I’ve been an xbox 360 owner for almost a year now (minus a few days) and overall I’m happy with the console and the games on it. Over the past year, I’ve convinced a couple friends to get one, and gifted at least one 360 as a present, spend god knows much much monies on the oh so adictive aracde games (Carcasone ftw).
This past Tuesday, I’ve picked up Half-Life 2: Orange box, and after playing around with portals I’ve proceded to play some TF2 online. The game is pretty looking, and everything is smooth as long as your playing with like 6 or less people, maybe 8 if your lucky. As soon as you join any of the larger games 8+ the game becomes laggy it’s unbarrable. For a game that has 9 classes to choose from, each being a very distinctive role, being limited to 3 or 4 is unacceptable. The problem stems from the fact that all these games are being hosted by some dudes DSL or cable connection and most people, just don’t have an internet connection that is able to sustain 16 people connected.
I’ve experienced this with other games in the past. Same as here, any large game will more then likley become unplayble due to lag. And TF2 is a game where the more people you play with, the more fun it is. What Microsoft/Valve needs to is have dedicated games behing hosted and mainted by them and improve the experience for everyone.
Having paid $50+ for my suscription (where the people on the PC & on the PS3 don’t pay anything for playing online) I’ve expect a superior online experience. In my opinion, xbox live is the best part of the 360 experience and also the worst part of the experience.
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