the way I see it, if they manage to make it as good, or better than BF3, then that's all that matters. And that would be an insane achievement by the studio. To pull off such massive title again?
Imagine we would rebuild FH2 again... not re-using anything (dice doesnt do that) but actually re-creating FH2 in to say, "FH3"... even if it's the same weapons, same theme, same everything (ww2) wouldnt that be a crazy achievement? Feels impossible right now for any non-profit team to do what we have done over the last 7 years with FH2.
Dont look at the package. Just because there is a soldier holding a contemporary weapon doesnt mean it's the same game. If you'd look at a picture of "FH3" and see a german holding a K98, then you see comments on the internet like "meh, they just copy pasted fh2 in to fh3" you'd rage and defend us, because you'd know we went in with all our heart and soul making new weapons for fh3, struggling with new tech etc etc... same is for dice. Each new game is a new challenge. If "BF4" is set in the same timeframe as BF3, it won't make the title less hard to do, won't make the combat experience less fun & exciting. It won't be a "copy paste" job. Only shallow people who looks at the package says that, you know those "you tube commentary" type people who doesnt really care or understand how games are made or how hard it can be, for them it's easy to just look at any modern military shooter and say "cod clone".
If the team behind whatever-the-next-bf-title-will-be manages to make again what the bf3 team did, then stand in awe, because then they finally proved themselves being the best shooter studio there is, hands down.
About MOH:WF, I dont think it looks half-bad, some of the new features in the video looks cool, and it looks to me as if they're using frostbite in the video, not sure. But I didnt hear him say Objective mission, very bad move to not include that IMO. TDM and Sector control are ok, but the linear progression in Objective is what MoH is all about, and has been since the first one...
On the other hand...isn't MoH:WF up against CoD:BlackOps 2 this year...? we'll see how that goes...
Last note: Yes, a Battlefield in WW2 with frostbite 2 would be sexy, I really hope it will come, even if it would be as a DLC like BC2:vietnam or back to karkand was, Id be happy.
Let's say they did; Omaha Beach, Market Garden, El Alamein & some pure inf CQ map set in europe (Liberation of Caen maybe) then we'd get everything we need for some time; plane battles, tank battles, a mix of open and closed environments, towns, inf fights etc...
Then ofcourse, when we have killed 1942,000,000 soldiers in game, they release a 5th map for free: Battle of Britain!!! Think about a frostbite sky filled with high-poly planes, the Ju88 dropping bombs over destructible environment, frostbite plane sounds... *drool*
