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- Kanuhduh, on 03/20/2009, -0/+62There's no better feeling than that of shooting your friend in the head.
- SemiSarcastic, on 03/20/2009, -0/+61Online, people are *****. In person they're much more polite because they know they're accountable to what they say in public.
- StateTheObvious, on 03/20/2009, -1/+54Of course LAN is superior to internet play.
If somebody cheats you can beat the crap out of them. - Equinox1, on 03/20/2009, -1/+36For serious, lagless fun, local multiplayer rocks. To piss people off with constant teamkilling, your mother jokes, and internet tough guy, online ftw.
- Vaiper, on 03/20/2009, -2/+31I still think that LANs are a pain in the ass. They were fun when I was in high school but I don't have the motivation to drag my computer anywhere anymore. Maybe I'm totally off my game. Perhaps everyone uses laptops now for gaming. I used to LAN when nobody had LCDs and everyone had a 19in CRT.
- shaunlow, on 03/20/2009, -2/+29I f***** hate lag!!!!
- billricardi, on 03/20/2009, -1/+27On the amateur level, there are a lot of great reasons to get together and have a LAN party, fun and personal interaction being the two main reasons cited in the article.
But the piece doesn't address the pro level, and there are many reasons for pro-hopefuls, semi pros, and professional gamers to get together on the LAN instead of the net. Firstly, the big money tournaments are all LAN based so you have to deal with zero latency situations. Secondly, tournament situations are usually run on standard images to avoid cheating, and as we all know VAC and the like are laughable anti-cheat measures. Finally, reliable hosting, especially in games like L4D, can be hard to come by. - agentsrecord, on 03/20/2009, -0/+24This, of course, doesn't have anything to do with the abundance of ***** in online multiplayer.
- replaysMike, on 03/20/2009, -0/+23If there's one thing gamers know, its substitutes for physical touch.
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -1/+22Nintendo could've told you that.
- ninjan, on 03/20/2009, -0/+19Goldeneye, Nintendo 64, My sofa, 4 players in stack. Does it get any better than that?
- MattNF, on 03/20/2009, -0/+17A fist to the face works just as good as a mute button.
- Indierocka, on 03/20/2009, -0/+16and then looking at him and saying, "what now son!"
- Mankind121, on 03/20/2009, -1/+16On LAN you typically don't have to worry about some 12 year old utter obscenities over his microphone
- mario323, on 03/20/2009, -2/+16I'd have to agree. Splitting the screen is annoying, but playing online with random people is usually not terribly fun.
- DavidTurnbull, on 03/20/2009, -10/+24Story that noone probably cares about: We installed Counter Strike and Halo on our school computers during our final year of school. On the last day of school EVERY computer was taken and logged into one of 3-4 Halo games (admittedly, our school was pretty small but it was still 60-80 people playing).
Also, for 30-40 minutes I was playing on a computer without a mouse, but using the arrow keys to aim I still managed to kill 16 people and finish in the top 5 overall. Most of the kills were nade kills but I did in fact beat people in gun battles even though the slightest amount of pressure would aim at the sky or the ground.
Good times.
..oh, and yeah. LAN > online. - inactive, on 03/20/2009, -0/+13Unless you're a foul-mouthed 12 year old LANing with your friends.
- mnemy, on 03/20/2009, -1/+14Ya no *****. And this is why i'm extremely annoyed about the slew of online multi-player only games out right now. Particularly racing games. It's not fun to ram some random kid into a wall, but doing it to a friend sitting right next to you, and kicking him and yelling "BOOM" at the same time, is where the true kicks are at.
And wtf is the fun of making GTA multiplayer if you can't jack cars and try to run over your friend? - hmichaelkim, on 03/20/2009, -0/+12"Plus, there's no cheating online because your opponents can't see your screen!"
Ha, no cheating online. - InfernoX, on 03/20/2009, -2/+14 None of my friends are cool enough to be PC gamers so I just play with online friends.
- joey368, on 03/20/2009, -0/+12No kidding.
- kalvinb, on 03/20/2009, -0/+11Kind of hard to split the cost of pizza and beer when your "friends" are half way across the country or world.
Console makers need to add in additional video outs. Split screen is lame and these days it's not uncommon for people to have more than one TV. Heck, have a couple VGA outs so people can just use regular monitors.
Of course console makers would probably perfer you buy multiple consoles and multiple copies of the games. That's more lucrative than putting in multi head video chips.
I'd rather yell at a friend across the room than yell at them through a mic. - Charlatan22, on 03/20/2009, -0/+8Anyone else just check to make sure they were logged in because of this?
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -0/+8Punching you would probably be fun for them.
- MattNF, on 03/20/2009, -2/+9You're right, they don't enjoy it at all. They're completely bored out of their minds while they play.
/s - BlackJackJester, on 03/20/2009, -0/+7Name calling and nerd-raging are way better in person.
- latrosicarius, on 03/20/2009, -0/+7"reliable hosting, especially in games like L4D, can be hard to come by."
Especially since Valve recently whitelisted their own servers, and now all third party servers are NOT joinable through matchmaking unless all 5000 of Valve's ***** servers are full.
It does not care what ping you have, or if you have any Steam group servers that should take preference. No, it just ***** you.
/off topic rant... sorry - benbrooks101, on 03/20/2009, -1/+7Gotta love 'zero ping' gaming
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -0/+6Well of course. And it's the reason I don't really play xbox live. I have no interest in gaming with some 13-year-old whiny kid that I don't even know. Give me a good AI and I'll be happy.
Occasionally there can be surprises, but most games aren't designed for it. World of Warcraft PvP (world, not arena or BGs) has that constant element of surprise. Will you be ganked, or will you stumble upon someone and gank them?
But even with that, what makes it fun is when you group with people you know and run around killing the other faction. Other than that, it gets boring. - FredFredrickson, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5Yeah, no *****. People online are *****.
- porkins21, on 03/21/2009, -1/+6Online is the alternative for people who don't have friends to play locally. That's why online gaming is full of annoying *****. Of course not all online gamers are like this, but you get my point.
- mynameistux, on 03/21/2009, -0/+5welcome to australia, please choose your ping
lots
too much
a whole ***** lot
more than is ok
***** ***** *****, THEY MOVE TOO FAST. - mcwattersm, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5Because there aren't little ***** kids who will ***** scream ***** at the top of their lungs because they think it is hilarious.
Unless your friends are a bunch of little kids. - inactive, on 03/20/2009, -1/+6except for the fact they weren't designed with multiple video outs in mind, so if you did manage to get something to work, all you could ever hope to achive is mirroring the output NOT sererate outputs.
- Deevo55, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5Nothing beats the tea bag IRL...
- ipushmycar, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4i like online play best. u get the whole screen to yourself, and on a 26" tv splitscreen can be tough.
- covertbadger, on 03/21/2009, -0/+4Pfft, Facility was better. And my sofa is better than yours.
- solmakou, on 03/22/2009, -0/+4I was ok with that video when I thought they were going to put him in the hospital, but breaking the computer is unacceptable. I hope they were sued for damages and made to do community service.
- NeoTechni, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4"And why isn't LittleBigPlanet co-op on one screen?"
It is - crazyhorse13, on 03/21/2009, -0/+4I would argue in favor of a meteor smash.
But it's all the same thing, really. Ownage is so much more satisfying irl. - jrd3, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4I still don't understand why the local mulitiplayer on Call of Duty 4 and World at War is so limited. At least let us use custom classes and why limit it to one person per system? wtf
- phqu88, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4Quakecon!!
Look forward to it every year!! Friggin blast! - and303, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Kind of a dumb way of looking at it.
Would you rather play multiplayer games with your friends, or with strangers out of your demographic? - shadebane, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3yeah who doesn't, like setting up a LAN with some friends, opposed to the typical ***** of playing random people/idiots online. A great game is guaranteed playing friends; Drops, quitters, trolls are expected with open online play.
Basically this article is a "no *****!?" article, a blatant statement of the obvious. - Hoogs, on 03/20/2009, -2/+5I agree, which is why I much prefer Halo over Call of Duty. My brother/friends and I can play co-op or online splitscreen. Playing online by myself is never much fun for some reason.
- Citruspers, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3I'd much rather get screamed at by my friends than by the 10 year olds on xbox live. At least you can physically punch your friends if they get too annoying.
- crazyhorse13, on 03/21/2009, -0/+3And if your friend's 12-year-old little brother joins in and starts swearing up a storm, you can get his mom to whoop his butt.
- FriedTurkey, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Haven't played online since everyone ***** got a microphone.
- porkins21, on 03/21/2009, -0/+3It's the worst when it's some high-pitched voice kid who sounds like his balls haven't even dropped yet. I don't like kids in real life because they annoy me, online gaming is no different.
- Fleagleman, on 03/21/2009, -0/+3I think online would gain more ground if there was some way to guarantee that you could play in a group that did not include 12 year old douchebags who use the 'n' and 'f' words every 5 ***** seconds.
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