Battlefield 3 Won't Be "Consolized," Claims Developer

[Throwitawaynow]

FPS on a PC? Blasphemy!

PC gamers tend to be douchebags with an inflated sense of self-entitlement.

Seriously? As polite and juvenile as an average xbox live user.

Can't we all agree that gamers in general are inflated with a sense of self-entitlement? Look at all the "I've lost all faith in *Insert random publisher.*" and "*Insert Publisher* is Complete Trash" posts, especially over things like, "This one guy got banned for no reason! I hate that company now!" reasons.

 

[bjj hero]

PC gamers tend to be douchebags with an inflated sense of self-entitlement.

Seriously? As polite and juvenile as an average xbox live user.

Exhibit A: PC douchebags with an inflated sense of entitlement [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104600-Minecraft-Multiplayer-Brought-Down-by-DDoS-Attack]

Plenty of gamers are arse holes, it doesn't matter which system they play on. Having said that PC gamers seem to be more vocal in their douchebaggery. I could be wrong, I don't tend to loiter on console game forums.

OT: I hope they sort out the squad system. It seemed stupid in BBC2 that I could only communicate with my squad, doesn't make for good strategy.

 

[SnipErlite]

Well Battlefield 2 was fucking awesome.

I hope for more of the same goodness. Probably won't be as good....but I'm optimistic

 

[DTWolfwood]

Bring back ships and planes please. and yes PC gamers who buy Battlefield know how to use a more complex interface we don't need your consolized hand holding.

Also Prone would be nice. ^-^

Better yet, y not just go back to your previous PC only Battlefields and build your game like them. Yeah that would be a fantastic idea.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Are Battlefield games dumbed down? I found Bad Company 2 quite hard to get used to from Call of Duty. Its second nature now.

Anway DICE, anything about Mirror's Edge 2? I loved that game. Too many war games.

 

[Irridium]

Answer this:

Will there be a Battlefield commander?
Will there be 64-player battles?

Thats all I really hope gets in. His words are re-assuring, but we'll see what happens...

 

[Wolf Devastator]

Oh, for a second I thought you meant it won't be ported to the console at all...

PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US ALONE WITH CALL OF DUTY AND MEDAL OF HONOR!!!

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Thats OK,..............I guess, but the fact that it will ONLY work with DX11 does alienate gamers who havent got such specific Graphics cards.

 

[Wolfram23]

This isn't really new info in many respects. Months and months ago they made their newest Frosbite engine to specifically take full advantage of DX11 hardware, and are shunning DX9 (so Win XP users - upgrade or no BF3 for you). They said that, along with that, they'd be tailor making the game to take full advantage of the PC...

 

[Hybridwolf]

Seeing is beliving. You can say whatever shit you want, but the PC market is the worst to break a promise to...

And for christ sake, already with the Console v PC? Pack that shit in. Both sides have their pros and cons and both sides need to work together to stop the elderly morons in congress from surpressing video games.

 

[nub the samurai]

Answer this:

Will there be a Battlefield commander?
Will there be 64-player battles?

Thats all I really hope gets in. His words are re-assuring, but we'll see what happens...

I think they confirmed 64-player battles somewhere, and I hope to God they put the commander back.

 

[Jonny49]

Please, for the love of God don't dumb it down for consoles. 60 players (or 32, either one is cool), command trees, big maps and lots of vehicles. How Battlefield is meant to be.

 

[Lord_Panzer]

Answer this:

Will there be a Battlefield commander?
Will there be 64-player battles?

Thats all I really hope gets in. His words are re-assuring, but we'll see what happens...

"Artillery, incoming."
I played nothing but commander and damn I was good at it.

Hopefully they realize we want a sequel to Battlefield 2, not some hybrid-bastardization of the FPS genre as a whole. Planes, boats, helicopters, Strike at Karkand, dedicated servers, commanders, huge servers. It's not that hard.

 

[Irridium]

Answer this:

Will there be a Battlefield commander?
Will there be 64-player battles?

Thats all I really hope gets in. His words are re-assuring, but we'll see what happens...

"Artillery, incoming."
I played nothing but commander and damn I was good at it.

Hopefully they realize we want a sequel to Battlefield 2, not some hybrid-bastardization of the FPS genre as a whole. Planes, boats, helicopters, Strike at Karkand, dedicated servers, commanders, huge servers. It's not that hard.

Also titan matches.

I don't give a fuck if its not "realistic", its damn fun!

 

[Sebenko]

I'll wait until I see the released PC version in action to pass judgement.

I remember Borderlands went as far to claim to be "built from the ground up" for PC, and that was a sub-par port in the end. It has taught me not to trust anyone when they say things like this.

 

[Lord_Panzer]

Answer this:

Will there be a Battlefield commander?
Will there be 64-player battles?

Thats all I really hope gets in. His words are re-assuring, but we'll see what happens...

"Artillery, incoming."
I played nothing but commander and damn I was good at it.

Hopefully they realize we want a sequel to Battlefield 2, not some hybrid-bastardization of the FPS genre as a whole. Planes, boats, helicopters, Strike at Karkand, dedicated servers, commanders, huge servers. It's not that hard.

Also titan matches.

I don't give a fuck if its not "realistic", its damn fun!

Honestly, I never liked BF2142, but Titan mode was the only part of it that interested me. Not sure how they'd pull something like that off in a modern context, but it'd be cool.

 

[Irridium]

Honestly, I never liked BF2142, but Titan mode was the only part of it that interested me. Not sure how they'd pull something like that off in a modern context, but it'd be cool.

Hehe, its all I played in 2142.

It's amazing, and presents a nice challenge for commanders who have to balance Titan defence, Attacking the other team's titan, and having teams attack/defend missle silo's on the ground.

It was fun, challenging, and caused some of my greatest multiplayer matches ever.

Now where did I put my 2142 disk...

 

[Lordmarkus]

Well, we'll be the judge of it Mr Kurz.

It's nice to hear him trying to allay concerns about BF3, but really the proof is in the pudding. If BF3 has anything but 64 players, squads, a commander, air support, artillery and a whole bunch of other stuff missing from BC2 in BF3 I'll be severely disappointed.

These were the things that made BF2 a great game and if taken away, I see very little that would distinguish BF3 from Bad Company.

Either add them or have some real good compromises.[footnote]And yes I'll admit that all I want is Battlefield 2, the same game with a HD facelift.[/footnote]