Brahma El Indio
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.11 22:02:00 -
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Planet side 2 is the new MAG. PS2 is like MAG on growth hormones. Dust is like a stunted version of MAG right now due to low player numbers on huge maps. Plus the dust gun mechanics are still dismal compared to MAG.
If you played MAG, you know some of the best games are sabo when it goes down to the wire and c is charged and the game timer stops. Those are the most intense games.
PS2 delivered that same experience for me earlier in the week, when one battle defending the same choke points between six letters, went on for just over TWO HOURS. The battle was totally epic, with infantry, armor and aircraft.
I've never played an FPS where the battle takes so long. In that battle, the NC, who are the PS2 equivalent of SVER, were finally pushed back to another hex after just over two hours. The TR, who are the PS2 equivalent of Valor, then pushed forward and kept the attack on the NC into the adjacent hex.
I've kind of been drawn more to PS2 since then, because its so much like MAG, better than MAG even. And this makes perfect sense as MAG was bases on the original Planet side.
Dust would need to have a lot more players and improvements to battle structure to allow open ended battles to replicate the kind of fps ecstacy that PS2 is building up to be.
Dust is OK, but lots of work left. It will be a good game when finished, but if some of the things I mentioned are not addressed, then dust will never fill the MAG void.
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Brahma El Indio
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
171
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Posted - 2012.09.21 10:26:00 -
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MAG rules, OK? But planet side 2 is better than MAG because its like a cross of a sabo game with timer stopped, with domination player numbers. Perpetual war with high player counts, objective team based game play almost identical to MAG.
Dust right now is the poor cousin....I hope and I really hope it gets better....I put in my twenty bucks...I've bought aurum on top of that...then on top of the fifty i already put in, my local retailer was selling 50 dollar psn cards for thirty bucks...I bought a bunch of them and loaded the cash for dust...so they better not disappoint....but the odds ain't in my favour right now.... |