- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Ugh, the fault of lack of coop is purely on the developper. In this case? gearbox.
Synchronous? hah! excuses, excuses. Gearbox diddn't want to spend extra time implementing fakeclients like they should've. If they would've, we'd have great coop, and great multiplayer bots. They just got cheap.
Marathon coop pwns. This game's definately top knotch. Remember: Marathon series was BEFORE bungie sold out to m$... Which's exactly why I hope DICE and Ubisoft remain independent. Ubisoft has been desperately fighting off EA as EA wants to buy out Ubisoft.. which would totally blow if they did. EA is also trying to buy out DICE.. that's all capitalist companies know how to do: can't make better games, so they make many games to try and make up for it, and if that fails? they buy out the opposition. with m$ and EA? same deal, they always come 2nd so they suck n' need to buy out the opposition.
Lucasarts is ok. Lego Star Wars comes out in April with 2 player coop. so that's sweet. ;)
Now, Doom 3 HAS COOP. Infact? up to as many players as you want altough 4 is their reccomended max. http://opencoop.doom3maps.org/ it's still in beta stages, but the mod's playable n' quite a bit of fun. :)
Far Cry even has a coop mod. Up to 8 Players: http://www.farcrycoop.de.vu/ (currently it doesn't work with patch v1.3, we need to wait for an update)
HaloPC might have coop, HaloSE promised it, but I havn't heard any updates on how coop's working: http://www.geocities.com/halo_specialedition/
game devs that don't add in coop are just weak.
Yeah, Half Life 1. 32 Player Coop, and has even a bot that can help you beat maps! I do a lot of the waypointing for the bot, RCbot so links: http://www.svencoop.com (they're currently also making SvenCoop for Half Life 2. pwnt.)
For RCbot: [url]rcbot.bots-united.com[/url]
For some waypoints: http://filebase.bots-united.com/index.php?action=category& ;id=22
now THAT'S a good coop mod. I'm currently making waypoints for the "Earthquake Test Center" campaign, and next I shall do the "Project Guilty" campaign. As you can see, I've fully waypointed the official Half Life 1 Campaign, Resident Evil Campaign, and the Case Closed Campaign. ;)
Serious Sam 1st, n' 2nd Encouter are great. Massive amounts of monsters, up to 4 players on 1 computer, up to 16 players total.. great graphics, extremely solid netcode... a great game. BTW, seriously warped deathmatch is intense and lots of fun. Serious Sam 2 is on my "future games to buy" list near the top. :)
And yes, I usually do up to 3 people on my comp coop when doing coop. I have 2 mice kicking around so that's set, and those 2 people just slit the keyboard usage, and I use my gamepad. Pwnage on Serious Sam. =D
[Edited on 3/9/2005 11:13:42 AM]