IM PLAYIN asks why the classic split-screen co-op game has died a death, and reminisces about the best games to play co-operatively.
"For me, the PS2 was all about the split-screen co-operative games; very rarely did I play a game without my brother. Games like Dynasty Warriors, Time Crisis, TimeSplitters, WWF, SOCOM, and Unreal Tournament occupied our days and nights whilst growing up. The 360 had some half decent co-op games that I enjoyed playing as well, like Left4Dead, Army of Two, Borderlands, Call of Duty: World at War and Halo 3. But the current-gen consoles seem to have switched split-screen for online, which I find very disappointing. What ever happened to the old fashioned split-screen game?"
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RPG Site: "When we had the chance to play the upcoming Visions of Mana earlier this month, Square Enix was kind enough to offer us a chance to have a chat with the Mana Series Producer, Masaru Oyamada-san. We talked about the long wait for another release in the series, and what the goals were when developing it."
Game Rant talked to Suda51 about a potential sequel to Shadows of the Damned, and here's what he had to say.
Man, I’d love to get a sequel. I wish that’s was this was instead of a remaster, but it’s such a niche title. It won’t sell gamgbusters, unfortunately.
I love split-screen co-op. I wish more developers would continue to have split-screen co-op experiences in their games.
Time splitters a future ps4 game ,will be amazing , and will obviously offer split screen as that was a major feature of the previous incarnations , drive club producers evolution have said a split screen option could be added at a later date.
Personally I used to love hooking up two PlayStation's for some doom multi player battles , side dodging whilst rocket attacking each other... Now that was fun!
Local lan is awesome also.
I'll keep playing them as long as devs keep making them.
Money happened...
You can get more money for your product if you can push a group of friends into owning multiple consoles and a copy of the same game each online rather than split screen at someone's house.
Taking away local co-op makes it so you have to play with friends online. That's one extra copy if the game to buy and extra console. It's all part of the plan from greedy devs.