I’d love to see a dinosaur mode… but not when they already put resources into a campaign and multiplayer mode. Putting resources into a third mode just isn’t something I’d be happy about… BF3’s coop mode suffered because of this.
On top of that… zombies is one thing, but dinosaurs? It would be incredibly difficult to make a fun and engaging game out of it. It could very easily turn out cheesy if it’s not done right… it would have to rely heavily on the behaviours of the dinosaurs to create a sense of fear or excitement.
It’s something I’d love to see Visceral do. If they made a single player / coop Battlefield spinoff with dinosaurs… oh boy, would I ever be happy about that. It sounds silly for sure, but if it managed to strike a balance between the silly humour of Bad Company and the atmosphere of Dead Space… that would be a recipe for my favourite single player FPS to date.
I really wouldn’t want to see multiplayer in such a game, though. For dinosaurs to work, the whole game would have to be self aware of how silly it is in order to use it to its benefit. It would have to take the humour from Bad Company 1 and crank it up to 11. There wouldn’t be any time to develop a proper multiplayer with a task like this. That being said… jeez, I’ve made myself want this to happen. I can just imagine a Bad Company with dinosaurs:
Sweetwater: We need to reach this extraction point by noon, there’s just no way around it. We’re dealing with small fry, and I don’t think we’ve seen the worse of them yet.
Redford: What we really need to do is get out of this mess. We can worry about the extraction later.
Haggard: Now this may sound crazy, but hear me out… we have two sticks of C4 left-
Sweetwater: No, no, no… we need those, for all we know the entrance may be locked shut.
Haggard: But just imagine, we find one of them tricera things-
Redford: Enough. Sweetwater’s right, lets get a move on.
