18th September 2007, 6:13 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Without names or conversation or stat tracking or any kind of interaction at all with any of the other players why bother playing online, though? Why not just play 1p vs. computers? It's exactly the same, and the computer's AI might be better...
That doesn't make one bit of sense and you know it. Why do you have to have leaderboards and names and in-game conversations in order to have fun? Why can't you have fun just PLAYING THE GAME? But wait...I forgot...this IS Nintendo AND internet play that we're talking about here, can't have that without the bi-weekly complaints that are all the same stuff we heard over a year ago when Mario Kart DS came out. No, we can't have fun playing actual games, oh no, we must complain about features that are lacking but that feel are a necessity in order to have even one iota of fun.
I want to play online so that I can have FUN PLAYING GAMES, not to make friends or to chat it up or to get my name on some leaderboard, which you'll probably be able to have some kind of stat tracking with your friends. So...yeah...I could care less about whether my stats are tracked or if I can talk to someone I've never met before. This is free-for-all, you don't need to plan strategies with people, which means you're only going to hear taunts, yells, and insults. Whoopidie-doo.
And playing against real humans is far better than bots any day of the week.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.