COOP MISSIONS GAMES LIST (NO MASSIVELY ONLINE GAMES) - Page 2

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Halo only has like 3 co op maps that I know of and you have to play them on CE

FPS:
Doom 1 and 2

Hack & Slash:
Titan Quest

DUDE! AvP 1 Coop on Stranded was AWESOME! I couldnt get enough of it. What was great about that game was that the aliens had so many breaking points when you shot them.

I think one thing that would help is just interviewers/reviewers asking the question - Does it have co-op multiplayer mode for campaigns or scenarios or skirmish? I don't know how it is for you but most of the time, in fact almost all of the time, to know if a game has co-op, I have to go find a forum and ask people that are already playing it. Very seldom is the question asked and even more seldom is the information volunteered unless the game is centered around co-op like Gears of War. They don't want to be asked the question because they don't often have it, but it sure would help the people searching for a game to see "No". It should be a standard required (if there is such) question for a developer interview or game review by a site or mag.

And all these magazines "best" lists? A modern game, say from last 4-5 years shouldn't be able to be one of the Top 10 Best Games unless it offers single and multiplayer campaigns as well as Deathmatch, random scenario generators and editting/mod abilities. Fine for the ones that don't have all that to be get listed as Top 10 Popular Games but it bugs me no end to see something missing all that called one of the Best games - unless it's totally inappropriate for those things to be there, like an MMO.

Ya know, ever since I started posting in this thread I've been thinking about cooperative skirmish and campaign gaming again. I think what's needed is some sort of open source library somewhere of Unit AI behavior that would define how units should act in a game. Most of these game companies don't have the money or time to hire a real AI programmer and with every game, they've got to research and define and code how every unit would act in every situation. Units could be regiments or companies or individuals depending on the game, RTS, or FPS etc. First they've got to define the subset of units for their game by "epoch" or "age" I guess, ie: like Ancient, Medieval, Napoleonic, Modern etc. Then within each "age" by type of unit, Cavalry, Line Infantry, Artillery, Horse Artillery, Machine Gun company, Sloop of War, patrol boat, frigate, bomb ketch, ship of the line, etc. Then the activities, what to do if attacked by X and movement is Y and you get the picture. Can't just jump into it though, you have to have a group of AI savvy experts define the methodology and what categorizations would be generic enough to be useful.

That's the reason a lot of these games don't have intelligent AI even for single player, and that's the stumbling block for co-op multiplayer against the computer. It would take someone just working on this one aspect of it, for each developer for each game, a loooong time to define these things correctly. And every developer has to do it over and over.

Think I'll cross post this on slashdot and see what happens. I'll probably get insulted to death but I have broad shoulders

SPIDER-MAN Friend or Foe.

Good Co-Op Games List - PC ONLY

http://www.BLACKHALL.net/Games.htm

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I am not sure if I fully understand your question, but me and about half dozen of my friends meet up to play on Battlefield 2142. You can join on the same squad together, and coordinate your efforts. You can then even then coordinate squads to beat the other side. This is all accomplished on built in VOIP, but an outside package such as free TeamSpeak is much better.

The game itself is awesome (perfect blend of military with future, but without being too "sci-fi ish" ). But the real fun of it is cooperating with your friends. Success in the game is in direct correlation to how well you communicate and coordinate with your squad members.

Not many games do this as well as 2142...

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Gears of War

Halo 2 and 3

GTA 4

Give Titan Quest and the expansion a try. They're great alternatives to Diablo.

Also look for the Alien Swarm mod for Unreal Tournament. It's hard, but a really cool game mod. If you have Unreal Tournament 2004 I think, then the mod is just free for you.

Left 4 Dead is super fun coop too.

Guild Wars is an online RPG, but there is no monthly fee. You buy the game and play online all you want. The towns in the game are online where you'll see other players, but once you go out into the world, it will be just you and your party doing missions.

Nice bumping work there.

Most of the Lego Games are Coop at least the Star Wars Trilogy and Batman is and it's perfect for kids.

demigod is fun as a comp stomp.

You know, I and my dad (and uncle) also play RTS games in co-op only, and have been similarly frustrated. The list in the top topic is a good one, but I would expand it to:

Age of Empires I-III
Empire Earth (the sequels were not as impressive)
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Rise of Nations (Rise of Legends was okay, but not our fav)
Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance (for the best AI, use Sorian's AI mod, but it is a bit slow)
Civilization IV

Of all of those, AoEIII and FA were probably our favorites. To add one more to that, you might try out AI War, a cooperative-focused RTS game that I created myself: http://www.arcengames.com/ I got tired of waiting around for the bigger developers to focus more on cooperative play (the opposite trend seems to be present instead), so I created a game myself. The demo is free, and you can play with up to 8 players against 2 very challenging AIs (which you can tone down the difficulty on with ease).

No, don't.

Here is a list of RPG games in OCT, and it should help to make this list bigger
http://news.bbgsite.com/content/20 [...] 40,1.shtml