tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213909075959162308.post4486318321788329908..comments2010-02-12T18:25:25.729-08:00Before Game Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14201265349058506952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213909075959162308.post-87491656941781705842009-06-16T17:24:50.871-07:002009-06-16T17:24:50.871-07:00I like the system that Halo uses to link people. I mean, it has some horrible issues, but it&#39;s nice to play against people who mostly have the same skill as you. However, i&#39;d imagine that once you get high enough, there really isn&#39;t a way to keep the bad ass guys out. I know that in some of my social skirmish games, i&#39;ve seen guys who would be called professionals. Each team had one and everything in the game revolved around them. That isn&#39;t fun, nor is it teamwork.<br /><br />I totally agree though, that is one thing that keeps me from playing TF2 on the 360. I am decent at that game but there is always some asshole who can out rocket me. (I hate that guy).<br /><br />There has to be a way to improve on the Halo 3 matchmaking system. I think though, the only issue might just be geography and number of players. I&#39;d rather play against a champion than a guy in South Africa, slowing the whole game down.Before Game Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14201265349058506952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1213909075959162308.post-56953792704196026742009-06-16T14:39:55.186-07:002009-06-16T14:39:55.186-07:00The stuff about professionalization taking away from the spirit of play is really poignant for me. If you look at a sport, you&#39;ll see that no matter how professional it becomes there&#39;s always a field somewhere that you can go to and play a pickup game with your friends or family, amateurs and dabblers. But with videogaming, there is actually already an international infrastructure built for the purposes of playing competitively for cash. It&#39;s not as prominent here as in Germany or Korea, but it&#39;s getting there.<br /><br />Here&#39;s the problem: you never have to worry in a pickup game of soccer that a striker from Arsenal is going to show up and ruin the fun. But with Halo 3 or Killzone 2 or CoD4, it&#39;s likely that 4 games out of 5 I will run into a group of people who play competitively and thus ruin the fun for anyone who doesn&#39;t. This is a major problem that a lot of online games haven&#39;t figured out.<br /><br />Maybe we need something like an online videogaming Olympic committee, separating the professionals from the amateurs from the regular gamers from the noobs?Simon Ferrarihttp://chungking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com