My video card can't run that.

Only 2 GB of RAM short and only got a 2G graphics card for recommended settings

Need to upgrade both my RAM and CPU/motherboard next year tho

Might do GPU too but ill wait and see how my GTX 660 TI holds out till then

hmm interesting.

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't someone say that BF4 was running not as well on the next gen consoles? Perhaps I am getting if confused with other game (maybe watchdogs or something lol).

I guess without going into a full on technical battle, assuming I am not mixing games up, are those recommended spec well above the two consoles coming out?

Generally?

Minimum is so that your computer won't struggle to play the game (i.e. errors / overheating), but expect lowest settings on everything

Recommended is usually the specs required to use most of thefeatures of the game at good resoultion and decent framerate (subjective), med-high settings

Few companies post max specs anymore tho.

But some developers kinda throw the meaning of all 3 around (remembers Crysis 1 settings *shudders*)

I know this will sound silly, but when they say graphics memory, do they mean the memory of the actual graphics card? Cause damn, 3GB on a graphics card is A LOT. However, I'm sure my Geforce GTX 560 Ti will still run this nicely. 

Hmm I wonder if the other upcoming FB3 based games will have similar requirements over the next couple years.

AMD six-core? Why my AMD quad-core is definitely better than some Intel quad-cores.

they probably should have added Bulldozzer/Piledriver and Ivy Bridge/Haswell to those descriptions. But system requirements are usually more rule of thumb type deals, not to be taken too literally. And shouldn't take into account things like overclocking.

My 7870 XT is only 2gb... I'm I screwed?

Not screwed, but probably should stay away from Ultra or intensive AA methods such as MSAA or SSAA