Poll: If you only buy one, which will it be....Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3?

[Clive Howlitzer]

Battlefield 3 by a large margin. In fact, I don't intend to ever own another Call of Duty game. Huzzah!

 

[ColeusRattus]

Hmmm, the choice is likce chosing which nut you want to have kicked, the left or right.

And just like with that choice, I refrain from chosing any one of them and go buy Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad.

 

[Aphex Demon]

Battlefield 3 quite obviously.

I played BF2 to shit.

to be honest though, I'm buying both.

 

[Laser Priest]

Do I need to buy one of them?

If so, Battlefield, because it's not Call of Duty. Just barely.

If I don't, then I'm buying Skyrim.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

except for the Halo series because they do vehicles correctly.

Define correctly?

They're easy to destroy and don't turn you into an unstoppable death machine. They're also a lot more balanced in a game like Halo, since you can absorb quite a lot more damage than you can in Battlefield or Call of Duty. Vehicles just don't work well when they can kill you instantly.

I always thought halo had the worst vehicles I'd ever seen in a video game.

 

[taylorton147]

the problem with me is that i dont find COD a bad game just way to generic now. battlefield 3 looks fresh and different so i will be going for that

 

[Dark Harbinger]

For Battlefield 2 fans like me, having spent hundreds of hours on multiplayer as well as all the expansions, seeing Battlefield 3 with awesome Red Faction Guerrilla style destruction, kick ass graphics and even more vehicles, plus 64 player for the PC is a dream come true. I know where my wallet's going with this one.

On the Call Of Duty side, I only really liked it as a primary singleplayer game, anyone remember the awesome and rich campaigns in United Offensive and 2? I gave the whole multiplayer side a go with Modern Warfare 2, I think not only was it a rather poor offering for a solid multiplayer, I think I lacked the twitchy, nutty, nervy reactions of the high pitched shrieking children, therefore I got riddled with ludicrously accurate bullets everytime I spawned. It's amusing to think that most of Activision's core fanbase with a lot of disposable income are underaged.

 

[Vrach]

except for the Halo series because they do vehicles correctly.

Define correctly?

They're easy to destroy and don't turn you into an unstoppable death machine. They're also a lot more balanced in a game like Halo, since you can absorb quite a lot more damage than you can in Battlefield or Call of Duty. Vehicles just don't work well when they can kill you instantly.

That's the joy of Battlefield. Instead of balancing a game solely on a "what's fair to 1 player", they balance it on "what's fair to 1 team". I find the whole "make the whole game bland and same cause that's the only way to balance it" a lot worse of an approach as it results in something far less fun and less tactical and seeing as the alternative Battlefield presents isn't imbalanced, I find it very much preferable.

Frankly, if you're a half decent player, you don't really get killed by vehicles that much. It's easy to hide from them most of the time unless you're stupid enough to be standing in the open (which is a huge mistake in Battlefield regardless of vehicles). They're not that hard to take down either, one rocket hit does the trick for choppers and tanks are pretty easy to take down (1 mine, 1-2 C4, 3 rockets). The addition of red-dot tagging pistol makes it even easier to take them out from a position where they can't touch you. So all in all, it just results in more tactics, which I for one love.

That said, I understand your preference, not everyone's into the Battlefield combat, just explaining that it's not imbalanced by any stretch of imagination, just balanced differently

 

[Woodsey]

Battlefield 3.

All those who lead with the PC shall be rewarded by my wallet (eventually, I'll probably by the million and one other games coming out before then - just don't like FPSs that much anymore).

 

[GuideBot]

Personally, I'm just bored to death of the CoD games. They've been using the same engine since COD2, which was release game for the 360. They've been using the same multiplayer format since COD4, which was a long while ago. I just can't play that shit anymore.

Battlefield tends to keep it fresh, with notable changes in engine and gameplay.

 

[Itsthatguy]

There should be a third option, like "Neither", for those who would rather spend money on a good game. Honestly, COD is generic, repetitive and completely unoriginal, and battlefield is only slightly better.

 

[Dark Harbinger]

Neither, they are both generic and I might consider getting them when the prices lower, but right now they have nothing to justify the price, especially since CoD keeps getting it's horrible multiplayer in my single player game and fucking up the part I like, whereas Battlefield 3, like Bad Company 2, wants to get bad single player in my multiplayer.

On the Call Of Duty side, I only really liked it as a primary singleplayer game, anyone remember the awesome and rich campaigns in United Offensive and 2?

I do, I fucking loved those. We need more epic single player shooters like that, instead of shit that tries to be both single and multiplayer and fails at both.

I'm with you on that.

 

[jamez525]

This is easy for me, always been a Battlefield fan and I haven't been disappointed yet, so BF3 all the way.

Obviously get BF3, might get haddock salmon cod if it actually does something new for once - but I doubt it.

I also couldn't give less of a shit about the BF3 single player stuff they've been putting out. That seriously looks like MW2 with destruction physics and (Possibly) worse AI (Did you see how the bots were standing around on the wrong side of cars, not firing at the player?!).

I'm seriously only going to be playing BF3 for the multiplayer - like most people I imagine. I mean, who is actually excited about playing an American marine called 'Jack Mason' (Or something) fighting against terrorists in a middle eastern urban setting? Can nobody think of any other setting?!

You do have to remember that the BF3 single player stuff is PRE alpha, so there is still a fair bit of work to be done.

 

[Cracker3011]

I'd go for the one that ISN'T a massive piece of shit full of 8 year olds who think pressing the left trigger just before the right trigger on your sniper rifle (which for some reason you can fire perfectly fine while running forwards) is cool.

So BF3 it is!

 

[drunken_munki]

In all fairness, MW is dead to me.

I am tired, as a PC user, of being treated like a second rate customer by Activision and whatever lap dog developer that works for them. Excuse me while I puke in my own mouth at the thought of MW3.

(still waiting for big fixes for conenction issues/lobby system/settings for dedicated servers... blah blah blah).

Never played Battlefield, but my bro reccomended it (2 i think?), I may try the next one

 

[GeorgW]

That's like asking if I'd like a Picasso or a finger painting. BF3 FTW!

 

[Nemesha]

This isn't a fair poll right now since you are comparing a game of which previews are available (BF3) against a game where only the name is decided(if it even is, considering the sueing going on between activision and the former IW guys). And since everyone is going to vote based on the entire series of the two games you might as well make a poll about CoD versus BF. Of which there are tons of already on every game forum in excistence.

Based on that assuption I would vote for BF. I did not like anything battlefield related until BFBC2 which was great fun, though in the end the serverside ruined the experience for me. There where times I wanted to play a few games but every time the servers failed on me and I would give up. I think I only have 50ish hours in that game because of that. The singleplayer however was, how can I put this delicatly, utter shite! I felt I was playing a game made 10 years ago with fixed enemy spawning and such.

I was in love with CoD and it's arcade style since CoD1, even MoH AA, which was made by IW as well. but after MW2 I gave up on it. blops singleplayer was mediocre and the multiplayer just didn't seem too much of an improvement from mw2....rc car, really?

to conclude:
I lost faith in CoD since IW has lost it's image and I've started to enjoy BF so my vote based on that goes to BF3