Nobody is going to want a couple extra tweaks of graphics if they can’t share it with someone. I play HALO with my wife. We played them all together. How are we supposed to do that now? Do y’all expect me to buy a second Xbox?! I, and many like me, would gladly sacrifice a graphics boost to keep something sacred to the series like split-screen. I’m stunned. How could THIS be the thing you cut?!
Dude, as a player of ALL Halos, I agree wholeheartedly, split screen for Halo was the ultimate experience for me, and we have Star Wars Battlefront implementing Split Screen as well, if they are saying that it’s a technological challenge I call BS so don’t push something to far if your gonna ruin a VERY good thing. And don’t get me wrong, I know what there going for, but in reality a lot people have found memories of ALL Halos cause you could play it with friends. The concept of taking turns is incredible stupid, if that’s the case I may as well just stick to PC games over on Steam if that’s the deal…
So as a soldier who deployed several times for the USA there were missions where my friends and I did not think we would make it back alive, some of us did not. I can remember one instance where on a mission I lost two very good friends with one seriously injured. I was a wreck to say the least but call it cheesy or whatever you want to but after we said our goodbyes, covered their coffins in the flag from their respective country and whisked them away so their families could say goodbye there was truly one think that helped with the grieving process.
Nothing had to be said as some of my other friends, US soldiers, Australians, Austrians, Turkish, Iraqi, Bulgarian and our lovely friends the Brits plopped themselves down and made new ids on the Xbox’s provided to us and played a sixteen or thirty two person deathmatch, sometimes country versus country, team versus team as our way to grief from our loss. It may be something that doesn’t make sense to a lot of people 343 but the split screen coop that you are sacrificing is something that has helped me grief in the past.
Master chief fighting beside his Arbiter enemy was something that paralleled a journey through the Middle East and was how several people actually grieved with facing actual war. Even when we came back to the states we didn’t get online and play coop through xbox live because honestly it rarely worked for us, I was able to share that experience with friends, family and the occasional odd neighbor who I didn’t know but knew the music and just wanted to belong.
In this single move you have killed LAN parties in basements, trips to campgrounds where kids could hook up to RV’s and play a round of bloodgultch with two TV’s and eight remotes.
It is very painful for me to say because I own every book ever written, a few figurines and I have been anxiously awaiting the story of the next HALO but through this one act where you have now forced upon me to take this journey alone without someone beside me than truly what is the point. I don’t want to pay for a subscription to play with people that I do not know and fight people who dedicate every waking moment to knowing the prime sniper spots or the timing of every single drop or the AI Pathing that was just fine in the game so they could sprint through a level.
I wanted to play with my wife, my brother, sister, niece, nephews, friends at work and you have taken that away from me simply because you want a few more frames per second to try and push the machine. I will tell you this, you are trying to squeeze out a few more frames per second, in doing so I will bet you that per one FPS that you save you have lost a hundred customers.
This I am sad to see happen to something that is so near and dear to me as the HALO universe and when HALO 6 comes out if you can survive this I am sure that it will come back with a split screen option because that is the only way halo should be, never compromise on what the fans have come to expect and are demanding according to your forums and the hundreds of articles that are being put up because of this.
As one of my late friends would have said, “Bad Form 343, truly bad form.”
Sad part is that I doubt anyone at 343 will read this article, I’ll be surprised if they do.
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> Nobody is going to want a couple extra tweaks of graphics if they can’t share it with someone. I play HALO with my wife. We played them all together. How are we supposed to do that now? Do y’all expect me to buy a second Xbox?! I, and many like me, would gladly sacrifice a graphics boost to keep something sacred to the series like split-screen. I’m stunned. How could THIS be the thing you cut?!
I want a gamer wife.
I am 100% with you. Split-screen has been a huge part of my life for the last 15+ years. I’ve spent many late nights bonding with my brother over Covie blood, introduced my girlfriend to video games by playing the whole Halo story, and hosted many Halo LAN parties (which must have increased Mountain Dew’s stock a bit!).
I’ve kept great faith in 343i these last few years, even buying the MCC on launch day to support them, though I don’t own an Xbox One.
This is a decision that has changed my resolve. If I can’t have my brother over to play, or get together with my girlfriend and friends to blast things together (very many of who are not console owners), then I don’t need to buy the next Halo.
I once again add my voice to the chorus in a vain attempt to convince 343i to change their minds and reinstate the single feature which made Halo the Xbox’s flagship franchise. All of my greatest Halo memories come from multiplayer matches with friends in the same room, and working through the campaigns with a friend sitting beside me. “Tough choices had to be made,” said Josh Holmes. Maybe. But this choice, is unequivocally the wrong one.
There’s a split screen thread already.