My wife and I like to play games together, but PC devs often skip couch co-op options. For example, I bought Halo Master Chief Collection because I know Halo co-op is legendary and I never really played Halo growing up, nor did she. But the PC version specifically doesn’t have split screen co-op where the console version does.

We already own and play Stardew Valley, Outward (fantastic game if you aren’t aware), and Civ 5 (we prefer it over 6).

So what other options have you enjoyed that I may have missed?

  • InspiringOne@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Halo, call of duty, not all games are. Say this some how about halo

    It was called halo combat evolved, because combat evolved into something else, it was to smite call of duty, and take halo from being considered any type of military training. Instead beating halo on legendary means you can be a master computer programmer at Microsoft.

    It’s just combat evolved probably made it seem like the second game like halo 2, but halo 2 was already on the market. I started doing the same thing customers do with calling on phones to peoples houses or cell phones or their friends neighbors or family’s houses or asking around for them or about them and the calls or anything they do didn’t go on anymore and eventually nothing was bought and sold, and actual slow calling and talking or having meetings business actually went on, and a service economy started where everything was normal and high quality stuff with the real approved formula was bought sold. And just democracy and or business fascism went on and that’s what call of duty was actually still made for. Everyone is forced to buy it and play it for older ones you just download them unless you’re that lazy. It’s too risky to leave the house we could get kidnapped by someone else or have homeless people convincing us about the economy crashing by what they’re doing or saying or how the area looks. When we all hate money or don’t need it or want to use it or it to go on, they all still need and use money for something and expect the other thing called a service economy to go on, bums didn’t work or sell anything in service economies, they all wanted to be cashiers or already were and stole something or money or got fired. And it’s the opposite when we do. Socialist selling businesses can’t exist, it means the employees were doing some kind of communism and breeding.

    Where it says the planet turned into a ring world called halo we should have said universe, or there isn’t other planets and stars but halo wasn’t necessary to be Star Wars and traveling through space. Or who knows what can happen with video games, prequels or some new sequel branch. Halo is intense it becomes like fighting bosses in other video games the whole time where you get use to them so they throw more at you and more intense stuff. I let Justin put as much as he could or would ever put in a game into the game, and it was quite a bit that he’d put in it. What great evil man. A god damn award to Justin holt if you may. A windows award print out and a gift card or some big check like in “Happy Gilmore”. I use to do shit like that in person and that’s why they said different kinds of capitalism goes on or that capitalism still went on. I was on the PGA tour, but I didn’t miss while putting. No one wants to walk that far when golfing no one really eats any food and beer is common.

    In halo you have to use alien pistols very good to even beat it or to beat it on legendary, the assault rifle sucked completely. I’d still say this blew ass and not to make any more and now we’d have to take them all away. They make someone beat it on legendary for anyone to get paid from it or anything else they did. No one beat it on legendary because they didn’t want too, playing video games is supposed to be fun and not much of a challenge unless your getting better. People just played video games to relax or blow off steam, or wait out natural disasters, they don’t build full on neighborhoods and cities and put in restaurants for it, it’s possible that if you don’t make video games that you may end up playing the same ones. Or any game that ever existed.

    So it was that Trojan horse virus Tony doing this yo me or us. He didn’t want me only getting a salary amount and that’s because that’s all anyone wanted to spend in a year as a regular person, but I still needed my investment into it back. I did this thing where I acted like I was his son saying “oh can’t you just give me an allowance dad, like 5 or 10 bucks a day and 20 or 40 on Friday for the weekend movie theaters and places. And him being bisexual he got into it, it turned me into an almost prostitute for my own money back, all because I didn’t beat halo combat evolved on legendary for the master simulator to see. What a long large video game. It seems short until mission 5. They have you go in to the place then you have to fight your way back out when reinforcements arrive.

    Then one day I hit my head on something or became immune to him by a vaccine or using Vicodin, he bought them sometimes to stop me from taking them. 25 thousand dollars stuck somewhere with Tony using it as business loan or student loan money making it seem like student loan money gets paid back because he did, yeah well that wasn’t Tony’s money so he had too or he couldn’t use Microsoft Windows anymore or the old versions. The simulator just wouldn’t allow it. So I convinced him not to and to try out Ubuntu and Linux.

    But still we could just start programming after using a computer and having ideas for programs of new ones or improving some or by starting over on an operating system and calling it the same thing when the new one comes out.

  • unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    It Takes Two is a masterpiece for co-op gameplay and is great for casual gameplay. A Way Out was made by the same studio before It Takes Two and it’s easy to see where they were able to improve on the experience, but it’s also a great game for local co-op.

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    2 years ago

    +1 for it takes two.

    There’s also a pretty nice list already in the comments.

    I do like a lot Portal 2 but wifey cannot play for too long with me as she becomes impatient. When that’s the case and she just want to watch a story like you would watch a movie, I play A Plague Tales (both of them) and she ends up wanting to know more and finally, crying.

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    2 years ago

    LEGO games are fantastic

    It Takes Two and A Way Out are co-op masterpieces

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      2 years ago

      We’ve played a couple of the Lego games and found it a little too kiddish simplistic.

      I’ll check out the other two thanks

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        2 years ago

        I’ll second A Way Out, then. It’s pretty simple, but very well done

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      2 years ago

      Played through It Takes Two with my 13 year old daughter and it remains one of our favourite days. So much fun and the story is just brilliant.

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      2 years ago

      Agree with the latter, the former can be slow and I don’t like how so many stages are so so heavily filled with ‘bring X character with y colored power back here eventually’ spots

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    2 years ago

    It Takes Two is co-op masterpiece. It’s mostly a puzzle platformer but changes up the gameplay style every level. Lots of little mini games to get distracted by too. Can’t recommend it enough

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    2 years ago

    Not exactly a recommendation (most of what I would have said has been covered below) but, my partner and I use Co-Optimus to find new games to couch play together. Here’s a filtered list of PC split-screen and couch co-op games.

    https://co-optim.us/1m8Ysft

    Hope that helps!

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    2 years ago

    Me and my gf loved playing Divinity: Original Sin 2.

    And we’re super excited for Balder’s Gate 3 made by the same Devs as DOS2. It’s just had its release date move forward to Aug 3rd woo!

    • Omnimater@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 years ago

      So I forget about this game, but I do own it and have hardly ever played. Can’t remember why? Maybe I had controller support issues or something. I’ll have to fire it up.

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      My wife and I tried D:OS and she got really bored really fast. I think the pacing of the first couple of chapters is really slow and there’s a lot of reading and not a lot of action and she just lost interest really quickly. Too bad but I get it.

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        2 years ago

        Yeah, D: OS 1 is boring at the beginning. D: OS 2 is verrrrrry good though. If you can , I highly recommend giving it a try. I believe it to be better than either Pillars of Eternity games

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      2 years ago

      How DOS2 solves the issue of story progressions and cut scenes when you play online coop?

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    2 years ago

    If you and your wife are into D&D-type stuff Divinity Original Sin 2 has local co-op. It’s an isometric turn based adventure game. Super fun to play and on sale for about $18 at the moment, I think. I will say, it’s a little more involved than some of the more casual games like Stardew, but if you’re willing to put in a little time to learn the game it’s one of the most rewarding games I’ve ever played.

    My girlfriend and I actually played through the whole thing together!

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    2 years ago

    Out of Space is a ton of fun, starts out hard, but stock with it and you can overcome.

    Others I’ve seen mentioned already, but deserves more: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and It Takes Two

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      I tried “Out of Space” last night with my partner and wow, you weren’t kidding. I really liked it, but we died every time. Eventually we switched to the easier “zen mode” and were able to win a few matches. I couldn’t help but wonder if the balance wasn’t finely tuned for 2 players, maybe they balanced it for 4.

      For anyone interested: this is a really fun game, but it’s not quite as much like “The Sims in space” as I expected. It’s closer to “Overcooked, but with some placeable furniture that you need to interact with”.

      If anyone knows of a co-op (not necessarily local, but that’s a huge plus) game like “The Sims”, I’d be very interested. Rimworld is close, but the multiplayer mod didn’t work well for us. I think my partner’s old laptop couldn’t keep up at 3x speed, causing big desyncs. Factorio is great for co-op IMO (though not at all like “The Sims”, more like Sim City)), but my partner doesn’t really like it because of the gritty environment.

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    2 years ago

    Shocked It Takes Two isn’t up here. Fiancé isn’t a gamer at all, but she LOVED this game. Brings us back to the great PS2 era 3D platformers.

    Besides that, I’ll echo the other comments of Lego games (especially Lego Skywalker Saga)

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    2 years ago

    We just played It Takes Two. Great variety of gameplay and level styles. Always something to learn, always something new happening, very different environments. Also, good story for husband and wife coop. Great game, I can recommend!

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    2 years ago

    It’s not split screen, but an enjoyable game for two players in the same screen (so couch coop):

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritfarer

    You play the new “Reaper” and his cat. Collect lost souls, that still have some issues to solve, travel the “in between” spirit world, build a house boat, take care of gardens, make music, etc. The artwork is cute, while the topics of the lost spirits can be unexpected sad. Still a great game to relax!

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      We started that when I had ea play or whatever for a bit, but I didn’t keep that and we never got too deep into it. Should go back to it.