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Real Custom Games - Breaking the Halo Cookie Cutter One Gametype at a Time
Posted by: GoldenSniper456
He's just a genius in the computer and game world. Enough said.
Well simply put many people love and dispise the matchmaking system. First off it gives a place where the most fair rankings are possible, where competition is hightened and promoted, where theres a constant goal that gets increasingly harder, where your pitted against those of equal skill (to a point). It's a great system that has potential to change the face of the gaming industry, then again communism was a great idea with great potential but look what happened with it (sorry if I offend any communists but that's how I see it). It's an ideal setting for cheaters, limits choice, leads to to quitters, forces you to play games you don't like, limits your ability to control the game, makes many angry.
I beleive that the matchmaking system is not yet dead, has not yet failed, can with the right changes be the top of all gaming experiences. All we need is the right ideas, the right twists, or maybe a new system based on the matchmaking ideals, based on the same basic principles. Matchmaking is ingenious and isn't dead, Halo 2 is only the beginning of matchmaking, now lets make sure it heads off in the right direction.
I have one idea to help matchmaking, well to be truthefull it's not my idea and I forget who cam up with it. Basically the whole principle is to allow choice, one of the lacking feature of matchmaking while still keeping the matchmaking playlist way of running the online play. Simply put the idea is to allow peopl to choose which gametypes (and maybe maps or gametype-map combinations) to play. So you go to a playlist, open up your settings and make a list of the gametypes to play. Now for obvious reasons to keep with the matchmaking premise there would have to be a minimal amount of gametypes on your list for each playlist. Whether that be 25%, 50%, 75%, or any ammount I'm not sure but i'm do know that there should be. But this whole idea would allow you to just not play the gametypes you don't want allowing there to be less controversy over the whole this types stinks, don't put in this type, this types for newbs discussions (if you can call them that).
Now that I'm done ranting (For now) I would like to hear what you guys have to say about that mentioned above, other ideas you've heard or had, or just matchmacking in general. If you have an alternative to matchmaking please post it, if you have ideas to improve matchmaking do that aswell.