{"id":181,"date":"2005-06-07T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-07T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T18:15:00","slug":"twisted-metal-head-on-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/07\/twisted-metal-head-on-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Metal: Head-On Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I have successfully played a session of TM:Head-On online.  My first attempts were all met with failure; I would constantly get kicked out of any games where I managed to connect.  After putting down the game for a while, I gave TM:Head-On a fresh go last night.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did I successfully play online, I managed to connect to several different games without get disconnected.  That is major progress!  I did find it rather curious that in many games I attempted to join the players were just hanging out in the lobby doing the message thing.  PSP community building?  Maybe, but does not seem very fun to me; to each their own I guess.<\/p>\n<p>At first blush TM:Head-On online was just as fun as TM:Black (PS2), but it would not be fair for me to judge the game after only 20 minutes of gaming action.  If any readers have TM:Head-On, please post a comment or drop me an email; I would love to join you in a game sometime.  While I am still not an online gaming advocate, I can see a certain appeal in getting together with 4-6 fiends and going at it in some friendly TM:Head-On action.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I did not experience any lag, or any other networking issues that would cause me to think that the experience was not fair.  Interestingly enough most of the games I played had a ping response\/rating of 9999.  I figured that higher means bad, but in the case of this network I think it means \u201cunknown\u201d and possibly bad.  On most occasions my ping was listed anywhere from just under 100 to 450.  More experience is really needed before I can come to any conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>All in all last night was a fun night of gaming, and hopefully I will be able to make it two in a row tonight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I have successfully played a session of TM:Head-On online. My first attempts were all met with failure; I would constantly get kicked out of any games where I managed to connect. After putting down the game for a while, I gave TM:Head-On a fresh go last night. Not only did I successfully play online, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/07\/twisted-metal-head-on-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twisted Metal: Head-On Online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}