VictoryBlixt

Hey all I'm thinking about picking this game up but I have a few questions.

So I'm not really a fighting game guy, it's not that I dislike fighting game it's just that I've never really sat down and tried to seriously play one. The only fighting games I've played are the first 2 mortal kombats and a couple of the PS2 era games. So my question is how hard is to learn how to really play a fighting game (I just mash buttons) and what is the long term appeal of these games because I'm just not sure I wont just get bored of the game after I mess with it a bit. So could someone please sell me on this game and online fighting games in general?
Any Help is appreciated thanks

" @VictoryBlixt said:

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" @ajamafalous said:

" @FourWude said:

" It's just a game. "

Video game websites: where video games can't be taken seriously. "

Video game websites, where video games becomes greater than life and death issues.

Some people worry about future jobs, others worry about where their next paycheque will come from, some worry about the education or deteriorating environmental issues.... but on a videogame website none of this shit matters because it's all about whether a game focuses too much on a kill death ratio or not, that's the real  frightening future.

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Well maybe I do have other concerns but I don't air them on this VIDEO GAME ENTHUSIAST WEBSITE! This isn't a topic about my greatest fears this isn't a topic about the things that are most important to me, this is a topic about Battlefield so why don't you not make assumptions about me and stop insulting me too "

Well Battlefield must be one of your main concerns in life because it's frightening your future as your topic titles explicitly states. It is a frightening future indeed when Battlefield 3 focuses on kill death ratios and team deathmatch gameplay. That's not a future I want to live in. That's not a future I want to bring my children up in. It's a scary reality indeed.

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" @ajamafalous said:

" @FourWude said:

" It's just a game. "

Video game websites: where video games can't be taken seriously. "

Video game websites, where video games becomes greater than life and death issues.

Some people worry about future jobs, others worry about where their next paycheque will come from, some worry about the education or deteriorating environmental issues.... but on a videogame website none of this shit matters because it's all about whether a game focuses too much on a kill death ratio or not, that's the real  frightening future.

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" I like the how the attitude around this games is that it belongs to a small group of people and it should stay that way so only the "real" battlefield players can enjoy the game and run the devs out of business.  What a hipster attitude. "

Battlefield 1942 was my first foray into online gaming and ever since then I have loved the Battlefield series and the unique style of gameplay it possessed. Battlefield 3 is now on the horizon and it is being positioned as a COD killer and it's release date has intentionally been placed to compete with the COD directly. This makes me very uncertain of the future...

Battlefield has always been about complex gameplay with a steep learning curve (at least compared to it's competition) and the to appeal to the mass market a learning curve has to go. If they don't eliminate the learning curve and the game does achieve critical mass then the multiplayer will be filled with people who don't play the game for the objectives and instead play for  "KD". Also a somewhat petty complaint but the graphics of this game are great but they will also cause a lot of people to just buy the game because it's shiny and again just mess around in the multiplayer.  If this game becomes extremely popular on the level of  COD then the community and the game will be filled with people just playing the shiniest thing and bragging about their super high KDs and how fantastic they are at the game because they're 3:1 regardless of the fact that most games they sit in the base as their team loses.

Battlefield has always been complex and that has always caused it to fall short of mainstream acceptance and so for it to achieve it's COD killer status it will have to lose this complexity and so when this game is released and it is indeed simplified then I'm sure it will be filled with people saying how much better the game is and how the other games were to hard but they like this one.

I'd be happy to eat my words, I really would


*Edit* I'd like to clarify that have no problem with COD like games and people who like those games. I'm sure there'd be tons of people upset if COD became a milsim

 Hello Crysis 2 fans,

As you all know Crysis 2 is a very pretty game and also a very detailed game with a lot small details for you to look at. There is one problem though... everyone is trying to shoot each other! So lets take over a game so we can actually check out the graphics on the PS3 in detail, without having to worry about being killed because you were admiring the pretty water effects :p. I have set up a chatroom on the PS3 and anyone who's interested can send me friend request (PSN: VictoryBlitz) and I'll get you in the chat; feel free to discuss all things Crysis while your waiting for the demo to be released if you want.

All are welcome as long as they are willing to be civil and not kill any one

If you have any question you can PM me on these forums, PSN, or even this very topic!

Looks like the PS4 might have to be rolled out pretty quickly if LG wins... or there is always the possibility that Sony will have to take a break from the home console market

" @VictoryBlixt said:

I'm not excusing the single player but alot of the reviews I read did not or barely mentioned the multiplayer aspect of the game. Take Battlefield Bad Company 2 for example, a fantastic game by all accounts, but the single player was pretty poor but most reviews of that game focused on the Multiplayer because that is what the Battlefield games are about "

It is possible that the reviewer is reviewing the part they care about. As a general rule, I do not play competitive multi-player with shooters. So if I am going to get Killzone 3, it will be for the single player. If I wrote a review, it would focus only on the single player. It is perfectly valid for a professional critic to feel the same way and write a review that focuses on SP.
 
  
@Mordukai said: 

Agreed. Even from a gamer POV I sometimes feel that developer just put in the SP as lip service for people who are not too big on MP. FPS genre, imo, should just ditch the SP all together and just became a pure MP game genre as it's obvious to me that almost none of them, excluding Ken Levine and company, are interested in a meaningful story line.  "

Despite my lack of interest in multiplayer, I also wish more would do just multiplayer. It would make it much easier to see which games are worth picking up for single player alone. Half-hearted campaigns are depressing. "

" @VictoryBlixt: Tbh, any time you have to say that x is the meat of a game, so it shouldn't matter that y was lacking or straight up sucked, you're pretty much doing it wrong. A lot of the reviews I've read have said that whilst it's a lot of fun, it isn't doing much that 2 wasn't doing - that's a valid criticism in my opinion and explains the lower metacritic better than people not having played enough of the multi-player. "