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on: November 27, 2006, 03:49:14 PM

So over the weekend I got the hankering for some co-op gameplay for the PC and kind of realized how badly there's a dearth of this sort of thing. I found a number of titles, most of which are pretty old or difficult to obtain. Hence, I'm asking you guys if you know of any awesome moderately-modern co-opness.

Stuff I found/played/tried to play:
* Diablo I/II - duh
* Marathon I/II/etc. (opensource/free!)
* Sacrifice (co-op multiplayer via teams vs. computers - most any RTS can do this though)
* Lots and lots of MAME games
* System Shock 2 - couldn't get it to work though
* Half-Life 1/Sven Co-op

So... what am I missing?
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Reply #1 on: November 27, 2006, 03:55:17 PM

I like the Rainbow Six games for coop (Ghost Recon, etc).

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Reply #2 on: November 27, 2006, 03:58:43 PM

GRAW has the worst coop ever. If the number one guy dies, mission over. That shit sucks.

Go buy a 360.
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Reply #3 on: November 27, 2006, 04:00:00 PM

Oh yeah. The NWN series. Thats decent, if slow, co-op.

Also Titan Quest.
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Reply #4 on: November 27, 2006, 04:06:15 PM

Guild Wars. Halo. Warcraft III with some of the maps like tower attack or the RPG maps.
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Reply #5 on: November 27, 2006, 04:25:19 PM

Oh yeah. The NWN series. Thats decent, if slow, co-op.

Also Titan Quest.

Mm, I have both of those, just forgot to mention them. Also BG1/BG2/IWD1/IWD2 have co-op, although those really requires being in the same room to properly coordinate, I find.

GRAW has the worst coop ever. If the number one guy dies, mission over. That shit sucks.

Go buy a 360.

The hell is GRAW? And I was expecting Schild to be the first to make a "go buy console keke" comment - not valid since it'd necessitate the purchase of 360s by several individuals, plus games, plus XBL subscriptions. And a TV in my case. The idea is to find stuff that my group of co-oppers can grab and play without the expenditure of >$50.
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Reply #6 on: November 27, 2006, 06:14:55 PM

I remember a number of maps in Myth and Myth II that were a lot of fun to play co-op.
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Reply #7 on: November 27, 2006, 07:26:41 PM

Serious Sam has some fun (if brainless) co-op.

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Reply #8 on: November 27, 2006, 07:32:44 PM

You've listed all the ones I've got in my library outside of the FPS/ X-wing Series games.  Thus why I play MMOs, they're inherently co-op.

GRAW = Ghost Recon: <something>

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Reply #9 on: November 27, 2006, 07:39:04 PM

Serious Sam has some fun (if brainless) co-op.

The first one worked fine, the second was a fucking buggy travesty to play co-op. 
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Reply #10 on: November 27, 2006, 09:44:24 PM


Serious sam isn't really co-op, it's more like multiple single player games in the same arena. There's no real reason for co-ordination or tactics. It is a lot of fun as a LAN game though. The paucity of these games is pretty much why I am looking at a console, despite having two perfectly good PC's at hand.

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Reply #11 on: November 28, 2006, 07:53:12 AM

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Reply #12 on: November 28, 2006, 07:58:33 AM

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Reply #13 on: November 28, 2006, 08:01:56 AM

Wow, Wikipedia manages to surprise me yet again.

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Reply #14 on: November 28, 2006, 09:21:16 AM

Quote from: Wikipedia
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Reply #15 on: November 28, 2006, 09:26:22 AM

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Reply #16 on: November 28, 2006, 10:15:25 AM

GRAW is Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Worst co-op ever.

And I just couldnt resist the 360 comment cause they have so many great co-op game come out recently. Gears of War, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Rainbow Six: Vegas, just to name a few.
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Reply #17 on: November 28, 2006, 10:38:16 AM


A great list, it just doesn't tell you which ones are good and which ones should be avoided on pain of cutting off your genitalia with a rusty spoon.
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Reply #18 on: November 28, 2006, 04:47:48 PM


Likewise some of them are awfully dated. I remember enjoying HexenII, a FPS with different classes and some maps that worked well co-operatively... but that was 10 years ago.

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Reply #19 on: November 28, 2006, 05:22:19 PM


Come on, you know Ninja Baseball Bat Man has got to be good.


Any of the 3-4 player side scrolling arcade games are good like Golden Axe, Punisher, Knights of the Round Table, X-Men, TMNT, Gauntlet. Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Civ IV are listed on there.
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Reply #20 on: November 28, 2006, 06:50:35 PM

GRAW is Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Worst co-op ever.

And I just couldnt resist the 360 comment cause they have so many great co-op game come out recently. Gears of War, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Rainbow Six: Vegas, just to name a few.

I picked up a 360 just for this reason.   We just cleared Act 1 in Gears on Insane last night.   I would probably rank it as one of my best coop experiences since Doom 2 on a serial cable.

Don't forget about the 2 player RTS vs computer.   Company of Heroes + Dawn of War + Homeworld could entertain you for a while if that genre turns your crank.  NWN has some decent 2 player modules that don't suck all that bad.

I had a lot of fun with the original Splinter Cell or Rainbow 6.  I would also recommend avoiding GRAW.

I also didn't see Titan Quest on the big list.



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Reply #21 on: November 28, 2006, 08:12:31 PM

I picked up a 360 just for this reason.   We just cleared Act 1 in Gears on Insane last night.   I would probably rank it as one of my best coop experiences since Doom 2 on a serial cable.


Im looking for some one that wants to try and tackle Insane mode. So far no takers from my friends.
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Reply #22 on: November 28, 2006, 10:13:06 PM

I liked Gears, but I'm liking Vegas more. There's something about being able to tackle 1 level so many different ways that makes this game so good. The co-op is so much fun and my friends and I have only done story mode. Terrorist hunt is a whole new game in itself.
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Reply #23 on: November 29, 2006, 12:27:23 AM

GRAW is Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Worst co-op ever.

And I just couldnt resist the 360 comment cause they have so many great co-op game come out recently. Gears of War, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Rainbow Six: Vegas, just to name a few.

Ultimate Alliance is on all platforms, I believe. Including the PC.
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Reply #24 on: November 29, 2006, 07:48:36 AM

Come on, you know Ninja Baseball Bat Man has got to be good.
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Reply #25 on: November 29, 2006, 08:28:41 AM

Im looking for some one that wants to try and tackle Insane mode. So far no takers from my friends.

One of these days, when I have a decent length of time to play, I'd hit insane with you. My problem is that my internet connection is.. tempermental... so I've been avoiding XBL games lately.

Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Reply #26 on: November 29, 2006, 09:49:01 AM

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