Poll: Who do you co-op with?

[Brainstrain]

Looking back, I've been playing co-op for a long time. (I've gone from playing as Tails to P-Body, The Siren to Joanna Dark's Never-Mentioned-Again sister). Who do you play with nowadays? How has it changed over the years? Do you like having a headset on so you can hang out with someone new, or would you rather punch player 2 in the arm?

 

[cjspyres]

Is nobody an acceptable answer? I usually don't play co-op games. To be honest, I think there are too many games putting an emphasis on multiplayer and co-op. But, any time that I do, it's usually with my best friend.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

My brother when I can bribe him enough.

 

[The_Lost_King]

I usually co-op with my friend I met in real life. Though my brother likes to play war in the north.

 

[bobmus]

I've played co-op over the course of several sessions with my friends, when one of us goes to visit the other. Never really cared for the online co-op, though I have done the last mission of Halo 3 in 4-Player co-op with my friends, just so we got the achievement. xD

 

[Girl With One Eye]

I only play co-op online since I don't know any other gamers IRL. I would love to punch them in the arm though >.>

 

[Zhukov]

I don't know any other gamers, well, at least none who are into the same games I am.

So if I do co-op it's usually with random pubbies.

Can actually work out surprisingly well, depending on the game.

 

[Jack Rascal]

I prefer to play with a friend, in person and towards a common goal. I don't like fighting or sports games, I like co-op where we're on a mission together not go against each other head to head.

And I don't like online multiplayers, especially if it's competitive. I could get on board an online multiplayer if I could play with my friend (co-op) in the same room. I'm sure we could get a good laugh out of that. But anything other than that, I have no interest in.

 

[Frankster]

Increasing distances means my coop is mostly done online nowadays

I remember fondly the olden days where I'd invite friends over/be invited over for some gaming sessions but sadly that is no longer a reality (my old gaming buddies scattered to the 4 corners of the world.). So yey for coop gaming online.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

I usually get my friend to come over every so often to play a bit of co-op and talk about our personal stuff. It's getting increasingly difficult now that he moved up north and only comes down on rare occasions. Other than that, I sometimes play some co-op with my room mate. It's fun but we don't really discuss our personal lives due to the fact that we haven't reached that level of friendship yet.

 

[King of Asgaard]

My brother and I used to kick some serious ass together.
Be it levelling a hunter and soldier to max in Borderlands, gunning down infected freaks in Resident Evil 5 or hunting massive beasts in Monster Hunter, we were a force to be reckoned with.

 

[Sacman]

No one... because no one wants to spend enough time with me... in person or over the internet to really play anything...<.<

 

[KINGBeerZ]

I always have found it a bit sad with the current gen consoles how many games will only allow you to play co-op online, I always love going over to a friends house and playing a good co-op multiplayer game like Tales of Vesperia, but it seems that with online multiplayer a lot of games are giving up on single console multiplayer.

 

[AndrewF022]

In person friends ideally, but splitscreen games are few and far between these days and theres the added hassle of organizing it.

I also don't mind playing with online friends.. I just can't stand random public games, especially when the other person doesn't have a microphone or has one and doesn't use the damn thing, it annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

No significant other option?

 

[Naeras]

I usually play with a friend or two. I can't stand the thought of playing with pubbies. Good god I've had horrible experiences with that.

 

[Gitty101]

I almost exclusively play with people I actually know for co-op play. It's usually more fun and since we know our strengths and weaknesses in any given game, we're more effective for it.

 

[Dodgeboyuk]

i didn't vote on this because i don't know

its somewhere between online buddy and people i haven't met before

for example i just got Orks must die 2 but i don't have any real life friends or online friends that play it yet so i am playing with strangers meet in a steam group chatroom

the ones i have a good game with stay on my friends list and become online buddies while i get rid of and block people i didn't enjoy playing with

i made 2 new online friends yesterday and one this morning (whom i now have the highest score and wave survival duration with