Planetside vs. Battlefield 1942

ps11 · 2003-07-25, 07:00 PM

Granted I have never played Planetside before but I have seen pics and read a lot of you idiots posts about pretty much everything the game has to offer. I personally don't see why Sony has to gouge everybody who just wants to get online for a little bit and shoot a couple folks living halfway across the country. Another thing I question is why people are continuing to join this game like there's no tomorrow. Especially with Battlefield 1942 out there. It's free once you buy the game, has loads of weapons, maps, and tons of vehicles. They introduce expansions regularly and the next expansion: Battlefield Vietnam, looks to dominate as the past few have. I am not saying people are stupid to pay for what they enjoy playing, but for there to be another game out there that rivals (if not beats PS), it is stupid not to atleast try it.

Lonehunter · 2003-07-25, 07:03 PM

You should try Planetside

Edit: Download the 7 day free trial at Fileplanet

FearTheAtlas · 2003-07-25, 07:08 PM

Well, their two different things really. Only similary is shooting, and vechiles. As Lonehunter said, try out the demo for BF1942, and 7 day trial for Planetside to see what ya like

RUEN · 2003-07-25, 07:09 PM

Granted I have never played Planetside before

but for there to be another game out there that rivals (if not beats PS)

And you would know that.... how?

ps11 · 2003-07-25, 07:12 PM

I never said that I haven't played Battlefield 1942.

RUEN · 2003-07-25, 07:14 PM

But you made an obvious comparison of one over the other, not having played them both.

ps11 · 2003-07-25, 07:24 PM

I said that I have never played PS, but I have read a couple of posts in this forum and have seen in-game pics. Yes I do not know a lot about the gameplay in PS as I have never played it. However, I never in my first post compared PS to 1942; I simple vagely described 1942. To my knowledge, PS does not currently have aircraft carriers and/or airplanes. <-----that is not a comparison either. I simple stated that the games APPEAR to be alike, you decide.

NCG JMan · 2003-07-25, 07:24 PM

Originally posted by ps11
Granted I have never played Planetside before but I have seen pics and read a lot of you idiots posts about pretty much everything the game has to offer. I personally don't see why Sony has to gouge everybody who just wants to get online for a little bit and shoot a couple folks living halfway across the country. Another thing I question is why people are continuing to join this game like there's no tomorrow. Especially with Battlefield 1942 out there. It's free once you buy the game, has loads of weapons, maps, and tons of vehicles. They introduce expansions regularly and the next expansion: Battlefield Vietnam, looks to dominate as the past few have. I am not saying people are stupid to pay for what they enjoy playing, but for there to be another game out there that rivals (if not beats PS), it is stupid not to atleast try it.

Well about the only thing in common that PS and BF have in common is that they are both FPS type games. That's about all the similiarity I see. I have played both. BF will always have a spot on my H.D. The vietnam expansion has definitely raised my attention again. But for now, it's PS....

gonnagetyou · 2003-07-25, 09:03 PM

Don't judge a game by the posts you see on a forum. You really need to play it.

I also play the WW2 flight sim IL2 and man you should read some of the whine posts for that game. It's the best flight sim on the market (IMO) with great developer support and you still get an ass load of whiners and complainers. Thank God I tried the game instead of listening to a bunch of people I don't know.

ps11 · 2003-07-25, 09:22 PM

I would LOVE to try Planetside. The only prob is that I am running 28.8 modem here out in the country.(26.4 to be precise). I have heard of people running 44.0 on PS and being ok, how about me? Oh yea I know this is a game forum but my family has been looking into satellite broadband besides the .25 sec latency so if anyone could recommend a service that is LAN capable it would be greatly appreciated.

Revenant · 2003-07-25, 09:35 PM

Originally posted by ps11
To my knowledge, PS does not currently have aircraft carriers and/or airplanes.

Originally posted by ps11
but I have read a couple of posts in this forum and have seen in-game pics. Yes I do not know a lot about the gameplay in PS

I beg to differ.....

Hertston · 2003-07-25, 09:39 PM

Most here have played BF1942, I would think. Mull that over and you might realise, even without playing PS, that it offers something that BF1942 doesn't. It's true in other genres too - you might as well ask why pay monthly for Everquest or Dark Age of Camelot when you play Neverwinter Nights or Morrowind for free ?

The trouble is BF1942 doesn't rival Planetside (or WW2OL) in where they excel - numbers on the server and (in the case of PS, semi) persistant worlds. There is just no comparison in scale - BF1942 is small potatoes. That doesn't mean BF1942 isn't a decent game (or Operation Flashpoint come to that, a far better one), but PS doesn't charge a subscription for nothing.

With respect m8, there really isn't much point in posting anything resembling a comparison unless you have played both games.

Hexen · 2003-07-25, 10:50 PM

Ehhm..

Battlefield: Vietnam is a stand-alone game, not an expansion.

If you don't believe me on the spot, think about this.

- How could they expand a World War 2 game into Vietnam?

- Take a look at some of the Battlefield: Vietnam screenies.

If you still don't believe me. Go find out!

Oh and stop comparing apples to oranges. BF is a traditional arcade-style FPS and is newbie-friendly, unlike OFP. So its suited to country-specific game communities, ladders, clans, LANs etc. etc.

PlanetSide aint that. :P

ps11 · 2003-07-25, 11:20 PM

I own OPFS and all of the expansions and it is by far the most fun and realistic FPS war-game ever. I did not know if any of the members here play 1942, and when you say 1942 is small potatoes, it does what it was designed to do. It was never meant to be a MMOFPS like PS, that would mean more server work which would cost money, which is something that you play for free doesn't have. Besides, all PS is any is bliztkrieg, because when you die you just respawn. You don't feel like every life is important because it isn't. Heck just run in guns blazing; even if you die you'll be right back in the fray in about 5 min. If you've seen Patton or any other decent war movie the key strategy is trapping the enemy and not letting them escape. Something not possible in PS.

Winged_Nazgul · 2003-07-25, 11:37 PM

I played BF1942 the day it came out practically every day until I got into the Planetside Beta. I joined a small but great clan (props to my Section 8 boys) and even managed to get into the top 25 in BFStats. I think I'm qualified to say that BF1942 cannot even hope to approach the epic scale of Planetside. I'm not saying BF1942 is not a good game. Far from it. But to compare the two is like comparing a minnow to a whale. Yeah, they're both fish but one's slightly larger than the other.

I came across a great quote from the SOI forums, I believe. I forget who said it but he said take a fully loaded Galaxy. Add another one. You just filled up a normal BF1942 server. Now take those two Galaxies and hotdrop them over a base crawling with enemies with reavers and libs and ground vehicles below. The nearby tower has even more action as zerg meets zerg. Depending on the continent, you might see that repeated at three or four other bases. Then there's the other continents on Auraxis.

That's Planetside.