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Akvod on 18 February 2010
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Domicinator said:

Let me give you a little background--I love online shooters.  Love them.  I didn't say I was any good at them, but I buy quite a few and spend several of my free hours playing them.  I am a big fan of the Battlefield series both on the PC and the consoles.  I am not such a big fan of CoD, but have really enjoyed Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2.  I was pretty big into Quake back in the day, a little CounterStrike here and there, blah blah blah.  AND just by pure luck, I have run across a little bit of a windfall lately where I have plenty of cash to buy pretty much whatever game I want, which is coming in handy during this faux holiday release season we are having right now as gamers.  All that being said, I have been flip flopping on whether or not to buy Bad Company 2.  

I had been playing Modern Warfare 2 on the 360 ever since it came out and was having lots of fun with it--lots of friends, family, and co-workers were playing too, so there was always someone to team up with.  I think MW1 and 2 were both terrific games......arcadey, but terrific.  Then MAG came out, and my online shooters have gone to that full time ever since the day it came out.  Many of my co-workers are playing that game too, so it's pretty cool to have a clan going and tell war stories during the day.  All in all, in terms of the general experience you get from a shooter, I find MAG to be on par with some of the older BF games, especially BF2.  Probably even better.  I feel no need for any more MW2, much to the dismay of some of my friends.

Now I'm faced with the release of BF:BC2 in March.  I downloaded the demo recently expecting to be blown away as I usually am by the BF series.  I am not.  Again, I have more than enough cash to buy this game, so it's not about finances.  It's more about me thinking the game just isn't doing anything differently from the games I already have.  If anything, it's a cross between MW2 and MAG with worse graphics.  In fact, in terms of graphics, I think it goes something like MW2>MAG>BC2.  

Early previews of BC2 seem to think the game is excellent.  Am I missing something here?  Do you guys think I'm crazy?  Since MAG is starting to become my favorite online shooter of all time (much to my surprise, since I totally scoffed at it when it was announced at E3 a couple of years ago), my biggest fear is that BC2 comes out and lots of people abandon MAG.  I hope that's not the case, because I don't think EA is going to get my money this time.  I think I'm sticking with Raven.  What do you guys think?

P.S.---Please don't turn this into a 360 vs. PS3 thread.  I have both and think they're both awesome.  I am not insinuating any console bias by saying that I love MAG--it would have been terrific on either console.