Poll: Battlefield fanboys vs Call of Duty fanboys

[Hobonicus]

Battlefield fans rag on Call of Duty fans because the amount of teamwork and depth in Battlefield is greater, making it in their minds (and in mine) a far superior multiplayer shooter that is currently being vastly outsold by Call of Duty, a more shallow, solo-oriented multiplayer shooter notoriously known for it's immature and often plain mean fanbase.

They feel that Battlefield is almost objectively better than a similar (they do generally complete for the same market) product that gets so much more attention for being simplistic. And there's nothing people hate more than something that symbolizes the degeneration of an industry they're passionate about.

There's your reason. It's basically, "This is why we can't have nice things".

EDIT: For the record, I'm not invested in either series enough to care, though I do prefer Battlefield. Also (because you asked ), if a word is misspelled (like explaination) it'll have a red squiggly line under it and right clicking will offer the correct spelling.

 

[klasbo]

I like both battlefield (I've only played bad company 2 but I loved playing it) [...]

Now here's your problem. Bad Company 2 is not a "true" Battlefield game. DICE has told us this over and over and over.

I think a lot of Battlefield "fanboys" (if you can even call them that) are saying BF is superior simply because CoD has gotten worse and worse but sold more and more. It seems pretty uncontroversial to say that CoD4 was the best in the series, and now we're approaching CoD8...
Battlefield "fanboys" are more defensive because CoD is a bigger game.

But the proper Battlefield fans are the ones who played 1942, 'nam, and BF2. A lot of these people (me included) strongly disliked Bad Company 2 because of the rabid consolification (slow animation, auto-aim knife, spawn/revive protection, too high gun accuracy, narrow Field of View, slow movement, lousy map design ...). If your first BF game was BF2 or Vietnam (not the BC2 expansion), you'd understand why we dislike both series after BF2 (possibly 2142, that game had great balance but horrible pace)/CoD4. Knowing that the helicopter is controlled by a player just like you is miles better than having it be a flying aimbot in the sky.

If your first and only BF game was BC2, then you can't call yourself a Battlefield fan. You can - however - call yourself a Bad Company fan.

In the end, I suppose fanboys are always just this: fanboys.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Why dont you actually play a tactical shooter then, rather than a fps, like ghost recon future solider

FPS - First person shooter. An FPS can be just as tactical as any other shooter.

 

[kiralon]

Arma 2 and Joint ops ftw

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Why dont you actually play a tactical shooter then, rather than a fps, like ghost recon future solider

FPS - First person shooter. An FPS can be just as tactical as any other shooter.

"can be" why not play something that is tactical

I find Battlefield tactical - even though Ghost Recon is more so. Also, I think you've misunderstood what I meant. I said that the genre called "FPS" can be as tactical as any other shooter. CAN BE, as in the GENRE has the potentional to have tactical MECHANICS, just like any other SHOOTER. Understood?

 

[EternalFacepalm]

but if it has tactical mechanics then it a tactical shoot battle field is a squad based shooter

And squads are a tactical mechanic. Really, games can be more than one specific thing, you know.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I'm not much of a Gun fetishist, so....neither.

btw, I'm not implying that playing Gun porn is bad. It's just not my thing.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I prefer call of duty...
...MW2....
....when it gets hacked.
Seriously? Have you ever played it in a low-gravity slow-mo sort of thing?
It's brilliant.
But they both annoy me with their over-the-top American Patriotism.
Have you ever seen the end of the black ops campaign?
*shudders*

 

[jaguarwar6]

Both games are good in their own way, but have to give it up for Battlefield (all of them). The action just seems more realistic. Love the mayhem in BFBC2. Call of duty's action is just kind of bland and only keeps me entertained for about 1hr (unless I'm with friends). I can play BFBC2 on the other hand for week's. To me it just seems like the Black Ops could have been an add-on not a $60 game, I can't even get past the third chapter because it's so boring. That's my opinion. Battlefield 3 is going to be the superior game hands down (my opinion). I you disagree who cares.

 

[Still Life]

Don't these threads get old?

I honestly don't care. I like BF simply because it appeals to me more. Played BF2 back in the day and I've been playing BF:BC2 since day one and I just love the crazy moments you will never see in COD, like bailing out of a chopper to arm a bomb then having that same chopper crash on top of you.

Good times.

 

[Cythros]

Battlefield fans rag on Call of Duty fans because the amount of teamwork and depth in Battlefield is greater, making it in their minds (and in mine) a far superior multiplayer shooter that is currently being vastly outsold by Call of Duty, a more shallow, solo-oriented multiplayer shooter notoriously known for it's immature and often plain mean fanbase.

They feel that Battlefield is almost objectively better than a similar (they do generally complete for the same market) product that gets so much more attention for being simplistic. And there's nothing people hate more than something that symbolizes the degeneration of an industry they're passionate about.

There's your reason. It's basically, "This is why we can't have nice things".

So I guess I was doing something wrong while I was running around and getting my team plenty of points while going completely solo in Battlefield BC2? Not to say that Battlefield doesn't naturally push more of a sense of teamwork or anything, but if I can run around the maps and completely ignore the existence of my teammates and still manage to rake in plenty of kills/objective points taken, then I find it hard to believe that Battlefield is really so different from call of duty (at least in the teamwork department).

Besides, teamwork alone doesn't define how deep a game is. There are many factors that can effect the depth of an experience, such as the amount of options a player has, the amount of situations a player can come across (or at least perceives to come across), the weight and balance behind the consequences of a player's choices, the list goes on and on. And since depth is defined by how exactly a player experiences it, it can be difficult to "objectively" compare depth between games. Likewise, I find arguing over whether Battlefield or Call of Duty has more "depth" to it than the other to be fairly fruitless.

In my honest view, both games are far too similar to really get all that worked up over which is more deep, yet at the same too different to objectively hold one over the other. Whether or not you like one over the other boils down to strictly your personal preference. Both were fun, deep experiences for me. I see no reason to argue over which is better.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

but if it has tactical mechanics then it a tactical shoot battle field is a squad based shooter

And squads are a tactical mechanic. Really, games can be more than one specific thing, you know.

sorry running though a 200 acre warzone with 3 random people you cant talk to doesn't seem tactical too me

Then YOU'RE DOIN' IT WRONG! :trollface:
Seriously, though, at its core, Battlefield is tactical, and was created with that design in mind. CoD was designed to support what its community wanted. Which was teabagging and more unbalanced guns.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I prefer call of duty...
...MW2....
....when it gets hacked.
Seriously? Have you ever played it in a low-gravity slow-mo sort of thing?
It's brilliant.
But they both annoy me with their over-the-top American Patriotism.
Have you ever seen the end of the black ops campaign?
*shudders*

cant you get banned for that or just the people who did the hack

Oh, activision honestly just don't care about MW2, you can pretty much do what you like.