Yesterday Activision's hand was forced when Kotaku leaked Modern Warfare 3 for the world to see. Everything was leaked, from locations, to story, weapons and even the game's ending.
What followed was a barrage of MW3 teasers from Infinity Ward, leaving most of the gaming world wanting more. But there were some screens leaked in the process showing off some levels of the game that's still early in production, and the levels shown were yet being built. However you have Battlefield 3 fans roaming gaming sites, searching for COD threads to trash talk the game. Mind you, COD will sell infinitely more copies than BF3 for many reasons, one of them being the enjoyability of the game.
Yet with all the bragging, DICE hasn't shown not one clip of console footage of its latest game, only topnotch PC in-game trailers. What's with that? At least Infinity Ward and all COD developers ALWAYS show us console footage from the get-go.
And no one should make the claim that "it's a PC game first", because COD was also a PC game first and Infinity Ward were PC developers. It's becoming annoying, really. I say it's time the games speak for themselves and right now we don't have a fair comparison.
EA's been boasting big words concerning Battlefield 3. It says it'll go head-to-head this year in November with COD, the publisher also said it believes it has a better game and people only need to know of it. In fact, EA's gone as far as saying "we'll eventually beat Call of Duty". But what have we heard from Activision? Nothing. The publisher refuse to engage its rival with dry words, instead they've chosen a "show action" stance.
So unless we see console footage of BF3, EA should shut up. This is also deceiving. Gamers are drooling over Battlefield 3 because DICE has shown us PC footage of the highest optimization, but I won't.
Man up, DICE. Show us what you're made of by showing us second-to-none console footage of BF3, and then we will talk.
Consoles are mainstream... 90% of them don't know about gaming sites like this. For once, a AAA shooter isn't porting a console game to PC, and you get jealous, and go back to your beloved COD. I'll have you know that console graphics are shit... developers have to render them so much that PC gamers have to suffer.
ReplyDeleteConsole graphics= no one cares.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with william, this article is bullshit
ReplyDeleteCome on! As a console user I don't have to spend 3-400 dollars every 6 months to upgrade PC to get the max settings available or spend 1000-2000 to get the highest spec PC that would last for 2 years the most before I have to upgrade. These are the biggest reasons why consoles are big markets for FPS. Spend 300 bucks for hardware for the next 8-10 years and I'm good for COD 2,3,4, etc. GOW 1,2,3,etc. I agree with the article EA should man up and show console footage and not hide behind max PC settings that only 1% of PC population with have horsepower to run!
ReplyDeleteUr right... gaming pcs are a big investment... but do you have a computer, a TV, and a console? I don't, I stream cable through my $1200 laptop, get my normal computer work (ie email, photoshop, word) done through it, and I get truly great graphics with literally about 12 times the RAM that comes in your 6 year old console... make your PC custom unlike I did and it would cost even less.
ReplyDeletePeople have said PC gaming is dead since before I was born... and I guarantee you that the next batch of consoles (no, the wii 2 does not count) will be about twice as expensive as the last batch, ask any market analyst; but this is not a pc-vs-console forumn, I was simply trying to make a point that console gamers seem to be used to getting all of the dev's attention, and they need to sit the fuck down