Is split-screen dead?

Please vote, and explain your vote, if you feel inclined to do so.

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

Jaysonguy

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

Jaysonguy

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

aransom

Depends on the game, but I'd gladly see more split-screen, since I really enjoy playing with friends who sit in the same room as me. Pikmin 3 has got to have it!

[QUOTE="aransom"]

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

starwarsjunky

I think bob_newman's post put it in the best perspective, but unless the local multiplayer experience doesn't require split-screen to play together (like in fighting games, etc.), I still want to see it in multiplayer games. To have games that claim to be multiplayer, but doesn't include the most basic of multiplayer play that has been used for years is kind of crazy, don't you think? :P

it doesnt have to be split screen, as long as there is local multiplayergarrett_duffman

the grinder is going to have split screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2LDJWTuA6k

just look at the main screen it says SPLIT SCREEN

so its not dead yet

just has its legs chopped

so far split screen hasn't worked well for the IR pointer... and local multiplayer needn't be split screen.... just look at NSMBWiigreenarcher02

Call of Duty would have been nice with split screen

:(

ALL FPS should have split screen!

On the PS3 and 360...yes. Which is sad since this is the first gen that we've really had giant HDTVs and better texture and clearity than ever. Really, if you think about it, this is the best gen ever for splitscreen! To bad nearly no dev is doing any splitscreen games...

if its a multiplayer shooter, atleast have a co op deathmatch mode. my thinking is the sensor bar cant track the ir pointer of mulitple remotes as controlling a camera so it cant be done. but fighter games have split screen. i think games that dont use the ir pointer to control the camera has split screen anyway.fleetmenace

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

Jaysonguy

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Yes it's dead

It's past dead

It's so dead that dead things look at it and go "hey, you're pulling a me!"

We now live in the age where everyone can sit in front of their displays and play together at the same time

The days of...

Player 1: "Oh you wont guess where I'm hiding waiting to ambush you!"

Player 2: Looks up a few inches "no, I really think I will"

....are over

bob_newman

Yeah see, that's the popular answer

"Go get some friends and then it'll be fun to play a game horribly downgraded"

In split screen the image is distorted either by stretching it out or by just cropping the view, that's not even counting the fact that games made with split screen don't look as good as games without split screen. It's much easier on the hardware to do online multiplayer then it is to do split screen.

Then look at all the fun we'll have in split screen! In deathmatch each side is horribly compromised by being able to see EXACTLY where the other person is, well what fun we'll have then.

Split screen gaming combines two things. Playing a game with distorted visuals and watching a game, well that's fun. I don't like watching people play games, I'd rather do it myself but with split screen not only do I have an inferior playing experience but I also have to waste half the screen watching someone else play.

Then there's the people that say "what happens if you go to a friends house to play a game?"

My answer to that is that my friend better have more then one game to play. I would hope my friend's library extends to any number above one.

There's three types of games

Single player
Multiplayer online
Multiplayer in person

A game where both characters are on the screen like a sports game or a fighting game then yeah, you can play on one screen in person and have fun with nothing compromised

If it requires split screen then no, you do not play that in person. That's natures way of saying "do not do this now"

Split screen was passable when moving from 28.8 to 56 was a big deal, now it's archaic and holds back developers

Yeah see, that's the popular answer

"Go get some friends and then it'll be fun to play a game horribly downgraded"

In split screen the image is distorted either by stretching it out or by just cropping the view, that's not even counting the fact that games made with split screen don't look as good as games without split screen. It's much easier on the hardware to do online multiplayer then it is to do split screen.

Then look at all the fun we'll have in split screen! In deathmatch each side is horribly compromised by being able to see EXACTLY where the other person is, well what fun we'll have then.

Split screen gaming combines two things. Playing a game with distorted visuals and watching a game, well that's fun. I don't like watching people play games, I'd rather do it myself but with split screen not only do I have an inferior playing experience but I also have to waste half the screen watching someone else play.

Then there's the people that say "what happens if you go to a friends house to play a game?"

My answer to that is that my friend better have more then one game to play. I would hope my friend's library extends to any number above one.

There's three types of games

Single player
Multiplayer online
Multiplayer in person

A game where both characters are on the screen like a sports game or a fighting game then yeah, you can play on one screen in person and have fun with nothing compromised

If it requires split screen then no, you do not play that in person. That's natures way of saying "do not do this now"

Split screen was passable when moving from 28.8 to 56 was a big deal, now it's archaic and holds back developers

Jaysonguy

...says the guy with no friends.

There's more to games than resolution and x-treeeeeeeme grf-x.

You'll never understand. Playing with people in the same room as you ALWAYS beats playing games with people online. I don't care how anti-social you are, playing with friends, in the same room, is the most fun you can have in gaming. I'll hold that belief until I no longer have friends to play with.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Yeah see, that's the popular answer

"Go get some friends and then it'll be fun to play a game horribly downgraded"

In split screen the image is distorted either by stretching it out or by just cropping the view, that's not even counting the fact that games made with split screen don't look as good as games without split screen. It's much easier on the hardware to do online multiplayer then it is to do split screen.

Then look at all the fun we'll have in split screen! In deathmatch each side is horribly compromised by being able to see EXACTLY where the other person is, well what fun we'll have then.

Split screen gaming combines two things. Playing a game with distorted visuals and watching a game, well that's fun. I don't like watching people play games, I'd rather do it myself but with split screen not only do I have an inferior playing experience but I also have to waste half the screen watching someone else play.

Then there's the people that say "what happens if you go to a friends house to play a game?"

My answer to that is that my friend better have more then one game to play. I would hope my friend's library extends to any number above one.

There's three types of games

Single player
Multiplayer online
Multiplayer in person

A game where both characters are on the screen like a sports game or a fighting game then yeah, you can play on one screen in person and have fun with nothing compromised

If it requires split screen then no, you do not play that in person. That's natures way of saying "do not do this now"

Split screen was passable when moving from 28.8 to 56 was a big deal, now it's archaic and holds back developers

bob_newman

...says the guy with no friends.

There's more to games than resolution and x-treeeeeeeme grf-x.

You'll never understand. Playing with people in the same room as you ALWAYS beats playing games with people online. I don't care how anti-social you are, playing with friends, in the same room, is the most fun you can have in gaming. I'll hold that belief until I no longer have friends to play with.

Great, I'm glad you can not only enjoy an experience knowing that you're getting less while doing it but also be content in making devs unable to add everything possible in a game because they have to add something that should be been eliminated a decade ago

I refuse to do it, I'd rather let games evolve then hold them back in the dark ages

I refuse to do it

Jaysonguy

Again, you'll never understand. Friends are more important than the screen you're looking at. It's as simple as that.

i think the best local mp is having mutliple consoles tvs in one room , like a pc lan party but with consoles

[QUOTE="greenarcher02"]so far split screen hasn't worked well for the IR pointer... and local multiplayer needn't be split screen.... just look at NSMBWiiBrunoBRS

didn't red steel have a problem with it? correct me if i'm wrong, never played it...

but, with split-screen+IR.... can't you easily intrude the other 'screens', especially for shooters?... i dunno if they're capable of 'limiting' the boundaries of one remote... but i've never seen one.. and if it's that easy, we should see a lot of games right now using it... so far, everybody's perfecting their motion-control games....

hmm... maybe it's just that everybody focused on motion-controls, and ignored everything else...

I'd much rather play a game online than have to look at one quarter of my television screen. Once you go online, you don't go back. TheLordMagnus

[QUOTE="TheLordMagnus"]I'd much rather play a game online than have to look at one quarter of my television screen. Once you go online, you don't go back. Litchie

[QUOTE="TheLordMagnus"]I'd much rather play a game online than have to look at one quarter of my television screen. Once you go online, you don't go back. Litchie

i think the best local mp is having mutliple consoles tvs in one room , like a pc lan party but with consoles

AmnesiaHaze

For those that voted for EVERY game to have split-screen, have fun playing light-guns games split-screen.so_hai

when people voted for "every game", they (probably) meant "every multiplayer game that can be played on splitscreen". so obviously, on rail is outBrunoBRS

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Yeah see, that's the popular answer

"Go get some friends and then it'll be fun to play a game horribly downgraded"

In split screen the image is distorted either by stretching it out or by just cropping the view, that's not even counting the fact that games made with split screen don't look as good as games without split screen. It's much easier on the hardware to do online multiplayer then it is to do split screen.

Then look at all the fun we'll have in split screen! In deathmatch each side is horribly compromised by being able to see EXACTLY where the other person is, well what fun we'll have then.

Split screen gaming combines two things. Playing a game with distorted visuals and watching a game, well that's fun. I don't like watching people play games, I'd rather do it myself but with split screen not only do I have an inferior playing experience but I also have to waste half the screen watching someone else play.

Then there's the people that say "what happens if you go to a friends house to play a game?"

My answer to that is that my friend better have more then one game to play. I would hope my friend's library extends to any number above one.

There's three types of games

Single player
Multiplayer online
Multiplayer in person

A game where both characters are on the screen like a sports game or a fighting game then yeah, you can play on one screen in person and have fun with nothing compromised

If it requires split screen then no, you do not play that in person. That's natures way of saying "do not do this now"

Split screen was passable when moving from 28.8 to 56 was a big deal, now it's archaic and holds back developers

Jaysonguy

...says the guy with no friends.

There's more to games than resolution and x-treeeeeeeme grf-x.

You'll never understand. Playing with people in the same room as you ALWAYS beats playing games with people online. I don't care how anti-social you are, playing with friends, in the same room, is the most fun you can have in gaming. I'll hold that belief until I no longer have friends to play with.

Great, I'm glad you can not only enjoy an experience knowing that you're getting less while doing it but also be content in making devs unable to add everything possible in a game because they have to add something that should be been eliminated a decade ago

I refuse to do it, I'd rather let games evolve then hold them back in the dark ages