today, me and knightstriker and 1337 gamer were playing halo wars. it was a pretty intense match in which a certain yellow captain cutter play used a whole mass unit load of odst against us. ultimately winning the other team the game. Which gots us talking about how awesome halo ODST would be if it worked a little something like this. image  a first person shooter. its 200 player online on a absolutely monstorously big map. 100 people on each team. suddenly 200 odsts are smashed into the ground and the battle begins. You see people rushing to nearby vechiles and sniper positions, to immediate cover and to bunker. when you die, you are immediately dropped again, first to 1000 kills wins. THe scarabs comein and you and 20 other guys just rush at it, climb up and take it over. all the while shotguns and battlerifles are going off everywhere. ok, so the game may have it's flaws, but thats the sort of thing that I would like to see in the next generation of consoles multiplayer. I hope we get ODST: 100 vs 100 one day in the future.

So what do you think the multiplayer experiance will be like in the future. also. How great is that game design honestly :)

It's uhh... Nightstriker. I'm not bout to tear down any knights anytime soon. Don't ask where I got Nightstriker from. Too many people ask, they're always like "Omg, did you get Nightstriker from that video-game a couple decades ago?" And I'll be like. No, not really. It was... ah, I'm rambling.

I'm glad you had fun, and you raise a interesting point. Somehow, at least in my mind you did, Multiplayer Gaming has been started in the 6th generation with the dreamcast. Brought mainstream in the 7th generation with the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. So in the 8th generation, who knows what we'll hold.

Although I think our BSin' about ODST drops in giant battlefields just to be annihilated by a scarab would be a bad idea in the long run. Sure, it'll be insanely silly fun for a short bit. But fustrating after awhile.

the whole "knight: thing probably came from me when i was looking at sonic and the black knight sales which prompted me to write this up lol soz bout that. yeah im sure it would make that great a game but i spose its just a silly example. tring just mainly to say that in the future will multiplayer on a much grander scale ever become reality

I have absolutely no doubt that we'll see 100 vs. 100, 200 vs 200, and so forth. As stable, fast, and secure internet connections spread across the entire world. We'll see people from all cultures and walks of life joining each other in simple, mindless fun.

Console Internet Gaming has hit a mainstream this generation, next generation. It'll be another feature to be included with all consoles to make it a complete experience, 9th generation? By then we'll hopefully have internet connections so fast that dreams of 200, 400, 1000, 2000 people playing together in one giant deathmatch can become a reality.

I'll hate to see the guy who gets a +600 kill/death score though.

Am I missing something here?

@Khuutra, My mistake. I should have said "ONLINE" multiplayer gaming. My apologizes. Unless there is a system prior to the dreamcast that I am not aware of that had online connectivity for multiplayer gaming. If I am mistaken on that as well, then my apologizes again.

the commentator who yells out thing like "killtacular" and such would end up just shot 100tacular 105arific 200allation or just zomg wtf bbq

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, my little brother had an idea like this - basically Halo but involving hundreds of people and territory that can be won and lost, like an MMORPG only with Spartans running around.

We generally agreed that everyone would play that game until they melted.

Like... the PC? With Doom?

Anyway... Battlefield already sort of has what you are describing. I think that the future in online multiplayer will rather be a continous battle. For instance, think of a WW2 game, battlescene europe and everyday you log on, the territory has shifted. There was a WW2 online that did something similair but the game wasn't populair and riddled with bugs.

@esmoreit

That sounds awesome. so when your offline other people affect the game. but I think the games should maybe go for a week at a time or maybe a fortnight. have to teams fight over historicals battle, then next weeks switch the historical battle from something like normany to the pacific. I think that would be pretty sweet. Also, which battlefield game r u talking about. I must own this game.