Splitscreen Online

**jsktrogdor** · March 20, 2009, 08:09 AM

So I was screwin around with three of my friends the other day. We started to get bored and someone suggested we play some video games. We all thought this was a fantastic idea so I ran over to my console and popped in CoD4 and started playing. My friends sat and watched me.... "dude, wtf are you doing?", to which I responded "we're playing CoD4 multiplayer". They got pretty pissed about not being able to play so I finnaly conceeded, "alright, alright I pick a real multiplayer game". I pop in Team Fortress 2, which got them really going because they'd never seen it before. I sit down and start playing again, and once more "dude, we cant play this one either", to which I responded "sucks to be you".

Is anyone else concerned about this new trend for games to come without splitscreen online play? The only games I can think of that have incorperated it are Gears and Halo; which is depressing. It cannot possibley be that challenging to set up splitscreen play, many games have the splitscreen set up but allow it exclusively for co-op or local/lan games. So we're certain that there is not a leperchaun in our console whom spends his days keeping splitscreen from working. Which means that its either: A- a technical issue, or B- a corperate issue. Thats right, all you post modernist, fight the man,

the government people might actually get a chance to blame a corperation for something.

So is it a technical issue? I cant see how, even if it were a problem with hardware having to render twice, three or four times the info its not a real problem. Im certain Ive seen games simpley drop their graphics settings when two or more players share a console. Its just rediculous, it takes so much of the fun out of gaming to have to play with your friends across a

headset. LAN parties are few and far between but at least you and your friends can get together on a couch and split a TV right? wrong. Unfortunately for some reason the game industry finds that threatening, and thinks that sharing any type of physical space with someone is dangerous.

**Rebel Jeb** · March 20, 2009, 10:14 AM

Your right, most of the games I buy arn't splitscreen. Kinda sad, I was used to having to choose between 40-50 multiplayer games for the gamecube and xbox back when I used those. Now I have like 3 to choose from for my Xbox 360.