Cos' it's all about skill. f**k the fun. Nothing sadder than people that get flustered over competition IN A GAME. MLG is practically a parody of itself.
Believe me, CoDders have their own idea of competitive play. It's pretty much become this f**ked system to the point where anybody coming into the franchise would normally think THE f**k IS THIS SHIT.
People don't care about the gameplay differences that will be there between Battlefield 3 and MW3, they just want to ditch Call of Duty as fast as they can because they're either too bored of it, or as Xenodawwwg said, they're too embaressed to admit that they're part of such a large group of people playing the same game for hours on end, every day of the week. TOO MAINSTREAM.
I don't have a problem with people wanting to find refuge and *ahem* heh, 'rehabilitation' in the hands of Battlefield and ditching CoD, no problem at all; the Battlefield games are great! Have a f**king, I don't know, a field day playing BF3 and using the game as a device to tell your friends how stupid Modern Warfare and the rest of the CoDs after it were. Even though the same people saying this are the ones who played it twenty-four seven. No, none of that is the problem I have with it, the problem I have is that these people COULD HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR THE PAST FOUR f**kING YEARS. That's right, in that time, two quality games called Battlefield: Bad Company and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were release and ignored by the same people (sorry can't be bothered, TRYING TO RAKE IN DAT EXP TO PRESTIGE) who's penises currently reek of Easy-Off BAM! for Battlefield 3.
Big difference between regular Battlefield and Bad Company Battlefield? Not that much. Not that I'm complaining about any laziness in the development, of course you have to follow a development tradition (yes, I know what Battlefield Heroes is), but really aside from the campaign's tone, the multiplayer was very similar (ESPECIALLY after the update that allowed for the game to be played in the 'classic' mode), but toned down for consoles and added a cool-as-f**k destruction system via the Frostbite engine. In terms of additions, Battlefield: BC 2 had about the same amount as MW2 or less, but was without a doubt a higher quality game, with the pretty sheen of polish and non-f**ked mechanics; didn't get it ahead though. Honestly, I'd compare Battlefield more to Halo than I would Call of Duty, you don't need 8-foot jumping and plasma weapons not to draw that one.
So while the outcome of how this stupid Call of Duty vs Battlefield crap is going to be hilarious either way, it'll also be incredibly disappointing, and a real display of how gamers can be suddenly seduced by a franchise that has been around for f**king ever because it's a military shooter and has prettier graphics than the other games they've wasted the past four years of their life playing... when they could have just been playing Bad Company or the first two and their many expansions on PC (if they're purists...) instead of the series they've now come to loathe with a hypocritical intensity. These Battlefield 3 pre-launch fancows didn't just come out of nowhere!
I'll see you on both.
