Online Gaming? A Gift, A Curse....or in between?
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It probably has to do with the fact that online gaming is still in the "oooohhh", "aaaah", and "awesome!" phase of console gaming. Online gaming is nothing new.
The PC still has many great single player games coming out for it and doesnt suffer as badly from the problems you are mentioning at all.
[QUOTE="Rozik_Ritclave"]On-line gaming is a big gift for me. My two sons live with their mother 400 miles away, and if it wasn't for our XBOX LIVE subscriptions I wouldn't get to spend as much time with them as I do. They both lived with me up until a couple years ago, so we used to spend a lot of time together, but after high school they decided to live with mom. Now we spend a couple times a week playing over LIVE. Yeah, ya have to deal with some trash talking morons, but we tend to just play with a small circle of friends or ignore the a-holes. With the party system on LIVE, we don't even have to listen to the a-holes anyway.The_Unknown_BI never looked at it that way, thanx man. In a way that kinda touch my heart. Hope you and your kids keep enjoying urselfs and spending some kinda of communication and time together. Yeah this is how i look at it. Im going off to college soon and like my friends and go to someones house every weekend and mess around mostly playing games xbl and other online services will let us continue from miles away. and glitches are sometimes very good things adding fun and skill to games. What would fighting games be without combos?
[QUOTE="The_Unknown_B"][QUOTE="Rozik_Ritclave"]On-line gaming is a big gift for me. My two sons live with their mother 400 miles away, and if it wasn't for our XBOX LIVE subscriptions I wouldn't get to spend as much time with them as I do. They both lived with me up until a couple years ago, so we used to spend a lot of time together, but after high school they decided to live with mom. Now we spend a couple times a week playing over LIVE. Yeah, ya have to deal with some trash talking morons, but we tend to just play with a small circle of friends or ignore the a-holes. With the party system on LIVE, we don't even have to listen to the a-holes anyway.webbutI never looked at it that way, thanx man. In a way that kinda touch my heart. Hope you and your kids keep enjoying urselfs and spending some kinda of communication and time together. Yeah this is how i look at it. Im going off to college soon and like my friends and go to someones house every weekend and mess around mostly playing games xbl and other online services will let us continue from miles away. and glitches are sometimes very good things adding fun and skill to games. What would fighting games be without combos? A combo isn't a glitch, a glitch is like something common found in a sports game for example Fight Night round 3 you can be pounding a guy with hooks and uppercuts for nearly 6 rounds, some guy could jus sit there and hit u with jabs and no variety of punches. Somehow in the course of a fight (this happen to me) i lost by knockout but on the fight total it showed I landed 120 out of 220 hooks 65 uppercuts out of 80 and 10 haymakers with 110 jabs out of 220. My opponent only landed 300 out of 560 jabs. 2 hooks out of 5, and no uppercuts or haymakers. In a real life boxing match, even if you looked on paper u can tell who won, I had the guy looking like a mess but it didn't knock him out once but his constant mashing the button for a jab put me down for the count? unrealistic and a glitch. I hope it made the glitch thing clear for u, and u believe that displays skills huh?
Combos were orginaly a glitch in street fighter 2. The character Ermac in Mortal kombat was orginally a glitch in mortal kombat 2. Glitches if people start using any gltich a lot and the creators of the game balance it they can be very good things and with the internet they can just update the game without making a new relase of it through patching
I never looked at it that way, thanx man. In a way that kinda touch my heart. Hope you and your kids keep enjoying urselfs and spending some kinda of communication and time together.The_Unknown_B
Thanx for the kind words. Even though playing on-line gives me the chance to play with my kids, I definitely do more of my playing on the single-player side of things. I think there are still some great single-player games being developed, most of them tend to be RPGs but there are some squad-based shooters, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 comes to mind, that have pretty good single-player campaigns. Of course I haven't finished the campaign yet, but that's usually my M.O. with single-player campaigns.
A term that I can't personally take credit for but I do like, is internet muscles. Too many players are "tougher" and more impolite when there is unknown miles between them and thier opponents. Of course, this says more about people in general and not the game developers. That's why I think the party system was the best thing added to XBOX LIVE; turn on party chat instead of game chat and you can still talk tactics with your teammates without listening to the annoying verbal abuse that is vomitted forth by some on-line players.
It probably has to do with the fact that online gaming is still in the "oooohhh", "aaah", and "awesome!" phase of console gaming. Online gaming is nothing new.XaosII
That may be the case, but I think it might have more to do with the age difference of console gamers compared to PC gamers. I don't have any numbers or studies to back me up, but I would think, on average, that the console gaming crowd is probably younger than the PC gaming crowd.
I think it's something in between.
Curse- As people have mentioned, people cuss and say stuff they really shouldn't. Some people get angred easily and cussing, name calling, and etc. I remember reading this blog and it said that this guy showed this girl his "stuff." So, I guess that could also be a curse? You never know you your playing against, unless you know them in person.
Gift- People can play all over the world with each other. From cousins who live 100 miles away or on the other side of the ocean, to your local friends. Whenever I used to play runescape, I was walking through the place and I read what people were talking about. This woman played runescape because her children lived with there dad and she didn't get to see them often. But through runescape, they played together, and such.
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