Comments on: MotorStorm Splitscreen Petition

By: derrickgott007

derrickgott007 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:57:42 +0000

Darrin, I agree with you 100% on the FFB issue. They dropped the ball on F1 by not including FFB. Sure the DFP works, but the wheel feels too light….I want to feel the curbs, holes, gravel, etc….

Thank goodness that DIRT has support for both FFB and the DFP.

By: MetalProxy

MetalProxy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:39:18 +0000

If things werent wide screen now i would ask for it. Playing WarHawk split screen works but you tend to use the map way to much to be enjoyable. Compromises in graphics suck though, especially when the graphics on the PS3 are supposed to be the best out there. Well Iam kinda on the fence with the whole split screen stuff to be honest.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:33:07 +0000

Realistically, only a minority of users care about split screen. It’s a completely valid request that is a must-have for some, but lots of people don’t value it, and it requires significant programming effort and compromises.

My personal wish is for more racing games to support force feedback steering wheels like the DFP. And that seems like it would be easy to program in, and doesn’t require any other compromises.

By: derrickgott007

derrickgott007 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:12:50 +0000

Did you just call me a fat triangle? Obtuse? lol. I guess you could say I am a solitary gamer. I’d rather play online co-op where each player has their own full screen…I guess you could chalk it up to bad split screen experiances such as too narrow of a field of vision when doing split screen, and I am a die hard physics fan, and most splitscreen games alter the physics engine for splitscreen.

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:58:31 +0000

Don’t be obtuse.

Of course splitscreen will entail compromises. It always has. Even back on the PSOne splitscreen caused compromises. There’s no way around it – you now have four players screens’ geometries to render. But that doesn’t mean you can’t give the user a good experience.

And who said that it’s an either-or situation when it comes to online fullscreen and offline 1/4 screen? You can have a no-holds-barred fullscreen experience with all the graphical goodies, and also a slightly-reduced experience when playing splitscreen. I’ll take both, thank-you very much.

By: derrickgott007

derrickgott007 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:50:30 +0000

so you are saying that you would be happy with less detail and less textures and a slower framerate? It’s a catch 22…..you leave out splitscreen and people bitch…you put it in and they bitch that there are compromises. I’ll take online fullscreen to offline 1/4 screen anyday.

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:56:57 +0000

I don’t care if there are some compromises when running in splitscreen mode. It’s natural and expected. And worth it.

By: iFlash

iFlash — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:32:59 +0000

Umm yeah what ^^^ this dude said is what I got from it and I bought the game knowing this fact.