Nintari said:
SvennoJ said:
Live wasn't very good in the first year of 360 for me at least. It almost made me give up on console online gaming entirely.
Voice was pretty bad, everything I said came back as an echo. Nothing seemed to help. Bought a new headset, no use. When we played PGR3, all 3 of us could talk during track selection, but only 2 of us during a race? In Test drive unlimited 8 out of 10 games resulted in a disconnect, unable to connect to host. Same in Gears of War. And when it worked I could hardly understand what anyone was saying anyway except for the obvious swearing.
Cancelled live after a year then got a ps3. Tried burnout paradise online and it actually worked. Had a lot of (mostly silent) fun online in f1 championship edition, gt5 prologue, wipeout hd. Bought a 2nd hand ps2 headset with usb and I can actually talk to people without echos.
I tried live again in a free weekend, the echos are gone yay. Still couldn't understand much what anyone was saying. Haven't tried it since they chanced the voice codec.
I still don't spent a lot of time gaming online (<5%), so no point going back to live. I just buy multiplats for ps3 in case I want to try out the online portion.
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Dude, I had XBL in 2003 and had NONE of those issues while playing online.
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Yeah I didn't have those problems either on the original xbox, which is why I was so disappointed with live on 360. Anyway those echo's were a widely reported issue and I'm glad it has been solved. The connection problems might have been due to strict NAT not playing nice with peer to peer games.
Not being able to understand people online is partly due to low quality sound and due to suffering from slight background noise deafness, ie not being able to filter out voice as efficiently from the background noise. At least all games have subtitles now for people like me :) I pretty much have to turn the game sound off to understand what people are saying. I rather listen to the game.
Maybe voice recognition will one day lead to closed captioning for psn / live talk. That would really be innovative.
