Opinions thread

Thought I might as well make one, as the game came out today.

I played about 30 minutes of the trial. It was fun and pretty good, but it wasn't really great or unique imo. If I didn't have any multiplayer games that I was currently playing I'd totally pick this up, but I'm probably gonna pass as I still am playing Halo 4, and Colonial Marines comes out in less than a week.

"Most of your 'issues' is because you are playing a new generation game on console technology 10 years old.

On PC it's awesome. Can't expect too much with Xbox now. I still think the game is way fun. Don't be such a sour sandy or negative nancy."

I'm sorry but that is such bull. That statement is perfectly valid if we are talking about Crysis 3 or Battlefield 3 or Witcher 2, but this game is NOT reduced in quality anyway by the lack of Xbox power. I bought BF3 on PC when it came out so I can run it to its max potential rather than a poor console port, but this game isn't any weaker on console. Both versions are equal. This game isn't some power-consuming juggernaut, it's a 3000 MB downloadable shooter.

The control problems just have to do with poor problems on the developer side, most likely as a result of them being used to making PC games and thus not adept at controller settings. PCs are superior to consoles in almost every way, shape, and form, but that doesn't make their versions of games always better than the console counterparts.




Sorry for that rant, I just get annoyed when I see posts like that. It's that elitist attitude that makes us PC gamers so despised by the console community.

Oh no no no. You misinterpret me. PCs CAN do more can consoles can, a lot more, but not every game uses this advantage. Many games (heck, I’d so most games available on all platforms) are built to run at the same level of efficiency on all platforms. They are built at the same time, or at first on console then ported to a PC which will be known to handle the max that they can fit on console, rather than made on PC then ported to console at lower quality (obviously there are exceptions like BF3, Crysis, anything Valve made, etc). Just think about it: if this really was the case and all games were made better on PC by the devs (I’m taking mods, M+K support, etc out of the equation), then they would be doing MORE work than is necessary. Expending MORE resources. And that’s just bad business.

I played the trial on both PC and Xbox to see if there was really any difference and, to be frank, I didn’t notice much difference with the core game. PC was a bit better in terms of latency (but then again it always is), but not enough to be noteworthy imo. The main difference was that the game was smoother using a M+K compared to a controller, as the default settings are a bit different than what we’re used to on most console shooters. But by the end of my console trial any initial awkwardness caused by the controls vanished as I got used to them.

Basically, both versions are equal. The only way this will change is if population is greater on one platform down the road, which, to be fair, will probably be on console, as PC gamers have so many better, cheaper choices. Like for the same amount you can pick up NS2 or Chivalry during a Steam sale, or for the great price of nothing you can play PS2.