why not 4 player local co op?

[Horniborni]

nearly all beat-em-ups these days support 4 player local play. Is it a planned feature down the road?

[KenjiN4]

RCG2 can barely hold 4P onscreen, and Shredder's Revenge isn't really optimal with its 6P capabilities, so 4P at launch isn't a norm for all games.
If the game does well, maybe they'll invest on more players on multiplayer, who knows, we also don't have much details yet

[Horniborni]

Both games work pretty good in 4p imo. 6p is another story. its messy but 4 is managable if you play a lot of local games

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by Horniborni:

Both games work pretty good in 4p imo. 6p is another story. its messy but 4 is managable if you play a lot of local games

RCG2 chugs in performance with more than 2P according to what I've seen, which honestly is unacceptable for what they offer. And Shredder's Revenge might work well with 4P, but I have yet to check it properly
While 4P won't be a thing for DD Gaiden, even with other 4P brawlers around, it won't be a deal breaker for me. FnR has Local 3P and is often regarded as a great game for example.
But yeah, let's wait for now, Mayhem Brawler started as a 3P game (because it only had 3 characters to pick at launch though), and it's a 4P one now, maybe things can change in the future

[EastX]

River City Girls 2 runs fine in 4-player, from my experience. Hardware might be a factor. Shredder's Revenge runs fine with 6 players, of course.

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by EastX:

River City Girls 2 runs fine in 4-player, from my experience. Hardware might be a factor. Shredder's Revenge runs fine with 6 players, of course.

To me and most other people that were playing on console it runs awful and chugs often like it was an afterthought instead of something well thought, it has more to do with how it was coded, not hardware related. A game like that should NOT stutter with what it offers.
Having said that, it's good that this company is holding back at the moment, better to play safe after what was going on. If things go well, then they can update the game to be able to have more players on the same screen. Despite the amount of characters, there has to be a good reason why it's 2P local for now, they are thinking about online for a future update if possible, which is smart thinking considering how RCG2 went regarding this point.

[Horniborni]

RCG2 had issues at launch in singleplayer. I remember they released a beta patch to temporarily improve the performance. It worked wonderfully for me in 4p after the beta. Dunno about consoles I play local 4 player on pc

[tantrum-bull]

Originally posted by Horniborni:

Both games work pretty good in 4p imo. 6p is another story. its messy but 4 is managable if you play a lot of local games

I think TMNT SR really should have had dual screen support. 6 players is a good feature to have but having support for a second screen really could have helped with the screen space to keep things from getting cluttered.

[FL@BUSH DEMIGOD]

Same devs that did River City Underground, no reason this game doesn't have 4 player co op. And is this game NOT online? Definitely not buying smh very disappointing

[EastX]

Originally posted by TTV/acesinna:

Same devs that did River City Underground, no reason this game doesn't have 4 player co op. And is this game NOT online? Definitely not buying smh very disappointing

Gaiden absolutely does not come from the same developers as River City Underground. That studio shut down, and Bannon Rudis went to work at WayForward. Double Dragon Gaiden is being developed by Secret Base Games out of Singapore. This all shows why it's important not to talk out of one's butt.

[MachTackle]

Originally posted by EastX:

Gaiden absolutely does not come from the same developers as River City Underground. That studio shut down, and Bannon went to work at WayForward. Double Dragon Gaiden is being developed by Secret Base Games out of Singapore. This all shows why it's important not to talk out of one's butt.

Have to admit that this response made me chuckle mildly.

[Thief]

Thank you for letting us know what you want, I'm passing the feedback to the devs and will let this thread know if there's any developments we can share~

[bullfighter]

performance with 4P would be lower

[KenjiN4]

Originally posted by Horniborni:

nearly all beat-em-ups these days support 4 player local play. Is it a planned feature down the road?

Going back here to give you a kind of hunch for ya
Since the game puts emphasis on a tag system, and you have four characters available from the start, that means you have two couples to work with (a primary and a secondary character).
Unless you could select the same character, or you could omit the tag system somehow, there would be no way to start a fresh game with 4P like that. Not to mention some other technical limitations or hurdles like enemy scaling and such.
I'd like a 4P mode, but only if they manage to balance it well.