Co-op is boring (blah semi rant)

[Jaximus Decimus]

All of the funnest gaming moments that I can recall happened playing co-op, either online or splitscreen. I've probably played more than 100 hours of Halo 1 co-op. I know I've got close to 300 hours of co-op in Apache Air Assault.

That's not to say that I don't play adversarial multiplayer. I've played a lot of that, but I only play to win. I get no joy out of it. I'm not happy when my team is on a 20 win streak, but you better believe I get pissed the first game we lose.

The point is, co-op is the only multiplayer mode that I actually enjoy. For me it's the best thing about gaming.

The OP kind of reminds me of this saying that goes something like; If the first person you run into in the morning is a jerk, then he's an asshole. If everyone you run into all day long is a jerk, then you're the asshole.

 

[EyeReaper]

Wait... Co-op is about teamwork? All of my friends and I play it munchkin style. You're supposed to look like you're all together on a team while secretly sabotaging your friends.
The only time I haven't enjoyed a co-op experience is my only run of Torchlight 2. I had never played the game before, everybody else had, and yet, they would constantly be getting angry because I didn't know what to do when everybody else had played the levels three times over. Then again, these are the guys who said I must be retarded because I had Trine 2 on the WiiU instead of pc, so after a while I just didn't care

 

[The_Lost_King]

Well, I just came here after playing a co-op mod for starcraft for 6 hours, so what do you think? I like Co-op, with friends. I don't do randoms. The only time I ever do randoms is WoW and LoL, and even in LoL I usually play with atleast one friend.

 

[DragonStorm247]

In my experience, co-oping with even randoms is magnitudes better than competitive with randoms, attitude-speaking. Almost everyone I have ever played with has been fairly friendly and helpful without being overbearing. Competitive on the other hand ... well, I think enough has been said about the online Halo/CoD/LoL/etc communities.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Perhaps I've just gotten sick that 99.9% of my friends refuse to play anything competitive.

Woah thats a lot of friends I would have thought a few more would have been receptive to something competitive.

I quite like Co-op but only with friends although I suppose I have got along with a few people in MMOs occasionally but for competitive Co-op if it hinges tightly on cooperation to be successful I steer clear unless I know at least a few people in the group as some take it way to seriously while others dont try at all in either case I cant stand the bitching it brings.

With friends its different since we have a better understanding of each others strengths and weaknesses and ofc dont act like complete dicks to each other unless its in jest ofc.

I dont like relying on others or having others rely on me for the most part.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Co-op is where it's at. You have a laugh with your friends and you don't have to worry about hackers. It's perfect.