After much debate I got this game for X360 and after playing the beta on PC and xbox I decided I was tired of the upgrade game, im sure i'll get bashed for it but IMO what they pullled off on the xbox is nothing short of amazing, it looks as better than the beta did on high easily. I beat it last night and i must say the first missions do not do the game justice, so i have no regrets selling off my "high end" PC and just enjoying the game without all the work that you have to do to get it playing right on PC.
the thing with upgrades is. you only really have to do it once every 3-4years depending how good your system is.
Judging by your 'highend' rig in your spec - It doesnt suprise me a single bit that you chose to go console.
Had you had a better more upto date system with beefier graphics you would have been able to enjoy the beta more even though it was locked to high settings only.
That 360 alone is probably more powerful then your PC but lets not go there.
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Upgrades dont have to cost the earth. Many people are fairly happy to shell out £300-500 on medium range components every few years to keep their systems in the game before a major overhaul if they think their systems are getting bogged down.
Im not bashing you. Im just saying PC games can be worth that little bit of extra effort that you put into them.
Depending which way the wind blows after DICE has gone against the tradition of building games from the console up. If devs start building games from the PC up. things can only get better and better and PC gaming.
Hell....Even the CoD franchise might come back to its roots and release a non-console port.
even though they already pissed off and alienated even most of the hardcore fans from that golden era. They can release one but people are still butthurt and extremely bitter towards IW/Activision for taking the CoD franchise which started off so strongly and whoring it out for the console fan boi's, so they probably wont get a lot of sales on the pc platform due to heavily enforced boycotting from the PC crowd.
I'll be f**ked if I ever pick up another CoD game.
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64 players on a multiplayer server can be a lot of fun my friend. - that is all