Talk:List of cooperative video games

some issues and some help

I have been putting together a list of PSP games with ad-hoc co-op and "team battle" modes. I'll paste it here. Also a couple corrections: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is NOT co-op on PSP and X-Men Legends 1 never came out on the PSP. Also I think it's funny this list has X-Men 2 Clone Wars (Genesis) but not the first X-Men game for Genesis. I will add more games to the list at some point. I've done my best to remove games from my list which were already on the wiki page.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by revolverdrew 06:37, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Description

I created this manually edited table to support sorting and provide critical information about the co-op titles listed in Category:Cooperative video games. The incomplete fields will be filled out with time. Please do not delete them.

• If you're new to wiki editing, append new game entries (alphabetically or to the end of the table) using the following format:

|-
| [[wiki gamename|display text]] 
| [[wiki of the gaming platform|display text]], e.g. [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]
| [[Genre]] (please use "conventional" simplified genre descriptions - the rest is accessible through the game page
| Year of release (if EU/JP/US/etc release dates differ, use the earliest one) 
| Maximum # of players, in Co-op gamemodes only (other modes often support more players)
| Extra Controller/LAN/Xbox Live/System Link/Internet/Etc
| Split/Shared/Full/Etc
| Yes/No
| Any useful comments related to the co-op aspects of the game. Remember to keep it simple and to the point.

• I recommend using separate entries for each platform unless they are nearly identical and you can fit the platform differences into the Additional Notes field without overstretching it. I also urge you to be consistent and always use same abbreviations and/or acronyms to allow for more accurate sorting. For specific gametype information, just use the subgenres as piped links on more generalized genre definitions:

 [[Shoot 'em up]]
 [[Run_and_gun|Shoot 'em up]]
 [[Multidirectional shooter|Shoot 'em up]]

Which will still look (and sort) as Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up Shoot 'em up. Remember, there's no need for extensive particulars. Visitors can always click on the title link to get more information about the game.

One additional note: there are quite a few titles that span multiple platforms but only have functional co-op in just one or two of them. For example, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a PC/PS2/Xbox title that only has co-op in the Xbox version that came out two years after the original release. Same thing with Quake II: as I recall, the N64 and PSX versions did not contain any cooperative gamemodes at all. I think it's best not to assume such things and not automatically include all game versions without being fairly sure that they also belong to the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rankiri (talk • contribs) 18:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• As of now, I didn't enter any of the older (pre-NES) platforms, such as Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, or downright antiquated Sinclair ZX81, into the Platform column. The already bloated table just would look so much messier otherwise. Obviously, this arbitrary decision is completely opened to suggestions, but right now I just include more recent platforms and label the rest as "Other", pipe linking it to the game's main page.

References

As of today (17 June 2008), all of the entries were either made or double checked by me. The information given here is mostly reliable but definitely not perfect. Most of the information was taken from meta reviewer www.gamerankings.com and such major game reviewing sites as www.gamespot.com, www.ign.com, and www.gamespy.com. I also used my personal experience in several cases, mainly for the Additional Notes section. Some of the older or less known games on the list were not reviewed by any major websites. I used data available on their Wikipedia pages and tried to search for some sort of verification on the Web in most of the cases.

This is still work in progress. Currently unverified or partially verified (untrustworthy sources) entries are followed by (?).

Perfect Dark N64: Error at number of players. You can play this game with 4 player-splitscreen (N64 has up to 4 controllers)! corrected --212.71.117.130 (talk) 13:39, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Players

When inputing the number of player(s) in a game, should you include the bot(s) too? For example: In Battlefield 2 there are two teams of 8 (Total 16, default Single-player/LAN play match) and let's say that one other human player, yourself, and a group bots play against another team of bots. Should the article list 2-player cooperative play instead of 8? This would only occur with games that have no clear-defined number of bots and players in a game (Battlefield series, Vietcong, etc). I believe that the number of players should be left blank and a note that indicates the number of bot(s) that could be ingame would be added to the 'Additional Note' section. ♠K | ☢ 05:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

It's definitely not 2-player. You can get up to 8 human players to play vs AI without crossing or otherwise blurring the border between cooperative and competitive types of gameplay. Since leaving blanks is less informative and not as convenient for sorting, I suggest you use 8 (16 for 32-player games, etc) and add the specifics into Additional Notes. Rankiri (talk) 06:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions

If anybody has any suggestions for optimizing the list, please speak up. I think splitting the table into more manageable chunks may be a good idea, but I didn't give this thought enough time to come up with a splitting solution that will not include many duplicate entries for multi-platform titles. I was also thinking about including some sort of Average Reviewing Score column for practical reasons. Sorting by "quality" would definitely streamline the browsing process for some, but I'm not sure whether a feature like this falls outside the original scope of the list. Anyway, this talk page looks like a monologue at this point. If anyone reads this, I'd like to hear your ideas as well. Rankiri (talk) 21:57, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

An average review score would be very helpful in my opinion; however, like you said, it may be outside the scope of the article. -- VGF11 (talk) 18:37, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Awesome!

Thanks so much for this. Just what I needed. Though, it's a pity that there are so few Action-RPG co-op games. Started playing X-Men Legends II with my sis and haven't managed to find anything like it so far. But thanks for all the works. 125.160.227.176 (talk) 06:46, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Any multiplayer game with teams?

If you can play multiplayer with teams (e.g. the HOMM series) should the game be one the list? Or is it restricted to games with something above and beyond basic multiplayer for cooperating? - 94.194.148.28 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC). -Looks like any multiplayer game with teams and bots.Jeffman12 (talk) 21:52, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Help! Missing row break though text seems to be in correct format. row: Road Rash: Jailbreak

I added Road Rash: Jailbreak. It now appears with no table row break before it, even though text seems to be in correct format. Please someone fix and show me what I did wrong! Thanks, ProtoArmor —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProtoArmor (talk • contribs) 07:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Definitions

I have not played a video console in years. I want a game with cooperative local/offline play, the column labeled screen view is confusing to me. Could definitions of split, full, and shared be added? Split is pretty obvious, but I don't know what is meant by the other two. — Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  30 April 2024, 20:46 (UTC)

Added Portal 2

Portal 2 is unique in the sense that the 2-player coop is an extension of the single-player storyline (in a sense), and definitely expands on that experience. If you have only completed the single-player storyline, I strongly suggest to find a coop partner as soon as robotly possible (heh). ESLachance (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorting does not work

Or is it just me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.109.106.187 (talk) 19:24, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Uncharted 3 is not there?.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.176.137.32 (talk) 13:02, 28 June 2013 (UTC) 

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