Stay classy, Activision!

Well done.

It's awesome that DICE is going to WW1 with the next Battlefield.

It was a great trailer and music choice.

I loved the Infinite Warfare trailer, too, and the David Bowie song was perfect.

I'm buying both and will enjoy them. AS ALWAYS I am skeptical of DICE as the ratio of trailer-to-gameplay quality is always heavily skewed in favor of the trailer, whereas I'm always very confident in COD being a quality product. Have your preferences, that's fine, but I'll decide if BF1 is any good when I'm actually playing it.

@GeorgeLelik:

Thank you for the deep discussion.

Perhaps weighing multiple aspects of a game may be confusing for some.. and could lead to other problems. Does a bad "score" for the sound quality drag the overall score down? How much so? and so on.

I believe the problems I have, and others have, with GS's reviews lately is that they aren't weighted and they aren't justified. even "by the author of the review." Quantum Break was a great example. Words of praise in the review, some issues with the combat that *could* have justified a 6/10 but overall the review felt.. off. like his brief experience with the game led to an opinion and his opinion was law.

@livedreamplay:

Here's the thing. Everyone has opinions. That's fine.

BUT

an opinion that is JUSTIFIED will always have more weight than those with nothing to base them on.

a professional journalist *should* have more weight than ignorant masses of opinions.

a justified journalist opinion should therefore have the MOST weight.

We are complaining that the GameSpot "reviews" of late hardly sound like weighted, professional, justifiable opinions.

@bobafetthatesu: Agreed. thank you for your comment!

Is it that hard? To write more than a 10 year old's "this is my opinion" article? It blows my mind that they would even argue with me that there is nothing to be objective about. length. quality. number of players/levels. difficulty settings. soundtrack. let alone the technical qualities you mention.

"I like this game because it's fun/I hate this game because it's too hard/reminds me of game x" and so on is just embarrassing to read.

@bobothemighty:

If it doesn't mean flawlessness - or even near perfection - then what DOES it mean?

exactly. nothing. the numbers are meaningless. you might as well say "Witcher 3 earns a big potato and Uncharted 4 is an apple pie!"

I won't mix words - I've been very disappointed with GameSpot's reviews lately.

I've even voiced complaints and have been shot down by GS staff. "there's nothing objective in them" was shot down with "our reviews have always been nothing but opinions" and "if a 10/10 isn't a perfect score and you're reducing "points" to come up with lesser scores for reviews, what do the numbers mean??" met with "a 10 isn't a perfect score. we don't rate games by starting at 10." then how DO you rate them? why assign numbers AT. ALL.???

There NEEDS to be objective qualities discussed and the reader can decide if those are deal breakers for them. THAT is where objectivity/subjectivity come into play. not "our reviews are nothing but opinions" because that doesn't HELP anyone.

I'm still waiting for the "bug fix" that adds a usable MAP to this game.

It was frustrating enough at launch, but there were only so many places to go. Adding new content and new quests just compounds the issue and now it's infuriating. I hate getting quests like "Kill enemies in the Valley of Such and Such until So and So comes out and kill him" when I have no freaking clue where that location is. argh!

Glad they're trying to fix the melee whif, though!

@basskill2000:

as you say, this is the 3rd one with a futuristic setting. It's not for everyone. I'm not a fan of historical battles, so to each their own.

@balrogbane:

Not sure I understand your complaint or your logic.

Are you saying the sci-fi setting is un-original or too original?

because then you want them to go back to WWII or other settings that are DEFINITELY not original.

as for your very last statement "stop with the stupid futuristic crap!" you realize that this will only be the THIRD COD title to be set in the future?

1, 2, and now 3. that's hardly a trend.

That's pretty cool. I wonder if they are working on something more substantial than just "Vanilla" pre-BC max lvl 60 WoW servers?

Blizzard kept saying things like "legacy" servers and turning off heirlooms and other bonuses. Which makes me wonder if they're going to have more content (more of the expansions) PLUS the "old" rules? that would be pretty impressive!

Either way, it'll be interesting to see the turnout. Like if they do all this work and create a legacy server - and like 100,000 people is all they get lol.