The Death of Split-Screen.

With all of these great games coming out, I notice a growing trend of only online multiplayer, especially with shooters. What's the deal?

I remember the good ol' days of Goldeneye for the N64. 2-4 people traking down each other, ambushing the leader, making that last-ditch suiside pistol-whip. Now we have Metal Gear Online and Resistance 2. Both are great fun and supurb games, but somethimes you want to invite people over to play. When my friends are over, they don't want to watch one person playing or take turns. We want to play together. The only thing I got for that is Little Big Planet and that Naruto fighting game.Once again, fun games, but we would rathher shoot each other. So we end up playing my brother's Wii or trying to raise my N64 from the dead so we can play Goldeneye.

Has the steriotypical geek-with-no-friends-who-never-leaves-the-bacement been in the developers' minds when they make a good game? Or do they just assume all my friends have a PS3 and an internet connection? Come on guys!........I bought extra contollers!

Well from a console stand point I'm sure they would like everyonce friends to purchase a console to "Play-On" and spend (whatever the amount is for your console). But yes I do too miss split screen on most shooters or games period..

I really love to play co-op, but I don't agree that it's dying. If you check this list (which doesn't seem to be complete, as I played Age of Booty yesterday with my bro that isn't on the list):

http://www.co-optimus.com/system/2/playstation_3.html

There are still pretty much games around and some great to come (Time Splitters 4 will surely be great).

I am extremely saddened by this also. Devs just think "Well we got online so we don't need splitscreen" or they just give a half assed worthless version of splitscreen. Games like Warhawk get it right with splitscreen AND online splitscreen. I wish this was the standard but unfortunately it isn't.Duckman5

Split screen needs to make a comeback, thats for sure.

You ever been at your friends house, and everyone is like "aw yeah lets go play N64" and then you get stuck with the third-party controller that his mom got him for christmas because it was $15 cheaper than the other controllers and you left your own at home...?

Ah good times.

Split screen needs to make a comeback, thats for sure.

You ever been at your friends house, and everyone is like "aw yeah lets go play N64" and then you get stuck with the third-party controller that his mom got him for christmas because it was $15 cheaper than the other controllers and you left your own at home...?

Ah good times.

Fredrick2003x

forget that do you remember the NBA HANGTIME BATTLES

OMG I love that game on N64... Every game I mean just about every game came down to the last shot...

ahhh memories... 2 vs 2 that was alot of smack talking going on then...

I still wish they put that on the PSN for download

I'm really hoping for good things from Time Splitters 4. The original was a game that got things right. and the vs modes had bots in them. Nothing on a current gen console comes close to time splitters imo as far as a split screen shooter goes.

N64 was great for the split screen games though, Bomber man, mario kart, 007, Conker's bad fur day.

good times.

Totally agree. I especially miss playing all those James Bond games with the great split screen. Video games are waaaayyyyyyy more fun when you can play them with a friend.

Yeah, I agree. Split-screen has died down so much. When I go home for Christmas break my brother and I will really have nothing to do because there are no good split-screen games anymore. That list that was posted before is very helpful though

With all of these great games coming out, I notice a growing trend of only online multiplayer, especially with shooters. What's the deal?

I remember the good ol' days of Goldeneye for the N64. 2-4 people traking down each other, ambushing the leader, making that last-ditch suiside pistol-whip. Now we have Metal Gear Online and Resistance 2. Both are great fun and supurb games, but somethimes you want to invite people over to play. When my friends are over, they don't want to watch one person playing or take turns. We want to play together. The only thing I got for that is Little Big Planet and that Naruto fighting game.Once again, fun games, but we would rathher shoot each other. So we end up playing my brother's Wii or trying to raise my N64 from the dead so we can play Goldeneye.

invadingduck

Dude, R2 has split-screen :|

i thought resistance 2 was coophalfbreed11111

It does but if you play rhe co-op slitscreen on a widescreen tv the picture is so cropped you can't tell what the hell is going on.

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With all of these great games coming out, I notice a growing trend of only online multiplayer, especially with shooters. What's the deal?

I remember the good ol' days of Goldeneye for the N64. 2-4 people traking down each other, ambushing the leader, making that last-ditch suiside pistol-whip. Now we have Metal Gear Online and Resistance 2. Both are great fun and supurb games, but somethimes you want to invite people over to play. When my friends are over, they don't want to watch one person playing or take turns. We want to play together. The only thing I got for that is Little Big Planet and that Naruto fighting game.Once again, fun games, but we would rathher shoot each other. So we end up playing my brother's Wii or trying to raise my N64 from the dead so we can play Goldeneye.

GreenGoblin2099

Dude, R2 has split-screen :|

Ahhhh i miss split-screen:cry:

Devs just think "Well we got online so we don't need splitscreen" or they just give a half assed worthless version of splitscreen.Duckman5

have you guys seen COD 5s split screen....lol failTobio19