All of a sudden the "Limited Edition" version of Medal of Honor just got a hell of a lot more interesting. Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it will come packed with access to the beta for DICE's upcoming shooter, Battlefield 3.
What do we know about Battlefield 3? Well, not much. We haven't even seen the game yet, and I'm pretty sure it's not even a game that EA has officially confirmed outside of comments from an EA exec back in 2009.
"I've had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product," said former EA chief operating officer John Pleasants.
Want to know more? Let's cross our fingers that we'll hear something soon, possibly coming out of gamescom, which takes place next month. Medal of Honor launches on October 12; no word on when the Battlefield 3 beta begins.
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3:30 PM on 07.30.2010
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Cashwhoring is FTL when people don't want to buy your games because they come out too quick!
You have a dry spell then three douches appear out of nowhere.
They release crap games with pretty images, but they do not address the real issues that continue to make BFBC2 perform like crap! Their many "patches" have made this game unreliable and unstable. EA, fix this before releasing anymore games! I won't give them any more of my money since they seem to hire inferior programmers and developers who couldn't even program Ms. PAC MAN!
If BF3 was a PC Exclusive I would purchase MOH for the beta... but then they would decide to make it multiplatform halfway through development and it would still get nerfed.
It wont have 64 players
it wont have big maps
why
answer
512mb's
stupid consoles dragging gaming down
FINALLY!!!
BATTLEFIELD FUCKING 3
BF2 was a blast
512 mb? What are you talking about? Have you finally came out of your cave? This isn't the PS2, Gamecube, or Xbox 1 age anymore. We are now in the Blu-ray age, where the PS3 can hold 50 gb.
and you know why PCs need more than that? because of background apps, there's a ton of shit happening in the background on a pc whereas there isn't on a console due to it all being poured into the application that's running (the game).
Please don't consolize it EA... Keep prone, open huge fields, and 64 players.
Umm yeah right... Only wrong. PC games generally have better textures and use about 1 gig of system memory (Depends on the game) ON TOP OF vram on the graphics card.
Consoles on the other hand are limited to 512 split between the CPU and GPU. So PC would use about 1 gig on the system and 1 gig on the GPU... While the consoles use 256 mbs for the CPU and 256 for the GPU.
I own and love my consoles but lets be honest here. They're no where near as powerful as a PC. My PC can actually get 1080p @ 60 fps and not some half assed resolution upscaled to 1080p at a choppy 30 fps.
I'm not even gonna notice true 1080p anyway due to running a 22" anyhow, even if it says it runs 1080p it's not true 1080p :/
To each their own I guess. I'm on a 23 inch 1920 x 1080 monitor right now with my 360, PS3, and PC hooked into it and I can definitely tell the 360 games are upscaled to 1080p. Bayonetta has a great frame rate but there are noticeable jagged edges around everything.
Still I guess PC gamers are just a little upset. We want Battlefield 3 to be all it can be. No one on the PC wants to see another Bad Company. They're fun and all but the maps are so tiny, without prone I feel like a sitting duck against snipers and vehicles. It felt less objective based and more like a deathmatch.
There's no reason to limit a great series like that.
Yea, I know. I consider them the same. I may be wrong, but I see no real reason to give distinction.
They need to STOP shitting out modern combat games every half year and do a better job of optimizing the games that are out. I loved Bad Company 2, I'm in the Medal of Honor beta and while I know I will love the single-player, the multiplayer doesn't do anything different from Modern Warfare 2 and the thing that pesters me the MOST about Medal of Honor and Bad Company 2 is that they STILL use the same shitty menu/server browser. You know the one, hit refresh, get 13524352 results back with 1000 ping and sift through the bullshit to find something with a less than 100 ping and hopefully click on that server before the entire browser shifts it out of reach because their designers weren't smart enough to implement a "STOP" button as an alternative to Refresh/Get New List. Seriously, its been this way since Battlefield 1942, in the pantheon of stealing ideas/design from other games, for the love of god Dice, steal a server browser from Valve or something.
I actually would like to see this one be pc only. The core Battlefield series has always been pc-centric, and while I generally dislike people bitching about games being 'dumbed down' for consoles (I rarely agree with that assessment), I do feel that games can play very differently depending on your platform, and really should be designed and balanced as such. I feel BC2 has suffered from being multiplatform (mostly in the weapon balance aspect), and it seems unlikely to me that they'll design two+ versions of BF3, so I hope for pc only. Its not like any platform is exactly starving for modern combat games...
To be fair to Dice they've had a separate team working on BF3 for a long while now. It's not the bad company 2 team. Even like 2 years ago I think they brought up that they were working on 5 battlefield projects (Bad Company 2, 1943, Heroes, BF3, and something else).
Also I really think Medal of Honor was handed off to them in an attempt to fix it last minute. The shooter is way below the standards of anything dice has ever made and has EA LA's stink all over it.
BC2 is fun, but it is a console game first and PC game second. Battlefield 3 is a PC game first and only slightly possibly a console game. I mean battlefield 2 on the 360 was pretty bad.
*cough*MAG*cough*
Fucking elitists. 256 players shits all over your faces.
And people complaining about pc elitists don't understand the difference it makes im hoping it will be pc only as well... Not cause i don't enjoy playing em on my consoles but because there was more depth and bigger scale to the games.
And @KingSigy If it will return to the pc versions scale and depth it is the true sequel to BF 2...
Bad Company 2 was fun and all, but it's not the Battlefield I know and love. Having to adjust the game to console controllers means no more intricate little shortcuts, tons of options, etc that made BF2 and its predecessor great.
That and DICE isn't exactly known for low system requirements. Multiplatform usually means inflated system requirements and that, combined with DICE, means you'd need at least 3 PC's to run this game properly. That, or the graphics are tuned down.
Battlefield 2 was not on console, why should 3 be?
Seriously, games like that are terrible on console.