Best Co-Op Ever
RahnalH102
the Green Devout, Veteran Monster Hunter, Creature EnthusiastNew Mexico Icrontian
Nowadays, multiplayer and cooperative modes are pretty synonymous if not the same in most games. Games like the Battlefield series and M.A.G. integrate small team co-op into BIG team multiplayer modes. Most MMO's are designed so you and your fellow mob of space goats, frog people, robots, or what have you, become more powerful as you work together. League of Legends and the Monster Hunter series invest in the relatively small, but tactically backed 3-5 man size. Others like Army of Two and F.E.A.R. 3 focus solely on the 2-man. Regardless of these specializations or diversity of the games, they all reach their full potential when you and your friends really work together as one multi-headed unit of awesome!
Now for the question: What has been the best cooperative game experience you have had with your friends, fellow Icrontians, or even complete strangers.
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Monster Hunter Tri would come in close but I haven't been able to get with a dedicated group yet.
Side-note.
When I look back at this it makes me wonder if this is one of the things they plan to do with the WiiU later on. I do hope they try it again but do it properly this time.
However, I think Error and I have the most fun playing Borderlands and Portal 2 co-op. Our ways of thinking are just different enough to get some interesting solutions to puzzles (even the shooting people kind!)
Couldn't say it better myself. Other than that, I don't remember doing a lot of co-op multiplayer.
PS2: The Adventures of Cookie & Cream
A side scrolling co-op platformer.
I guess I'd have to say playing Splinter Cell Conviction with ghbutler. The ridiculous things we'd do in that game.
That or quite possibly Nazi Zombies from COD WaW or survival in Undead Nightmare.
Were the origional Operation Wolf cabinets co-op? I think Operation Thunderbolt was, seriously fun in the arcade. I'm pretty sure the NES Operation Wolf had a fun two player co-op where you used the D pad to control the targeting, but playing Operation Wolf with that gun in the arcade was revolutionary. I used to go to my local Skate Land as a kid, and while the other kids would skate I would play round after of Operation Wolf, but somehow I recall it being a single player cabinet.
The game was freaking Rad either way.
Nothing else comes close.
You know, you may have a point.
*edit, does WoW or everquest count?
Army of Two.
A friend and I had an absolute goddamn blast killing *everything in the world* and doing ridiculous shenanigans in the middle of it.
It's a decent game by itself, but when you get a party of friends with you, it's an absolute riot.
Why would we laugh? It was a game -built- around co-op. Honestly, playing single-player kinda sucked ass, but when you got a buddy to game with you, it's pretty damn nice.
I forgot about that game. My buddy Andrew and I spent quite a while maxing out our characters and beating the game on all difficulties, really quite a good game.
Now I remember!
Monster hunter & Patapon 3
and if any of you guys play with ad-hoc party fell free to PM me, and probably Fitz as well.
Grimnoc and I have made it a point to stay connected by playing Co-op games since we graduated college in '07.
Despite the many blaring issues with the game, we had an absolute blast playing through Hellgate London together. That game was so broken, but dangit we had fun with it.
Tomb Raider: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was an incredibly fun coop experience. Grimnoc and I beat it in a few short hours, but they were pure gold. Despite all the crap that's come out of the Tomb Raider franchise, Guardian is a fantastic game.
I played quite a bit of Co-op in ArmA with an old buddy of mine. Super tactical, super realistic army FPS isn't for everyone, but we are both military buffs, so we loved playing the game. The coordination and cooperation was some of the tightest I have ever experienced in multiplayer gaming. We operated as if we were an actual military squad, and though we still struggled to defeat AI-controlled maps, it was a ton of fun.
Then there was the 4 player Simpsons arcade game.
C&C RA3 was also pretty fun to play co-op. Nothing like teaming up for some campy RTS campaign goodness.
Reminds me of playing Zelda: Four Swords with my brother. Made me want to beat the !@#$ out of him!:mad2: