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Weekend Confirmed 124 - Army of Two, The Old Republic, Deadlight
by Andrew Yoon, Aug 03, 2012 11:30am PDTKick back for a midsummer's show full of gaming awesome. Arne Meyer and Jason Paul from Naughty Dog join Garnett and Jeff "two 'n's one 't'" in catching up on games and the latest happenings in the videogame world. Conversations kickoff with EA's announcement of a third Army of Two game and the state of its floundering MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. There's also time to talk about Orcs Must Die! 2 and a quick look at Deadlight. Spurred back to driving from the recent addition of the Porsche pack to Forza 4, Garnett re-opens the racing game debate between it and Gran Turismo 5. Jason brings his real world racing experience to the table and it concludes... well, you won't want to miss that part. Finishing Moves puts a bird on it all.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 124: 08/03/2012
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Comments
Yes, there are a lot of problems for a new player jumping into a game. They get matched up against better players,and they get yelled at by jerks on their team. But there are ways around these problems... they just require a little more effort on the player's side.
If you don't want to deal with randoms talking down to you, find a couple friends to play with. It really isn't that hard to find 1 or 2 friends to go play Halo or COD with. You don't need enough people for a full team, just get a couple friends and go into private party chat. The experience is 100 times better this way. You just have to make the effort to make it happen.
I think the skill-gap problem is a bit of a dual issue. On the one hand, there are things devs can do to help match you up against players of similar skill level. But players need to be realistic as well. If you are playing your first multiplayer match in a game, the matchmaking system has no idea how good you are. Players need to expect to put in the time and play a few rounds before they can be ranked accurately.
More than that, I think there is a bit of a dividing line between players who actually want to get better and players who don't. When I jumped into Battlefield 3 for the first time, I got my butt kicked. But that didn't make me want to stop playing. It made me want to become as good as the players who had just destroyed me. Some players just aren't interested enough in competitive multiplayer to want that, and that's cool.
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Playing with friends isn't always possible either because sometimes you enjoy a game that no one on your friends list does. If they did find a way to separate different experience levels that would be nice. I don't know how the leagues in StarCraft II work.
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