what a surprise
EDIT: DICE has twice now done me a dirty this generation. Battlefield 1 was a flawed and weird game that I wound up loving for what it did well, and Battlefield V has been a massive letdown due to how painfully unfocused and outright poorly designed it is. Star Wars Battlefront was surprisingly exciting and fun, tremendously gorgeous with a fast, arcadey approach to gunplay and movement. Battlefront II eroded a lot of the mobility and verticality, bolted on a bunch of horrendous microtransactions for progression, and somehow looked worse. Even then, Battlefront had the obnoxious bacta grenade update that completely fucking broke the meta, much in the same way that DICE is pissing in the wind with Battlefront.
Throw in Mass Effect: Andromeda and EA has really, really let me down this generation. Strong start for me with Battlefield 1, Battlefront, and even Dragon Age: Inquisition (an enormously flawed game I somehow actually really enjoyed), miserable follow-ups and finish.
EDIT: DICE has twice now done me a dirty this generation. Battlefield 1 was a flawed and weird game that I wound up loving for what it did well, and Battlefield V has been a massive letdown due to how painfully unfocused and outright poorly designed it is. Star Wars Battlefront was surprisingly exciting and fun, tremendously gorgeous with a fast, arcadey approach to gunplay and movement. Battlefront II eroded a lot of the mobility and verticality, bolted on a bunch of horrendous microtransactions for progression, and somehow looked worse. Even then, Battlefront had the obnoxious bacta grenade update that completely fucking broke the meta, much in the same way that DICE is pissing in the wind with Battlefront.
Throw in Mass Effect: Andromeda and EA has really, really let me down this generation. Strong start for me with Battlefield 1, Battlefront, and even Dragon Age: Inquisition (an enormously flawed game I somehow actually really enjoyed), miserable follow-ups and finish.