The Problem of Lagless Netplay

[Person-Man]

A CPSII Super Turbo board has a constant 4-5 frames of delay from the moment you hit the button to the time the game move occurs.

Now, with ST, you have a built in 4-5 frames of delay on the arcade board. But what about Virtua Fighter 5? Street Fighter IV? Blazblue? Those games have 1 frame or less delay on the arcade cabinets from the time you press a button until the action occurs on screen.

I highly doubt that what you say is true. Electricity travels a foot of wire per nanosecond. There’s no way it’s taking 5/60ths of a second for the game to interpret my button press.

[BrentoBox]

The new blood that comes into fighting games will probably be far more attracted to just entering these online tournaments, which have bigger payouts, no travelling costs, probably cheaper to enter, and can all be done from the comfort of your own home. You don’t even need to leave the house to train up for the tournaments. The whole social aspect of fighting games could be pretty much totally removed for the new players, if this was to happen. And if the offline scenes are to survive then they cannot just keep recycling the same players over and over, people get older and move on.

Ohwell, atleast I’ll be able to play in tournaments in my dressing gown whilst smoking a fatty.

This must be true. And to make matters worse, I hear there are online grocery stores and online shops for just about everything else as well. Whole cities have been closing down as people have begun to do nothing but order all goods and perform all social tasks online.

Freeways have begun to fall into disrepair as more and more people are opting to use the new “Information Superhighway,” and birthrates have plummeted with the advent of the new and vastly superior cybersex.

This could be much bigger than just fighting games.

[Tech_Romancer]

This must be true. And to make matters worse, I hear there are online grocery stores and online shops for just about everything else as well. Whole cities have been closing down as people have begun to do nothing but order all goods and perform all social tasks online.

Freeways have begun to fall into disrepair as more and more people are opting to use the new “Information Superhighway,” and birthrates have plummeted with the advent of the new and vastly superior cybersex.

This could be much bigger than just fighting games.

That was clever. Kinda.

[10_Stars]

No matter how close it ever comes, completely lagless online play will never happen.

[spudlyff8fan]

not really, geeks will just be happier.

You cannot tell me that you wouldn’t shut down your life if you could screw with a copy of 1994 Mariah Carey all day, however you wanted.

[DevilJin_01]

Did the guy think before he made this post? Online will never kill offline. Period.

Wait…now I understand why I recognized this thread. Same dumb thread from 2 years ago.

[HuStLeMaN17]

TC: thank god for online-play, fuck the haters.

• I guess it would have been better if online for fighters never even happend right?? lol. that way you know it could never take over, haha.

It’s all pretty funny actually, the same people I see bitching about online play are the same people I see playing online all the time.

I hope online does take over one day, just to piss some of you off.