Games that are easy to learn and hard to master.

[krazykidd]

Pretty much all fighting games. Marvel vs Capcom 3 being a horrible example though; anyone can learn Hulk and go online.

Haven't seen many hulk online actually , well i play UMvC3 so i don't know about vanilla . I mostly see , dante , virgil , taskmaster , hawkeye and nova ( man fuck nova ).

Aw man now you make me wanna play UMvC3 :/

I see nothing but Hulk, Nova, Wesker, Dante, Vergil, and god knows how many Wolverines.

See, I play Strider/X23, Doctor Doom, and Vergil. I just like Vergil, he has good teleport setups.

Heh i play x-23 , morrigan and hulk . My initial team was , x-23 , morrigan and trish ( femme fatal ) because i though it was cool to have an all woman team , but they were really glass . Hulk is bassically to add some oomph to the team .

 

[Joby Baumann]

Devil may cry 3
the combos themselves are easy, but stringing them together to look and feel awesome, while switching weapons mid-combo in order to maximize awesomeness takes a lot of time

 

[Bad Jim]

More games need a handicap system IMO. Suppose in Starcraft 2, instead of segregating players by skill, they just made the worker unit more expensive for the better player. This would avoid a common noob problem, that often there isn't anyone online who sucks as badly as you, especially for older games.

Hmmm...I beg to differ. I think that wouldn't be very fair since the better player in skill deserves to play someone with better skill. Make X unit more expensive will only force the better player to adapt and change their macro. It would only make things harder for the newbie. But that's just what I think, I can't really comment unless it's been used.

Just because you can have an equal chance of winning against players with different skill levels, doesn't mean you have to. You could have a filter option to limit yourself to opponents of roughly your skill level. Other players may prefer handicap balanced games. You might want to play an obscure map that no-one else of your skill level is interested in.

Starcraft 2 does have a handicap system that lowers the hit points of all your units and buildings. But the stronger player has to handicap himself, rather than the matchmaker imposing a handicap and the weaker player having the option to play a full strength opponent. So hardly anyone plays with a handicap online. You can use it to balance games against friends though.