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Over a vast period of time gamers have been tremendously please with the fact that they are playing computer games with fast improving graphics against A.I creatures or with their friends on multiplayer in which you plug a controller into a socket and play split-screen. Everyone played like this for many years and we still do now but then there are some who expect a bit much more than that. Now that the online gaming experience has been invented (firstly for the PC) every new console seems to be coming equipped with online options at some stage. Also it seems to me, now all up and coming consoles are expected to be fully equipped with online capabilities to win the ‘Console War’.
Now this to me is asking way too much from computer games companies. They like inventing fresh experiences for gamers to have fun with and contain an entertaining time with your console. All these companies Like Nintendo or Acclaim have spent years making games like these and are facing the fact they will have to start putting online play in their new titles just to get more sales. Like in a DC magazine they said about Outrigger that they gave it 92% but would have given it 96% if it had online play. Now this seems petty and although I like online games, I do not think that normal old-fashioned games should or ever will be replaced by online games.
IT seems to me that the only games that have online options are: FPS’s, racing games, war games (Cossacks, C&C) and this isn’t a big part of gaming just a small fraction. Platform games, some beat em ups, and a few arcade games aren’t really designed for multiplayer and it would be hard to make online games from this meaning that there will be games in the future that aren’t online and do not get completely dominated by the online world (hopefully). In my opinion Nintendo are slightly reluctant to join this online craze, as their games are very successful as it is.
If you think about it, we have had a mega good time for most of our gaming lives playing against A.I or your friends in the same room, but is it time to move on? Maybe we have to face the fact that gaming is taking a new turn with the new millennium and that we al have to move on. But do not let your heads hit the floor in disappointment as this is going to be a new opening in the gateway of games! What many others and I have forgotten is that there will always be a single player and multiplayer for us to have a go with. Meaning that having an online feature will just improve on more that’s already there!!
If the companies that supply us with the games keep up the good work and don’t let the online options slow their game making genius down and it keeps to the same… better than before then I am very pleased to see online games going through. I am very happy to play online games while having a bash with my mates! Although it will take a while for this to all settle in, it looks like a very exciting time for the next five years.
Cheers,
T_W (:)
Now this to me is asking way too much from computer games companies. They like inventing fresh experiences for gamers to have fun with and contain an entertaining time with your console. All these companies Like Nintendo or Acclaim have spent years making games like these and are facing the fact they will have to start putting online play in their new titles just to get more sales. Like in a DC magazine they said about Outrigger that they gave it 92% but would have given it 96% if it had online play. Now this seems petty and although I like online games, I do not think that normal old-fashioned games should or ever will be replaced by online games.
IT seems to me that the only games that have online options are: FPS’s, racing games, war games (Cossacks, C&C) and this isn’t a big part of gaming just a small fraction. Platform games, some beat em ups, and a few arcade games aren’t really designed for multiplayer and it would be hard to make online games from this meaning that there will be games in the future that aren’t online and do not get completely dominated by the online world (hopefully). In my opinion Nintendo are slightly reluctant to join this online craze, as their games are very successful as it is.
If you think about it, we have had a mega good time for most of our gaming lives playing against A.I or your friends in the same room, but is it time to move on? Maybe we have to face the fact that gaming is taking a new turn with the new millennium and that we al have to move on. But do not let your heads hit the floor in disappointment as this is going to be a new opening in the gateway of games! What many others and I have forgotten is that there will always be a single player and multiplayer for us to have a go with. Meaning that having an online feature will just improve on more that’s already there!!
If the companies that supply us with the games keep up the good work and don’t let the online options slow their game making genius down and it keeps to the same… better than before then I am very pleased to see online games going through. I am very happy to play online games while having a bash with my mates! Although it will take a while for this to all settle in, it looks like a very exciting time for the next five years.
Cheers,
T_W (:)
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TW, Outtrigger not having online play is a crime as it was clearly designed to have it. The matches have a Quake 3 type information bar so if it was online people would see who just killed someone, but as it stands the info bar only says CPU killed CPU. In Japan the game was playabe online but once again us european gamers have got the shortest of the short straws.
Online gaming has alot of potential and with the DC it was evedent. Mabye with a bit of work it could take off, esspecialy in the console market. The console that might make it in terms of sucessful online gaming might be the Xbox with its built in broadband modem. You never know...
Online gaming has alot of potential and with the DC it was evedent. Mabye with a bit of work it could take off, esspecialy in the console market. The console that might make it in terms of sucessful online gaming might be the Xbox with its built in broadband modem. You never know...
Online gaming is only really being held back by the lack of widespread broadband access.
The thing about Nintendo's great games, is that they're predominantly single player affairs - not suitable for online gaming.
Before you go and list all Nintendo's multiplayer titles, just remember that All the Zelda games are single player, as are the mario games, (the 2 player mode on the earlier ones doesn't really count as a miltiplayer option in my view) and the Donkey Kong series.
The thing about Nintendo's great games, is that they're predominantly single player affairs - not suitable for online gaming.
Before you go and list all Nintendo's multiplayer titles, just remember that All the Zelda games are single player, as are the mario games, (the 2 player mode on the earlier ones doesn't really count as a miltiplayer option in my view) and the Donkey Kong series.
Over a vast period of time gamers have been tremendously please with the fact that they are playing computer games with fast improving graphics against A.I creatures or with their friends on multiplayer in which you plug a controller into a socket and play split-screen. Everyone played like this for many years and we still do now but then there are some who expect a bit much more than that. Now that the online gaming experience has been invented (firstly for the PC) every new console seems to be coming equipped with online options at some stage. Also it seems to me, now all up and coming consoles are expected to be fully equipped with online capabilities to win the ‘Console War’.
Now this to me is asking way too much from computer games companies. They like inventing fresh experiences for gamers to have fun with and contain an entertaining time with your console. All these companies Like Nintendo or Acclaim have spent years making games like these and are facing the fact they will have to start putting online play in their new titles just to get more sales. Like in a DC magazine they said about Outrigger that they gave it 92% but would have given it 96% if it had online play. Now this seems petty and although I like online games, I do not think that normal old-fashioned games should or ever will be replaced by online games.
IT seems to me that the only games that have online options are: FPS’s, racing games, war games (Cossacks, C&C) and this isn’t a big part of gaming just a small fraction. Platform games, some beat em ups, and a few arcade games aren’t really designed for multiplayer and it would be hard to make online games from this meaning that there will be games in the future that aren’t online and do not get completely dominated by the online world (hopefully). In my opinion Nintendo are slightly reluctant to join this online craze, as their games are very successful as it is.
If you think about it, we have had a mega good time for most of our gaming lives playing against A.I or your friends in the same room, but is it time to move on? Maybe we have to face the fact that gaming is taking a new turn with the new millennium and that we al have to move on. But do not let your heads hit the floor in disappointment as this is going to be a new opening in the gateway of games! What many others and I have forgotten is that there will always be a single player and multiplayer for us to have a go with. Meaning that having an online feature will just improve on more that’s already there!!
If the companies that supply us with the games keep up the good work and don’t let the online options slow their game making genius down and it keeps to the same… better than before then I am very pleased to see online games going through. I am very happy to play online games while having a bash with my mates! Although it will take a while for this to all settle in, it looks like a very exciting time for the next five years.
Cheers,
T_W (:)
Now this to me is asking way too much from computer games companies. They like inventing fresh experiences for gamers to have fun with and contain an entertaining time with your console. All these companies Like Nintendo or Acclaim have spent years making games like these and are facing the fact they will have to start putting online play in their new titles just to get more sales. Like in a DC magazine they said about Outrigger that they gave it 92% but would have given it 96% if it had online play. Now this seems petty and although I like online games, I do not think that normal old-fashioned games should or ever will be replaced by online games.
IT seems to me that the only games that have online options are: FPS’s, racing games, war games (Cossacks, C&C) and this isn’t a big part of gaming just a small fraction. Platform games, some beat em ups, and a few arcade games aren’t really designed for multiplayer and it would be hard to make online games from this meaning that there will be games in the future that aren’t online and do not get completely dominated by the online world (hopefully). In my opinion Nintendo are slightly reluctant to join this online craze, as their games are very successful as it is.
If you think about it, we have had a mega good time for most of our gaming lives playing against A.I or your friends in the same room, but is it time to move on? Maybe we have to face the fact that gaming is taking a new turn with the new millennium and that we al have to move on. But do not let your heads hit the floor in disappointment as this is going to be a new opening in the gateway of games! What many others and I have forgotten is that there will always be a single player and multiplayer for us to have a go with. Meaning that having an online feature will just improve on more that’s already there!!
If the companies that supply us with the games keep up the good work and don’t let the online options slow their game making genius down and it keeps to the same… better than before then I am very pleased to see online games going through. I am very happy to play online games while having a bash with my mates! Although it will take a while for this to all settle in, it looks like a very exciting time for the next five years.
Cheers,
T_W (:)
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