Remember how Titanfall got bashed for having bots in it? Respawn even crafted a mode without bots due to so many voices that weren't even gonna give the game a chance.

I will never understand why people hate AI, I've grown up with it since I was a kid and while it still isn't all that smart, it's better than having some kid mouth me off while tea bagging me and using the tired old same strats each time, at least bots tend to use more than a few strats.

I just hope the new one still has bots and the MP isn't completely fucked over to appease the crwod who loathe MP and were never there for the first game. I'll be honest here though, I hate 4x strat games and largely prefer C&C real time base building live RTS games, I won't however demand that Civ VI adhere to my demands and turn into a C&C game, I'd rather just ask for the studio to possibly make a new IP that is like C&C or ask/wait for some other studio to make a game like C&C, that way Civ fans still get their Civ game that isn't tampered with and I'll maybe get a new IP to go with.

I wish I had remembered the link to a vid I watched about 2 months ago where there was talk of AI in Arena games like Quake and UT and how there are a lack of them around today, if I ever find it I'll be sure to toss it in here sometime or maybe a thread on multiplayer AI since this forum is buzzing with recent AI talk. 

Edit: I found the vid, it was from Super Bunnyhop:

Yeah I agree it depends on the game. For instance, my buddy and I were crazy disappointed that the most recent Far Cry was not going to be coop, local or online. We had a ton of fun playing Far Cry 4 together and were trying to find some game akin to that which features multiplayer and, as I said, while it's a separate issue coop campaigns seem to be dealing with the same decline that single player campaigns themselves are lol

It just seems like the things I like most are the things that are less common, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that's just my biases shining through. Really though, for the life of us we can't find a quality coop campaign on the PS4 to play together right now and it's very frustrating. The only other one we had hope for (No Man's Sky) is not only rumored to be delayed again, but looks increasingly boring and stated there's no way to actually meet up with friends in the game right now.

Soooo the search goes on.

Ha Ha , the jokes on you , I don't wear underwear.

I have nothing against MP only games , but what I don't like seeing games having their SP cut back on or removed in favour of the MP.

To be honest we have plenty of SP and MP experiences, it's the games that have heavy focus on actual co-op that aren't entirely all there, though again we'd have to make and force some narritive and mechanics to make the game appear more co-op friendly than say optional which most games tend to roll with.

I find quality co-op with recent titles I've played like Ark, that game has PvE servers and PvP, I chose the option to just roll with hosting my own map on my PC so me and a mate could build in peace because in that game, despite being on a PvE server, other players can still drag your sleeping logged out corpse towards hostile dinos or drown you to get your stuff, with it being just you and a friend there really isn't much to worry about. Same with How to Survive 2, I;ve been playing that with the same friend co-op wise with setting up our own camp, when I'm logged out he can still contribute to it while I'm away at work and vice versa, so the cop-op experience still goes on despite me not being there with him and I think that's neat. 

I would suggest (not trying to be PCMR in any way here, just my suggestion) giving Starbound a try when it reaches 1.0 (launch) as they will be adding Steam friend invite support, with the current option of you being able to host your own server or join one via it's IP address (also I'll be making a thread on Starbound once it reaches 1.0 for anyone who wants it's info as well as some give away copies). That game will at some point launch on X1 from what I gathered a month or two ago, but the game itself will definitely have a campaign and quests along with it working a lot like NMS but being akin to Terraria in space but with that bit more to an actual story and base building/survival.

How to Survive 2 is in early acces though I think it has some sort of story but I don't know as much as I haven't completed that many quests as me and a mate of mine have been darting between Overwatch, Ark and DOOM.

I found a list of new co-op releases on Steam if you want to take a gander sometime: http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Co-op/#p=0&tab=NewReleases

Yeah that's really been the problem, I've been playing on computers since they were on giant floppy disks and have a rig prepared for VR, but he doesn't have a PC whatsoever. I've actually been lobbying him for ages to get one though and, with the hardware I've just replaced, I can almost construct him a quality PC with what I removed lol... If he'd just commit to about $300s of spending we could finish it and he'd be good to go for most games.

That's always been my problem though, I've never had a friend who actually maintained a gaming rig. I don't blame them as its expensive, but our options have always been console based, and for the first time in a long time that suddenly feels rather limiting as far as Co-op is concerned.

All he has to do is invest for now and he won't/shouldn't need to tinker until a few years later or at least possibly replacing one component or two if he wants to.

It all depends on what your wallet will allow really, they can be expensive if you truly want your build to be or it can be as cheap as chips but suffering at the cost of visuals and maybe even performance. There is a dude over on youtube called "cult of Mush" who creates PC gaming vids weekly as well as dishing out hardware deals/PC builds on a monthly basis for those wishing to make a new rig or find good hardware deals. There are also sites like PC Parts picker where you can build a rig based on the parts you want and choose the beter deals along with the site making sure to let you know that the parts all work and which part won't work (which I find pretty neat).

I'd say for myself that I don't feel limited on what I game on but more in terms of my taste. I love C&C style RTS titles for example but these days there are far less quality titles that play exactly like C&C that do really well and get me on board, but that's due to the general decline of genre in general, these days there are far more 4x/turn based non base building strat games than there used to be 5-10 years ago. I do at times blame my specific taste but at the same time I have tried to get into other genres and types of games but they just don't click with me and I just end up waiting to see what takes my fancy/comes my way. 

That's not a fact. It isn't risky. You're wrong.

Also, most singleplayer campaigns aren't that long, and even so, your arguments are worse than mine.

You are not wrong. Its the world that is wrong! We are all collectively allucinating! You are very unbiased.