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10. Japan is a day ahead so you can actually play a game tomorrow before you go to bed tonight.
9. You can find games 24/7. That's 8760 hours per year. (8784 in leap years, but who's counting?)
8. You can pick your own world-wide screen name. Sign up before Spleenmuncher is taken!
7. You can play someone across the country without laying 3,000 miles of ethernet cable through sewer pipes.
6. You can learn foreign languages while you play. (Well, you can learn to curse and cheer in other languages, anyway.) Sacre Bleu!
5. Xbox Live finds your friends online. It helps you make friends online. Just keep repeating, "Xbox Live is my friend... Xbox Live is my friend..."
4. Your scores will be on display for the whole world. Whether you want your scores on display is probably a matter of skill -- better start practicing!
3. People are more fun to play than game AI. People can come up with quirky strategies and emotional responses. And, in a tight spot, people choke!
2. You can talk with other players during the game. Is that you, Grandma?
1. You could be the best player in the world, but you just don't know it... yet.
10. Japan is a day ahead so you can actually play a game tomorrow before you go to bed tonight.
9. You can find games 24/7. That's 8760 hours per year. (8784 in leap years, but who's counting?)
8. You can pick your own world-wide screen name. Sign up before Spleenmuncher is taken!
7. You can play someone across the country without laying 3,000 miles of ethernet cable through sewer pipes.
6. You can learn foreign languages while you play. (Well, you can learn to curse and cheer in other languages, anyway.) Sacre Bleu!
5. Xbox Live finds your friends online. It helps you make friends online. Just keep repeating, "Xbox Live is my friend... Xbox Live is my friend..."
4. Your scores will be on display for the whole world. Whether you want your scores on display is probably a matter of skill -- better start practicing!
3. People are more fun to play than game AI. People can come up with quirky strategies and emotional responses. And, in a tight spot, people choke!
2. You can talk with other players during the game. Is that you, Grandma?
1. You could be the best player in the world, but you just don't know it... yet.
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Racing Games Do involve strategy, were to turn, when to brake, when to use the handbrake.
But still FPS online maybe a little better.
But still FPS online maybe a little better.
Yeah, when it comes to playing driving games online, its a matter of who knows the perfect racing line while sticking to it. Of course thats a skill in itself but I prefer games such as first person shooters and strategy games where you can approach a game using different tactics.
:-)
:-)
Hmmmm...not too bothered about racing games online, I mean what will be the difference between playing people and computers online? Whereas in a FPS, playing human players is a lot more complicated due to the proper intelligence.
Driving games are too liner for online play, IMO.
Driving games are too liner for online play, IMO.
savatt1668 wrote:
> I'm not really into racing games all that much.
Bah! Racing games rock :)
> I'm not really into racing games all that much.
Bah! Racing games rock :)
Out of all the genres, I think racing games are the ones I'll be playing least online. Not cause of any worries about lag, its just down to that I'm not really into racing games all that much.
No doubt I'll probably try a couple though. ;-))
I don't think you need to worry too much Phillip - I'm sure you'll be able to play the likes of PGR2 without any trouble when your online.
No doubt I'll probably try a couple though. ;-))
I don't think you need to worry too much Phillip - I'm sure you'll be able to play the likes of PGR2 without any trouble when your online.
If you have ever played with a game online using ADSL modem then you will know that there is hardly *ANY* lag at all, sometimes there can be a littl quirk in the game but when I say little I mean little! The lag is almost like a slow down and it is nothing to be worried about, in fact I believe that racing with others online in a Ferrari F-50 or a Porche 911 GT Twin Turbo will be fantastic and worth getting Xbox Live alone for! The word going around on the net at the moment is that Halo 2 will enable you and a friend to go through the main game together over an Xbox Live connection!!! Notice the 3 exclamation marks because I think a statement like that deserves at least 3 to carry the comment! Hopefully I will have Broadband/ADSL installed by christmas so I will be in time for the launch of Xbox Live in the UK.
phi11ip wrote:
> PGR2 won't be very good online, is what I think...
>
> Still I may be wrong!
The reason you get lag on PC's is because of your connection speed *AND* programs running the the background. With xbox LIVE there is no programs or whatever, Just gaming.....
> PGR2 won't be very good online, is what I think...
>
> Still I may be wrong!
The reason you get lag on PC's is because of your connection speed *AND* programs running the the background. With xbox LIVE there is no programs or whatever, Just gaming.....
savatt1668 wrote:
> Thats why Microsoft have gone with broadband only - to cut this lag
> stuff out. As everyone knows, broadband is a hell of a lot faster
> than a 56K modem and although not everyone has access to it, mixing
> people together with different connection speeds will just ruin the
> experience in the long run.
I know about that, and FPS games will be amazing, but driving games will need near perfect pings to be any good.
ADSL leaves you with a ping of about 40-50 on the average server, there is still a slight delay when playing. Imagine playing a racing game but having a lag on the turning? It will be absolutely impossible!
PGR2 won't be very good online, is what I think...
Still I may be wrong!
> Thats why Microsoft have gone with broadband only - to cut this lag
> stuff out. As everyone knows, broadband is a hell of a lot faster
> than a 56K modem and although not everyone has access to it, mixing
> people together with different connection speeds will just ruin the
> experience in the long run.
I know about that, and FPS games will be amazing, but driving games will need near perfect pings to be any good.
ADSL leaves you with a ping of about 40-50 on the average server, there is still a slight delay when playing. Imagine playing a racing game but having a lag on the turning? It will be absolutely impossible!
PGR2 won't be very good online, is what I think...
Still I may be wrong!
Thats why Microsoft have gone with broadband only - to cut this lag stuff out. As everyone knows, broadband is a hell of a lot faster than a 56K modem and although not everyone has access to it, mixing people together with different connection speeds will just ruin the experience in the long run.
MS are basically looking to the future as broadband is spreading and its really the only answer to a really good X-Box Live experience.
Playing online is great, but lag can ruin things big time. Other systems might offer a 56K connection but it only equals a half ar5ed experience.
Personally I can't wait till X-Box Live - especially when we can kick the 7 shades of Euro out of the Europeans. ;-)
MS are basically looking to the future as broadband is spreading and its really the only answer to a really good X-Box Live experience.
Playing online is great, but lag can ruin things big time. Other systems might offer a 56K connection but it only equals a half ar5ed experience.
Personally I can't wait till X-Box Live - especially when we can kick the 7 shades of Euro out of the Europeans. ;-)
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