Lord Kefka
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When you have two Xbones you only need to purchase 1 digital copy of any game and 1 xbox live subscription you can play on both xbones at the same time with 2 seperate gamertags! 2 for 1 forever....join the revolution ECW style!
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No local split screen for Halo 5 at all? Campaign or MP...
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When you have two Xbones you only need to purchase 1 digital copy of any game and 1 xbox live subscription you can play on both xbones at the same time with 2 seperate gamertags! 2 for 1 forever....join the revolution ECW style!
wesleyshark
Banned
A couple of my friends do this with every game lol. They take turns buying the next title.
TheActtionFigure
Member
Being that I'm an admitted Halo fanboy this was probably gonna be the game that would get me to buy a Xbox One (MCC would've been it but...). Split screen for Halo is very important to me because I play with my kids all the time. Hell, my oldest is at the age where his friends come over for splitscreen action all the time! I hope that they change this somehow.
Wasn't going to get it anyway because Halo is dead, but it's good to see 343 still have their priorities in order when it comes to the franchise they adopted and how best to drag it through shit. It's not like local multiplayer was ever a major part in the draw of these games or anything right? They have no idea what they're doing. 343 have been tasked with keeping the franchise going and they've done nothing but fall on their faces at every step. This game will continue the trend. Pre order now.
The Maverick
Member
Sums it up nicely.
People have a right to be upset with no splitscreen, I am... but this is just a dumb thing to say.
With a competitive focus to Halo multiplayer, it's asking for trouble to have some of your players running the game at 60 fps and others running it at 30 fps.
Offering coop strictly in the campaign would be a different story, but the decision seems to stem from their focus on 60fps as the standard.
Offering coop strictly in the campaign would be a different story, but the decision seems to stem from their focus on 60fps as the standard.
or just, uh, get the MCC? but I feel ya.
See, the mistake here is that y'all keep expecting 343 to know how to Halo. Even after all this time.
How's that working out for ya?
that's silly. you're acting like it was a purposeful design choice and not a compromise to get the best fidelity and framerate. the halo 5 beta was lots of fun, so I'm optimistic.
Nice deal, but I'll never buy digital from Sony again after the piss-poor customer service I recieved trying to get a refund. (It wasn't that I didn't get the refund that pissed me off, it was that it took three months of exchanging e-mails to get a semi-straight answer from them.)
I'm not sure how 'TINY' they are, but yes it's a local-multiplayer mode, not online-multiplayer.
EDIT: Just to try to keep my post on topic. I think in Halo 5 excluding it from online-multiplayer so that they can ensure all systems are running at 60fps with the same graphics is a fair call. Removing the local splitscreen co-op campaign despite it being a mainstay of the series, seems like a huge mistake, and I expect it has been made solely because they wanted to push this 4-player drop-in-drop-out online co-op mode they showed off at E3 instead.
wesleyshark
Banned
See, the mistake here is that y'all keep expecting 343 to know how to Halo. Even after all this time.
How's that working out for ya?
Working pretty well! Halo 4 was the best Halo game to date. H5 looks like it'll be even better IMHO.
Frank Serpico
Banned
I wish I could see the stats of how many actually used local coop in halo 4
Gaiaknight
Member
no 4 player offline multiplayer means i wont be playing halo 5.
About the split screen, they just aren't good enough to bite off that much, and I accepted that fact long ago, but the lack of LAN, offline or otherwise is just beyond the pale. And still yet, not surprising in the least.
I will agree though, compared to the... alternative... at the time, the beta was god-tier.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Is this confirmed? We just had a thread on campaign co-op, why didn't they mention mp then?
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Don't know how much more confirmation you'd need than the tweet plus the pre-order page. Microsoft would get sued if they falsely advertised split screen during pre-orders and purchases so that's why they only have 1-1 Xbox One/12-24 Xbox Live on the pre-order page.
Eternal enemy! Well not really but I must differ.
Only because I played H4 on the MCC just days ago because I don't know, and half the terminals didn't work and I have no idea how to watch the terminals I unlocked but can't watch because the game has to pause (what) to bring up the Halo Channel (WHAT) to stream a video (WHAT) that black screens until you go back to the game (WHAT).
I played a game called The Darkness that let me watch an entire movie within the game while smooching my girlfriend on the couch. Those few clips at a slightly lower resolution should not have been a problem and yet...
Also pissed that the very last battle bugged out and told me to use the machine gun during the QTE when I was clearly holding a grenade. IT'S A QTE HOW DO YOU EVEN and now I'm nitpicking. But so many small things add up and H4 was full of them.
If H5 turns out as amazing as people think, I... I may have to say something nice about 343.
Randolph Freelander
Member
It seems that, more and more, platform holders and game developers are ready to cede the next generation of gamers to other devices.
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
i think people who say its the vocal minority who wants halo splitscreen are crazy.
kids play fps all the time and most kids have at least 1 sibling or cousin they may enjoy playing splitscreen games with. apl these kids arent gonna be reading up on gaf to check if it has split screen.
my in-laws play halo splitscreen just about every other day for years. theyre buying an xb1 for halo and battlefront. a couple of my uncles only own an xbox for halo splitscreen. none of these people care enough about games to be checking up on them in this way and just expect there to be splitscreen.
even if the minority does want splitscreen, i dont think that minority is as small as some of you think. its stupid that i'll have to buy a second xbox to play this with my wife or in-laws who wont pay for online and if this one isnt really good it'll be my last halo if no splitscreen in the future.
kids play fps all the time and most kids have at least 1 sibling or cousin they may enjoy playing splitscreen games with. apl these kids arent gonna be reading up on gaf to check if it has split screen.
my in-laws play halo splitscreen just about every other day for years. theyre buying an xb1 for halo and battlefront. a couple of my uncles only own an xbox for halo splitscreen. none of these people care enough about games to be checking up on them in this way and just expect there to be splitscreen.
even if the minority does want splitscreen, i dont think that minority is as small as some of you think. its stupid that i'll have to buy a second xbox to play this with my wife or in-laws who wont pay for online and if this one isnt really good it'll be my last halo if no splitscreen in the future.
Welfare
Member
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Still havent seen this "biggest Halo" etc yet... And the game doesnt look that amazing either. I dont have a issue with no Splitscreen, but i can understand some people.
And this 60fps excuse is IMO a very bad excuse. There are games coming that have splitscreen and are 60fps games.
wesleyshark
Banned
It actually looks ridiculously good. The e3 demo was bomb.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
Weren't you arguing in the last thread for 343? I find it interesting you are the OP in this one.
It's not a minority at all. Many of the Halo generation have kids now. The people who don't care probably never played it locally at all.
From the other thread:
See this is why people calls you 343 guys liars. I know you hate that Frankie, I won't call you a liar but if this is true you guys let a 20 page thread go on with multiple posts claiming splitscreen MP was in. Not one of you guys corrected anyone on any of the Halo 5 or HaloGAF threads which you are all over.
I mean you guys do how many Sprint episodes, you don't see any mention of this. Do you understand why people think you are dishonest? Lack of disclosing things is still shady. Can you guys confirm, is there any split-screen in Halo 5 at all?
edit: Just saw the tweet. Shameful.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
... ugh... Not sure what you have seen. But i use glasses. That Warzone footage especially looks really bad with all that lowres textures etc going on. The game doesnt look that good to me.
CreateNowSleepLater
Member
This will be the first Halo game I do not buy. Totally shady. They had multiple threads and were crying about all the negativity of the last thread. I had the CE edition all wrapped up too.
Dictator93
Member
Um, wow. Talking about throwing out a large portion of the serie's history and gameplay.
Local coop and local multiplayer were the reasons I liked halo so much.
HowardRoark
Member
Really really disappointed in this.
Excellent news imo. Now we get the graphical power we deserve.
wesleyshark
Banned
I want a good looking and fully immersive campaign and multiplayer experience... Which sounds exactly like what we're getting. I really don't see what the big issue is.
Welfare
Member
Only doing it so they keep the game at 60fps.
Randolph Freelander
Member
This shouldn't be news to you, since you said Halo 4 was the best Halo, but the Halo you like is not the same as the Halo many other people like.
wesleyshark
Banned
I mean, we all like different things and different halo releases. Nothing wrong with that!
It is clockwork. No one.
Absolutely no one.
Should be surprised by this company saying one thing and doing another THIS far into 2015, for whatever reason. I say this with no malice, no hate, none of that. I say it with the same feeling one would say that 1+1=2, or washing machines mainly wash clothes; it just is. 343 will say one thing, and do another. It is the constant everyone can rely upon in this sea of chaos called life.
Also they have an infinite supply of 'but's.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
I wonder if you are serious with this posts...
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Ugh...wesleyshark
Banned
I'm completely honest in saying that Halo 4 was one of my favorite games from the 360 era, and easily the best Halo game. The only games I hold in higher regard from that gen were Mass Effect 2 and Deus Ex HR.
I realize that some people hate Halo 4 and hate 343, and that's fine. We're all entitled to our own views and I won't demonize someone over it either.
Garcia el Gringo
Member
Welp, TMCC in split-screen might be getting more play than Halo 5 at the end of this year and beyond. It's a shame that Halo 5 won't be booted up when I have company over.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Yeah, Gears 3 and Halo 4 sure werent some of the best looking games of last gen. Nope. Not at all.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
I'm completely honest in saying that Halo 4 was one of my favorite games from the 360 era, and easily the best Halo game. The only games I hold in higher regard from that gen were Mass Effect 2 and Deus Ex HR.
I realize that some people hate Halo 4 and hate 343, and that's fine. We're all entitled to our own views and I won't demonize someone over it either.
You never played Halo since the beginning huh?...
Cant believe what i read...
Nope, I won't buy this game whenever I pickup an Xbox One. It is a deal breaker.
wesleyshark
Banned
I've played halo since the original Xbox was around. Went to college in 2003 and was introduced to Halo. It was the first fps I ever played and I've been a fan of the series ever since!