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Battlefield: Bad Company to Have 300MB Install on PS3

SCRAWL: "SCRAWL reader Reedix sent in a comparison picture of the boxes of EA's upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company on the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360. What he noticed was that the PLAYSTATION 3 requires 300MB of space while the Xbox 360 version requires 2MB of space. He got these box shots from the PS3 and 360 pages for the game on GameStop.com. Even if it is 300MB, I still don't like it."

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Fishy Fingers5814d ago

lol... complaining about 300mg now huh. Desperate times...

Cupid_Viper_35814d ago

NEW RULE EVERYBODY

grow the Fokc up..............seriously
a scientific study have shown that people who tend.....you know what, Fokc that...... just grow up....

Jamie Foxx5814d ago

point being?

what a lame news piece

SiLeNt KNighT5814d ago

what is this 1985? 300mb is laughable nowadays =D

Winter47th5814d ago

If they can enhance gameplay like the less pop-ups GTAIV had, then bring it on, in fact, I'd be surprised if no game in the future requires mandatory installation, I'd take it as lack of programming skills even.

Mandatory installations = a plus, best for the user, better overall.

Real Gambler5814d ago (Edited 5814d ago )

When the PS3 came out, eveybody said: "It's cool that they ALL have hard drives, because developers can use them since it's not an option"

Now, they are using the hard drive and everybody is complaining about it! Heck, I'm sure if they would have had the same choice for the 360, they would have used a lot more than 2Mb. Give the devs something and they will use it. End of story. Oooops I guess not. We will still see people complaining about using something available in all consoles for the next 300 games.

If people think devs should not use the new console ressources, then they should stick with their old NES. If they make consoles with hard drives today, it's because they are useful.

Ask yourself: "Why do PCs come with 200gig to 500gig hard drives TODAY. Because software running from hard drive is faster than DVD or Blu. Otherwise, all your PC games would run from the DVD with no install whatsoever... Personally, my gaming PC has 750gig of disk space, and it's almost full. Sure I wish my games would only use 2mb, but that's not the case! The PS3 is just somewhere in between. Load essential stuff, but also use the BR. How cool is that.

Nevers5814d ago

For me, as a potential buyer (80gig-MGS4Bundle), I'm glad to know that the Hard-drive downloads can range from a few hundred Mb up to several gigs depending.

After finding that the 20gig HDD for my Pro-360 was inadequate space, I was holding out for a PS3 bundle with a decent sized HD. A 300 Mb install is re-assuring to me, especially after hearing about all these required and unrequired installs...

Headline worthy = NO
Flame-worthy = NO, but flamers will blame while we cont to game ;P
Article-worthy = ImHo... yes... valuable and reassuring

thereapersson5813d ago (Edited 5813d ago )

This ridiculous "i'm going to knock off points for anything related to the PS3" bullsh1t is getting out of hand. So this complete idiot is telling us that even though it will most likely improve texure loading, load times, or all around stability, because it's an install on the PS3's HDD that it's completely ridiculous?

Seriously, 300 freaking megabytes and this douchebag with an internet-outlet-for-his-consol e preference-disguised-as-journa lism is complaining?

Desperate times indeed, Fishy.

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Nevers5814d ago

nice knowing the installs, if present, can have a varied range.

300Mb is nuttin' !!

gauravraw5814d ago

It's a relief tbh. I have only seen one video of BF: BC running on PS3 and it had a lot of screen tearing, I hope the developers take care of that before shipping the game.

LastDance5814d ago

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The Argument for Battlefield: Bad Company Remakes

With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.

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thorstein121d ago

Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.

When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:

“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.

Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."

(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)

SonyStyled121d ago (Edited 121d ago )

I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)

Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.

Tody_ZA120d ago (Edited 120d ago )

What is so hard to understand for them?

Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD

INMATEofARKHAM120d ago

Probably should add a fun campaign to the list.

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72408d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel408d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon408d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim408d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai408d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341408d ago (Edited 408d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai408d ago (Edited 408d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341408d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313408d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald408d ago (Edited 408d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra407d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai407d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra407d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade407d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno408d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149408d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop408d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb407d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole408d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled408d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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Battlefield 2042 Is More Than Enough To Prove We Need Bad Company 3

With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.

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DaCajun888d ago

Yes, because there is no way they could screw up a BFBC 3 like they just did the last 2 Battlefield games, right?. /s

They're not the same DICE devs they used to be they're just EA puppets. You will just keep getting COD/APEX/SEIGE BF games now, because idiots keep throwing money at EA for this garbage.

seanpitt23889d ago (Edited 889d ago )

BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same

If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit

LucasRuinedChildhood889d ago (Edited 889d ago )

Tbh, I think BF 2042 was a battle royale, and then they changed direction mid-development and didn't have enough time to finish it properly before EA's deadline. Specialists make more sense in a br, for example.

Like Halo Infinite before its delay, it needed at least an extra year of development. When you think about it, Infinite had 6 years and BF 2042 had just 3 years. It seems that's just not enough time to make a high quality AAA game anymore.

LucasRuinedChildhood888d ago (Edited 888d ago )

Here's evidence for BF 2042 originally being a battle royale game, heavily influenced by Apex Legends:
https://gamerant.com/battle...

ChubbyBlade888d ago

It did start as a battle royale. It’s pretty obvious. All the pieces are there.

isarai889d ago

Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.

Fluke_Skywalker888d ago

They actually admitted that in an interview a while back. They quite openly said they had no idea what made those games so popular and how to recapture it.
Maybe if they actually went and played BC2 they would find out.

RetroCaptainSteve888d ago

I mean, if they can bring back fun Star Wars single player games, anything's possible, yeah?

Gardenia888d ago (Edited 888d ago )

I think that says more about the people working on games nowadays. They have no idea what they are doing and aren't true gamers themselves. Because gaming is a billion money industry they follow the orders of the business men and investors who only look at making maximum profit of games.

Look at the beta and the launch of Battlefield 2042 alone; how can you not see the negative reactions of the community coming? That alone tells us enough of the people involved in making the game.

Yppupdam888d ago (Edited 888d ago )

Really? They don't understand what made the Bad Company games popular, or they just don't want to admit what made them popular...That is most likely what the creatively bankrupt writers of the Disney made Star Wars films say about The original trilogy. They don't want to admit that the people before them were just better and that ALL the things that make the Bad company games great are the same things that they probably deem "problematic". Just think how they would destroy Haggard if they made a new game? Everything about his character makes modern game developers sob and run for the first safe space filled with teddys and the soothing voice if Anita Sarkeesian piped in from a speaker in the ceiling.

Sheppard7t3888d ago

Like Ubisoft and the recent Splinter Cell rumors, I don’t trust EA/DICE in its current form anymore. They’d find a way to ruin Bad Company 3.

Azurite889d ago

Bad Company 2 was amazing but I'm afraid they'd mess it up with a new game.

Ninver888d ago

Better yet remake with new engine and new coat of paint. Plus all the bells and whistles of next gen

badz149888d ago

BFBC + BFBC2 remasters for next gen. skip last gen altogether. lower chance for them to screw it up rather than trusting them to make a new BFBC3

annoyedgamer888d ago

EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.

Ninver888d ago

Very strong point. I see the light

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