Xbox LIVE Experiences

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Originally Posted by SamuraiMoogle

Rainbow Six 3 is easily the most memorable game on Live for me. Teaming up with my brother,Sundog, Latro, Epmode, StormShadow and a few other people I dont think come here and kicking the shit outta everyone we played was fantastic. Even when nobody would play us, just playing against each other was really fun. Best Live experience by FAR. "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

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<3 Rainbow Six 3 <3
Shame about Black Arrow.

I haven't played much Live recently, due to WoW and a broken mic, but that's going to change with the 360. I didn't want to create a new thread for this, so I'll just post it here:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/featu...backwanted.htm

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The Player Review system is basically a matchmaking tool that directly affects a player's rep (reputation) based on user-submitted feedback. Let's say you just schooled some fools playing Perfect Dark Zero™. The other team suffered an embarrassing defeat, but they took it in stride and were good sports.

Players like these are great to play with, so after the game you look through the player list in the post-game lobby, highlight each player you liked, and make it known that you "prefer" to be matched with those competitors. The entire process takes two button presses per player to complete. What happens now?

The Player Match system assigns a higher priority to those people that you prefer (based on your feedback submission), thus increasing the likelihood that you'll play them again online. You don't have to add these folks to your Friends List to reap the benefits, either. The system simply notes that you had a positive gameplay session with these players, and tries to group you together next time the conditions exist. This increases the chances that you'll game with them again so you can "feel them out" over time, like bumping into a familiar face at a friend's party. In other words, you've just taken control of your matchmaking by giving some folks positive feedback. In the end, your gaming experience is vastly improved.

Negative player reviews work the same way, but with the opposite effect. Let's say a few guys on the other team were caught spawn camping, team killing, and engaging in other dastardly acts.

Your anonymous negative feedback simply reduces the chance that you'll play against those people in the future. Criticism can fall under numerous categories such as communication, behavior, and skill, so you have a degree of control when doling out a negative player review. Recipients of poor feedback will take a hit on their rep, and will be matched up with other players of similar ilk. So the jerks get matched up with other jerks, while the rest of us play with good sports.

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<3 <3 <3

I also love the fact that the ranking and matchup system is global. The Battle.net/Halo setup may have its problems, but it's a damn sight better than the entirely random custom game setup most Live games use.

I'll buy RS3 tonight if you sluts will play it again...

CUIDADO!

One time Chux and I were playing HALO 2 and it was impressed upon us that there was some "real niggas in this role call."

It's true, and there were.

Indeed.

Top Spin, I played 2 games, 1 game I got whipped so badly, I did not even win a point, the other game was complete opposite. I didn't want to play again :)

PGR2, I raced a couple of times with my friend, he is not much of a racing fan so I beat him all the time.

That's about it for the 2 month trial.

Well if we're really gonna talk about it seriously...

MechAssault: Me, Myk, Korly, and a few others used to play this, was fun while it was the only thing out.

CvS2: Fucking Rad and everybody played it, if there was a way to do it, I'd love people to see me and Josh' replay of us acting a fool with Shin Akuma.

RS3: CUIDADO! We did more terrorist hunts than actual pvp, but I loved it.

PGR2: Best racing game online, period, had fun with Rudy, MVS, Brand, Gozen, Cow etc etc.

Burnout 3: Awesome game, cruddy system, talked most of my shit there, before Halo 2.

Halo 2: OH MY DAMN The first month was amazing, EVERYBODY was on here and I talked a magnitude of shit. After that WoW took over, I came back recently and it's ok.

Burnout Revenge: Did everybody miss the boat on this one? It's just me, bahn, cow, Gozen and Myk.

Nice topic, CowDisease.

I've had Xbox Live since CvsS2 came out and had fun with it till the EX camoflage colors and random droppers got to me. Other titles I've played are:

NHL2K series- This is bliss. One of my best experiences with Live. Hardly any lag and droppers penalized. You simply can't beat this hockey game.

Guilty Gear XX Reload- I had the same problems Cow and the others had. Lag. Lots of it. I can only get decent games with 1 friend who has a really good connection. A shame.

3rd Strike- Lots of fun. What CvsS2 should have been, network-wise. I haven't given KOF2003 a try online yet, but if it plays this good, I need to get crackin.

Burnout Revenge plays really well online for me. Lots of people are playing and all seems well for the best arcade racer ever.

Phantom Dust played well till I got my ass busted by some Japanese players. Does anyone even play this anymore?

The 2K Baseball games play very well online, but I am horrendous at them. I only play friends and could only imagine what the harcore players would do to me.

I'll definitely keep playing games on live and hope to see games like Virtua Fighter 5 and the next gen 2K hockey on it.

Oh, I forgot to mention that 90% of the people on Live are fucking unbearable after an hour or so.

I guess I do not buy nearly as many Live games as other people here, but the ones I did have (and enjoy) I played to excess.

PGR2: Best racer this generation, with a solid online implementation. Only game I played where racing with the low-end cars (like the Mini) was actually fun, and the asshole quotient seemed much lower than in games like RS3 or Halo 2. Only problems were that most people always wanted to race Ultimate-class cars (for their amazing wall-riding ability) and race on KGB Corner (since you could whore out more kudos/second there than any other track).

DoA:U: Why can I not get this kind of online service in other fighting games? The game is still stupid (but not nearly as much as most core players will have you think), but was really enjoyable online. I think it is mainly due to the fact that punching people in the face with schoolgirls never ever gets old for me. Tilting away 5000 points in 5 minutes (including losing to Chux) was not good times, though. -_-;;

Burnout 3: The reason MS had their XBL server-side policies was because of shit like this. EA's servers and services are the suck, plain and simple. I thought it got really boring at high levels, since the actual racing implementation is poor and trying to catch up to a top player once they crashed you was nigh-impossible. Whatever, I played enough of it to not make me feel bad about the change I dropped on it.

I also have GGXX#R, too bad the game is absolutely unplayable online. Even excellent connections were lagged by a quarter of a second, and when you are trying to do one-frame links and FRCs, it ruins everything.

I am not renewing unless I get an X360, as my Xbox's DVD drive is kaput. :x However, if/when I get an X360 you will probably see me slumming it up in PGR3 and DoA4 (whee).

-Dippy

I thought for a second someone had made a "Troy D. Chaluna" appreciation thread when I read the title.

I've played a few LIVE games (Street Fighter Collection, Dead or Alive 2, Splinter Cell) but none of them can match the set-up Halo 2 has. Hopefully they'll use this model with all online games for the 360.