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Is there any reason why Halo 3 is one of the only if not the only game this gen with 4 player split screen +online at the same time? is there a technical reason or just dev choice
Is there any reason why Halo 3 is one of the only if not the only game this gen with 4 player split screen +online at the same time? is there a technical reason or just dev choice
Technical. You need a specific rendering style for it.....
And they are the worse for it. Same console coop is the best gaming experience possible IMO, but it's utterly underrepresented. I had more fun with Mario Kart on N64 with its 160x120 resolution quarter-of-a-screen than I ever had with KZ2. Same with Hired Guns, way way more fun than Resistance or MAG or other shooters. ModNation Racers has added split-screen from demand, and because of that it may well see an additional sale.Hell, a lot of games (KZ2) dont even do two player split let alone four.
I kind of wonder a lot if Bungie could do better visuals if they'd drop the 4 player split mode that like 1% of people use. Hell, a lot of games (KZ2) dont even do two player split let alone four.
Is there any reason why Halo 3 is one of the only if not the only game this gen with 4 player split screen +online at the same time? is there a technical reason or just dev choice
You also need to either make sure you can do with very little bandwidth or do some optimisation to handle four times the network information bandwidth
Best gaming experience possible? That would be local LAN multiplayer. I've done a tonne of that all the way back to the 16bit era with Midi Maze on the Atari ST.
Same screen multiplayer highlights for me have been games like Soccer64 and Zarchon on the C64, though even a turn-by-turn game like Beach Head was a lot of fun, and of course games of the Super Sprint ilk (including Ironman Off-Road, BMX Simulator for the Atari 800, etc.). Gauntlet 2 was fun also.
A game I also really, really liked and one of the few games I've ever played with 6 and even 8 players on the same screen (using controller sharing!) was Micro Machines V3 on the Playstation. God I loved that game, and I can't believe how disappointing it is that they never managed to do a good next-gen update for this. Some great physics effects could have been added (the water racing was already pretty amazingly awesome back then). Micro Maniacs, its sequel, also showed some good promise, with something like the Bee race through the garden being a prettty awesome effect - would be great with motion controls and planes or helicopters, etc.
So actually, multiplayer on same screen has been a much better mutli-player experience for me come to think of it. The first-personness of modern games have somewhat ruined this aspect of gaming.
i kind of wonder a lot if bungie could do better visuals if they'd drop the 4 player split mode that like 1% of people use.
Go on a social playlist and you'll see tons of guests. Splitscreen+LAN are definitely features that my friends and I make a lot of use of in Halo.I kind of wonder a lot if Bungie could do better visuals if they'd drop the 4 player split mode that like 1% of people use. Hell, a lot of games (KZ2) dont even do two player split let alone four.
I kind of wonder a lot if Bungie could do better visuals if they'd drop the 4 player split mode that like 1% of people use. Hell, a lot of games (KZ2) dont even do two player split let alone four.