Im aware, that there's already another Mario strikers charged thread, but i think the fact that Nintendo now finally allows us to play online in PvP matches is worth its own thread.
Besides the fact that im really excited to be able to play online now, I really like Mario strikers as a game. I haven't played it alot, just picked it up yesterday (even before the official release).
I played alot of DOA4 online on my friend's X-box 360, so I'm going to compare the two online modes:
DOA:
- Chatting with head-set possible (though there's mostly trash-talking goin on)
- You join a lobby and wait til its your turn to fight the winner ( ALOT of waiting unless you win all the time or you join a "loser stays" lobby:)
- you can set a lot of filter options in your lobby
- PvP all over the world
- only 1 player can play online
MSC:
- No chatting, in fact no communication at all possible.
- you always get a random opponent, theres no lobby (NO waiting, which is superb)
- there's no options to set, all the settings are fixed
- PvP only in your continent/region
- 2 players can play online!
As you see, there's plenty of differences. I don't really miss the chatting feature, but i'm abit disappointed that you cannot set any options (e.g. an online match is always a best of 3 series)
i just LOVE the fact that you can play online with a friend in the same team. Didn't try that yet, but tonight i sure will. Generally MSC seemed less laggy than DOA, but this is sure caused by the fact that there's no overseas PvP possible.
Generally I love the new feature. I don't really care about the missing voice-chat and friend-code stuff, I don't want to make new friends in online games anyway (I prefer real friends).
