Recent content by Macflash

Yes it is, and I don't really mind that, because, from my experience, it usually finds a match with a good connection (or at least one that doesn't hinder the experience or my enjoyment ofthe game). But I guess I must be the weird exception for this forum. The one person blessed by the good...

yes, but I've never seen a game that combines matchmaking(ala trueskill type matching) with dedicated servers. I think the main thing with dedicated servers that are provided from the game maker, would be that it costs more to keep the servers running than just the matchmaking or server list...

Latency will always be an issue, but host advantage is really just having a good connection to the host advantage. If you happen to be near the server you'll always have that split second advantage. Of course (aside from gears of war) I can count the number of really laggy games on my two hands...

If players had to run their servers, they'd just be like the servers in PC games. Laggy, annoying, and formidable to the unexperienced player. Say you want to find play a game, you've had a long day. You sit down to play your favorite console game, and to find a match you have to sift through...

Well, most FPS's are different, that's why they were made. Some people like one in particular, some people like lots of them. I liked Halo 3 a lot, I never really played 1 or 2, but HAlo 3 did one thing really well. That was user generated content for a console game. I know that pc games of all...

Sounds better than the quicktime-esque system they put into Heavy rain. My friend liked it, but it always felt terrible to me. This sounds like a much better option, and way less immersion breaking. Of course, not every situation can be broken down into simple controls like that, but it'd be...

People's main concerns are that they look like real weapons. If you point one at someone they won't be able to tell if they're fake. They all come with the little orange tip, but its easily painted over or removed. People have been killed/hurt because they've pointed them at cops, who then...

I have a friend thats super into memes. Now i can destroy him.

It's epic, and the map maker in it can make kitten tear drop rainbows across the face of god. I just played a 3rd person shooter in the custom games, with an inventory, experience, and all kinds of crazy stuff. The actual RTS part is pretty good, single player is actually really fun, and I...

Having your car tracked would be really convenient if it was stolen. They'd just need to check where it was and go get it.

That's got to be weird for the surgeons. Pulling out a kidney is one thing, cutting someone's face off is quite different. But, at least it was for a good cause.

I know German pretty well. I'm was basically fluent last year, while I was staying in Germany, but since then... I'm learning Spanish and Chinese, too. I have terrible inflection in Chinese though..

I love the idea of motion based controls, but I think that the kinect/wii/move all fall short of being truly engrossing. The games they get released with tend to be very good. Easy to learn, fun to play, and they get you very familiar with the controls. Then when you want to get an actual...

Historically, most of the spelling differences came when Webster made a dictionary and wanted to show that Americans were different from the English. He was like "Hey England, F*** all the extra U's in your words. Color, Favorite, Armor. Boom!"

He mentions that he wants to be able to decide if the game gets more difficult as you progress or if it should stay the same. This type of difficulty system has already been used in Oblivion. If you leave the slider in its initial place the game starts out easy and then soon becomes much harder...