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Online gaming the pros and cons.
Pros-
Never lonly
I think this is a very good point think of all those multyplayer games just sitting by the machines when your mates arent around. There is usally someone always online on any game on the big hits there is usally a couple of thousand, so finding and picking someone to play has never been so easy.
Good fun
Course its fun you've playing on a computer game, thats the point. But i must admit the first time i put tiberian sun in to my pc loaded it and played it online i was never seen for a week. Why you ask, well it had a ranking system and tournaments. Never before have i been able to play in a 5 hour tournament with over 300 people all at once. The only time you would be able to do that is if you were one of those people who go to those gaming comps.
Easy to use
Not only have the gaming industry brought us this amazing thing, but they have also made it so simple. It took me no more than 5 minutes to load and be playing someone on line at tiberain sun.
Choice
If you walk in to one of your loacl gaming shops and look at the games you will find that quite a few pc games have online capabilities. Some, well most you can also download extras. Soon you will be able to play on the consoles, like you were on the dreamcast.Cant wait for the day truly an amzing experience playing someone from yourliving room who could be halfway around the world.
Cons-
Money
This depends as some people have deals and some dont. If you have a deal for your internet this aint really much of a con as you can play as much as you want for a fixed amount of money a month. But if you pay by the minute your phone bill might suddenly rush up quite a bit, take it from me best to find deals(i payed £89 in just one month once!!). My parents were a little annoyed.
Connection
If you live in a place like me you will be pulling your hair out every two minutes, this is because i live quite far from my local exchange so the connection speed is really slow and i get disconnected about once every 10 mins. :( If you are playing a game this can be so annoying think of playing a game for just under an hour, youve beating one of the best people at the game online in the ranking system and then the internet disconects you. Belive me if you get paranoid very easly and quickly and you have a crap internt speed, then i would be very careful of online gaming as you might have to see a phycatrist from the stress.
Consle
The big three consoles are still to get there online gaming sorted, so could be a while, depends they have not said any dates yet(i think unless any of you know differnt). Some you will have to buy extras for, for example the ps2 you will need a modem and if you want a hard drive to, these will come to about £150 or more. Where as the xbox has these built in saving you money and hassle.
Overall online gaming is enjoyable, reasonable cheap(depends on your phone bill) and you will never get bored.
Pros-
Never lonly
I think this is a very good point think of all those multyplayer games just sitting by the machines when your mates arent around. There is usally someone always online on any game on the big hits there is usally a couple of thousand, so finding and picking someone to play has never been so easy.
Good fun
Course its fun you've playing on a computer game, thats the point. But i must admit the first time i put tiberian sun in to my pc loaded it and played it online i was never seen for a week. Why you ask, well it had a ranking system and tournaments. Never before have i been able to play in a 5 hour tournament with over 300 people all at once. The only time you would be able to do that is if you were one of those people who go to those gaming comps.
Easy to use
Not only have the gaming industry brought us this amazing thing, but they have also made it so simple. It took me no more than 5 minutes to load and be playing someone on line at tiberain sun.
Choice
If you walk in to one of your loacl gaming shops and look at the games you will find that quite a few pc games have online capabilities. Some, well most you can also download extras. Soon you will be able to play on the consoles, like you were on the dreamcast.Cant wait for the day truly an amzing experience playing someone from yourliving room who could be halfway around the world.
Cons-
Money
This depends as some people have deals and some dont. If you have a deal for your internet this aint really much of a con as you can play as much as you want for a fixed amount of money a month. But if you pay by the minute your phone bill might suddenly rush up quite a bit, take it from me best to find deals(i payed £89 in just one month once!!). My parents were a little annoyed.
Connection
If you live in a place like me you will be pulling your hair out every two minutes, this is because i live quite far from my local exchange so the connection speed is really slow and i get disconnected about once every 10 mins. :( If you are playing a game this can be so annoying think of playing a game for just under an hour, youve beating one of the best people at the game online in the ranking system and then the internet disconects you. Belive me if you get paranoid very easly and quickly and you have a crap internt speed, then i would be very careful of online gaming as you might have to see a phycatrist from the stress.
Consle
The big three consoles are still to get there online gaming sorted, so could be a while, depends they have not said any dates yet(i think unless any of you know differnt). Some you will have to buy extras for, for example the ps2 you will need a modem and if you want a hard drive to, these will come to about £150 or more. Where as the xbox has these built in saving you money and hassle.
Overall online gaming is enjoyable, reasonable cheap(depends on your phone bill) and you will never get bored.
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Online gaming: more cons...
Be wary of which game service you sign up to, not all of them are legit and are just after your payment details so they can go on a shopping spree with your credit card. Always check a website for recommendations before signing up, a good source of information is Mpogd.com (multiplayer online games directory) where you can check which games are still in beta (and usually free to play), and which ones are rated the highest.
Script kiddies, oh how I could go on about the script kiddies that are only there in a game to exploit every loophole in the source code that they can get their hands on. They're not there for fun, they're there to see which of them can pull off the most audacious crack, usually to the detriment of the other online players.
Security is paramount. If you play online games with your PC then make sure you have adequate security measures in place to prevent other people accessing and using your computer for whatever they want to. An up to date virus scanner that always runs in the background should be enough as long as you remember the basics of not opening email attachments when you don't know what's in them, don't give out your login and password details to anyone (including the game's admin/support), and don't download programs when you don't know exactly what they are and what they do.
Lastly, remember it's a dog eat dog world out there and not everyone you meet will be as mentally stable or as nice as you. It takes all sorts, unfortunately you meet all sorts in online games. In the same way that you wouldn't let your 7 year old girl out into the shopping arcade unsupervised, if you've got kids playing online games then supervision is highly recommended.
Be wary of which game service you sign up to, not all of them are legit and are just after your payment details so they can go on a shopping spree with your credit card. Always check a website for recommendations before signing up, a good source of information is Mpogd.com (multiplayer online games directory) where you can check which games are still in beta (and usually free to play), and which ones are rated the highest.
Script kiddies, oh how I could go on about the script kiddies that are only there in a game to exploit every loophole in the source code that they can get their hands on. They're not there for fun, they're there to see which of them can pull off the most audacious crack, usually to the detriment of the other online players.
Security is paramount. If you play online games with your PC then make sure you have adequate security measures in place to prevent other people accessing and using your computer for whatever they want to. An up to date virus scanner that always runs in the background should be enough as long as you remember the basics of not opening email attachments when you don't know what's in them, don't give out your login and password details to anyone (including the game's admin/support), and don't download programs when you don't know exactly what they are and what they do.
Lastly, remember it's a dog eat dog world out there and not everyone you meet will be as mentally stable or as nice as you. It takes all sorts, unfortunately you meet all sorts in online games. In the same way that you wouldn't let your 7 year old girl out into the shopping arcade unsupervised, if you've got kids playing online games then supervision is highly recommended.
K, so now that makes my new enemy list-
liqued h2o
liqued h2o
Liquid H²O wrote:
> This was boring after the first sentence...
Just because i didnt like your post that much. I did like it though i didnt relise that rare had made so many games.
> This was boring after the first sentence...
Just because i didnt like your post that much. I did like it though i didnt relise that rare had made so many games.
This was boring after the first sentence...
Whats the most any of you have had to pay for a phone bill because of online gaming?
cookie monster wrote:
> fosbe wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know
> how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
>
> What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is
> a
> patch.
>
> The reconnection error thing happens on tiberian sun, have you never
> noticed?
Nope my computer usally crashed or the game.
> fosbe wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know
> how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
>
> What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is
> a
> patch.
>
> The reconnection error thing happens on tiberian sun, have you never
> noticed?
Nope my computer usally crashed or the game.
fosbe wrote:
> Did you see the sarcasm when i was speaking?
yeah, i just thought a fiver was to much for just one post
> Did you see the sarcasm when i was speaking?
yeah, i just thought a fiver was to much for just one post
fosbe wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know
> how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
>
> What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is a
> patch.
The reconnection error thing happens on tiberian sun, have you never noticed?
> cookie monster wrote:
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know
> how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
>
> What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is a
> patch.
The reconnection error thing happens on tiberian sun, have you never noticed?
Linx wrote:
> you asked me to post here
> (and i need the money for my coke habit..... 4 cans in the last
> hour)
>
> i luv sugar!
Did you see the sarcasm when i was speaking?
> you asked me to post here
> (and i need the money for my coke habit..... 4 cans in the last
> hour)
>
> i luv sugar!
Did you see the sarcasm when i was speaking?
cookie monster wrote:
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is a patch.
> Online gaming is cool. I really like playing red alert 2 and yuris
> revenge, and they are quite fast even on 56k. Although i dont know how
> you can play tiberian sun, its totally crap. If there is a
> reconnection error the human opponent is replaced with a computer,
> thats just stupid.
What on red alert 2? There aint one on tiberian sun unless there is a patch.
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