I am going to start of this blog with a question
When was the last time you played a great Split-Screen Game?
Now fristly I will state I am not saying there a no good split-screen capable games out there and I'm not saying that online multiplayer is not fun but something needs to change. I remember a time when console gamers didn't have the option of playing online ( Yes , it was like that at one point ) and so had to enjoy what we had. Now some people may ask "How did you have fun"... well firstly we actually played the campaign/story mode but that's a blog for another time, secondly we played with our friends on the same screen, invite someone round and had a blast .That's right, it's unbelievable to think you could play with someone in the same room as you isn't it .
The reason for this blog is that the majority I spend on consoles is when im at my friends house, so seeing as I have my fair share of games I thought I have a look at what I could take round for us to play and unbelievably I found barely any games that had spli-screen and even less that were actually worth playing on its respective split-screen mode. After we got bored of playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Borderlands I thought maybe it was just my collection that lacked fun 2-player games and so took a trip to my local game shops.
Most dissapointing shopping trip in a long while. 90% of games ( Excluding Sport Games ) these days are single player with online multiplayer only. Racing games that are single player, 9/10 of the racing games I picked up were single player. How can racing games be single player? That was part of the fun of a racing game playing with a friend. I'm sure these game developers are forgetting about us people who actually like spending time with other humans , and not through headsets ect.
Walking away with NBA,NFL and Tony Hawk ( All sporting games may I add ) I again thought this can't be the case and I must just be missing all the good slit-screen games so took to google, many forums popped up with threads looking for good split screen games so after reading through lots of replies it's not just me who has noticed, there's barely anything out there.
We need to do something about this, game developers are spending so much time on online play when they shouldn't forget us gamers who like playing offline with friends, now before people start attacking this thread aying "Times are changing blah blah blah ..." Yes they may be changing but not everyone gamer likes playing alone with a headset and whatever else talking to friends over the net, I like actually seeing my freinds, having a joke and maybe even some funny friendly fire on games that allow it.
I hope to god developers are not so money focused that they are stopping split-screen due to people not having to have an individual copy. Yes I understand game development companies are businesses and buisinesses are there to make as much money as possible but they should care enough about the product to give consumers what they want. We want to be able to play with friends online and offline
tl;dr
Nothing is split-screen anymore and everything is played online
When was the last time you played a great Split-Screen Game?
Now fristly I will state I am not saying there a no good split-screen capable games out there and I'm not saying that online multiplayer is not fun but something needs to change. I remember a time when console gamers didn't have the option of playing online ( Yes , it was like that at one point ) and so had to enjoy what we had. Now some people may ask "How did you have fun"... well firstly we actually played the campaign/story mode but that's a blog for another time, secondly we played with our friends on the same screen, invite someone round and had a blast .That's right, it's unbelievable to think you could play with someone in the same room as you isn't it .
The reason for this blog is that the majority I spend on consoles is when im at my friends house, so seeing as I have my fair share of games I thought I have a look at what I could take round for us to play and unbelievably I found barely any games that had spli-screen and even less that were actually worth playing on its respective split-screen mode. After we got bored of playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Borderlands I thought maybe it was just my collection that lacked fun 2-player games and so took a trip to my local game shops.
Most dissapointing shopping trip in a long while. 90% of games ( Excluding Sport Games ) these days are single player with online multiplayer only. Racing games that are single player, 9/10 of the racing games I picked up were single player. How can racing games be single player? That was part of the fun of a racing game playing with a friend. I'm sure these game developers are forgetting about us people who actually like spending time with other humans , and not through headsets ect.
Walking away with NBA,NFL and Tony Hawk ( All sporting games may I add ) I again thought this can't be the case and I must just be missing all the good slit-screen games so took to google, many forums popped up with threads looking for good split screen games so after reading through lots of replies it's not just me who has noticed, there's barely anything out there.
We need to do something about this, game developers are spending so much time on online play when they shouldn't forget us gamers who like playing offline with friends, now before people start attacking this thread aying "Times are changing blah blah blah ..." Yes they may be changing but not everyone gamer likes playing alone with a headset and whatever else talking to friends over the net, I like actually seeing my freinds, having a joke and maybe even some funny friendly fire on games that allow it.
I hope to god developers are not so money focused that they are stopping split-screen due to people not having to have an individual copy. Yes I understand game development companies are businesses and buisinesses are there to make as much money as possible but they should care enough about the product to give consumers what they want. We want to be able to play with friends online and offline
tl;dr
Nothing is split-screen anymore and everything is played online
