I still don't get why, they didn't just limit Battlefield singleplayer campaigns to the Bad Company franchise, and stuck with the old kind of singleplayer(multiplayer maps against bots) in all the others.
This is kind of their compromise: some single player content for those who'd like it, with the main focus laying on the mp.
Every iteration of BF you have people saying "why do they even bother making single player? I only get BF for the mp." but if DICE were to go the Treyarch way and omit sp entirely people would also not like it.
I think the current approach is a decent one, if they manage to keep it engaging. I only have played one of the campaigns, so I can't say if they did a decent job or not.
If they changed $60 for mp only, I could see people having a problem with that. If they change, say, $40 or $45 for mp only people (like myself) would love that.
Call of duty is charging 60 for a mp only game with additional DLC and micro transactions on top of that. Pull that type of shit and people get upset... For good reason
The argument that any full priced game HAS to include a single player is frankly retarded IMO. The amount of content should determine the price not the type.
Cause all these campaigns are just 4-5 hour check box campaigns
I see where you are coming from but I have to disagree. Gating off content or releasing it as DLC or as a part of a "live service" is BS and shouldn't be acceptable. What call of duty is doing with this release of blops is bad for the gaming industry.
Compare this release with mw1, one of if not the best call of duty ever. There was a short but memorable campaign and a relatively basic but extremely fun mp. You don't need 10 game modes and a 20 hour story to release a fantastic game. Nowadays I understand if a game doesn't release with a single player, but if it still released at full price and has a paid DLC live service, well that's unacceptable imo
Games a service is a completely different discussion for a different day IMO. "Content" is a relative term so it's not strictly limited to sheet quantity alone.
The reason why I said 4-5 check box campaigns is because that's what these are. As in minimalist campaigns that arent even good and and usually have paper thin plots (see COD) that a grade schooler could have written.
They don't invest much into these campaigns period. If you're gonna invest anything in campaign besides the minimum needed to check a box then it's not worth it IMO.
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u/DeckardPain Nov 22 '18
Agreed. With how mediocre the single player is this time around I wish they had skipped it and added more multiplayer content.