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PS3 to get "mmo" called "MAG" from Zipper Interactive (SOCOM) which will support 256 player full blo
Zaxx99
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256 player full blown fast action battle scenarios on the PS3 coming in the near future?!??
Pretty impressive for a console system, even if it IS the PS3. From the word at this years E3, the graphics look very similar to Battlefield 2.
I am honestly pretty shocked and surprised to see this news and that it will be coming to the PS3 system.
..Nice work Sony and Zipper, hopefully it will see the light of day with flying colors. I know how much fun I had with SOCOM 3 on the old PS2 and that was only 32 max players and obviously much crappier graphics. I wonder how they will be prevent massive LAG attacks with such demanding fast paced battles with such a huge number of players?
PS3's upcoming "MAG" info and VIDEO
- Zaxx
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Yeah, hate it or love it, Sony totally owned Nintendo and Microsoft at E3. Don't believe me? Go see for yourself what the critics and fans have to say about it at all the famous game sites and even Yahoo!
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Looks more like a bigger battlefield rather than a MMO.
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Well I can understand your point there.
But also, look at some actual mmos that are still running today like Dark Age of Camelot and Asheron's Call. These games today probably have less then 200 players most of the time on each server. Now I certainly imagine a big game like this "MAG" will have tons of servers full with like 240 or even 256 players. The difference is the worlds or playing realms will probably be MUCH smaller in this MAG game then in our typical mmo worlds.
But still, they are calling it an "mmo".. and I guess with the sheer number of players that will likely be logged in and with the number of players each world can support compared to previous battle games like SOCOM and Battlefield, 256 potential players is pretty "massive".. compared to like 16 or 32 for instance.
Anyhow, looks good to me. I'm personally looking forward to this one. mmo or non-mmo.
- Zaxx
Hmm not sure about it being an MMO, but it certainly looks very interesting. For MMO I expect a persistent world & character, though they mention the campaigns and character development, so maybe there really will be a certain level of persistence. I was planning on buying PS3 when FF13 arrives, but as it goes also to x360 I saw no need, but this certainly is a nice and shiny new exclusive for the PS3, we will see.
EDIT: so true with the FF13 being a blow, seems the series came a full circle now, nintendo->sony->M$
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Not really, Sony's press conference was pretty boring in my opinion. Microsoft has a lot coming for us this fall for the 360, and then their bombshell FF 13 announcement. All Sony did was pretty much rehash on games and things we already knew about.
I think it went Microsoft > Sony > Nintendo for the press conferences. They dealt a blow to Sony with FF 13 coming to 360, whether you want to believe it or not.
MAGS looks interesting though.
Huh? I thought it was exactly the other way around. Microsoft didn't announce any new games (well aside from the Sony rip offs like Lips and that camera game), only a PS3 exclusive going multiplatform. At least Sony announced new games like Ratchet & Clank: Quest for booty, MAG and God of War 3.
Btw OP, just a bit off - topic, but there is a new Socom game comming out as well, it will be multiplayer only called Socom Confrontation
It was CGI
So tbh whocares?
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Not really, Sony's press conference was pretty boring in my opinion. Microsoft has a lot coming for us this fall for the 360, and then their bombshell FF 13 announcement. All Sony did was pretty much rehash on games and things we already knew about.
I think it went Microsoft > Sony > Nintendo for the press conferences. They dealt a blow to Sony with FF 13 coming to 360, whether you want to believe it or not.
MAGS looks interesting though.
Huh? I thought it was exactly the other way around. Microsoft didn't announce any new games (well aside from the Sony rip offs like Lips and that camera game), only a PS3 exclusive going multiplatform. At least Sony announced new games like Ratchet & Clank: Quest for booty, MAG and God of War 3.
Btw OP, just a bit off - topic, but there is a new Socom game comming out as well, it will be multiplayer only called Socom Confrontation
Not really a lot of new games, but we got TONS of demos/trailers on games we havn't seen much of. Games aside, they had some nice announcements like the interface makeover, netflix, new partners for Marketplace. Sony only really revealed 2 or 3 games, God of War we more less knew was coming.
Neither side really revealed anything ground breaking, but Microsoft got close with FF 13. Neither really revealed any new great games either. I say Microsoft was better because I learned a lot more about the games I was waiting for, new trailers/demos, and they had quite a few annoucements. Sony didn't do much concerning trailers, and I don't think they even had a single playable demo.
Ya, a lot of the games was multiplatform at Microsofts press conference, but at least they gave us new and exciting details.
You don't hold press converences to show off new gameplay, that's all done AFTER the press conference, during E3. Did you really watch E3 or did you just looked at the press conferences? Because there was a lot of gameplay shown yesterday of resistance 2, Killzone 2, Gears of War, Prince of Persia (which looks AWESOME) and so much more, heck, Killzone 2's online multiplayer is going to be unveiled for the very first time today, we got our first multiplayer trailer and more info was released soon.
zthere are playable demo's btw.
Until I see gameplay I will assume the following:
a) Bullshit
if not a, then
b) Horrible clusterfuck of a game
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This is what i have wanted from a mmo for a very long time, now if you own and build the bases it would be the best game of all time. Sadly though if its not on pc, I probably will never get to play it.
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Any MMO that runs on a console will be mediocre at best. Consoles can only handle very dumbed down UI's, which really limits any MMO written for them.
That already got disproven years ago when FFXI was released.
I'm actually going to watch this game, as time goes on and a lot of features are released and it's like CoD4 (perks and achievements) I may go out and buy a PS3 with this game, and Kill Zone 2
. I hope this game will be epic, might be nice to play a quick game or two while in college (my true MMO days are dying).
Sorry if I disagree, I found FXXI UI very dumbed down and it was one of the reasons I left the game. I have several good friends that still play. A good MMO has a good UI which has not been the case with any console/PC marriage games. I suppose someone will prove me wrong someday, but so far my case is solid.
Anyways, I high doubt SOE has the skill to even come close to a good UI, no matter what the platform.
Your case is not solid at all, In fact your "case" has more holes than a slice of cheese. Final Fantasy XI has an average rating of 85% and is still one of the most played MMORPG's around. So you have already been proven wrong, it doesn't matter how much you want to deny it and think your opinion is fact.
Lets not get off topis here.
Anyway's. Even though I hate PS3 I might just buy it for MAG. I was thinking after I saw the Preveiw and did some math...
256 player's in mag.
Battle Feild 2 had 64
That's 64+64+64+64. Now remember how insane battle feild 2 fight's were. Well Imagine the fighting in mag equal to 4 time's the size of battle feild 2. That's insane.
does it matter?
Can you not afford multiple consoles?
Must you point this out?
Does it help you sleep at night knowing your a Sony fanboi?
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sounds awesome but not buying a ps3 so no dice
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I'm with metalhead980 I know I can buy a PS3 if I wnat in addition to my top end PC and xbox360 (not bragging just saying if you can buy 1 you can buy the other normally)
ON Topic: So yeah if this new SOCOM is the shiznit I will buy PS3. That's gonna be totally wicked. 256 is plenty massive for me I dont see pvp get much bigger then 200 players anyway. Plus I liked Socom for PS2
I must admit this may be the game that forces me to dabble into kiddie boxes (consoles)
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Im quite certain that battlefield has done this already....
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Actually Battlefield isn't anywhere near.