Comments on: iRate:- Four reasons why online play sucks the joy out of gaming

By: thisboyoliver

thisboyoliver — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:50:03 +0000

Surely these achievements are for the huge amounts of gamers with short attention spans? As they get bored of the original aims of the game etc they turn to little side mission achievements to keep them interested. Plus the author knows here that the best multiplayer gaming is with people around you and not online. I always assumed online game play was merely for when you had the completed the game and were bored….

By: kamiza

kamiza — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:22:48 +0000

You know what I hate about online play? It’s game-specific – FiFa09. You know that no matter what, every person you go online to play against will be using either Man-U, Real Madrid or Barcelona. There I am, trying valiantly to compete with my beloved Luton Town FC, but all the glory whores pick the teams that look like they’re performing magic tricks compared to the Hatters!

By: tom01255

tom01255 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:05:00 +0000

You’re spot on about the achievements – some of them are impossible to get! Like Burnout Paradise, one of them you have to get 8 people to come and wait in the baseball stadium. Army of Two was brilliant. Can’t wait for 40th Day.

By: Mightyles

Mightyles — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:42:07 +0000

You know what I really hate about online games? I hate it when the developers include online achievements, becuase you often get some bell end that totaly ruins a game all for his love of gamerscore/trophies.

Take for instance, in Army of Two, there’s an achievement for lasting a whole game without being killed. Achievement boosters come online and just fake being dead. You can’t shoot them when they play dead, and the whole game is ruined.

Call of Duty has it right when they don’t include any multiplayer achievements. And Resident Evil 5 made me very sad when they included the Multiplayer add on achievements. Sigh

By: Crofterz

Crofterz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:07:34 +0000

Wow that’s quite a rant there Tom. You have some very good points and I think its sad that lan features are becoming more and more phased out.

my answers to your questions would be:

Mute nobheads who cause you grief (even though you shouldn’t have to, it’s because some people like making pricks of themselves)

Internet gaming is ace, much more advanced features, bigger matches, more people to play with and what not. But singleplayer shouldn’t be comprised because of this (although I thought singleplayer in COD4 was brilliant.)

And well unfortaunely..there’s fuck all you or I or any of us can do tbh. Internet is the way these companies are pushing (I mean they are now distributing onlines digitally!) so unfortaunely looks like the next few years a gaming revolution is going to happen (or actually it’s already started happening) and yes it may not be to your tastes…but thats the way it is..so you’ll have to shape up or ship out.

Great article though..absolutally loved it.