BF3 vs MAG

[hagaya]

What's MAG?

Massive action game for the PS3.

Not yet released, but will support 256 player battles online.

I love the joke you used there: "support"

 

[reviewmad]

What's MAG?

Massive action game for the PS3.

Not yet released, but will support 256 player battles online.

Ha, is that actually its name?

Whats wrong with it? Contains everything you need to know. Its a game where the action is massive. Like Snakes on a Plane, but hopefully not as bad.

snakes on a plane has samuel jackson your argument is invalid


But honestly, they could come up with something new. Like..."Gun-shoot-time" or "Fuck shit up"
On the main thread topic, can't they do what MMOs do? They have over 400 players in one place, sometimes.

 

[Asehujiko]

Let's wait and see if this is even a good idea. I have no clue how they're going to pull off a 256 player simultaneous deathmatch without it being total chaos.

They aren't. A large amount of what little we know about it basically comes down to that there's 1 special game mode for 256 people, one for 128 and 64 and the rest is just regular 32 and 16 player. Their supposed q3 09 release date seems highly unlikely considering that there's barely any info on it as well as the stupid name, which according to wikipedia isn't even final.

I also predict large amounts of microstuttering because ram and loading times are the ps3's main weaknesses.

 

[Chipperz]

MAG doesn't need to be complex. playing 4 BF 2 games AT ONCE, with WAY better graphics is enough to carry the game and make it incredibly enjoyable me thinks (4x64=256).

And I ask whats not amazing about 256 players?

As a PC gamer who cant afford a PS3 I am obviously much more likely to purchase BF3. I know theres zero info on BF3 yet, but I think its an interesting discussion about whether BF3 has been outdone way before it has even come out. Because MAG does really seems years ahead of its time.

So far, we have that it's going to be big. Graphics can't make a game good or bad, so they can be discounted immediately.

What you're left with, on the information we have, is 255 bitching, racist American children. Eeeenjoy.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

i'm with the other BF fans here, I don't care about hundreds of players. I'd rather have 96 or 128 players (150~ would be swell) and have the added ability to pack them into planes and lead a thirty man parachute squad. The idea of a 256 player deathmatch doesn't sound that fun or interesting... at all... although I'm likely an idiot for assuming that and it's probably a little bit deeper of a design than that. :/

 

[bad rider]

i'm with the other BF fans here, I don't care about hundreds of players. I'd rather have 96 or 128 players (150~ would be swell) and have the added ability to pack them into planes and lead a thirty man parachute squad. The idea of a 256 player deathmatch doesn't sound that fun or interesting... at all... although I'm likely an idiot for assuming that and it's probably a little bit deeper of a design than that. :/

Yeah, I agree. Looking at the MAG demonstration at E3 towards the end a wall gets airstriked. However looking at the aftermath of a bomb which which killed a small horde of players, you woudn't have noticed in the slightest that it had just been blown to high heaven. I'd rather play a game where that wall was now dust with only half the ammount of people. Than a game where it isn't.
Link to MAG at E3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4a2BFgCj74

 

[j1nx]

its not like you'll ever actually SEE 256 players, they'll be scattered all over the place.
i am curious how the game is going to turn out.

But i think BF's approach (as it was in the past/maybe is going to be in the future) is better.

you can have 100 people shooting each other and it would be chaos.
but put 10 of em in a small room and it'll become intense.
i prefer the latter

 

[Allstar309]

I guess we won't know until they come out, but i think MAGs command system is pretty cool and hopefully they'll have a open beta soon which im really looking forward to.

Also I don't have a good enough PC to run a game like BF3 so i guess there's no contest.

 

[syndicated44]

I think MAG would be truly impressive if they somehow got xbox, PS, and PC all into one game then to me that would be truly amazing collaberation. However I gotta go with BF3 simply because 2142 is by far my favorite multiplayer fps.

 

[murphy7801]

The problem with mag is that you have to use a PS3 controller which is horrid for fps.