After the disaster that was Halo 5 forcing people to play online, I think 343i should focus more of their attention on ensuring future Halo titles have the ideal multiplayer experience. I’m talking four-player splitscreen co-op, four-player splitscreen multiplayer, 16-or-more-player splitscreen system-link multiplayer (including Warzone and any new game modes). Halo gained its popularity through local co-op and custom games. If it weren’t for Halo CE’s amazing at-home experiences, Halo would not be standing where it is today. In fact, the Xbox itself would likely have been forgotten by now. Halo is most fun when played with friends and family. Personally, I believe 343i should not only put more effort into providing the perfect offline experience, but they should make splitscreen multiplayer a prime part of their official marketing for the game. Show people what gaming is really about.
So my question, should 343i focus more on the overall offline experience for Halo: Infinite and future Halo titles, or do you think playing together with friends and family is an outdated experience and 343i should focus purely on the online situation?
They have to focus on both, they’ve confirmed split screen, but online multiplayer is a staple, they want us playing over XBL, and with my global family and all the great friends I’ve made over XBL I want the online features. LAN is of no interest to me, however I’m not for any player being left out either, LAN is important to some and should be a feature imo.
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> They have to focus on both, they’ve confirmed split screen, but online multiplayer is a staple, they want us playing over XBL, and with my global family and all the great friends I’ve made over XBL I want the online features. LAN is of no interest to me, however I’m not for any player being left out either, LAN is important to some and should be a feature imo.
I don’t want them to take online multiplayer away. I like it a lot, but as I mentioned in the other thread, it doesn’t come close to the same experience in my opinion. Local multiplayer has been shoved aside despite being the reason for Halo’s initial success. It deserved more time and effort to be put into it. I’d love if 343i found a new way to revolutionise splitscreen mulitplayer and reignite people’s interest in the full gaming experience. I mean, without splitscreen, you may as well just be playing on PC.
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> > They have to focus on both, they’ve confirmed split screen, but online multiplayer is a staple, they want us playing over XBL, and with my global family and all the great friends I’ve made over XBL I want the online features. LAN is of no interest to me, however I’m not for any player being left out either, LAN is important to some and should be a feature imo.
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> I don’t want them to take online multiplayer away. I like it a lot, but as I mentioned in the other thread, it doesn’t come close to the same experience in my opinion. Local multiplayer has been shoved aside despite being the reason for Halo’s initial success. It deserved more time and effort to be put into it. I’d love if 343i found a new way to revolutionise splitscreen mulitplayer and reignite people’s interest in the full gaming experience. I mean, without splitscreen, you may as well just be playing on PC.
I don’t disagree, as I stated in other threads, I have zero interest in lan and split screen, I have never played either in Halo as far as I recall, 14 years of Xbox gaming is a lot for me remember in my fifties lol.
However, despite my lack of enthusiasm for them, I hope you lan and split screen players get your wishes, I’m not the type of person that likes to see anyone excluded.
Agreed.
Between lack of split-screen and micro-transactions, Halo 5 is the only Halo game I never purchased. Have only played it since GamePass.
I really don’t view LAN couch co-op as what drove halos success, I give that credit to Halo 2s push for online multiplayer as we at least have numbers on that. Furthermore in this day and age I think it’s undeniable people don’t care as much about LAN/couch co-op like they did then, it’s why games haven’t been doing it as much.
Here’s a case for you: I myself have an Xbox, my parents both have an Xbox and they’ve bought Xboxes for my brothers (while I gave my old XB1 to one since I upgraded to the XBX) Apply that to the rest of the world and I think you’d be amazed on how many people simply buy their own console over sharing with others (note I DID NOT say people still don’t play LAN or couch co-op) even if they’re in the same building. Hell I have friends who share apartments with roomies who happen to each own their own Xbox, like I said, I think you’d be amazed by how much people spend extra money over simply sharing a console together and this is why couch co-op and such isn’t as big as it used to be.
That said I still think the option to do that stuff should be their, especially for competitive gaming.
Playing with family+friends isn’t an outdated experience as online gaming still offers that, I just told you damn near everyone I used to live with owns their own Xbox and we played together a lot, we still do to this day. What I would consider “outdated” or not as common as it used to be is couch co-op/LAN play.