Why Xbox 360 Gamers Don't Want MAG

[EricBushEIC]

Written by one of our staff writers:

"Well, congratulations Playstation 3 owners, MAG has finally been out for a bit and admittedly, I'm still not sure how I feel about it. The prospect of games totaling 256 players is intriguing, but should we as 360 owners catch a case of the Green-Eyed Monster and feel some kind of envy? The short answer is no, at least for now. Full editorial after the break:" </img>
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[DanteSparda504]

I'd take MAG over just about ANY shooter on the Xbox 360.

It is a ton of fun and can't wait to move my PS3 to my room so I can finally pick up the retail copy and spend more time with it. I <3 Zipper and hope they work on a new Socom.

[UnrulyCat]

I'm not in the habit of doing this, but what the hell. I found the article 'Why Xbox 360 Gamers Don't Want MAG' hilarious.
First, somehow there's this impossible assumption that No 360 owner wants MAG. How pray tell would you ever know that? So we have then a massive generalization about the GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming nature of 360 gamer. If I was going to generalize, going by sales figures, I'd think 360 gamers only ever played FPSes, and since MAG is an FPS, ....
Second, how would 360 gamers know whether they wanted MAG or not, I know some can try it, but many can't. How can you not want something you've never tried?
Finally, here's one similarity and one difference between me and the GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming 360 gamer: We're similar in that we both don't want MAG, we're different in that I can get it, if I wanted it, but the 360 gamer can't

So come on, it's a joke to not want something you can't have anyway. The point is to have the capacity to have it, not necessarily to exercise that capacity. Of course it works both way, after all each console has its exclusives. Anyway, enjoy not wanting MAG, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, Infamous 2, Gran Turismo 5 and so on. I'll enjoy wanting the one 360 game that seems like it's worth wanting (now that we have Braid), Mass Effect 2. Of course even if I had it I wouldn't be able to play it, it's much too time consuming (I sadly haven't finished 2008's games yet.)

[Pepper Jack]

mag is a terrible game, they hyped it up so much making it sound like it was a huge scale 256 man battle but it's just battlefield bad company with worse graphics and about the same amount of people GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming

I'm not in the habit of doing this, but what the hell. I found the article 'Why Xbox 360 Gamers Don't Want MAG' hilarious.
First, somehow there's this impossible assumption that No 360 owner wants MAG. How pray tell would you ever know that? So we have then a massive generalization about the GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming nature of 360 gamer. If I was going to generalize, going by sales figures, I'd think 360 gamers only ever played FPSes, and since MAG is an FPS, ....
Second, how would 360 gamers know whether they wanted MAG or not, I know some can try it, but many can't. How can you not want something you've never tried?
Finally, here's one similarity and one difference between me and the GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming 360 gamer: We're similar in that we both don't want MAG, we're different in that I can get it, if I wanted it, but the 360 gamer can't

So come on, it's a joke to not want something you can't have anyway. The point is to have the capacity to have it, not necessarily to exercise that capacity. Of course it works both way, after all each console has its exclusives. Anyway, enjoy not wanting MAG, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, Infamous 2, Gran Turismo 5 and so on. I'll enjoy wanting the one 360 game that seems like it's worth wanting (now that we have Braid), Mass Effect 2. Of course even if I had it I wouldn't be able to play it, it's much too time consuming (I sadly haven't finished 2008's games yet.)

i expected you to put forth an argument for why mag is a good game and shouldn't be slated. but instead i wasted my time reading 2 paragraphs of nitpicking about the wording of the title.

do you by any chance see those adverts that say things like "9/10 men prefer..." and then write to them and yell about how they couldn't possibly estimate the amount of men who like/dislike it because they didn't ask every single one of the billions of men on the earth?

[blu_yu_away]

I have a PS3 and still don't want MAG. There is no reason to want the game when I could play Killzone 2, Battlefield BC 2 or CoD MW2 instead. All better games in their own rights. I've played MAG and ya know what, its just not that fun. Technically impressive? Yes, but not very fun when compared to other GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming shooters.

[Blasterpez]

we don't need god o war 3! we have dante's inferno!

so are 256 people not getting on? or was that the promise and it didn't happen?

[Pepper Jack]

we don't need god o war 3! we have dante's inferno!

so are 256 people not getting on? or was that the promise and it didn't happen?

they have 256 but you never see them, they're all in their own games and basically they're just statistics, they pretty much have a normal game like any normal shooter but link the outcome to a bunch of other games. very misleading

and the 1 normal game that you're in is crappy anyway lol, the graphics and everything are terrible

[DanteSparda504]

they have 256 but you never see them, they're all in their own games and basically they're just statistics, they pretty much have a normal game like any normal shooter but link the outcome to a bunch of other games. very misleading

and the 1 normal game that you're in is crappy anyway lol, the graphics and everything are terrible

Graphics are far from terrible and graphics don't make a game.

[BuckRogers007]

I can accept dumbing down the graphics for large scale battle fps. Look at old Black Hawk Down from original Xbox. those graphics were terrible but the game was so simple and fun I couldnt put it down. that game was up to 50 players if i recall and I enjoyed the games large scale. I think in order for a game like this to be fun there has to be very large maps and vehicles thrown in to get some mass killings otherwise whats the point of 50+ players.

It seems the more recent games are the ones going down in the number of players. When Live first came out games were released with 12-16 players standard (at least the ones i played like Ghost Recon), but now they've gone down to 8-12? 16 for bigteam battle? And the maps just seem too crowded sometimes with 16.

I always been keeping an eye out for the next Black Hawk Down though, if you could keep an open mind with the graphics the game itself was pretty fun. But i havent heard much about Mag til now to be honest. I'd check it out if I had a PS3.

[Pepper Jack]

yeah buck, i really didn't like the black hawk down game but i never played it GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming, i just rented it for a few days and didn't enjoy it. as for graphics being dumbed down for large scale battles that is usually the case but when i play warhawk and killzone 2 GamingGamingGamingGamingGamingGaming i feel like i'm playing in a much bigger environment and with more players that i can actually kill/work with than in mag, and both those games had far better graphics and gameplay than mag did

Graphics are far from terrible and graphics don't make a game.

quote me where i said that they did, try not to twist my words TOO much next time eh?

[DanteSparda504]

quote me where i said that they did, try not to twist my words TOO much next time eh?

Quote where I said you did

[Blasterpez]

I can accept dumbing down the graphics for large scale battle fps. Look at old Black Hawk Down from original Xbox. those graphics were terrible but the game was so simple and fun I couldnt put it down. that game was up to 50 players if i recall and I enjoyed the games large scale. I think in order for a game like this to be fun there has to be very large maps and vehicles thrown in to get some mass killings otherwise whats the point of 50+ players.

It seems the more recent games are the ones going down in the number of players. When Live first came out games were released with 12-16 players standard (at least the ones i played like Ghost Recon), but now they've gone down to 8-12? 16 for bigteam battle? And the maps just seem too crowded sometimes with 16.

I always been keeping an eye out for the next Black Hawk Down though, if you could keep an open mind with the graphics the game itself was pretty fun. But i havent heard much about Mag til now to be honest. I'd check it out if I had a PS3.

you ever play old BF 1942? 64 players at once...that was pretty sweet, and some of those maps were super huge. 256 players at once would be insane. be easier to sit back and snipe people i think with that many other people running around.

[Pepper Jack]

Quote where I said you did

erm...nice comeback?