BrianBrian Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Heard Stef mention in an early on podcast that he and his wife had played Neverwinter Nights together!? Can't remember if it was 1 or 2.This has me extra motivated to take advantage of my girlfriend and mine's passion of games and dig in to a good one. I'm even thinking Neverwinter Nights 2; nothing wrong with old school or dated, especially since it will be that much easier to run it on our laptops.Any success stories for 2 player gaming? Thanks everyone, looking forward to input from philosopher gamers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 What kind of games do you each like? What is both of your previous gaming experiences? If minimal, what kind of board games or card games do you each like? To some extent, this is like asking what the best food is. While there are some that are generally better than others, if I know what other foods you like I am much more likely to pick a new food that you will like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan C. Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 RPGs are my favorite. I'd recommend that you start with Torchlight 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovePrevails Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 uh wrong joystick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianBrian Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 RPGs are my favorite. I'd recommend that you start with Torchlight 2 Ahhhh, great man that's great. I've played TL 1 but totally forgot about it the 2nd being multiplayer! Thanks! uh wrong joystick Hahahaha yes, yes indeed. What kind of games do you each like? What is both of your previous gaming experiences? If minimal, what kind of board games or card games do you each like? To some extent, this is like asking what the best food is. While there are some that are generally better than others, if I know what other foods you like I am much more likely to pick a new food that you will like. I like games like Phantasy Star Online and she likes Oblivion, Morrowind, Zelda, etc. She hasn't liked turn based combat but she thinks maybe she could get into it with the right introduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Ah, ok. So player progression RPG style that might edge on some MMORPG. I have only played single player in this realm, so I will leave the recommendations to more knowledgeable people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsayers Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Back when I played WOW, I met numerous couples that took up the tank + healer roles. They pretty much wrote their own tickets. So you could have the benefit of meeting other people or ignoring the rude ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceD Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 You could check out Path of Exile. It's free to play and a very good dungeon crawler like Diablo. Also Minecraft! It's very very easy to setup a little server for you guys to both use and pkay the game together. Or you can find a dedicated server to join to play together with others. If you like MOBAs both Dota 2 and League of Legends are free to play. Then of course there is the ridiculously long list of F2P MMOs. Though you're best bet is to Google for reviews and such to find the one you want in the style you would prefer. Really the options are so limitless your question is unanswerable. Do you guys like RTS? Get any of the Total War games and play a co op campaign together. Or do any of the other 1.5 billion things you could do because almost every single game released has a multiplayer component. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRobin Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 A thing that came to my mind was the SNES game Secret of Mana 2. I remember playing that with a friend a while back and it was quite fun. He also played it with his girlfriend, who isn't even really that into games, but enjoyed it none the less. It's a kind of action/adventure/rpg with nice intuitive controls and a cool fantasy story. (Or at least I remember enjoying the story when I last played it, which was quite a while back though). Just get an emulator on the PC with at least two joypads and you're good to go basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnhvatr Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I mostly play by myself but I have wanted to do the co-op in Portal 2 for a long time, that could be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsayers Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I mostly play by myself but I have wanted to do the co-op in Portal 2 for a long time, that could be fun. How much do you know about this? I was thinking about trying to do it solo by having it running on two machines that I am in control of. Can't get enough Portal. The thematics are very well done and the idea of story/dialogue/song as reward is creative. Just spent this past weekend at an out of state friend's house overnight and half the time was spent watching him play 1 and 2 since he never had before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnhvatr Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I've beaten the single player story but I haven't tried any of the co-op. I don't know anyone that plays it and I worried that if I tried co-op with a stranger I'd get some horrible eleven year old. OMG YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO THIS PUZZLE ALREADY, NOOB?! THIS IS MY 12TH PLAY THROUGH IT IS EASY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan C. Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 If you're looking for some other co-op games to play, I recommend the following. You can usually find these for cheap during sales on various game sites like Steam. Titan Quest Immortal Throne Path of Exile (free) Sacred 1, 2Silverfall + Silverfall: Earth AwakeningBorderlands 1, 2Loki Lord of the Rings: War in the NorthDungeon DefendersMagickaDead Island Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianBrian Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 If you're looking for some other co-op games to play, I recommend the following. You can usually find these for cheap during sales on various game sites like Steam. Titan Quest Immortal Throne Path of Exile (free) Sacred 1, 2Silverfall + Silverfall: Earth AwakeningBorderlands 1, 2Loki Lord of the Rings: War in the NorthDungeon DefendersMagickaDead Island I didn't know dead island was two player that rocks. Thanks so much for the heads up all. Will let ya know how it's going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fleming Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I was watching Quill18 play Octodad with his wife here. Looked kind of fun, though his tagline was that it would test his relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BlackHeron Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 The wife and I spent many cold winter nights inside playing Diablo2 in LAN mode. It's a pretty fun game to play together and it has the added benefit of supporting up to 8 players in LAN mode. I no longer have a winblows box but I hear that it is possible to get the old game to work on Linux in some sort of emulation mode. It's been a couple of years since we played but it was always a lot of fun -especially when we could get friends to come over and make a LAN gaming party. We never really enjoyed all the BS that went on playing over in Blizzard's public D2 servers. So much cheating and hacking and kiddie flame BS. I've often thought about trying D3 but there is no LAN mode and I really disliked the childish BS of the public servers so we never tried it. The nice thing about D2 on LAN mode is that it is pretty much free, and I had a bunch of programs to run gear stashes and whatnot so we could jump off playing fun rather than scrabbling at first to find decent gear. Like it was said above, the oldies can be goodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm a driving nut, but I've found that even people who aren't driving nuts enjoy the game 1nsane. It is between $10 and free, depending on where you look. It is great for LAN with 2 PCs and needs only keyboards. It has capture the flag, king of the hill, and other non-race game types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsayers Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Hearthstone is out now and is a fun, free to play, 2 player, digital collectible card game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRobin Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Hearthstone is out now and is a fun, free to play, 2 player, digital collectible card game. Imo it sucks though -_- plus it only allows for comeptitive 2 player modes, which is probably not that enjoyable to play witha friend as cooporative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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