Battlefield 4: DICE says it needs to 'step up its single-player game'

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DICE needs to up its game when it comes to single-player Battlefield experiences in order to earn the full respect of the series' fans, according to executive producer Patrick Bach

Speaking to CVG during a wide-ranging Battlefield 4 interview conducted at GDC this week, Bach said both DICE and its fans are more concerned about the quality of the newly revealed game's campaign component than its online one.
Explaining the decision to showcase the shooter's single-player offering in the first Battlefield 4 gameplay video, Bach told us:

"Showing multiplayer would've been hard I think. It's hard to showcase multiplayer in a good way so everyone gets it. Also I think we have a strong heritage of making good multiplayer games, so I don't think people are as worried about multiplayer as they are about our single-player."

Asked if the studio wanted to express that the single-player campaign will improve upon Battlefield 3's, Bach continued: "It's hard to convince someone with 'only' 17 minutes of software, but in general I think yeah - people are more worried about what we're doing with single-player than what we're doing with multiplayer.

"Also I think that we are more confident with multiplayer than we are with single-player, so to us we need to step up our game when it comes to single-player too in order to earn the respect of Battlefield players.

"We have the luxury of having an awesome multiplayer and only a 'good' single-player in BF3," he added. "So of course people have been positive with our single-player, but nobody thinks it's as good as our multiplayer - so that's where we have to step up our game."

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neboPosted:

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Drumstep
ImDevinBay I hope that it ends up being 10X better, that last one was meh, it was good but could have easily been better


at least it wasn't like mass effect 3 ;D


Oh don't even get me going about ME3, I'm a diehard fan and the ending just posses me off beyond belief.


lol that's why I said that

CygnetPosted:

Im not going to lie, when my eyes first looked at the 17 min reveal it fell in love. The game is amazing, and I honestly would love to see what multiplayer would look like. Dice did a great job making this game. +1 for them :)

KTHPosted:

I actually think I enjoy playing the single player (campaign) of games more than the multiplayer just because I like adding to my gamerscore and I don't really get as mad playing single player because I can just save and quit whenever.. Don't have to worry about levels, unlocks or getting hacked!

But on the flip side, multiplayer normally kicks *ss ...

Soldier_Posted:

Drumstep
ImDevinBay I hope that it ends up being 10X better, that last one was meh, it was good but could have easily been better


at least it wasn't like mass effect 3 ;D


Oh don't even get me going about ME3, I'm a diehard fan and the ending just posses me off beyond belief.

Soldier_Posted:

Soulful I'm less of a single player gamer.


I love single player games lol always have always will.

neboPosted:

Soulful I'm less of a single player gamer.


as am I

LosersPosted:

I dont care about BF SP, all I care about is the MP

VoyboyPosted:

If they want a good singleplayer they should just go back to making Bad Company

neboPosted:

ImDevinBay I hope that it ends up being 10X better, that last one was meh, it was good but could have easily been better


at least it wasn't like mass effect 3 ;D

BeetPosted:

Why? The first battlefield games did not even have a campaign! I and any long battlefield fan just care about multiplayer. If I wanted a single player experience I will go play Skyrim.