Forgive me, but did the MAG beta suck? Will the game suck upon release?

[jspeicher]

I never even heard of MAG until I read about the beta in Playstation magazine last month.

Anyway, I missed the beta and noticed this game releases soon. Any comments?

 

[Rage187]

The beta didn't go well and they had quite a few server crashes. They pulled the ol' 'We didn't think we would get this much interest!' routine but they should know that if you put up an open(w/ code) public beta that the servers are going to get crushed.

Penny Arcade did a good write up of the frustrations of playing; our opinions are usually in alignment so I usually trust what they say. Hey, look at Darksiders, they were absolutely right on target.

 

[R Nilla]

I thought the game seemed pretty terrible but I quit playing the demo after just a few minutes. The weapons, the controls, the way the game looked and felt--I didn't like anything about it.

 

[JoPh]

its was alright. nothing special.

 

[fatpat268]

I thought the game seemed pretty terrible but I quit playing the demo after just a few minutes. The weapons, the controls, the way the game looked and felt--I didn't like anything about it.

same here.

It's a shame, I was kind of excited about it when they first showed it a long time ago, now I couldn't care less about the game.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I thought it was horrible.

 

[jspeicher]

Guess I'll wait for BC2.

 

[Boobs McGee]

I thought it was horrible.

I was not impressed either. FWIW a couple of my friends loved it to death though.

 

[erwos]

Beta sucked. It reminded me of SOCOM:Confrontation's level of sloppiness (no surprise, same developer).

 

[R Nilla]

Since it's not officially "Massive Action Game" anymore I think they should just rename it to MEH.

 

[hans030390]

Beta sucked. It reminded me of SOCOM:Confrontation's level of sloppiness (no surprise, same developer).

Not the same developer.

 

[drbrock]

it sucked so bad. I spent maybe 8-10 hours leveling up to get upgraded weapons to find out that even with the best sniper rifle you can get taken out with a lmg from long distance with equal power.
Graphics suck, gameplay sucks, just really a terrible game. It reminds me of unreal tournament for dreamcast but without any fun.

FWIW some of my psn friends swear by it.

BC2 I think will blow this game away from what I have seen on the trailers and the forums talking about the beta.

 

[Queasy]

Well, at least the commercial is pretty funny.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/it-only-does-256-players/

 

[Rage187]

they are doing a midnight release with Mass Effect and MAG. I'm betting nobody will be in line for MAG.

 

[thonnie]

I thought the beta was terrible

I canceled my Amazon order following playing it

 

[fatpat268]

they are doing a midnight release with Mass Effect and MAG. I'm betting nobody will be in line for MAG.

Oh I'm sure there'll be plenty of people that haven't played the demo lining up.

To be honest though, MAG just felt generic in all ways possible. Sure, there's up 256 players, but you never really feel the scope of that battle. 64 player Battlefield felt more epic than 256 players. :\

 

[erwos]

Also, let me point out that if the month-before-release beta sucks, the game is going to suck. The magical "it fixes everything build" is just fanboy wishful thinking. Hearing fanboys talk about it just makes me pity them.

 

[fatpat268]

Also, let me point out that if the month-before-release beta sucks, the game is going to suck. The magical "it fixes everything build" is just fanboy wishful thinking. Hearing fanboys talk about it just makes me pity them.

Yup. I've been part of a few betas, and I used to always think they'd get a lot of things ironed out before release... that's what betas are for, right?

But nope. Most of the time it's still the exact same thing. Sure they may have fixed some performance issues, but that'll be it.