| HoloDust said: Oh, I thought your kids were much younger, hence some of my previous suggestions for games... I feel your pain, mine are 16 and 14, and they've lost interest in board games a few years ago, apart from some very light and quick games (like King of Tokyo) or party games (like Codename Pictures, Dixit and Pictures) - though I had success with 2 player tactical games like Memoir 44 and Summoner wars. Now it's all about online games with friends as well, though they do still play single player games as well. The last thing we played together as couch co-op were Outward and Minecraft Dungeons, though only at 2 player count, and the last thing that was 4 player couch coop (with my brother) was Helldivers (twinstick shooter), but that was quite a bit ago. I don't know, maybe they'll get around to board games again, my wife's eldest son (18) is not far from their age, growing up with the same online mentality as them, yet he loves playing boardgames, especially mid-weight Euros. Cards Against Humanity is, for some reason, a massively popular game, along with Exploding Kittens... I must say, I don't find appeal in either (though honestly, I'm not that big on party board/card games in general), but hey, to each their own, I guess. If you have some time, maybe take a look at Shadowdark P&P RPG. It's a throwback to early D&D, it has free starter kit, digest size pdf, so it fits great on 10 inch tablets (if you don't want to print), with exceptionally quick character creation and very light rules - you can read all the rules in 20-30 minutes and has one dungeon crawl included, so it's great for pick up and play kind of thing. |
Thanks for the tip!
We finished It Takes Two, stay clear of that one with your wife. We barely made it, my wife was getting very irritated with the controls. Luckily it's very forgiving and often let's one person carry on while the other continually spawns back close behind :/ Not much fun for her, neither is a death loop on the same camera unfriendly platform section... And then it made her feel bad when she has to keep me alive in sections that rely on timing, press the wrong button, retry. For a game about fixing relationships it has good potential to do the opposite when you're a bad match in gaming skills for this game lol. I give it a 7/10 now after finishing it. I wouldn't mined playing it again as the other character this time but won't put my wife through that ordeal again :)
We turned it off quickly (the mini games are all not fun) and went on to Huntdown. There she's carrying me lol. My Achilles heel is keeping track of the right character in same screen multiplayer games. We also have very different play styles. I hang back to shoot from a distance / cover, she kamikazes in guns blazing. It works since we don't die together that way and 20 seconds to revive is do-able. (We're playing on easy with unlimited lives, hard enough lol. The early bounties are already quite a challenge!) I downloaded Streets 4 again as well, good game to let off steam as well. Maybe Nex Machina works for her too. A new game like Alien Nation would go down well too (we loved that). It sucks Returnal only has online co-op :(
@gipsy_jack We played All 4 one, problem with that one is, it's just not as fun as a mainline R&C game which is are my wife's all time favorite games. All-4-one has some camera issues, hard to see issues but mostly we got bored with it :/
We played Sackboy a big adventure, didn't get far, very boring game... Not sure what happened with the franchise since the original LBP campaign was amazing. We played through that half a dozen times. LBP2 was still good then we burned out on LBP3. We tried that campaign a bunch of times but always got frustrated with the collect stuff from different places, getting lost over and over, repeating the same paths, getting bored, abandoned.
There are plenty great co-op games in the past, but having a hard time to find anything new that's as good. A big problem is the clutter in modern games. You can hardly see the forest for the trees in full screen already. Split it and shrink the game or put 2 characters in all the mess and it's all too easy to lose track of what's going on. Plus the need for constant flashy effects makes it tiring to watch. Hence Huntdown with it's muted, big letter retro graphics works for us :)
