So the mighty Battlefield BETA or demo whichever way you look at it has landed much to the delight of console owners everywhere as well as the PC.
Personally I play both games and both have there own strengths and weaknesses and are played in my opinion by different breeds of gamers,were as COD is a twitch shooter catered to the lovers of run and gunning it were as Battlefield is for the more team based slow tactical style of play. Unless you have been living under a earth sized rock for the past few months Battlefield 3 is touted as sticking it to Call Of Duty this year.
First off I tried the PS3 version first and in all truthfulness I cannot for the love of god get used to the PS3 pad when it comes to shooters..
I think it stems from the fact my hands are now genetically molded to the shape of an xbox 360 pad now. The game itself plays fine just not for a gimpy handed twatbag like myself but after trying it on the 360 all is well and I now feel “at home” with BF3 on the Xbox 360 now ..
Thank you Call of Duty for gimping my claw like gamer hands….
Now on to the BETA/DEMO itself. Each console version plays as well as each other but are plagued by the usual beta style things like glitch’s and dodgy looking scenery and general all round unfinished look .
I suffered a lot of weird bugs like weird colored flashes on my screen as well as loss of sound which I might add happens nigh on every game and some seriously freaky “silent Hill” abomination thingamajig style crawling animations and worst of all - weird low resolution textures making my HD TV want to cry..
In fairness I think a lot of us were expecting some super duper High resolution gaming godliness that was going to kill off Call Of Duty and usher in Battlefield as something that made you one of the super uber “cool kids” but we got something a little erm .. Disappointing.
To bring out a BETA/DEMO this close to release date and touting it as going head to head with the behemoth that is Call Of Duty, Most people will agree it looks fairly poor and doesn’t really play that well with the boatload of glitches with some serious balance issues especially with the UMP
It seems a very bad decision on EA/DICEs part and will no doubt make some people cancel their pre order and the COD only fan boys something to flame bait the BF3 bunch with even if they did release a statement regarding what were playing...
” A lot of what you are seeing in the BETA doesn't exist in the main game already. 1st Party submissions mean we couldn't give a version of the latest code in the BETA but the retail game is well ahead of what you are seeing now with a lot more bug fixes already in place “
In fairness I’m beginning to see through the glitches as well as the graphics quality and trying to enjoy it and hope to god they are not bullshitting in regards to the quality of the game and hope the bug fixes are fixed come release day…
What worries me is the likes of Uncharted and Gears Of War 3 had betas and looked fairly good and released looking more or less the same but the Dev teams had the added benefit of having a fair few months to polish said Games.
Hopefully all will be well come the 28th of October…
An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland
Obsidian should take over the FO IP. They're do far better with it than Bethesda who hasn't made a great game for almost 15 years
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
"The Vancouver-based (Canada) indie games developer Blinkmoon Games are today very happy and proud to announce that their dark fantasy bullet heaven "Necromantic", is coming to PC via Steam Early Access in 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
I had a hard time reading this because of the many grammar issues, but besides that, this just seems to be another person crying out like a child. This is in fact a BETA that is a very old build. Destruction has been taken out of this beta, the graphics look a LOT better on the PC version, and will look 10 times better on all versions come release date. People need to stop their bitching, stop comparing this to Call of Duty AND Bad Company, because this is neither of those. This is the next BATTLEFIELD game, the sequel to Battlefield 2, NOT Bad Company 2. People are thinking this game is just another run and gun style game just because of the stupid metro map that is meant for that type of play. They don't think of Conquest on Caspian Border, or all of the other maps that will be available. Everyone nitpicked this beta to death because of all the critics out there putting it up against Call of Duty.
I apologize for the angry nerd above me. XD
"and some seriously freaky “silent Hill” abomination thingymajig style crawling animations..."
Lol, ain't that the truth. I saw one dude suspended in the air as if he was hanged with his body twitching and jerking. I'm confident DICE will release a polished game; a dev of their caliber doesn't put out a game THAT bad. My only wish is for the beta itself to get patched so we can stop having these "underworld spars".
Well here's the thing. I didn't try any version other than the PC (why would I), and I absolutely LOVE the game, WHEN IT WORKED, even while playing on my Universities top of the line connection, I was getting a stupid amount of server lag, which ultimately made the game unplayable... Every single time.... I thought it could have been my PC's performance (not likely at all), so I OC'd my 5970 anyways... NOTHING changed. This was tested through all graphical setting presets.
If the servers are rock solid come launch date, its gonna be an amazing time waster of a game, if not. I think I'm done gaming for a long while
“Silent Hill” abomination thingamajig style crawling animations "
http://youtu.be/aE3zESmcqwA
does gravity still affect bullets or not cause i dont see it, also i wish medals were back and flashlights and lasers can be annoying. i still loved the pc version with 64 players on Caspian border.