After the way they treated WWII in the last game, I'm not sure if I can trust them to handle other past conflicts. If they were willing to add Tom Cruise, anime ninja girl, female Psycho Mantis, and the Phantom of the Opera for that conflict, what would they do to Vietnam?I was hoping for Vietnam.
Add Van Damme, a Vietnamese anime ninja girl, female Psycho Mantis only this time she's a dog, and Rey Skywalker (who can't be killed).After the way they treated WWII in the last game, I'm not sure if I can trust them to handle other past conflicts. If they were willing to add Tom Cruise, anime ninja girl, female Psycho Mantis, and the Phantom of the Opera for that conflict, what would they do to Vietnam?
unironically i'd play thatAdd Van Damme, a Vietnamese anime ninja girl, female Psycho Mantis only this time she's a dog, and Rey Skywalker (who can't be killed).
I wonder how much of an audience this game will really have when stuff like Squad exists. Battlefield isn't just competing with COD anymore.
But Vietnam already had black and white US soldiers fighting together and women fighting for the Viet Cong, so you could already have it be a "diverse" group of player characters.After the way they treated WWII in the last game, I'm not sure if I can trust them to handle other past conflicts. If they were willing to add Tom Cruise, anime ninja girl, female Psycho Mantis, and the Phantom of the Opera for that conflict, what would they do to Vietnam?
Female soldiers in historical shooters are probably here to stay ever since COD WWII uncorked that bottle.But Vietnam already had black and white US soldiers fighting together and women fighting for the Viet Cong, so you could already have it be a "diverse" group of player characters.
However because reflecting reality is never what Woke is about, I'd bet they'd also want to have female soldiers on the US side as well, which would be as utterly laughable and absurd as you can get.
It would be less of a problem if they just said "yeah, it's a video game, we don't care about historical accuracy" but instead they always want to gaslight us into thinking it's reality and it IS historically accurate.Female soldiers in historical shooters are probably here to stay ever since COD WWII uncorked that bottle.
Maybe I wouldn't mind so much if the devs weren't jerking themselves raw over being "brave" and "fighting bigotry".
No, my concern with DICE would be them making wacky cosmetics and asinine elite characters that clash with the settings. They were this close to making robotic arms a thing for a WWII game, the fact that they even considered such a thing tells me that they no longer care about how they portray these conflicts.
I honestly wouldn't have minded what they've done as much if they went all out and created a alternate history title like Wolfenstein. Say that society went through advanced technological and social progress, utilize prototype/blueprinted technology, and have a tone similar to the Bad Company titles, and V might've been easier to swallow.It would be less of a problem if they just said "yeah, it's a video game, we don't care about historical accuracy" but instead they always want to gaslight us into thinking it's reality and it IS historically accurate.
No studio in Current Year has the right mixture of steady courage and unflinching insanity to show women soldiers being run through the meat grinder. Much as I think it would be an interesting setting to have both sexes be treated as equally disposable, that shit's not going to happen in our lifetimes.I honestly wouldn't have minded what they've done as much if they went all out and created a alternate history title like Wolfenstein. Say that society went through advanced technological and social progress, utilize prototype/blueprinted technology, and have a tone similar to the Bad Company titles, and V might've been easier to swallow.
With what they chose to do instead, the wacky cosmetics and the "serious" tone mixed about as well as oil and water.
Female soldiers in historical shooters are probably here to stay ever since COD WWII uncorked that bottle.
Maybe I wouldn't mind so much if the devs weren't jerking themselves raw over being "brave" and "fighting bigotry".
No, my concern with DICE would be them making wacky cosmetics and asinine elite characters that clash with the settings. They were this close to making robotic arms a thing for a WWII game, the fact that they even considered such a thing tells me that they no longer care about how they portray these conflicts.
No studio in Current Year has the right mixture of steady courage and unflinching insanity to show women soldiers being run through the meat grinder. Much as I think it would be an interesting setting to have both sexes be treated as equally disposable, that shit's not going to happen in our lifetimes.
The setting and the classes.my concern with DICE would be them making wacky cosmetics and asinine elite characters that clash with the settings.
That's right, it was hard to tell which classes players were. The game was such a visual clusterfuck.The setting and the classes.
Oh yes, other than the Pacific content I'd say that Battlefield V was the weakest title they've made in years.I didn't mind the whole "female soldiers in WW2" spin in and of itself with V. V just felt lesser than the objectively superior BF1.
The more I looked into that angle, I've came to realize that EA/Dice wanted to be "woke" in a setting that doesn't necessarily fit that agenda. In the worst way possible. And that agenda compromised a potentially good shooter inside and out.
Initially, I thought: "It's just a video game. You don't play video games for historical accuracy."