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I miss Quake III

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EPIC FLAIL

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The throw distance for grenades is ridiculous. May as well be a grenade launcher.

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I played the Bulletstorm demo and was super bored. It might be semi-interesting if had any sort of difficulty at all. I was just soaking up bullets and literally running around enemies. and on top of that, nothing requires any skill at all. Almost everything is auto-aimed to hell. I don't think I've ever played a game with such blatant, overly potent auto-aim.

The scattergun is a cool weapon that deserves to be in a better game. Like Painkiller or something.

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[H]ardocp official post slams Crysis 2 really hard:

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/03/23/crysis_2_pretty_much_sucks_sloppy

another site with more detailed ripping
http://www.dasreviews.com/das-latest-greatest/crytek-doomed-crysis-2s-pc-version/

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Crysis 2 reportedly has a 12 hour single player, so that's something. and from what I've seen, it looks pretty damned good on consoles.


It is absolutely retarded though that the PC version doesn't have any advanced options for graphics tweaking.

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I watched the 3-way 720p comparison video of Crysis over at Lense of Truth and the two console versions barely differ in visual effects quality from the PC version set to "high" and running at 720p as well. The only difference on consoles is a bit more (but not a lot more) aggressive LOD (see some distant objects like trees don't appear as soon), lower quality shadowing, the 360 version appears to not be using any Anisotropic Texture filtering (but the PS3 version looks really good in this regard), and there are some small differences in which surfaces are or are not lit which I would just chalk up to plain differences in code rather than lack of capability. (and actually in direct comparsion, the PC version tends to light up surfaces would probably shouldn't be lit).

The big difference/benefit for the PC version beside obvious potential resolution is that the framerate is potentially just WAAAAY better. The console versions average about 24fps and it shows. I can't help but wonder if a couple more months of dev time could have fixed that.


these results can generally be looked at in two ways:

A. quite an achievement on consoles

B. PC got shafted. Especially when you consider that the differences between graphics quality levels are super hard to spot.


I"m not really trying to stoke flames here, I just found it very interesting.

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driving an amphibious vehicle out to the U.S. Carrier in the Bay of Oman with that graphics engine is going to bring a tear to my eye and a tightness to my pants. The deck cannons tear into the armored shell, but not before I let free a missile!

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I played BC2 on PS3 exclusively, despite having a plenty good enough computer. Though I do swap around the kits when I feel the need----I'm mainly an engineer who packs the M2 Carl Gustav rocket launcher with the extra explosives option so that I can hold 8 rockets and extra explosive damage so that I can double and triple kill muthas. My accuracy with the Gustav is over 80%, but for the times that I do miss or someone does happen to survive-----I carry the M1 Garand for cleanup duty. It handles really well with predictable recoil, is super accurate, kills in two - three shots, and has arguably the best iron sight in the game. (unfortunately the Vietnam variant of the Garand has a different sight that is only OK, and its weaker, so its kills in three-four shots.).


But due to the fact that Bf3 is being designed for (I think) 56 players max and the console versions will only support 24 players (and thus, smaller play areas on the maps) I will be returning to PC for BF2.

For the lower player count Bad Company series, DICE designed "Rush" to keep the pace up and to artificially create some of the choking push/pull action that would naturally arise in previous higher player count version of BF's Conquest mode. Rush is in my oppinion a huge success and features some awesome maps. As such, when they patched Conquest into BC1, while cool, it never felt right. BC2 slightly improved things in Conquest due to smarter map design, but its still a mere shadow of BF2's conquest. So I mostly play Rush. Until you have roughly 40+ players, conquest just isn't the same. There are some cool conquest maps in BC2, but they are ultimately a concession to limited team sizes.




I hope they deviate from "real" life a bit with the story and setting so that we can have more opportunities for amphibious vehicle use.

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that does a good job of showing what a person imagines in their head while they are playing FPS games. I.E even though most FPS games have very stiff animations and limited movement controls, I'm always imagining that I'm leaning against ways, peaking over railings, lunging with a melee attack, etc.

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http://www.ustream.tv/battlefield3 live at 1:15pst

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvySEdG2SQ&feature=player_embedded

snuck into this video are what I believe to be the first two glimpses of the PS3 version of BF3. If you want the bottom right of the screen is says what platform is being displayed and it switches to PS3 twice for like a half second.

The 360 version was not shown at E3 and to my knowledge, has not been shown at all yet.

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E.Y.E looks like it was made in 2001, which I like.

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that is way faster than Halo.


getting a big UT2K4 vibe off those colors.


that game looks excellent. I'm now looking forward to it.

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yeah wow. Ghost Recon was a big deal on PC. I remember the PC gamer gamer review for it that had an opening screenshot that spanned like most of two pages. The paraphrase of the review goes something like gameoftheyearforever. That game is awesome.

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I know that's a singleplayer video, but based on that and the multiplayer----reminds me a lot of UTIII. It will be funny if this game is successful where UTIII was not.

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"A shitty drama, a shitty violence. Poor little Billy."

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I don't care one bit about the sinigle player. Maybe it will end up pretty good-----but it looks like its doing the same thing BC2 did:

copy the linear structure and scriptedness of Modern Warfare, but sprinkle BF gameplay on top of it.

Its still a linear shooting gallery. Bad Company 1 was more like what I imagined a BF single player might be like, and was pretty darned good. It also had a smaller scale, comedic storyline rather than trying to create more dead serious world war drama.


I am super excited for BF3 multiplayer and will likely spend hundreds of hours on it over the next year. FUUUUUCK I can't wait to revisit the gulf of Oman.



In other FPS news, a new Red Orchestra game was revealed I think at gamescom. That's a series that tries to take realism and make it playable. So I interested to see its evolution and if it catches on.

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AnotherGod, I will be on PC primarily, for BF3. I may pickup the PS3 version as well so that I can play rush and whatever deathmatch modes with my Blu-ray.com pals.


BUT, I am super broke right now, so its all gonna have to wait. I couldn't even buy dark souls. My soul has cried every day since it released.

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Looks like a Max Payne game. So, all is well!

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Does anybody here play BF3? I'm "Toptube" on steam! and I use Skype to communicate in game. Skype name is "chameleoneel".

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If you are someone who doesn't want as much of the distraction and just wants a pretty well paced action FPS, Crysis: Warhead is pretty good/better than Crysis.

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I was gifted on a steam a key for Arma III Lite (single player only). I will give it a test drive sometime soon and post some pics and impressions.

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Yeah, there's a bigger emphasis on amphibious combat this time around. They developed a water system that generates actual waves that can affect line of sight/be used as cover, be difficult to navigate, etc. You can now shoot while swimming. A few maps shown off have shown a lot of ships, small boats, and amphibious armored vehicles. Also, that ship crashing into the shore is a map specific multiplayer event. Not a cutscene from single player. it's just framed like a cutscene, for the trailer.

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Man, forget being specific to shooters. Concave triggers makes holding the controller feel better, in general. All the Dualshock 3's in my family are equipped with trigger attachments.

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well there's that one multiplayer space game that Futuremark made that is actually pretty darn cool.

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I'm in early on the PC beta for BF4 and my stepdad is in on the PS3 version.

I'm currently installing AMD's latest beta driver, then I'm going to play for a bit.

will report back later, on both versions!

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quick impressions from PC version:

Shanghai Map is pretty damn good.

enemies die even more quickly than BF3, but recoil is way less of an obstacle. this is not a good combo.

also, the way your character moves seems to have less "weight" to it. also a bad thing. BF3 had an excellent sense of "body". That seems to be dramatically toned down.

This is a beta, so I don't have any expectations for image quality or how well the game runs. but just to cover the bases:

My performance on a 7870, 8gigs of ram, and a Phenom II hex core was fine (averaged in 40's and 50's), at high quality settings. I expect it will be better in the final game. My only real issue with performance was that randomly it would just tank to single digit FPS, then incrementally build back up to normal performance, over the course of about 5 seconds. It's a beta.

The map clearly has some unfinished areas, which is a stark reminder that this is a beta.

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Unfortunately I am unemployed right now, so no BF4 for me, for awhile.

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Apparently, BF4 has been a pretty big mess on all platforms. But probably worst of all, for the PS4. Lots of crashes on all platforms, weird lag and stuttering, and the PS4 didn't even have usable 64 player conquest until a patch which happened in sync with the Xbone launch. The mode was there and accessible, but you reportedly couldn't get into any games or something. and as the series consistently known for some of the best sound in the industry-----the sound is often glitchy or whole effects missing entirely.

Looks like DICE played a little too much rush on this one, eh? ; )

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I caved and bought BF4 (pc) since it was only like $20 yesterday.