With the upcoming release of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, and it not having local co-op, I’m reminded of how much I hate that so many new games just neglect this feature.
In the past few years, the past decade really, so many games have come out that I would absolutely love to play with my friends on local co-op, but I’m constantly let down. They always have an online co-op feature but, like in the case of Galactic Racer, it just feels so blindingly obvious that it would be great for local co-op.
I’m not a game dev so I can’t know, is it really that much of a detriment to game development to implement this feature? I think I heard that local co-op basically means running the game twice at once and therefore really hurts performance but I’m not certain. #games source