We hope you weren't too excited to snag Mr. Driller Online for Xbox Live Arcade. We decided to take the plunge and put down our 800 Microsoft Points. At first, everything seemed fine. We plowed our way through a few single player levels and Mr. Driller is as fun as it's ever been. However, once we started up multiplayer things went terribly wrong. In short, the game is unplayable over Xbox Live, which is particularly ironic given the title of the game. We're not sure why XBLA games in particular seem to be the worst offenders when it comes to online lag, but Mr. Driller Online lags so much that it actually moves backwards. Watch our latest video and see for yourself.
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I bought this game this morning and have been playing ti allday(except for a Rock band break) really fun, I havent tried multiplayer yet though but now I know not to till the lag is fixed :)
Wow, that's pretty sucky... I'm gonna get it for the single-player game regardless (please PLEASE tell me that's not broken in any major way?) but I hope they fix that soon, the lag shown in the video was pretty unacceptable...
This has be brought up on the official Xbox forums, and is apparently being looked into, just so you know.
It really is a mess. I can't even fathom the meaning of having "Quality control", when messes like this make it through. And from a big-time publisher like Namco Bandai.....
Uh the reviewer is a dumbass with something against Mr. Driller, too hard for him perhaps? The guy he was PLAYING against was from JAPAN. Ok, I dont know about you but if the HOST of a game is from a country another world away.. uh.. there WILL be lag. EVERYONE (I would have hoped) knows this. Next time join a game hosted by someone close to home before bashing a game.
I've played with people in Japan plenty of times on XBL without lag, the only time you should lag when playing with people overseas is with Wi-Fi based online play, that's why the Wii's online lags when playing with people in Japan
Let's say (just for grins) that I played more games than just the ones seen in the video. Let's also say that I played some games with people that don't come from Japan and those games were laggy disasters as well. See where I'm going with this?
Besides, I've played games with people from other countries before without problems. There are people from the UK playing COD4 all the time and I didn't have any problems playing with them yesterday.
I was actually having problems with Xbox Live in general today. Friends list not loading, friends signing in and out over and over again and screens taking forever to load so maybe it was just an xbox live issue and not the game....Maybe.
This doesn't surprise me at all after what I experienced trying to play online multiplayer in Brain Challenge. As soon as you'd start a match with four players, you'd be kicked off with a "failed to connect" error.
