Topic: metroid no multiplayer

[ThePerm]

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/707/707486p1.html

"Like its predecessors, the game will not feature an online mode for competitive multiplay -- "  

that is lame...seriously

[mantidor]

old and awesome

You have already hunters, and there will be at least one FPS online, I have no doubt about it, theres no need for Metroid to be that game.

[Requiem]

Exactly. Hopefully, this game will be so revolutionary that it will create a greater sense of happiness than even the first MP (best game this generation).

[MattVDB]

The fact this is coming out for launch makes me totally ok with this.  Never did I expect it to have multiplayer, and I'm glad they didn't spend the time on it too.  Multiplayer is something that a lot of time needs to be devoted to for it to work properly.  That's why hunters works well, and Prime 2's multi didn't.  I'm pleased to see that they aren't splitting resources again.  This actually makes me more excited for Prime 3 than having it included would have.

[OverHeat]

I have to agree. No multi-player is a good thing here. I personally would prefer that, after Retro is done with MP3, they work on a new IP that centers around deathmatches and WiFi online play. I want MP3 to be the best 1 player game it can be and I want a deathmatch game made by Retro to be the best game IT can be. And, quite honestly, I can think of no better team for Nintendo to have make them a multi-player-centric FPS title.  

[ThePerm]

yes there is...really..i hate frickin crouching down and getting carpal tunnel from hunters..i wanna play it on a tv screen with comfortable controls and better graphics

and to top this..wii doesnt even have a live-like interface, its more friends codes and bs.
err. thats rediculous. It doesnt work well. I do not like sitting there waiting to ping someone else who is trying to play. One of my biggest problems with hunters is, it never seems like i would get a connection. I would ping two people and then they would drop out. It sucks, thats not how I want to connect to people.

battle.net was released in 1997. That follows the model in which online games foloow now, yet somehow despite that being nearly 10 years ago Nintendo still doesnt have such an interface, and at the same time Microsoft has a console out that as far as online goes kicks ass.

one of these days I wan to be playing my Nintendo games online with freehand style controll..the question is will it be on another system...or is that the only way its goign to happen?

[OverHeat]

You are thinking like a gamer, not a parent who has an eight year old child that plays games too. YOU dont have to worry about who might be messing with you online, but a mom or dad most certainly does. I realize we are all getting all hyped up about the more mature slant Nintendo is giving us, but remember that they are still a family oriented company. This is the main reason for the Wii remote, right? So you WHOLE family can play? Even the moms, dads, grandprents, etc, who dont play will be interested in playing? I DO wish that they didnt make you enter a friend code for each game individually though. That is a bit excessive. Taking 30 seconds to punch in a friend code is not going to kill me, or even tick me off. Entering friend codes every time I get a new game, however.... that is annoying AND uneeded. I heard Nintendo is listening to people about this, so here's to hoping they change that for the Wii, making it just one friend code.  

[ThePerm]

that would be correct except one thing, you have to OWN the game to play it online. Games have ratings for a reason.
if its rated M or T then appropriately thats how the game should play as far as multiplayer goes. Wouldnt it make since to have ratings filters? You could set your own rating. Which I would set mine to M.

when I was growing up I played doom. I would shoot a demon with a bfg and he would turn into a big bubble of blood.
also, i worked at a catholic school as a tutor. While at the time I was really deep into mario sunshine getting all my shines. The little 6 year olds were running around killing hookers. Parents don't know wht their buying their kids, ultimately it really doesnt matter because it has NO effect on them. I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s. There was more gore and nudity in movies. Now there is less, but people drop more f bombs.

as far as this goes. Teenagers say BAD words, hell most kids from third to 7th say them(unless somethings changed). You may never hear them say it in front of you. I'm in my 20s and i still don't say it in front of my parents. If its a T rated game. Then i would say a lower level of viloence and an unlimted amount of swear words is all you have to worry about.

if its an e rated game..then no microphone

Metroid is not an e-rated game

[OverHeat]

Um, this would be correct except for one thing; age of the game doesnt matter. If my kid is playing Tetris Worlds, the same guy who plays Halo 2 could be playing that game with him.  They can still talk to eachother. Also, just because I let my kid play GTA (which I do NOT) doesnt mean that I think its ok for him to be molested. With friend codes this becomes a non-issue, for the most part.

One can always throw out the argument of, "Well if you taught your kid not to talk to strangers..." and this is true. To a point. How many of you know any teenagers that listen to a DAMN thing their parents tell them? Crap, how may of /us/ ever really listened to our parents when we were kids?  

[ThePerm]

hmm, that just seems to pose an interesting question between societal conformity and regulations and reality.


the average age of ones first sexual encounter has been 16 since god knows when
the biological age would probably be around 14 or younger..that is if we were all running around naked like brutal savages.
the religious age is "whenever your married"
the legal age is 18

there is a reason i dont like friends codes, its because its difficult to connect to anyone you don't know. Therefore difficult to connect to anyone period. That is not what online play is all about. I am not of the caring of who I play with, as long as they want to play. Content controll should be kept seperate from connecting to people.

it would be just as simple to create a feature where you controll the age range of whoever your children are able to connect to.

it would be just as easy for your kid to go online, find friend codes of any random people, connect with them and chat with them and get molested.

if your kids don't listen to you then you shouldnt let them play video games period.

[OverHeat]

*nods* I guess we can never be happy. Such is the way of our society. What makes one happy makes the other angry.
Seeing as how this is getting pretty off topic, and in a pilisophical, non-gaming type of way what say we just call it even?  

Whether you like it or not, We'll be punching in eachothers friend codes come this fall, and 20 minutes later, we wont care cuz we will be too busy playing. Unless, we buy another game and have to go through the process ALL OVER AGAIN!  XP

[ThePerm]

aight, sounds fair

[Caliban]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
old and awesome

You have already hunters, and there will be at least one FPS online, I have no doubt about it, theres no need for Metroid to be that game.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only reason you don't like online games is because you're on dial-up.

[ThePerm]

dailups for bbs...i remember when i had to find out a list of numbers for bbs  from shareware floppy disks, and then tell my 14k fax/modem to dial each individual bbs

it was online...but not the internet

[The Omen]

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Um, this would be correct except for one thing; age of the game doesnt matter. If my kid is playing Tetris Worlds, the same guy who plays Halo 2 could be playing that game with him. They can still talk to eachother. Also, just because I let my kid play GTA (which I do NOT) doesnt mean that I think its ok for him to be molested. With friend codes this becomes a non-issue, for the most part.

Something tells me you would be very comfortable within a Orwellian, 1984 framework.

If I read you correctly, Halo 2 players are the epitome of the devil, and GTA players are out to maim Tetris Worlds players, and God forbid your angelic creature mingles with them!  Get over it!  I watched horror movies when I was 5.  My parents didn't allow me too, I just found ways.  The more things you disallow, the more things the kid will seek out.  The more you hide them from society now, the more maladjusted they will be later.

I consider myself a very intelligent, slightly introverted, artist.  Going by your concerns, I would have been molested, gotten drunk and murdered someone while holding my gun gangsta style.  Give me a break....