Ugh. I really don't want to keep complaining about this game but I feel like they slapped me in the face personally.
I honestly expected something along the lines of BF1 with WW2 stuff. Sure they'd have some crazy guns and soldiers looking a little 'hero-y' but otherwise they'd keep things pretty tame and acknowledge some history. I had hopes this would be the first BF game I'd actually put money into. Instead the trailer makes it look like they took all of the historically inaccurate things from COD:WW2 and dialed it to 11
Even with all that aside the trailer seemed very poorly made. Lots of chaos and strange things happening with the camera flying all over the place. Not nearly as epic as the BF1 trailer imo.
What almost makes it worse is hearing the rumors for all the new gameplay elements that they plan on adding to the franchise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegBXGaFrOU&t=1173s. Customize your tanks with sandbags, tracks on the side etc... dragging fallen soldiers to cover to heal them. Tow-able weapons like AA and AT. Even the new 'fortification' system seems interesting and sounds like it will really change gameplay from the norm.
I wanted to be
slightly immersed when I played the game tho. I could suspend my disbelief with things like experimental weapons, tanks being in strange battlefields where they weren't used etc... but the character customization just seems to put it all through the roof. The player models make the game look like a cartoon. I get like BF Heros or Fortnight vibes when I look at them. It just doesn't seem to mesh with the 'realistic' and 'immersive' art style that they usually go for.
What's worse (or a blessing in disguise) is they've seemed to piss off their hardcore fanboys; the trailer is sitting a almost 50% like v dislike and the comments seem generally negative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZpQadiyqs. And even the BF subreddit doesn't seem generally happy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/8li9fk/battlefield_v_megathread/. Makes me think there's a small chance they'll dial back the crazy customization, just like the dialed back the loot crates in Battlefront after the backlash. But that's wishful thinking.
I'm also
hoping that the crazy customization is only in some COOP game-mode that they had mentioned, and it will be dialed back in traditional multiplayer. But that also seems wishful.
I'll still watch EA play in a few weeks to see some actual MP gameplay. But damn that shattered my expectations.
EDIT: You can def say that I brought the disappointment upon myself for getting hype about the WW2 setting in the first place. And that's true. I was excited for them to go back to WW2 but just...