Comments on: Week of 3/9/09 cmfl3x's Gaming Thoughts http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/ Aging Hardcore Gamers Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:06:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cmfl3x http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/#comment-272 cmfl3x Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:41:01 +0000 http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/?p=2035#comment-272 eeyore I've read/heard that elsewhere. America is the place where competitive online is the biggest, so Japanese developers don't focus on it as much. Isn't Monster Hunter a popular Japanese online game? Although that is PSP, and that is only popular in Japan methinks...other than that nothing comes to mind. Pray tell your theory! eeyore I’ve read/heard that elsewhere. America is the place where competitive online is the biggest, so Japanese developers don’t focus on it as much.

Isn’t Monster Hunter a popular Japanese online game? Although that is PSP, and that is only popular in Japan methinks…other than that nothing comes to mind.

Pray tell your theory!

]]> By: eeyore http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/#comment-271 eeyore Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:33:56 +0000 http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/?p=2035#comment-271 this is more of a question than a comment. i was thinking maybe the reason why sf4 has online problems is because the developers were japanese? most of the well-developed online matchmaking systems that immediately come to my mind have primarily been from non-japanese developers: blizzard (war3, maybe wow), bungie (halo 3), backbone (sf2 hd remix), microsoft (xbox in general). i'm actually having trouble naming a popular online japanese game. ffxi, but that's a stretch. you guys know of any? i mean i have a theory as to why, but it's just something i made up as i thought about this this is more of a question than a comment.

i was thinking maybe the reason why sf4 has online problems is because the developers were japanese? most of the well-developed online matchmaking systems that immediately come to my mind have primarily been from non-japanese developers: blizzard (war3, maybe wow), bungie (halo 3), backbone (sf2 hd remix), microsoft (xbox in general).

i’m actually having trouble naming a popular online japanese game. ffxi, but that’s a stretch. you guys know of any?

i mean i have a theory as to why, but it’s just something i made up as i thought about this

]]> By: eeyore http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/#comment-270 eeyore Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:12:13 +0000 http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/?p=2035#comment-270 a wild snorlax appears! http://entanglement.somnambulation.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/86rials.jpg a wild snorlax appears!

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]]> By: tairese http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/#comment-269 tairese Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:55:36 +0000 http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/?p=2035#comment-269 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You got seriously technology-owned. I find it really odd that even though the XB360 has such a high crapping-out rate, people continue to buy them in greater number. I guess that shows the strength of the console/games/etc. I think you should play as Dan in SF4.. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You got seriously technology-owned.
I find it really odd that even though the XB360 has such a high crapping-out rate, people continue to buy them in greater number. I guess that shows the strength of the console/games/etc.

I think you should play as Dan in SF4..

]]> By: espion4ge http://levelingdown.com/2009/03/16/week-of-3909-cmfl3xs-gaming-thoughts/#comment-268 espion4ge Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:56:38 +0000 http://espion4ge.wordpress.com/?p=2035#comment-268 should have subtitled your RROD image "A RROD appears!" jk...heh I've gone through a few 360s myself, so maybe you should adopt my strategy of owning two so you can have one as a backup! anyway, i was reading that sf4 article and i agree that it's a pretty good one. the earlier stuff in the article i was totally aware of - i don't like that you can cherry pick your ranked matches, or players waiting to see what character the other player picks before picking their own. luckily, i haven't seen the kara throw or whatever online yet, but my brother showed it to me the other night how ken has that move and was telling me how the developers intentionally left it in the game. feels like whenever i play ken players online these days they are the low level shoto players, but ryu players tend to be the better ones. if you're thinking of a new character, maybe balrog or blanka? i thought both of them were pretty good and not too difficult to learn. they're charge characters so they're somewhat defensive though... should have subtitled your RROD image “A RROD appears!” jk…heh I’ve gone through a few 360s myself, so maybe you should adopt my strategy of owning two so you can have one as a backup!

anyway, i was reading that sf4 article and i agree that it’s a pretty good one. the earlier stuff in the article i was totally aware of – i don’t like that you can cherry pick your ranked matches, or players waiting to see what character the other player picks before picking their own. luckily, i haven’t seen the kara throw or whatever online yet, but my brother showed it to me the other night how ken has that move and was telling me how the developers intentionally left it in the game.

feels like whenever i play ken players online these days they are the low level shoto players, but ryu players tend to be the better ones.

if you’re thinking of a new character, maybe balrog or blanka? i thought both of them were pretty good and not too difficult to learn. they’re charge characters so they’re somewhat defensive though…

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