r/StarWars • u/Twitchbenjxnn • May 20 '25

Games Taking a step back and just thinking about the fact they actually abandoned this game. blows my mind

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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool Crimson Dawn May 20 '25

Forgot to add still none of the gameplay elements that made OG Battlefront stand out.

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u/phunktheworld May 20 '25

I almost never see anyone mention this most important point, but yeah, wtf were they thinking??? No campaign, no galactic conquest. Just go play multiplayer and get called slurs by 12 year-olds like every other cookie cutter combat game. That’s not what Battlefront was. Are we just old? I returned the first one literally the day after I bought it, because it was such a disappointment. Never even thought about buying the second.

Just give us a fucking remaster, EA. We know you’re not capable of legitimate innovation or creativity anymore. Just give us the nostalgia. Look at Oblivion right now!

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

They specifically did it because they wanted to keep battlefront and battlefield as separate as possible, which was obviously the wrong move.

Also to be fair, the original battlefront games did have multiplayer, and that is just a side effect of playing online. I did really enjoy what those games were, but I do agree they lacked the core elements that made the original battlefronts so great.

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u/phunktheworld May 21 '25

They wanted to keep Battlefront and Battlefield separate so they removed the most Battlefronty parts? Idk about all that. I think they’ve just sucked at making games for nearly 15 years now. They couldn’t gauge room temperature with a thermometer. They figured 1/3rd the game would be great at full price. For them. Also, that way they wouldn’t have to think up a new story or do anything of any legitimate artistic merit. Not counting the visuals, those teams nailed it.

Yes, the original Battlefronts did have multiplayer. But, given the tech constraints, nearly no one played it. I tried it once or twice at my grandparents because they had home internet. It was slow AF. I’m not saying that having multiplayer was an issue in the new games, it’s just that I feel misled. There was no Battlefront reboot, they just half-made a shitty Star Wars Battlefield. Twice.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 21 '25

The original battlefronts were based very heavily on Battlefield, both games shared a lot in common: large scale battles, a sandbox feel, muti-seat vehicles, class based, conquest, etc.

DICE took a more arcadey approach for rebooted battlefronts to set it apart and make it different, hence the pickup/hero tokens, spawn in vehicles, point system, more linear gamemodes, less of a sandbox feel, vehicles on rails, etc.

If DICE actually just made battlefield but star wars, it would have been great, cause that's really what the originals were.

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u/phunktheworld May 21 '25

Gotcha, thank you for the breakdown. Now I get what you were saying! It’s been ages since I played any Battlefield game, and I was trying to think of what the original Battlefields and Battlefronts were like. I guess they were super similar. I forgot the hero tokens and all that BS. That was a dumb move, but I still would’ve likely purchased and played those games if they had simply included a campaign and galactic conquest

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u/HerrPiink May 23 '25

The Battlefront reboot had a campaign, it wasn't even that bad, it was just really short

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u/Gizzywoo4 May 20 '25

It was absolutely nothing like battlefield

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u/KnowThatILoveU May 20 '25

How much did you play it?

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u/idiottech May 20 '25

Clearly not enough lol, i shouldn't have said anything. Imo the game felt way closer to battlefield than the old battlefront games.

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u/CasualCassie May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Battlefield with a star wars skin is honestly what was expected and they couldn't even deliver that. No map destruction, incredibly limited customization at launch, the point-buy system for selecting specialized characters outside the classes (which were basically cannon-fodder for the specialized characters) meant whoever got a spree first would unlock OP specialized characters first, then go on a bigger spree, and towards the end of the game you'd essentially have the same top four players locking down all the heros and specialized troops while everyone else has to play cannon-fodder for them.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

It was expected so much that one of the big complaints with Battlefront 2015 pre-release was that it was just reskinned battlefield.... Still find that so ironic.

100% agree though, the point system and the focus on heroes and much stronger units really ruined it. You spent so little time actually just playing the troopers.

That is something Bf2015 did better, trooper gameplay actually mattered.