On March 02 2011 17:46 zoLo wrote: Looks cool, but I'm afraid that it will end up like another CoD game. This is just by judging from the video since it looks like the weight and the feel of BF3 resembles a CoD game at the moment. If you look at the Bad Company series perspective to that video, then you'll understand what I'm trying to say. This is just my first impressions right now since it's still early until the game's release.
I disagree with the fear that BF3 will become another CoD.
Lately, CoD has become absolutely over-the-top with constant action and ridiculous storylines. MW2 and Black Ops are very arcade-ish shooters with very little realism.
On the other hand, it seems that BF3 is going in the opposite direction from CoD by opting for a more realistic, gritty portrayal of combat. I like how in the video, the actual shooting action only comes at the end while the rest of the video involves a very tense patrol through an eerily quiet city.
Dice themselves have said that they want the BF3 single player to be a much more varied and realistic experience compared to CoD. I forgot the analogy they used, but I think it was along the lines that if CoD was a hit pop song, BF3 will be a full symphony with varying periods of tension and action.
I'm quite excited to see the final product. It seems that Dice is really trying to outdo anything else in the market, and by the looks of it, they are succeeding.
Battlefield 1942 and 2 were about as arcade as you get, I hope Battlefield doesn't become about tacticool attachments and gritty grimdark visuals like every other shooter.
On January 06 2011 05:02 LazyMacro wrote: It's interesting that they're dropping support for XP. This is the first project I've heard of that's explicitly doing so.
Silly me, actually thinking I might be able to get into the battlefield series. I hate when gaming companies drop XP support.
If we were still stuck with Vista (which wasn't as awful as people generally claim) you'd have a leg to stand on.
However, Windows 7 is basically an optimized XP. If you don't have it yet you are hamstringing yourself..... XP is 11 years old now, it's really time to let it go. It was a great OS but we have things better now.
On March 01 2011 08:11 ZeromuS wrote: I bought medal of honour solely due to the beta key i am supposed to get for this game. Seriously i am really really looking forward to it
I also did the same, im pretty much wetting my pants with anticipation. 64 player warfare please!
Just like Starcraft II where the King returned to the top of the PC RTS Developer pile, with Battlefield 3 the prodigal son returns to the top of the PC FPS developer pile. And all is right in the world again. (Well, maybe not, I am still waiting on Half Life 3 from Valve)
Believe me, I love me some Crysis 2 and I love the fact that Crytek consistently take PC gaming to the next level. But in terms of raw experience with first-person shooters and online competitive, co-operative multiplayer, nobody - not even Infinity Ward - can hold a candle to DICE.
Infinity Ward are just refining age-old mechanics and hoping their teenage fans can take them through the sales. DICE are re-inventing what is arguably the most competitive team base multiplayer FPS ever and taking it to the next level. And they are doing it with extreme focus on the PC (just like Blizzard did) and we get 64 player huge maps, prone etcetra. And, PC gamers start to feel the pangs of anticipation at watching every Battlefield 3 trailer. Fall cannot come sooner for us.
So, yeah, IW can just suck it by not giving us dedicated servers and do whatever the f*** they want with their franchise, DICE is back where they belong and ready to kick ass.
Is anyone else getting that vibe where you have the urge to upgrade your computer or get a new one? I haven't felt like this since I saw Half-Life 2's gameplay footage from E3.
On March 02 2011 17:46 zoLo wrote: Looks cool, but I'm afraid that it will end up like another CoD game. This is just by judging from the video since it looks like the weight and the feel of BF3 resembles a CoD game at the moment. If you look at the Bad Company series perspective to that video, then you'll understand what I'm trying to say. This is just my first impressions right now since it's still early until the game's release.
I disagree with the fear that BF3 will become another CoD.
Lately, CoD has become absolutely over-the-top with constant action and ridiculous storylines. MW2 and Black Ops are very arcade-ish shooters with very little realism.
On the other hand, it seems that BF3 is going in the opposite direction from CoD by opting for a more realistic, gritty portrayal of combat. I like how in the video, the actual shooting action only comes at the end while the rest of the video involves a very tense patrol through an eerily quiet city.
Dice themselves have said that they want the BF3 single player to be a much more varied and realistic experience compared to CoD. I forgot the analogy they used, but I think it was along the lines that if CoD was a hit pop song, BF3 will be a full symphony with varying periods of tension and action.
I'm quite excited to see the final product. It seems that Dice is really trying to outdo anything else in the market, and by the looks of it, they are succeeding.
Battlefield 1942 and 2 were about as arcade as you get, I hope Battlefield doesn't become about tacticool attachments and gritty grimdark visuals like every other shooter.
Just curious. Do you post/lurk the RPGCodex forums?
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Trailer reminds me too much of CoD. Also..singleplayer? Really?
I would be happy if it would be an improved version of bc2 or a much improved version of bf2. But please please for the love of god not another boring CoD game.
On January 06 2011 05:02 LazyMacro wrote: It's interesting that they're dropping support for XP. This is the first project I've heard of that's explicitly doing so.
Silly me, actually thinking I might be able to get into the battlefield series. I hate when gaming companies drop XP support.
Well, as a matter of fact, people who still run XP are lucky that DICE coded DX9 into their first Frostbite engine, because originally it was going to be DX10/11 only.. or so I've heard.
And XP is incredibly outdated in every single aspect. I can't work with the thing anymore (just the fact that you have to reinstall it every few months to keep it from slowing down is terrible)
Surprised they are dropping support for XP. I'm not on it but I know a ton of gamers who still are. If the gameplay/feel is any good I'll probably buy it. I liked all the previous BF games and Desert Combat.
I would love to see MP gameplay. No one actually buys this series for the single player
I also highly doubt that dice will veer more towards CoD. Their selling point is that it's totally different from that game.
So far it just looks like a pretty new engine to me. I'd like some of the things people mentioned about bigger maps, having to drag people to cover to revive, shockwaves or anything new in terms of gameplay.
On March 04 2011 19:55 Rflcrx wrote: Trailer reminds me too much of CoD. Also..singleplayer? Really?
I would be happy if it would be an improved version of bc2 or a much improved version of bf2. But please please for the love of god not another boring CoD game.
Why does the gameplay remind you of CoD? They spend the majority of the trailer doing things that kids with ADD wouldn't like, which is walking through an eerily silent city for so long before seeing any action. And the action part isn't even like CoD. Oh yeah, they shoot guns and look down iron sights, fyi CoD didn't invent that.
Most of the Youtube mirrors have already been taken down.
Anyways, it looks like the game is shaping up quite nicely. On one hand, I can see how some people are worrying that it might turn into another CoD. On the other hand, the end of the video show some very exciting glimpses into large-scale tank combat and even some Ace Combat-style jet combat.
On March 02 2011 17:46 zoLo wrote: Looks cool, but I'm afraid that it will end up like another CoD game. This is just by judging from the video since it looks like the weight and the feel of BF3 resembles a CoD game at the moment. If you look at the Bad Company series perspective to that video, then you'll understand what I'm trying to say. This is just my first impressions right now since it's still early until the game's release.
I disagree with the fear that BF3 will become another CoD.
Lately, CoD has become absolutely over-the-top with constant action and ridiculous storylines. MW2 and Black Ops are very arcade-ish shooters with very little realism.
On the other hand, it seems that BF3 is going in the opposite direction from CoD by opting for a more realistic, gritty portrayal of combat. I like how in the video, the actual shooting action only comes at the end while the rest of the video involves a very tense patrol through an eerily quiet city.
Dice themselves have said that they want the BF3 single player to be a much more varied and realistic experience compared to CoD. I forgot the analogy they used, but I think it was along the lines that if CoD was a hit pop song, BF3 will be a full symphony with varying periods of tension and action.
I'm quite excited to see the final product. It seems that Dice is really trying to outdo anything else in the market, and by the looks of it, they are succeeding.
Battlefield 1942 and 2 were about as arcade as you get, I hope Battlefield doesn't become about tacticool attachments and gritty grimdark visuals like every other shooter.
The BF is hardly arcad-ish :0 Medics, leading shots. I take it you've never played CoD
No, Battlefield has always been pretty arcadeish, at least when compared to the tactical PC shooters coming out then. One person driving and controlling the turret of a tank? Being able to parachute off of a 3 story building?
It has elements of realism of course, such as bullet trajectories and headshots. Dice blended those elements with arcadey elements to ultimately make the game extremely fun. They succeeded at that imo.
On March 02 2011 17:46 zoLo wrote: Looks cool, but I'm afraid that it will end up like another CoD game. This is just by judging from the video since it looks like the weight and the feel of BF3 resembles a CoD game at the moment. If you look at the Bad Company series perspective to that video, then you'll understand what I'm trying to say. This is just my first impressions right now since it's still early until the game's release.
I disagree with the fear that BF3 will become another CoD.
Lately, CoD has become absolutely over-the-top with constant action and ridiculous storylines. MW2 and Black Ops are very arcade-ish shooters with very little realism.
On the other hand, it seems that BF3 is going in the opposite direction from CoD by opting for a more realistic, gritty portrayal of combat. I like how in the video, the actual shooting action only comes at the end while the rest of the video involves a very tense patrol through an eerily quiet city.
Dice themselves have said that they want the BF3 single player to be a much more varied and realistic experience compared to CoD. I forgot the analogy they used, but I think it was along the lines that if CoD was a hit pop song, BF3 will be a full symphony with varying periods of tension and action.
I'm quite excited to see the final product. It seems that Dice is really trying to outdo anything else in the market, and by the looks of it, they are succeeding.
Battlefield 1942 and 2 were about as arcade as you get, I hope Battlefield doesn't become about tacticool attachments and gritty grimdark visuals like every other shooter.
The BF is hardly arcad-ish :0 Medics, leading shots. I take it you've never played CoD
it's funny how there are so few "realistic" shooters nowadays that BF is actually less arcadey than most shooters now that I think about it :\
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