>oh cool this games has multiplayer
>local co-op
>>332370428
>game isn't exclusively SP or MP
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>>332370428
>not having friends to play local co-op with
Frog posters leave.
>oh cool this game has multiplayer
>no local co-op
>oh cool this game has multiplayer
>no friends
>>332371506
Feels bad man, I miss those times
>>332370428
Considering local coop is becoming a rarity this is a good thing
Local couch coop is infinitely more fun than multiplayer online
> oh cool this game has multiplayer
>two controllers one character
>>332370428
Local co-op>Online co-op
There's something about being in the same room with someone that makes them less of a dick.
>>332371840
What the fuck were they thinking.
>>332371840
I hate games that do this, Katamari Forever is another one.
Comparable shittery is when you have couch multiplayer like binding of isaac were player 2 is essentially useless
>>332372093
I bet you could theme an entire game around the concept of one player controlling the character playing like a normal shooter and a second player with a birds eye view using tk to help the first but this was not that.
>>332370428
>game has multiplayer
>requires additional systems and copies of the game or paid online
Nah.
>>332370428
>Not having friends
Kill yourself le school shooter frog
>>332371506
You may be a school shooter frog but atleast you're not a faggot
I'm in the process of making a game that is exclusively local co-op.
What am I in for?
>Oh cool this game has local multiplayer.
>No local multiplayer.
Anyone else experience this? Dead Island's box literally says up to two players local, but that exists no where in the entire game. Gamestop gave me 2 $100 gift cards for it.
>>332373378
What kind of game?
Also have a sinleplayer mode included because you're really limiting your audience by having it be exclusively local co-op
>>332370428
>frogposter has no irl friends
why am i not surprised
>>332370428
>he has no friends to play games with
What are you a neckbeard pony faggot?
What is so taboo about wanting to have both online and local multiplayer?
Why limit to just one?
>>332374371
It takes effort. Something you don't understand.
>>332374371
effort
>>332374485
>>332374506
Sounds like something a lazy fuck would say. Pokemon is effortless as shit to make and yet it has both, seems to me that it's just to cut corners not to include both.
>>332373754
Topdown shooter.
It will have single player but with a computer controlled player 2.
But at this point in development the hard modes are nearly unbeatable if you're playing with the computer p2.
>>332374715
>pokemon is effortless as shit to make
>it has both
Yeah i wonder why.
>>332374775
Ahhk cool man good luck with that
>But at this point in development the hard modes are nearly unbeatable
Never underestimate players imo, the creator of Street Fighter thought executing combos would be impossible initially
>oh hey this game has single player
>it doesn't
>>332374838
Why you're a shill defending shitty, lazy decisions?
>>332375083
If a game takes no effort to make, it'll take no effort to implement those other mechanics into it.
However it's different for a game that required effort to make. Is this really that hard to understand?
>>332374838
Pokemon still requires you to have another system and copy of the game. The problem lies in games advertising local co-op, but the only way to play locally is with other systems, TVs, copies of the game, etc. Instead of having simple split-screen.
>>332375187
>tripfag
>>332370428
i'll take "what was one of the best video game's best feature before 2006?" for $300 senpai.
>>332375363
>fucking anything with facial hair
Gross
Any good local multi-player suggestions? I like to play vidya with my brothers when I come home for breaks
Embarrassingly we hit kind of a slump and have just been playing splitscreen awesomenauts
>>332374865
Honestly I would really like to see how you guys would handle the hard mode single player but I can't release an unfinished product.
>>332375183
Or maybe it doesn't actually take effort to implement such mechanics to begin with, and you're just being tricked by lazy devs to defend their lazy jewery?
>>332375791
Fair enough man, good luck with everything
>>332375816
Well if it takes no effort to do it, why don't you do it?
>>332375884
and with this post i will have won the argument.
>>332371702
DELETE THIS
>>332375884
>"well why don't you try it" argument
Nice, I knew I was the greatest of dick gobblers
>>332376136
You probably are, given your argument.
>>332370871
this
>>332376240
>>332376136
>>332375965
>>332375884
Nice try faggots, you aren't me
>>332375816
>>332374371
Depends on the game, making multiplayer elements takes a lot of time - and some games would result in incredibly resource intensive results with relatively small benefit
Couch coop presence is something that is usually uncared for in critic reviews - it doesn't sell games so why take more time and money making it?
If you don't have any friends to play local co-op games with, why don't you just ask your girlfriend to play games with you? You can teach her how to play and I'm sure she'll think it's fun.
>>332376496
a little hamfisted, but you'll hurt some especially lonely anons even if they don't respond
>>332372923
>Just got here
I saw an Anon musing this idea a few months ago.
>2 man vs. shooter
>1 player has an overhead view and controls the legs, boosts, and shitting out traps
>The other is a first-person controlling the torso and arms, shooting and hitting shit based on loadout
>>332374926
Rainbow Six Siege?
>>332370428
>oh cool this games has multiplayer
>no local co-opfucking Anarchy Reigns
>oh cool this game has multiplayer
>local co-op
>online co-op
>>332370428
But people actually behave when their not on the internet.
>the last game I played couch co-op was halo reach with my best friend carl
>that was in highschool
>highschool was 6 years ago
FUCKING HALO 5 NO COUCH CO-OP BULLSHIT
>game has local co-op
>its split screen
Nah.
>>332374371
Indie dev here
>local co-op
Oh cool, I can implement this in an afternoon and work out the finer details over the next few weeks.
>online co-op
Welp, time to completely re-engineer the game after studying networking extensively and more than quadruple my time spent bug testing and polishing
>>332378825
>indie dev
who cares?
>>332378305
It was the only reason I bought those shit games
>>332375762
Platform?
>>332374371
>>332378825
Large publisher here
>local co-op
Oh cool, I can spend more time and money on the development team to make a feature very few people are going to notice or care about, thus delaying the release of the game, opening the door to more bugs and issues and cutting into the potential profit
>online co-op
Welp, time to lazily throw together an online feature, put it on the same server as a bunch of our other titles and rake in the easy money, hell throw in some cosmetic DLC in there, look at all the money rain!
>>332379000
>namefag asking who cares
Anyone with a brain enough to not namefag on a Japanese Data Theft board.
>>332379214
So i guess nobody important cares then. Alright, carry on.
>>332379000
The opinion of a gamedev provides a useful perspective in response to anon's question. You're a dumb parroter.
>>332379437
indie* gamedev
That's not saying much
It's like a Mcdonald's cook calling themselves' a chef.
>>332379437
The opinion of an Anonymous person claiming to be someone of importance is quite meaningless.
>>332377273
>there will never be a new MUA on PC
Local coop only is shit when you're an adult. I guess since this is /v/ and most of you are underaged you wouldn't understand
