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Speedy Cerviche
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Who are these ppl buying it for SP campaign??
Guess it is a console thing or something...
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Malakili
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Who are these ppl buying it for SP campaign??
Guess it is a console thing or something...
There are a LOT of casual gamers who love the MW campaigns because it makes them feel like a special ops hero. My wife's brother loved those games and he wasn't very much a gamer, I saw him playing once and he just ATE UP all those scripted moments where you don't even press buttons but do awesome crazy stuff. Hes the kind of guy that thought No Russian was a stroke of genius because it was so edgy and "real." I honestly can't relate to it very well, but I'm guessing there are a lot more people out there like him than there are like me who give a shit about things like regenerating health. |
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Azazel
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Who are these ppl buying it for SP campaign??
Guess it is a console thing or something...
What I was alluding to in my previous posts is that CoD used to primarily mean a well done, solid SP campaign of a good length. It was also primarily a PC game.  With CoD4:MW, the MP really took off, and the SP was noticably shorter, but still decent, then we got CoD5:WaW which was in many ways a reskin of CoD4, and then with MW2 the shark-jumping (for me at least) took off in earnest at the same time that MP became the main focus while the SP campaign became 5 hours long and made of stupid. (And yes, it is very accessable to the mainstream XBox/PS3 audience, so they've done well in that sense.) BF (series) was all about the MP, and they didn't even bother with a SP game until the side-game detours of BC1 and 2. If they decide to make the SP game a bit Brotastic or HardMilitaryMan, I don't care that much as long as it's mildly entertaining, because the meat for BF is in MP. |
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HaemishM
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People play Battlefield for the singleplayer? Why? Shit, I've never even loaded up the Bad Company 2 singelplayer.
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Jimbo
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I hope the specs aren't too crazy for this game, I will probably pre-order it, but not totally sold on it. Kinda sad, since I played the hell out of bf2& bf2142.
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jakonovski
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People play Battlefield for the singleplayer? Why? Shit, I've never even loaded up the Bad Company 2 singelplayer.
The prologue is pretty good. After that it goes swiftly downhill though. |
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Speedy Cerviche
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Well I guess if you are spending 200 million on a FPS game you may as well add on a single player campaign as a selling point to the people who expect that sort of thing.
As long as they keep their eye on the ball, of getting out a superior MP game.
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Vision
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Part of me wishes they would just skip the single player if they aren't going to be at all innovative. Not that they would really have to try that hard with what looks like the awesome new engine. I'll buy it either way but a game always feels more complete and well polished when there is a decent SP to compliment the MP, even if the latter is by far more important.
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Azazel
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People play Battlefield for the singleplayer? Why? Shit, I've never even loaded up the Bad Company 2 singelplayer.
The prologue is pretty good. After that it goes swiftly downhill though. It's a bit of fun. I enjoyed it enough to play through it twice since I've owned it. Once when I got it - a level or two at various times for a break between MP matches, and once when I got my new PC to see how it would look with everything turned up. The BF3 SP footage looks quite good for the genre, TBH. It's not like each new FPS game needs to be innovative, but I'm sure Frostbite 2 or 3 or whichever it is will take care of that for us. I remember thinking the ability to shoot through soft walls and tables and hedges etc was pretty damn innovative in CoD4 SP. |
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Engels
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waffel
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snowwy
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« Last Edit: August 21, 2011, 02:15:06 PM by snowwy »
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NiX
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I hate you. I should delete your post. 1/5. F-. Whatever the craigslist equivalent of rating a terrible person is. |
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Amaron
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Phire
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Everyone who tried the alpha said that Battelog was amazing and was it was very quick and easy to get into a server. You should not be worried about that news.
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Amaron
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Everyone who tried the alpha said that Battelog was amazing and was it was very quick and easy to get into a server. You should not be worried about that news.
On what browser? Which version of windows? They aren't making things easier on themselves with that can of worms. I'm not particularly worried I'm just like "why?". Are they pushing this battlelog for some reason? From a coding perspective it's silly. |
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stu
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In-game browsers for the console versions is awesome news though.  A big problem with BC2 on PS3 has been leaving a match only to get placed right back into it over and over again. Or to get stuck on a server half way across the planet. |
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rk47
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Everyone who tried the alpha said that Battelog was amazing and was it was very quick and easy to get into a server. You should not be worried about that news.
On what browser? Which version of windows? They aren't making things easier on themselves with that can of worms. I'm not particularly worried I'm just like "why?". Are they pushing this battlelog for some reason? From a coding perspective it's silly.  I totally believed that. Also , BC2 lag is still shit. The moment you get into close combat. Blam. Lag hell. |
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ashrik
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I'm personally very excited at the news that DICE will not be making an in-game server browser
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HaemishM
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I'm personally very excited at the news that DICE will not be making an in-game server browser
Yeah, I mean as fucking awful as every in-game browser DICE has ever done has been, can alt-tabbing to a web site possibly get worse? One less DICE menu screen loading is probably a good thing. |
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Hawkbit
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I've never gotten into any of the Battlefield series, but B3 looks really interesting. I was going to pickup BFBC2, but it's like $40 and will soon be "replaced" with B3. Is there a cheaper way to check out the series? BF1943 is only $10 on PSN, does anyone play it anymore? Is it even relevant?
Also, is there any news on a PC tech demo for B3, so I can see how badly it will melt my PC?
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WayAbvPar
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I'm personally very excited at the news that DICE will not be making an in-game server browser
Yeah, I mean as fucking awful as every in-game browser DICE has ever done has been, can alt-tabbing to a web site possibly get worse? One less DICE menu screen loading is probably a good thing. This. I don't think it is possible to make shittier in game browsers than BC2 and BF2, so any movement away from those has to be an improvement, slight or otherwise. I was going to pickup BFBC2, but it's like $40 and will soon be "replaced" with B3. Keep an eye out on Steam and other download retailers...it goes on sale regularly. Only 2 months to go though, so you may just wait for the BF3 open beta "Soon". |
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« Last Edit: August 22, 2011, 09:42:32 AM by WayAbvPar »
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Amaron
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Yeah, I mean as fucking awful as every in-game browser DICE has ever done has been, can alt-tabbing to a web site possibly get worse?
If they do it in javascript then yes. Of course that would mean a different development team at least. |
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Ginaz
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Its getting personal now between EA and Activision. "Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg extended the olive branch to rival Electronic Arts at Gamescom, publicly calling for an end to the mudslinging between the two publishers over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 versus Battlefield 3. EA's response? "Someone should have told you this is a competitive industry.""http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/118/1189661p1.html |
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HaemishM
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Yeah, I mean as fucking awful as every in-game browser DICE has ever done has been, can alt-tabbing to a web site possibly get worse?
If they do it in javascript then yes. Of course that would mean a different development team at least. I'm assuming they'll be using the same stuff as Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play 4 Free. Really small footprint stuff. |
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Amaron
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I'm assuming they'll be using the same stuff as Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play 4 Free. Really small footprint stuff.
Well that's reassuring to me if they do. They gave it a special name "Battlelog" so I was getting nightmares of them trying to push some new over engineered mess. |
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HaemishM
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Oh, it's DICE so I'm sure it'll be obtuse and make fuckall for sense. But I don't think it'll be all that bloated and Javascripty.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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Azazel
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Isn't ARMA 3 coming out this year? Also, I believe that ME was a sales flop so don't count on seeing a second one anytime soon. Who knows, they might reboot it into a 3rd person Assassins Creed-wannabe parkour killfest with a male lead character and find it sells a bit better though.. |
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WayAbvPar
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RO2 coming out in a week as well. Very tempted to pick that up to play until BF3 comes out.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Azazel
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Probably on the far extreme to games like BF though, If you pick up RO, make sure to give your thoughts. Lack of SP campaign was the main reason I never picked up the first one.
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climbjtree
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I've already bought RO2, just waiting on it to come out.
I played the crap out of the first one, but then I'm as much a Russian history fanboy as I am a WH40K fanboy. Still, even if you're not all that familiar with the setting it's great fun to take out a German tank when you're just a squishy infantryman with a large bore AT rifle.
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Der Helm
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RO ?
Oh and btw, why do we hate this game again ?
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tgr
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