Pick a forum and post there. Don't copy and paste the same post in multiple forums.

My only real comment here is, while I like the concept, it has several problems. The largest of which is directly connecting one players computer to another players computer. Yes, this would reduce lag. And yes, this would invariable lead to a lawsuit the moment someone sent another player a virus. Also, this leaves combat on the client machine. It will be hacked.

Basically who ever press the bottom the fastest win, and by doing that it also create an amount of lag.

Why does it have to be 2d? There are loads of 3d fighting games out. It's a good idea but for me it would have to be a small part of a game. I couldn't play a game for long if this is all you did. I would love to see a 3d version of this in a mmofps. Lets say when you get to close you move into a fighting combat game.

Is anyone even paying attention here? Lag will happen. You can't control it. If there is lag, you can't have twitch combat. Fighting games are nothing but twitch combat. Yes, you could connect two players directly and nearly eliminate lag, but then combat will be hosted on the client computer and it will get hacked. Not to mention, you're essentially creating a program that allows random strangers to directly access your computer and send it information.

This isn't being done because it isn't possible, and the measures you could take to make it possible would essentially make it illegal.

While I agree in part that it isn't possible. Thats also not totally true.

While its impossible to make it work for everyone, it could be done over say a fiberoptic network, or maybe a few other very highspeed connection networks. Unfortunately this would reduce your player base dramatically, however the technology is there its just the technology is a ISP hardware problem, not a user or server problem.

Admittedly even with a ultra highspeed network there would be other issues as you would have to have a very streamlined game and might need to make some compromises to maximize speed so the servers themself wouldn't create lag though again its really a cost benifit issue. The best supercomputers in the world could definently handle it. The problem is that would cost too much and the game would go bankrupt. And having the smaller player base due to limited connection types would also decrease revenues making for less to spend on servers, programming, etc...

So its more of a economically impossible than a technologically impossible. There have been recent breakthroughs in fiberoptics, making for faster data interpretation, smaller less expensive encoders and decoders etc... And similar with wireless and satelite I believe. So hopefully within a few years this will become a reality.

If you are designing a game right now and wish to have this type of combat though be planning on at least a 3-7 year time frame though or you will have major tech issues.

First, fiber optics are quickly becoming obsolete (they're expensive and fragile. Companies are now actually using vacume sealed tubes with mirror polished linings, as light can travel unhindered through a vacume and this is basically as costly as a giant rubber hose), but yes, that would help. However, it would only help people directly connected to the servers via this network. i.e. Nobody. What you're basically describing is a LAN, only stretched out for miles, which wouldn't make much sense.

This could be done as a LAN game, sure, with 16 players. Might be kind of a neat concept that way, in fact, but obviously not an MMOG. Still, its true, technology moves fast, but the idea of a lag-free internet is still a long way off.

Ok you got me I don't know the name of the new tubing style being used to replace fiberoptics but the point is the same the technology to do it does exist, and even previous fiberoptics would work, also I think Wifi is starting to get its ranges and speeds closer to what would be needed, though that still depends on it hooking up to a fast enough support structure as its still a very short range technology.

The technology exists, and is in use its just too sparsely used and too expensive to create a playerbase for a MMOG atm. This could change and is changing the question is how many years till enough people have fast enough connections to support such a game.

Heres one article I had found on such technology thoguh there are others, and you are right its not really fiberoptics in this case but very similar.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18437/

Oh well either way I think we both agree its not present developers faults that these games aren't out there. I was just trying to clarify your impossible more thoroughly hehe. Though maybe I even got that slightly wrong.