I sure hope there continues to be more couch co-op games. My son and I are always looking for more games to play together.
Portal 2 and It Takes Two are great if you haven’t already played them
Played both and loved both of them. Thanks!
Highly recommend “it takes two”. Love being told I’m bad at relationships by a talking book…while playing with my fiance.
We played this one. Great game!
Forget split-screen, a lot of people have two monitors these days. Steam hardware survey has “Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution” as “other” for 50% of their users, which I’m guessing means about 50% of people have multiple screens. Think about it, game devs.
The issue isn’t screen real estate, but processing power
When you do split screen, you’re basically having to render two games at once (a bunch of stuff can be “shared” like physics and such, but you still have to render two PoVs at the very least). This is helped slightly in split screen by the fact that you’re rendering a much smaller PoV for each player, with multi-monitor split screen, you lose that edge.
Basically it could totally be done, but only on pretty decent hardware and/or a really efficient game
It’s almost like the pursuit of realistic graphics hamstrings games by making actual fun, useful features like couch co-op impractical
No argument here
I personally believe couch co-op is so much better than online, so I hope it does. My biggest gripe with online co-op is that there will be times when your Internet can drop, or your game/voice chat program might decide to crash on you, or something equally as annoying like your friend (or you) lagging up a storm and making it hard to play.
At least with couch co-op I can be more sure that I ain’t gonna have any of those problems causing as much issues (besides the game crashing). And I also get the enjoyment of being in the same room with a friend.
