Comments made by God of War creator and current lead of Eat, Sleep, Play, David Jaffe sparked something of a backlash over the past couple days. Many believed Jaffe’s comments concerning Battlefield 3 and DICE were aimed at negatively attacking the titles for a perception of undeserved hype.
Jaffe went on record with VG247 to address those attacking his comments, saying that he is a big fan of DICE and anxiously awaits Battlefield 3. “I’ve enjoyed every Battlefield game I’ve ever played,” said Jaffe. “I was very excited to get today’s EA and DICE email that reminded me that I would have access to the Battlefield 3 beta come September (access I gained from buying last year’s Medal of Honor, another game partially developed by DICE that I also really enjoyed).”
He says that his tweeting was not the result of professional jealousy, only that he is concerned over the over obtrusive hype surrounding the title.
“My point was that based on that clip of gameplay alone, calling Battlefield 3 GAME OF THE SHOW and hyping it for anything other than the amazing visuals, was irresponsible and damaging to the medium because saying a game that looks amazing but doesn’t seem to have evolved beyond an arcade game from 1980 is the same as saying, ‘We don’t care about the play experience, we just care about visuals.’
“Do I think (and almost know for sure) that DICE is going to put out another amazing game in the series, regardless of how it looks? Of course they are. That was never my point. And I have no issues with mega hype that is based off amazing graphics and the trust that a great developer has so deservedly earned from its fans over the years.”
Jaffe is no stranger to taking the hits from gaming fans from around the world. To him, this is another episode of gaming drama.
"You’d think when you’ve been taken out of context and out and out misquoted as much as I have, you’d learn to share nothing of yourself with the internet other than happy and positive and useless statements that have been processed and spit shined via the PR machines of the world. Alas, I’m either an idiot (likely) or just stubborn (for sure) cause I keep getting nailed by this stuff,” he said.
Regardless, he definitely looks forward to what DICE is going to churn out for Battlefield 3.
“I never said the game was not a dazzling beauty of a game that represents the current visual state of the art for games (because it does). And I never said the EA/DICE team members responsible for creating those amazing visuals (as well as the street battle visuals that I saw on the show floor) did not deserve all of the accolades I would hope they have been receiving (because they do). And I never said the game doesn’t deserve the hype that has come from the amazing visuals in that game (because it does).”
