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Battlefield 4 PS4 TGS hands-on "nothing to criticize," plays & looks like BF on PC

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So, could all the bad Battlefield 4 juju on next-gen bad news be bunk after all?

Recent BF4 hands-on at TGS by someone over on HypeUp

I've seen a lot of people worried that Battlefield 4 on the PlayStation 4 isn't going to be up to snuff with the PC version. Even I was worried, and it's understandable when you look at how big a gap there was between the PlayStation 3 and PC versions of the previous installment in the series.

Fear not my fellow soldiers, Battlefield 4 on PS4 is legit. I'm what you would call a PC player when it comes to Battlefield, but I jumped right into a 16 vs. 16 match of Obliteration on the Shanghai map and got right down to business. Or should I say pleasure, because what followed could only be described as epic amounts of fun for all involved.

First off let me address the previous rumors or critisisms about the PS4 version. There's just nothing to criticize. This is coming from someone who couldn't stand the PS3 version of BF3. I have no idea what resolution the game was running at on the PS4, but it looked as good or better than BF3 on my PC, and ran at a smooth 60 fps looking amazing the entire time I played. I saw no sign of low quality textures or any issues at all. And while I'm sure high end PCs running the game at 1080p or higher will ultimately look better when you nit pick, there's nothing to complain about here. The game looks and plays like Battlefield on the PC, and that's great news.

I'm used to playing Battlefield on the PC, so switching to a controller wasn't the easiest thing to get used to right away. That problem fairly quickly went away though, thanks largely in part to the awesome new Dual Shock 4 controller Sony has built. The new controller has really nice feeling triggers, so shooting and aiming has been moved to the L2 and R2 triggers, as opposed to L1 and R1 on PS3. This feels much more natural. The new analog sticks and controller shape also feel a lot better in your hands making aiming and shooting a breeze. I was killing fools like a pro in no time.
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Read the entire hands-on at the link.

So, DICE vindicated? Nothing to worry, then? And this is good news, right?

EDIT: HypeUp guy responded to the NeoGAF buzz:

Update: Since I'm getting reamed on NeoGAF for "totally not being a PC player" and being accused of writing a PR fluff piece, I'd like to clarify. I'd respond directly on NeoGAF but since I don't have an e-mail account they consider valid, I'm not able to create an account.

I own both the PC and PS3 versions of Battlefield 3. I primarily play on PC and have logged a lot of hours on it. If you'd like to check, my username is w3aponofchoice. I play on PS3 occationally because I have friends who don't have a PC who want to play with me. My opinions in this article are based on my experiences with both, and my disappointment with the PS3 version of BF3.

When I heard that the PS4 version didn't look very good, I was worried about a repeat performance on consoles. When I played the PS4 version yesterday, and again today, I was really impressed. It runs at a solid 60 FPS. I saw no jagged or blurry textures. While it was clearly running sub 1080p, it looked really, really good. Much better than I would expect it to being upscaled.

Will it run ever better on PCs? Of course. But my point with this article was that people worried from previous impressions, people like myself, shouldn't be worried. It looks good, it plays good, and it's way better than the PS3 BF3 port. The sluggish aiming from BF3 on console was no where to been seen here, likely a combination of DICE adjusting the aiming settings and better accuracy with the new DS4 controller.

So says the guy from the site you've never heard of, but I've played it and you haven't, and this is what I think. By the way, we have a really cool bi-weekly podcast and do many features on gaming life in Japan that you guys might enjoy, so since you're paying attention, take a look around! Regardless, thanks for arguing about my credibility for 6 pages (so far) it has been fun to read. happy
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Thanks, Kun Aguero!
 
I'm used to playing Battlefield on the PC, so switching to a controller wasn't the easiest thing to get used to right away. That problem fairly quickly went away though, thanks largely in part to the awesome new Dual Shock 4 controller Sony has built. The new controller has really nice feeling triggers, so shooting and aiming has been moved to the L2 and R2 triggers, as opposed to L1 and R1 on PS3. This feels much more natural. The new analog sticks and controller shape also feel a lot better in your hands making aiming and shooting a breeze. I was killing fools like a pro in no time.
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This so wasn't written by a PC Battlefield player.
 
Read this earlier today, not surprised at all. People flipped shit over one article with zero actual basis on whether or not the game looked bad.

Footage should be coming soon from TGS.
 
"That problem fairly quickly went away though, thanks largely in part to the awesome new Dual Shock 4 controller Sony has built. The new controller has really nice feeling triggers, so shooting and aiming has been moved to the L2 and R2 triggers, as opposed to L1 and R1 on PS3. This feels much more natural."

Nooooooope.

Really, really hope most games let you map out your controls on the PS4 :/
 
DICE is not vindicated till they tell us what resolution the PS4 version runs at and provides high quality game footage from a PS4 (not a PC pretending to be a PS4). Same applies to the Xbone version.
 
GameSeeker said:
DICE is not vindicated till they tell us what resolution the PS4 version runs at and provides high quality game footage from a PS4 (not a PC pretending to be a PS4). Same applies to the Xbone version.
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Real rap dude, why you care about them pixels? If the game is fun or not should be the only thing that matters.
 
Been saying this from day one.


Even if it is running medium settings, In BF3 the gap between medium and ultra settings is quite small.
 
Fersis said:
Real rap dude, why you care about them pixels? If the game is fun or not should be the only thing that matters.
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+10 this! It's at 60fps, and will look at least on par to Medium settings on PC from what we've heard so far. I don't know about you, but I'll take it.

So much stock put into 1080p that people forget it's fun that matters. Yes, graphics matter, too, but it's not like it's going to look like a shooter from the PS2 era or something.

Bruiserk said:
God damn I hope I can switch the aiming/shooting to L1/R1.
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I think DICE confirmed this is in. =)
 
We should get some PS4 footage from TGS in the next few days. I'm not worried, the only person who has (voiced concerns) was the guy from IGN, and I'm not convinced he's at all trustworthy or impartial.
 
KKRT00 said:
Yep, for PC player playing FPS on controllers is like fighting with controls, no matter how many time You spent with it. Its just worse and annoying.
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You're overexaggarating.

Now while it's easier to use a mouse and keyboard, sometimes I rock a 360 controller during BF3 co-op when I want to kick back and relax, and I have no problem killing people.
 
velociraptor said:
You're overexaggarating.

Now while it's easier to use a mouse and keyboard, sometimes I rock a 360 controller during BF3 co-op when I want to kick back and relax, and I have no problem killing people.
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No, i'm not. Not when i talk about PC players that grew on FPS games.
I could still kill people in KZ 2 or demo of Bad Company 2 on my PS3, but playing on pad is just very annoying for me and i have experience with pad, if i put some my PC friends behind pad it would be just disaster..
Maybe guy in OP is new to PC gaming and just started playing this gen.
 
I see that their website lives up to its name ...

HypeUp -tells you not to worry and get exited

From the IGN video it doesn't look as pretty as the PC build - of course its offscreen but the colour pallete looks more washed out
 
So it's worse than what you'll get on PC but it's good because it's better than the last gen version on PC and that makes it just as good as the next gen version on PC?

This makes no sense really. Of course the next gen version is better than the current gen version. It's like saying this ps3 game isn't as good as the PC version, but it's better than the ps2 version.

Battlefield 3 was pretty good on console and unless you were a PC'er you wouldn't feel it was a downgrade or bad experience in any sense.
 
excaliburps said:
So, could all the bad Battlefield 4 juju on next-gen bad news be bunk after all?
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So, DICE vindicated? Nothing to worry, then? And this is good news, right?
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excaliburps said:
So much stock put into 1080p that people forget it's fun that matters. Yes, graphics matter, too, but it's not like it's going to look like a shooter from the PS2 era or something.
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So first you say the consternation surrounding the technical merits of the next-gen console versions of the game are no longer a cause for concern, then you follow it up by saying 1080p doesn't matter anyways? What the fuck?
 
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