Brothers in Arms: Watch a franchise get raped into the ground

Chairman Meow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBnmTaKsN-8

Wat. the. ****.

PogMoThoin

Wow, what the fcuk, I'm stuck for words

Chairman Meow

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Wow, what the fcuk, I'm stuck for words

I think the word youre looking for is 'franchiserape'

NeoKubrick

It's a game that is born out too many of the leads brainstorming where to take a World War II game while watching a film, Inglourious Basterds, that was designed to kill the sentimental 'Saving Private Ryan' World War II genre.

Dave Bateson, voice of Agent 47, voicing Crockett?

Burgo

Dear god, what did i just watch.

ReacherCreature

Christ above. It's like those shítty sequels that get released on the PS2 when the series moves to the next-gen, that have little-to-no similarity to before...but that looks completely rubbish. The developers are actually serious.

So you've to order the men to tomohawk opposing enemies around Europe? Crap all over.

pablomakaveli

I can't believe what i just saw. Given that the guys that make the BIA games always went for realism with the storyline and the tactical gameplay this is just a shocking change in direction for the series.

Seems like a spit in the face for fans of the series. I hope this game flops.

Gunmonkey

Soooooooooo.....they just got the cast of Team Fortress 2 to act out "Inglorious Basterds"......


Was this meant to be Gearbox's entry into the Saxxy awards, 'cause it came too late for nomination.

Orim

Well that has finally killed off any respect I had for Gearbox. Shame because I liked BIA and their half life games.

And do you know what the worst thing is? This POS will probably sell like hotcakes. God I remember screaming at my TV in Hells Highway because I couldn't scream at my men in game. Good times.

Duggy747

Well, that's one way to kill a franchise.

It's the Batman & Robin of the series, completely out of nowhere and throws all the other mechanics of the previous ones out the window.

YouSavedMyLife

Did they have to tag the Brothers in Arms title on it? The only thing this...thing has in common with BiA is that its set during WW2. Mind boggling

JayEnnis

What the I don't even..

Wow, been playing since road to hill 30 and had almost formed a bond with some of the characters.

K.O.Kiki

Duggy747 wrote: »

Well, that's one way to kill a franchise.

It's the Batman & Robin of the series, completely out of nowhere and throws all the other mechanics of the previous ones out the window.

Batman Gotham City Impostors

Potential-Monke

Holy Testicle Tuesday!

Someone is so going to get fired for this...

folan

cool, a ww2 game in the tarantino universe.

wait.... none of that sounds good.

Kiith

If this didnt have the Brothers in Arms name, i'd probably be interested in it. As it is, i can't help but wonder what the hell they were thinking.

humanji

Battlefield: Bad Company got a similar welcome when it was announced. They still went on to make Battlefield 3, and the Bad Company games weren't terrible. So that's how I'm going to hope this pans out. This game might be a good laugh, and they might go on to make an actual BIA game.

cherryghost

lol.....

Cool

Gummy Panda

I bet it sells loads

DarkJager

I can't see the video due to a firewall here. Anybody care to describe the horror? I like BIA but you guys are scaring me

niallon

If this is a B.I.A detour then fine, game looks like a good laugh. If this is the new direction, sad times.

Chairman Meow

DarkJager wrote: »

I can't see the video due to a firewall here. Anybody care to describe the horror? I like BIA but you guys are scaring me

BiA has been turned into team fortress 2 crossed with borderlands essentially. The guys from TF2 massacre a bunch of unarmed german soldiers in a pub

Otacon

Am I the only one looking forward to this? I like the style, the humour and so on, and Gearbox are very good developers so I don't mind seeing them try something.

I agree the BIA name is unnecessary and they should have gone the Insomniac's route of creating a new IP [Overstrike].

Fanny Cradock

Chairman Meow wrote: »

BiA has been turned into team fortress 2 crossed with borderlands essentially. The guys from TF2 massacre a bunch of unarmed german soldiers in a pub

Let's not forget the Inglorious Bastards overtones.

humanji

Otacon wrote:

Am I the only one looking forward to this? I like the style, the humour and so on, and Gearbox are very good developers so I don't mind seeing them try something.

I agree the BIA name is unnecessary and they should have gone the Insomniac's route of creating a new IP [Overstrike].

It's hard to say without seeing footage, but It could be really good. There's too many serious WW2 games, so it's good to see something different.

Azza

I found the last brothers in arms game to be pretty dull. Maybe the change in direction might sway me.

To be honest, too many WW2 games have the same style and storylines, so it's good to see somebody finally doing something different. Regardless of the name/franchise, this looks like it could be good fun.

Grumpypants

They said in the conference its nothing to do with the previous BIA games and they will be returning to them at a later date. This is just something different they wanted to try for a bit of fun.

krudler

Am I the only person that wold rather play that than another WW2 clone snorefest that got old back around Call of Duty 2?

Gummy Panda

krudler wrote: »

Am I the only person that wold rather play that than another WW2 clone snorefest that got old back around Call of Duty 2?

I thought it looked fun and am interested.

krudler

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I thought it looked fun and am interested.

But we wont get to play similar missions to those in Medal of Honor (all 15 of them) and Call of Duty 1-3 with a brief stopover in World at War.

new is good, embrace it, its got a tomohawk flinging Indian butchering Nazis, sold! who cares if its heavily influenced by Inglorious Bastards? most games are massively influenced by movies anyway

krudler

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I thought it looked fun and am interested.

But we wont get to play similar missions to those in Medal of Honor (all 15 of them) and Call of Duty 1-3 with a brief stopover in World at War.

new is good, embrace it, its got a tomohawk flinging Indian butchering Nazis, sold! who cares if its heavily influenced by Inglorious Bastards? most games are massively influenced by movies anyway

ChunkyLover_53

If any of you had the misfortune to sit through the cutscenes in the BIA Trilogy then this looks like a most welcome storyline.

My God those cutscenes were dreadful, the horror, the horror...

Gummy Panda

krudler wrote: »

But we wont get to play similar missions to those in Medal of Honor (all 15 of them) and Call of Duty 1-3 with a brief stopover in World at War.

new is good, embrace it, its got a tomohawk flinging Indian butchering Nazis, sold! who cares if its heavily influenced by Inglorious Bastards? most games are massively influenced by movies anyway

haha thats what I was thinking!

"I wanna play that guy" :pac:

citizen_p

seriously, why attach the brothers in arms name, it dosn't represent it at all, it could of been a standalone game.

Oafley Jones

krudler wrote: »

Am I the only person that wold rather play that than another WW2 clone snorefest that got old back around Call of Duty 2?

Have you even played BIA, because it's nothing like COD and it's game mechanics are pretty much unique.

5uspect

oh Gearbox, you'll never be Valve, stop trying.

pixelburp

It's one thing to take inspiration from another medium as your source, it's another just to shamelessly rip it off. (Yet at the same time bizarrely unable / unwilling to use the real Nazi logo, weird) And then compound it all by attaching a completely unsuitable & inappropriate franchise's name to it. Bizarre.

Mr Freeze

Disappointed.

I liked the seriousness of the last few games.

The Maverick

I don't understand why they are using the Brothers in Arms brand. It's not a big name game like Call of Duty, sticking BiA on the box isn't going to gurantee millions of copies sold. All it's going to do is disappoint fans of the series. It could still be a good game on it's own merits but it isn't going to be the squad based shooter I liked from before.

Sisko

Another game dumbed down for the console market. ffs

stuckin

Jaysus. What an absolute slap in the face of all the BiA fans.

I didn't play BiA because it was just a WW2 shooter, I played it because it placed emphasis on team mechanics. Until those games came out I had never seen a suppressive fire mechanic. The story line in it was decent enough, it followed historical events and had some great graphics to boot.

This is a mockery of what liked about the game. It takes all the parts of the series I liked and puts in all the crap from the other style of games I don't like.

JayEnnis

Sisko wrote: »

Another game dumbed down for the console market. ffs

You realise it was developed as a multi platform game right?

Bloody Nipples

Personally have no sentimental attachment to the BiA franchise, so as a standalone game, I'd be intrigued. I like games with a decent sense of humour.

That said it's a fairly shítty treatment of fans. For me it'd be like seeing Bioware release "Futurama Effect" in lieu of another game in the canon ME universe.
At the end of the day it's the fans that provide that sense of security that comes with a new game in an established franchise.

Stercus Accidit

That looks f*cking awful, and I'm pretty much offended by it, I'd go as far to say.

So long tactical squad based gameplay, hello COD WWII Tarantino Edition

humanji

I don't see how this is a slap in the face of the fans at all. They've said that they will be focusing on a proper BIA game now. They're just trying something different. And if this works out, they'll have two franchises to give players. We can't actually lose.

Also, how exactly is the game dumbed down for the console market? We don't have any footage. All we know is that it's got a different style. The only assumption we can make is that it's a WW2 version of Borderlands or Left 4 Dead.

Mr Freeze

humanji wrote: »

The only assumption we can make is that it's a WW2 version of Borderlands

Oh God No!

Anyways, 2 Franchises sounds good as long as they are still making the tactical squad based games, I really liked the last few.

Sisko

JayEnnis wrote: »

You realise it was developed as a multi platform game right?

Eh yeah I know?

humanji wrote: »

Also, how exactly is the game dumbed down for the console market? We don't have any footage. All we know is that it's got a different style. The only assumption we can make is that it's a WW2 version of Borderlands or Left 4 Dead.

Well thats what I mean, naturally I can't comment on the gameplay but the style itself is dumbed down - good old ww2 aint good enough for us kiddies it seems - us dumb mindless gamers just wanna see stupid badass characters.

Theres no one that has a lower opinion of console gamers it would seem then games producers themselves.

Magill

Are there any gameplay vids ? Or is everyone having a **** over a trailer ?

Thread a couple above(Below now ) this about how developers are constantly rehashing games with sequels and as soon as one of them try something different everyone spits their dummies out...

super_furry

The game looks pretty good to me, they just shouldn't have called in Brothers in Arms.

ReacherCreature

super_furry wrote: »

The game looks pretty good to me, they just shouldn't have called in Brothers in Arms.

I reckon they needed the name to ramp up the hype. If it was on its own I doubt there'd be the likes of a four page discussion on Boards over it! Could have flown under the radar otherwise, who knows.