Online lobbies and matchmaking

[liquinas]

Was reminiscing about ye old days of SOCOM, where making an online match was so simple: Make a room, select the settings and team you want, and the online lobby was a list of these rooms that everyone could see and join (if you wanted them to). Or you could go with random match dealy (if you wanted to).

Anyone else wants to pull their hair out when playing online isn't like this? Seems almost everything has some bullshit matchmaking system where you aren't in control of jack shit, can't see who else is log in, kick people, have a pt leader, or just about anything that would make some sort of logical sense.

And what the fuck @ Smash Bros. Brawl/Mario Kart countdown timers? Why do my friend and I have to be in such a hurry to set up a custom match? Are we going to delay the Wii online operators into overtime pay?

[Insanecyclone]

Yeah I personally hate matchmaking in games. Gears 2 having matchmaking pisses me off because the first didn't have it and how long it takes to FIND a match now sucks too. Call of Duty 4 and World at War are the only two games I would accept the matchmaking for, because we just want to play a match and get on with another quickly.