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This past week we told you about the appearance of Scarygirl on XBox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network at the price of $14.99. Since then, we were able to get our hands on the title, expecting a goth-flavored platforming romp that takes more than a few pages from Bionic Commando. What we found was an unresponsive, poorly thought-out, frustrating game with more focus on style than substance. While the visuals of Scarygirl are charming, the title's value quickly dwindles below the surface.
Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.
Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.
That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony
"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."
The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.
I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.
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jeeze. the reviews for this game are quite polarizing.
Some people see charm in it's old established concepts, and others find that said concepts make for an uninspired romp through tired game mechanics.