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[Diet H2O_TSGK]

So I was curious. Say you have an online game available in different formats like PC, PS2, XBox. Can you play online with other gamers who use different formats?

If not why not?

If so, big toe?

[[AgC]Cannon Fodder]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Good point, well made, go out, get laid.

[Shimmy_TSGK]

One of the first instances where console vs pc happened was with the dear Quake 3 arena. Players on the sega dreamcast could play online using their consoles vs players on the pc on special dreamcast servers if memory servers me correct it was 8 players maxed which was lower than that of the pc.

There hasn't been any cross platform gaming of that sort for a while, fastforward today. Microsoft has been developing an xbox live like enviroment for the pc incorporating the infrastructure they built for the xbox/xbox360 which is xbox live. Well it's creatively called... Microsoft Live. One of the first games that will have xbox360 vs pc is called *drum rolls* Shadowrun. This game is very hyped and is said to equal the playing field between pc and xbox360, I am very curious on how that will be accomplished.

It is also rumoured that a massive multiplayer online shooter based on the unreal 3 engine called Huxley will have such a feature. *looks super good*

That's about it really, don't want to bore you with the details.

references:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-14G4WandXboxLIVEPR.mspx
http://shadowrun.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huxley_%28video_game%29

[Xmeagol]

shimmy, what did you hack to be on top10?

[Controllerboy_TSGK]

he rules ?

[Shimmy_TSGK]

[[AgC]Flushthetoilet]

[Shimmy_TSGK]

ty tron! it's so nice of you. for sticks, the skill is using sticks against normal weapons. I don't mind getting naded in normal stick fights. It's a mix and match. Do what you please dude But last night was good fun. It's more of a challenge to stick fight in the heat of battle cuz you never know what will happen.

and [AgC]Flushthetoilet i give you a very big hug

see you guys on the servers

[Knife]

[Zog Ecosse]

Sry I thought dis thread was about consul gaming Perhaps I Hav got it wrong again? Mak a bad habit o dat when I'm pogued.
Consol gaming is what get kids into gaming
They are the new : campers, assholes ...stars....How ever you are YOU need to start somewhere.

Zog in abscentia for a perrie bit

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

twits

it's about console fgaming but in fairness I tend to go off subjct meselkf so fair enough

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Oh yeah

I meant to say that there's nothing worong being 'dishonourable' to Shimmy.

I drtive by his home evbery day and brick his wondows. Noone left so 10-0 to me.

[Shimmy_TSGK]

lol Diet my apartment is not on the street side :S
whose apartment you've been bricking????

[Freelancer]

[Zog Ecosse]

Diet asked why not



There is no reason why cross system gaming can't work. At the end of the day, there is not a great deal of information that is actually sent on line. Position, movement and events etc. The game and maps are on the computer/console. It is how the individual system handles the information is the stumbling block.
A standard gaming format for they way these instructions are handled is what
is needed. If this existed, then for on line gaming, there would be nothing to chose between the console and the PC other than brute power.
Under these circumstances, there would be no reason for any system loyalty
and no reason for a household to have a console and a PC.

Zog still in absentia

[Shimmy_TSGK]

oh man i feel so dumb. Final Fantasy 11. is played by ps2,pc and xbox360 members on the same servers i dunno how i missed that one

[Zog Ecosse]

Ah, sorry there are some games which make it on to more than one format. That makes commercial sense for the independant game company. I was not however aware that you could match a console and a PC on the same server. I stand corrected.
The commercial aspect of making a Playstation compatable with a PC in online gaming does not make sense. Obviously Sony want everybody to buy and use a Playstation as their online gaming machine. You don't need a Playstation if your PC can do the same job.
Good games witten specificaly for one format will never apear in another format if say for example Nintendo hold the intellectual property rights to the game. (You wanta play the game buy a Nintendo)

What I was geting at was to make cross system gaming a real possibilty, a universal game engine is required, preferrably in the public domain. The same console/pc game written to comply to a universal game engine format should automaticaly be online compatable.

Zog in absentia (by the way absentia is near Paisley )

[Sidi]

I can't imagine how you could balance a FPS between console and computer.

Well you could, but you'd have to set up all the console players with a mouse and keyboard to give them a chance. I'm impressed with how well the high end Halo players adapt to the limitations of the controller, but when you watch their counterparts in CS or Quake...it's like the Halo games are being played in slow motion.

[StonedCabbage]

Hello, back to the subject: -

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/-Shadowrun-Now-Bringing-Cross-Platform-Gaming-To-Xbox-360-PC-4468.html



There you go, its already here