14th January 2008, 6:16 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:You log in, play a game or two against a random opponent (or opponents), and leave. That's all you do. "Online"... not outside of the actual gameplay it's not, and good AI would be the same. Just toss in a random internet-style name generator and you're done. That is not competent online play, and since Nintendo's system is built from the ground up for that design, it is fundamentally flawed. To fix it they'd need to start again from the basics and completely rework the entire online interface...
What exactly do you want here? Leaderboards? Voicechat? Because Pokemon DS has voicechat and so does the upcoming Advance Wars, which suggests that it's going to be a permanent part of their online plan.
And there's no substitute for playing against real people.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.