Please list the RPG games (or any games for that matter - NO GAMES THAT ONLY HAVE DM/CAPTURE THE FLAG, etc - that you can play coop LAN on. We are looking for games that allow you to do basically the same thing multiplayer as you can singleplayer - beat the game/missions cooperatively.
I wish there were more of these types of games my son and I could conquer together, but just finding the ones that are is a pain.
Maybe we could use this as an ongoing list as I am always looking for these types of games, as are many other father/son/buddies....
Thanks for the help everyone
PC ONLY please
Hack & Slash RPGs
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Diablo
Diablo II
Nox
Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege 2 (not sure if these two belong under hack and slash though)
D&D RPG games
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Neverwinter Nights
Icewind Dale + Icewind Dale II
Baulder's Gate + Baulder's Gate II
Shooters
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Rainbow Six (Has Co-op missions and Terrorist Hunt)
Ghost Recon (Has Co-op missions and Terrorist Hunt)
R6 Lockdown
Hidden and Dangerous (very hard we've played it for 4 years and never beat the whole game has an expansion and is free to download now)
Hidden and Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron (MUST HAVE SABRE SQUAD EXPANSION TO BE COOP awsome game great graphics much more beat able then first but only like 8 missions i hear there's an unoffical pack of more missions though)
Serious Sam 1 and 2 ( senseless killing but hilariously fun me and 3 buddys beat the whole game last weekend together you spend alot of time back to back in the middle of a huge arenas with litterally hundreds of enemys storming at you)
Delta Forces ( a little slow)
Unreal (only the first one was co-op)
Operation Flashpoint
Aliens vs Preditor 1 ( it doesnt support newest nvidia cards anymore but boy did it have fun coop fighting through canyons of aliens and bunkering down not too many objectives but fun none the less)
RTS
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Age of Empires plus exp
Age of Empires II plus exp
Age of Mythology plus exp
Age of Empires III
Unknown
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Blood 1 and 2
Hexen 2
Freespace 2
Well here are a few that I can think of off the top of my head:
hack and slash RPGs
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Diablo
Diablo II
Nox
D&D RPG games
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Neverwinter Nights
Icewind Dale + Icewind Dale II
Baulder's Gate + Baulder's Gate II
And of course all though perhaps not the type of game you are looking for... theres a whole plethora of MMORPG games that provide endless questing adventures with a son/friend/whoever. That is of course if you are willing to dish out the monthly fees, and your lives!!!
I too am a big fan of these games, so I'll hunt around for some more, but I'm eager to see what others post up here as well!
also theres a medal of honour game thats coop but i cant remember which one.
erm for PC im not sure, a game ive found popular with ladies is actually Worms 2, they find the worms cute and funny so its fun playing against each other on the same pc. plus you can build your own maps using paint with black being the land and white being the sky.
lancelott just about covered the whole list in one post. Anyway the thread is worth a sticky as the info provided by him is good, relevant, and useful.
well the Ghost Recon series rocks Call of duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield 1942. As far as games to play coperative from front to back, the ones I can think of have already been listed. If you're looking for time with your boy, ever thought of Goin co-op in some RTS's? like star craft and stuff?
Thanks santeana
Forgot about the R6 series stuff. They also used to have a stat tracker called Gilleons <---(something like that) Stat Tracker I think. It was for Rogue Spear. Was fun to play terrorist hunt and keep stats against your buddies. You could have it upload to your web page and everyone could see your accumilative stats. You could also see them on your pc without a web page.
Wish I still had that program, will see if I can find a link and post it. If anyone has links to stat tracker programs for Ghost recon, etc...please post them as this is great fun for you and your buddies. Lan/or TCPIP games.
Co-op games? You mean like the old arcade ones you can buy?
Shooters
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Rainbow Six (Has Co-op missions and Terrorist Hunt)
Ghost Recon (Has Co-op missions and Terrorist Hunt)
I thought that we were looking at non massive multipayer coop rpg games? This list will be mega big in no time. Of course if that's your idea/target I suggest that you change the title of this thread (If that is possible. ) so that more people will read this.
While branching out to other genres would be helpful you are going to mislead people with the title.
Sorry to be a bother but is it possible to add strategy to your list too? (maybe just all coop PC games?) I too play games with my son but since he is only 6 years old RPGs are out and too much graphical violence in FPS (would get into trouble with the wife). So the only choice for us are strategy games like Age of empires, HOMM etc. Would love to see what people would recommend.
I think your edited description of Coop games is covering it well enough. Just make a clear distinction that massive multiplayer games are definitely out of scope, and then you can change the title (again) to just Coop missions games.
Co-op gaming its insane that people don't know what that is!!! this is the best gaming ever 4 buddies lan'd goign through single player missions together heres my fav's
FPS:
Hidden and Dangerous (very hard we've played it for 4 years and never beat the whole game has an expansion and is free to download now)
Hidden and Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron (MUST HAVE SABRE SQUAD EXPANSION TO BE COOP awsome game great graphics much more beat able then first but only like 8 missions i hear there's an unoffical pack of more missions though)
Serious Sam 1 and 2 ( senseless killing but hilariously fun me and 3 buddys beat the whole game last weekend together you spend alot of time back to back in the middle of a huge arenas with litterally hundreds of enemys storming at you)
Blood 1 and 2
Hexen 2
Rainbow 6 i like lockdown personally
Delta Forces ( a little slow)
Unreal (only the first one was co-op)
Operation Flashpoint
Aliens vs Preditor 1 ( it doesnt support newest nvidia cards anymore but boy did it have fun coop fighting through canyons of aliens and bunkering down not too many objectives but fun none the less)
this is easy if you like steal action ie the thief series
unreal tournament, go to www.thieveryut.com download the mod install and play multiplayer thief. great guard ai coop and team based available normaly most servers play thieves vs guards both human teams with some AI
this game is so awsome i've been playing for about 3 years now. still can't get enough of it.
System Shock 2 was always a favourite of mine to play with my friends at LANs, Being able to play a dedicated OSA guy with psi powers, and have a meatshield backing me up with heavy weapons was always fun.
Also, IL2 Sturmovic/Pacific Fighters allow for some great coop action..
And there's a mod for the original Half Life calle Sven Coop that you might like to have a look at.
You need Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow or Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory for Co-Cop. Get Chaos Theory if your system is up to it, it's much better. Enjoy!