Start making more Co-op campaigns cause I have 1-3 friends and I don’t want my only options to play to be a sweaty deathmatch or tree cutting sim.
As long as it’s still playable solo. A lot of co-op focused games I’ve played don’t really work when playing solo
Helldivers!
Surprisingly not terrible for a lobby based game!
Still requires playing, and dealing with, other people. It would have been a great single player game.
You can play solo, just set to “Private”, don’t invite anyone and dive, dive, dive!
Also this is a reply to someone who specifically mentioned coop so kind of irrelevant.
Except you miss out on a lot for solo. Cannot complete the higher level difficulties as they are impossible.
It’s not like it scales for the number of players in a dive. Maybe sometime in the future.
Still irrelevant to a coop conversation thread, but I’ve seen people Solo 9-Helldive. They are beasts, but the people going for the highest difficulty usually are. Not everyone is cut out for any given games max level, that’s part of how difficulty levels work, you find the place that challenges you in an achievable way. “I” for instance am not cut out for Legendary difficulty in any Halo campaign. And 9-Helldive with a full team is going to be dicy for me and I’m probably going to be getting carried a bit.
Halo series on Xbox :’(
But also Baldurs Gate 3. Been playing that with my wife and it’s fantastic even just for the sole reason of being able to plug 2 Xbox one controllers into my desktop and play on the couch with Mrs. Perogigurl
I think I can guess what you guys eat between sessions…
The couch co-op for BG3 is pretty amazing.
Yeah, it’s annoying how many games are single player
I have a console for couch play, why is it so hard to have couch play
I have a HTPC with 4 controllers and honestly my steam library has more couch games than my old Xbox.
I would imagine couch coop is a significantly smaller market
Agreed it’s honestly pretty sad how so many games are “multiplayer” when without any sort of public chat or communication or anything it might as well be single player with NPCs that tea bag you on occasion even then I’ve noticed that people have stopped tea bagging so you don’t even get that as a hint that there are people playing with you
You can but crouching and getting back up is so slow you can’t tell what people are doing anymore
The saving grace is you don’t have to crouch as low any more
I think they do that to obfuscate how many bots they use.
It’s honestly pretty sad how believable a theory that is
Out here still playing Tiny Tina’s because cross play is such a hard concept for everyone but fortnite and the bros don’t wanna play that shit
Outriders campaign is great for co-op.
That game falls off so hard in the endgame. Have never seen such a massive failure.
Yeah, it’s just a loot grind at end game. Mechanics are solid af though. I wouldn’t say it’s a massive failure. At least not at levels like Anthem or something.
I agree with you on the mechanics. The game itself is fun and the story was great. Just found the endgame to be massively lacking.
deathmatch
breathes in
or tree cutting sim
Oh, nvm then.
Edit: I may be mistakenly looping stuff like Darktide, Helldivers, Monster Hunter, etc into Deathmatch, as those are most of my co-ops aside from survival builders. I also play FFXIV and Elite Dangerous with friends so not hurting as much as others for co-op.
Zombies man.
I (allegedly) have friends, but we’re all adults so there’s no way I can actually schedule time to play with them.
You should try to schedule a slumber party lol
Lan slumber party!
I suggest Phasmophobia.
I haven’t played online multilayer since Halo 2 and I don’t think anything will get me to start again.
Stop forcing me to play with strangers online, split screens need a comeback!
Multiplayer games used to have single payer storylines. Even franchises like CoD had some really fun and memorable ones (Snowy Park, anyone? “No Russian”?) and of course GTAV in general. Now it’s all just Battle Royale or some other standard FPS mode. There’s little inbetween.
Stop making everything a rogue or soulslike too FFS
Most of my friends are too busy playing old copies of Parenting and I refuse to put up with the multiplayer random matchup system.
I just want to play games with my husband. We have two games we play together off an on. 7 days to die and Ark Survival Evolved.
They’re the two that we can make a private server and the gameplay together is actually fun. Wish more games like that would happen.
Hello fellow married gamers!
Might I recommend:
Raft.
Dinkum.
Grounded.
Valheim.
V Rising.
Starfew Valley/Terraria.
Those are all games we’ve played together.
Thanks for the suggestions! We’ve played valheim so we’ll have to revisit it and check out the rest of the list!
bouta make true AGI so I can create friends to play with
+1. I have nothing further to add.
Can’t stand playing other people. What’s wrong with solo games?
“I don’t have the patience for PvP”
Solo player here: I still prefer multiplayer games because single player AI is dumb and predictable. I can only put up with every enemy behaving the same exact way, making the same exact mistakes so many times before it gets boring. And FWIW you don’t need friends to enjoy most online titles. Most games let you queue solo.
Not meant to be a sneer, but isn’t that what difficulty modes / end game content is for?
Difficulty modes are for making you lose the same way every time instead of winning the same way every time.
Multiplayer is for having a chance.
Difficulty modes just more often than not means that the AI will either cheat or become a bullet sponge. Increasing the difficulty also doesn’t fix the issue of every enemy behaving exactly the same way as every other. Single player AI ruins immersion for me. The story has to be really good for me to be able to look past the bad AI that is in nearly every single player game.
Yeah but actually playing with friends is so much better. I almost exclusively do it that way now
Can I borrow your friends?
Sure thing. You want a discord link?
Not arguing that, but not everybody has that option. If you don’t have/don’t want friends, queueing solo is the next best way to get maximum enjoyment out of a game, IMO.
i have a couple friends but they secretly hate me so make games for that please thanks
they’re called MOBAs
I feel seen.
“Funny, I’m not picking up any enemies nearby. Are you sure?”
Not what I meant, Cortana
“Here’s what I found on the web for Not what I meant Cortana”
Never mind
“Your next objective is just over that hill”
