Fun? On my Xbox Live?

Posted by Lynk Former
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Discussions | 11 February 2009, 2:56 AM

Usually when you think of Xbox Live, you immediately think of a great online gaming network filled with whiny, arrogant and down right abusive people who are usually teenagers. In some instances that is very much true and you will come across that kind of horror in many of the games you play… however, I had some very interesting experiences lately while playing the Resident Evil 5 demo that I want to share with you guys.

Capcom was nice enough to include a feature in Resident Evil 5 where you are able to play through the game in co-op mode with a person you don’t know… this is a great feature which is common nowadays in a lot of games though I haven’t really tried it until now.

Most players didn’t have a microphone so we ended up using the in-game speech system to communicate. While it is limited, you can use them quite effectively as you play. First off, I noticed that if I’m hosting a game, a lot of players will make Sheva say “Thanks” at the very start. I also found that most players were genuinely co-operative. I got very few people who were ammo/item hogs and we always made sure to share what we had and back the other one up. Whenever we’d swap items or save each other from certain doom, there was always an effort to thank the other player for their help.

There were also players who did have mic’s and this allowed me to turn my own mic on and chat with them as we played. A couple of people even enjoyed playing with me so much that they added me to their friends list. I felt pretty surprised that I was actually meeting genuinely nice people on Xbox Live of all places… usually in other games you get some really arrogant geeks online… but it seems as if Resident Evil attracts some nicer folks than usual lol.

During these games we’d all get really into it and each person I met online had a different play style which made the experience even better. I hope to do a lot more online co-op on Xbox Live in the future…

Anyway, that’s a little bit about my positive experience with Xbox Live, now let’s see if anyone else has some nice stories to tell about it too…

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Originally Posted by Lynk Former
Fun? On my Xbox Live?
It's more likely than you think.

I haven't had a lot of co-op experience on XBL, I have only played 3-4 games of RE5demo with randoms all without mics, and they all died every time. Besides that all I have done is Halo and I haven't used the mic but I haven't had anyone excessively rude or anything yet.

One game that I really think is good to play online is Little Big Planet. Especially without a mic. I have only played it a few times but each time I was playing with one friend and we would play online with 2 randoms and it's really fun to change your sackboy's expression to convey messages, and also to just hit people around is really fun too. I'm guessing if they had a mic it would be more like "come on faggot quit fucking around" but without the mic they just smile or whatever and it just makes it really fun.
It'd be pretty awesome to play with Soulja Boy over Xbox Live.

YouTube - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Xbox Live XD
Yea, I don't have a 360 so I can't really comment on Xbox Live, but as far as the PSN goes I've played a few different games online, BF:BC, SOCOM, LBP, Warhawk, Resistance 2. From my experiences with that, first of all barring SOCOM people hardly use mics in the other games, most obviously because a mic doesn't come with the PS3. That is good and bad, bad because it prevents mic use from being widely accepted, but at the same time it is sort of good, because that means that people need to go out and get a mic so it cuts back on the abusive people factor. Mic use is particularly good in SOCOM though, and I've played SOCOM since the original and it's always been that way.
Ive found that most of the Whiny little brats that you mentioned are typically in the big multiplayer games like Halo and Call of Duty.

Sometimes you can actually find some decent people, especially if your in a game that not everyone plays.
Never went on live with my 360--rarely used it anyways. So if I sound like I'm inexperienced on XBL's protocols, that's why.

Personally I might go on to purchase megaman 9.

Now, For my pals IRL who have XBL, several times having done nothing wrong but the other player send hell of trumped up complaints and backs out just before a countdown ends and a match starts on, say, Command and Conquer Red Alert. Everyone gets taken out of the match, and my homies got temporarily booted off. Not a permaban, just a temp boot-off.

...WTH?
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