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Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

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Having a chat with my brother in law tonight who is playing the BETA of Battlefield Bad Company 2 on his PC and I am playing the DEMO of Bad company 2 on my PS3.

We wondering do you think it will ever happen where we can play multiplayer on line cross formats, ie: on a server where you may be not just playing PS3 users, but also PC and Xbox users at the same time.

As I had a go on the PC Demo of BC2 and it looked the same as the PS3 demo version.

What do you think?

I think it would be a great idea.
 
Definitely not cause PC owners would have a massive advantage over console owners.

PS3 against 360, then yea maybe.
 
The main complaint you're going to get is the disadvantage people on consoles would be at facing off against a PC player using mouse and keyboard.

I do think PS3 and 360 games would be great if they could faceoff. But I cant see that happening either.
 
i think the amount of control using a mouse/keyboard versus a pad makes too big a difference. If Sony and Microsoft made use mice and keyboards i could see it happening.
 
as a pc user i use to play on dreamcast quake 3 servers for a laugh, slaughtered them!

was great fun for me and my friends but I doubt it was fun for the dreamcast users

pacth 1.16 i think
 
LabR@t said:
as a pc user i use to play on dreamcast quake 3 servers for a laugh, slaughtered them!

was great fun for me and my friends but I doubt it was fun for the dreamcast users

pacth 1.16 i think
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Damn I hated people like you back then lol my PC couldn't play Q3 at the time time so I made do with the DC version, pretty good port considering the system spec...

Anyway....

That's probably a perfect example of PC gamers having an advantage over console gamers, I realise the DC had keyboard and mouse support but those mice were as rare as a hens teeth when the game was first released.
 
Kreeeee said:
Shadowrun and BlazBlue (not released yet) have PC/360 cross compatibility
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I am aware that Shadowrun has it, but PC users still had a massive advantage over the 360 users. Kinda begs the question why there hasn't been another FPS cross-platform game since.

Blazblue is the only type of game genre were it would work and players would have an even playing field. 2D fighting would be fine cross-platform. Totally different story to FPS.
 
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360/PC, can't wait - loving EVE atm!

FPS would never work - didn't like Shadowrun one bit :P
 
FPS falls foul to the age old argument of control interfaces. Where it would work is for things like flying games, driving games, anything where a gamepad would commonly be used on a PC.
 
I think Microsoft are way too controlling over Live to allow a third party games developer to allow cross platform between 360 and PS3. It has happened and could happen more on PC because of Microsofts Live service on the PC, Maybe it is the way forward, not so great for FPS but football/racing/etc games it'll be fine.
 
The Dreamcast version of Quake 3 ran on PC servers too. Wasn't so bad back then, as you had a m/kb peripheral for the DC.

I think PS3/PC cross platform games (especially shooters) would be a bit more likely; Sony aren't too precious about their online games, and they let some games use m/kb functionality, like UT3.
 
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