split-screen gaming, seriously why is this dying?

[captaincabbage]

1: Awesome splitscreen games include: MW2, Warhawk, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-powered Battle Cars, Worms 2: Armageddon, Dead Nation, Castle Crashers and probably a fair few more.

2: Capitalism, plain and simple. I really hate to say it, because splitscreen is brilliant, but yes it's dying out because companies are super-greedy.

Also, if you want a good, brainless game that's coming out in the next few months, check out EDF: Insect Armageddon. It's gonna be splitscreen (either 2 or 3 player) and it just looks like good, silly fun.

 

[mjc0961]

why do you think less and less games now support splitscreen?

Because the consoles can't handle rendering all the stuff that's going on in the game with such a high level of graphical quality more than once. It then becomes up to the developers to decide if they want to take the time to work on the game further to make a "less pretty" version that can run in split screen, or just spend that time and money on other aspects of the game. Most seem to choose the latter considering the prevalence of online play these days.

I still can't understand why Killzone 3 has split-screen co-op but no online co-op, though. That makes little sense. But yeah, there's a game that has split screen co-op for you. It's also a pretty good example of sacrifices being made to run it that way: it doesn't look as nice, and you can't use PS Move in co-op.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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1. It looks like the first part of what ever you said was cut off.

2. Companies prefer no split screen since in online play, both people have to have a copy of a game and a common console to play it on.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

1) do you know of any good PS3 that support splitscreen

If your PS3 has backwards compatibility, look for PS2 games, like Timesplitters. But otherwise, other than Blops I can't think of any.

2) why do you think less and less games now support splitscreen?

Main thing being was multiplayer. Before, you didn't have an Internet connecting every console together, you just had two or four controller ports. I guess since you now can connect with virtually anyone with the same game anywhere in the world, adding splitscreen didn't seem so important.