On Single-Player Competition

Via Ars Technica, a post on the Major League Gaming site about the return of single-player competition (ala arcade games) with the likes of Xbox Live Arcade. From the article: "Once it stops being really enjoyable and just becomes work, you move on to another game and rarely come back. But imagining myself playing Resident Evil 4 with online leaderboards showing high scores in the missionary mode or a timed 'kill as many bad guys as you can' mini-game brings a smile to my face. I know for a fact I would be playing Super Mario Sunshine every now and then to try to get the fastest time for beating a certain level if there were leaderboards that everyone could plainly see after they beat a level."

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Lemme tell you how it's gonna happen IRL

[Hitto]

You're going to break your hands getting the best score you could ever do on , then you'll go and check out the high scores of the losers who play the same game ten hours each day, only to see you're WAY, WAY behind.

Wohoo, lotsa fun!