Already pre-ordered
RO:2 does look impressive, but let’s not forget about ArmA3 /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
DERP?
Ditto - and its already preordered.
You read that wrong Harlow, thing is to open eyes for other possibilities that are available. TBH you don’t know yet which game will be better because you haven’t played it yet or have you?. I judge games on that what I experienced personally, not basing on adverts or trailers. I played both titles and must say both games are good but in different way. RO2 is more enjoyable, challenging (40 players countdown is total blast), with better features and game engine/netcode when BF3 has hollywodish high-contrast graphic which is strikingly looking. Also Tripwire games are good not only for few weeks or months, but years. Soon after BF3 release we will hear about upcoming Bad Company 3 or Battlefield 4 where for RO you will get updates with tons of new content for free. Plus RO2:HoS has full mod support.
Decision is your what you buy, but before that judge games in all aspects - that’s what I do.
That ArmA 3 screen - Taylor? /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
I will play both games because there both good,
Really Apos, again? He’s pulling your leg and winding you up - the reason being that you mention RO2 everytime another game is mentioned in the FPS scope /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
The games are, as you say, very different forms of game play - I’ve played both RO and BF2 - I enjoyed both and probably played (out of the two) BF2 longer (mods, different game modes and things) as I found RO less teamwork (in small squads) based (in that in BC2 I can work with a team of four now around a map in a very enjoyable way, whereas in RO it was more of a run in the same direction time and again rather than having the free reign to go wherever I want to go on the map).
Now, all that being said, I will almost definitely play both - but I’ve chosen to preorder BF3 over RO2 because (as I’ve said above) I enjoyed BF2 more in the long run.
Fair enough, it’s still quite impressive that you compare a 5$ game made by small mod team to AAA title with huge budged of EA and manpower of DICE.
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I’m sure it cost me $13 when I got it.. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
I’d compare any game (after all, I build low budget games) regardless of cost… to me, there is only one factor - is it fun or not, both were fun.
I was about to say – the makers are irrelevant. In fact, often times the small mod-teams and independant studios have an advantage over the mainline studios owned or under contract with big publishers.
They don’t have shareholders who may be concerned that it’s too radical, too niche and not profitable enough.
So yeah, quite rightly you should compare any game with any other game you want to play.
[quote]I was about to say – the makers are irrelevant. In fact, often times the small mod-teams and independant studios have an advantage over the mainline studios owned or under contract with big publishers.
They don’t have shareholders who may be concerned that it’s too radical, too niche and not profitable enough.
So yeah, quite rightly you should compare any game with any other game you want to play.
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i Agree, After all i think Harlow should know how it works with what he does for a living /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
Well, both BF3 and RO2 are pre-ordered. So I don’t really need to bother myself with stuff like why I shouldn’t or should enjoy something.
Also, BF3 is absolutely not realistic (not like they had ever been counting on that), but honestly all that RO fanboyism just gets old.
I have pre ordered BF3 as well. I am with the LT in that we had some good games on the old platform.
[quote]The tables have turned. A day after we gladly reported that console gamers would be getting this great PC feature called “server browser”, we can now report that PC gamers won’t have an in-game server browser. DICE’s Alan Kertz has confirmed that in order to switch servers, you have to exit Battlefield 3, and use Battlelog to find another server and join. Granted, Kertz points out that BF3 “starts up really fast”, but we can’t imagine it being more effective than having an in-game server browser, which has been the norm in PC games for decades — in fact, there’s no other game that requires you to exit in order to switch servers. Considering that server switching is frequent among gamers, either because of rage quitting or trying to find a better game, or something third, this could cause some annoyance. We’ll have to wait and see how it plays out (no pun intended) when Battlefield 3 is released. So far, it’s kinda disappointing news, but we’ll see how it turns out in the end.
Console gamers now have in-game server browser, while PC gamers don’t. Oh the irony
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BF3 as always unique, now you will have to quit a game to change a server.
Let me guess… RO2 will have ingame server browser, right? /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
(In fairness, it’s a bit pap alright – but being honest with you, I don’t really swap around servers a lot. If you rage quit, won’t you quit out all together anyway? /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />)
It’s releasing game with PC standards, so PC player should have all game elements that they deserved. Mod tools and couple more elements are already missing.
For example I (and friends of mine) had to change game servers in BC2 quite often because most of them had very f*cked up hit registration or game settings.
On that point I understand why EA decided to do such thing, they always have had problem with server browsers in-game (famous game crashes on browsing servers in BF2 or BC2).
I can see this being a hinderence from a point of view. Does it mean quit the game to desktop fully and then try and find a new game? What reasoning to do this makes it seem logical I wonder?
Having playing over 400hours of BF2 I can say When I rage quit because of hackers or just getting totally owned that seem to be hired by BF2 to play it XD i switch servers for a better server
[quote]I can see this being a hinderence from a point of view. Does it mean quit the game to desktop fully and then try and find a new game? What reasoning to do this makes it seem logical I wonder?
Having playing over 400hours of BF2 I can say When I rage quit because of hackers or just getting totally owned that seem to be hired by BF2 to play it XD i switch servers for a better server
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There is no logical explanation, its EA/DICE /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
Darn Commercial market Publishers. This is why I am glad that My Favorite game managed to become a private establishment after dropping EA
It’s interesting to see that they’ve added the in game browser to the console version /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width=“20” height=“20” />
Still, I’ll wait and see - if the game truly does start up quickly I won’t mind how I get into a game - if it takes ages to shutdown/startup then I’ll be less sympathetic.
to all who bought BF3 - good luck with new EA’s spyware application
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Another reason to avoid EA’s games