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Feb 20, 2018 7:21 AM
Chillaxo
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malikcarr
Resident Evil 6 had both online and split-screen co-op mode. I don't know why people hated that game, it was legitimately "not bad".
Varcova
Let me tell you just how dumbfounding it is to get USB-HIDs to enumerate consistently. I want to support multiple kb/m combos in my game.
WiqidBritt
Yeah... it's not like that's an easy thing for every game to do.
MightyIink
Not even Halo does anymore, it broke a yearly tradition in my family...
may825
Cuphead.
beautifulsunshine87
That title gave me cancer
ThomsonI
Don't teach English as a foreign language then. I didn't even blink, just gave it a C because I got the point.
JimPlaysGames
Try Dead Pixels.
human8060
I found this site helpful when looking for couch co-ops... http://www.co-optimus.com/games.php
Choiced
Current couch multiplayer games tend to be designed for it from the bottom up, so you just have to dig a little. I recommend (1/2)
Choiced
"Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime." It looks silly, but it's a fantastic game to play with 3-4 people. There's no online mode though.
Studoku
The technology just isn't there yet.
cubsfan05
Nothing will ever beat the insanity of playing timesplitters 4 person local. Love that damn game
dajigizup
TS1 and 2!!
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
Unpopular opinion: because video games are a luxury and if your bum friend wants to play, they should get their own. See also: making money.
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
If none of them offer it, you don't exactly have a choice.
itwasalljustadream
All these years and I still don't have a local IPX/SPX network...
Thenamelesspaladin
Overcooked, Screencheat, Nidhogg, Gang Beasts. All these have local multiplayer. Remember Imgurians, 1/
Thenamelesspaladin
/2 just because AAA companies have given up on local co-op, doesn’t mean the little guys have
SuperVietnam
Board games have been on the rise in recent years. I'd recommend checking a few out
YourOldPalTheCryptKeeper
They didn’t anticipate you having friends.
easytigger
If you want to call the hookers I pay to play vidya with twice a month "friends," sure. I pay extra if they win, to keep it competitive.
ABillionDucks
They're right...
PeculiarBaguette
Or wife/husband.
Chillaxo
But i have friends! One time a week, we meet up, drink a couple of beers and play Halo or Diablo III. But i would like to Play a new game...
jhanf38
Rocket league has local multiplayer. It’s what I play with my friends when we have a few beers.
LordBrodie
Octodad let's you control all four limbs with separate controllers on console, great if you're having a drink too!
PantaloonPrincess
Dude, all of the Twisted Metals. Hours of coop single screen fun.
aurickomodo6
So good!
Xenarion
Nintendo consoles and Steam have plenty of them.
aluriilol
I just want online co-op story mode games. Is that too much?
etaion
4 player local co-op Diablo 3 on ps4 is awesome
Chillaxo
That's one of the games i play on the Xbox one with the boys
Schmuck4hire
I was thinking of grabbing that. Does it make all new players like, LV. 1 tho? Or does it even them out so they're close to Player 1's lv?
EmoBacon
because they want $$$$$$$$$$$$
tornadosandwich
Also I'm pretty sure processing power could also be an issue, there's a reason CoD on the Wii didn't have split screen or killcams
MildlyConcernedTV
Newsflash: business has the goal of turning a profit. Stop the presses
plzwhateverisokforme
They don't do it especially becaused it cost money to make and most player don't give a fuck about local multiplayer.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Here is some inspiration: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=3841 - More links below;
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Curators have comments for each game for easy filtering: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/7189360-Couch-Gaming-%28Local-Multiplayer%29/
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
https://www.slant.co/topics/6366/~local-co-op-games-on-steam
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/25942983-Local-Couch-Co-Op/
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10021274-Great-Local-Co-op-Games/
Fairdinkums
Imo the best multiplayer was the first Worms, on PS1. 4 player, one controller, one screen.
Oseirus
"Fucker, give me the controller I only have 20 seconds left on my turn!"
Oseirus
The Switch is doing pretty good with couch MP so far. Not a massive selection, but definitely a lot of promise and several gems.
ImLukeSkywalkerImHereToRescueYou
They hugely dropped the ball on making Splatoon 2 split screen coop. I love the game but that was a big missed opportunity.
tobesmcgobes
Love my switch so much.
ahsanzee
Never had a Nintendo console before. Came close to getting a wii. What do you like most in the Switch?
TobiOfTheAkatsuki
Insanely good games on it. Odyssey, BOTW, Splatoon 2, Mario+Rabbids, Mario Kart, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are so much fun.
Xenarion
It's both home and portable.
FancyFrance
Zelda BOTW and Mario Odyssey are two of arguably the best games of all time. Definitely of their time. Bunch of other great titles already.
Oseirus
You can be playing a game on your couch, pull your switch from the dock, toss it in your bag, and then keep playing that same game on the //
Oseirus
// bus exactly where you left off. The Joycon controllers are a stroke of genius too, look up all their features.
ImLukeSkywalkerImHereToRescueYou
I have kids and I rarely get to sit down in front of a TV so it's nice to play on the go but also be able to hook it up to the TV sometimes.
SleepyWalrus
several aspects, last nintendo was a wii, last portable was gameboy colour. I like that you can both go handheld and regular console 1/
SleepyWalrus
The switch itself has a decent battery life and recharges fairly quickly if you want to use it on the move. as for games most of them 2/
SleepyWalrus
If you are feeling on the edge of buying one I'd say go for it, but waiting will only drive down prices so there's no shame in that either/5
SleepyWalrus
Breath of the wild by being able to finetune your aiming with moving the controller, it really adds a lot to the immersion surprisingly. 4/
SleepyWalrus
uses the motion control not as a main thing and can be disabled, which is nice. I was surprised by how much the aiming becomes better in 3/
Makemycommuteinteresting
Overcooked is a good local multiplayer game :)
kookyabird
Overcooked, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Screen Cheat, Brawlhalla, Gauntlet, Castle Crashers, the list goes on!
BlunderbussVigilante
Yeah it's all fun and games until someone burns the fries, the deep fryer catches fire, the ice floe melts and the entire restaurant sinks.
Makemycommuteinteresting
It was a real test of friendship I admit.
RudolftheRedNosedDuck
Just looked it up on YouTube. Looks great! I’m gonna buy it and play it with my husband! Thanks for the suggestion! :)
OndeBent
It's amazing :D
Aquilarden
Split screen means everything has to be rendered twice, which is rough when framerates are already in the spotlight.
TheGlow
Yea, and consoles today are still having difficulty in some cases of 30 fps, forget 60. Meanwhile I get 144 on my PC.
kookyabird
Halo 4 on the 360 was hilariously bad in co-op campaign. Draw distance as far as 15 feet in wooded areas.
370zSteve
Goldeneye
MarvinTheMartiansDog
fuck the person the always picked oddjob
Curii
f'king proximity mines.
370zSteve
I love/hate those!
TheGlow
Ehh, Quake1 was doing more and better.
370zSteve
ClayBones548
Don't rile the peasants.
Supermurse
Couch co-op was the shit! My wife and I played all of Gears and Halo together. So disappointed they do't make local co-op games anymore.
Fraidieponge
I got à shitload of couch games. Steam ftw
Narwhaligator
split screen was the best though
EmergencyAustralian
I hear the EDF is recruiting. EDF! EDF! EDF!
kamigod
I heard that Overcooked is a really fun couch co-op game.
PeculiarBaguette
If you want to get a divorce really quickly, yes.
Zicora
Diablo 3
mikearmament
That might be one of the most romantic things I’ve ever read before
Heisanevilgenius
Loads of indie games have local co-op
Sturmgeschutz
Gears of Halo theft auto.
yesyoucancancan
The lego games have cooperative 2player split screen.
dangershell
Y’all do borderlands??? That’s a good one
ImaginaryMamboNumber5
If you loved Gears and Halo, pop out and buy a copy of Army of Two, it's brilliant couch co-op.
idontgiveashitanymor
Rip visceral
ImaginaryMamboNumber5
Yeah, hopefully they've split from EA or are waiting out the stock options before leaving and doing something else.
ahsanzee
My wife and I have been meticulously going over borderlands the past few months. Fingers crossed for BL3
ReallyGreatEarPlugs
Nice I have been doing the same w/ my girlfriend
ehoba666
Do they even make co-cop campaigns at all anymore? Local or otherwise?
myfingerpoints
We played halo and rpgs. We played Baldur’s Gate like 5 times.
Emulen
Win xp where you made your ipx and you were good to go
livinglife9009
Well how else can Microsoft sell Xbox’s if people can have 4 players play on one console?
Squagglenater
Easy, dont buy an xbox. Me and the wife have tons of local coop games on steam
Tkeleth
lol poor butthurt fanboys downvoting you... local co-op on steam or Nintendo games are all I play with my kids. PC has TONS of split-screen.
wolfric99
One of my favorites was Modern Warfare 2 spec ops missions co-op.
adumpforyou
Ugh.. so tite
CirB
Me & bro love local co-ops. NBA Jam (where's the PS4 port?!?!), Borderlands, Rayman Legends, Resistance (1 & 3), Rocket League...
thungoda
EXPLOSIONS?!?!?!
BananaMinion2000
Oh man, NBA Jam was the shit, played that through a whole night til the sun rose again...
CirB
One of the reasons I still have my PS3 is that we love to spin NBA jam up every now and then. No replacement for PS4 :P
TonicImmobility
The new Gears is Co-op/split screen!
ThisTimeItIsForKeeps
Check out borderlands 2 or Diablo 3, my boyfriend and I are playing borderlands atm and it's so much fun!!
noomunderscoretv
There are loads of great local co-ops available for PC. You can browse it as a category on Steam now.
anotterpsychologist
7 Days to Die offers awesome local coop!
Libe95
They announced that Halo 6 is ginna have couch co-op
OndeBent
Trine (1,2 and 3), Helldivers, Magica (1 and 2), Overcooked, Lovers in a dangerous time space just to mention a few
PeculiarBaguette
Magica was so cool.
Bubagummel01
check out divinity Original sin 2 Fantastic Game
Lamaman
YES! Like real D&D finally made like a video game!
Lamaman
YES! Like real D&D finally made like a video game!
Koffeinmannen
If you don't mind older games you should check out Pillars of Eternity on PC, amazing DnDesc game!
Lamaman
I don't. Thanks :D
Koffeinmannen
You're in for a treat!
TheMinisterOfCommonSense
Now tvs are actually big enough to do it, yet they make less...
TlNYshark
Tbh. I prefer my old tuber for couch coop. 2 evenly divided screens instead of 2 really long ones.
asm80dfa8sdfj
I remember when we got a 32" screen, it was like god came down from heaven and blessed us with this wonderful offering. Flat screen too!
photog
Yeah but instead of having one person complain it's not 60fps you have four.
hazeleyedfreak
I wish they would make the font bigger. You go split screen and then even on a big screen it feels like a font for ants.
PandaDander
For one they'd rather everyone have to buy their own console. Also they have to push consoles to their limits to hit 25 fps, they (1/2)
PandaDander
Can't afford to render a game more than once, even if it's at a smaller resolution (2/2)
circlebreaker
IKR?! Goldeneye on a 24" screen, but now that there are TVs the size of doors there's no new multiplayer.
ililililililililililililili
24"?! You bastard. I had a 4" screen :(
circlebreaker
Plot twist; it wasn't my TV, I never had Goldeneye as a kid & it was always played @ friends houses.
DeanWormer
Your sister tells me it’s still 4”.
DaisukeAramaki
I've been told the issue is graphics hardware, even latest gen consoles have a hard time rendering two+ viewpoints at once at current 1/2
TheMinisterOfCommonSense
Yet an n64 did it fine, Nintendo still splits screen now and does fine. It just shows the other consoles are crap
DaisukeAramaki
settings. Even a top-line computer could struggle, potentially. Older machines had more overhead to work with. Sounded legit.
ClayBones548
People cared less about certain things too. 4 player Goldeneye and Perfect Dark hold an atrocious frame rate.
DaisukeAramaki
True, it was harder to notice on a smaller tv back then but yeah, it'll make you sick looking at that 20fps sometimes.
Thatonezackass
Because with local multiplayer only one person needs to buy the game to play with friends. With online everyone needs to buy it.
UsernameMatt
Don’t forget multiple online subscriptions.
surefang
But with LAN multiplayer they can bleed you for extra disks but we can still play after they close the servers.
SaltyInternetPirate
That, and it's much harder to render two canvases, even if they are both half the size of the regular one.
theAsherr
Me and my husband game-share on ps4, now granted we did buy 2 ps4s but that was more about us arguing over whose turn it was to play
MachaJustice
Not if you have the master console (Sony). You can use the same game on 2 consoles at the same time
shitcoveredtardwrangler
Also they can ransom your friends back to you with DLCs.
Barronvonburp
This is such an incredibly cynical way to view the reason behind this shit, the real reason is that they would have to disable most (1/3)
Barronvonburp
ulling techniques, and most modern consoles are already just barely able to run the games as it is, if you got rid of the culling (2/3)
Barronvonburp
techniques, you'd have a game that is pretty much unplayable in terms of frame-rate and visual fidelity.(3/3)
WhyNotTellTheWholeInternet
It's more to do with consoles not being able to render the same scene twice. You either lower fidelity or just don't do it to begin with 1/2
NotAfraidToOffendYou
I'd gladly lose quality for multiplayer. Heck I just built a retropie so we can play together
WhyNotTellTheWholeInternet
2/2 and save developer time when they don't have to optimize for double rendering
ZuIthar
So...new and more advanced consoles are more potato then the older generation units?
DKCalibre
It's more older consoles were such potato that local multiplayer was far easier to accomplish
CruorDragonblood
It's because of PC gaming. When the competition has amazing graphics, you have to keep up and there's a limit to what tech can handle.
LordElrond8
New games have much higher graphic requirements. Rendering the same scene 2-4 times in 1080HD every 1/60th of a second w no lag is hard
TheMinisterOfCommonSense
There's no graphics 'requirement' ... Make fun games. Look at Nintendo
getmo
And two consoles. And two tv's.
ColdWetAnimalNoses
That is what my GF and I finally did. So much better.
getmo
LOL @ that username bud. You still sure she's not imaginary?
ColdWetAnimalNoses
She checks my account from time to time. LOL
BenSnow97
And that right there is why PCs are better. Everyone will have some kind anyway, make it a gaming one and everyone can play.
getmo
Friends stopped getting PCs. :( What happened to LAN parties? I literally did those with my dad. He had the cool friends. (fragged them all)
ElbowDeepnInAElasmotherium
and 2 seperate subscription services (with PSN and XBOX)
Freakingdoomguy
Just gameshare with the other person, ik it's merely a band-aid but it helped my best friend and I play together when he got his console
TheBritishAreComing
I think you're forgetting PS1 link cables
Chillaxo
You're right... But this was the purpose of a console
armandraynal
While you're thinking 'this could be good in local coop', some CEO is thinking 'a pool in my third house would be sweet'.
thefrompleman
They don't care they just want more money
JabbaTheSwampBandit
Is there ever a point where companies just have enough money income and don't need more I mean come on
thefrompleman
you underestimate the greed of people. more isn't enough, they want infinite money