10 Gaming Franchises That Suffer From Extreme Over-Complication

10. Battlefield

Warfare on a massive scale sounds awesome. Well, in a video game anyway - in real life it's not so great. Actually, it's not so great in video game form either, as Battlefield's much-touted 64 person-strong multiplayer experience is equal parts confusing, disappointing, and needlessly complicated. While the single player campaigns are generally pretty good, once you hop into the meat and potatoes of any of the recent Battlefield games i.e. the multiplayer; prepare for a veritable assault of noise, colour, obtuse icons, and long, boring, walks back to wherever it was you died, so you can get killed again. When Battlefield first debuted its quality was contagious - being able to use helicopters, planes, naval cannons and other artillery added an awesome dynamic to what was previously an infantry focused genre. But as time went on and Call of Duty came out, Battlefield increased the scale and complexity of their games to the point where if you're only a casual fan of first person shooters you'll be so wildly intimidated by all the green boxes, orange triangles, beeps, buzzes, radio chirps and grenade fire you'll get PTSD just from the class and spawn point selection screen. For a specific kind of person the Battlefield franchise offers a ton of depth, nuance, and worthwhile adventure. For the rest of the world - folks who want to shoot and drive and fly and capture a control point just as bad, but don't have military experience, an NRA card or countless hours to spend acclimating themselves to the harsh realities of Battlefield's....battlefield, they'll have to be content playing arm-chair general as they watch people far better than them do the amazing things they'll never get too.