Many gamers have setups with two or monitors. Oftentimes these differ in size, resolution, even aspect ratio. They can be very helpful in productivity tasks, but mid-gameplay they rarely serve as more than displays for external music or chat.

Are there games that utilize this extra space in a unique way and are played better or exclusively with two or more monitors? Preferably something more than just extra FOV

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      32 months ago

      What did uplink do? I cant find anything online except people having issues due to dual monitors.

      • Flamekebab
        link
        fedilink
        English
        42 months ago

        I believe it showed the map screen. The functionality worked over a network so it didn’t even have to be dual monitors on the same machine!

    • Ulrich
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12 months ago

      How do you get your DS games on the monitors?

        • missingno
          link
          fedilink
          72 months ago

          The Wii U was stuck working against itself in a number of ways. On paper, the idea of bringing the DS’s successful format to a console sounded great… but couldn’t actually work the same way in practice.

          The first problem was that human eyes can’t focus on two screens at different distances from the eye. You can’t actually look at both screens together, you have to switch your focus from one to the other.

          Then there’s just the economic reality of console development requiring developers to prioritize multiplatform development. No one wants to design a game around the Wii U and have it be exclusive to the Wii U. That was viable for the DS because the DS was such a massive juggernaut, and because handheld titles could be developed on a much smaller budget, but Wii U exclusivity could never be justified. Games that are being developed for other single-screen platforms and then ported to Wii U can’t do much with the Gamepad.

          But perhaps the most ironic nail in the coffin was that the best use case for the Gamepad, Off-TV Play, could only be supported by games designed around a single screen. Developers shouldn’t make the second screen important or else they lose this feature!

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            12 months ago

            I feel like Mariokart 8 made good use of the gamepad: it could act as a mirror of the TV or it could display non-essential info like a map and what items each player has.

    • Tar_Alcaran
      link
      fedilink
      English
      32 months ago

      Yeah, if you’re not running (at least) two clients, you’re playing eve wrong.

    • Rimu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      72 months ago

      I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game

    • Coelacanth
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22 months ago

      My first thought as well. Good old times of triple boxing spy alts and whatnot. I still miss it sometimes.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22 months ago

      Once you won EVE, try out Prosperous Universe. No combat. Just the economics/trading of EVE, no need to always be on.

      Plus, we have the best spreadsheets.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      62 months ago

      Doesn’t Factorio have a mod that hosts a local server you can connect to with your browser and view the map? Or am I thinking about Minecraft?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    82 months ago

    Runescape (both OSRS and RS3) cause the second screen will be filled with the best wiki in the gaming industry, movie or just some random video.

      • @[email protected]
        cake
        link
        fedilink
        English
        22 months ago

        FAF is Forged Alliance Forever, a community launcher/patcher for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (the expansion). It has an active community and adds a multiplayer ladder, balance fixes, quality of life improvements, co-op versions of campaign missions, and more. It’s great!

  • Raltoid
    link
    fedilink
    English
    8
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    There was a 3D military tactic game or two from one dev that had dual monitor support. Where the second monitor became an overhead map that let you issues commands.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      32 months ago

      I know supreme commander 2 has the second screen as a tactical map. Not sure if it’s interactive though.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12 months ago

    Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator.

    If you are into older space sims and Star Trek, you might like it :D

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    22 months ago

    Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours on Steam. Maybe the PS4 variant has some magic for multipule monitors, too but I’m too lazy to look. There may also be other Darius ports that utilize multiple monitors but this is the main one in the series.

    It’s a horizontal shmup that used large displays in the arcade cabinets, that may have been multiple monitors but my memory is fuzzy.

    You can stretch the game across multiple monitors in the game settings to replicate the super wide feel of the arcade game. They even have some “cabinet” connection options in the port that let’s you compare your scores and see replays from other players.

    while not a novel thing such as extra menus or something, it let’s you play the game closer to its original format.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    432 months ago

    Back in the day Supreme Commander could utilize a second monitor for a dedicated map that you could zoom in and out of independently of the main game window. I don’t remember if you could do other things with it, but I thought it was pretty sweet with just that.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    142 months ago

    Simulators, like x-plane or flightsim, and I think some driving sims can use lots of monitors. Like 4 monitors for the cockpit windows and another two for control panels etc. though you need a hench pc and graphics set up to do this at a decent frame rate

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      142 months ago

      I don’t think any driving sim can use a smaller monitor as a dash/timer natively. Most people do this through third party software like SimHub