late spring of last year. Considering Visceral is still hiring major people I don't think it's safe to even say it's went into Full development yet. It's very very unlikely that SW Visceral was shown at the presser. I mean come on they just brought on a new writer and creative directer in April. If the game was far enough along to have fully polished E3 tier gameplay segment why would they need a new writer or Creative directer? You also don't hold a press even for a CG trailer right before E3. Gameplay was shown.
It being at Judges week is irrelevant. 1 we don't know that it wasn't there. 2 even if it wasn't there, actually going to judges week (as said in the other thread) doesn't matter. I could lobby the same thing back as well, if this was Visceral Star Wars why wasn't it at Judges week? Game informer hosts covers to games all the time near release. I don't see how it having a cover proves anything. COD 11 just had a cover and it's still releasing in the Fall.
You're assuming that you know when they went into pre-development. You're right, gameplay had to be shown for an event like this before E3. You're also correct in that it could have been at Judges Week or that another project could of been.
All of that is exactly my point. Everyone buckling down for "Battlefield: SWAT" is just as much a rumor as anything else. There's NO confirmed name, much less any other real evidence that it exists. Everything being concluded is based on stuff that is being spun to argue the point, when you could do the same for any number of things.
So, I'm not saying that a new Battlefield is impossible, but giving it a name and talking about it like it is a confirmed real game is just silly. It could be anything. And personally, I'd rather see the new Star Wars title at E3. So I'll hold out for that, and eat crow if I'm wrong and it's some new Battlefield.
Side Note: About the GI cover story: It's the norm that most games are published as a cover at least 8 months or so ahead of time. Call of Duty is a bad example because they are already annualized and expected each year. If this was releasing this year (before Christmas), it would likely have been a cover earlier. Not saying it's impossible, just saying the odds aren't for it.
It doesn't need to be at Judges' Week.
The initial press reveal has no bearing on when a game will be ready to ship. A game doesn't need to be revealed to the press X months prior to be released.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Aren't Visceral working on a new IP as well? Probably next to zero chance we will see that this year .
.FunkyPajamas
Member
Ohhhhhh yeah! Man, I remember you and Codecow in the Dead Space 1 & 2 threads. You guys are cool cats.
Well, we can take it straight from the horse's mouth:
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea...ch-did-not-damage-the-franchise/1100-6418131/GameSpot said:
I'm pretty sure they're not intending for 2 of 5 DLC packs to be a critical park of their fiscal year.
Also:
matrixman92
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why does everyone think its a battlefield game, arent they working on a new star wars game....did I miss something
Well, so far, we've had:
1.) Rumors from reputable press sites that they're working on Battlefield.
2.) They worked on Battlefield 3 DLC and heavily on Battlefield 4, as seeable here: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/credits/
3.) There's a lot of evidence toward this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=824032
4.) EA has almost explicitly said a Battlefield game is coming out this year, as per my above post.
They are also making Star Wars, but that's because they have multiple projects.
You can see the studio's Creative Director stating they do multiple projects here:
I wish.
You seem to be missing where I conceded that it was possible, but that I will personally hold out for something else until there's some REAL announcement.
Also, your post doesn't prove it's "Battlefield: SWAT". Just again points to that it's possible.
Charleston
Neo Member
Maybe it's something interesting, so weird why the game industry of all things is so secretive.
I agree with this. They have these events that spur rumors, arguments, and speculation over games just to get the media prepared for the announcement. It's unfair to the journalists because you're essentially robbing them of being able to react to the game for the first time with the announcement.
Also, it kills our hype as gamers because when it gets announced, we all say, "Yep. New Battlefield. Great. What we expected."
If it's going to be an awesome game, put the announcement out there and let people go apeshit.
John_RiticelloEA
Banned
This.
BF4 hasn't crashed on my PC since December, 2013.
The last 2 patches have added major performance improvements, and the CTE testing servers seems to have finally nailed down the "netcode" fixes
HoodWinked
Member
you do realize that E3 is coming up. they're probably just preshowing it to press.
also nice mix of phones see lots of android, even that flip phone and a windows phone.
Not only are these events annoying for the reasons you cited, they put journalists in terrible positions when stuff leaks out that they've seen under NDA. Press were briefed on Borderlands Pre-Sequel news, for example, and it leaked out two days before the embargo. Our options were either A) ignore the leak; B) violate an agreement we signed; or C) report the leak without acknowledging that we knew it was real. None of those options are ideal.
I've been pushing hard for us to just skip all these events entirely. They're really not that useful to readers.
The_R3medy
Banned
It does when EA wants it to win Best of E3 awards. That's what E3 Judges' week is for.
The_R3medy
Banned
Didn't that same exact thing happen with Black Flag? But then Ubisoft lifted the embargo early?
lol I laughed way harder at this than I should have