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[MAG] Massive Action Game
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So, this game was announced at Sony's E3 press conference. It is an upcoming PS3 title featuring massive battles involving 256 players organized into 8 man squads using modern weapons.
It will include para-drops and helos as well as missle combat from infantry apparently.
I'm interesting in hearing from folks that have seen any video footage (I have not yet) and what your initial impressions might be for this game.
So far, for me, until I know more, I am cautiously optimistic. Not much impressed me about the Sony press conference, but this certainly sounded like something to watch out for.
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A Kotaku story from a supposed focus group member
It will include para-drops and helos as well as missle combat from infantry apparently.
I'm interesting in hearing from folks that have seen any video footage (I have not yet) and what your initial impressions might be for this game.
So far, for me, until I know more, I am cautiously optimistic. Not much impressed me about the Sony press conference, but this certainly sounded like something to watch out for.
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A Kotaku story from a supposed focus group member
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more like LAG?
sorry.
I saw the trailer, looks like something I've played before involving battles on a field.
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MAG or Massive Action Game is a terrible name for a video game.
Basically 256 players doesn't exist until they show it live.
And how did that go?
Edit: haha beat'd
Sorry, no thanks
It went very well thank you, one of my favorite games. I wish the servers will still as full as they were on release. I would still be playing it!
Ah yes, memories from Planetside. The commanders dropping air strikes on their own side to "keep them on their toes" (actual quote).
The best were the noobs who couldn't fly the galaxy dropships and would crash into a tree or nearby galaxy ship instantly killing everyone and getting weapon lock for about 5 hours. That always sucked, I mean once I had weapon lock I was pretty much useless.
Its just a placeholder. Its still in development. Let's all kick dirt on it before we even see anything about it.
Because people will behave differently online while playing MAG than they do in other games.
Yeah because you'll totally be able to hear all 256 people talking at the same time.
It's being developed by Zipper (you know, Crimson Skies PC and SOCOM developer), so I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt that they can get it working well.
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So yeah.
I don't know, I think Microsoft still holds that trophy from their failed "True Fantasy Live Online."
I don't think that MAG is going to stick around as the name.
Oh, OK.
Looks great if they can actually pull it off. Which is doubtful.
If it were played by robots, I mean. No, seriously. Let me command a squad of bots against a bunch of other bots, and the game will be goddamned awesome.
How that will work in the end with things like vehilcles and zooming Sniper style remains to be seen, but it could be cool.
But in the end, even with 64 vs. 64 in BF1942, it never really mattered it was 64 vs. 64. It always boiled down to 3v3's in this building or region, a good 10 vs 1 over there. I'd rather have a really good 16 v 16 on a small map with many paths like COD4 then a 128 v 128 cluster fuck on a huge ass map where I need a Helo toi get to the hot spots.
P.S. Planetside rocked the fucking house for a good month or two, I was SURGICAL with those..little floating planes one seater things that I can't remember cause it's been like 5yrs since I've played, BUT I WOULD SHOOT YOUR FACE OFF and be gone before your corpse hit the floor.
MAG, more like LA... wait... Yep, I fully agree this game could bomb hard and go away, but the potential is there. Planetside could have worked, but I think the problem there was essentially paying for FPS gameplay that, really, is still free once you buy the game. The game itself was not all that bad.
We'll have to see, so far I'm still cautiously optimistic.
Cross between Socom and planetside, with the (now) usual unlockables from playing the game
It's hard for me to see, though, how you could go about getting 7 other people together at one time and place (online that is) to play, well enough as a squad, to make the squad mechanic meaningful.
I mean, heck, it sounds like Clans from PC gaming. And those are surprisingly hard to hold together. I tried joining clans before, but people are just never on a the same times and have different schedules and real life obligations to take care of.
And if the squads are just 'assigned' as soon as you join the game? Eh.. based on PC gaming experiences, people tend to do their own thing. Sometimes, yeah, you'll get a few work together for temporary instances of time, but I'd hardly call these things real squads per se.
Anyway, I'm going to reserve judgment until I get more details. Perhaps Zipper has figured out some gameplay mechanic to incentivize the squads for staying and working together.
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Of course none of this comes to light in the QA department, as that is a very different demographic of players. When the game is tested with a larger, more public base, squad based gameplay falls apart. Designers will cry 'those players are just new, it'll improve!', only it never does.
Edit: I'm talking about public games here (the majority), not organized clans (minority). There's ways to make teamwork work, but this won't be it.
On the other hand, you do get the rarity of the TGSK servers for the Battlefield games, where they are a clan that enforces squad play working out, and the servers end up being actual tactical gameplay, with everyone performing roles well. In theory that could happen with MAG with a clan having a dedicated game up and making it work.
That's why I keep saying the way to fix the internet is to put all the information necessary to kick the shit out of some asshole on their internet identity (without options to edit it, you get tagged when you buy your internet package).
My identity got stolen well before I was even signing up for shit on the internet so I doubt this would lead to a raise in identity theft. Most identity theft is only there because the government makes it easy (SSN numbers being used for identify for instance).
Anyone that remembers that guy on WoW who told a woman where he lived and her husband plus some of his friends went to the guys house and beat the shit out of him proves my point.
Once people know where an asshole lives they usually find a way to get that asshole's asshole stomped.
Or even the guy who killed his dickhead friend who sold his 'rare' sword on some online game in China.
I look forward to the day when "I am going to fucking kill you" in a chat on an MMO gets taken literally
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You are like the worst person in the history of the internet.
The way this game sets up the players and divides them into squads seems like it is almost inviting professional griefing.
Again I bring up the TGSK servers. Everyone there either has some knowledge of what the fuck they're doing or gets fucking murdered.
I could see Battlefield 3 doing this on PC somehow though and it being a relative success. I honestly think simply due to the differences in gameplay/control and the type of experiences people want, Halo/Call of Duty sized 16 players is the optimum right now and 32 is the upper limit without it becoming laggy or a clusterfuck - or both.
Perhaps in 10 years time, maybe, when PC gamers are playing ridiculous 700 player persistant battles.
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The one thing about console games is that they don't usually give you a good (easy? whatever) way to kick people from a game. If you can't kick people, you're at their mercy. But if you can and know how, the games can be quite enjoyable.
Will there be fucktards? You betcha. Will it make the entire game suck? Maybe not.
I don't see it being a problem, but I'm not going to judge either way until we actually see the game in motion. I hate how companies release CG videos. That never gets me excited for a game. Never. I could see there being a problem with framerate, though.
It is whether or not it should.
More players means more potential for dickery.
It also doesn't equal more fun. An annoyingly common misconception.
Yes it has 256 player games. Does that make it more fun than the 5v5 maximum in Gears of War 2?
Aw man I loved piloting Galaxies, I was my corp or outfits or whatever they were called best one. Also, DrunkMc the jet was uh the Mosquito (I think) , I liked the reaver more.
Back on topic, I dunno MAG looks neat if they can make it work, I'll definitely try it when I can.