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Alinestra Covelia
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I sense the dodgy presence of Bing - a presence I've not felt since...
Feb 2000 time: 00:25
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I have been an avid Nintendo fan since before I was born. I love all the Mario games, with Mario 64 and Mario 3 (for NES) being my favorite. Every single iteration of Metroid has been fabulous as well, and I had great fun with the Zeldas.
On the PC, the games that excel and which I like are slightly different. TBSes and RPGs are, for me, best on PC. FPSes are also largely unrivalled (although console games have a very slight edge in multiplayer accessibility). Finally, I like to play LucasArts' space flight sims, which I feel have never been equalled on any console ever.
I have played Sony and Sega consoles before but never owned them. I trust Nintendo consoles simply through force of habit and my own experience, but it doesn't mean that I slavishly follow one brand name. Oftentimes me and my friends will strategically buy systems so there's little overlap and we can all borrow each others' stuff to enjoy.
I think a lot of people put too much emphasis on image rather than gameplay. It's not "cool" to play with Legos and Speak'n'Spells and Construx and chess, but all these games were invaluable to me during my youth. Without them, I wouldn't be the person I am today. (And my spelling and 3D perception probably would have suffered too.)
I play a game because I enjoy it, not because it's "cool". If I find myself disliking a game just because somebody else says it isn't fashionable, I'm probably missing the whole point of gaming.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999 time: 22:25
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Here's a hands-on from IGN for it:
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/382/382970p1.html
quote: Getting online with Capcom VS SNK 2 EO is incredibly easy. After logging in, you get the standard list of options found in other Live games, including quick match, optimatch, friends, and rankings. What's really cool about the rankings is that you can see rankings for the past week or month, as well as total and friends rankings. We'd like to see this sort of rankings list implemented in more Live games (wink, wink). Another great option is the ability to play anyone around the world, not just the US. Everyone knows that there are some truly magnificent Street Fighter players around the world, especially Japan, and now we'll have the chance to see how we stack up against them.
So the options are there, but how is the gameplay? Well, after connecting to another player the game will display a message about your connection. We consistently received a "good" connection, and while we were playing there was no lag at all. Not even a little. We may as well have been playing against a CPU opponent the lag was so unnoticeable. Whether this is a good representation of what real-world games will be like is unknown (we were on a developer network, not Xbox Live), but if it is, then the future of online fighting games is exceptionally bright. |
It won't make a difference about being on a developer network, since a 2-player fighting game is obviously peer-to-peer after Xbox Live acts as the matchmaker.
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