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Battlefield V (2018)
A franchise lost
It is a weird situation we find ourselves in. When first released the original Battlefield 1942 took on the ever growing FPS-genre on its own terms. A direct comparison between that and todays games may in many ways be meaningless, save one. I cant help but feel Battlefield V does little to improve upon its predecessor Battlefield 1, but rather continues down a rabbithole no-one asked them to go down. The question is if DICE themselves at this point even know.
One can make the case that the modern-era Battlefield games started with Battlefield Bad Company 2. A game loved and praised still to this day. This was followed up by Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. Though BF4 got of to a shaky start, when it was up and running properly and the dust had settled it was quite clear that Battlefield was the clear winner in the FPS-genre. Ironically this is when DICE stopped creating and started reacting. They became who they thought the gamers wanted them to be, and it shows in the games.
Battlefield V is just not a fun game. It's faster and more chaotic because the thought that is what we wanted. The maps, few in number, are sprawling mazes with flanks everywhere, far more like a quake-map of old than anything belonging in a Battlefield game. The playerbase is a faceless number. Gone is the ability to play a game together and through time for a bond. It's new nameless servers, new random people, and the ever present threat of hackers.
I don't know who this game is for, but what I do know is the though the playerbase numbers-wise most likely will give DICE and EA reason to gloat until their next release, NO-ONE will play this game 10 years from now. BF3 and BF4 playercounts passed BF1 shortly after release of BFV, and this too will meet the same end. We can only hope that somewhere down the road they will find their way, but there never was much hope to begin with.
A waste of a game.
Being Human (2008)
Good today, gone tomorrow?
So it's come to this. Another easy come easy go drama with a tedious plot, all backed by emo pop/rock. Only this time, it's about vampires, werewolves and ghosts.
The biggest problem I have with 'Being Human' is that it very pretentiously tries to work not only as lightly digested teen-fantasy-show, but it actually tries to be a captivating drama. Needless to say, it ends in a bloodbath (no pun intended). 'True Blood' made it almost a season before plummeting into the sewers of Hollywood. 'Being Human' didn't have place to fall from to begin with.
Every era in modern history leaves something good and something bad behind. The little nuggets of gold, and the turds. 'Being Human' is first in line to be now what huge shoulder-puffs was in the eighties. Regardless how you feel about it now. Wait 20 years, until a time when the 'twilight'-lunchboxes has long disappeared, and watch being human again.
Many creations have the power to be appreciated in the present, only great ones live forever. 'Being Human', is NOT the latter.