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8/19/2014 6:59:54 AM
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Seriously, Split Screen
I know there are a bunch of topics out there already, but I decided to add my voice to the throng.
Guys, do you have any idea how disappointing it was for my wife and I to play the beta, both love the heck out of it, and realize we would never actually be able to play the game together? We can't afford to buy another current-gen console just to play one game together, but we both loved the beta and would really like to play the game together. That's a huge experience you're depriving us of. And when Destiny, a game with a huge focus on social interaction, doesn't allow us to have that interaction with the closest people in our lives, something is very, [i]very[/i] wrong.
Just add two-player split screen to the game. It will only help your goals here, and it will help my wife and I (among a multitude of other people with the same complaint) enjoy the game so, so much more.
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1 ReplyI'd love split screen, but I'm not sure destiny is capable of supporting it. Playing halo with a house wired up to support 4 xboxes so 16 of us could play was a huge thing. It made gaming great. That said, split screen on destiny would come down to the capability of a system to support 2 separate games running simultaneously. I know the last gen consoles can't handle it. PS3 has too many problems running a single game with too much memory. Destiny works extremely well on it, but Fallout New Vegas couldn't run at all late game. And the skyrim problems. Destiny would work great if you were running split screen in a limited level system like Halo. The problem is that it's far too easy to wander off from your fireteam in destiny. If I go left and the person I'm playing with goes right, and we end up in 2 separate loading zones it means that the game has to load and run both zones simultaneously, effectively doubling the game's pull on the processor. PS3 would simply freeze. PS4/xbox1 might be able to run it, with diminished capability/frame rate, then again they simply might not be able to do it at all. If the game was limited to strikes/crucible matches it would probably be fine, aside from log in limitations which may be inherent to the system architecture. Explore mode would either be unplayable or crash. Much of the story mode crosses through the explore mode terrain, making it essentially explore mode. Split screen is great, I'd love to see it, but I'm not sure that this is even possible given the game they made.
