Syphon Filter
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RIP SOCOM: ....Confrontation, SOCOM 4, MAG servers going down
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I got mines in the fish market.
Aquamarine
Member
RIP Zipper Interactive.
RIP SOCOM.
RIP SOCOM.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
G^G^G^G^G^
RIP Zipper. RIP Socom.
Although truthfully both were dead since the days of the PS2.
RIP Zipper. RIP Socom.
Although truthfully both were dead since the days of the PS2.
It happened the day after it came out, in fact; it also prevented Portal 2 owners from synching up their Steam accounts to get their free PC copy.
Stoffinator
Member
I just bought MAG for $4. Guess it wasn't worth it. 
GitarooMan
Member
MAG was sweet early on. The expansion stuff never really grabbed me, but the early days of Domination were fantastic. Long live Valor!
I just bought MAG for $4. Guess it wasn't worth it.
Servers don't close until 2014. I'm sure you'll get your $4 worth of gaming in.
Ditto for MK9 and it still managed to be the best selling game of the month and best selling fighting game this gen. What killed SOCOM 4 was the terrible open beta, and the game itself being pretty damn bad too.
Kidd Bushido
Banned
SOCOM really isn't dead they are making H Hour.
Syphon Filter
Member
To be fair socom was done after socom 2.
to date prolly my biggest waste of a full price purchase ever. I simply am not meant to ever ever play a FPS shooter on a console ever. Never got out of the placement matches the what 3 times I sat down to play MAG to even pick a side.
I remember seeing this at E3 and being so zomg this is gonna be the awesome. I failed at MAG. I supported the company with full purchase price but never got personal satisfaction from it. Complete waste of my personal use of money.
Why? You have over a year with it.I just bought MAG for $4. Guess it wasn't worth it.
Edit: ok 6 months but still, $4.
Jest Chillin
Member
Socom 4 wasn't actually that bad, it just wasn't Socom. If they released that same game under a different name... a Non-Socom IP... it wouldn't have been blasted nearly as hard in the word of mouth and would've had a chance to survive longer than it did.
But it did have problems like spraying an smg across the map and getting headshots more often than not.
But it did have problems like spraying an smg across the map and getting headshots more often than not.
93xfan
Banned
True. The cover system and new rules made camping the prominent strategy. I just really wish we could get Socom 2 HD with Abandoned in the day. If they would do that and fix the glitches, I'd probably buy the game for multiple friends, just to have more people I know play.
out0v0rder
Member
eff this generation.
unreal servers from 12 years ago are still running.
unreal servers from 12 years ago are still running.
Correct on all counts.
graywolf323
Member
SOCOM 4 was really hurt by coming out right when the Great PSN Outage happened but damn at the servers being shut down not even 3 years after it released
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Can't wait for H-Hour now.
chalkitdown1
Member
Sad for MAG. Fucking loved that game. I played the shit out of it for about 4 months straight. I went online only last week after a 2 and a half year leave of absence to see how it was going. Surprisingly, there were over 1,500 people playing the various modes. The DLC modes were dead, though, and the 128/256 modes only had about 100 people in each. The 32/64 player modes were jam packed, however.
I don't understand why Sony never put it up on PS+. It would re-generate huge interest in it. Oh well.
I don't understand why Sony never put it up on PS+. It would re-generate huge interest in it. Oh well.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
haven't felt a tie that binds to SOCOM since my glory days of 2 but MAG? that's sad...
Also.. related note: The MAG servers are still up??!! I was under the impression they went down a while ago. May have to ring out the end of summer with some of the most intense fuck-awesome multiplayer gaming this GEN had to offer.
God i loved that game.
Also.. related note: The MAG servers are still up??!! I was under the impression they went down a while ago. May have to ring out the end of summer with some of the most intense fuck-awesome multiplayer gaming this GEN had to offer.
God i loved that game.
crazepharmacist
Member
This is really sad news. I was planning on playing MAG nonstop while away at college because I can't bring my desktop for PlanetSide 2. And Socom Confrontation I was literally just thinking about picking up as I've never played a Socom before.
Too bad. Confrontation was the ugliest game I've seen on the ps3, but extraction was pretty fun.
Had some great highs:
eg.
Soloing a clan extraction team (down to 6 on 1) on the stage (where two buildings have destructible bridge) by making a last stand with the hostages in the stairs and somehow winning (no regen in Confrontation, so every hp lost was nervewracking). Needless to say, the rest of rounds left me pretty butt hurt as our side got streamrolled hard to make up for it.
And some lows:
Breach on Quarantine. Always. Not sure if it is the mode, the map or the combination of the two but it was so awful that the guy who won still quit.
Had some great highs:
eg.
Soloing a clan extraction team (down to 6 on 1) on the stage (where two buildings have destructible bridge) by making a last stand with the hostages in the stairs and somehow winning (no regen in Confrontation, so every hp lost was nervewracking). Needless to say, the rest of rounds left me pretty butt hurt as our side got streamrolled hard to make up for it.
And some lows:
Breach on Quarantine. Always. Not sure if it is the mode, the map or the combination of the two but it was so awful that the guy who won still quit.
Square Triangle
Member
Figured this was coming, Gamestop just destroyed all copies of MAG.
crazepharmacist
Member
The multiplayer is free for everyone up to rank 8. Don't think putting it on Plus would have helped all that much.
Syphon Filter
Member
No it wasn't,it still wasn't like socom. it was closer than socom 4 though.
Evolution_1ne
Banned
for the intelligent tactical multiplayer shooters.......you will be missed
I couldn't see any difference between the gameplay styles. Socom 3 and 4 introduced the vehicles and huge maps , during that time people hated that and wanted a return to the old style.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
for the first year and a half it was BROKEN fucking product
It was a paid $60 Beta by Slant Six, it took them for fucking ever to get everything right
It was a retail game work in progress
Then Slant Six moved on and did Capcom the same goddamn fucking favor with Operation Raccoon City
I still haven't opened that game, and I got it for $10 from Best Buy almost a year back lol
Hoping they fixed issues (I think they didn't)
weekend_warrior
Banned
That sucks. MAG is the most under-appreciated game of the gen.
crazepharmacist
Member
We'll still have H Hour's World Elite. It's a spiritual successor to the PS2 Socom games.
Yes, in super slow motion and somehow with even worse hit detection.
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