There were a shit ton of great local multiplayer games on Y8, Arcadeprehacks, Minijuegos (spanish gaming site) and many other sites I used to visit to play some sweet games
its a thing but its not at all common. people that use emulators are rather rare compared to even people that just play old games in general which are rather rare compared to people that just play current stuff specifically mainstream current stuff. Local multiplayer is a dead feature.
Its like people that play warhammer 40k. Its a niche group in the niche group that is wargame players which is in the a niche group that is table top gamers. The only difference here is that its more likely that a younger person gets into 40k than emulators and old games that have local multiplayer as there are moderately mainstream 40k games to work as a gateway game.
mainstream games don't get local multiplayer. Even a lot of console releases are losing local multiplayer. On pc only indy games really will have it. There really isnt a market for it. Console players are mostly online nowadays. PC gamers are also mostly online now. Think to yourself when youve last seen a mainstream game released with local multiplayer that was more than a tacked on afterthought.
Fair point - we play old games so maybe that's why I haven't seen it. We don't really have internet - the capacity (bandwidth and usage) is too shitty and data is really expensive - we only could start buying internet for the flat since end of last year and we've been living here for four years now. We just didn't have pc internet at all, because it is too expensive and considered a luxury item. So we mostly come together and offline lan games over weekends, like Age of Empires, Diablo II, Torchlight II, Killing Floor, that we got from a friend.
i mostly play singleplayer games myself. Im still not used to having good internet. We live in the boonies here and really recently we got fiberoptic lines put in. One electric company did it like 4 years ago and then all the others started doing it. Took them like 2 years to get it all the way put in my area but that shit is like so good.
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for people who don't want to admit their not special.
Its like people that play warhammer 40k. Its a niche group in the niche group that is wargame players which is in the a niche group that is table top gamers. The only difference here is that its more likely that a younger person gets into 40k than emulators and old games that have local multiplayer as there are moderately mainstream 40k games to work as a gateway game.