Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Mar 16, 2009 7:06am PDT

Monday, already? It seems like I barely got anything accomplished this weekend.

Really, I just played an hour or two Resident Evil 5, co-created and tested a Peggle drinking game, cleaned the apartment, watched some Wire, and read a few chapters of Snow Crash. The rest of the time, I was either sleeping or doing something here.

There were also about five minutes spend on a hammock. Hammock weather, at last!

On the plus side, um, I've got another chance at the weekend here in a couple days?

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What do you guys think about the forced Coop trend with games? There is a conversation on GAF about this.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355457

I think it really needs to fucking stop. Do we really need it in every fucking games now? Coop is fun but I prefer single-player by far or competitive MP.

The way it is going now is that in the future I will have to play games in solo with some stupid AI following me and doing stupid stuff because it will never be as good as playing it with a real person.

I enjoy the story in games even if most of them are crappy and you can't really experience it when playing it when someone else unless it's local coop and it's both your first time playing the game.

Mar 16, 2009 4:39pm PDT

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What do you guys think about the forced Coop trend with games? There is a conversation on GAF about this.... : razlebol
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  I didn't read that thread but are there enough games doing it to be called a trend or is it just a partic... : NastyJack
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    Hmm, yes. Everything is coming out with coop now. The only shooter that didn't come with coop recently wa... : razlebol
    - So which new games do forced coop? I honestly don't know. I can think of L4D, Red Alert 3 and RE5. : NastyJack
    - I'm not sure i'd consider Resistance 2's "coop" as proper coop... imo Coop is where you can play the s... : SigENeaT
- i think this is heavily directed towards resident evil 5. Cuz i hate that stupid bitch... she is the one ... : Poooks
- How is it a "trend"? : Godhatesfatpeople
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  always make it an option, but not mandetory : ghost hacker
  - The problem with this is you end up with single-player campaigns designed with co-op in mind that suffer ... : Arcanum
- I did not read the thread, but I love coop games. A lot of my in real life friends don't play games near... : bcyde
- I don't mind having retarded AI as long as it isn't game over if they die. Ideally they should either bec... : thecray
- If they are going to do co-op then it should be 2-4 and not designed for 2 exclusively. : stgdz
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  I never thought I would read this post. : crummynz
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    That said, if games are heavily story and character oriented, I'd rather play them singleplayer. It's the more gameplay-important games (arcadey? consoley? not sure of the term) that work better co-op.
    
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    That said, if games are heavily story and character oriented, I'd rather play them singleplayer. It's the... : crummynz
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  i think that some games should be designed to heavily stress coop, yes. Also i think some games should b... : Mr.SEX
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    wait is the question really "do you hate shitty implementations of coop in games?" : Mr.SEX
    - Do you hate EVIL?? HUH?! : crummynz
  - I agree with this. : razlebol
- if it means more co-op games, I am so very supportive of this trend. I love the recent slew of fun online... : sicko
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  Following the lack of such coop games this is a good thing. And I don't really see it as being forced ... : Sailor of Fortune
  - Also coop experiences are more interesting in conversation with your friends than talking about single pl... : Sailor of Fortune
- Yeah I hate it when coop games don't include single-player : spiderfill
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  Bring it on. Co-op is way more enjoyable then playing alone. : bozer
  - Agreed. I don't buy single player only games anymore (unless it's something special) : MagicWishMonkey
- Co-op ROCKS. I'm glad that devs are finally doing it again. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  More please. There will always be plenty of single-player games and not enough great co-op games. : vynn
  - And that's the issue really. There has been very few "good" co-op games to warrant the idea to stop them ... : Godhatesfatpeople
- co-op is awesome, gears of war 1 was so much fun co-op, not so much single player. Haven't played 2 yet. : filthysock
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  this is a strange ironic thread. people used to start threads like this except they were complaining abo... : Luminair
  - Most of the people in this thread, other than the OP, are saying pretty much that. : MagicWishMonkey
- uh, most games dont have co-op. Its good to have added. : chilln
- I don't like it only because none of my friends play video games :( : Perturbation
- More co-op please. : Helios150
- There are solutions that developers could use to reduce the negative effects of dumb partner AI in single... : LemonJoose
- co-op is awesome and we need more of it : Mr.Fusion

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