What's happened to split screen Multiplayer?

[cheese_wizington]

Broadband internet went mainstream and voice chat was invented?

My favorite would be Halo's play online w/ splitscreen feature.

That's so so awesome opossum.

 

[Siuki]

Borderlands has an "okay" splitscreen, and its just 2 people. Personally, I think Halo's a great splitscreen game. It's easy to play(mostly) and you can show off your newly created forge maps in person, explaining how it works. Also, you actually get to physically hang out with your friends when you play splitscreen. Another thing, does SSBB count? It's a special game, but it's hard to see your character when there are three others jumping around.

 

[Sovvolf]

Alright, I hate all the Halo games for their storyline, characters, etc... but rooster makes a good point, at least the splitscreen multiplayer is there. The other thing that pissed me off is that Sony likes doing the 2-controller thing, I have a lot of friends that come over and want to play games, using a splitter can get irritating.

Also one of the reasons I like the Timesplitters series.

Halo 3 is brilliant for it. Probably all the hours I've jacked on Halo 3 come from 4 player couch matches with the lads. A shit load of beer and snacks along with your best mates make for the fun times when playing it. CoD also has this and also makes for the fun times but what gives Halo 3 a up for me is the Save movie feature. You can re-watch last nights match and laugh you arse off at the sniping mistakes you made because of the booze.

One of the biggest video game disappoints I had was with Far Cry 2 not having it. I mean that's like the perfect game for it, the map creation would have gave every weekend get together some thing original to play. AVP is also a bit of a bummer for this too.

I enjoy Split-screen gaming, I want it back. There is a market for it, us lads/lasses who like to have weekend get-together's with gaming. I can remember staying up till 5 in the morning playing COD WAW with 12 friends swapping joypads every time we had died 5 times.

 

[Ranorak]

With Perfect Dark going live any moment now, it's glory days restored!

There is nothing better then seeing the face of the person next to you when you kill them.
Or that disappointed sob when they walk into my mines.

Instead, you get shrill squeaky voices in your headset shouting profanity at you on-line.

 

[rt052192]

i feel the same, but at least halo has split screen multiplayer, even online which is nice. i feel that all games should have 4-player splitscreen both online and off b/c whats cooler than sitting with 3 friends playing videogames on one tv?

well, everything is cooler than playing halo with 3 other friends but who are we to judge?

 

[Fappy]

This is one of the big reasons I have little respect for FPS developers these days. Not everyone wants to play with strangers online and not everyone has the same console to play with their friends online. TV's are too big these days to argue that it would be "inconvenient". Call of Duty's splitscreen is laughable.

 

[Outright Villainy]

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.

You... you have someone to race against? *sobs*
Anytime i'd play my friends I'd lap them, and usually more than once. I never had the glory of multiplayer...

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I read an article about this: Quite a few developers want to put split-screen in their games, but they can't from a technical standpoint. In online multiplayer, everyone is running their own little version of the game world on their own console. However, if split-screen were used, it would be the same console with two game worlds running. Ever notice how framerate dips in intense sections of games, now imagine the framerate going twice as slow as that. It just doesn't work.

 

[Deleted]

Kids these days just don't know. They don't even know man.
Lag? Fuck lag try having your opponent see your every move! Strategy included what your opponent knows about you, and what you know about you opponent!

 

[Mechanix]

Call of duty and halo have it at least. I am very disappointed some potentially great multiplayer games like Uncharted 2 or bioshock 2 don't have it.

 

[ArcWinter]

Well, I'll just bring up COD4, which in my opinion, is the best splitscreen experience.

After that, it all went downhill. Which is to be expected, you can't do better than perfection.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

It's to push people into playing online - never mind that we finally have TVs big enough to play four player on without squinting like your Gran at bingo, the fat kids in charge of the tuck shop want more money...