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FoxyPie said:
You know that SW:BF actually has a history of being good though, right? Compared to a totally new franchise in Titanfall. It's not really a fair comparison or accurate prediction IMO.
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I wasn't talking about how good, mediocre, or poor SW:BF was/is as a series.

I have the old SW:BF's - just sitting on the shelf w/ plenty of other retail keys I have unplayed.

Let's keep in mind - this is DICE's first-time taking a crack at the series. While I'm sure DICE will make a pretty good MP game (i.e. go see Battlefield series MP portions), my question is this: will it have any sort of longevity?

We're really talking about the amount of content per a competitive MP-only style game for $60 MSRP. It's not like SW:BF (DICE developed) will have a Campaign and/or have a ridiculous amount of maps + modes for its $60 MSRP price-tag.

I had a blast w/ Titanfall - you know, for about 3 hours or so and then threw in the towel. It was from some of the core of the ex-Infinity Ward dev's - so, how bad was it really going to be? Exactly - it was quite good. And as fun was it was for me, it just didn't feel like there's that much content there; especially for a MP-only game & for its price-tag. I feel that the same is likely going to be true R6: Siege (only 10-11 maps at launch - really?) and BF:SW (from DICE).

At least as short as L4D series were for being mostly a MP-focused game, at least it had a SDK released to let the community add more content.

While DLC might help these games out w/ more content - it's more content you still will have to pay for. By that point, will MP gamers still be playing it online? Should I even buy it when it gets cheap? Wait till some kind hopeful Complete Edition later, which EA doesn't always put out?

 
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MysterD said:
I wasn't talking about how good, mediocre, or poor SW:BF was/is as a series.

I have the old SW:BF's - just sitting on the shelf w/ plenty of other retail keys I have unplayed.

Let's keep in mind - this is DICE's first-time taking a crack at the series. While I'm sure DICE will make a pretty good MP game (i.e. go see Battlefield series MP portions), my question is this: will it have any sort of longevity?

We're really talking about the amount of content per a competitive MP-only style game for $60 MSRP. It's not like SW:BF (DICE developed) will have a Campaign and/or have a ridiculous amount of maps + modes for its $60 MSRP price-tag.

I had a blast w/ Titanfall - you know, for about 3 hours or so and then threw in the towel. It was from some of the core of the ex-Infinity Ward dev's - so, how bad was it really going to be? Exactly - it was quite good. And as fun was it was for me, it just didn't feel like there's that much content there; especially for a MP-only game & for its price-tag. I feel that the same is likely going to be true R6: Siege (only 10-11 maps at launch - really?) and BF:SW (from DICE).

At least as short as L4D series were for being mostly a MP-focused game, at least it had a SDK released to let the community add more content.

While DLC might help these games out w/ more content - it's more content you still will have to pay for. By that point, will MP gamers still be playing it online? Should I even buy it when it gets cheap? Wait till some kind hopeful Complete Edition later, which EA doesn't always put out?
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dice pump out battlefield series almost yearly, i doubt there will be longevity, but since they are using the star wars name/theme. i can see them compete with the typical Call of Duty series in sales. Due to the popularity of star wars In the US.

 
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FoxyPie said:
Hey guys,

I hate to interrupt the new release bashing so I feel better about being left out talk, but this weekend I finally am FREE!!!!!

Yessir. I am shipping the wife away for the weekend so she can go have a girls weekend with her friends out of town and while I was tempted to go the hookers and blow route, I decided to use the free weekend to do some gaming. So Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night I'm up for setting up some brodates and MPing it up. Open to suggestions and hoping to get as many people to the orgy party. Drop your suggestions here to clog up the thread or PM if you want, but I prefer thread clog.
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i suggest the game Freestyle 2 street basketball.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/339610/

 
You're an idiot if you think the new SW:Battlefront won't have staying MP power. A new fucking SW movie is coming out every year, so endless hype, and SW fans have been rabid for a new game in the series for years.

 
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Since when is "only" 11 maps considered a little? Goldeneye, which is probably the best MP shooter ever, only had 10 maps. The original Halo only had 8 maps. I remember wasting hours upon hours upon hours in the MP of those. Way more than I ever did with the SP (even though it was excellent for both). Harping on the only 11 maps thing is silly. Titanfall has 15 maps so obviously that wasn't the reason you didn't like it. I don't want to pay $60 for it either and I won't, but I also won't sit here and criticize a game before I even played it/before it came out for arbitrary reasons just because it'll be dead by the time our cheapasses buy it.

YBX87 said:
i suggest the game Freestyle 2 street basketball.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/339610/
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I see you playing that a lot, is it fun?

 
FoxyPie said:
Since when is "only" 11 maps considered a little? Goldeneye, which is probably the best MP shooter ever, only had 10 maps. The original Halo only had 8 maps. I remember wasting hours upon hours upon hours in the MP of those. Way more than I ever did with the SP (even though it was excellent for both). Harping on the only 11 maps thing is silly. Titanfall has 15 maps so obviously that wasn't the reason you didn't like it. I don't want to pay $60 for it either and I won't, but I also won't sit here and criticize a game before I even played it/before it came out for arbitrary reasons just because it'll be dead by the time our cheapasses buy it.
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I had fun w/ Titanfall for a few hours w/ the MP. After about 3 hours - I felt like it was lacking content. Lacked longevity. It certainly needs more maps + modes.

Speaking of Titanfall PC, retail copies for $5 at Best Buy: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/titanfall-windows/2392008.p

And Titanfall Season Pass is still free on Origin: https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/titanfall/pc-download/addon/titanfall-season-pass

UT3; Quake 2; and Q3:A were certainly much better for MP in terms of amount of content. Oh, and they had SDK's, too - something that we ain't seen from DICE for MP games in quite some time. SDK's are something that I do feel keeps the flow of MP-content going.

Halo 1 on the PC was nothing special - pure XBox mediocrity in a world full of much better PC shooters on the market. SP was mediocre overall (1st half was great w/variety of gameplay; 2nd half was padding loaded with cut + paste & backtracking city which was horrible); and for me the MP had no staying power.

 
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FoxyPie said:
Since when is "only" 11 maps considered a little? Goldeneye, which is probably the best MP shooter ever, only had 10 maps. The original Halo only had 8 maps. I remember wasting hours upon hours upon hours in the MP of those. Way more than I ever did with the SP (even though it was excellent for both). Harping on the only 11 maps thing is silly. Titanfall has 15 maps so obviously that wasn't the reason you didn't like it. I don't want to pay $60 for it either and I won't, but I also won't sit here and criticize a game before I even played it/before it came out for arbitrary reasons just because it'll be dead by the time our cheapasses buy it.

I see you playing that a lot, is it fun?
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yeah it is, drop in n drop out, casual play anytime. i just leave my game on to farm points( in game currency) to get cosmetics, like outfits/ gears, and buy skill points.

it is a basketball sim mmo. match only lasts 5 minutes.

 
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I think something that the toaster is missing, is that you get a lot more enjoyment out of MP shooters (or any MP game for that matter) when you have friends to play with. Of course you'll get bored of it if you queue and play solo. But then again he buys CoD games for the campaign so...
 
zenii said:
I think something that the toaster is missing, is that you get a lot more enjoyment out of MP shooters (or any MP game for that matter) when you have friends to play with. Of course you'll get bored of it if you queue and play solo. But then again he buys CoD games for the campaign so...
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I don't play solo against bots or offline, when doing COD MP. That portion's online-only anyways.

Usually, I play it during Free Weekends against other players (when I don't own the game and am in for the Free Weekend or I own the game) - when there's lot of players. After a while, it just gets boring when there isn't a lot of modes, maps, and whatnot. COD game seems to do this these days better than most.

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But even then, the COD MP-map DLC's aren't ever cheap. After about 10 hours total of COD MP, I've usually had enough - especially since you know there'll be another COD next year.

 
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YBX87 said:
yeah it is, drop in n drop out, casual play anytime. i just leave my game on to farm points( in game currency) to get cosmetics, like outfits/ gears, and buy skill points.

it is a basketball sim mmo. match only lasts 5 minutes.
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We might give it a try one bro night then. Thanks for the info.

zenii said:
I think something that the toaster is missing, is that you get a lot more enjoyment out of MP shooters (or any MP game for that matter) when you have friends to play with. Of course you'll get bored of it if you queue and play solo. But then again he buys CoD games for the campaign so...
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MysterD said:
I don't play solo against bots or offline, when doing COD MP. That portion's online-only anyways.

Usually, I play it during Free Weekends against other players (when I don't own the game and am in for the Free Weekend or I own the game) - when there's lot of players. After a while, it just gets boring when there isn't a lot of modes, maps, and whatnot. COD game seems to do this these days better than most.
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Zenii hit the nail right on the head. You can't really criticize an MP game based on your perspective as a solo player. Sure, I love MP games with good bots that I can solo just as much as the next, but if a game is meant for MP, playing with others and having a good team is just as important as the game itself. Like JuanJava was saying, he and his buddies were having blast with the new Tom Clancy game and I'm sure that's a combination of the game and the group. I can attest with the bros that we have a lot of fun in almost everything we play even when it's pure shit because it's fun to just hang out with people sometime.

Goldeneye I played with my brother for hours upon hours upon hours on end. Halo was like the go to college game for me where we'd play for hours and then watch others play when we switched out.

I'm just saying, you can't judge a MP game based on your expectations as a solo player.

 
FoxyPie said:
Zenii hit the nail right on the head. You can't really criticize an MP game based on your perspective as a solo player. Sure, I love MP games with good bots that I can solo just as much as the next, but if a game is meant for MP, playing with others and having a good team is just as important as the game itself. Like JuanJava was saying, he and his buddies were having blast with the new Tom Clancy game and I'm sure that's a combination of the game and the group. I can attest with the bros that we have a lot of fun in almost everything we play even when it's pure shit because it's fun to just hang out with people sometime.

Goldeneye I played with my brother for hours upon hours upon hours on end. Halo was like the go to college game for me where we'd play for hours and then watch others play when we switched out.

I'm just saying, you can't judge a MP game based on your expectations as a solo player.
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Even when I didn't have many friends back in the day to play the MP side of games like Q2, Q3:A, RTCW, Unreal series - I still played the living hell out of the MP portions of those games, just hitting often any old open servers & playing my heart away. All of those games had SDK's + lots of content to keep the game fresh.

 
MysterD said:
I don't play solo against bots or offline, when doing COD MP. That portion's online-only anyway.

Usually, I play it during Free Weekends against other players (when I don't own the game and am in for the Free Weekend or I own the game) - when there's lot of players. After a while, it just gets boring when there isn't a lot of modes, maps, and whatnot.
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Can't believe I'm responding to a toaster post, but here goes. You completely missed my point (big surprise there) about playing solo vs playing with friends. If you are queueing by yourself and playing against random people on the interwebs, that's playing solo. To get the most fun out of these games you need friends to queue up in the same squad as you, possibly using a VoIP service so you guys can talk strategy/shoot the shit/trash talk.

That's really what it boils down to, doing something with friends. Would you rather play a game of pick up basketball with some random dudes at the gym, or play with a bunch of your good friends? Of course there are people who get enjoyment out of the former but I'd wager that a lot more people would choose the latter.
 
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For all those w/ Amazon GC's and Bing-Made GC's....

Blizzard digital-sale on Amazon.

Diablo 3 [base-game] = $20

Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls [expansion] = $20

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty [base-game] = $10

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [expansion] = $10

World of Warcraft = $10

WoW: 60 Day Time-Card = $30

WoW: Warlords of Draenor [expansion] = $30

Heroes of the Storm - Starter Pack = $20

$20 Battle.Net Store Card = $20

 
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I recently wasted all my bing bux gambling on trying to win an Xbone or Surface in their stupid scratch off game.  I won 4 bing bux in return.  I am idiot.  

 
If you like a multi-player game you don't need more content after only playing for three hours. That's barely enough time to even play each map once.
 
Blade said:
MysterD doesn't play basketball, so MysterD doesn't understand your point.
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MysterD actually does understand the point.

MysterD hasn't played basketball + baseball in any leagues since around my Junior High years.

 
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MysterD said:
Blizzard digital-sale on Amazon.

Diablo 3 [base-game] = $20

Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls [expansion] = $20
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Those of you who keep detailed records on me may remember that I bought the PS3 version for my kid a week or two ago. He played through the "story" once and has no interest in trying another character class or leveling his existing Demon Hunter up past where he ended at. A ringing endorsement for Diablo III :lol:

 
Syntax Error said:
Those of you who keep detailed records on me may remember that I bought the PS3 version for my kid a week or two ago. He played through the "story" once and has no interest in trying another character class or leveling his existing Demon Hunter up past where he ended at. A ringing endorsement for Diablo III :lol:
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Are you MysterD's father?

 
spoderman said:
I might be the only one here that cares but.. Arcana Heart 3 Love Max is releasing today on Steam. I loved the original version so I'm excited to see the newer one on Steam. Might actually buy it if Nuuvem starts to carry it.
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Yeah, but it's gonna have a $30 price tag (with like a 10% launch discount).

Not saying the game isn't worth that, but it still seems a bit high for a port of a year old game (especially one that was just on sale on PSN last month for $7.50). I may wait until it drops a bit before I pick it up, myself (still haven't decided yet).

 
MysterD said:
For all those w/ Amazon GC's and Bing-Made GC's....

Blizzard digital-sale on Amazon.

Diablo 3 [base-game] = $20

Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls [expansion] = $20

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty [base-game] = $10

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [expansion] = $10

World of Warcraft = $10

WoW: 60 Day Time-Card = $30

WoW: Warlords of Draenor [expansion] = $30

Heroes of the Storm - Starter Pack = $20

$20 Battle.Net Store Card = $20
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Do they unlock on Steam? Not sure I have enough VRAM to play them anyway.

 
DrR0Ck said:
Does Steam not sell the Season Pass for Temple of Osiris by itself? Where are the ten other sites selling the same games at the same discount when I need them? Where can I get that season pass for cheap?
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http://store.steampowered.com/sub/58375/

You can buy it there. Keep in mind the season pass no longer includes the Deus Ex/Hitman/Legend skin packs though, you'd have to buy them separately if you want them. Season Pass is the only way to get the Gear Up DLC though.
 
Preedatore said:
If you like a multi-player game you don't need more content after only playing for three hours. That's barely enough time to even play each map once.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Three hours in a competitive mp shooter is enough time to somewhat learn 1 map, let alone 15. Whats the point of wanting a sdk and user made content if you aren't even going to actually 'play' the often times superior original content?

 
Syntax Error said:
Those of you who keep detailed records on me may remember that I bought the PS3 version for my kid a week or two ago. He played through the "story" once and has no interest in trying another character class or leveling his existing Demon Hunter up past where he ended at. A ringing endorsement for Diablo III :lol:
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*Edit: Dr.Rock'ed. Sorry at work on a phone and catching up sequentially.

So what you're saying is, your son is MysterD.
 
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