I only tried Firefall for a while but it reminds me of Global Agenda but faster. Overall, my initial impression was good.

Originally posted by Vannor
They arn't even close to being the same type of game. Shouldn't be compared.

This!!

Originally posted by ShakyMo
Lol at "planetside 2 is the progeny of battlefield"

Planetside launched 10 years a go. It is the progeny of daoc & unreal tournament.

I see nothing in common with doac other than three faction warfare, and if that's all you need to make a relation, then so be it. As for unreal tournamant, other than them both being FPS, the gameplay and style (twitch play vs modern shooter) doesn't even compare.

I use the Battlefield Series because it is the first FPS that I can remember, other than Battlezone ( which was only a deathmatch in multiplayer), which allowed the combined team oriented tactical assault of multiple soldier classes and multiple vehicle varients. I guess I could have used the Delta Forces series to match this style. Heck the Delta Force games had land, air, and sea engagements all in first person perspectives.

Point being...Planetside is a PVP shooter first, PvE RPG never, and should be compared to your tradional MMORPGs...you'll be disapppointed if you do.

If you want PVP, play Planetside.

If you want PVE, play Firefall.

If you want a bit of both then probably Firefall too as Planetside has no PVE whatsoever.

That being said - they're both free (when Firefall releases, or if you can get in BETA). So better yet, just play both of them.

Originally posted by bossalinie

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Firefall PvE > Planetside 2's

Planetside 2's PvP > Firefall's

 

 

PS2 has no PvE. It is a multipler FPS at heart. It's more of a child prodigy of the  Battlefield series more so than any MMO

Player vs Environment in PS2 is fighting the terrain to navigate over it and the the fall damage. I didn't say it was good.

firefall still feels like vaporware in the sense that they don't seem very geared towards a release. theres been lawsuits and financial wrangling about the game they got desparate enough to recruit sci fi celebs to promote the game...where's all that $$$$ coming from what basically is an indie studio?  Ps2 is live and is a worth successor to the only true mmofps ever....hands down ps2 wins

i been in firefall beta since the first wave when it was pvp testing only ( nda dropped a long time ago ) A huge amount of what is being said about firefall online is false. The broadstrokes laid down by the OP were pretty accurate, but firefall is doing a lot of things that no game on the market currently is doing.  Also, in terms of pve there is still a ton more to do, the visual time line on their website shows beta at the mid-way point.  The first stages of the RTS elements of fighting the chosen have just been implemented. So i mean a huge amount of pve is not even in the game yet. They still have not decided on what form open world pvp will take, etc.   

  So trying to judge a game that is out already, vs. a game that many of the final decissions have not even been made yet is kinda silly. Besides all that this is one of the few companies where they actually really listen to the fans and the CEO posts every day on the forums. Their is not going to be a AAA company funding this game so its gonna take time because its a small talented stuido. So in short the usuall hey this is a MMOFPS type terms don't always fit this game.

No one has ever made a online open world pve shooter that was ay good or was not highly instanced. They are breaking new ground.

if people really wanna understand what firefall is going for watch the extra credits video on staged content

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgFcEW5nyGI

Not quite sure why they are compared. Just because a game has guns doesn't really mean they are the same. 

Firefall and Planetside 2 are just to different. I actually enjoy both games and both of them forfill me in vastly different ways from one another.

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Originally posted by bossalinie

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Firefall PvE > Planetside 2's

Planetside 2's PvP > Firefall's

 

 

PS2 has no PvE. It is a multipler FPS at heart. It's more of a child prodigy of the  Battlefield series more so than any MMO

Player vs Environment in PS2 is fighting the terrain to navigate over it and the the fall damage. I didn't say it was good.

seeing as Planetside was around a long time before the battlefield series was even a concept, its probably the other way around.  Planetside 2 is a sort of stripped down version of Planetside, simplified perhaps, but, it is a clear successor to Planetside,  well i use the 'successor' title a bit loosely as the original Planetside had far more functionality than Planetside 2, more vehicles, ground and air, and skills that had a great deal more 'depth' to them than the ones you find in Planetside 2. It is possible that the degree of 'simplification' inflicted on Planetside 2 was influenced by Battlefield 3 though, as the degree of Nerf from Planetside 1 to Planetside 2 is extremely high.

Imo then this is like comparing BF3 with Quake.

Where planetside would be BF3, and Firefall would be Quake.

Originally posted by Phry

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Originally posted by bossalinie

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Firefall PvE > Planetside 2's

Planetside 2's PvP > Firefall's

 

 

PS2 has no PvE. It is a multipler FPS at heart. It's more of a child prodigy of the  Battlefield series more so than any MMO

Player vs Environment in PS2 is fighting the terrain to navigate over it and the the fall damage. I didn't say it was good.

seeing as Planetside was around a long time before the battlefield series was even a concept, its probably the other way around.  Planetside 2 is a sort of stripped down version of Planetside, simplified perhaps, but, it is a clear successor to Planetside,  well i use the 'successor' title a bit loosely as the original Planetside had far more functionality than Planetside 2, more vehicles, ground and air, and skills that had a great deal more 'depth' to them than the ones you find in Planetside 2. It is possible that the degree of 'simplification' inflicted on Planetside 2 was influenced by Battlefield 3 though, as the degree of Nerf from Planetside 1 to Planetside 2 is extremely high.

well this is simply not true. battlefield 1942 came out well over a year before PS1 officially launched.

Not really a fair or even valid comparison, they are very, very different games.

Planetside 2 is ALL about open world, large scale PvP battles. Firefall is much more focused on PvE, exploration, lore, and story driven content (not much of it is currently in-game, but it's planned). It does have PvP in it and there are plans to add open world PvP but we are no where near that point currently. The plans for the Melding are very interesting to say the least. Right now in Firefall only 10 sqm are available to explore, in the end the entire world will be 1/10th the scale of earth so we are extremely far away from having a full world like Planetside 2 does.

If you like PvP and large scale battles, PS2 will probably be more your thing currently. If you like PvE content, having random fun with a small group of friends (events requiring larger amounts of people will be added later too though), lore, exploration, Firefall may be more to your liking.

Originally posted by ipeka
who cares, as long they are better than COD , im satifsied enough.

Define "better". CoD is not really comparable to Firefall either. Firefall is more like Unreal Tournament and Tribes got together and had offspring with some rather nice pve thrown in.