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The Nintendo Gameboy Advanced has stunned us with its excellent multiplayer options particularly in games such as Mario Kart Advanced and F-zero Advanced. You can now battle with up to four chums but what is most interesting, is that with most Gameboy Advanced games you can play multiplayer with your mates only using one game!
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
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I have never done online gaming, and the only online stuff I do with other people is UKdiscussions.com, I just prefer to play it with four people on my Playstation/2 (newly fixed), or Nintendo and on trips I kick my friends butt at PD!!
at last someone who isn't so synical.
er-no, surely the future will have huge bandwidth access, and therefore it does become a realistic possibility?
Your Honour wrote:
> If you could play PD on PS2 and 'Cube, why would that persuade
> people to buy the other console?
They can already play PD on PS2,
> so why buy a 'Cube and vice versa?
If you read what i wrote only a small part of the multiplayer would be capable of being played onlin eand thats excluding the single player so people playing this sort of Demo might peruade gamers to get it.
Dringo
> If you could play PD on PS2 and 'Cube, why would that persuade
> people to buy the other console?
They can already play PD on PS2,
> so why buy a 'Cube and vice versa?
If you read what i wrote only a small part of the multiplayer would be capable of being played onlin eand thats excluding the single player so people playing this sort of Demo might peruade gamers to get it.
Dringo
This idea though is also slightly played out already for example you can play tonnes of online games such as battle ones where you click fight and you improve stats etc... these games are found online and you can't buy them. but what would happen if the computer crashes when your in a middle of a fight? As these games exists i presume it is possible to sort that problem out.
Another idea i didn't get to express is maybe like on Nintendo.com you can select a game you want to play so no one needs to own the game, you could play a demo of it against your firends which is avalible online. that would be good.
Another idea i didn't get to express is maybe like on Nintendo.com you can select a game you want to play so no one needs to own the game, you could play a demo of it against your firends which is avalible online. that would be good.
If you could play PD on PS2 and 'Cube, why would that persuade people to buy the other console?
They can already play PD on PS2, so why buy a 'Cube and vice versa?
They can already play PD on PS2, so why buy a 'Cube and vice versa?
if the console crashes a message could appear saying game over and anyway a console seems to use a cetain type of modem instead of various different types.
I tried to compensate for this problem by saying that you load it up onto the web and you only load what you need.
Dringo
Dringo
Although your point is a great idea it has a huge fault, remember that the GBA's multiplayer option is because the linkup cable doesn't have to transfer too much information, when this is used for 4players you do have to wait a very long time before being able to play and in some cases I could have sworn the cart has actually froozen up...
...with this in mind the information that would have to be transferred across computers and from one disk would be very large indeed, and then you have the factor of different speeds of connection, imagine having to wait 90 minutes for the 20th gamer to be able to play because he has a 44k modem?
Also with this option the oringinal user may be open to all sorts of problems, hsi computer probably (knowing a PC) would crash, leaving another 19 people thinking what the hell just happened.
Maybe your idea is a great one Dringo, but this is the Future of Gaming, and none of these ideas are foreseeable in the future.
Thanks for reading
er-no
...with this in mind the information that would have to be transferred across computers and from one disk would be very large indeed, and then you have the factor of different speeds of connection, imagine having to wait 90 minutes for the 20th gamer to be able to play because he has a 44k modem?
Also with this option the oringinal user may be open to all sorts of problems, hsi computer probably (knowing a PC) would crash, leaving another 19 people thinking what the hell just happened.
Maybe your idea is a great one Dringo, but this is the Future of Gaming, and none of these ideas are foreseeable in the future.
Thanks for reading
er-no
Ver true but who needs 4 tv's if you have 4 GBA's? And GBA games are different to console games so a multiplayer GBA game may be more appealing when it comes to playing ones that aren't on a home console.
Dringo
Dringo
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