Then again, BF1942 was also really fun to play. I can't say what it is, exactly, but I just find it really enjoyable to play despite those flaws. Almost every time I fire up BF:V I say to myself "This isn't a very good game- the vehicles are worthless, the game consists of running around capturing undefended flags because moving unseen is so easy, and the game takes forever to load between levels." (ok, that last one is the fault of my aging computer) Then I end up playing for like 5 hours solid. Which basically leaves you with more trees, some Vietnam maps and skins, and an in-game MP3 player with copies of 10 songs your mother would like. The supposedly enhanced graphics don't make it look a whole lot better, but means the map size must be restricted and the game in general runs at a lower FPS than BF42 most of the gameplay changes are trivial (like the inane flag-capture mechanism) or worse than the original (FOOT COMBAT, amazingly) and the interface is even more clunky and ugly than it was in BF42. Also the advantages of BF:V are a bit hard to determine. IMO it's unlikely that BFV will ever sell as many copies as BF has, so any mod team would be moving to a game with a smaller potential player base. I don't think BF:V will be that attractive to the existing mod teams. What should be really interesting is the new (untitled) game that the DICE Europe team are working on with Trauma Studios, the mod team ewho created Desert Combat. Also it's wrong to see BF:V as the Rightful Heir to Battlefield 1942 - The DICE Europe team who created BF42 have had little to do with BF:V, which was produced by a Canadian team.
BFV has been out a few weeks, to mixed reviews. BF42 has been in the bestseller lists week after week since it came out about 18 months ago.
I honestly don't think that the BF42 player base is slipping to BF:V. I'd rather play the free mods that have come out for BF42, such as Desert Combat, Forgotten Hope and BF1918 among others. BF:V is little more than an expansion pack anyway, and not a very good one IMHO.
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