Giant Bomb at PAX 09: MAG Interview

Yay STILL NOT ENDURANCE RUN !!!

MAG, they need a new name for this game.

So what does MAG ACTUALLY stand for now? They keep naming it MAG, but it HAS to be a shortcut. And it's not Massive Action Game or some such if I'm not mistaken?

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" So what does MAG ACTUALLY stand for now? They keep naming it MAG, but it HAS to be a shortcut. And it's not Massive Action Game or some such if I'm not mistaken? "

This looks ok but I won't be able to play it as console FPSs give me motion sickness :(

Looks ok

Stands for Massive Action Game i think.

Just like a pro!!!

" Stands for Massive Action Game i think. "

I hope those graphics are not final

I am still calling it Massive Action Game, you can't stop me! 

I was actually suprised at how well people actually worked together as a team in this game when i played it. Zipper seemed to find a good way to incentivise  people into doing objectives. It works out pretty well.

shouldn't this be under events?

Totally wish this was on Xbox too.  Arg! I love giant games like this (last one I played was Joint Operations on the PC, forever ago).

With 256 players the graphics will be sacrificed for a smooth gameplay.MAG is a new franchise so it will be hard to penetrate an already saturated fps game marked.Since we got a hoard of fps games coming out in 2009,and 2010 it is going to be a hard competition.MAG will fall behind the other fps shooter's.The only gimmick thing going for MAG is the 256 players,if they can pull it of remains to see.

Looks okay. I'm always skeptical when developers say "you can play it however you want: as a team, run and gun" etc., without clarifying how the game rewards each type of play -- Sure, you can play the game however the hell you want, you could buy the game and then go toss grenades in the corner, but that's not rewarded in the game's core mechanics.  I just think about Team Fortress 2's spy as a class that rewarded both team and lone-wolf play. It's a core mechanic built into the game so that multiple styles of play are rewarded. Can anyone who's been participating in the beta give me some idea how MAG's system works?

Meh, I want a big ass open field, 128 players on one side, 128 on the other, when the match begins everyone runs towards the middle going nuts spraying bullets around.

Great questions, Brad. I think some of my questions about this game were answered, even if I am still not very sure if I am going to enjoy playing it. I want to get into the beta and see.

i hate dieing from people far away that you have never seen
or having danger coming from more than 270 degrees around you

The game certainly looks to be bringing across a great concept but I'm still very skeptical of how the whole teamwork idea will play out in reality. As was said on the Giant Bombcast, getting 128 people to work together in a co-ordinated fashion would be considered nothing short of a phenomenal achievement. Even in the individual squads I can't see this panning out either. With online gaming we have enough trouble just stopping people from quitting out of the games, let alone actually following orders and working as a whole alongside other players. Perhaps if players received a small amount of experience or some similar minor reward for following orders the whole teamwork aspect might mesh into things a little better. On the flip side we have another problem; although players are always ranking up for good in-game performance, a good soldier does not necessarily make a good leader, someone may be a crack shot with a sniper rifle but would have absolutely no idea how to organize an entire squad to quickly and efficiently complete an objective. I am very much aware that teamwork is the key in online games and if someone managed to create a game where teamwork was genuinely encouraged and you could have a huge group of players like this all working together than that'd be great, but my experience with online games has taught me that just won't happen and although we haven't seen the full game yet, at this stage it looks like players just aren't being given enough incentive to go out of their way to work as a team.

" Meh, I want a big ass open field, 128 players on one side, 128 on the other, when the match begins everyone runs towards the middle going nuts spraying bullets around. "

This is not anything like SOCOM!!!!!! I really hate when people say that!!!!