I'm really getting sick of games without local co-op
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 1:34 pm
I'm not talking single-player games, nor am I talking games that are clearly meant to be online only, but games like Bulletstorm, Monster Hunter, and now apparently Dragon's Dogma, too, are really starting to irritate me. You know, games that are clearly meant to be multiplayer outings and yet force you to play online for absolutely no reason at all.
In fact, when I bought Monster Hunter Tri, I was almost instantly irritated with the fact that you can only partake in a "true" cooperative play mode over the internet. The only local co-op was some sort of ridiculous arena combat which is fun for about 5 minutes before it wears thin.
When I bought Monster Hunter years ago for the PS2, it was the same way, except the number of people in the U.S. that had a "fat" PS2 that was hooked up to the internet had to be significantly lower, thus making it an even stupider move. $80 for a broadband adapter that may not even be compatible with your internet settings? Yeah, I can't imagine more than thousands were ever online at once.
Then there's Bulletstorm, which is all about showing off with crazy kills. I understand the want to give it online cooperative play, but when it's only a maximum of four players at once anyways, and everyone knows it's a hell of a lot more fun to go "hell yeah, did you see that?!" to someone right next to you who you KNOW for a fact could have seen it when it occurred than it is to say it to someone over a microphone who could be halfway across a map from you anyways and never have known what you were talking about, it's just a huge deal breaker for me.
Now, after watching the latest Dragon's Dogma trailer on Kotaku, I looked up whether it has co-op or not, only to realize that it does - and it's apparently online only.
I just don't see the point in going through all the trouble of making it so that you can have your co-op modes work online only to completely screw the players wanting to play locally out of multiplayer. I don't want to have to buy a whole other Xbox/PS3/Wii/whatever AND another copy of the game just because the developers are lazy/pricks/whatever.
Gaming is a social experience, it works better in person. Both cooperatively and competitively.
Anyone else irritated about games like this?
In fact, when I bought Monster Hunter Tri, I was almost instantly irritated with the fact that you can only partake in a "true" cooperative play mode over the internet. The only local co-op was some sort of ridiculous arena combat which is fun for about 5 minutes before it wears thin.
When I bought Monster Hunter years ago for the PS2, it was the same way, except the number of people in the U.S. that had a "fat" PS2 that was hooked up to the internet had to be significantly lower, thus making it an even stupider move. $80 for a broadband adapter that may not even be compatible with your internet settings? Yeah, I can't imagine more than thousands were ever online at once.
Then there's Bulletstorm, which is all about showing off with crazy kills. I understand the want to give it online cooperative play, but when it's only a maximum of four players at once anyways, and everyone knows it's a hell of a lot more fun to go "hell yeah, did you see that?!" to someone right next to you who you KNOW for a fact could have seen it when it occurred than it is to say it to someone over a microphone who could be halfway across a map from you anyways and never have known what you were talking about, it's just a huge deal breaker for me.
Now, after watching the latest Dragon's Dogma trailer on Kotaku, I looked up whether it has co-op or not, only to realize that it does - and it's apparently online only.
I just don't see the point in going through all the trouble of making it so that you can have your co-op modes work online only to completely screw the players wanting to play locally out of multiplayer. I don't want to have to buy a whole other Xbox/PS3/Wii/whatever AND another copy of the game just because the developers are lazy/pricks/whatever.
Gaming is a social experience, it works better in person. Both cooperatively and competitively.
Anyone else irritated about games like this?