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Not Enough Online Console Games?

Posted by simoniker on from the we-want-one-for-every-day-of-the-year dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing the relative lack of certain online console games. The author focuses on "the fighting genre [as] the most blatant example" of this dearth, with only Capcom Vs. Snk 2 EO for Xbox currently playable online. He also mentions the PS2 as lacking depth of online titles, claiming "A steady flow of online PS2 games would have been nice. But the last one released was... wait for it... Chessmaster." Were you also expecting to be "seeing almost every game coming out with some kind of online support" by now, or are current online titles enough for you?

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  1. Re:Yeah.. by Cap-America · · Score: 2, Funny
    The people saying "ONLINE IS THE FUTURE OF GAMING!!!" are like the people in the 80's saying "VIDEO IS THE FUTURE OF THE PHONE!!!"

    It maybe some day, we just not ready as of now.

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  2. Maybe not everyone *wants* online games? by shish · · Score: 2, Funny

    From Mr Biffo's column in edge ( http://www.edge-online.com/ )

    Ahh... online gaming, how I've tried to love ye. Really tried. But you're just not doing it for me. It's not like I don't want to, I mean, those bigger boys said you would, you know, show me a good time. The sorry fact is, on the occasions when I have taken the plunge, and invited you to woo me, I've come away disappointed and flacid. No matter how hard I pump my enthusiasm gland, the most I can muster is a tiny dribble of interest from my curiosity duct. Meanwhile, my apathy anus is working overtime, pumping out a stream of rancid fumes, accompanied by an undulating, organic hiss.

    Amen.

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  3. I'm still waiting for upgraded tech... by Not_Wiggins · · Score: 2, Funny

    What good's a fighting game across a network if you can't actually kill the person you're playing? ;)

    Now *that* would be some real "Running Man"-level entertainment! ;)

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