Three Reasons You Should NOT Pass on Battlefield 3

Button Combo Writes: "This article is a direct reply to Planet Xbox’s quite frankly ridiculous three ‘reasons’ why you should avoid Battlefield 3. While some “journalists” are helping enlighten the gaming community why they shouldn’t play a great game, we would like to tell you why they are dead wrong."

[Dart89]

1.Been in develoment for several years.
2.I don't have to worry about snot nose little kids dropping the f and n word like it's a hot potato.
3.Looks like a game from 2011 not 2007-_-.

My main reason it has dinosaurs :D.

@Below " I can't put my finger on why, because it doesn't do anything completely new and genre changing."

Come on man it adds dinosaurs no other FPS has done that xDD.

[beastgamer]

its all about money, greed, forcing you to pay 60 for one game, denying anyone that can't afford it, making you suffer when your tired of the game and no one wants to buy it used off of you, corporations having more money than the government cough*Apple*cough* MS forcing us to pay for their services while Sony PS Plus is building features you would like free (auto-Trophy) sync, but then again we still pay for an online pass! Forcing us cheap and poor to pay what the rich does, mainly in an economy like this.
Excuses: We need to pay for severs. BS, EA with your Billions of dollars. I was hoping for Battlefield 3 from Dice, no EA but then again you lock steam out to support yourself with origin installed on everyone's computers just to get hits, and even since Activison doesn't do that shit with COD, they just event their copy and paste for you to pay up each f***ing year.
Hey, your gonna buy all 4 Black Ops map packs, well, you just paid 60 dollars bitch, for something that should of been in the final game.
This is why my money is going to one game
"Deus Ex Human Revolution" Reveal the conspiracy!
REVEAL, WHY DEVELOPERS AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO eliminate THE EXISTENCE OF DINOSAURS

[Xenial]

Interesting stuff said. I agree.

[MsclMexican]

PlanetXbox360 is the ultimate troll site, I mean here are some of their articles

5 reasons to buy Gears of War3 over Uncharted 3
3 reasons why Mass Effect 3 sucks
Why Battlefield 3 will be better than MW3
Why not to buy Battlefield 3

Seriously, the only reason they make money is because they awaken the fanboy in all of us.

Those dirty SOB's

[darksied]

Look man, here's the thing. You can moan and complain about money and prices all you want, but this is a capitalist society, it's going to be like this forever, and probably will only get worse.

Now, OF COURSE game companies want to make money. I'm not going to defend Activision, because I don't agree with them milking a franchise like they do with CoD, but I see your point about games being expensive and online passes costing a lot. BUT there are alternatives. Really, just think about it. You said the "cheap and poor" (which I could make a lot of comments about, but I'll skip it); ok, if you're cheap (which I am quite a lot myself) and poor, but there's many options.

Namely, WAIT. WAIT for the price to drop. Bad Company 2's price is like $5 on sale like every other week and that's for the whole game, no used piece of crap that Gamestop will sell. The price of Battlefield 3, especially digital copies, will drop a lot eventually, and there will still be tons of people playing. If you're truly cheap and poor, then wait for it then and save your money. That way you can afford like 5 games for the same price as it costs for one $60 game.

And if you're truly cheap, there's STILL other ways you can save. Don't buy it from a walk-in retailer like gamestop, watch online for the best deals and buy it there. Deus Ex, I recently saw a pre-order for it for about $38 shipped from newegg, which is pretty amazing.

If you really don't have much money or have to choose between a game NOW, you either have to do exactly that (choose 1 game) or you can wait and pick them all up when they're cheaper. That way you don't have to worry about used games and online passes, and you can still enjoy them. It helps if you've been doing this for a while, then you have a backlog of games that you can play until these games go down in price.

[PRHB HYBRiiD]

Turok?

[Pl4sm4]

ok someone should hunt down the writers of planet xbox .... they are an abomination of society

[cyguration]

Project Blackout has Dinosaurs, too. Just saying.

[vglulz]

Battlefield 3 feels like a breath of fresh air.

I can't put my finger on why, because it doesn't do anything completely new and genre changing.

[Elwenil]

For me, it's the hope that BF3 will bring back a little "seriousness" to military shooters. I had hours of fun with BF2 on the PC and even more fun down the road with the Project Reality mod for BF2 and I'm hoping BF3 will bring some of that fun back. I know a lot of people love crazy action shooters with all kinds of outrageous stuff going on but I think it's gotten a little out of hand. I'm looking for a military experience that is more of a team based experience to play with friends and less of a Michael Bay movie. I don't have a big problem with CoD, Brink, Bulletstorm or other over the top shooters but I much prefer something a little more realistic and that has enough options available in the gameplay to allow for some "real world" tactics and strategy with infantry, armor and aircraft. That's why BF3 seems to be a breath of fresh air to me, though others will certainly disagree.

[cyguration]

Complete environmental destruction is nothing new? Realistic squad-based reactions, animations, gun-based physics and real-to-life vehicular mechanics are nothing new?

I can't think of a game out there where you can get rid of a sniper by completely leveling the entire floor he's on. If that's not genre changing I don't know what is.

[iamnsuperman]

You do realise you have sunk as low as planet xbox's article buy replying to it especially in the way you have done it

[Grandclover]

lol did you actual read it, i thought he was alot nicer then alot of gamers would be at a tastless attack on a Xbox site that is endorsing it for console sake. That is MS for you do whats best for profit not whats best for gamers.

[ashbc]

As an owner of the all the previous MW games I gotta say they haven't impressed me yet.

[ape007]

im a huge call of duty fan, hell even before activision form IW in 2002\2003(members worked with EA on MOH), i loved the MOH games, especially MOH: frontline on PS2

Im definitely gonna get MW3 and I cannot wait for BF3, i loved bad company 2 so much, the gameplay is unlimited and delicious, no way im passing on BF3

[slaton24]

i noticed one thing...activision is screwing up Cod....one thing that could help is to have dedicated servers and oh and to treat all gamers equal...if activision hates ps3 so much y not just become a microsoft slave....we dont get nothing special from activision...atleast when EA does stuff its for both systems like a free battlefield 3 beta from MoH and free battlefield 1943

[Bladesfist]

Activision screw us pc gamers more. But yer it sucks

[GrumpyVeteran]

Lol these articles are really getting annoying now.

These games can't release sooner...then I hope these arguments will end.

[vglulz]

It would be naive of you to think these arguments will end after launch.

[ape007]

it's a source of $$$$ for these sites, but it gone way too much

[slaton24]

dude these arguements will only end when CoD and Battlefied are forever cancelled even if one doent make no more there will still be people sayin heck yeah our game was so much better thats y we r still here....i own 3 Cod's and 2 battlefields(might get 3rd.....skyrim, BatmanAC, Resistance 3, U3, AC revelations) but im not gettin mw3 im sick of faggots and little kids playin these games when they no they r to young...Call of duty is just like halo now...what i mean by that is this....they get over excited just cause a new halo game comes out even an old remake and the same goes to CoD now...in MY OPINION all FPS are overrated...theres isnt much more you could really do to change how they play..atleast with skyrim you have your imagination on the neat stuff you can do...if you dont think so buy elder scrolls 4 oblivion game of the year edition it should b cheaper

[bloodybutcher]

if mw and bf would get cancelled then you'd have articles ''if mw and bf would get another release then which one would be better?''

[Parapraxis]

I'm going to get both.

[kza]

How about buy the 1 YOU want!!

[firemassacre]

there should only be 1 reason, if you like shooters buy battlefield 3, thats it. if you seen the gameplay and your not satisfied...then good riddance, it would be best not to have you on bf3.

[wenaldy]

1. T-Rex
2. Dinosaur
3. Dinosaur

[newleaf]

Can't wait for these games to release so we can stop talking about them like this. I hope Battlefield 3 releases and bombs solely just to shut the MW haters up. I'd say vice versa but I know if MW bombs we'd never hear the end of it from pretentious bf3 snobs. If bf3 bombs, MW3 fans and fanboys will be too busy PLAYING to care

[Mario4life]

why would you ever want a game to fail, it was someone's hard work put in that game and there family's livelyhood, and battlefield has yet to fail yet, i doubt it will, but enjoy playing the samething again

[thephillup]

I agree. While it may have come off a bit too harsh in the article, it wasn't made to make MW3 look bad but just to say you can not put Battlefield 3 side by side MW3 and say not to play BF3.

[vyke3]

i personally think that mw3 will be better than the previous cod's soley for the reason that it has competition this time.

if bf3 fails then i can guarantee you that next year's cod will suck because of the lack of competition.

so if you are a cod fan, you should hope that bf3 does well. in fact cod fans should be more happy than bf fans if bf3 succeeds.

[ape007]

exactly, competition give us the best

[Hicken]

Your trolling only seems to get worse with every comment.

[newleaf]

in what way can trolling get better? Genuine question

[Hicken]

Good trolling is often noted by how it almost doesn't seem like trolling at all.

[Ser]

Both sides have their haters, don't be silly.

Where were you when Black Ops launched?

[Mutant-Spud]

Homefront still has full servers all the time on XBL, if that "Rough Diamond" didn't bomb BF3 certainly won't.
However given the problems BFBC:2 had on launch I can see myself waiting a couple of weeks before buying BF3.

[cyguration]

The most screwed up logic I've ever come across...really.

[josephayal]

MW3 Same graphics Same Engine Same Formula... MEH!

[ape007]

LoL

[Number_3]

I'm passing on BF3 because I don't have a proper gaming PC to play it.

[T3MPL3TON]

EA Exec when asks what would happen when Origin fails.

"We don't have any reason to believe that it will, whats important to understand is people will HAVE TO USE ORIGIN in order to play our games on the PC, there is no other choice."

He was then asked wouldn't it make more sense to and be more profitable to offer EA titles on Steam to maximize marketability.

"The tiny amount of people who don't make the jump to Origin don't make a difference. The hundreds of dollars we'd make from them would amount to nothing more than "chump change" to us."

He was then asked if he thought that, that was a smart business move.

"We have a margin of failure so small, it doesn't matter. People will buy or games and use Origin or they'll play Call of Duty, it's that simple."

The "interview" was then ended and the interviewer was told if he posted anything that was said he'd be hearing from "an extensive group of lawyers."

Anyone who accepts EA's bullshit is more foolish than those who purchase CoD every year.

[Hicken]

Source?

[cyguration]

Everyone knows EA is as bad as Activision. At least they allowed DICE to actually improve Battlefield with FB2.0...as opposed to Activisison who just fires people and hires in more drones to churn out a rekinned version of the same thing each year.

EA is no saint but their business practice is a little less "I'll spit in the face of consumers, innovation and the industry itself for a few $$$"

[CrimsonEngage]

Tanks, Planes and Automobiles. That's why.

[HeavenlySnipes]

The people that like COD will for the most part, not purchase BF and vice versa. These silly articles written by fanboys of each do nothing tosway gamers in the slightest.

[electricshadow]

"Modern Warfare 3…shouldn’t you wait for 4? I heard it has double the zombies."

LOL. Oh wow, that made me laugh more than it should.

[GunofthePatriots]

1. If you're not a CoD nub

[Cereal]

I'm passing on it because I'll still probably be playing Batman: AC. If for some reason I happen to finish it on the same day that BF3 comes out then I will have DBZ: UT, Silent Hill: Downpour, & KoF13 to play.

I'm gonna pass on this game. It's just another generic military shooter anyways and I've had enough shooters this gen.

[Mutant-Spud]

Frostbite makes it Non Generic, every match is different because of the destruction.
That and I can only get kills in hardcore games requiring skill instead of muscle memory, CoD is frustrating if you haven't got fast reflexes for some reason. A broader range of people, in age and ability can play slower paced shooters like BF or Halo.
I'll leave CoD to the teenagers.

[TheOtherTheoG]

Frostbite doesn't really make the game non-generic. It's still a modern day military shooter set in a variety of mostly Middle-Eastern and largely grey environments using a variety of real world weapons, technology and vehicles, with some ridiculous plot involving terrorism, bad accents and nuclear weaponry, aiming to try and make the player feel as if he's a real soldier through a variety of set pieces a real soldier would never actually end up in. That's pretty generic. Sure, destruction is a neat gameplay device, but it's like saying Call of Duty isn't generic because it has killstreaks, it's simply a slightly unique feature in that game. Compared to actual non-generic shooters, it's pretty generic.

Oh, and if you want a hardcore shooter, you could do a lot better that Halo or Battlefield. Team Fortress 2, Quake Live, Unreal Tournament - hell, there's a new Counterstrike coming pretty soon.

[Silencer-14]

You think people would get bored of writing these kinds of articles -_-

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

lol at this sad excuse for jouranalisim......

Trying to win people over into clicking on their site by starting up the ol "Call of Duty SUCKS!" bandwagon.

Thats just lame, and if everyone hates COD so much why do they spend so much time talking about it?

[Hufandpuf]

where's Raven Nomad? He's not here because he knows this article speaks truth.

[Bonobo12345]

Just to clarify, they added a dinosaur because there weren't any in MW2. It was a MW2 spokeswoman that went to 4chan and asked why they didn't like the game, not battlefield or DICE.

[Inside_out]

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The three reasons to skip Battlefield 3 article was precise, to the point and very well written. He was only pointing out the TRUTH, something foreign to the BF3 fanboys as they live in some sort of delusional state.

" Battlefield 3 is something that is coming in almost a savior-like fashion "...

...this statement should clue you in to where this " Billy " article writer guy is coming from...obviously, he should call himself hill-billy...0_o...Battlefield 3 is NOT a saviour for ANYTHING. FPS's don't need saving, having a CLUE helps in writing these types of articles. :o

" it must be respected that PC gamers are still around and thriving "...

...and it is BUT in this case, your dead wrong. The consoles have far surpassed the PC in FPS's and as the sales for Battlefield 2 Bad Company, the consoles had double the sales for that game--6+ million to 3 million for PC. So for that, they get a dumbed down version with a control scheme designed for a PC. :/

Here's a novel idea, how about a little respect for the console gamer that has made parasite EA-Dice disgustingly RICH...did that ever cross your mind??? Why should the console gamer except any of this crap???

You know why they are using " fantasy " PC footage??? It's for no other reason than to lie and deceive the gamers out there to think this game is something that it is NOT. If this game EVEN looks a little like those TRAILERS, it will be a very small percentage, something like 1 percent that will actually experience the game the way it has been shown...IF THAT AT ALL.

Go read Dart89 at the top, the king of the delusional fanboys post. It hilarious how naive these guys can get.

" been in dev several years "...lol...what is several yrs??? Didn't they make BF BC 2??? Didn't they work on MOH and actually made the multi-player??? Are they NOW, not making BF3...what is this kid talking about several yrs when they never left or stop putting out games???

The COD MW engine is one of the most sophisticated engines out there. In typical delusional fanboy rant, most say it's the same engine from 2007...O_o...here's the deal...

" The game utilizes the in-house IW 4.0 game engine, which is generation beyond the capabilities of the engine used in Call of Duty 4 ( Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare runs on a proprietary game engine (from a version of id Tech 3) with features that include true world-dynamic lighting, HDR lighting effects, dynamic shadows and depth of field ). Although proprietary, it is based on an unspecified id Tech engine, and can accommodate larger worlds, enhanced graphic detail, and more efficient rendering.

For Dart and his minions...that means that MW3 will be the most advanced COD EVER.

At this point of this gaming generation, NO game engine will look night and day different from the last game as the advancements are now smaller and more about making the game a more polished and complete package.

[ashbc]

You just wasted 10 minutes of your life on something which smells distinctly like bullshit.

[KingZFlipper]

If someone is the "king of delusional fanboys" here at N4G, it's definitely you.

"" been in dev several years "...lol...what is several yrs??? Didn't they make BF BC 2??? Didn't they work on MOH and actually made the multi-player??? Are they NOW, not making BF3...what is this kid talking about several yrs when they never left or stop putting out games???"

Kid, are you serious? Did you know developers can develop several games at once? Look at what bungie did with Halo 3 ODST and Reach. They put some of their team working on ODST and some on Reach. You just as stupid as you look like in your comments.

[thugbob]

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Can you please tell me why it's possible to run and gun with a sniper rifle in CoD o_O?