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Co-op on the 360
poshniallo
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Hi
I just finished Gears of War (on Hardcore, not Insane) with a friend, and it was one of the most fun game experiences I've ever had.
So, I'm keen to do more co-op-ing on the 360, but I'm not sure what's good - whether Live Arcade, old Xbox, or normal 360 titles.
I thought I'd ask in G&T rather than H&A to give people a chance to disagree with each other more, as I'm keen to hear opinions.
Halo 3 is the obvious choice, I suppose, but I never fancied the basic game. Will co-op transform it enough?
Cheers.
I just finished Gears of War (on Hardcore, not Insane) with a friend, and it was one of the most fun game experiences I've ever had.
So, I'm keen to do more co-op-ing on the 360, but I'm not sure what's good - whether Live Arcade, old Xbox, or normal 360 titles.
I thought I'd ask in G&T rather than H&A to give people a chance to disagree with each other more, as I'm keen to hear opinions.
Halo 3 is the obvious choice, I suppose, but I never fancied the basic game. Will co-op transform it enough?
Cheers.
I figure I could take a bear.
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What about sports games? Hockey is fairly fun to play co-op once you get your routine down but you do have to play a bit to learn each other's style.
I honestly wouldn't bother - it's gathering dust on my shelf, with only occasional plays. Maybe it's better if you're playing with someone in the same room, I don't know.
That's how I usually played it, or played it with people I know rather than a random game.
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Halo 3 is also great co-op if only for the fact that it is 4 player. Of course I liked the other Halo games so take that for what it is worth.
There are a few other co-op shooters out there, but none that I think are all that good. Rock Band is definitely one of the best co-op games out there.
I've actually been looking into co-op games recently too. I even downloaded TMNT Arcade just for the 4 player.
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Then for more Co-op action I would say:
Army of Two: I am having a blast playing that with my girlfriend, pretty close to Gears and you can pimp out your guns!
Lego Star Wars: If Star Wars be your thing, this is a fun little game, the camera is clunky, but it is still worth a look.
Although this is a sin in this forum, I am going to agree with Ohio (the poster, not the state) and push you away from EDF, don't believe the hype here, it is rubbish.
Obligatory Halo 3 mention here. I'm going to recommend Marvel: Ultimate Alliance if you're both playing in the same room together.
Army of Two is like a poor man's Gears of War--it SOUNDS awesome on the back of the box, but then you find out that all of that super-cool nifty coop-specific options are only available at specific points in the game when the developer decided that they'd force you and your teammate to do the back to back shooty thing (for instance). You cannot do the back to back shooty thing at other points if you want to, and if there's ever a point where you're supposed to do it but don't want to, too fucking bad because you're anchored in place until the game decides you've endured it enough. Rent Army of Two, don't buy it.
Finally, I also recommend Crackdown, mainly as a warmup for when Mercenaries 2 comes out (which will also have coop).
That's odd, the back-to-back parts were some of my favorite sections of the game. And I thought it always made sense when the game made you go back-to-back. It was like, "oh shit, we're being flanked, back-to-back bro!". And capping people in slow-mo in back-to-back mode is awesome.
Granted I will say the game is not worth $60, most games now-a-days are not. I got my copy for about $40 used and it has been worth every penny.
While the above may be true (although I didn't really find it all that ugly), you left off:
-EXPLODING GIANT ANTS WITH YOUR MASSIVE WEAPONS
-DESTROYING GIANT MECHS THAT SOMETIMES LOOK LIKE DINOSAURS
-EVERYTHING EXPLODES
-YOU ARE AN UNSTOPPABLE ONE MAN ARMY
-THIS GAME PLAYS IN ALL CAPS
Seriously though, I found EDF co-op with a good friend to be an insane amount of fun. Sure it has it's flaws, but there's a lot of awesome too.
GTA has some great gameplay, but the 3 co-op missions are relatively short.
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You're looking at it the wrong way. Do people watch monster movies like godzilla for the amazing special effects? Or just because they are kinda mindless fun and funny in their cheesiness. That's what EDF is in my opinion. Just fun and mindless. I mean look at the dialog that your "squadmates" say throughout the missions, they are ridiculous and hilarious ("The old man is dead!", "It's acid! They are shooting acid! AAAH!" and my favorite "How's it moving so fast when it's walking so slow? Just shows you how big the damn thing is!!")
I understand when people say they don't like it, but I love it. And the gameplay is only repetitive when you play it alone on the first two difficulties, which admittedly you kind of have to do to get health and weapons. But once you start playing with a buddy and on the harder difficulties, it's is less about just holding down the fire button and more about coming up with strategies to take out the spawn holes. You set priorities and have to split up then regroup to take out the more dangerous ones.
I just hope they make a sequel with online 8 player co-op, huge levels and even bigger monsters
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I'm going to say YES. Although it will eventually start to suck because after it gets to be about 5 pages long someone will come along and say, "I didn't read the whole thread but..." and then mention every game we've already mentioned. Then someone else who hasn't read the thread will come along and explain why EDF2017 is shit for all the same reasons as illustrated previously.
RE: my critique of Army of Two--
The problem I had with the back to back shooty thing wasn't that it felt unnatural when they decided to do it (although, well, let's face it, it was unnatural. No one stands still and turns in slow circles while suicide bombs run up at them). The problem was that it wasn't actually an option. If you happened to find yourself surrounded at a place the game wasn't expecting, you couldn't team up, you basically had to run like a frightened bunny to get someplace defensible. And if you're back-to-back shooting at a different point in the game and there's obvious, defensible cover *right next to you* it doesn't matter because you can't turn it off and find your own tactical solution.
I don't mind linear gameplay. All of Gears of War's levels were linear and they were a blast. But putting the gameplay on rails and then adding in all of these "features" like they expand the coop possibilities when actually they're just gimmicks used to *restrict* your gameplay is dumb, in my opinion.
We'll just have to disagree then on this. Must be a matter of taste, cause I freakin' love the back to back sections and think they really add to the game. And to be honest I never thought not being able to turn it on or off was an issue.
Oh and these guys choose to go back to back and stand still while suicide bombers run at them, cause they are two bad-ass, masking wearing, air guitar perfoming, gold weapon weilding, killing machines!
+1 for EDF.
That games rules man. I bought it for £15 and have had more than 60 awesome hours out of it so far.
Halo 3 co-op over Live is one of my favourite games of all time, basically.
Heavy Weapon co-op rules Live Arcade until Castle Crashers comes out.
TMNT Arcade is a good laugh if you have a buddy to play with.
LEGO Star Wars is surprisingly great, and has a huge amount of game for your dollah. The Complete Saga can be found for £25 and has a vast number of levels, characters and unlockables. Good humour, fun co-op.
I wanted to clarify (and would have in an edit to my post, except I was late for a lunch date with my girlfriend earlier) that I did have fun playing Army of Two, and I'm not disrespecting anyone else who enjoyed it. My thing is that I had fun playing Army of Two with my brother because I was playing it with my brother. I didn't enjoy it because of the special gimicks (although I guess I haven't paid due lip service yet to aggro, that part at least was a good addition and actually did help a team of players to create solutions to tactical problems). So I'm not prone to give the game credit for making the experience fun when it was my brother who really delivered on that title for me.
And there may also be an element of "matter of taste" to it, as well. I play tactical shooters and war games because I like solving 3d puzzles in real time that are also trying to solve me, too. Bad ass, irreverent characters aren't as necessary for me to enjoy a shooter as much as having a variety of tools and gameplay options available to approach a problem, and that's specifically why I disliked the on-rails parts of AOT--I don't like having my solution picked for me.
Plus I think Marcus Fenix was a waaaaay bigger badass than the two guys in Army of Two.
While I won't disagree that those things are apparent in the game, the game is still exceptionally entertaining, and I haven't even played it co-op.
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No disrespect taken on my part, unlike many others in this forum I will not attack you for not liking a game I do, or showing the faults of a game I love.
If you enjoyed playing Army of Two with your bro, then there ya go. That is what the game was really meant for, two player co-op. The "gimmicks" are just there for stuff you and your bro to do.
Yeah, this game is not a tactical shooter. It is a balls-to-the-wall shooter. So I could see why there are certain aspects of it that you don't like. Me, I don't want to solve 3d puzzles, I want bad-ass, irreverent characters that kill people. So it is a matter of taste, nothing wrong with that at all. If anything we have given the OP enough info to make a choice about Army of Two.
I love Gears of War, I play it all the time, but really, let's be honest, Marcus Fenix just grunts and has a few one-liners.
My biggest gripe with Gears is that the story was about as shallow as the kiddie pool in munchin land.
But, having said that, Gears still kicks alot ass. So you Mr. OP, what are you doing reading this, go back and finish the damn game on Insane! :P
Oh Gawd, you're one of those people who spent four days of your life trying to go straight down the main road during the first Marine Corps mission on insane in Call of Duty 4 until you finally battered that brick wall down with your skull, rather than playing it smart and working your way through cover down the side streets, aren't you? ;-)
Gears of War
Army of Two
Halo 3
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (for the original Xbox not the Xbox360)
Warriors (for the original Xbox)
Earth Defense Force 2017
Dynasty Warriors 6
Kane and Lynch
Guitar Hero III
Rock Band
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Perfect Dark Zero
Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six: Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six: Vegas 2
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008 (Tag Team matches only, really run rental, but limited)
Monster Madness
Any of the Lego Star Wars games
Assault Heroes (XBL Arcade)
Star Wars Episode III (for the original Xbox, heard good things about the co-op despite mediocre gameplay)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (original Xbox)
That's all I could think of offhand.
Mmm. I'm playing it with some peeps I know online, but honestly, I'm not finding it that fun. Which is weird, because it's really just X-Men Legends 2: Heroes Up The Yhazoo
Maybe that's the problem - I enjoyed X-Men Legends, but that was on the GameCube. I was expecting more from a 360 game because, you know, next gen. Marvel Ultimate Alliance feels as if it could be played on the GameCube to me, and that's no compliment.
I know not of this "Call of Duty 4" you speak of. I have played "Call of the Grenade: Modern Grenades" though. :P
COD4 was just not my cup o tea. The multiplayer matches in which I have to dodge grenades thrown from a such a long range I sometimes think the Manning Brothers are on the other end of the map lobbing grenades at me didn't help. Not to mention the endless spawning of bad guys until I reach some spot that shuts off the bad guy faucet. And on the harder levels the bad guys seem to all be expert marksmen, that can hit you know matter where you are, in the head, between the eyes, from 3 miles away, in the fog, during an earthquake.
But having said that, I can see why it sold an ass-load of games and was some people's choice for game of the year.
Just not my bag, man.
Gears
Halo 3
Metal Slug 3 maybe (If you have this anyone add me I need some of those harder achievements :P)
all have splitscreen which is what you're looking for (except for slug, old arcade all on the same screen)
Earth Defense Force is so replayable too.
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