{"id":103,"date":"2015-01-23T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:37:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T05:37:28","slug":"lack-of-couch-co-op-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Lack of “couch” co-op games"},"content":{"rendered":"

I miss the days when we could sit down to a good offline “couch” co-op game. I’m not too familiar with that term, but it seems to be used with describing console co-op games such as Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance<\/em><\/a>. It seems that the only way to get anything close to playing co-op would be to play another MMO, but after putting up with the toxic<\/strong> communities that plague that genre for over a decade, I can no longer stomach it.<\/p>\n

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I was perusing sites such as Co-Optimus<\/a> for game ideas and all I read are similar reactions from other gamers due to the lack of “couch” co-op games. It’s rather disheartening and frustrating because I like playing games together with my husband. There’s always LittleBigPlanet 3, but I guess I was hoping for more of an open-map sort of game where we can explore together. I wish there could be a game with elements from MMOs, but without the other players. I honestly miss seeing my adorable Lalafell from FFXIV<\/a> running around doing whatever, even just randomly emoting at NPCs or dancing in a town. It’s silly, but true. Exploring a vast world on her cute pink chocobo was so much fun! I loved how I could customize my character to look a certain way. Little nuances that reflect your tastes and a bit of your personality. I’ve always had this fondness towards cute pink-haired anime characters, so this game was perfect! But I digress…<\/p>\n

Hopefully someday they’ll release a game that we will be able to explore in such a manner without having to worry about the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I miss the days when we could sit down to a good offline “couch” co-op game. I’m not too familiar with that term, but it seems to be used with describing console co-op games such as Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. It seems that the only way to get anything close to playing co-op would be Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,10,9],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-co-op","tag-console-gaming","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5E3YO-1F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lin.shiranai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}