- bamman62
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It is my latest cultural research project! By randomly saying LOLWIN to semi-funny replies on the Halo 3 forum, I hypothesize that a temperary self-esteem boost will be present.
And once they read this, they will be a little worse off than before.
Posted by: BaWithBr
There are at least 3 problems with this theory.
1) Graphical limitations of the Xbox 360. The sheer size of the maps required to handle 256 vs. 256 matches is MIND BOGGLING. I highly doubt that all too many people on Earth have the hardware needed to do that in anything higher then Quake 3/Quake Live-esque graphics. That being said is completely unlikely that the 360 will be able to handle it unless the graphics are 2d and/or 8bit.
That being said a current generation graphics at that scale wouldn't be handled by the 360.
2) Network limitations of the internet/people. I'm extremely sure that the sub-LAN quality of this will be utter -blam!-. This is mainly due to how overpriced the internet is in America. I'm excluding other countries because a majority of 360 gamers live in a America.
That being said a chunk of people won't be able to play this unless they like things like over 50% packet loss (one of the first Rainbow Six games needed a dial up connection with at most 5% packet loss and that was utter -Blam!-, constantly timing out and people lunging across the map. The people lost are obviously a big crowd of gamers. A group that Bungie can't afford to lose.
The other chunk of people with connections that can play it will get to play it though. That's not too many people as those are the people with high quality connections. The same connections that large corporations and even Bungie themselves use to power their network.
An example of the connection required to possibly do something like this is OC#.
Besides, who here spends tens of thousands on an internet connection and then uses it too play a video game? NO ONE. These people own companies, businesses, etc... They do things like host websites with their connection.
3) How much fun will this really be? More doesn't mean better and Bungie isn't going to go out of there way to do something balls out nuts like this just too satisfy a couple -blam!-s who don't know what they really want. Those -blam!-s mostly being kids who really haven't learned the lesson more isn't better.
I have problems with your three problems that were already explained,
1. Limited draw distance, maps would have to be made so that you cannot see too far.
2. Limited care about those people distance, a DNS would handle the big stuff.
3. IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY AWESOME! In other words, you could use the big vehicles, weapons, and map features. Anyway, it is a worthwhile experiment in my opinion.
4. I wonder if it is possible to have a network pool that would assign part of a map to each player in the match.