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Looking for an awesome multiplayer co-op game
Klundtasaur
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So, there's a group of 4 of us that love to game co-op multiplayer. We were just let down by Borderlands, and we've played L4D to death. We all have pretty decent rigs (the worst card any of us has is a 4850) but we're looking for a new multiplayer co-op experience. Ideally:
Suggestions would be welcomed. We've enjoyed Diablo 2 type games in the past, but ideally something less...i don't know, less fantasy based? I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for, to be honest--i haven't been following games very closely in the last few years.
So, yeah, thoughts?
- The 4 of us vs. the computer
- story line is preferred but not required
- nothing as realistically complicated as Arma2
Suggestions would be welcomed. We've enjoyed Diablo 2 type games in the past, but ideally something less...i don't know, less fantasy based? I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for, to be honest--i haven't been following games very closely in the last few years.
So, yeah, thoughts?
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Can't think of too many more co-op games for PC, but this might help
Its only 2 player co-op (which works to even you guys in pairs), but it is amazing. There is a larger multiplayer mode, but I'm not sure how it works.
The co-op mode is drop in/out as you want, LAN or online (although the game requires Steam on PC), which enables you absurd amounts of freedom to do anything you've ever imagined in a sandbox game. If you wanna do missions or any assorted activities, both players reap the rewards and get the stats counted for them.
AI War, if you're up for a strategy style game, rocks the socks off almost any co-op game.
Could grab one of the older GTAs with a multiplayer mod (I believe Vice City and San Andreas have one). I don't believe they come with any story, and its a free-for-all system rather than co-op (so you can accidentally blow your partner up).
Neverwinter Nights/Neverwinter Nights 2 have amazing co-op options, with plenty of storylines and a Diablo 2 style engine, but is a Fantasy setting and has a fairly steep learning curve depending on what/how you play. Most of that goes for Dungeon Siege as well, although less options overall but even more like Diablo 2.
I could be wrong, but I thought at least one of the UFO games had a co-op mode of some sort. Can't remember for sure. Been a long time since I played it (too long to give an accurate assessment), but you could scope out Laser Squad Nemesis. I don't think it had a story though, and instead of co-op its team based, but I think you can play the AI instead of another set of players.
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Oh yeah, if you don't mind aging (or far too aged for their time) games, then Serious Sam has a co-op mode, although I know nothing about it. Likewise with Vampire: The Masquerade, Baldur's Gate 2, and SWAT 4.
And I think KF is a great game in short bursts, to me. Once you do a few rounds and levels there's not much else going for it.
Yea, but they aren't BroDawg enough to play against other humans as he stated. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I have a friend who won't play any game unless its co-op pretty much.
The problems are that it looks dated (though there is a patch for that) and it's a pain to get it to run on modern rigs as well as playing online.
Besides, you're better off playing it solo anyway so you can digest the game at your own pace and you don't have someone hurrying you along to the next checkpoint/area when you're trying to listen to the audio log.
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Um, not sure if you're trying to stick to action/shooter games or not, but Guild Wars would also work. The four of you just form a party, and since the world is instanced, you don't have to worry about other people ruining your fun. It's also cheap and free to play, which is a plus.
Lost Planet 2 looks to fill this niche pretty well, but it doesn't come out until May.
Colonial Marines (not Aliens vs. Predator) looks to be built as a co-op experience, but it's been in release date limbo for some time. Hopefully it's still on track and won't be a victim of budget cuts.
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Serious Sam 1 and 2 are still great -- my friend and I still play it co-op today, dated graphics be damned. And didn't they just release an anniversary edition with updated graphics?
New Super Mario Bros Wii is hilarious.
Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures will ruin friendships.
The Tales RPG series tends to be decent co-op if you like story. One of you controls the main character, while everyone else controls one of the party members while in battle.
It's built with co-op in mind, no adversarial modes at all, and it looks like it could get downright nuts in multiplayer.
So yeah, AI Wars if you guys like to get your strategery on.
Nevewinter Nights + addons
Neverwinter Nights 2 + addons
I'm only half joking :P
Opinions lol, do not listen to this guy.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the co-op multiplayer challenges in perfect dark. And at only 10 bucks, the price is right!
urahonky: Borderlands let us down with the story line, not the game play. We had expected the ending to be worth something--not some "to be continued" BS.
But I understand the hate for the ending. Though I honestly didn't play the game for the story.
If you pay even more than retail, you can get a satisfactory game.
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What about WoW? You can co-op everything in that game.
Also, you say that and then recommend WoW? You're a terrible person.
So nyah.
The Serious Sam series is a blast, both literally and figuratively. It's a FPS which pits players against swarms of hilarious and grotesque enemies in large and imaginative environs. Practically built from the ground up for coop play.
Dungeon Siege II is a fantasy action RPG, but hones the experience down to a lot of ass-kickery and less inventory management.
Saints Row 2 is extremely fun in co-op mode, though two people can only play in that mode at a time. Imagine GTA IV, but with less brown and seriousness and more fun and debauchery, and with co-op.
SWAT 4 is another really great co-op game. It's a first-person tactical shooter.
or classic Contra!
Not the newfangled Advanced Warfighter business, old-school GR. It was basically Rainbow Six: Let's Go Outside. With the expansion packs it's a ton of shootin' fun.
Still don't get why they didn't put co-op in the PC version when it's in the Xbox version.