So I have been thinking about how many controller ports the next systems will have. I am wondering if Sony will have 2 again. I got to thinking, how many games now adays are 4 player games? There are a few out there, but are there that many that offer 4 player split screen? I am just wondering. I don't do any multiplayer gaming, tis the life of a growing older gamer. You know, no time and such.
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Is split screen almost a dead idea???
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Doom_Bringer
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yeah I hate split screen games! It looks annoying. Only good in fighting games and party games.
Oh yes, I agree, I think that split screen is not so much about size of the screen as it is about the fact that the system has to make 4 of the same image. There is a lot of power needed to do that. With gamers demand for such intense and amazing graphics now adays, I don't know how the amazing graphics of the next generations systems are going to be able to reproduce that 4 times for each split of the screen. Just a thought.
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It's completely laughable now when a game only offers split-screen, but I see any good reason to not offer it.
The dying split screen is a product of online gaming. Because all you lonely fu**ers don't have friends, I have fewer games to play with mine.
Split screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> online. Most developers only support one, and it's been online most of the time this gen. I hope the novelty of online gaming wears off soon so I can go back to having more games to play with my friends.
Split screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> online. Most developers only support one, and it's been online most of the time this gen. I hope the novelty of online gaming wears off soon so I can go back to having more games to play with my friends.
Infernodash
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MarkRyan-IGN said:
Keep dreaming. Online isn't a novelty, It's the future. You better start making some online friends.
I think that online gaming pushing split screen multiplay out is another effect of the "casual gamer". Because the casual gamer might be a person that has a job, or wife/family. It is hard to get a group of your nerdy friends over to your house just to play some games together. This way with online you don't need to worry. There is always somebody out there that you can play against. Just another side effect of casual gaming taking over.
Doesn't seem that way at all to me. What games have dropped splitscreen when they went online?MarkRyan-IGN said:
So far everyone has tried to expand traditional multiplayer into online, not cut one in favor of the other. It's stupid to do so, given that they translate pretty easy. The only company that does one-or-the-other is Nintendo......and they only do splitscreen.
As far as split-screen gaming concerns.. my fiance brings her friends around just to play MK: DD on GC, 4 players apiece. I asked her if she ever wanted to play it online and she said no, it's more fun when her and her friends are screaming and cursing at each other. This, coming from a semi-gamer who goes online as much as anyone else.
As for myself, I don't mind it at all. But does the whole one camera angle multiplayer be defined into this type of debate? If so.. I would trade a thousand online games with strangers/associated online friends matches in Pro Evolution Soccer 3 to just have one game of pure hard battles of pride with my brother on the same game. It does not matter how great some games I will have online, the entire impact of a goal that you have totally popped out of your arse or that brute defence to save the last minute of your match against someone who is sitting nearby in the same room cannot ever be substituted for an online match on the same granduer scale.
Granted, I have more single-player titles than anything else, but the emotional feelings and adrenaline far outweigh the taunts and silly abuse thrown online.
^ this coming from a dedicated online PC gamer and console lover.
As for myself, I don't mind it at all. But does the whole one camera angle multiplayer be defined into this type of debate? If so.. I would trade a thousand online games with strangers/associated online friends matches in Pro Evolution Soccer 3 to just have one game of pure hard battles of pride with my brother on the same game. It does not matter how great some games I will have online, the entire impact of a goal that you have totally popped out of your arse or that brute defence to save the last minute of your match against someone who is sitting nearby in the same room cannot ever be substituted for an online match on the same granduer scale.
Granted, I have more single-player titles than anything else, but the emotional feelings and adrenaline far outweigh the taunts and silly abuse thrown online.
^ this coming from a dedicated online PC gamer and console lover.
Okay, that's like a handful of games compared to the number still including splitscreen......and all of the Xbox titles listed will support LAN modes anyway. I really think you're overstating the "death" of splitscreen.
And Pandora Tomorrow? Aside from the fact that it never really had multiplayer in the first place.....how is a stealth game supposed to work when you know exactly where your opponent is? That's why it is LAN-only.
Squad-based games like SOCOM and Rainbow Six are naturally going to be slanted towards online/LAN play because there's no way to assemble 2 full-sized squads on one television set.
If there really is no splitscreen in RTCW, then that is retarded. The game isn't so technically demanding that they couldn't do it....it's still running on the Q3A engine =\
MightyHedgehog
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samusx said:
That's pretty much it, right there. Hopefully, next-gen consoles will have less of a problem with supporting this when reasonable and offering system-link and online support. Some games just aren't well-suited for split-screen play, and some suffer too much (from a visually-playable level) when the game starts zooming out too far for same-screen play.
MarkRyan-IGN said:
Oh god, please... Online gaming is the future, but it doesn't mean that split-screen gaming is going to suffer directly, as a result, IMO. Ya know, many of us have moved outta the places we grew up, have much less time to set up gaming-nights, and often have friends that play games but they live too far away to make things like that a possibility whenever we want like when we were younger. Online gaming is more than just another way to play multiplayer games. It's a fucking godsend for many of us who don't have better options all of the time.
Mr. Lemming
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Every game with online support should also have split screen guest play.
There's plenty of split screen fun. PS2 only owners may no realize it though, since most developers don't support it since Sony really doesn't. There certainly needs to be four ports continued into the next-gen. Online competition just feels different, less alive than four controllers and a TV.
MarkRyan-IGN said:
Split Screen is no where near gaming online. First off split screen has many flaws. Reduced frame rate, screen size, detail, and at most 4 players at once. With online gaming you do have lag which could be considered frame rate but all those other problems found on split screen gaming are avoided. On top of the techinical positives of online gaming, we life friendly advantages. Since I don't live with daddy and mommy, I have a life which equals job, house, wife, and kids. So trying to goto my friends house to play some flawed split screen gaming is kind of hard since my friends have lifes too. So maybe when you get a life, you will understand or when you can afford to get an online connection. Online gaming is here to stay!
deadhorse32
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Split-Screen is cool because you are in the same room that the other players(your friends). You can see their faces, tease them,....
Online is cool because there is tons of people always ready to play and the competition can be tougher.
They have both their advantages and neither should be abandoned.
Online is cool because there is tons of people always ready to play and the competition can be tougher.
They have both their advantages and neither should be abandoned.
Mr. Lemming
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Gunstar77 said:
Hey there is at least 3 additional players right there!
Irrelevant.etiolate said:
There are more than a few co-op and split screen 2P games on PS2, good ol' K. Damacy as being the most recent example that I can name off the top of my head.
But, whatever. As long as old-game compilations continue to be made and repackaged, there'll always be some presence of split-screen games, even if future devlopment thereof dies out.
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