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[Fezzan]

Bad Company 2 has sold over 12 million.

Battlefield 3 broke 18 million in august.

:O
Then I think this is true.

 

[jkanownik]

How about this scenario?

Respawn - 2014
BF:BC3 - 2015 (next gen lead EALA campaign; DICE MP)
BF5 - 2016

 

[fluffydelusions]

TBH, I liked bc2 better than bf3...I don't even really know why but it just felt better...

 

[elcapitan]

Bad Company is the superior version, although it feels like a downward trend for the series overall. Bad Company 1 is still the best in my mind.

 

[eternaLightness]

I'd take a more refined BC2 with prettier graphics. I wonder how they differentiate the two Battlefield franchises.

 

[Nirolak]

I'd take a more refined BC2 with prettier graphics. I wonder how they differentiate the two Battlefield franchises.

Well one would be more humor/heavier destruction based and the other would be iterative on BF3.

 

[dragonflys545]

Release Bad Company 3 this fall and 4 next fall. It would be amazing! Do it!

 

[RoboPlato]

I hope not. They're awful at multiplayer. My money's on Respawn's game finally coming. Feels like we've been waiting on that forever. If it's sci-fi like rumored it would also help with the modern setting fatigue.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Taking MoH out of circulation means that the horrible gameplay elements are out, instead it just means that they will put them into BC3.

I seriously doubt they took resources from DICE to work on BC3. I don't think this will go well.

 

[Derrick01]

I hope not. They're awful at multiplayer.

Yeah from what I've seen they're horrible. Definitely do not want them doing a sequel to one of my favorite MP games ever.

 

[RoKKeR]

How about this scenario?

Respawn - 2014
BF:BC3 - 2015 (next gen lead EALA campaign; DICE MP)
BF5 - 2016

That actually makes a lot of sense. I especially like the part of DICE doing the MP. MoH 2010/Warfighter MP's were god awful.

 

[RoboPlato]

Yeah from what I've seen they're horrible. Definitely do not want them doing a sequel to one of my favorite MP games ever.

If it happened I'd like it to be a DICE/DC collaboration that wasn't just a last minute forced venture from EA like 2010. If DC did the campaign and DICE could focus on the MP for a Battlefield game, so they actually would care about it, it would be great.

 

[Nirolak]

Okay so I went digging on LinkedIn after people were talking about Danger Close being dissolved.

Greg Goodrich doesn't seem to be at EA anymore: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/vie...gqvist/27/bb9/b73&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name

Bergstrom's profile lists he's a Creative Director at EA, but it no longer says Danger Close.

There are people who still have Danger Close on their linkedin, but you know, not everyone updates those all the time.

 

[Tunavi]

BC2 was great, BF3 was pretty horrible

 

[RoKKeR]

BC2 was great, BF3 was pretty horrible

Opinions are great, aren't they?

 

[Iacobellis]

I loved Bad Company, hope to see it return for next-gen..

 

[kuYuri]

The biggest thing I feel that separates BC3 from mainline BF is the SP campaign and its focus on Bad Company's (Marlowe, Sweetwater, Haggard, Sarge) adventures. Honestly, it's hard to separate BC from BF proper just based on the multiplayer, as they are very similar and BF3 I felt was pretty iterative from BC2.

The most important thing I feel is that BC3 needs to go back to the funny, more lighthearted tone of BC1's campaign. It's what separates it from all the other serious, modern military shooters. The MP can be however they want it to be, as the humor does not carry over into MP.

Okay so I went digging on LinkedIn after people were talking about Danger Close being dissolved.

Greg Goodrich doesn't seem to be at EA anymore: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/vie...gqvist/27/bb9/b73&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name

Bergstrom's profile lists he's a Creative Director at EA, but it no longer says Danger Close.

There are people who still have Danger Close on their linkedin, but you know, not everyone updates those all the time.

Wow, Greg Goodrich gone already? Was this before MoH:W released or after? There might have been some heads rolling after MoH:W's critical and sales flop.