Sadly, it has. Those were the best times. Hanging out with friends and family having a ball playing, eating, drinking, laughing, competing, cooperating.
Online is okay sometimes. But it's not the same as a real gathering. You don't see the reactions of the exciting wins, the agony of defeat, the self punching of the leg in anger, the high fives, the storming off, the return with "one more match."
Nintendo still kind of gets it. But I don't know how long that will last as they enter the online arena. Sure, having the screen split down to two or four was bad unless you had a big TV. Those were the times though.
I was about to say I love local, but there are a bunch of games I would LOVE ONLINE multiplayer for and it isn't there. Cuphead, Stranger Things, the new Battletoads game.... This should be EASY and they don't do it.
Well it's coming back pretty great right now. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Darksiders Genisis, Trine 4, Streets of Rage 4, Blazing Chrome, Battletoads, Astral Chains, Cuphead DLC. Halo Infinite is also confirmed for split screen as well.
Here you go brother. Its unconventional, but here is a quote: " Specifically, the experienced was compared to the “co-op mode” featured in Super Mario Galaxy where one player could play as Mario and another could point the Wii Remote on screen to assist the player and collect star bits. However, Taura emphasized that in Astral Chain‘s co-op mode, “both players actually have to put effort into controlling the characters and playing the game,” making it an interesting challenge around the game’s normally single-player experience."
Thanks to online play yes it has, sigh I missed my childhood of going to my neighbors to play video games and them coming to my place with each of us bringing our own controllers.
Split screen multiplayer didn't just die, it was murdered!
Probably just publishers and developers do not want to «waste time» on this feature, for some reason (money - spend less money developing and testing the game and earn more, because if you want to play with friend/relative, you buy 2 copies). I do like it and play with my younger brother that way in games like Rocket League and Wipeout and a lot of older games (like Vigilante 8, for instance).
Judging by CTR and how much my nieces and nephews play split. I'd say it still has a place. It's just going un used by companies. Why allow 4 people to play on 1 game when they can all buy it separately and play next to each other? Company logic? I know not all games can handle the frames but come on now.
I totally miss split screen in games that should have it. One of the biggest reasons I've hated driving games for a while now has been they've completely removed this feature. Ever since burnout paradise (which is great and was built from the ground up as an open world racer), most racers have taken the same route so they don't have to design individual tracks background assets etc.
I think a lot of games don't include it when they could benefit from it, all shooters especially.
Sadly, it has. Those were the best times. Hanging out with friends and family having a ball playing, eating, drinking, laughing, competing, cooperating.
Online is okay sometimes. But it's not the same as a real gathering. You don't see the reactions of the exciting wins, the agony of defeat, the self punching of the leg in anger, the high fives, the storming off, the return with "one more match."
Nintendo still kind of gets it. But I don't know how long that will last as they enter the online arena. Sure, having the screen split down to two or four was bad unless you had a big TV. Those were the times though.
No way there’s plenty of modern games with local multiplayer
More like phased out, no longer considered, because online multiplayer.
And this was noticed YEARS ago...
Well it's coming back pretty great right now. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Darksiders Genisis, Trine 4, Streets of Rage 4, Blazing Chrome, Battletoads, Astral Chains, Cuphead DLC. Halo Infinite is also confirmed for split screen as well.