I’ll go first: playing with other people in multiplayer who are geographically close to you would be very fun.

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    Splitscreen. We don’t have enough games to play with friends in the same room. I know its not possible with every game but it has to become more common again.

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      I’m still bitter the last 2 Halo games haven’t had splitscreen. I guess my wife is destined to never complete the series.

      However, 4 is a pretty good ending to the story, thankfully.

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      I agree. I recently bought an Xbox Series X after saving for quite a while, and I love to play games with my friends and girlfriend.

      It’s so cool to just sit on the couch with a friend and play together something. I wish more coop games had split screen.

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      The death of couch co-op and local multiplayer is legitimately an unforgivable sin in modern gaming.

      I honestly can’t imagine being a kid today and heading over to a friend’s house for a sleepover and not being able to all gather on the couch to play Halo or Nightfire with your friends.

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      The new super mario bros wonder would’ve really benefited from that. Or maybe just zoom out a bit. Four characters on screen and all the real estate is gone. The camera always follows a seeminlgy random player which sometimes even switches around mid level who it follows. It’s really annoying to play multiplayer. No if I had the same screen, just smaller, four times for each their one. That’d be amazing!

      If you wanna get real fancy, it could be a single screen when everyone’s close and split when someone goes to far away. Probably works best for two players though

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      Nintendo is the only one that puts any effort into same system multiplayer. Though I do wish solution had split screen co op. Prolly the funnest competing game I’ve ever played but can’t introduce friends to it easily.

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      Exactly. Imagine my immense disappointment visiting my sister, whom I grew up with having LIFE-ALTERING battles stretching from racing games to fighting games (not a far stretch I know, still), and there was no split screen to be found on her modern gaming console. A lot of games aren’t suited for it, granted, but a RACING game with NO split-screen? Stupid.

      I miss demolishing my sister in the same room. My parents, peace be upon them (maybe because I destroyed them in Tekken 2), my friends at my local youth movement, … nowadays it seems like everyone and their dog needs to buy the game, so you can play against each other far away from one another wearing no pants.