Multiplayer games
 

My boyfriend and I love to play video games together. My favorite are RPG games. We've played Baldur's Gate I and II, D&D Heroes, Gauntlet, LODR... etc. I also love games like Mortal Kombat and any Star Wars game. Any suggestions? We're running out of games to play together.

well, you mentioned mortal kombat which is a (mostly) 2d fighter.

Other good 2d fighters are the Street Fighter series and the Guilty Gear series.

There are some great puzzle games you could play together. The DS is multiplayer madness; you could each pick one up.

sorry I am not going to be much help with the fighter games but other RPG games you could try are:

Diablo (and No 2 Lord of Destruction)
Dungeon Siege

if you're at all into strategy games I can be of more help but you didn't mention any ...?

Get a SNES emulator. That way you can play games such as:

Secret of Mana
Seiken Densetsu 3
An ass load of 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up games (Like TMNT4, Final Fight 2/3, Street Fighter etc.)

...Or you could just buy a Wii, 'cuz it totally pwns (Plus Mario Party 8 is just so much damn fun. And it can also play GC games, meaning you could always play SSB:M on it).

...And, off-topic, but if I ever found a chick who was into video games I'd totally marry her >.>

Is it that rare? I feel bad, I'm even hooked on D&D too...

Never ever feel bad about being hooked on video games and being female - cause if you do that means there's something wrong with it and then I would have to feel bad.

I'm a total gaming addict, WoW, Diablo, Dungeon Siege, AoE, Warcraft, Starcraft, KKnD, Quake, Doom, Starwars etc etc and any of the SNES games (emulators ftw!)

I even DM once a week lol

though my latest craze has to be guitar hero ... I dunno why it's just so dang addictive!

Ok good! I've seen too many people practically ruin their lives over WoW, so I refuse to play it. Although I'm sure I'd love it.

I'm also going to start playing Diablo, I can't wait!

Try City of Heroes and City of Villains.

Its worth it just to see what a good character creator should be like.

City of Heroes is a really good casual game. It lacks the depth of WoW, but that's not particularly a bad thing, because it reduces the chances of you becoming completely obsessed and destroying your life over it.

This may sound random but I would also recommend Freelancer as a good LAN game to play with one or more other people. It's not really an RPG, but there are elements that are somewhat rpg-ish. You start out really weak with a little ship, and as you do missions and make money, you can upgrade to better ships and ship equipment. Experience points are basically replaced with money. It's a fun LAN game because you can team up with your buddies and do missions together, and there's no lag because it's on a LAN. It's kind of fun over the internet too, but the lag usually messes with me and gets me really frustrated. It's a really low requirement game, a few years old, but it's still one of the best space flight action/trading games out there, and one of few recent ones that actually support multiplayer.

Lego Star Wars and Marvel Ultimate Alliance are both games my husband and I played through and loved. Not too in depth, but fun!

chess

I'll second Lego Star Wars.

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Animal Crossing! I mean, sure, i've inferred that you're playing these games on a PC, but it's probably worth buying a cheap gamecube for :D

Failing that, my ex was curiously keen on Fable. Maybe give that a shot if you like the ol' axe swinging combined with being able to buy a house and grow horns.

Does Animal Crossing have multiplayer? I only have it for the DS so you could have up to 4 characters but only 1 town and 1 player at a time, maybe the GC version is different.

Some good RPG's you could check out are Neverwinter Nights 2 and Titan Quest. They both have coop multiplayer although Titan Quest is a Diablo clone clickfest whereas NWN2 has more of a story and indepth combat system, based on D&D. If you want to try out some strategy games, Company of Heroes is extremely good and the expansion is in open beta right now, all you need is a fileplanet account. World in Conflict also looks good but doesn't come out for another week or so.

i just picked up midway arcade treasures volume 2 today.

it has mortal kombat 1, 2, and 3... and also xenophobe, cyberball, championship sprint, primal rage (dinosaur 2d fighter), pit fighter, xybots, and smash tv 2.

in other words it is LOADED with 2player fun arcade games. its available on all platforms.

i'm totally stoked that i got all these games i musta pumped 100's of dollars of quarters into for 10 bucks off ebay :D

Wait a bit and get Hellgate: London or Warhammer Online.

A bit? Warhammer Online isn't coming out until "early" 2008! Fortunately, I'm in the beta so I don't have to wait.

Hellgate: London is coming out on Halloween and early 2008 really isn't that far away. For something as large and difficult to produce as a modern video game, that's not a very long wait.

Gears of War co-op is a blast to play through.

Titan Quest!!! What a great game.

If you like FPS games, I just played through Rainbow Six Vegas and it's GREAT!

Neverwinter Nights!

Guitar Hero jenna, trust me on this.

you can come over and play if you wanna try it out! :P

And NWN2 - the graphics are significantly better and there are a few decent community mods coming out (there are a *lot* of these for the original NWN and its expansion packs...

Guitar Hero.

Straight up Mario Kart 64. I could probably play that for the rest of my life and be content. Well, as long as I could throw in some Goldeneye as well.

I still play NWN to this day. There are tons of modules free to download and many of them support multiplay. You can even get into a group for scheduled, weekly games as if you were playing table top DnD. Check out www.neverwinterconnections.com for more info.

I'll Third City of Heroes. It's really fun. $15/mo subscription.

WoW is more engrossing? Huh, glad I never got into that (CoH was bad enuff)!!

you can try to both play counter-strike on the net !

Things I've played with my girlfriend (who also surprised me by her love of video games): Guitar Hero, Mortal Kombat games, Guilty Gear X, Katamri Damacy, SSX3. We've also taken turns playing Fatal Frame, if you don't mind playing like that.

Hhhmmm, coop games. I have to suggest Gears of War, as it has a pretty great implementation of online coop (which for me is spectacular as I am located in WA and my brother lives in Philly). And though there is a little bit of a learning curve, it's definitely not an impossible game to grab (my wife picked it up in about 15 minutes). But this also requires a Xbox360........

The suggestions of Lego Star Wars are spot on, as it is a great series to play with a "loved" one.

Also it kind of sounds like you are a PC gamer, so I might as well throw out the Serious Sam games. Single player is alright, but multiplayer coop is where those games excel.....the brother and I lost MANY nights (weeks) to the first one.

~Drego

Animal Crossing DOES have multiplayer, but it's different to normal.

Guild wars is my favourate MMORPG.
A gamecube with Super Smash Bro - Melee
Mario Kart.
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Look up the game, "Rez".... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez
Read it carefully. With imagination... It *could* be a two player game... *wink wink nudge nudge*

This is a classic article on the subject that's gained immence popularity in the gaming forums:

http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archi...zvibrator.html

Yeah, that's the article I was shown, but I couldn't remember it off the top of my head. Thanx for posting it. :)

I concur with this also. This is just a fun game and not to be considered "Hardcore" to play with someone else. It's just good clean fun.

There are some parts that made our sides split when we played it together.......Espically if one of you aren't very good. :lol:

I recommend both of these if you just want to kill time with someone.