Battlefield 3

[Apples]

Heard rumors BF3 may be more than 64 players.

[Apples]

That first trailer has been released in full.

 

[Agg]

And it looks awesome, really like the animations of the soldiers. Hope we'll be able to drag wounded mates around in multiplayer as well.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Hmm nice :) Quite looking forward to this

[element1108]

Wow...very nice.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[BTTW-DratsaB]

hmm so far I'm not seeing any of the Battlefield I know. Lots of CoD however.....

[Grimes]

They seem to be showing off alot of singleplayer. Which admittedly was rather similar to COD, at least in terms of BC2 sp.

[aaron886]

LMAO. This looks like COD? This makes COD look like Pong.

[element1108]

I'd say it's closer to this;

 

 

;)

[Rusty_M]

Ha! I loved that game!

[Henchman14]

Wow! He must have NanoSuit 3.0! :D

 

But I agree, everything's starting to look like COD now. Not to mention, everything looks even more faded out than Arma 2! I didn't think that was possible!

Edited March 3, 2011 by Henchman14

[aaron886]

Actually, COD's starting to look like everything else. It's such a crappy franchise... they have no drive to innovate, so they just slap together some new weapons and gamemodes, add some more "homeboy effects" like "Bling" and little icons next to your player name, and call it a release.

[element1108]

COD United Offensive was a great game, COD 2 was also great. COD 3 was forgettable really compared to UO and 2, but MW changed the game. After that everything has started to feel the same I feel.

 

Day of Defeat was my favorite WWII shooter though for awhile, loved the gun firing sfx.

 

I hate those post process effects, turned them off in ARMA 2 (look like HELL) and haven't turned back. The gameplay for these games remains 100% the exact same, the skins and environments seem to be what's changing.

[brewber19]

I'm as much of an FPS whore as the rest of you, but I haven't missed the irony that if we didn't buy these evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) games, then publishers wouldn't continue to publish them, but instead work hard to find the next rich revenue stream.

 

I think BF3 looks very nice, and I'll probably buy it, but what I really want to see is Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 3, as that was a nice balance of game vs sim for me. ARMA is to hardcore for me to spend the time to learn, as well as flight simming etc.

 

Just my 2c ;)

[Gotrol]

http://www.realitymod.com/

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3uZpVWCZts

 

'nuff said.... No BF3 for me.

[JD_LincsUK]

I had a fantastic time with BF2 - it was great, despite the cheats and bugs and poor technical simulation. I lived for that game for a long time and as an ex-soldier myself it even brought back something that I'd been missing since becoming a civvy (teamwork and camaraderie) in the excellent clan I was in.

 

We changed to CoD4, which was initially fun, but staled very quickly.

 

The clan reformed with a server for BF:BC2, but again, it didn't last. I had only two really enjoyable rounds in that and it has remained uninstalled since.

 

OPF Dragon Rising showed promise, but again, was a rubbish console game, like so many now and I have given up.

 

Yeah, BF3 vids look nice (why the hell do I have to be a yank again! like they are the only people in uniform) but I'm sure it will just be another in the seemingly endless line of console rejects.

 

I understand the problem for PC only releases - piratism is very widespread these days - but that doesn't mean the games have to suck so bad.

 

And until they get their butts in gear and put head tracking and voice control as standard parts of modern games, I'll stick to flying (and motor racing :D ).

 

JD

 

PS - regarding MechWarrior - got MW2 3Dfx with my first Voodoo card and luvved it! Still have it in fact - but it won't work without the 3Dfx bit :(

Edited March 4, 2011 by JD_LincsUK

[Revvin]

I love the Battlefield series, played it since the first one on PC years ago. Since doing a small upgrade I finally had a PC capable of playing BFBC2 on the PC having only played it on consoles previously and really enjoy it, it runs nicely in 1080p on my new rig. I lost my old BF2 discs so I bought it when it was on sale dirt cheap on Steam over Christmas. To say its not how I remember it would be an understatement, geez we've moved on soo far since then :) I have a Battlefield Bad Company 2, 32 player ranked server up called 'A Box Of Fail' if anyone is interested, its not seeing much action at the moment.

[Viper101]

What a bunch of morons saying BF3 looks like COD. Are you kidding me? Do us all a favor and remove your head from your behind, or just plain don't speak. Electronic Arts and DICE have both been working very hard to get to where they are now. Battlefield has been around longer than the Call of Duty franchise, so why are you speaking as if Battlefield originated from COD? If you actually took the time and watched a bunch of the behind the scenes videos about the designing and creation of Battlefield 3, you would know this game destroys any and all Call of Duty to date, and probably will till that sh** game dies.

 

I don't know about you, but isn't Call of Duty beginning to add more "vehicles"? Wonder where they got that idea from. Hmmm.

Edited March 12, 2011 by Viper101

[OutOnTheOP]

Yeah, I more or less stopped playing FPS's around the time of Call of Duty 2 or 3, back when it was still WWII. I liked the Brothers in Arms titles, I guess those were technically later.

 

But I realize I've stopped playing FPS because they've migrated away from the CoD2/ BiA/ Rainbow 6 tactical shooters that required teamwork, tactics, use of cover, and fire discipline, into.... interactive action movies.

 

Seriously, they don't even bother putting a "semiautomatic" mode on the rifles anymore, everyone just runs around at a dead sprint, spraying full auto gunfire like it's a fire hose. Take cover? Why bother, when you're harder to hit weaving back and forth at a full sprint, and the physical exertion doesn't affect your aim. Honest, dudes, REAL SOLDIERS can totally shoot full auto headshots while running backward for a half hour straight. Totally!

 

Don't ever worry about running out of ammo, you can always get more from the copious corpes lying around, which you have merely to brush up against- at which point you instantaneously search them, strip them of ammunition, magically transmogrify their 5.45x39mm ammunition into 5.56x45mm, and somehow cram their AK74 magazine into your M4 mag well. Oh, and did I mention you can drop your magazine, secure another from your rig, jam it into your mag well in under 2 seconds (just try this in real life!) Oh, and thankfully your rifle is equipped with a freon cooling system to prevent the barrel from melting into a puddle after the third or fourth straight magazine fired on cyclic.

 

Yes, it just aggravates me. The games allow you to shoot far too accurately on the move, run perpetually without fatigue catching up with you, and the characters run too FAST (their jog is beyond what I would consider a sprint), making it far more difficult to engage running targets than is realistic. In turn, this promotes silly "tactics" involving running around in circles and bunnyhopping while shooting long full-auto bursts, and turns the game into what I refer to as "twitch gaming". Not much fun at all, if you ask me.

[SilentEagle]

...valid points...

 

This is all very true. Some people would find FPS severely boring or frustrating if they were simulators like DCS is for air combat. I'm one of those people. I guess you could say COD/BF/etc. are to ground combat as games like Hawx are to air combat. Interestingly enough, you can have people that are extremely interested in 100% true to life air combat simulation, but settle for 10% realism in FPS games, and vice-versa.

[TwoLate]

This is all very true. Some people would find FPS severely boring or frustrating if they were simulators like DCS is for air combat. I'm one of those people. I guess you could say COD/BF/etc. are to ground combat as games like Hawx are to air combat. Interestingly enough, you can have people that are extremely interested in 100% true to life air combat simulation, but settle for 10% realism in FPS games, and vice-versa.

 

I am one of those people too. DCS gives me the realism junkie. FPS I like to unwind from real and just get enertainment from just running around like a idiot and figure out the different ways to get to someone.

[Rusty_M]

This is all very true. Some people would find FPS severely boring or frustrating if they were simulators like DCS is for air combat. I'm one of those people. I guess you could say COD/BF/etc. are to ground combat as games like Hawx are to air combat. Interestingly enough, you can have people that are extremely interested in 100% true to life air combat simulation, but settle for 10% realism in FPS games, and vice-versa.

 

I must be weird. I love DCS. I love Ace Combat, but hate HAWX. I love ARMA II & Battlefield. Just depends on what mood i'm in.

[OutOnTheOP]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the occasional "blast everything that moves" game.... I just wish they a) didn't make the pretense of being based on reality, and b) there were more realistic alternatives available. Yes, I've played ARMA, it's... ok. The AI and mission design is pretty blah, and they should have just left the ability to drive anything more complex than a Humvee out, but it's ok. In short, I like Brothers in Arms because it's a reasonable semblance of military operations, and I like Halo/ Borderlands/ Fallout 3/ etc because they aren't TRYING to put on airs of realism. However, the recent CoD, MoH, etc games have been a bad mix of real-world units and semi-real premises with super arcade gameplay, and for some reason that just bothers me. I guess when a game designer makes the choice to set a game in a fictional world, anything they do can just be accepted as "the way that world works".

 

I'm the same way with movies, though. I have absolutely no issue watching outlandish Sci-fi flicks or fantasy romps, or some truly ridiculous anime premises, because they make no pretense of being realistic. Historical dramas, though, often leave me cold because they take huge liberties with the history. That said, I still wish there were more decent historical dramas out there.

[104th_Crunch]

...I like Halo/ Borderlands/ Fallout 3/ etc because they aren't TRYING to put on airs of realism. However, the recent CoD, MoH, etc games have been a bad mix of real-world units and semi-real premises with super arcade gameplay, and for some reason that just bothers me.

 

That is why I always liked BF 2142 the best out of all of them. I wish BF 2143 was being made instead of BF3! Looking forward to the Tribes game being worked on.

[Apples]

New video.....

 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/fault-line-battlefield-3/711835