EA: "Battlefield 3 is designed to take Call of Duty down."
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Is it just me or does this seem like a bad idea? EA look what you did to the new Medal of Honour, some might say it was good but most say it was bad and not what they were expecting. Please don't ruin battlefield becuase we don't want CoD to be the only adequate shooter out there. Okay there are other great shooters but I'm trying to make a point here! (and I mean in multiplayer for the most part)
No they wont. And they never will. Imagine if you will someone said "I think augi will finally kill of Piggott with thier new car" youd think they were an idiot. You dont "kill off" a different flavor of something just because one is more popular. "If strawberry gets more popular chocolate WILL BE KILLED!!!!!" is also a dumb statement of the same calibre.Saucycardog said:
Unfortunately this. Too many lemmings will buy MW3, knowing it'll be the exact same setup as Black Ops. I for one am getting Battlefield, i'll play the other one from a friend that'll surely get it.Fenreil said:
I like CoD.
I want to play Battlefield.
Do these two statements bother you Battlefield fans THAT much? If Battlefield 3 completely kills CoD, which is albeit very very unlikely and it's entire community comes over to Battlefield, will it really be that bad? I mean, I know CoD's community can be narrowed down into 3 groups, namely 10 year old squeaky kids with bad manners and complete assholes with nothing better to do than abuse anyone that dares so much as breath down their mics and then of course, the nice people that just want to have a good time but really, if CoD's community doesn't make the game implode on itself then it's not really gonna do the same to Battlefield is it?
Please, Battlefielders... Stop it with the "Waaaa DO NOT WANT" attitude. We're all gamers here and we should have the freedom to play what we want.
I want to play Battlefield.
Do these two statements bother you Battlefield fans THAT much? If Battlefield 3 completely kills CoD, which is albeit very very unlikely and it's entire community comes over to Battlefield, will it really be that bad? I mean, I know CoD's community can be narrowed down into 3 groups, namely 10 year old squeaky kids with bad manners and complete assholes with nothing better to do than abuse anyone that dares so much as breath down their mics and then of course, the nice people that just want to have a good time but really, if CoD's community doesn't make the game implode on itself then it's not really gonna do the same to Battlefield is it?
Please, Battlefielders... Stop it with the "Waaaa DO NOT WANT" attitude. We're all gamers here and we should have the freedom to play what we want.
But this won't work, because people don't buy CoD because of its quality of a game. They buy it because it's CoD; because they bought the last one and the one before it and because all their friends are going to get it and because the ten billion OMG MODERN WARFARE 2 Facebook groups set up by Activision have put everyone into the mindset that CoD Is A Part Of Everyday Life. That's not going to change until someone else spends the GDP of a medium-sized country on advertising.
I agree, at least with the fact that the two games aren't alike. They are both FPS's, but their focus is different.TriggerOnly said:
Battlefield is about working together with team mates to win. I've had it pointed out to me that with the way COD works, you either have a good game, i.e you're on your best killstreak ever and you're winning, or your worst, where you die constantly.
In COD, only one person can be having fun at a time, and that's the guy winning. Plus, COD awards points for kills. Bttlefield awards points for achieving objectives, etc.
Also, even for their last game, COD's engine doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. At all.
While Battlefield is constantly improving their's, graphically and otherwise.
Both games have a different focus. However, in saying that, EA is trying to make their FPS combat more realistic with squad based combat and specialisations and the like. Activision doesn't seem to have learned or really changed anything about COD, especially for Black Ops. Most of the people I know have stopped playing COD after they played Battlefield.
Activision isn't going to stop making COD games because they get so overhyped by fanboys that they pretty much make their sales before it's even released. They don't need to improve on anything because people just buy it anyway. It depends on what you prefer. If you like team based combat, etc, Battlefield is better. If you like being a one man army, play COD.
IMO, Battlefield seems to be the better game, if only for better graphics, realism, physics engine, attention to detail, and accuracy (military wise.)
Take your pick. But Battlefield is definitely different to COD. And I hope it stays that way.
All I could get from that was you called my statement dumb. Well, people have different opinions dude. No need to call people dumb because of them.BiscuitTrouser said:
Besides, I'm really interested in Battlefield 3 whether or not it can beat COD. But, I would probably be more excited for BattleFRONT 3.
Honestly I liked Bad Company 2 more than CoD, but it's about the fans mostly. CoD will probably get better sales while B3 will be more tactical and strategic.
Now if you excuse me, I got to blow up a few buildings with my squad.
Now if you excuse me, I got to blow up a few buildings with my squad.
Im saying its a common phrase we throw around without actually thinking about the way the industry works. You can never "kill a company" they both occupy different spaces in the market and have large fanbases, just because Y becomes MORE popular than X, that doesnt mean X is suddenly UNpopular. All the people who like X STILL like X and as such it isnt "dead" or "taken down" its just become a close second still with a monolithic fanbase. I wasnt calling it dumb, i was saying that if you use the same statement with other examples it sounds dumb... why do we use it with games? Im not really sure why.Saucycardog said:
tbh, i hope more CoD kiddies play bf3, cuz then i'll get to enjoy another eventful few months of "spot the CoD player!" and lolzing at them, and listening to them ***** and complain about a game w/ real quality. (the previous season concluded many months ago on bfbc2.)
If they spent that money optimising it to run at 60FPS... then they might have a chance against COD.
If only Pandemic hadn't buggered off and died.
Controls, man. It's all about the tight controls.MiracleOfSound said:
Oh, and having a singleplayer that DOESN'T SUCK would help, not that they seem to have a problem with that, judging by the trailers.