The Battlefield 3/Modern Warfare 3 Fight Is Already Tired
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Man, are we really going to have to live through four more months of this? I'm not sure I can take it.
I play just about every shooter that comes my way, and it isn't always because work demands it. I really like my shooters and there's no doubt I'll play through and enjoy both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Will I be blown away? That remains to be seen but I have high hopes. My biggest complaint right now centers on this constant war going on between the two blockbusters...and I'm sorry, but I'm already bored.
"Our game uses Frostbite 2!" "Our game runs at 60 frames per second!" "We already made a game better than Call of Duty; it was called Battlefield: Bad Company 2!" "We'll produce the most popular video game in history...again!" "Battlefield 3 will give you the ultimate single-player campaign!" "Modern Warfare 3 will once again redefine multiplayer!" "Look at this gameplay!" No, look at this gameplay!" ...'yaaaaawn' How often can we talk about this? And for how long? Really?
The worst part is that both Activision and EA are well aware of the buzz, and continue to fan the flames for the sake of higher potential sales. These headlines just aren't going to stop and unfortunately, if we wish to remain current, we'll have to keep up with them. However, that being said, I'm not about to post every last piece of "news" concerning either game; the majority of it isn't actually news, anyway.
Related Game(s): Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Tags: call of duty, modern warfare 3, cod, battlefield 3
7/3/2011 9:16:53 PM Ben Dutka
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Comments (59 posts)
maxpontiac
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 @ 11:03:13 AM
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Killa Tequilla
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 9:44:24 PM
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As for Mw3, I think I know what to expect....
I've played CoD4, CoDWaW, CoDMw2 & CoDBO.... Can Mw3 be much different? Even uses the exact same engine...
Battlefield 3 FTW!
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matt99
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 9:44:36 PM
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Russell Burrows
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 9:53:22 PM
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Ben is right.
Goes back to evaluating the Vivitek Qumi 720p projector.
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Temjin001
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 12:54:51 AM
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BeezleDrop
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 9:58:08 PM
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But people are going to compare until the games come out and the reviews come in, and about this "BF3 will never outsell MW3" GS confirmed BF3 is outselling MW3 as of lately. So, yeah.
MW3 will be great for the fans but as an experienced gamer my problem is the engine, which really needs to be scrapped because what they currently "produce" on is a buggy mess, its pretty bad. BO demonstrated how poorly the engine can really become, and not to mention how the weapons sound like cap guns. If they just build from the ground up, and host a beta it would turn out much better, they have the money! As in a previous article, I'll take 30fps with true and epic sound design, massive maps, vehicles, and real tactical destruction.
From what I watched on the MW3 footage it really is more of the same, go here shoot and kill, move on do it again and again. And lets toss in an on-rails chopper, how original.
In the end, I cannot support essentially the same game every year, but if you choose to you go right ahead. I am looking for evolution in a shooter, not ground breaking necessarily but an enhancement. Frostbite 2. Happy gaming is what its all about and I believe Activision is screwing people, hard.
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PAKINIPS
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 4:04:45 AM
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556pineapple
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 10:08:40 PM
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DVE2k
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 10:14:22 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 10:23:43 PM
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Claire C
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 12:03:25 AM
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BTNwarrior
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 10:34:13 PM
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Claire C
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 12:02:17 AM
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MadKatBebop
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 12:10:17 AM
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Highlander
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 12:23:43 AM
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Claire C
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:51:31 AM
we lose...
-AVP poster LOL
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Lawless SXE
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 2:12:16 AM
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Clamedeus
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 8:58:35 AM
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atq1993
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:40:27 AM
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why is it always ea talking about activision
the people at activision have never mentioned battlefield first, ea arent making this game for the consumers like me or you they are making it to go to bobby kotick and say look we made a war game too, for this reason i am getting modern warfare 3 and not battlefield because its not just the people who make it its the people who play it too waaah cod campers waaaaah, its just recylced cod dropouts, give it a rest no cod player wants to know about your geeky realistic gun sounds, its not a very good competition... plus the graphics are only good on the pc its just medal of honor on the consoles
i hope call of duty dominates this game
thumbs down if your gay :P
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nihro
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 2:14:11 AM
thumbs down if your gay :P lol
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Lawless SXE
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 2:19:11 AM
I will, however, put up the argument that the Battlefield series has been around for longer than Call of Duty, so it's clearly not about EA simply wanting to capture CoD's market. Furthermore, DICE have said that they're making the game that they want and not trying to compete with MW3, that is all EA bluster. And really, if you think that CoD is for the players, you're completely delusional. It's for the profit man. Activision pushed Tony Hawk until he fell, they expanded the music genre until it exploded and if they're not careful, the ever increasing popularity of shooters will turn around to bite them on the arse as people look for similar, yet different, experiences and find themselves sated by Deus Ex, Bioshock: Infinite, Resistance 3 and yes, Battlefield 3.
Smiles and Peace.
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Clamedeus
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 9:01:49 AM
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Underdog15
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 10:11:08 AM
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Lawless SXE
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 2:20:47 AM
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___________
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 3:11:29 AM
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as the saying goes any publicity is good publicity!
im looking forward to BF3 more but only because DICE are one of the few developers out there that actually make games for PC, not games for consoles then port them over to PC.
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atq1993
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 7:00:08 AM
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clearly you have never heard of shorthand
lol i love it when people take so much offence to a comment about a game haha
stupid recycled cod players
if you don't understand shorthand and/or have never recieved a text message?
thumbs down if you're gay!!!
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Underdog15
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 10:13:06 AM
P.s. I'm not sure you know what shorthand is....
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Lawless SXE
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:10:51 PM
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Highlander
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:50:17 PM
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Underdog15
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 10:16:31 AM
Tell me... was your father abusive? Perhaps your mother emotionally unavailable or manipulative? Perhaps both?
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 10:20:45 AM
I see adolescent name-calling again and you're both gone.
P.S. atq1993, what you're using isn't "shorthand." Maybe you should look that word up.
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BikerSaint
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 3:24:58 PM
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Deleted User
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 8:21:27 AM
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Highlander
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:53:59 PM
Hell's Kitchen of Duty
Big Brother Battlefield
Gears of The Bachelor
Halo : MasterChef
...
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AshT
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 8:32:22 AM
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tridon
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 9:04:52 AM
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Nickjcal
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:18:18 PM
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Deathb4Dishonor
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 11:09:52 AM
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Nickjcal
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:17:03 PM
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Highlander
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 1:51:31 PM
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StangMan80
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 2:03:35 PM
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BF BC2 was better then COD BO and BF3 will be better the COD MW3. It just how it is.
Unless COD shows me other wise. I have no faith in them. COD is old. graphics even look dated on there games(BO).
I know when thing, I have already decided a while back that I was getting BF3. I always keep open for COD games but they always disappoint big time and become a HUGE JOKE. So my expectations for MW3 are real low, probably never purchase because of it.
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Zorigo
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 3:07:22 PM
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i appreciate you adressing that Ben.
Now lets stop talking about it, its not like it needs the publicity. There are more important games to talk about.
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atq1993
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 8:39:19 PM
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and my parents are still together, not that its any of your business, there are too many people giving their opinions as facts these days, people who want to rebel against the big corperation who stole their money that they gave just wierd and backwards its your fault you buy it n dont like it thats your fault and your problem, the only thing that ea is taking offence for is activision selling more games than them and thats quite stupid.
do in my opinion i think call of duty modern warfare 3 will be bigger and better than battlefield because it will have better players and more normal players who dont take it seriously, than battlefield the boring wannabe soldiers game if you sont camp with a sniper like bad comany two get in a vehicle instead like bad comapny two, im giving this opinion based on a statistical fact drivin from the people i know everyone i know have tried a cod game, one person inperticular no friends, no gf EVER, socially challenged, and depressed he has tried cod 4 and his answer why he didnt like it it he didnt like the concept even though it most likely inspired battlefields multiplayer a proper geek but by not liking th concept but if you look on recent games he has no gscore so he just tried the multiplayer for five minutes and got battered and never played on it again that is a crap gamer, and like most battlefield gamers pre ordered cod and got beat a few time online so wwaaaaaaaahhhh im crap and dont like it, plus iv had so many thumbs down from the rebellious gays that you are so a new one
thumbs down if you agree lol :P
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 9:02:15 PM
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Underdog15
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 9:41:39 PM
As for your parents, I'm just not sure why they didn't consider education a priority... My mom made sure to correct me every time she caught improper use of grammar, and she always made sure I both finished my homework and understood it. If your parents are still together, did they just not care about you enough? Is there an older or younger smart kid they felt was a better investment of their time? Or are you merely a byproduct of your parents combined.... uh... best features.... (Genetic overlap, perhaps... What state are you from again? And in which scarcely populated rural town? lol)
As for your initial paragraph, I think it's funny you felt like you needed to describe why you posted. I knew exactly why the whole time. Your description proves I'm right. It truly was a stupid post, and it was never misunderstood.
Finally, I've enjoyed CoD's SP campaigns well enough. I can take or leave the MP. I only really play when with friends. But I assure you my K/D, win ratio, and points per game are much higher than yours. I don't even need to check.
Not that it matters...
Either way, you need to learn self respect, and especially respect for others.
"Gay as a natural insult".
What?!?! Since when? Kindergarten? I -PROMISE- you... most people here definitely would not use that as an insult. You exist in a whole other dimension, friend.
Last two points: 1) Again... the reply button... please.... 2) What's with your thumbs down obsession? "thumbs down if you agree"... so now even people who agree will thumb you down including the usual group that thinks you're just an idiot.
Anywho... I'm done. I can't believe I gave you the privilege of a response from me. I assure you, you won't get that privilege again.
Last edited by Underdog15 on 7/4/2011 9:44:34 PM
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Highlander
Monday, July 04, 2011 @ 10:28:48 PM
Giving your opinion of a game requires no insults to be hurled at people who've yet to comment or on an entire group of people. Giving your opinion of one FPS vs another FPS does not require you to insult the players of the other game. To me they're two sides of the same coin, the same bad penny that keeps turning up. Whether one has a more modern engine than the other is of little concern to me, however I will say that if a game uses the same basic engine that the franchise has used for three iterations, it's using an old engine. tried and tested perhaps, but *old*.
Your entire post is riddled with immature sexual references that cast concepts such as masturbation and homosexuality in entirely negative lights. The thing is, that if you're a 'normally straight man' as you put it, you are almost certainly intimately familiar with one of those concepts, and perhaps under abnormal conditions the other too. Either way, stop it, because I can guarantee you that this community doesn't play that way.
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 @ 2:34:36 PM
You're a man? I seriously doubt that
Sure could've fooled us with your 3 long rambling sentences spewing random pre-adolescent thoughts of grandeur & homophobia.
And all that without any periods, or punctuation what-so-ever for that matter.
It's a real shame you apparently missed out on all the Romper Room training, because Ms. Connie could've been a real help to you.......hell, even Big Bird could've done your fine lack of education some serious goodness.
Here's a good "Hooked on Phonics" style tip for you: "The 3 R's of ed-shoe-kas-shon" are your friends.
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Wraith
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 @ 12:16:22 AM
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DarKn35s
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 @ 1:21:24 PM
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NLCanada
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Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 9:39:53 PM