• Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Left 4 dead 1&2, Halo 1-3 + Reach. Man I miss co op games with friends on split screen. Do modern games even have split screen options outside of Nintendo titles?

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      3 months ago

      +1 for the Bungie Era Halo franchises, IMO they have one of the best stories, and they honestly all hold up well. Plus you have so much that you can burn through with friends, and it has such deep lore you’ll be chatting for hours.

      1, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach are all great for this. 1 and 2 support 2 players. 3, ODST, and Reach support 4 players

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    Portal 2 has a very fun co-op story mode. In fact, I’d recommend the solo story mode for both Portal 1 and 2 as well. One of my favorite video game stories ever.

    I haven’t played them myself but I believe both It Takes Two and A Way Out were designed to be played in co-op only so both their stories should be good.

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    I would think games like Divinity Sin 2, Balder’s Gate 3 have solid stories given their nature.

    Theres also simpler games like Cat Quest II, Diablo IV (I thought story was very meh), A Way Out, etc.

    You just have to look? No genre preference listed

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    These are a bit more make your own story: Rimworld with Multiplayer mod (feels like its vanilla multiplayer tbh) and Project Zomboid :)

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      Project zomboid is great, and I’m super glad they added multi-player, but it’s more of a “make your own story” type of game IMO.

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    3 months ago

    I’ve spent the last year or so playing Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint with a couple friends.

    It has an interesting sci-fi/military story, tons of side missions if you’re tired of following the main campaign, and a wide open map to explore if you’re just bored of everything. Plus, there are random missions every day, so if you’re done with the main campaign, you can continue to do missions and enjoy exploring the world even more.

    Also, your party doesn’t have to stick together. You can play on the same map, but go off and do your own thing. I have a buddy who can’t follow instructions to save his life. He’s always running around, causing chaos everywhere he goes. We’re trying to stealthily infiltrate a base and he just crash-lands a helicopter into it and runs in guns blazing.

    So… we let him run off and grief other bases or enemies while the rest of our party focuses on the mission. Everybody wins, and we all get to play together and have a good time.

    EDIT: Same goes for Tom Clancy’s The Division and The Division 2. Unlike Breakpoint, which takes place on an island nation, fighting against a wannabe dictator, The Division takes place in America after a virus plague has wiped out most of civilization, and you’re playing as an elite team that’s trying to restore order to the population.

    I’ve been playing The Division with my friends for a few years now. It’s a very fun game series.

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    3 months ago

    Secrets of Grindea and Dysmantle. I’m sure I’ll come up with a lot more, I go deep diving all the time for games for my partner and me

    Secrets of Grindea - Tongue in cheek, Secret of Mana inspired ARPG. They recently finished the story, and there is also a arcade mode that is a blast with friends

    Dysmantle - Survival Crafting Lite where everything is destructible. We REALLY enjoyed this one. I’ve downloaded it again for us to play through a second time. One of the DLCs is mediocre, but the other two were fantastic. I still enjoyed all three

    Edit: I don’t think I saw anyone mention Outward. A difficult, medieval action RPG

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    3 months ago

    What’s a story game ?

    Alice is missing is a Silent, one shot narrative rpg and would my go to recommendation for casual players

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    Dungeons and Dragons. With the right group, you can do anything.

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      There are other RPGs that may scratch slightly different itches, if the fantasy + combat + resource management parts of DND don’t really appeal.

      I really like Fate. it’s a lot more focused on story and is overall a lighter system. it does ask more from the players though.