Battlefield 1942 Franchise Goes To Vietnam

Thanks to several readers for pointing to the Electronic Arts press release announcing Battlefield Vietnam is in development for the PC. This new title in the Battlefield 1942 franchise "..will drop players into some of the Vietnam Warâ(TM)s fiercest battles. Fighting in theatres from jungles surrounding the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the city streets of Hue, players will choose from two well-equipped forces, the United States or the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Vietcong." Hmm, seems like Vietnam-based combat games are a rather crowded genre suddenly - why now?

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Trendy investors (idiots, all of them)

[DarkVein]

Hmm, seems like Vietnam-based combat games are a rather crowded genre suddenly - why now?

A large portion of the gaming studios are governed by investors looking to profit from a booming industry. These fuckwits have no idea why the industry was booming in the first place, so they throttle it in the crib with backwards-ass ideas of "product direction". If one of you dipshits is reading: games are not "trendy" or "hip", and every gaming venue DIES when you dipshits try to treat it that way. PC games have thrived because people, not "consumers", can develop whatever they want along whatever inane or inspired direction they want to take their pet projects. These "trendy" releases we get, counter-terrorism, WW1/WW2, Vietnam... they suck. There's a very good reason that all the innovation, all the "block-buster hits", come from privately owned and run studios, like id software and Relic. They're not stupid enough to scrap their dreams to develop along "market trends".