Something I always loved in the past was good, old-fashioned split-screen multiplayer. There was nothing more fun that just plopping down on the couch with 1-3 of your closest friends and racing/blowing the crap out of each other. Why have the almighty head video game execs suddenly decided that this isn't fun anymore?
Brief example: My best friend is moving down to Baton Rouge, LA for college in about a week (myself having done the same last year). This was almost perfect, because it will be just a few days after the release of "Too Human", a game that we've both been looking forward to for quite a while. We were both looking forward to hanging out in my apartment for hours and tearing through what is basically a cybernetic, Norse Diablo clone (an old favorite of ours). Then SK recently announced that the only multiplayer will be only Xbox live......what they hell.....
This was the perfect game for split-screen multiplayer, or at worst same screen, "Fighting Force"-esq multiplayer, but M$ decided that if two friends in the same room want to play together, then they'll need 2 Xboxes, 2 TVs, and 2 overpriced subscriptions to Xbox Live. Does this make any sense at all? I mean, I can understand something like CoD4 and *shudder* "Halo" taking advantage of online play, because we all know that blowing the crap out of people is better when there's 16 of you (even if experience shows that about 9 of the players will be 10 years old), but a story driven game like TH could have been perfect for same-console multiplayer.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
Brief example: My best friend is moving down to Baton Rouge, LA for college in about a week (myself having done the same last year). This was almost perfect, because it will be just a few days after the release of "Too Human", a game that we've both been looking forward to for quite a while. We were both looking forward to hanging out in my apartment for hours and tearing through what is basically a cybernetic, Norse Diablo clone (an old favorite of ours). Then SK recently announced that the only multiplayer will be only Xbox live......what they hell.....
This was the perfect game for split-screen multiplayer, or at worst same screen, "Fighting Force"-esq multiplayer, but M$ decided that if two friends in the same room want to play together, then they'll need 2 Xboxes, 2 TVs, and 2 overpriced subscriptions to Xbox Live. Does this make any sense at all? I mean, I can understand something like CoD4 and *shudder* "Halo" taking advantage of online play, because we all know that blowing the crap out of people is better when there's 16 of you (even if experience shows that about 9 of the players will be 10 years old), but a story driven game like TH could have been perfect for same-console multiplayer.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
