The Preemptive BF3/MW3 Thread (Not a vs. thread)

[Phlakes]

Hey guys.

Battlefield 3 is coming out. Pretty cool. Now, we all (hopefully) know that this is the internet, and we all know that people on the internet like to be dicks, but I want you to take a look at yourself. On November 8, Modern Warfare 3 is coming out. What just went through your mind? If it involves something like "lol mw3 noobs cod is shit", I have something for you-

The Call of Duty franchise is not the best-selling game franchise in history for nothing. The games are fun. I enjoy them, your friends enjoy them, people as awesome as our own Gavin Dunne enjoy them. I also enjoy Battlefield. They possibly do, too.

Take a moment to consider if you're on a bandwagon. Look yourself in the eye and tell yourself that your opinions really are your opinions. If you can actually be sincere, cool. Good for you. But don't ***** about it here.

Now, the BF3 reviews are coming in. I've already seen several posts accusing the reviewers of giving in to hype and bribery. I also have something for you-

Reviewers are smarter than you think. Chances are they've been working in the industry for a fucking long time, especially the ones that are chosen to review big-name releases. Don't sit there accusing that their opinions are the skewed ones. They know what hype is, and their entire fucking job is to be objective (or, at the very least, more objective than the zero-bombing douchenozzles you see in user reviews). Of course, no one is perfect, but out of the 16 reviews for BF3 that have been released, don't even try to tell us that every single one of them is boosting a terrible or average game's score into the 8s-9s and up.

And a few last things-

-Obviously, there's a lot of criticism for "realistic", "brown", "modern", or whatever-the-hell-else shooters. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the genre. The reason there are so many is because they work. Even an average one like Homefront is still pretty enjoyable (now, if you're inherently not an FPS fan, this obviously doesn't apply to you).

-I should say something about Call of Duty. While I do enjoy the games, the controls are shit and unresponsive, the games are almost broken beyond recognition, The graphics look like they're from a Nintendo 64, and the multiplayer is one of the most boring experiences this generation. If you agree with me, guess what? Everything I just said is the opposite of the truth, and your opinion is probably distorted. Take another look at the second paragraph.

-Don't hate on Call of Duty 4. Really. All it wanted to do was make one of the best online multiplayer experiences of the generation. Say what you will about the newer ones, it didn't do anything wrong.

-Swinging back to the review discussion, MW3 will receive some high reviews. These reviewers know about the CoD hate. Haters automatically believe that reviewers are mindless corporate-whores who think "HERP DERP COD IS POPULAR 10s AND 9s FOR EVERYTHING". You know that sounds like? Replace 10 and 9 with 0 ad 1.

Thinking about flaming me for this post?

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[Griphphin]

I'ma regurgitate that chillaxative and say that people are too lenient on CoD4 in my experience. People are so quick to judge more recent games by that "gold" standard without remembering the real faults that it had (M16+RDS+SP master race and 3x frag for instance). It was really fun though, and had some of my favorite weapons in it (the M14 in that game will never have an equal!), so I'm not gonna rag on it too hard unprovoked.
*retakes regurgitated chillaxative*

 

[Supertegwyn]

I agree with all of your points except the ones about Call of Duty 4. I thought Black Ops was better than that terrible game. Worst in the series IMO.

Of course my opinion is one of many, so I'm not going to try and say that people who like Call of Duty 4 are "wrong". I am just not one of them.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

I fully agree with your points. I liked Modern Warfare for its story telling and its diverse campaign combat. I also liked Modern Warfare 2 for the graphics and while the story is definitely an intellectual downgrade from the first one, it still feautred some real fun combat. Black Ops had the most idiotic storyline to date and the PC version was buggy as all hell and I seriously didn't like it. If MW3 can capture the spirit of the first one again, I will thank it.

As for the Battlefield series, I have only played Bad Company 2 and when the helicopter scene came,I remember thinking "Huh, this looks very familiar". The story was about as stupid and single minded as you can get today but I respected it for some attempts at diverse combat and, while this is maybe a little lame, the sound was a marvel of programming. The multiplayer was definitely more diverse than CoD and that is something to be praised.

I don't know about you, but when the games come out, I'm gonna get both and build my own opinion...

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Question, do the Chillaxatives cause side effects similar to laxatives?

 

[INF1NIT3 D00M]

Question, do the Chillaxatives cause side effects similar to laxatives?

Yes. In fact, it's just laxatives. You take them, and then you'll be too busy on the toilet to post angry comments on the internet.

OT: I'm going to play both, and I'm reserving real judgement until I've gotten some time with each. I mean, I'll still point out the obvious, like "Modern settings are overused in the same way WWII was a few years ago", but that's not so much an opinion on the games themselves as it is a general statement about the industry. Also, my purchase of one will not affect the other. Or actually, maybe it will. Not because I really care about the 'rivalry', mostly just because I have *very* limited funds, and they're basically the same game, give or take a feature.

Given I'd have to deal with the Xbox Live CoD community on MW3, and that MW2/Blops was not my style, I'm probably going to stick to single player/LAN games with friends when trying out MW3. As for Battlefield 3, my purchase is entirely dependent on whether the gameplay gives me enough of a boner that I won't mind logging into Origin and navigating their retarded server system just to play it.
...All that assuming I scrape together enough money to buy either game before something actually interesting comes out on Steam for a significantly lower asking price.