For The Love of Your Partner
Any of those gamers out there in a relationship will know that things can become contentious when you put gaming before anything else, and even more heated when your partner is there with you while playing. I suppose its understandable when youre tied to a headset, fixated on the screen choosing to talk to a load of people youve never met before. And then theres the familiar walk in and want of the TV situation forcing you to typically end a match early. Thats probably the worst situation to be in, but at the other side of spectrum its the best situation when you can get your partner to join in a game with you. If you have a gaming partner then all is well, as you can play a catalogue of great core games without the worry of teaching the controls and the likely tirade of questions of whats going on?. But if your partner isnt the gaming type then hopping into something easily accessible, like any of the Lego games from Travellers Tales or Viva Pinata, can still make gaming sessions great.
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All of these experiences are experiences that can only be fulfilled with a decent split-screen game, and thankfully they do still exist in some of the bigger, expensive names such as Halo or Killzone 3, but theyre a breed that has slowly diminished over the years to be instead overtaken by motion contraptions favouring the new, and welcomed, casual audiences. Yet thats completely okay, why? As motion gaming has brought widened acceptance to gaming as a pastime and has used technology to prove that it doesnt have to isolate to benefit, but as long as its noticed that there is still a want for closely knitted group experiences for the loyal core gamer, as despite common misperception, socialising is an enjoyment there too.