Poll: XBox and MAG =(

[ChromeAlchemist]

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.

I keep hearing that the reason it can handle such a thing is because the map is partitioned off, so you're all essentially playing on the same map, but in your own sections.

Can anyone confirm that? If it's true, then MAG is lies. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, as the game looks enticing.

 

[MR T3D]

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.

I keep hearing that the reason it can handle such a thing is because the map is partitioned off, so you're all essentially playing on the same map, but in your own sections.

Can anyone confirm that? If it's true, then MAG is lies. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, as the game looks enticing.

i've seen a tube vid where 128 players on a team converged and ran around for lulz.
wasn't that laggy.

 

[VanityGirl]

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

Uhmm...Never mind. I won't start.

Seeing as I own all three consoles, I can skilly avoid the problem of not having MAG.
But...I don't see why it can't be done.
My 360 never lags when I'm online, even when I'm in large games in MW2.

It's just a PS3 exclusive, that's all.

 

[reg42]

just let the PS3 have this one, Xbox has plenty of other games

 

[TPiddy]

MAG pretty much counts on, and sometimes forces you to be segregated from the other squads for most of the match. Very rarely will you actually come across any more than 10-20 guys at a time...

While their claim of 256 players is *technically* true, the experience is little more than concurrent CoD matches running on the same map.

 

[Jekken6]

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.

About no 360 Demon's Souls: It can't happen, due to the way the online component works and the pay-to-play nature of LIVE.

Ehh...it could easily be changed to require a gold membership for the online features. Now, it WON'T be ported because Sony needs to hang on to every decent exclusive for dear life, especially after losing sole control of FF13.

Which is unfortunate, because I'd love to play Demon's Souls even if it were ported to PC.

Well, Demon's Souls is awesome. Hell, one of my friends want to get a PS3 JUST for that game. I'm not saying it's impossible on 360, just more tricky.

And if it were on PC, it'd look better, but I can't really imagine playing the game without a controller.

 

[Shoobie]

There is so many things wrong in this thread, it makes my face hurt.

#1. XBL allows for normal, dedicated servers. L4D and L4D2 uses them. So does MMOs and, I'm sure, other games. This is not the issue.

#2. The PS3 doesn't have 7 cores. It has ONE, uno, ichi... ONE CPU core. It has 7 SPEs. SPEs are not CPU cores, nor do they work like a CPU core. Read up. This is not the issue either.

#3. It has nothing to do with the 360's design. If my 2004 Mid-rang PC can run MMOs and other massive games with little lag, the 360 should be able to do it lag-free. There is nothing, and never has been anything, keeping one system from running games similar to the other systems games. This goes for PS3's Killzone 2 and 360's Gears of War 2. Both can be had on each system, they arn't as mind blowing as you think once you remove your fanboy glasses. This is not the issue, period.

What is the issue? Money. No one developing for the 360 sees a game like MAG as being viable. After getting sick of the beta, I can tell you it's just another sub-standard shooter. Unless they come out with some really mind-blowing playlist or whatever for the full release, it's going to be a clusterfink of epic proportions lead by every 12 year old on PSN. The only reason we don't see this in the beta is because most kids couldn't talk their parents into the Qore subscription. It's turning into another Killzone 2 launch. It's going to be hailed as the savior of the PS3 by the fanboys, then it will fall faster than the nickers of a drunken prostitute... but I do enjoy my Killzone more than MAG. I don't like being screamed at by some fratboy with a Napoleon complex.

It all comes down to money, money, money, and more money. What doesn't the 360 have wireless? Money, Money, Money. Why does the games for all systems cost so much? Money Money Money. It's what the world runs on.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

It could happen, no reason it couldn't. Its not something I'm interested in though.

 

[duchaked]

well to be honest the question I have is...why would you want to?

I played Resistance online with my friend, and I thought it was fun when we did the mode with different classes
sure it was cool at first with the regular death match having like 60+ people, but it just became chaotic and pointless
but again the class systems (I was on ammo supply guy duty instead of like spec ops...but still fun!). guess that's why TF2 is such a big PC hit

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Sure, we could do with a game LIKE mag
But not MAG, thats a PS3 exclusive, and its needed.
And besides, it gives me a reason to dust off my ps3 and it also gives me a way to play with people I dont usually play with

 

[Cabisco]

You could physically see the other 255 players, you'd be causing more frustration for your team because you probably wouldn't be focusing on your objective.

Ahhh cool, for me that gives the game much more credibility, thank you for clearing that up.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

...what is MAG?

 

[AkJay]

256 asshole pre-teen homophobes shouting cursewords while running around on one map? No thanks.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I'm not really interested in it. It looks cool and it is definitly a cool idea,but I just don't think it would be a game that would interest me that much.

 

[Con Carne]

Xbox thrives off of FPS's, they have the biggest one out there (HALO). Let PS3 keep MAG for themselves. Just like when XBox got Castle Crashers....PS3 users never got it. Then PS3 got Fat Princess. people just need to leave it alone.

 

[Riobux]

To be honest, I don't mind either way. Although I may be bias in that judgement since I have a PS3. However, if I had to pick a side, I'd say that it would be best if MAG wasn't on X-Box 360 because it's usually best to let consoles have their own exclusive games to their console only.

 

[Pingieking]

*snip*

The flame attempt is included in the Mass Effect 2 comment. Go ahead and express your disinterest, but don't go sounding like a fanboy by bringing unrelated topics into this one. What does Mass Effect 2 have anything to do with MAG? It's not even the same type of game.

On top of that, you don't seem to even know what MAG is. This is something limited to just you; about 40% of all the posts on this thread are made by people who show no interest and simply assume that MAG is a crappier MW2 with 256 players, which you demonstrate by calling it "a basic FPS with added player slots". The original question was asked with the assumption that the responders actually knew what MAG was and formed an informed opinion of it.

EDIT: Fixed spelling and grammar.

 

[Korten12]

how many people here have accutaly played the full game and not the beta or the game at all?

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

Well, a game that follows the principles of MAG. MAG itself is a good idea done to a low standard.

 

[Joshimodo]

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

Go upgrade to broadband then.


Frankly, MAG is a piece of crap. It's a tech demo, and not even a very good one. 64 players was available in FPS games for over 6 years. 256 is hardly a major leap, especially with server tech from MMOs (which have even more players per server on the whole).

MAG wants to be Battlefield, and it isn't. It's an incredibly average FPS with a larger than average (and in my opinion, larger than it should be) number of players per match.