• LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    119 months ago

    I will never forgive the gaming executives for killing couch co-op. We have never had better TV’s and monitors in history and it’s shame I can’t share the space with the homies. Inviting people over for a game session ought to be a normal way for grown-ups to kick it in the modern age, but no. We all gotta hop on Discord and pretend to be together rather than just actually being together.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      109 months ago

      Right, exactly, we played split screen on the smallest tvs. Text was often reduced to tiny blobs. We still had fun.

      Now food prices are unreal but a huge high def tv costs 300 dollars and where are my fun co-op games? All online

      • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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        59 months ago

        Exactly dude! It has never made more sense to have split-screen/same screen co-op games. Shooters, beat 'em ups, Platformers, party games whatever (also lots of great accessibility features for those who need them), we finally have enough screen space to do really co-op properly and we all gotta just get in VOIP. Ugh, this future sucks man.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      89 months ago

      It disturbs me that all this advanced technology is being used to make game experiences worse.

      Goldeneye 64 is primitive by today’s standards, but was a very fun couch game, but now something much more sophisticated is just about expected to involve complete strangers screaming slurs on voicechat. joker-gaming