All my friends hate splitscreen so much that we generally will bring TVs and 360s over to other people houses, when we LAN online, just to avoid the travesty of sharing a screen with someone else.

Yes splitscreen is nice online (offline its fine), but it does hinder one's potential to pwn.

Fuck, can anyone explain how the gears of war, mw2 or uncharted works? i honestly dont know

Edit: I meant to say, for those of you who played the other games, (gow2) (mw2) (uncharted) is it that much different than halo3?...

i had origionaly voted for halo3...aside from what i read online about it and what my friends have told me, that is by far the best ranking system...however i saw  the "make the host kick players out to balance the game" so i changed my vote to uncharted2....that would totally suck if this TM didnt have a matchmaking system.  so if i had my pick it would go

1. halo3
2. uncharted
3. modern warfare2
4. gears
5...the last one isnt even an option to me

more polls jaffe!! more more more!

Exactly what Road said, word for word. A ranked lobby for those who are hardcore about a rank/number in thier name, and a un-ranked server where you can join and quit at will. Just like Gears of War 1.

Gears 2 suffered horribly in the begining. All of us that played 1 religiously were like OMGWTF? 1 had unranked lobbies you could join or quit at will. those were the ones I was on the most because I found the coolest players there. The ranked server always had more assholes because they cared about downs/kills stats on TEAM games. Now if you leave in 2 for any reason, (even DC) you lose ranking points. I'd really hate to see the new TM ruined by a Gears 2 style ranking system. Or any system for that matter.

Sure having a number or rank next to your tag looks good but, there are way to many assholes who have to take advantage, or cheat to make themselves look like pros. A ranking system would bring those people out. Having the choice between ranked/unranked server like Gears 1 would be awesome IMO.

bigdogmc1 wrote on 01/07/10 at 11:21:46:


I'm pretty sure that ranking shows who has skill and who doesnt...I could quit my job, become a recluse and just stay inside and play TM all day long - but if I play, suck an d constantly lose my rank will never truly rise to anything great.  In fact, if I had mad skills at TM and played it only when the day came to an end and did nothing but win - my rank and level would reflect on it.  I played halo 3 for moooonths at my friend's place and I am terrible at fps and guess what, I was stuck playing noobs and people on my level for those several months, all the while the elites probably had bigger and more fun games with other elites.  So yes matchmaking does show skill of people who are good at the game.

Xizor, I know we don't know hardly anything about this game, but Jaffe seems to be asking the fans for their input on gaming types and offline vs online stuff... If Archminion is right about the 6 month hiatus and announcement, then in theory the game should be announced in Feb.  If Jaffe is going to continue these polls or make posts on his blog about what matters the most to you, shouldn't we do our part and hold more dicussions on what we want/hope for/like/dislike/love and hate?

Who cares if we disagree with each other - we always have and always will on every topic that we post, its human nature.  But it does give the rest of us and developers a wide prospective on whats good and whats bad.  I'd much rather have them know something about point of views rather than stab blindly in the dark.

Dave's latest poll asks: Does having the commenting section turned off on this blog make you less interested in visiting?

I voted yes - not the case at all, but I do miss the ability to comment on his blogs

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/trueskill.aspx

I found this while trying look up the difference between the games on the poll.  I found it pretty interesting and informative.  I really didnt know so much went into the calculations of skills.  Even though this article is for xbox live I'm sure the ps3 has something similar

ah, I see where I'm missing the point. I'm thinking matching making entirely as 1 on 1... and not ffa, or team matches or clan matches (like in warhawk) I can see you reasoning for not wanting the matchmaking. But with the whole trueskill engine or development, the calculation seems to look at the whole rather than just who got the kill. Meaning your damage done to the other cars would weigh in more than someone just putting the final nail in the coffin.

Jaffe is registered here, I used to sneak around on the old TMA and see how long ago was some of the developers last visit and suprisingly enough, everytime i checked it was within a week they were there (kirk baum and co) ofcourse you can't do that here, but for whatever reason i think that they still check it out the site and someone from here talks to Jaffe on aim. So the possibility is strong.

I agree with you about the interacting, but I don't think that he can at this point - for the reasons of being under contract with sony. But I see his polls as a form of communication with us and is reaching out for support on his new game.  I hope he continues to drop tidbits like this, if nothing else its rebuilding the hype and giving us something to talk about

"Matchmaking is fine in theory, but I miss the old days of searching for games through a list. Like Mags example of Gears 2 where people do shit like steal downs and kills just to rack up points so they can rank up, that could be a huge problem in TM where kill stealing is a rampant problem in kills only games."

It was bad in TMBO without any ranking system. (UNLIMS!!!) Could only inmagine how bad it'd be with one. Hence the reason why TMA purists at the time of release would do only Net Damage. Cured the ills of some dickhead dropping a gas can on a red from half the level.

At least if there is a matchmaking.......seriously.....take a page out of Gears Of War 1.....make a rank/unranked server/s.......let people jump in and out as they please but, have the customaization tools for host to tweak the game as the room/player feels like playing. Honestly.......I would believe that would be heaven in a wire.

I know we don't have serious concrete info yet. It's still got to be a generalization of info because, almost all games out have these features. It's a pretty good bet that we'll get these things in the new TM. I'm really hoping that Jaffe and whoever else is working on the project actually does poke their heads in here, and gives us a shout. Or read our bickering.