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Wouldn't it have been great if the N64 offered online play, internet access and e-mails? But, what games would have been great if you could play them online? TELL ME!
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The 64DD had the ability to go online.
Perfect Dark online.
Need I say ANY more?
Need I say ANY more?
Goldeneye online!!
Need I say more.
Need I say more.
Phi11ip wrote:
> Only problem is that it would have been a modem and the lag on the games would
> just ruin things! you would shoot sum1 and by the time it had connected to the
> server they would have gone and you would have missed your shot.
That's not how it would traditional be coded. Normally the hit on the other player would be registered and if you'd ran away by the time the hit registered the other player would be left wondering what hit him.
Cable pings are down at about 120 - that's a tenth of a second lag which is highly playable. 56k modems can still manage pings of around 200-300, which is still managable. Put it this way, I've played hours on Counter Strike and Half Life on line with my 56k modem - don't see why the N64 couldn't have managed the same.
That said - there is absolutely no way the N64 should have had a modem.
> Only problem is that it would have been a modem and the lag on the games would
> just ruin things! you would shoot sum1 and by the time it had connected to the
> server they would have gone and you would have missed your shot.
That's not how it would traditional be coded. Normally the hit on the other player would be registered and if you'd ran away by the time the hit registered the other player would be left wondering what hit him.
Cable pings are down at about 120 - that's a tenth of a second lag which is highly playable. 56k modems can still manage pings of around 200-300, which is still managable. Put it this way, I've played hours on Counter Strike and Half Life on line with my 56k modem - don't see why the N64 couldn't have managed the same.
That said - there is absolutely no way the N64 should have had a modem.
Ev][L~Dark wrote:
> In the Nintendo Offical Mag, they said That 'I rather nintendo stick to making
> great, value for money games instead of worryin' about this so called
> "internet revoluton"'
>WTF are they talking about?
Well if a game has online functions then after buying the game, you then have to pay to use it online{phone bill or subscription to some service which lets you play the game}. But if a game doesn't have online functions then you buy the game and that's it. Value for money! There's no extra costs! See I'd rather Nintendo made a great game that I could play on my own or with me mates, and without having to pay extra to play it over the net!
:)
> In the Nintendo Offical Mag, they said That 'I rather nintendo stick to making
> great, value for money games instead of worryin' about this so called
> "internet revoluton"'
>WTF are they talking about?
Well if a game has online functions then after buying the game, you then have to pay to use it online{phone bill or subscription to some service which lets you play the game}. But if a game doesn't have online functions then you buy the game and that's it. Value for money! There's no extra costs! See I'd rather Nintendo made a great game that I could play on my own or with me mates, and without having to pay extra to play it over the net!
:)
In the Nintendo Offical Mag, they said That 'I rather nintendo stick to making great, value for money games instead of worryin' about this so called "internet revoluton"'
WTF are they talking about?
WTF are they talking about?
If the 64 was online? My phone bill would be EVEN BIGGER! :-)
Dark Mark wrote:
> Wouldn't it have been great if the N64 offered online play, internet access and
> e-mails?
You might be able to get that sort of experience when GC is released, if developers decide to make copies of N64 games on the GC discs.
That would be so great, good, rad and any other words I can think of meaning "good", like terrific.
> Wouldn't it have been great if the N64 offered online play, internet access and
> e-mails?
You might be able to get that sort of experience when GC is released, if developers decide to make copies of N64 games on the GC discs.
That would be so great, good, rad and any other words I can think of meaning "good", like terrific.
I don't think that online plays gonna be a major thing on the Gamecube!
Honestly it's really not that necessery! Split screen with your mates is still LOAD O' FUN!
:)
Honestly it's really not that necessery! Split screen with your mates is still LOAD O' FUN!
:)
Only problem is that it would have been a modem and the lag on the games would just ruin things! you would shoot sum1 and by the time it had connected to the server they would have gone and you would have missed your shot.
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