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Battlefield 3 Has A “Standard-Def” Option, And Its Not Pretty

Battlefield 3 Has A “Standard-Def” Option, And Its Not Pretty

Yet more wood for the console war fire, players who intend buy Battlefield 3 on the Xbox 360 should make sure that they have a decent amount of space on their hard drives. In fact, both PS3 and Xbox 360 users will have to make sure that they have ample space, as Battlefield 3 will come with a High-Resolution texture pack, with it being a mandatory install on the PS3, and optional on Xbox 360.

Those of you who don’t choose to install this texture pack on the Xbox 360 may be faced with a very disappointing visual experience. Battlefield 3 producer Patrick Bach has given this “vanilla” version of the game a pretty plain nickname.

“The thing with the 360 is that you need to be able to give consumers a game where you don’t have to install it on a hard drive, because there are 360s without a hard drive. So we need to give you the option of installing it, rather than just demanding it. You could call it a ‘standard-def’ version for the 360 if you don’t have a hard-drive.”

For one of the key men behind one of the year’s biggest games to come out and use the term so openly suggests that, yeah, it’s not going to look that great if you don’t install the textures on your HDD first.

Then again, this shouldn’t really be much of an issue for most people. By now, if you own an Xbox 360 and don’t have a decent enough HDD, then you can’t blame the developer’s. I mean, they aren’t even that expensive. Give one title a miss and spend the cash on a HDD. That’s just my opinion though, what are your thoughts?

Source: Kotaku

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  • Ajan

    who plays battlefield on console? 

    • sage of the six paths

      ME! But obviously not by choice :(

      PS3 gamer though, so I could find a laugh in this article. I love the X360 because it’s so comical: 3-4 disks for large games, and now this optional install :D; it makes me feel half as sad being a console game and all. JK :P

    • Anonymous

      Well I must admit that I would also be pissed off with having 3-4 discs for the Xbox 360, but it seems to have worked in their favour with RAGE. The PS3 has massive texture pop-ins while the 360 has less due to the bigger install size. But I detail that more in my review tomorrow :-)

    • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

      To be honest, I’d rather have the texture pop-ins than have 3-4 discs. That’s not me making a fanboy comment, that’s just me saying I HATE swapping discs. Seriously, even 2 discs annoys me :P I’m extremely lazy when it comes to swapping discs for games.

      But I agree, PS3′s graphics generally get stuff like that with multi-platform games, but exclusives like Uncharted and Killzone are always incredible stuff.

    • Anonymous

      Azhar, dude, you have no clue how annoying it is to be looking at something in RAGE, turning around for a second, and then looking back at low-res textures that take like a second or two to finally load up :-) It drives me insane!

      But again, in my review :-)

    • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

      I agree Alessandro, they are the worst. But still, I can’t go back to an era where I had to disc swap. :( So between the two, texture pop-in issues are the lesser evil.

      Although I’ll wait to see your review to see how bad they are :P Because I still want to play RAGE.

  • Cloud Strife

    At the end of the day the games themselves are becoming more complex (better graphic engines and so forth). So, its safe to assume that you will need to add to your hardware to stay up there..Its like the PC gamer who has to buy a new graphics card every now and then.

  • Anonymous

    This is comment is dedicated to say: HAHA FUCK YOU CONSOLE GAMERS. About time PC gamers got all the love we DESERVE.

  • Brrrr

    Does anyone have any clue how much space we will need on our HDD for the texture package?

    • Anonymous

      Not yet, there hasn’t been any word on that

    • Brrrr

      I still have an old 20g HDD – hope its under 18g? surely it would be? otherwise i best invest in a bloody bigger HDD:(

  • wolvie

    I would like to see actual comparison shots between the SD and high texture versions.

  • stuart

    thats why i love my ps3, ff13/rage/la noir, all comes on one easy disk u put in your console an never see agaon till your finished with the game and take it out…. im super stoked for battlefield 3 on ps3 ,,, i hope that egamer still remember the competition :P purely because being a student i sadly cant afford it…. if im saving for a game its gonna be uncharted 3

  • Opticle

    Glad can avoid this whole issue with the pc version. Except if your stuck with some ancient pc.