A friend and I like to play a lot of cooperative games together. Recently, though, good co-op games (
especially ones with splitscreen) have been getting rarer. So I figured I could ask B12 for recommendations, since you guys are generally pretty smart and knowledgable about this type of thing.
Requirements:
- Must be easy to set up for cooperative play, preferably over LAN or splitscreen. Dark Souls would be a good game, except it's bad for playing with a specific person.
- Must not rely on PvP, so no MOBAs. Mostly because we like winning, and we won't be playing this often enough to get really skilled.
- Has to be on either PC, Xbox 360, PS2, or Xbox. We've both got the former two, but only one each for the latter two; PS2 and Xbox games would have to be splitscreen. Neither of us has a latest-gen console.
Preferences:
- Not a twitch shooter. I'd classify Halo, Left4Dead, Borderlands etc as twitch shooters, but not Portal or Splinter Cell. Mostly, this is because shooters that don't have anything else get repetitive fast--this was our problem with Borderlands.
- Not strictly a puzzler. Portal 2 was wonderful solo, but when we tried co-op, one of us would always solve the level first, and the other would just blindly follow the other's directions.
- Something tactical or stealthy would be our preference. Running With Rifles was good, although it eventually got repetitive. Splinter Cell: Blacklist was great. Something like cooperative XCOM would be amazing, but I'm pretty sure that's impossible.
Cost isn't really an issue. We'd prefer cheap, of course, but if it's a good game that's more important. And yes, I really should have posted this a week or two ago, when there was still lots of time in the Steam sale. I'm a severe procrastinator.
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