Battlefield 1 Official Reveal Trailer

This is like a sneak preview of a cover for a book. Looks great and all, but it's all pre-rendered stuff and that means it tells me fuck all about the game. Trailers are for movies, demos are for games, why can't this simple concept ever be accepted? Are publishers really that afraid of the flaws in their games being prevalent before release?

That said, it looks nice, and the WW1 premise is certainly interesting, but I'll hold my opinion for when we actually see the gameplay for the, y'know, video game. *sigh* :roll:
 
I think I see something that look like a British pattern 1796 light cavalry saber. But that may be a latter version, or an other type of blade, fitted with the 1796's hand guard. The blade is too straight and not broad enough to be one. Fighting Turks in the Middle East on horse back sound interesting. Maybe we could see some horsy pony action with the early and late stage in the Western Front and the Eastern Front?

I'm not sure that a WWI wooden plane could smash a stone building. It's possible if it still carried it's bomb load, but that would be the first thing the pilot would get rid of once engaged in an air battle. Well, maybe if the plane has enough kinetic energy, and the engine and the fuel tank blow up. But still wood is a crappy material which got almost no resistance compare to stone. Maybe the structure and the cohesiveness of the stones of the windmill was already weaken by previous bombing?

The music is awful. I thought that dubstep died a decade ago.

I don't like the artistic vision of the trailer. It's a bit to action packed hollywoodesque. Something in black and white, inspired by WW1 archive footage would had been better. It wouldn't give the same feeling of MOAR ACTION and EXPLOSION, but hell, that probably what people want. And some music from the time period would had been nice. I'd say something like Kreisler Liebsleid for violin and piano for a sorrowful mood, or Strauss's Waltz to show how the optimism and hope Europeans had for industrial and scientific progress was crushed in the muddy trenches of Europe, or any Impressionist.

It's the hundred years anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. If they don't have a Somme campaign, and a few maps, I don't know what I would say about it.
 
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GlutinousRice said:
I don't like the artistic vision of the trailer. It's a bit to action packed hollywoodesque. Something in black and white, inspired by WW1 archive footage would had been better. It wouldn't give the same feeling of MOAR ACTION and EXPLOSION, but hell, that probably what people want. And some music from the time period would had been nice. I'd say something like Kreisler Liebsleid for violin and piano for a sorrowful mood, or Strauss's Waltz to show how the optimism and hope Europeans had for industrial and scientific progress was crushed in the muddy trenches of Europe, or any Impressionist.
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In a way this game might be a better representation of WWI in actual practice, since most FPS online games are a bunch of people running blindly into open fire, which is what they did in the earlier part of WWI :lol:.
 
AskWazzup said:
In a way this game might be a better representation of WWI in actual practice, since most FPS online games are a bunch of people running blindly into open fire, which is what they did in the earlier part of WWI :lol:.
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An accurate depiction of the early stage would have been getting on a train all cheerful with a band playing a farewell music of victory, marching, sitting, drinking a lot of wine, getting up, waiting for orders, not getting orders, getting lost, finding the guy with the order because he lost himself like your company, sitting again while the officers try to figure out how they should hold the map, and finally finding some krauts and shooting at their general direction while panicking and trying to remember how to use your gun :aiee:, maybe getting killed or wounded, retreat or advance depending of the outcome, repeat again.
 
GlutinousRice said:
An accurate depiction of the early stage would have been getting on a train all cheerful with a band playing a farewell music of victory, marching, sitting, drinking a lot of wine, getting up, waiting for orders, not getting orders, getting lost, finding the guy with the order because he lost himself like your company, sitting again while the officers try to figure out how they should hold the map, and finally finding some krauts and shooting at their general direction while panicking and trying to remember how to use your gun :aiee:, maybe getting killed or wounded, retreat or advance depending of the outcome, repeat again.
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That is exactly what is going on in an online fps game (minus the waiting and drinking wine part). It most often becomes a chaos with little or no sane communication, so an WWI era is much better suited for that than modern combat.
 
TorontRayne said:
I think this goes in the gaming sub-forum.
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Noobs are too stupid to understand subforums these days...
Anyways, Battlefield 1. People are crying "RIP CoD!!", but aren't they very different games? Like, single player based and multiplayer based?
Either way, Battlefield 1918 was already a thing, and is probably still better:

But it's cool to see a AAA WWI game.
 
Huh, I just noticed the tag saying that it's game engine footage. But that's still not really representative of anything, since they could downgrade the graphics, and without taking graphics into consideration this trailer still shows only half a second of what may or may not be actual gameplay. This is more hype and marketing than anything else.

I did think that the music choice wasn't all that great, but considering the majority of the fanbase of shooters like Battlefield, I guess they went more for appeal than accuracy. As for the art style, why would anyone want the game to be in black-and-white? That's accurate to the pictures that portrayed the era, not the actual era.

Finally, there's the fact that WW1 is being portrayed as an array of action-packed battles as opposed to the depressing mess of poor decisions that it was. That's fine by me, plenty of fiction that already portrays WW1 that way, and there's Verdun if you want a multiplayer WW1 shooter that feels brutal and oppressive.

I will admit, I'm intrigued and interested, but without any gameplay footage, I'm only left with scepticism.
 
Verdun was here. BF is faggotz.

But all kidding aside. Horrendous sped up footage. Stupidly fast tanks. Exploding cloth & wood planes. Retarded soundtrack.
I think I'll stick with playing Verdun. It's horrendously punishing but totally worthwhile.
 
"Battlefield 1" has got to be the stupidest name they could have chosen. It barely makes any sense. They could have at least chosen "Battlefield 1916" or something like that.
 
ZigzagPX4 said:
Huh, I just noticed the tag saying that it's game engine footage. But that's still not really representative of anything, since they could downgrade the graphics, and without taking graphics into consideration this trailer still shows only half a second of what may or may not be actual gameplay.
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DICE as far as I remember, has always had the final product keep pretty much the same graphical quality from pre release trailers and footage.

It probably will look this good on PC on the highest settings.
 
Practicat said:
DICE as far as I remember, has always had the final product keep pretty much the same graphical quality from pre release trailers and footage.

It probably will look this good on PC on the highest settings.
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not only that, their engine is pretty much optimized like source and fox engine, capable running on lower system with overall high fps
 
They explained their reason for naming it Battlefield 1:

“It’s important to stress that this is the next big milestone in the Battlefield franchise. Why we chose the name...we’re kind of going back to the true dawn of all-out warfare. This is the genesis of what modern warfare is today.”
 
Practicat said:
They explained their reason for naming it Battlefield 1:

“It’s important to stress that this is the next big milestone in the Battlefield franchise. Why we chose the name...we’re kind of going back to the true dawn of all-out warfare. This is the genesis of what modern warfare is today.”
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actually its more like their use of numerical naming based on how far the era goes.

so

battlefield 1 >> world war 1
battlefield 2 >> post-cold war

battlefield 3 >> modern era
battlefield 4 >> futuristic modern
 
I think I may like this. Even though Verdun was more realistic and displayed WWI in gritty detail. But WWI was not the only war for trench warfare. The Iran-Iraq war 30 years ago was sorta like WWI in the Middle East. Chemical weapons, trench warfare, no man lands. And the like.
 
Since I made the thread, I might as well say what I think.

I think it looks good. I love history, and even though this is a more stylised version of WW1, it still looks like it can capture the feeling the WW1 had. The developers said that in the campaign you would get to play as a few different people and get to see how they react and adjust to how war and the world is changing. As long as the campaign isn't trash, and multiplayer is replayable, I think I'll really enjoy this.
 
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