looks like ass no doubt, but you cant fault dice for trying a new way to deliver next gen graphics on 6 year old hardware.

i blame the ignorant consumer who did no research before he went and purchased a "cheap console" and a game it really cant support, you get what you paid for and if you chose to not read into why you should "have" a large hdd, then its his bad....

i hope more games utilize this technique to deliver better visuals

"It seems that the game is seeing the 4Gb internal memory as a Memory Unit rather than a hard drive."

Really?, these guys a geniuses, I guess they have never heard of transfer speeed.

They clearly havn't played PS1 games either.

Love the tittle too..

Battlefield 3: Got an Xbox 360 Slim? You might be stuck with PS1 graphics, despite the texture install.

Despite the texture install? Their isnt a texture on slim installs you idiots.

Man, I remember when a benefit of having a console was the fact that you don't have to install anything, you just pop the disk in and play the game, no installations, no hassle with patching.

Now that you have to buy Consoles with large hdd space, you have to install the game, they patch just as frequent as PC games, and after all that the game still will look like lowest settings on PC. Wouldn't it be easier to just get a PC?

Really? ps1 graphics. Really.

the Xbox 360 could have have had 20g worth of texture as dlc but 1.5g seemed just about right and DICE weren't given enough time to utilize the 360's 1 Gb of ram .

I'm guessing most of the people that bought a 4 gig Xbox just came off a stent with a console that maxed out at 512 megs...so 4 gigs seems like a ton of space.

In reality, those people are being ripped off by MS...willingly. It really is a shame MS chose the proprietary route with memory. You'd think that after 6 years, a decent sized Xbox HDD would be dirt cheap. I guess it's always about profit with MS.

Ps1 graphics?, well not exactly.
But looking at it makes me sad, though Im glad Dice tries new things.

Microsofts "arcade" soultion consoles always made me sad too.

How can they have a 360 model or two without a hard drive or or a proper one (360slim) when the original Xbox had plenty for its time?

Well lets hope people dont get too upset about this.
...Some will obviously, but thats what you get appearantly with no/little internal storage. :/

You get what you pay for. People think they are walking away with gold when they see a cheap console, when in reality its cheap for a reason. Look at all the Wii owners that probably won't buy another console if it wasn't dirt cheap. Look at how many people pass up a PS3 because of the price on the box.

Fact is people look at the price, and the simple fact that one costs 100 dollars cheaper pulls them over. MS knows this and was smart to play the game. Now the question is will Xbox owners get mad and switch, or will they simply buy the better console next time around? (no im not saying PS3, Im saying either PS3 or the better version of 360 for example) During the holidays last year, when I was getting my brother a 360, the only thing that sold out everywhere was the cheap 360's, the other models were fully in stock everywhere.

With that being said I don't know why Core gamers would have this issue, they probably all have actual 360's. The others are probably just kids, or people that don't mind it because they simply can't afford to have the better one.

250 gigger baby!

I would like to know which PS1 model the author of this article had because that thing was too ahead for it's time.

yikes!

Nah its xbox 1 graphics.

What i would like to know is how many people who are buying this game have a 360 or 360s with out a hdd? Because i dont know anyone who got the 4gb 360 or the 360 arcade that has not got a hdd for it.

Another doom and gloom X360 article as expected on N4G. Seriously, All my Live friends have a HDD on their 360 of some sort. I myself have a 250 xbox slim and Battlefield is running great.

The Arcade and 4g Slim X360 are made for casual folks, kids, grandma, and Kinect people that just want to pop in a game and play and the population that buys more core games like Gears and Battlefield are few.

A refurbished 20gb harddrive is $20 at gamestop so if little Johnny is crying because of PS1 graphics, then mom can just stop by gamestop and get one. It is not like Arcade owners need to buy another brand new 250gb X360 just to see Battlefield 3 in all its glory.

What!?? This its bad for xbox

1. if you own the big lots 99cent store 4gig model, you really aren't a hardcore gamer and prefer kinect
2. the fact you need to install these games on 360 just to make them run in HD, pretty much tells you the 360 is outdated.
3. all 360's should come with a hard drive to avoid this crap

This is a huge problem, and I am surprised its coming up so late on N4G. Battlefield 3 forums on EA site had people complain about this since the moment the game was released.

people are pretty pissed they have to play with no HD textures... But gamers need to understand that upgrading hardware once in a while is important. (Be it PC or Console).

Thats really gonna suck for the person who runs out and picks up the Xbox360 starter pack and a copy of BF3. Only to find out that he'll have to then pony up more money to truly get the game he paid for.

Just saying.

@ AriesSiren

"1. if you own the big lots 99cent store 4gig model, you really aren't a hardcore gamer and prefer kinect"

So? that means i shouldn't buy BF3?

@ XDF

So that persons BF3 experience should cost $90+ because it's their fault for not being able to afford a Xbox360 with a HDD in the 1st place?

@ MaxMurdoch

"people are pretty pissed they have to play with no HD textures... But gamers need to understand that upgrading hardware once in a while is important. (Be it PC or Console)."

Thats BS and you know it. Yes i've spent almost US$3,000 upgrading my PC but i haven't spent 1 cent upgrading my PS3 and i still play every cross platfrom game.

If this is ur belief then you miss the point of what a console is.

At what point in the lives of some of you do you realize that you are whats going wrong with this industry?

PATHETIC!!!!

Pas less get less. Why can't people handle that?
It's not that the HDDless gamers are getting shafted, it's that the guys with HDDs are getting more.
Dice did very very well with what they had to work with. I applaud them.

"You might be stuck with PS1 graphics"

wtf?

So what just grab a $10 usb stick, 16gb data should be enough for the install.
correct me if i am wrong

hd textures for the console looked great, if you cannot afford proper hardrive for your 360 that is your problem not dice..like always if you care about graphics get pc, if you just want good games to play on couch get console...at least they put the hd texture patch out there for people

this guy never saw a PS1 game...

I have a 4gb model with a microsoft 60gb hdd & i installed the texture pack. The game looks for the most part good if you are running through it, but if you slow down & look the shadows especially are HORIBLE!!!! In the first mission i was looking around & almost every shadow that should be a straight line is a jegged edge like when you blow up a small picture. Looking at the ground from the rooftops the ground looks like a bunch of small squares. Im disapointed in the graphics with this game!

i still dont get it when people think of low end graphics they always have to say ps1 or ps2 graphics. i never once heard ppl say gamecube or xbox graphics. are ps1 and ps2 that bad? lol

Sorry, the best thing MS even did was make HDD's standard.

I still cant believe they brought out a 4gb just to save money.

Having a nice PC would eliminate this problem :)

Just saying.

i wish ps1 graphics would of looked like that

WOW. WITHOUT THE HD TEXTURE PACK the game looks more like COD. UMM all of them. Thats how all COD games look . After all they are all rendered at 600P Resolution

Good thing for the HD PACK.

oh shhhhh

no hdd fail

Some people still don't have a hard drive???
Shocking, especially since the "core" audience that's buying this game SHOULD have a damn hard drive by now.

Shame on the consumer, not Microsoft. The consumer has the option to buy the hard drive version of the console.

but its not the graphics that matter, its the gameplay, right console guys?

oh wait, so you're saying that if you had the opportunity to improve graphics on a console game, you would?

well hmm hmm hmm isnt that strange

that is one looker of a playstation 1 game then ;)

get a portable hdd, format it for xbox 360. allocate 16 gb or so, and you are done!

amazon 2GB USB thumb drive $3.45. Get over it.

I'm sick of this crap. Unless, during the play of the game, you commonly stop to stare at random parts of the environment it does not affect the gameplay.

It's just so stupid that people act like some random piece of the environment that really has no affect on the game such that you wouldn't notice it unless you stopped and stared at it or someone pointed it out to you, is such a big deal in some people's eyes.

Get a harddrive. It is pathetic people would trot along in 4gb.

gaming is not all about graphics this game is rubbish anyway

It's amazing that no matter how many people comment and prove that you can't install the texture pack on the internal memory or USB drive, there are still people posting "Just install it on a USB drive".

Also, this is PS1 graphics:
http://www.videogamesblogge...

I think battlefield is not that bad without HD textures.

the article is kinda flame bait 360 has ps1 graphics.???????

thats pretty weird...

This is a ps3 fanboys wet dream

Bad publicity indeed.

That's why you don't buy the 4gig slim. Glad I spent the extra 100 bucks bucks and bought the 250gig.

LMFAO

so are the multiplatform owners on n4g that are platform agnostic going to stick with the superior ps3/pc versions or are they going to tough it out with the 360?

360 slim hd issues
360 game cases coming with two disc 1's or two disc 2's due to multidisc packaging errors.

its a good thing microsoft and its fans love mw3 cause bf3 has been a rough one for yall.

Biggest news seems always to be about graphics. What about gameplay?

This is a pretty dumb move by DICE, hopefully there's a fix soon.

Rip off console . XBOX 360 is a joke and a rip off for what you get. 200 bucks for an xbox with 4gb hard drive? what a joke.

I wonder if this purchase is part of the $600 billion investment that MBS signed with trump last week. Or if its separate from that.

Let’s goooooo!!!!!!!

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