robio said:

Speaking of trophies I got the last one for Pac-Man CEX last night. And I'm now ranked in the top 750 scores. It's only a matter of time till I'm officially the world's great Pac-Man player. . . . AGAIN!

Did you get a platinum trophy for your efforts?  I've had a PS3 coming onto 4 years now and I still don't have a single platinum

You got one in less than a month?  

robio said:

Speaking of trophies I got the last one for Pac-Man CEX last night. And I'm now ranked in the top 750 scores. It's only a matter of time till I'm officially the world's great Pac-Man player. . . . AGAIN!

you have some mad pacman skills

robio said:

You're damn right I am!!  

Actually it's been a nice ego boost to find a game that I can play at a high level again. Over the past couple years I routinely get my ass handed to me in fighting games. Action games have gotten pretty tough (god knows how pathetic I must have been in Monster Hunter Tri). Hell even recently I've had troubles with Assassin's Creed. I feel like everything in that game has been a struggle.  I've really felt that I lost an edge that I once had as a teen or even when I was in my 20's. So finding this game and being able to post high scores in it has been a real pleasant change of pace for me.

robio said:

You're damn right I am!!  

Actually it's been a nice ego boost to find a game that I can play at a high level again. Over the past couple years I routinely get my ass handed to me in fighting games. Action games have gotten pretty tough (god knows how pathetic I must have been in Monster Hunter Tri). Hell even recently I've had troubles with Assassin's Creed. I feel like everything in that game has been a struggle.  I've really felt that I lost an edge that I once had as a teen or even when I was in my 20's. So finding this game and being able to post high scores in it has been a real pleasant change of pace for me.

i understand how that goes i have been finding out that the older i get the less patience i have for games and the harder they seem but its most likely a mental block in my brain

Yodariquo said:

Most, perhaps, but not all.  My favourite online game ever was Rainbow Six, which simply would not work at all with drop-in-drop-out.  It also doesn't much sense in racing games.

It would work just fine, just have "late" players enter as a spectator until the round/race is done, a waiting risk you can be able to choose to take with a simple option switch. Drop in/out works just fine on PC with Counter-Strike and its countless faster or slower paced clones, where you have one life each round and then wait for the match to finish, why would it not work for Rainbow Six? Granted it's slower paced than Counter-Strike but people into such games expect that kind of waiting to occur anyway, otherwise they'd play COD. I haven't played Rainbow Six: Raven Shield in years but I'm fairly sure that's how it worked also, as well as Ghost Recon (the first, which was basically military Rainbow Six, rather than arcade shooters like GRAW).

It could be an optional aspect I suppose. Unless you meant the co-op side. I guess there's less reason to have drop in/out there but it could still work out, just have the AI fill in for exiting players, and new players take control of unused AI. On join they could also go in a first person spectator mode and choose when exactly to take control of the AI, so it doesn't happen suddenly in the middle of combat before they even realise what level it is they're in.

Agnates said:

It would work just fine, just have "late" players enter as a spectator

I was taking you as saying they should be able to join and play in the ongoing match, which is an option in some online games.

I was just not seeing the reason you need to start a lobby with people who want to start playing that same moment you do, and wait to fill the roster, and whatever, instead of just connect to ongoing matches as long as they have player slots open, to eliminate waiting. Players wouldn't have to wait to fill the roster to start the match, newly connecting players would just connect to a game and the time they'd wait in a lobby would be time waiting to spawn or for a round to be over instead. Spectating would just be for games where entering in the middle of a match isn't as  viable. For most games, with their respawn systems and what not, it is. Spectating is still more fun than waiting for 10 people to connect to your lobby, and it would probably not be as long a wait most of the time. And it still counts as drop in/out really, spectating functions exist in such games for when you die.

More news about 3DS battery life

How's the battery power?

The system will take about 3 1/2 hours to charge and then last about three to five hours on a full charge. That's with the 3D effects activated. The company guesses that people who keep the 3D turned off could get as many as eight hours. Turning off the system's wireless via a switch, lowering its brightness settings or even running it in a dimmer power-save mode will all help the machine last longer. The system charges off of a power cord or while sitting in a plugged-in "cradle."

I think when you turn off the 3D, half of the pixels will be shut down. That would explain the increase of battery life. Also shut down the wireless that will eat your battery fast. So than the only thing that remains is the price, which will eventually drop.

Battlefield: BC 2 mp is awesome.

aspro said:

What's with Pachter this week?  Did the valet scuff his Porsche key chain?

Didn't anybody watch the 3DS Conference?!

At the beginning, Reggie's Teleprompter wasn't working.

He called out Pachter in the audience and blamed it on him!!

Funniest thing EVER!!

I went to link the video, but GameSpot edited out the beginning!  BOO!