BF3 or MW3??

hous

I am rubbish at shooting games, consistently bottom when online, but i do enjoy playing them.

Played BF3 demo and enjoyed it, any suggestions as to which to go for? I will only buy one of them at the moment and looking for some insight..

thanks

Rick Deckard

hous wrote: »

I am rubbish at shooting games, consistently bottom when online, but i do enjoy playing them.

Played BF3 demo and enjoyed it, any suggestions as to which to go for? I will only buy one of them at the moment and looking for some insight..

thanks

Im crap at them aswell, but bf3 is class. Highly recommended.

tipperaryboy

Same here but can always trade bf3 in for mw3.
PS:Add me if your up for a game Jos3ph89

mcgovern

Started BF3 yesterday. Campaign is very unpolished. Lots of freezing, terrible AI etc.
Multiplayer was not floating my boat either, but the beta took a while before I started to like it.

Not The Real Scarecrow

If you're into playing solo, mw3 would be the choice.Bf3 favours working with a team and its a totally different animal imo from cod. Cod is more flashy and arcady while bf requires a bit more patience.

Junco Partner

they're both different gaming experiences entirely i'd get both if i were you.
it's like trying to compare fifa with madden. sure, they're both sports games but they're radically different at the same time. it's same with mw/bf

KaLi_78

I think MW3 will be more beginers friendly like other CoD's
As I'm playing shooting games BF was always pissing me of

dr.bollocko

BF3 is an excellent multiplayer shooter... It's pretty good even if you're absolutely useless because there is always some team function you can carry out.

I'll be getting both though.

hightower1

Two very different games tbh, granted we havent played MW3 yet but we at least can compare it to MW2. Battlefield is far slower and methodical, it usually devolves into a large scale battle fought in matters of feet per min.

Looking at the two games generally in terms of graphics, sound , controls, single player, MP, re playability..... imo mw3 will beat it hands down. I will keep BF, its still a good game but what we have again is NOT a COD beater which it amped itself as but more a carbon copy of the two games status last time where bad company 2 was good but not good enough to beat COD.

Its an admirable second place. Ill keep BF for sniping seeing as you can actually become a sniper in that game due to the gameplay / size of maps (in COD you simply cant snipe.... you can use a sniper rifle but thats the only similarity that the name has with the real life action in COD at least.)

hous

Thanks all for replies...think i will get BF and maybe get wife to get me MW3 for chrimbo.
cheers

VivGrise

Battlefield for me all the way.... You can fly helicopters, jets and you actually have to work as a team to win most of the time!!

Don't worry if you are getting constantly chewed up online, you're best bet is to play the campaign on the different difficulties until you get good at it, and then do the co-op missions. You'll be surprised how quick you'll get better at it. I have a 55 year old friend on Live who is a beast support gunner!

neilthefunkeone

Finished battlefield campain really quick and i wouldnt be the best.. so get BF3 now and then get MW3 next week.. Best of both worlds!!

hightower1

hightower1 wrote: »

Its an admirable second place.

Sorry , it seems I over rated BF3.... and admirable third place.


http://kotaku.com/5855992/two-year-old-call-of-duty-more-popular-than-battlefield-3-on-xbox-live

PADRAIC.M

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

Finished battlefield campain really quick and i wouldnt be the best.. so get BF3 now and then get MW3 next week.. Best of both worlds!!

Yeah bf3 is only ok will trade it for either batman this week or mw3 next week

Raze_them_all

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

Finished battlefield campain really quick and i wouldnt be the best.. so get BF3 now and then get MW3 next week.. Best of both worlds!!

You realise that no FPS should ever have campeign mentioned when giving opinions on it right??

PADRAIC.M wrote: »

Yeah bf3 is only ok will trade it for either batman this week or mw3 next week

Do you have a mic? do you have a squad of mates you can play with?? If not thats why you won't enjoy battlefeld, it's not designed for lone wolf cod players

Jofspring

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Do you have a mic? do you have a squad of mates you can play with?? If not thats why you won't enjoy battlefeld, it's not designed for lone wolf cod players

This is precisely the reason I'm thinking of trading in BF3. So far it seems like a great game but I can't really commit the time needed to it and I don't have any mates currently playing it. A few of them will most likely get MW3 though.

Seems like a waste to trade BF3 in so early but if I can get a good offer like trade it in and get MW3 for €0.99 or €3 then I'll probably be happy with that.

Gamer Bhoy 89

I don't know what to do anymore, I have BF3 and I f***ing love the game, but sometimes i feel i need to have a CoD game there for me aswell incase im in the mood for some hectic shooting. Thats the chemistry of it for me. BF3 is fantastic for teamwork and strategizing your every move at your disposal and on the other hand CoD is great for complete over-the-top shoot-fests. Not to mention the 60frames p/s, I don't think CoD would be as addictive without it.

I'm not sure wether I should get MW3 next week or just get Skyrim, some dilemma like

Gamer Bhoy 89

Raze_them_all wrote: »

You realise that no FPS should ever have campeign mentioned when giving opinions on it right??

Do you have a mic? do you have a squad of mates you can play with?? If not thats why you won't enjoy battlefeld, it's not designed for lone wolf cod players

you don't necessarily NEED to talk to people to enjoy battlefield, i play alone cause none of my friends have it and i still enjoy the hell out of it.

Raze_them_all

gamercfc wrote: »

you don't necessarily NEED to talk to people to enjoy battlefield, i play alone cause none of my friends have it and i still enjoy the hell out of it.

speak for yourself!! team work makes all the difference!

BlastedGlute

To be honest team work in any game makes a difference. People assume because battlefield LOOKS like a team game then it is in fact best played that way. But you can do so much damage all by yourself it's not essentially true that you need a team mentality at all!

Gears of war doesnt look anything like a team game but its proven that moving in a pack can make your team take a 15-0 victory or never get your leader captured etc. There is a team method to any game you play, but also a lone wolf style to, its all in how you look at it!

Either way, its a ****ing great time to be a gamer!! so freaking much to choose from its insane!!

Korvanica

BlastedGlute wrote: »

People assume because battlefield LOOKS like a team game then it is in fact best played that way

It is best played that way, and thats not an assumption. You can lone wolf and do as much damage as much as you like, but if you come up against a squad working together properly you have no chance.

Thats not saying that lone wolfing it up in BF isn't fun though.

Shammy

Both campaigns are very good imo , spec-ops is great on mw3 , havent played either online yet.

hous

argh....im in a right a right dilema over this...i dont have any mates with this..but like the idea of a strategy based game rather than a blast fest, might have to be both!

Dues Bellator

MW3 for me , some of the genuine posts on here regarding battlefield are valid , but if you want to just pick it up and blast away its cod all day long .

Dohnny Jepp

hightower1 wrote: »

Sorry , it seems I over rated BF3.... and admirable third place.


http://kotaku.com/5855992/two-year-old-call-of-duty-more-popular-than-battlefield-3-on-xbox-live

Call of duty is good for one thing. Keeping all the little kids away from good games like BF3.

dr.bollocko

A fan of both, BF3 is excellent online. Much less of the "you're gay" brigade and the lobby nonsense. That said I don't play with a regular squad of friends on BF3 and didn't on BFBC2 and I never really felt like I was a lone gunman.. Once you're aware of your squad, they're on the same objectives it's pretty easy to be a team player.

BF3 is more cerebral, COD often more visceral.

I think the problem with threads like this is that they tend to devolve into a slagging match between hardcores of both communities.

hightower1

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I think the problem with threads like this is that they tend to devolve into a slagging match between hardcores of both communities.

Well considering mods ignoring blatant trolling comments like the one above then Im not surprised threads like this are ALLOWED devolve into slagging matches.

PDD

COD = Run&Gun jump right in and start blasting away shallow learning curve but essentially a broken game with choke points on maps etc.

BF3 = Teamplay & Tactics a steep learning curve hard to find good team/squad members but once you do infinitely more enjoyable than that same old tired record of COD in a large part due to destructive environment making every time you play a map different (which is awesome esp from tactics perspective). Plus lots of vehichles and toys to play with.

From what little Ive played it seems that BF3 has been invaded by the MW3 pleb gang - you know those guys that can't even spell tactics let alone know what it means or what its like to work in a team. I think EA dropped the ball when they didnt give the squad leader the ability to kick someone from a squad.

BF3 is a team game and is completely broken on the XBox360 because you only have three squads per game and if two of those squads are plebs then your never going to win the game unless your some kind of Rambo with a 100:1 KDR.

I'm so glad I didn't pay full price for BF3 on the XBox because if I did I would have to return it. Glitchy sound, Glitchy maps with bugs like seeing people through walls etc but hey for 3Euro can't complain.

DARK-KNIGHT

almanu wrote: »

MW3 for me , some of the genuine posts on here regarding battlefield are valid , but if you want to just pick it up and blast away its cod all day long .

Potatoes did you even play battlefield 3?

It is a class game IMO

hightower1

Hit detection in BF is terrible, so many hit markers. Just there I was on the market map....shotgunned a guy with 12gauge round to the head in the open from about 2m away, got a hit marker and he takes me out with 3 rounds from a silenced 1911 - ridiculous. I took note of how bad this gets and had the UMP unsilenced and it took half a mag to put a guy down at short range yet someone with a magpul pdw took me out with 3...yes...3... rounds on metro at close range.

Not to mention the spawn killing, the amount of times I have spawned and been killed within 2 seconds - literally - is a bad joke.


Been playing for a week now and already sick of it. Will prob trade it in for mw3 on tue. Battlefield seems to want to pick and choose its pros like bing more "realistic" yet a barret 50 cal sniper gets a hit marker to the chest and the same with shotguns? It wants to tote having vehicles but yet the choppers / jets handle terribly. It wants to promote slow team based tactical gameplay yet multiple times in a match you'll get killed within seconds of spawning in?

It'd be superb if it managed to get these sorted (along with the glitches and on par graphics) but I cant see that happening. After giving this a fair shot I can definitely advise go for MW3 if you can only get one game. The quality just isnt present in this game to warrant all its big talk for 6 months up to its release.

finno

gamercfc wrote: »

you don't necessarily NEED to talk to people to enjoy battlefield, i play alone cause none of my friends have it and i still enjoy the hell out of it.

+1

tony1980

hightower1 wrote: »

Hit detection in BF is terrible, so many hit markers. Just there I was on the market map....shotgunned a guy with 12gauge round to the head in the open from about 2m away, got a hit marker and he takes me out with 3 rounds from a silenced 1911 - ridiculous. I took note of how bad this gets and had the UMP unsilenced and it took half a mag to put a guy down at short range yet someone with a magpul pdw took me out with 3...yes...3... rounds on metro at close range.

I haven't really noticed much of a problem myself in killing people, are you playing core or hardcore?

Not to mention the spawn killing, the amount of times I have spawned and been killed within 2 seconds - literally - is a bad joke.

I have definitely noticed the issue with spawning, i was running up a stairs in a building on the left of A on conquest on the map Seine and Dunworth from the opposite team literally spawned in front of me which was great for me as i took him out easily but I can only imagine the cursing that was coming from him as it happened!


Been playing for a week now and already sick of it. Will prob trade it in for mw3 on tue. Battlefield seems to want to pick and choose its pros like bing more "realistic" yet a barret 50 cal sniper gets a hit marker to the chest and the same with shotguns? It wants to tote having vehicles but yet the choppers / jets handle terribly. It wants to promote slow team based tactical gameplay yet multiple times in a match you'll get killed within seconds of spawning in?

It'd be superb if it managed to get these sorted (along with the glitches and on par graphics) but I cant see that happening. After giving this a fair shot I can definitely advise go for MW3 if you can only get one game. The quality just isnt present in this game to warrant all its big talk for 6 months up to its release.

I have noticed a few glitches myself and the boosting which is really annoying but i imagine this will be sorted out, it hasn't really affected my overall experience.

I will picking MW3 up also, i think both games will be great and will keep me going for the next year!

Nagin

Ya i have both

Never played BF3 before I got it but its unreal. Its well put together and multiplayer is sick. Big maps and in my opinion better players.

Im sure its been said a 100 times but there hard to compare. Battlefield is a simulation while CoD is an arcade game.

That being said CoD suits my style of game play, ruch into combat and kill,kill,kill. I tried this in BF3 and before I could get anywhere close to the action I was dead.

One shot and your gone. Im not a brilliant player but im not crap either but I just couldnt get used to BF3. Most kills i got was 6 and 2 of them were from a tank.

MW3 is a different beast. Its alot more user friendly and I find the controls more responsive. Im never going back to BF after 2 hours with MW3

Darragh18

ok lads i have rugby world cup 2011 and i was just wondering is there anyway to check the online world ranking in the game for xbox 360 because can't really find any good competition in the game.

Gametag;King Darragh

tony1980

Darragh18 wrote: »

ok lads i have rugby world cup 2011 and i was just wondering is there anyway to check the online world ranking in the game for xbox 360 because can't really find any good competition in the game.

Gametag;King Darragh

Maybe try here with your question

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74050385

Not The Real Scarecrow

Been playng mw3 since tue, and am getting a bit sick of it.Finding it by far the worst cod to date. Gonna give it a chance and see if it grows on me but am seriously considering trading it in against bf3.
Nearly all other cod games had kd over 1.5, on this its dropping at a shocking rate, find the hit detection awful.Played for a few hours tonight and the highest amount of kills I got was about 22 but about 30 deaths. The lag is also fecking terrible at times.
Anyone else play the two games yet and could recommend either over the other?
Have also heard that bf3 has a few online problems so not sure about it.(played bad company 2,wasn't crazy bout it but loved medal of honour)

justsomebloke

Meatwad wrote: »

Have also heard that bf3 has a few online problems so not sure about it.(played bad company 2,wasn't crazy bout it but loved medal of honour)

Being a big CoD fan who couldn't get into either BC I was surprised at how much I enjoyed BF3. I thought the single player was better and found the multi player to be different enough that I found it quite enjoyable. Now I was generally only playing TDM on BF3 and that maybe why I got into it more then BC as it more suited the type of game I was looking for (currently mic less so getting into the other game modes isn't great).

truthfully both are problematic and I think MW3 is by far a more polished multiplayer experience (e.g. in BF3 I can't get out of a lobby during match intervals or set up classes during that time) but for those who find MW3 a bit same ol same ol, BF3 can be a quite enjoyable change