Poll: XBox and MAG =(

[Tsunimo]

I was wondering, who else thinks that the 360 should get a game like MAG?

 

[feebstalicious93]

no, it can't happen.
when i play MW2 on my 360, it lags A LOT, and that is with like 20 people
this is just my opinion, but all of my friends who only have 360 think that teamwork is a stupid idea, and they refuse to believe that MAG doesn't lag

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

no, it can't happen.
when i play MW2 on my 360, it lags A LOT, and that is with like 20 people
this is just my opinion, but all of my friends who only have 360 think that teamwork is a stupid idea, and they refuse to believe that MAG doesn't lag

hmm must be your connection, my 360 never lags? if it is its just the constant game lag, but i haven't played mag and dont have an interest in it...is it fps or tps? and is it realistic or more like halo ish?

too lazy to look or care

 

[Pimppeter2]

I don't see why it shouldn't if it can be pulled off.

But that doesn't mean I would be interested in it

 

[SonicKoala]

Yes, it truly is a shame that the Xbox doesn't get a game of such proportions. I wonder why this isn't the case.... perhaps some sort of technical issue? Or perhaps Sony just got lucky with MAG? I'm sure we'll find out in the future!

 

[Generator]

I don't know, everyone says it can't handle it. But then I don't really have any technical know-how, so if it could pull it off, then sure, why not?

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Sure, and while we're at it, why don't we have ME2 on PS3?

 

[Zedzero]

360 doesn't have the power like PS3, it would be immpossible, maybe next gen.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I was wondering, who else thinks that the 360 should get a game like MAG?

I think you shouldn't care about MAG, just get Bad Company 2. I played the beta and honestly it wasn't that good.
Thw morons from MW2 just migrated over to the beta and the missions rarely got accomplished. The game tries too hard to be a mixture between the CoD and Battlefield series, and just fails at either.
I'll give them praise for the online capabilities though. So many people, and no lag whatsoever.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I don't see why it shouldn't if it can be pulled off.

But that doesn't mean I would be interested in it

Pretty much this. 256 players just sounds like one big clusterf#@k if you ask me.

 

[Seras]

360 cant handle it unless you install the whole thing to the hard drive the game wouldnt run right, also sure everyone on the 360 has a mic.....great... could you imagen a game of 256 MW2 players screaming at you? Atleast with the PS3 not everyone has a mic but the ones that do seem to be more....mature in MAG from my exp. And yeah not to put any of the cute lil MW2 players down but MAG requires alot of team work not the "OMG NOOBZ STOP STEALING MAH KEEEELLLZ!!!"

That being said a sub for MAG for 360 would be BFBC2.

 

[Pingieking]

Funny, about 80% of the posts above me sound like they've never played MAG, and therefore have very little idea of what it actually is. The game is actually quite different from what the slogan of 256 player online FPS might suggest.

For example:

also sure everyone on the 360 has a mic.....great... could you imagen a game of 256 MW2 players screaming at you?

Except that the max number of players you can hear on a given channel is 8. Half of those 256 players aren't even on your side! If anything, this game should come packed with a mic. The fundamental weakness of MAG is that if you don't have a mic, you're playing in an endless cycle of giant team deathmatches. It is quite incredible how four friends with mics can easily take over a match if both teams are uncoordinated, especially on defense.

I actually think that once you hop over the technological limitations, it might work better on the X360 (assuming that it is possible to hop over those said limitations). The lag should be no problem, you just need to invest in a good server system and not the crappy systems that MW2 employs. If the X360 can't handle the processing necessary, just scale down a bunch of stuff without killing the basic gameplay. People always tell me that graphics aren't that important (I generally disagree), so a downgrade there should be fine. The X360 has what many consider a superior online system in the XBL. With most of the player base equipped with mics, and the advantages of a better Friends system on the XBL, I think that a MAG style game would perform better on the X360.

As for the concerns of it being a clusterf*ck, I can tell you right now that it's not a clusterf*ck. In fact, as a gamer who has experienced real clusterf*cks (from the heydays of Planetside), I can confidently say that MAG comes nowhere close to being a clusterf*ck. Only way for MAG to become a clusterf*ck is for all 256 players to chase after one objective, and that never happens.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

IT would be far more difficult for the 360, which only has a tri-core 3.2 Mhz processor, while the PS3's cell processor has 7 different 3.2 Mhz processors. Keep in mind one of each on either console are mostly dedicated to anti-piracy. They do, however both have the same amount of ram (520 MB), but the 360 is more versatile in it's ability to shit it between the CPU and GPU, while the PS3 has it solidly set at half and half. The 360 would be capable of a game like this, so long as you're okay with lower-polygon graphics. It may perhaps even need to be cartoony in a sense.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

I was wondering, who else thinks that the 360 should get a game like MAG?

Like I care. 360 owners got ME2 on the 26th, rated at 95%+. PS3 owners got MAG on the same day, with sub-par ratings at best, 80%-. I'll take a deep RPG over a generic shooter with extra players any day.

The one game I would want ported from the PS3 to 360 is Demon's Souls.

Sup bro, you waiting out your ban on /v/ too?

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Yea, that's just what we need. A game that allows 27 different 13 year olds to scream into your ear instead of the standard 5. Sounds like a super duper plan.

On a more serious note, I find it hard to believe that MAG isn't going to be laggy as fuck. Just a hunch I have.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

no, it can't happen.
when i play MW2 on my 360, it lags A LOT, and that is with like 20 people
this is just my opinion, but all of my friends who only have 360 think that teamwork is a stupid idea, and they refuse to believe that MAG doesn't lag

The lag has nothing to do with the platform. Your local connection, the efficiency of the game's net code and the power and location of the device operating as the server are the relevant factors.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Too many people have mics on the 360, and therefore you hear far too many retards talking during online multiplayer - can you IMAGINE the chaos that would ensue with 256 people?

You don't actually speak with all 256 people and instead communicate with your own squad.

 

[SonicKoala]

Too many people have mics on the 360, and therefore you hear far too many retards talking during online multiplayer - can you IMAGINE the chaos that would ensue with 256 people?

You don't actually speak with all 256 people and instead communicate with your own squad.

Well then, in that case, there doesn't really seem to be any reason that Xbox couldn't have a game on the same level as MAG.

 

[Pain_Inflictor]

Funny, about 80% of the posts above me sound like they've never played MAG, and therefore have very little idea of what it actually is. The game is actually quite different from what the slogan of 256 player online FPS might suggest.


Except that the max number of players you can hear on a given channel is 8. Half of those 256 players aren't even on your side! If anything, this game should come packed with a mic. The fundamental weakness of MAG is that if you don't have a mic, you're playing in an endless cycle of giant team deathmatches. It is quite incredible how four friends with mics can easily take over a match if both teams are uncoordinated, especially on defense.

I actually think that once you hop over the technological limitations, it might work better on the X360 (assuming that it is possible to hop over those said limitations). The lag should be no problem, you just need to invest in a good server system and not the crappy systems that MW2 employs. If the X360 can't handle the processing necessary, just scale down a bunch of stuff without killing the basic gameplay. People always tell me that graphics aren't that important (I generally disagree), so a downgrade there should be fine. The X360 has what many consider a superior online system in the XBL. With most of the player base equipped with mics, and the advantages of a better Friends system on the XBL, I think that a MAG style game would perform better on the X360.

As for the concerns of it being a clusterf*ck, I can tell you right now that it's not a clusterf*ck. In fact, as a gamer who has experienced real clusterf*cks (from the heydays of Planetside), I can confidently say that MAG comes nowhere close to being a clusterf*ck. Only way for MAG to become a clusterf*ck is for all 256 players to chase after one objective, and that never happens.

It could also be a clusterf*ck if there was a free for all mode. Also, you're absolutely right about the mic thing, a squad with no mics accomplishes nothing and the squad that does always ends up on top. A mag like game would be more suitable for the xbox simply because everyone has a mic. Although I don't think it would be as good, just a personal opinion. But with something like this: http://kotaku.com/5454121/mag-makers-call-xbox-live-more-juvenile-than-psn dont extpect anything similar too soon, especially since their are enough fps's out there so satisfy everyone.

 

[Zedzero]

360 doesn't have the power like PS3, it would be immpossible, maybe next gen.

How exactly do you know this? I mean, dear lord.. we all know that the Playstation 3 has superior hardware capabilities but that doesn't always mean a superior game. The capability is there but many times over it has proven to have not been used to full potential.

But the better portion of this topic, is the amount of people who are ignorant as to how MAG works and how a game would be developed based around this concept. It's a great day when people start to become cynical about something that isn't likely to exist.

Here you go:

Xbox 360 specs:

Custom PowerPC-based CPU
3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz
2 hardware threads per core (6 hardware threads total)
1 MB L2 cache
2.7GHz Front Side Bus
Custom ATI Graphics
Processor 500 MHz clock speed
10 MB embedded DRAM (256GB/s)
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture
Memory
512 MB GDDR3 RAM
Unified memory architecture


PS3 Specs:

CPU: Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
GPU: RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)

Memory:

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz