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Barozi on 05 December 2010
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Gnizmo said:
Barozi said:

yeah whatever you call "campaign". In racing games it's just a chain of racing events that can be played from the multiplayer menu as well. Pretty much the same thing.

Of course it's theoretically possible, but not when you use modern visuals. Halo Reach, SMG, Gears, Killzone 2, Uncharted etc. CANNOT have a 4 players splitscreen campaign on 360, Wii and PS3. Simply not powerful enough.


But a game could which runs counter to your whole point. Your claim is no system could do it which is plain and simple bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to have them other than fundamental design decisions. EG we want a pretty game over a game played with 4 people side by side.

On Mario Kart, I only mentioned it because you brought up Mod Nation Racers at one point. It is also worth highlighting because Double Dash allowed 4 players in every mode (with LAN for more than 4 obviously) but Mario Kart Wii lacks this. It highlight the subtle shift in priorities amongst even those developer most dedicated to keeping the local co-op play alive and well. I doubt anyone would argue against Nintendo still being the lead on that one as a console and game maker.

It wasn't exactly my point, Snesboy started to claim that HD twins can't render 4 player split screen, I thought that he meant campaing because that's what the OP is referring to and I said that no system can render them, which is not exactly right, as I corrected myself in my last post. It's only not possible when using current gen graphics. (again PC could even do it with modern graphics)

However what I meant is that there never existed any games with 4 players split screen co-op campaign. Not in this gen and not anytime in the past.

I brought up ModNation Racers when I listed some 4 players splitscreen games., but that again has nothing to do with split screen campaigns.

As for Nintendo I wouldn't call them the ultimate leader on the local co-op front. They do a lot for it, but they're not even close the only company how supports it.

Fact is there are tons of good local co-op games on HD consoles and many people, as we can see it in this thread, apparently have no freakin clue of how many there really are.