Poll: Battlefield 3: PC or 360?

[Treblaine]

You forget one huge PC advantage, the awesome modding community, which has produced some completely amazing mods. (see Project Reality)

BF3 won't have mods because DICE thinks that it's too "advanced",and any other way will be illegal.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/05/battlefield-3-dev-we-are-not-going-to-make-any-modding-tools/

OT:I'm pretty sure it'll run better on your PC, and "microsoft gave everyone microphones" you know that you can also mute them?

They said the same thing about all the previous BF games, they launched without mod tools but eventually they got modded. As the source you cited states (quite rightly):

"GTA IV has no official mod tools, but that hasn?t stopped fans from making impressive additions."

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I would choose it for the PC, if it can handle it of course. I myself is getting it for the PC, and here i'm hoping that it can handle it

Why joypad?

Because, in my opinion, walking, running, climbing, stance changing, driving and piloting all are much easier, natural and control better with the layout of a controller and joysticks. Sure, you might be able to aim a bit better with a mouse, but a joypad with the sensitivity cranked and a set of FPSFreek sticks more than makes up for that.

Fixed for you. Unless you can prove it's better, it's all subjective.

Have we really gotten this far that we have to stamp every oppinion with "In my oppinion", of course it is his oppinion, he's saying it


... And lastly... FOR FUCKS SAKE PC PLAYERS, not everyone likes the mouse and keyboard setup, some prefer controllers, and lets just leave it there

 

[Jakub324]

I'm console playing peasant, so it'll be 360 for me.

 

[Bobzer77]

Just going by what you said and i quote:

+ With my brand new gaming PC I might actually get better performance out of the game than on 360 for once

(seewhatididthere?) I'd say go for the 360 version. I know the horrible crushing feeling that comes when you get a game that either, doesnt run on your pc, runs badly or you know it could run better on something else you own. If there is a "Might" in there it means you're uncertain.

Oh it'll run. I know that. But the question is will it run significantly better than my 360?

If you bought/upgraded a gaming PC in the last 4 years you will be able to run it at a higher fps than the 360.

 

[SoldierC4]

You forget one huge PC advantage, the awesome modding community, which has produced some completely amazing mods. (see Project Reality)

BF3 won't have mods because DICE thinks that it's too "advanced",and any other way will be illegal.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/05/battlefield-3-dev-we-are-not-going-to-make-any-modding-tools/

OT:I'm pretty sure it'll run better on your PC, and "microsoft gave everyone microphones" you know that you can also mute them?

Read your own article, seriously. Quote from link: "As of now, we are not going to make any modding tools" meaning at time of launch there won't be, but it is possible. Especially if PC gamers fight for it (looking at the lack of DX11 in Crysis2 and how that turned out). Despite that, in there they say NOTHING about it being illegal to mod the game, people mod games legally all the time on almost any PC game. In fact they said it would only end up looking like a challenge more than anything.

 

[mcattack92]

Xbox 360
+ I play my 360 A LOT more than my PC
+ I prefer the joypad for shooters
+ I've played the last 2 BF games (Bad Company 1+2) on the 360

If you are more confortable playing on your xbox 360 than PCs, get it for Xbox. But if you do get it for PC, you will need to deal with EA's new origin service to play it which may deter some PC players from getting it.

 

[SoldierC4]

I really wish people would drop it with the Origin thing. I personally played the Alpha of BF3 with Origin, and Origin is probably one of the least intrusive programs i've used. It ran in the background and launched with BF3, was barely visible, and had no noticeable affects on my system. It's not like they're forcing you to buy things off it.

Yes, that's what EA is hoping you will do, but that's what Valve did with Steam years ago, and now Steam is absolutely the most successful PC gaming based company. Look at the deals they have and tell me Steam ended up being bad, where I can have a library of 100+ games, that easily install and run with almost no problem, and I don't have to deal with storing 100 discs... all for only around 500$.

What's even crazier is that Origin ran better than steam, Origin did not ONCE freeze up on me while I was using it, unlike Steam which freezes every time I close a game (temporarily).

Sorry for length of post, but need to get it out.

 

[WolfLordAndy]

- Likely to be few good 64 servers
- Terrible PC community
- Play in complete silence in both single and multiplayer

Go find a FPS PC clan, you'll then have people to talk to, a decent server with active admins, and your won decent community.

Hell, I'm sure someone here on the escapist can give you an offer to join their clan! (I'd say join mine, but we're a UK/EU based clan)

 

[Angry_squirrel]

If your PC can run it, then PC all the way

 

[yuval152]

You forget one huge PC advantage, the awesome modding community, which has produced some completely amazing mods. (see Project Reality)

BF3 won't have mods because DICE thinks that it's too "advanced",and any other way will be illegal.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/05/battlefield-3-dev-we-are-not-going-to-make-any-modding-tools/

OT:I'm pretty sure it'll run better on your PC, and "microsoft gave everyone microphones" you know that you can also mute them?

Read your own article, seriously. Quote from link: "As of now, we are not going to make any modding tools" meaning at time of launch there won't be, but it is possible. Especially if PC gamers fight for it (looking at the lack of DX11 in Crysis2 and how that turned out). Despite that, in there they say NOTHING about it being illegal to mod the game, people mod games legally all the time on almost any PC game. In fact they said it would only end up looking like a challenge more than anything.

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Even if i quoted wrong it's still EA's choice to decide.(could sue people for modifying their games)

I had more quotes but i accidently deleted them when tried to to verify that i wrote it correctly and im too lazy to find them again.

OTthers have already told the cons and pros.

 

[NathLines]

You've got a "brand new gaming PC" but you're unsure whether you want a game that seems to favor the PC version? That seems rather odd to me. It seems to me that you just want to play it with a controller.

 

[El Luck]

Getting it on PC. Getting a new machine ready for it too. Been putting it off until a game like this is released.

 

[Gromril]

I don't know what you mean by terrible PC community especially especially when comparing to the xbox but It seems like the PC (if it can run it) is the obvious choice.

Having played BF games on the pc and the 360 I can assure you the pc community is worse as far as team killing over vehicles and torrents of abuse go. On the 360 (at least as far a bc2 goes) people don't talk past the squad level, and when they do it's genrally friends chatting or "Hey, there's a tank over there).

 

[Waaghpowa]

Have we really gotten this far that we have to stamp every oppinion with "In my oppinion", of course it is his oppinion, he's saying it


... And lastly... FOR FUCKS SAKE PC PLAYERS, not everyone likes the mouse and keyboard setup, some prefer controllers, and lets just leave it there

You know what the irony is? Everytime PC gamers gives actual statistical evidence of some PC gaming related being better i.e. hardware capabilities or controls (There was a study that proved mouse/keyboard combo is better), console players use the "It's a preference" argument, but then when PC players use the preference argument, console players try to stamp it out as being wrong. Which is why I fixed it, I wanted it to be clear that it was his opinion. I'm well aware it's his opinion, but some people won't read it as that.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Intel i7 @3.20GHz CPU
12GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 1GB RAM x2
1TB HDD


Thats most of the important stuff.

Like I said, I'm sure it will run. But I'm not sure if it will be significantly better.

Your kidding right?

I could say it, and then it wouldn't be true. And I've had the same thing said to me about more than one game; Oblivion, Crysis 2, Fallout 3/NV it didn't turn out to be true then either. At best it was a moderate improvement on my computer, not this mind-blowing-ly amazing transformation.

1) Your PC specs are amazing for this game, the fact that you don't know if it will be significantly better is baffling.

2) You can't just turn all the graphics to 11 and leave it there, 9/10 doing that, unless you have quad SLI GTX 580's, there's going to be some slow down because there are certain graphical settings that are pigs on top of the fact you're going to have 64 players running around. Things like ambient occlusion and really high Anti Aliasing really slow things down. Do some graphical tweaking beyond setting it to max and find out what settings hit your system the hardest before writing it off. Chances are turning off, or at least modifying those big ones, will drastically improve performance.

 

[instantbenz]

None of it matters really, PC and console communities tend to be equal (annoying kids are still better than elitist assholes), just go with the one your friends are getting.

Gotta disagree with kids less annoying ... But, yes, go with the one that you will have more interaction with people you know. XBL's key ingredient is party chat ... it's the one thing that makes it better than ps3 and I don't know how origin goes with voice chat (anyone know? is it comparable to steam's one on one chat?)

Oh and the controller v mouse&keyboard thing? BF3 for PC will likely be compatible with a gamepad (I haven't seen anything, but if they want to compete with any PC FPS's they'd sort of have to).

As a final note, the last gameplay trailer looked ... effin ... amazing. Finally realistic aircraft in realistic battles and it's not just a stupid killstreak reward that you can only perform if you do well enough. I have stopped caring about any steam v origin BS with this. I'm getting this one, bar none.

 

[My name is Fiction]

I say 360, this whole Origins debockle [luv using big words ^^]
Gets under my skin.
The PC might run it at high settings but to have the ideal specs to play it are hard and a little pricey but you sure can run it anyway now that I have read more of this.
Having more players doesn't always make a good game, MAG is a testament to that.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Have we really gotten this far that we have to stamp every oppinion with "In my oppinion", of course it is his oppinion, he's saying it


... And lastly... FOR FUCKS SAKE PC PLAYERS, not everyone likes the mouse and keyboard setup, some prefer controllers, and lets just leave it there

You know what the irony is? Everytime PC gamers gives actual statistical evidence of some PC gaming related being better i.e. hardware capabilities or controls (There was a study that proved mouse/keyboard combo is better), console players use the "It's a preference" argument, but then when PC players use the preference argument, console players try to stamp it out as being wrong. Which is why I fixed it, I wanted it to be clear that it was his opinion. I'm well aware it's his opinion, but some people won't read it as that.

Alright then, crisis averted

 

[zuro64]

1: I've been kicked from servers for enough reasons to be wary of any server. Such reasons include, but are not limited to:

- Doing too good as Commander
- Defending myself as Commander
- Doing too well in the Tank
- Doing too well in the Walker
- Keeping the Transport chopper alive too long
- Not being in a clan
- Refusing to join a clan
- Single-handedly destroying a Titan
- Etc.

2: I never counts mods as a "positive". User generated content generally breaks down as such:

96% Absolute, mind-blowing garbage
3% Decent
1% Actually worthwhile, enjoyable or helpful content

And often that 1% is still surpassed in every way by developer content.

3: I have 2 people I play PC games with. 2 for TW: Shogun 2, 1 for Dawn of War. All other Pc games I play by myself. I have 4 friends I play Halo or MW or occasionally the odd game here or there. Thats it.

4: I say "silence" because at least on 360 I can Party Chat with those 4 people while I play, whereas on PC there will be no one.

5: I say the PC community is terrible because they are exactly the same as the console community; except they try to hide it beneath a facade of superiority and deny it.

Dude, if your gonna be so negative about all the common stuff(like getting kicked for no good reason). Why dont you just get it on 360 and stop clanking down on all the things that comes with PC gaming!

And btw, joypad is easier?
I guess your not that used to PC gaming that much or being a marksman in shooters for instance. I can understand that the joypad is easier with default controls them keybord+mouse is but anyone on this forum would tell you to just change them!
Hell, i cant think of a PC game that i have default controls to these days.

 

[Paragon Fury]

I don't know what you mean by terrible PC community especially especially when comparing to the xbox but It seems like the PC (if it can run it) is the obvious choice.

Having played BF games on the pc and the 360 I can assure you the pc community is worse as far as team killing over vehicles and torrents of abuse go. On the 360 (at least as far a bc2 goes) people don't talk past the squad level, and when they do it's genrally friends chatting or "Hey, there's a tank over there).

Thanks for bringing back the memories of the jet lines. Those were always fun.