Please don't flame me on this, i'm just voicing out the little bugs that are out on the online network, and yes you are all right, its just the beginning there will also be problems. So just please take this with a grain of salt, its whats going on right now. These are the things i'd like ea and sony as a whole to fix. Thats all...
I've had my ps3 for a while now and I have to say I'm really dissapointed in their online setup, dont get me wrong, once you get in the gameplay is like no other, but getting into it is like building a playstation 3 yourself.
I'm not sure if this applies to any of you but i'm just going to go through the online set-ups for a few of a my games.
**Just for clarification, some fault goes to game developers too, i'm just basing it as a whole**
Need For Speed Carbon -
WTF was EA thinking. It's hard enough to find the online section apart from the offline section.
I mean it gets easy after u know what to do, but for a person who just gets the game, it gets very confusing in the beginning, and it gets worse after a while
Just for reference -
Quick Race - Offline
Custom Match - Online
Quick Match - Online
Now, for playing random people or whatnot, ea does a good job of this making it simple enough.
But, for playing your buddies on your buddy list, it's a whole new story.
First of all, to even find your buddy list on Need For Speed Carbon, you'll actually have to press one of the hidden button options not listed, (X for instance lets you move forward and pick your options and so forth), At the bottom of the screen of almost every game it tells you what each button does, however in NFSC it does not tell you how to load your buddy list, which in this case is the new Trigger L2 button. and then from there it gets a little easier, but for ea having us to guess what button does what, is a huge dissapointment.
Once you get to the "gamer lounge" you get basically 10 seconds, to pray that other people come join and race with you, now for the touted 8 player online racing, a 10 second window, just isn't enough and considering that the NFSC commutity is defanitely not the size of resistance (which also doesn't spot nearly as many servers as people would like).
Also, EA please add drifting to your online choices, i'm sure that would be really appreciated not by just me, but also by other players as well.
Resistance - Defanitely the best form of online play for the playstation 3
Kudos for getting 40 player lag free gaming, what an accomplishment especially for a brand new game coming into the next-gen gaming wars. Whoever you guys hired for your network definitely should get a raise.
Oh also, just an add-on, great way to update the game, proving that insomniac is defanitely trying to improve the overall online environment.
Now anyways, for the online portion of gaming.
Resistance does a good job of making it very simple for new players to find what they're looking for in terms of game type, map, number of players, and so forth.
My only complaint, might have to be is inviting your buddies in. Now it might only apply to my case since my friend has a japanese ps3 (but lives just down the street from me in Ann Arbor, Michigan).
In our case, first of all when you press the select button, it is supposed to display your buddies, but from what i've seen with my pretty small buddy list, none of them showed up. Only later to find out that he's getting japanese servers even though his region is all set-up for the United States.
Also for ranked games, i'm just curious, why is everything set up where you have no options of any kind except for team based or free for all based???
Madden Nfl 2007 -
Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow
Going through the options menu is seriously like trying to play half-life 2 on a 10 year old computer, it might've been just a bad day, but nothing would load efficiently, i couldn't even scroll down a list without encountering lag.
Finding your friends also remains a challange, just like the previous 2 games I have, they lack simplicity and ease of use.
The actual gameplay was defanitely smooth, and got no problems.
Just to sum it all up, for the 3 games.
Getting the actual thing to work, utterly ridiculous, you might as well just have your friend to come over and play with you.
Now the gameplay, was very efficient, didnt get many dropped rates at all.
Just so no one gets the wrong impression, I defanitely love the playstation 3, i've aboslutely hated 360 with a passion, but for now xbox live beats ps online without a question and i'm sure most of you can agree with me here. (Just for reference, I do not have an xbox and never will get one)
I find it ironic that the only game that does support the highly touted xfire, is sony's own Untold legends, now I don't have the game so i dont know how well it works, so for anyone who does have it, please share your thoughts.
Alright, well as unorganized this may be, I hope all of you can understand my view on things. Though emotional and whatnot, I strongly believe the playstation network as a whole needs a lot of work, but primarily EA has some stuff to figure out, why can't they make it simpler for themselves and sony, but consolidating everything on the psn. With the extra time they gave themselves, you'd think psn and Ea games would do a better job of getting this done right.
**EDIT**
Apparently a lot of people are thinking im only bashing on sony, I guess you could take it from that view point.
But like lots of you have pointed out, it is indeed ea's fault too, I forgot to mention that too.
BUT, like most of you had said.
March of 07, hopefully will be the answer we're looking for.
I've had my ps3 for a while now and I have to say I'm really dissapointed in their online setup, dont get me wrong, once you get in the gameplay is like no other, but getting into it is like building a playstation 3 yourself.
I'm not sure if this applies to any of you but i'm just going to go through the online set-ups for a few of a my games.
**Just for clarification, some fault goes to game developers too, i'm just basing it as a whole**
Need For Speed Carbon -
WTF was EA thinking. It's hard enough to find the online section apart from the offline section.
I mean it gets easy after u know what to do, but for a person who just gets the game, it gets very confusing in the beginning, and it gets worse after a while
Just for reference -
Quick Race - Offline
Custom Match - Online
Quick Match - Online
Now, for playing random people or whatnot, ea does a good job of this making it simple enough.
But, for playing your buddies on your buddy list, it's a whole new story.
First of all, to even find your buddy list on Need For Speed Carbon, you'll actually have to press one of the hidden button options not listed, (X for instance lets you move forward and pick your options and so forth), At the bottom of the screen of almost every game it tells you what each button does, however in NFSC it does not tell you how to load your buddy list, which in this case is the new Trigger L2 button. and then from there it gets a little easier, but for ea having us to guess what button does what, is a huge dissapointment.
Once you get to the "gamer lounge" you get basically 10 seconds, to pray that other people come join and race with you, now for the touted 8 player online racing, a 10 second window, just isn't enough and considering that the NFSC commutity is defanitely not the size of resistance (which also doesn't spot nearly as many servers as people would like).
Also, EA please add drifting to your online choices, i'm sure that would be really appreciated not by just me, but also by other players as well.
Resistance - Defanitely the best form of online play for the playstation 3
Kudos for getting 40 player lag free gaming, what an accomplishment especially for a brand new game coming into the next-gen gaming wars. Whoever you guys hired for your network definitely should get a raise.
Oh also, just an add-on, great way to update the game, proving that insomniac is defanitely trying to improve the overall online environment.
Now anyways, for the online portion of gaming.
Resistance does a good job of making it very simple for new players to find what they're looking for in terms of game type, map, number of players, and so forth.
My only complaint, might have to be is inviting your buddies in. Now it might only apply to my case since my friend has a japanese ps3 (but lives just down the street from me in Ann Arbor, Michigan).
In our case, first of all when you press the select button, it is supposed to display your buddies, but from what i've seen with my pretty small buddy list, none of them showed up. Only later to find out that he's getting japanese servers even though his region is all set-up for the United States.
Also for ranked games, i'm just curious, why is everything set up where you have no options of any kind except for team based or free for all based???
Madden Nfl 2007 -
Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow
Going through the options menu is seriously like trying to play half-life 2 on a 10 year old computer, it might've been just a bad day, but nothing would load efficiently, i couldn't even scroll down a list without encountering lag.
Finding your friends also remains a challange, just like the previous 2 games I have, they lack simplicity and ease of use.
The actual gameplay was defanitely smooth, and got no problems.
Just to sum it all up, for the 3 games.
Getting the actual thing to work, utterly ridiculous, you might as well just have your friend to come over and play with you.
Now the gameplay, was very efficient, didnt get many dropped rates at all.
Just so no one gets the wrong impression, I defanitely love the playstation 3, i've aboslutely hated 360 with a passion, but for now xbox live beats ps online without a question and i'm sure most of you can agree with me here. (Just for reference, I do not have an xbox and never will get one)
I find it ironic that the only game that does support the highly touted xfire, is sony's own Untold legends, now I don't have the game so i dont know how well it works, so for anyone who does have it, please share your thoughts.
Alright, well as unorganized this may be, I hope all of you can understand my view on things. Though emotional and whatnot, I strongly believe the playstation network as a whole needs a lot of work, but primarily EA has some stuff to figure out, why can't they make it simpler for themselves and sony, but consolidating everything on the psn. With the extra time they gave themselves, you'd think psn and Ea games would do a better job of getting this done right.
**EDIT**
Apparently a lot of people are thinking im only bashing on sony, I guess you could take it from that view point.
But like lots of you have pointed out, it is indeed ea's fault too, I forgot to mention that too.
BUT, like most of you had said.
March of 07, hopefully will be the answer we're looking for.
