Battlefield is becoming a franchise that is setting itself up for failure, similar to what happened with Call of Duty.
Call of Duty has been an enormously successful franchise that's been outputting a game every year for almost 2 decades now? Despite all of the complaints and negative reviews, it didn't really see a major decline in sales until Black Ops 7. There's certainly a significant decline in the franchise reputation, but having 1 game fail isn't exactly enough for the entire franchise to fail. Black Ops 7 is essentially the Battlefield 2042 of Activision Blizzard. Battlefield 6 clearly didn't suffer much from the reputation damage that Battlefield 2042 caused. So, there's no reason to think that Call of Duty can't redeem itself as long as they ensure the next game addresses the major complaints of the community.
I read comments on every platform, and it’s clear that Battlefield fans are not happy.
People that are happy tend to play the game. People that are not happy tend to go on social media to complain. It's certainly important to take anecdotal evidence seriously, but it isn't necessarily indicative of the actual reception of the game. Especially given that most complaints that people have, are actually quite fixable within support lifecycle of this game.
These games could be beautifully modernized without changing their core gameplay,
As much as I enjoyed these games at the time, I don't need to take off my nostalgia glasses to see that they have aged quite a bit. If they were remastered without significant changes to the core gameplay, I wouldn't be nearly as interested in playing them, than if they were properly modernized. Battlefield 6 is in many ways a much better game than Battlefield 2, even if there are some aspects that Battlefield 2 did better.
The reason I really want to see a sequel and not a remaster to 2142 is because the futuristic theme holds a ton of potential and allows the developers to go wild in terms of creativity. Having a massive scale combined arms fight with walkers and hover tanks roaming across the Battlefield seems awesome.
I really want the next Battlefield game should be 2143 and it can be perfect with detailed story mod. There shouldn’t be a weak story like in Battlefield 6. The new battlefield 2143 game should have an impactful and memorable narrative like Battlefield 1. Also, the gameplay doesn’t need to be extremely fast; on the contrary, it should be more realistic and more tactical. I also think the maps should be large and expansive, rather than small and cramped, allowing for large-scale battles.
I doubt EA is going to go for much slower gameplay. If you look at the games that draw the broadest audience, it's not going to be games like ARMA, Squad or Hell Let Loose.
Those are all very high quality games that have everything that people want from Battlefield in terms of slower "tactical" gameplay and bigger maps. Yet the weirdest thing is that people complain a lot here, but they don't actually go and play those games instead.
You'd expect Portal to be filled with Hardcore experiences, but that's simply not the case.
I'm all for a good story and bigger maps though.
