What's happened to split screen Multiplayer?
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True that, everyone seemingly has a big TV now a days so why not have split screen, it's not like you're staring at a matchbox anymore....haruvister said:
You LIKE Split-Screen???? I like to have the full screen to myself, and if you're sharing it with three people, it's easy to be confused and look at the wrong screen. I only like Split-Screen in versus matches, where I can screen watch, but I feel cheap doing that.
I hate that games don't at least have 2 player split screen. You would think companies would look at how the Wii brings families together into the same room and leverage this new aspect of gaming.
I grew up playing games with my brother. We play online now but when we get together all we can play are Wii games. No Burnout, Half-Life, UT3, Turok, etc... I really wish I could hunt him with a cerebral bore again....
I grew up playing games with my brother. We play online now but when we get together all we can play are Wii games. No Burnout, Half-Life, UT3, Turok, etc... I really wish I could hunt him with a cerebral bore again....
Split screen may be annoying and small but MAN is it convenient. I too remember many good days of mariokart, goldeneye, etc. And now the same friends are dragging around a second big TV to my house and we're having 8 player halo matches with only 2 copies of the game. We just couldnt *do* that otherwise. It's not like PC gaming where everyone owns a rig.
Online multiplayer has more lag than split-screen. The reason they're ditching split screen is to squeeze more money out of us by forcing us to buy more copies of the same damn game. Yes, they're stooping THAT low and they'll stoop lower if we don't fight them
I completely agree. There are so many games that I'd love to have split screen multi-player just so I can play with my fiance, who lives in the same house. As it is, I'm seriously contemplating buying another Xbox 360 to be able to play with him by taking advantage of the multi-player aspect of games that just don't possess the convenience of split-screen.
So, you prefer putting 4 tv's next to eachother, use 4 consoles with a copy of the game on each if you want to play against some friends irl?Zombie_King said:
I'm missing splitscreen too nowadays, we have to alternate each race/match when someone's playing games at my place. (it's not a prob with Guitar Hero, but for stuff like DiRT...)
Ya, but it's shitty. I can almost see the conversation now...Blu3Forever said:
Head Boss Man: Alright, it looks like the game is just about finished, singleplayer's a go, the multiplayer beta was a success, and we are working on ideas for new DLC. Before it ships, anybody have anything to add?
Idiot Programmer: I've got it! In order to increase sales, we should have the split screen suck, and keep co-op away with a ten foot pole! After all, the less multiplayer options, the more games people have to buy in order to play it!
HBM: Well, the co-op's no problem, but what about the split screen death match and such?
IP: It's simple really, all we need to do is make it so only one person can play online, take away custom class for split screen, make the other player always appear on rader, and pretend we've never heard of bots!
HBM: Brilliant!
In short, I want 4 player split screen, bots (even bad ones can spice things up a bit), and campaign co-op.
I could never play F-Zero GX on multiplayer until we decided to get a Wii as a family's thing. Now it's under the big T.V and theres nothing better than pounding round mute city only to slip off the endge and have my brother speed past me at 2000km/h. no matter how crushing a defeatit may be, I'd rather share it with someone next to me, than someone who's alone and I've had to ring just to have someone other than the CPU to play against.
Because everyone loves audio/video lag...not everyone in the universe owns a 40" HDTV.....they have projectors
Personally, I can't stand split-screen. It makes it so you can only see half of what you normally see, plus, "Fuckin' screen-watcher!"
Dude, I don't know what planet you're from, but punching the guy next to you for screen watching is half the fun. In online games like CS, all you get are E-threats, in splitscreen you can beat the crap out of the people for real because of screen watching, button mashing, and Hadooooooken spamming.Shadow Tyrant said:
Huh?
Im sorry but I personally don't know what your talking about. All the console FPSs Ive bought have split screan multiplayer (except Bioshock, but thats a single player game I guess)
Im sorry but I personally don't know what your talking about. All the console FPSs Ive bought have split screan multiplayer (except Bioshock, but thats a single player game I guess)