Back when it was under the price of 2 games a year it was a pretty good deal. Thinking of buying the next Halo and Forza? Get gamepass and save money, and have the opportunity to try a bunch of other stuff you wouldn’t have played.
There’s amazing games like Hades and Slay the Spire that I wouldn’t have been interested enough in to purchase that are now among my favorites because Gamepass let me try them.
Honestly, I think the better route would be to keep it cheap but not include new releases. Let people access the back catalog affordably with games that aren’t brining in much new revenue anyway. People will discover games and genres they otherwise would not have played, which will create new markets and boost ssales of new releases.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Cloud play allows local couch co-op without a second console/version of the game.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Back in my day we had split screen multiplayer
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Still irritates me that modern games don’t have this. Surely it’s not that hard to implement in modern games.
And in the case of the master chief collection? They literally just… Turned it off. The code is there, it could work, but they say no.
If you buy it on Xbox, you can do splitscreen. If you buy it on PC? You cannot.
However, if you use alpharing, you can patch the game with literal kilobytes of code, and force activate splitscreen. It’s a little janky, but proves the code is in there, it’s just turned off.
Disgusting.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah this pisses me off as well. And TVs now are much bigger and wider, too. Back in the day we’d split screen on whatever we had, which was more often than not an almost-square CRT with not much screen space to begin with!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I hate it, but it’s easy to justify from a dev perspective. If it’s switched off it doesn’t need to be tested.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I mean, yeah I’d entirely prefer that too. But on a halo series play through you hit a wall with halo 5.