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'Battlefield 1' Trailer Most Liked In YouTube History, 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer Most Disliked (gamespot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Battlefield 1 reveal trailer has officially passed 20 million views, with around 1 million likes and just 18,500 dislikes. Meanwhile, Infinite Warfare's announcement trailer has passed 14 million views, but with only 273,819 likes and a staggering 1.3 million dislikes. The Battlefield 1 trailer is YouTube's most liked trailer of all-time, while Infinity Ward's trailer is YouTube's most disliked trailer of all-time. How is that for a statistic? Battlefield and Call of Duty have been direct competitors in the FPS space for quite some time now, but the differences between each developer's upcoming game has never been more apparent. We can only wait and see if these likes/dislikes provide any insight as to how well each game will sell when they're released later in the year. Battlefield 1 comes out first, launching on October 21, while Infinite Warfare is slated to debut on November 4. In addition, Infinite Warfare has become the 8th most disliked video ever on YouTube. What do you think of each trailer?
I gotta be honest, I don't get it. They both show lots of intense action with a theatrical setup, the COD game appears to be more like a competitor with Halo than with the Battlefield game, which appeared to be set in the early 20th century, but they both looked like engaging, well developed games. The COD gameplay actually looked more interesting to me, as it had space combat elements (something I enjoy), whereas Battlefield appeared to be more strictly FPS.
That having been said, I'm not a fan of either game. I've never played either one. My taste leans more towards character-driven stories than straight combat, which makes both of these look rather boring.
The more recent games in the series introduced a lot of sci-fi into the mix - they take place in the (near) future and you get stuff like automatic sentry guns and "advanced movement" (double jumps, wall running, etc.) because your character is using some sort of futuristic exoskeleton or something like that. A lot of the players are becoming increasingly fed up with that direction, and I've heard quite a few people say they'd like to see the series come back to its roots, and they'd like to play at least a game set in present (without all the sci-fi BS), or even better, a modern CoD set in WWII.
And then this trailer comes out, and they're obviously doublin down on the sci-fi parts of it, stuff in the trailer straight up reminded me of Halo and Mass Effect. And at the same time, DICE/EA, possibly hearing the CoD community complaining, release Battlefield 1 set in the trenches of WWI, and people seem to be loving it. I can see why, it's definitely something new and interesting. Looks like EA took Activision's cake... assuming they don't royally fuck it up, which they probably will.