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  far cry 2 : jujubeads
  • A million times this. : hoov1185
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    Far Cry 2 seems like it was built for Co Op what with the cars you can drive with mounted machine guns th... : marmite
    • I always thought this was retarded and couldn't believe that there was no co-op. : IHATEDUST
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  You're missing the part where none of those would be better with multiplayer! I like my games, in particu... : daedraug
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    Well, yeah. I can understand that but it wouldve been interesting to see how it would work. I don't mind ... : jingletard
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      Diablo was a single-player game in my experience ;) : daedraug
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        I was bored by Diablo singleplayer after 10 minutes and never tried it again. for some weird reason I lov... : razorblade79
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          Diablo 1 or 2? 2 I can see, but 1 was just a fantastic experience imo :( : daedraug
          • 1. I think 1 is better than 2 in almost any way. But both have always been a coop game to me. : razorblade79
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          Torchlight takes after D2, Diablo was a totally different game. Much more of an atmospheric dungeon crawl... : Zek
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            really? IMO it's exactly the other way round : razorblade79
            • The dungeon layout is like D1 but in terms of the combat craziness and more adventurous atmosphere that's... : Zek
    • Diablo was also only barely an RPG. : nurglich
    • Balder's Gate MP was amazing. : Derringer
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  Dead space co-op. : fugu124
  • That wouldve been cool. : jingletard
  • Nooooooooooooo. Why?? Its supposed to be an intense and story driven game, coop games result in cutscene... : Klebold
  • Play Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii. : GodZilly
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  WRONG. Multiplayer in Fallout 3 defeats the entire feel and purpose of the game. There's a Co-op mod f... : Duffman8369
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    in my favourite parts of Mass Effect, another dude with a different opinion of what to do would have real... : razorblade79
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      Hah yeah, the dialogue parts would be difficult to do in MP. : jingletard
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        Old Republic does exactly that, using the Mass Effect dialog dial. Based on what i heard, everyone choose... : razorblade79
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          Yikes. If they make it so there's a party "leader" whose dialogue choices matter in the end, while the ot... : beanman101283
          • you could do something like a charisma/leadership/diplomacy stat that would give you preference in pickin... : dirge23
          • It sounds like it would dramatically discourage running with a PUG but with friends it would be alright. ... : Duffman8369
• Oblivion could've done very well as a MP game considering you aren't even the main protagonist. And whil... : one random winner
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  I have really disliked the trend from recent years where developers try to cram multiplay into their game... : tomservo
  • yeah see guys we have this great multiple options first person rpg strategy game, and it also has multipl : razorblade79
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    Exactly, nobody cares about the single-player anymore. They're all focused on the half-assed multiplayer. : The Grolar Bear
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      Example? : enyakk
      • I'm worried Bioshock 2 might become an example. : UselessHack
      • Modern Warfare 2 : Pixelbeast
    • Except for several major releases this year, like Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Demon's Souls, Batman:... : Vincent Grayson
    • I think some people may have misinterpreted my post. What I meant was that when you have subpar multiplay... : The Grolar Bear
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    Yeah, that used to be pretty bad. Hasn't happened much in the last 5 years though. : enyakk
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      To me it seems like it was fairly rampant between maybe 2001 and 2005 or so. It seems like that shit real... : tomservo
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        Definitely. One of the more succesful results of that mentality turned out to be Splinter Cell Multiplaye... : enyakk
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          Was that good? I seem to remember Shack being briefly infatuated with it when the 3rd one came out (I thi... : tomservo
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            Multiplayer was added with the 2nd game (Pandora Tomorrow) and it was brilliantly designed and one of the... : enyakk
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              Yeah that was pretty damn cool, like a 2v2 L4D with super-spies instead of zombies. : Zek
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                I forget, did the PC version have MP? If so, it would be cool to have a Shackbattle sometime. : Iazu
                • Oh yeah. I know I played that multi on 2 on PC; I don't know about Chaos Theory though. : MercFox1
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            I'm not really into MP in general, but the Multiplay in Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory (the third one) was p... : Iazu
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              Man that sounds really neat. I'm bummed I missed out. : tomservo
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                It was an extremely deep gameplay experience. With some luck the new Splinter Cell might bring some of th... : enyakk
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                  I'm too busy/important to research this at the moment, but do you happen to know if I were to buy this on... : tomservo
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                    I just looked into it. Looks like it's still going and they even recently fixed some issues people were h... : Iazu
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                      Awesome! Add me on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tomservo I will buy it and we should play, even... : tomservo
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                        Yep, Chaos Theory. I'm downloading now and I'll test it out tonight when I get home (work connection's so... : Iazu
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                          Word, I'm getting it now too. My Steam_id is "methyd_x" : eonix
                          • If people still play this online on the PC, there will be two more copies sold. : sogelegos
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                    Did they remove StarForce from Chaos Theory? : Sailor of Fortune
                    • For the Steam version, yes : Iazu
              • Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Coop was AMAZING as well. It actually had a lot of emphasis on the CO in co... : Sailor of Fortune
            • Agree, 100% (although I played it mostly on PC, I owned both versions). Merc's were first-person. Spl... : eonix
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            Two and three had the same multiplayer component. : MercFox1
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              Didn't they dumb down the MP for the Double Agent? I remember not being as impressed with it. : Iazu
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                Double Agent is the 4th incarnation, and its MP was not like Pandora Tomorrow or Chaos Theory's. : eonix
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                  Really, I played the 360 version and I could've sworn that it was like the previous 2, just simplified. T... : Iazu
                  • Question mark goes at the end of "Really" : Iazu
            • Almost the same. Three was a little imbalanced compared to two because of some improvements that were mad... : sogelegos
      • For a current example of a game that just doesn't need MP, see Bioshock 2. : Iazu
• any game would be better with split screen coop : cfalcon
• all three of those would be terrible with multiplayer. : ass-street
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  Stalker, but with the game, not just deathmatch. : lolpatrol
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    A coop game with the STALKER singleplayer experience... done right... would be incredible. : tomservo
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      Whenever I think about this, I get the mental image of two dudes in one of the underground tunnels, one c... : ZTac
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        Agreed. Scavenging for items in a creepy dilapidated setting with someone who has your back sounds like o... : tomservo
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          oh man that would be fucking awesome : deject
          • CIRCLE JERK!!! : eonix
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  My problem with MP games is 9/10 times you're going to spam through the dialogue and turn whatever settin... : kgargs
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    This is why I always play Diablo games solo the first time through. There's always some dude who's alread... : Zek
    • That's a good idea and one approach I may make in the future. My brain just doesn't work as fast as thes... : kgargs
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    This is a problem with your TEAMMATES, not the games or the concept of co-op. Also notice I called the... : DinK
    • There's some truth to that. : kgargs
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  Half-Life 2: Deathmatch doesnt count? : BaronVonSnakPak
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    compared to Valve's other efforts this really doesn't count as a game, it's extremely bare-bones. still, ... : dirge23
    • Same, snatching orbs out of the air with the grav gun was so much goddamn fun. : Arctic Fox
• Multiplayer doesn't necessarily make a game good, though. It doesn't even make it better sometimes. : Dschinghis Khan
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  Mount & Blade. Yeah, the expansion has multiplayer, but I want co-op. : Rag and Bone Man
  • Agreed, that would be pretty awesome : tfsbrian
  • I really need to play this at some point. Bought it on sale on Steam a while ago and never installed. : Iazu
• Single player games can be very boring for me personally regardless of how awesome they are just because ... : unjustend
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  The idea that every game would be better with co-op is one of the most ludicrous beliefs among gamers. : EvilDolemite
  • I would have loved co-op on this back in the day: http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64 : Salad Sammich
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    seriously. the whole draw of something like Dragon Age or Baldur's Gate II for me is that i am the center... : dirge23
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      Who says you can't be the center of the story if there's coop? There are RPGs out there that limit coop t... : pyide
      • yeah, you could have human players control your party members in BG2 iirc. but i have no interest in doin... : dirge23
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      Oh c'mon. The games are already party based. How could it NOT be better having a friend control a teamm... : DinK
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        it's not an AI script, it's me, coordinating the whole party. with human players you've got a different t... : dirge23
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          Yeah you get to have fun discussing strategy and coordinating with them. And you ARE relying on AI scrip... : DinK
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            in an RPG i just want to come up with my own tactics, i don't want everything to be discussed in committe... : dirge23
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              It's a genre that also allows for much deeper teamwork, longer playthroughs, and a greater sense of adven... : DinK
              • i enjoyed neverwinter nights co-op, despite its problems : dirge23
  • agreed. : Dschinghis Khan
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    this is true, but the belief that no game would be improved with co-op is also fairly silly : veras
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      of course. many games are better with co-op. many aren't. what i hate more is tacked-on multiplayer. ... : EvilDolemite
      • yeah, I agree (especially on those two examples, reminds me of the multiplayer tack-on in Metroid Prime 2... : veras
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    STALKER Coop is enough to get my pants wet. : MercFox1
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      Can you imagine coming across a bandit camp and setting up some triangulation fire with your coop buddy? ... : tomservo
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        Oh my goodness, stop. :S : MercFox1
        • I'm basically picturing an experience as engrossing as Left 4 Dead, but much more slow paced, detailed, a... : tomservo
      • Bandit pigs. >:( Send them to hell I say. : deject
  • I don't think every game would be better, certain games would be, but not all of them. : jingletard
  • not every game would be better but playing something in coop mode is by far one of my favorite ways to pl... : Mr.SEX
  • Thank you! If someone fucked with Uncharted 2 and made it co-op the entire way through, I would have bee... : treefingers1
  • Maybe not any game, but certainly many of them. For somebody like me who plays most co-op stuff with lon... : DinK
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    Thanks for letting us know you disapprove. Again. : omnova
    • hahahah : Bull
• Singleplayer focus games with multiplayer almost always end up as some ho-hum deathmatch that nobody reme... : Zek
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  HL2 had multiplayer, and it was fucking terrible. : maulla
  • HL2:DM is awesome >:( : Durajim
  • You shut your filthy mouth! : eonix
  • It led to this though so it's not all bad: http://store.valvesoftware.com/productpages/apparel/product_HL... : pyide
  • Don't make the throw a toilet at you : acheron
• I kind of like how torchlight is just single player. I think if they worked in multiplayer it would have... : Fish_Bulb
• i like single player games a lot. it doesn't need to be mp in everything. : ibrokn
• I would love to do Coop in Fallout 1/23, Farcry 2, STALKER, or The Witcher. : TehShadow
• Dune 2 : t0ad
• solitaire : honkfrog
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  there's the coop PS2 half-life : RikiTiki2
  • decay aint so fun =( : MoreVespeneGas
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  what ever happened to sven coop for hl2? I blame that mod for nobody else tackling the problem. : kaddar0
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    I think there was a mod by a different name that did this. : Robotic Puppy Eater
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      http://store.steampowered.com/app/17520/ : pyide
      • WINNAH! : Robotic Puppy Eater
      • Synergy works great for playing through HL2 in co-op. I've played all the way through HL2, HL2: Ep1 and H... : joesnizzle