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Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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I have very fond memories of the first Halo on the OG Xbox. It was very cool to be able to do the campaign together with a friend.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I will happily take this opportunity to complain

/startrant that the abandonment of couch co-op is the worst thing to ever happen to gaming. There are some great couch co-op games out there, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. Seriously, the number of goddamn games that expect you to HAVE TWO COMPUTER AND TWO SCREENS SO YOU CAN PLAY CO-OP WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS TOO DAMN HIGH. /endrant

I highly recommend Broforce, any of the Larian studio games (Divinity Original Sin, Baldur's Gate 3 etc..), Battleblock Theater, Castle Crashers, Cuphead, For The King, Hypercharge Unboxed, It Takes Two, Portal 2, Overcooked, SpiritFarer, Stardew Valley, Untitled Goose Game, Wobbly Life. Wish there were more.

It is the damndest shame that the Halo Master Chief Collection doesn't have local co-op, still upsets me to this day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

There are some great couch co-op games out there, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. Seriously, the number of goddamn games that expect you to HAVE TWO COMPUTER AND TWO SCREENS SO YOU CAN PLAY CO-OP WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS TOO DAMN HIGH.

The issue is that not enough people play couch co-op to justify the effort that goes into making it work. It's a subset of a subset of gamers that play couch co-op even once, let alone on a regular basis.

[–] waywardninja 4 points 3 months ago

I played couch co-op with my kiddo on the master chief collection on my Xbox. The only issue I had was depending on the profile signed in first it sometimes gets the progress save wrong.