Does not having split screen ever piss you off?

[8-Bit Grin]

Let's be honest, if we had friends we wouldn't be playing video games.

I'm sure you've been flamed badly over this, but I actually kind of agree.

When I start talking to a bunch of people, I don't usually have time to play games.

I'm too busy talking to Girl-One or Girl-Two, walking around with buddies, going to a concert, etc.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

It depresses me to no end.

 

[Korten12]

Its really getting old for me every time I hear of a game im looking forward to not have either split screen or co-op. Im mean really is it that much more trouble to add it? Games like Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 and as I just found out the new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit game all dont have split screen when they clearly should. Hell! Those games had everything else you could have possibly ask for out of a game. So why no split screen?

I dont know about you but I get a great joy from having a couple of friends over and popping in a multiplayer game. But nowadays Its so limited its not even fun any more. Just the same old games CoD, Gears, Halo and more CoD. Do they really think online is that much better then owning your friends right in front their face? Or do they not care and just think getting rid of split screen will force more people to buy their own game and console?

This saddens me dearly... U_U

CoD and Halo both have online split-screen.

Atleast for CoD, Black Ops does.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I love splitscreen! Hence part of my love for MW2; it made all the online functions avaliable in splitscreen, making it the perfect beer-and-pizza friday night game.

Plus you can all agree on which perks are dickish.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Ugh....

You know, split-screen could have saved Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising from failing, but NOOOOO.

So yes, need moar split-screen

 

[fun-with-a-gun]

I was so disappointed when I had a few friends over and we were planning on playing MW2 over system link split screen... No... why would anyone want to do that???

So instead we just played halo. and it still worked.

 

[LogicNProportion]

YES!

I miss Split Screen, and co-op gameplay. Back in my day (I'm only 17 mind you), if you weren't single player, this was imperative.

L4D and Gears make me smile.

 

[fun-with-a-gun]

yeah. i love resistance cause it had split screen and i could play with my brother. i bought resistance 2 and played like 5 mins of it cause it didnt have split screen.

i think the game developers think people who play games play alone in a dark room with a pile of empty coke cans next to them.

What?
Resistance 2 has some of the best Split-Screen action i have ever seen in a game?
Have you not even tried the online co-op?
Or the fact that you can play online against other people and it have split screen?

Its always the game that i have to break out when i have friends around

Yeah, everyone is making these games for the online component. It's so retarded, because many different things go into making a game, and making a game too specialized can kill it. I miss bots and games that were optimized for splitscreen.

I miss bots too. It's been so long since I could play a multiplayer match on my own without going online. (because some people still don't have online and shooting each other over and over in a 1v1 can get old quickly.

 

[Piction Froject]

It only pisses me off when it is positioned in a odd way like two vertical windows instead of vertical.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

let's be honest, if we had friends we wouldn't be playing video games

lol, you couldn't be more wrong. For the past 2 summers, I and three other friends would meet once and many times twice a week at one friend's house, we would all bring our tvs and 360's, system link them and play games from 4pm to usually 2 or 3am. We'd occasionally watch a movie or a tv show, but 98% of the time we were gaming and discussing games.

Even before those two summers we did the same thing, but with just 3 360s because I didn't have one at the time. I just had a Wii, which I would sometimes bring and we would bowl, or play baseball and see what of my downloaded characters would be put on a team, it was usually Jesus vs Hitler.

Saying that someone that plays video games doesn't have friends, is a stereotype. Playing video games has made my friends and I closer. Besides, now that my university has finally let my Live connection get through to my friends, I am gaming with them over Live almost every night, talking about the day's occurrences or and who is still looking for a job or if someone was successful in getting one.

One of the friends I am gaming with actually had to move to the next state over to get a job, and because of gaming(Xbox Live) I can keep in touch and know what is going on.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Has to do with FPS (...frames per second.) sometimes, rendering all the action twice, or 4 times, kills the experience.

.......are you gaming on a toaster?

Also FPS is not double with split screen it plays just the same, its the fact that everyone plays online now that developers got lazy and said forget split screen

No, I didn't say the FPS doubles, It renders the scene twice. From 2 viewpoints, or four. The frames per second will dip -hugely- on most games because of that. Especially when things are happening.

Imagine a game that already makes the PS3's FPS dip in single player. Now imagine it having to do it twice. At the same time. It'll dip even more. Now imagine it doing it -four- times all at once. Multiplayer at two and a half frames per second is totally rad! ...Only it's not, so devs don't put it in the game.

......is the PS3 a toaster. Tell me how games like Goldeneye 64 ran smoothly then?

Games like KZ2 and Uncharted that use a lot of the PS3's power just to look that good can't be rendered twice at at least 30 fps because it is already tough enough to render it 1 time. Play Halo Reach single screen then with 4 players. You'll notice that with 4 players the game has TERRIBLE popins. I'm talking half the floor doesn't load, the character skins NEVER load, terrible draw distances etc..

If they wanted KZ or Uncharted to be splitscreen, they'd either have to lower the games overall graphics, or just make the split screen portion have worse graphics.

 

[theevilsanta]

I loved split screen when it was the norm. Everyone has a big tv now ayway. Online sucks, even with friends. It's so much more fun to crack open a beer with a buddy or three and co-op Halo or something.

 

[VondeVon]

I want dual-output. TVs are cheap as chips these days and I much prefer gaming when your teammate can't see you shoot him in the back.

 

[limowreck]

:'( i miss splitscreen

 

[fozzy360]

I loathe the fact that split-screen seems to be a dying trend in gaming. My little brother lives with me, and it's nice having a game yhat has split-screen functionality becuase it's just more fun playing with a buddy on your side. Halo, Borderlands, Fable...hell, even Black Ops and MW2, which I didn't like much, were great to have due to split-screen. When I didn't have live, split-screen would be a huge factor in my purchasing of a game. Now, I just as a big plus and a nice feature to have, given that it works. Please, more split-screen. MORE SPLIT-SCREEN!

 

[TelHybrid]

Hell yeah I get pissed off. Hell I get pissed off when a game is limited to 2 player split screen as opposed to 4, like Resistance 2, Halo 3/ODST/Reach campaign/firefight, pretty much every modern driving game...

Where the fuck is our local multiplayer? I refuse to buy that Fisher Price toy called a Wii...

 

[AcacianLeaves]

I'm with Yahtzee. I never really enjoy multiplayer as much as when I'm in the same room (and preferably smacking distance) of the people I'm playing with. This is one of the many reasons I still have a N64.

Don't let any publisher or developer bullshit you. They aren't phasing out splitscreen because it makes the game look bad or because the hardware can't handle it - they're doing it because they don't like the idea that multiple people can play on the same copy of a game. It's all about the money.

Fair enough, but I haven't given any developer who removes splitscreen from their console FPS a dime and I never will.

 

[thahat]

it pisses me off immensely, regardless of the genre or game ( okey, RTS il grant you, you just NEEEED a big screen for that, anything else > pisses me off )

 

[thahat]

Its really getting old for me every time I hear of a game im looking forward to not have either split screen or co-op. Im mean really is it that much more trouble to add it? Games like Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 and as I just found out the new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit game all dont have split screen when they clearly should. Hell! Those games had everything else you could have possibly ask for out of a game. So why no split screen?

I dont know about you but I get a great joy from having a couple of friends over and popping in a multiplayer game. But nowadays Its so limited its not even fun any more. Just the same old games CoD, Gears, Halo and more CoD. Do they really think online is that much better then owning your friends right in front their face? Or do they not care and just think getting rid of split screen will force more people to buy their own game and console?

This saddens me dearly... U_U

lost planet 1 needed it too, did not have it >.< REALY anyoing because co-op ing with those big shooty mechs in the snow would have been AWSOME! XD
luckally 2 does have it. maybe when it's about 30 bucks il buy it as a gift for my friend who actualy owns an xbox, lol.

also, know what also sucks? xbox games that you can co op,, but cant split screen online o na single gold acount.