MAG general/thoughts

[Cronson]

Played the open beta and hated it. I don't know if it's much better than the beta but all I did when I was playing it was wait. Waiting in lobby for some unknown reason for a game to start. Starting the round, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn, running a bit, dying, respawn.

The times I didn't die, I joined a team, the leader was either a screaming jibbering retard that blamed everybody else for his death except himself for walking into open gun fire or a grenade. Or somebody who just didn't do any leading, and made us all die anyway.

All in all, a very boring game, for everybody except the guys who had been playing since the beginning of the closed beta who were all over level 9000 with weapons that can kill across the map in one shot. Boring.

Amen. That beta not only made me hate MAG, it made me hate FPS's.

[MrPopo]

the only problem with that is less than half of all ps3 owners use a headset

Sounds like a plus to me.

[(-_-)]

I never died in the mag beta nearly as much as I do in anything like Killzone and Modern warfare. I'm not particularly fantastic at shooters and I like sniping, but this isn't possible for me in other games. In mag the scale of the map was so large I could park myself at the other end on a hill and my team lured guys out for me to pick off. I thought it was a hell of a lot of fun. I dont know if I have enough time to play it to the level of commitment that it sounds like it demands though.

[Niode]

the only problem with that is less than half of all ps3 owners use a headset

Sounds like a plus to me.

You should try Uncharted 2. The amount of annoying kids with headsets is surprising. Although you do get quite a few games of silent bliss, broken by the odd intelligent being who knows how to use his pie hole for more than just vomit.

Also, the guys complaining about annoying voice chat on the 360, you know you can just turn it off by default in the system settings right?

[SplashChick]

I never died in the mag beta nearly as much as I do in anything like Killzone and Modern warfare. I'm not particularly fantastic at shooters and I like sniping, but this isn't possible for me in other games. In mag the scale of the map was so large I could park myself at the other end on a hill and my team lured guys out for me to pick off. I thought it was a hell of a lot of fun. I dont know if I have enough time to play it to the level of commitment that it sounds like it demands though.

It doesn't take that much commitment at all, really. I reached level 60(current level cap) in about 45 hours of gameplay. Then again, I'd say I'm pretty above average at the game(not to brag, I just have much better k/d ratios and scores than most players I see). You don't even have to stay with whatever skills you choose, you can wipe your skill choices and reassign them a number of times.

I think it's fine that the 360 isn't getting this game, personally I don't think it could handle it.

[J T]

It doesn't take that much commitment at all, really. I reached level 60(current level cap) in about 45 hours of gameplay.

Those sentences don't go together.

[nickfil]

It doesn't take that much commitment at all, really. I reached level 60(current level cap) in about 45 hours of gameplay.

Those sentences don't go together.

true. 45 hours is huge.

[JDMThoughts]

45 hours is a long time man. I had a chance to play it over the past weekend. It is a very fun game, however there is no campaign mode which would help adjust to the game mechanics at hand. I don't like how it takes multiple shots to kill guys and by multiple I mean like 7-10 rounds. Kinda ridiculous. I do like the healing feature, which helped me level my buddies guy up very quickly. There really isn't enough boards though. This is a very good start to this franchise and I expect a sequel to hash out all the other issues. There is a definite learning curve, I came from a COD FPS setup which is nothing compared to this. This is much more involved. I have seen a lot more dev's steering away from the 360, and more exclusive things are happening on the PS3, like the additional content in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and Batman Arkham Asylum come to mind. I have both systems, and I fucking hate my Elite 360. I hate everything about my 360.

[bobbynewmarkiii]

I just got this, have played for about 2 hours, and got to level 4. I bought the medkit but need some more skill points to be able to use it to resuscitate. I'm in Valor.

Normally I don't like online shooters. At all. I buy FPS games rarely, and almost entirely for the single player campaigns. If I dip into the online multiplayer, it's pretty much to do just that - dip in and see what it's like. Invariably with console shooters I've been thoroughly unimpressed with online multiplayer, until now.

I'm still on the suppression mode or whatever it's called, until I level up and feel like I can be an asset to my team, but it just feels different and more... involved, like the dude above me said. I can't have played any more than 8 or so rounds, but so far there's only been one where the voice chat has been the usual crap - people talking about rubbish that I'm not interested in and giving each other abuse, singing etc., on every other round it's been... medic please i'm here [provides detailed location] and... need assistance [here], and there's a sniper [there] etc. Much more like it. I'm hopeful that the team nature of the game will mean that as I get deeper into the game proper, voice coms will be more used for gameplay than... well whatever the point of it is in deathmatch (I can't see any).

The online is lag free as expected. I've only been on 2 maps i think, but they're good. It feels like paint balling. I realise that so far I've not done anything with this game that I couldn't have done so if I'd actually put much effort into COD4 online, but, like I said... I just didn't like playing CoD online.

So, thumbs up and I'm totally up for getting some racketboy crew along. Sorry to the level 60 SVER chap on here, but I just didn't want to join that faction! Get the game, join Valor, and add me (PSN id 'bobbynewmarkiii')

One thing - I would have liked a better manual, especially seeing as you're online all the time, and if you balls up a new thing (like using the medkit on other people, like I've been trying to work out) it affect's your team's performance. I'm guessing it might be the same for new squad and platoon commander, which could really affect a battle.

Also just thought that I should mention that I have a crappy router which doesn't lie some online multipayer (like warhawk... used to work but then after they 'upgraded' it bricked)... but the crappy router isn't a problem with MAG - so don't worry about that, just buy it!

[lost_within]

Is this coming to the 360?

As I recall, the devs commented that they picked the PS3 since the players were of a more mature bent than the 360, so considering the large scope and supposed need for intelligent communication I wouldn't bet on it.

This is one thing I have to give the ps3...sure someone might talk crap...but its NOTHING like the 10 year old kids on the xbox telling you to "stop sucking dick" and "just leave you fag"

give a kid a mic and no mommy and he will say anything.