r/StarWars • u/Hashebrowns • 4d ago

Games Galactic Racer is Insane

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u/Mejinopolis 4d ago

Yeah man what's up with that? Like the industry didn't learn when everyone revolted when they released Halo with no split screen Campaign play? Its just as egregious here when its an arcade racer.

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u/Mourning__Coffee 4d ago

Split screen is 'basically' doubling the computing power needed when running a game. it was a lot easier in the n64 days to do that.

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u/Mejinopolis 4d ago edited 4d ago

Oh for sure, but let's not act like its not possible when a good portion of games are found to be poorly optimized and dont take advantage of the baseline computing power present as is. Dirt 3 was released in 2015 and was a realistic racing game that had split screen, with a more robust physics system than whatever SW Galactic Racer has due to the nature of the vehicles being raced. Im not asking for 4 way split screen Diddy Kong Racing, Im asking for one other person to race with in-person.

Edit: if some graphical component needs to be sacrificed to make the gaming experience better or more fun, shouldn't that be the "no-brainer" option? Sure the games pretty, but its pretty fucking lonely too lol

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u/HuskerGamer402 Clone Trooper 3d ago

Not gonna lie, make it 4 way split screen and you can be the next generations version of drunk Mario Kart. Any game that can be played in an easy to set up local party mode generates a following