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Felix
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 Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:11 pm |
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| I've never really played a Battlefield-y title (got about halfway through the first MW and never played much of the multiplayer), and the last FPS I really got into for deathmatching was unreal 2004. I sort of don't want to dethrone it because I have like eight computers in the house that can run it at this point and ill-conceived LAN parties are fun. Also, I usually pirate AAA PC titles until they're cheap precisely because I'm not a big online multi guy and I don't mind missing out on this component. Do the console versions have 4-player local MP? I could see myself getting into it in that case -- if I were still in high school. |
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Felix
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: vancouver
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| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:50 pm |
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| notbov wrote: |
| Felix wrote: |
| LAN(....)split-screen local. |
heh, that's a good joke
the game is attached at the hip to Microsoft's Azure cloud service (and Live to some extent, even on the PC) to the point where, during the beta, they had to setup up the cloud to spin up more servers after a threshold of players was exceeded. we probably won't see server files for this game until it's dead or dying. |
man, I ... probably wouldn't be too put off by that if it were just a console game. but everything Microsoft is doing on PC these days smacks of a desperate territory grab, and the cloud processing doesn't seem any more necessary here than in SimCity (particularly on a platform with near-infinite CPU resources relative to consoles -- I'd be much more willing to accept cloud AI if it were specifically in order to make it work on 360).
but yeah, if it's online multiplayer only, not even a campaign or anything, I'll never put enough time into it to justify. |
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Felix
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:50 pm |
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| GcDiaz wrote: |
| Anybody still play HAWKEN or is that done? |
I never quite got into it, but I had a great time recently with Armored Core Verdict Day, though unfortunately the online is sort of underpopulated. |
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Felix
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:43 am |
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Even reading "CTF" these days excites me, it's been so long
but I really don't have the wherewithal |
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