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Halo splitscreen co-op RIP 2001-2015
- Thread starter Wasp
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Baroquemantic
Member
I had good times playing co-op with friends back in college. Thankfully, Halo 5 is looking pretty awesome regardless. I wasn't even excited for the game until the Game Informer info came out today. Plus it has Nathan Fillion! How could I not be excited?
If Halo 2 had launched without LAN support, I'd have had a pretty potent reaction too.
rokkerkory
Member
Is this confirmed? If so? No wonder no Gold needed for SP online (((
Hopefully that means better gfx?
(((Hopefully that means better gfx?
Succinct Verbosity
Member
My exact reaction... Split screen in halo was the oly thing remaining that differentiated the franchise fro other fps games to me.
My memories and nostalgia with split-screen co op Halo make me bummed about this. But, realistically, it's not a huge feature like it used to be, most everyone is playing online, and no Gold require co-op is a good concession. They needed to hit 60 FPS and look next-gen, and the hardware just can't keep up with having split-screen Campaign too.
Sad to lose yet another staple feature of the Halo franchise, but it is already a different beast, good or bad (mostly bad), with 343 working on it.
Sad to lose yet another staple feature of the Halo franchise, but it is already a different beast, good or bad (mostly bad), with 343 working on it.
If nobody plays like that, then why keep splitscreen multiplayer? by keeping that in they are recognising that people *do* play like that.
Graphics is bullshit. Nobody is going to judge them if the detail gets pared down for splitscreen.
snickothemule
Member
This news is dildos.
Online can eat ass, all I want is local co-op.
Online can eat ass, all I want is local co-op.
The Artisan
Member
if halo kills splitscreen...that makes me think not very many games will have it anymore
Leafhopper
Banned
Does Call of Duty still have split screen co-op in campaign?
I feel exactly the same. I've beaten every Halo with my little brother and this is just sad. When I told him he was even more dissapointed than me.
Well the past few games didn't (for the main campaign, maybe zombies had it) but Black Ops III is actually bringing it back.
2 player local splitscreen co-op for the campaign, 4 player online.
Does call of duty even have co op campaign?
thefatness16
Banned
I've beaten Halo 1,2,3,ODST,Reach all in coop with friends and family. Terrible decision.
Leafhopper
Banned
Not nobody, just less. Split screen has become harder and harder to manage for the HD generations and high resolutions, so I am not surprised they scrapped Campaign split screen. MP Split screen is probably much more manageable than all the shit going on in Campaign. I don't think they wanted to do a graphics downgrade, or hamper the framerate to include it, so they scrapped it instead. Understandable, but still disappointing.
4 player online co op. No gold needed.
This is the core of the whole splitscreen debate. When you think about it it's basically a graphics vs gameplay debate, but not everybody is in a position where splitscreen is really useful.
2 player online splitscreen for MP and probably whatever other coop modes besides campaign they will have.
The coop for campaign is 4 players online w/o gold required.
Like I said earlier, the title and OP is misleading but people want to continue to argue otherwise as more people roll in and are confused (including myself).
Dictator93
Member
The reason why it doesnthave it is not about graphics... but probably about CPU power...
I clearly remeber people complaining about Halo 4 splitscreen co-op performences.
It would also have been fairly difficult to make the game look worse in co-op. The LoD was abysmal.
And then they wonder why sales for Halo games keep on decreasing with each new entry.
lol on two things here:
you think this is going to decrease sales by a noticeable margin?
sales decreased with Halo 4?
That topic title threw me for a loop then. As long as coop exists i'm gravy. Excitment back on!
I'm not saying it's the sole factor, but decreasing the multiplayer features has had an effect.
And yes, compared to Halo 3, sales definitely lower for halo 4. Possibly even compared to Reach, not sure about that one. May be close.
Only reason I could think this might have lower sales than its predecessor is because of the smaller userbase. Then again, Halo has a dedicated fanbase. If you have an Xbox One, chances are you're a Halo fan.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
halo 4 as a standalone title didnt sell more than Halo 3.
they just sold a ton in the first 24 hours
Leafhopper
Banned
Yeah it's just splitscreen co-op. I didn't know people were getting confused by it.
Should have been a piece of cake with a 60fps baseline this time round though. Cap splitscreen at 30 and you're golden. You have 2x as long to render two screens at half the resolution of single player.
Maybe we can get a mod to do a title change and mod edit the OP
AgentClassy
Member
Its not gonna stop me from buying the game but I'm extremely disappointed.
Maybe they're incapable of implementing it.
Welfare
Member
It sold the fastest within a year in the US, but did not outsell Halo 3, and we don't know about Reach.
The Artisan
Member
it has splitscreen online multiplayer, but i don't remember if aw had splitscreen coop campaign
No local multi online is a deal breaker
Splitscreen online MP is still in. Someone should edit the thread title to make it clearer.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
does anybody remember multiplayer matches against xXJohnny420Xx, and his friends, xXJohnny420Xx(1), xXJohnny420Xx(2), and sometimes xXJohnny420Xx(3)? that's how every other bout was like for me during halo 3 and reach's heydays
Split screen multi-player is still in. It's the split screen coop campaign that is out. Something you're rarely going to see in games moving forward. Very hard to maintain any sort of decent frame rate.