On May 29 2008 20:28 anotak wrote:
No, this would distract them from stuff I would actually care about like gameplay balance and removing thor and mothership and medivac.

Remove Thor, Mothership, and Medivac
+Medic plz

Chuiu

3470 Posts

May 29 2008 22:05 GMT

#22

Even if Blizzard doesn't do this it would be easy for a mapper to modify the campaign maps to have a second player. Not sure about how SC2 would work but as for team melee that would be impossible to do in Starcraft.

Elric

United Kingdom1327 Posts

May 29 2008 23:24 GMT

#23

Hear, hear. I am always saddened by how the lack of coop campaigns available in RTS (and in PC games generally to be honest). Having a tougher coop mode for the SC2 campaign would be amazing.. Having said all that, making the game as balanced and primed for e-sports as possible should still take absolute priority.

YinYang69

United States255 Posts

May 29 2008 23:47 GMT

#24

Coop always add alot to the game. If a stage doesn't allow for it give us team melee!

HeadBangaa

United States6512 Posts

May 30 2008 00:14 GMT

#25

"Single-player co-op" is an oxymor0n, no?

useLess

United States4781 Posts

May 30 2008 00:15 GMT

#26

besides, it just doesnt make much sense. co-op FPS = insanely fun. co-op RTS = guh?

._.

1133 Posts

May 30 2008 00:52 GMT

#27

What about some insanely hard scenarios but with "team-melee" qualities?
Sorta like a timed mission or something and see how long you survive against tremendous odds with a pal or some shit like that and you post scores online.

ImgGartok

United States216 Posts

May 30 2008 01:00 GMT

#28

I don't think the default single player campaign should not be co-op for one main reason: it delays the launch of SC2 for very little return. It's an unnecessary feature that adds little value for the time, effort and resources to make it happen. It isn't just a matter of taking the singleplayer campaign and adding another player, that wouldn't make sense in terms of the story or balance in each map. It would basically be redesigning the entire campaign.

The map editor will be powerful enough for players to make their own co-op campaigns. Technically you could make one with SC1's map editor even. So I don't think there needs to be one by default.

d.arkive

United States843 Posts

May 30 2008 01:03 GMT

#29

If they have time to do it, I wouldn't say no. It would give more replay value for the campaigns, at least.

DeifyME

Hungary47 Posts

May 30 2008 01:04 GMT

#30

No from me. Go play ums.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

May 30 2008 01:33 GMT

#31

single co-op games are the shit. Might be kind of hard to do though with this type of game. I remeber playing co-op quake back in the day. That was so fun.

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

May 30 2008 01:36 GMT

#32

I don't care about the single player as long as the story kicks ass im fine with how it lays out so im for w/e.

dogen

Belgium108 Posts

May 30 2008 01:43 GMT

#33

we'll be able to make our own co op with the editor anyway

!BigBlind!

69 Posts

May 30 2008 01:58 GMT

#34

single player

co-op

d.arkive

United States843 Posts

May 30 2008 02:14 GMT

#35

-_- oh please you know what he means.

GunsofthePatriots

South Africa991 Posts

May 30 2008 05:19 GMT

#36

On May 30 2008 05:58 Klockan3 wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think he meant RA2.

You couldn't play the whole campaign though could you?

ibutoss

Australia341 Posts

May 30 2008 08:49 GMT

#37

this would be alright, but end of the day I couldn't care less. I'd prefer one really awesome singleplayer campaign than a rushed one to include co-op. But it is a nice idea.

Kaolla

China2999 Posts

May 30 2008 12:15 GMT

#38

if i look at brood war and playing players vs comp the playstyle is usually heavily based on either playing defensive or abusing AI. Actually I guess it's both abusing the AI, since the comp doesnt realize he can just expand/drop/whatever. I don't really see what coop adds to the game, as both are not that much fun. Seeing the comp waste wave after wave on static defence or making a wall that makes the AI screwed up or letting the comp's rush forces follow an scv... hmm it's basically a waste of time. Altho I greatly appreciate co-op games I just don't think the RTS genre is very suited for this. Maybe when you play on a low lvl it's still fun, but when you know the game a bit better it's just almost impossible to make fun co-op maps as the AI just isnt very suited for such things yet.

Freezard

Sweden1011 Posts

May 30 2008 16:28 GMT

#39

Co-op over LAN... there's nothing more fun than that. I play with my two brothers but the problem is there are just a handful of games that have a solid co-op mode

For RTS, it actually is a lot of fun, but the only worthy game we played have been Ground Control II. I'm really looking forward to RA3 as well just because of the co-op, would be super if SC2 had it as well!

I mean... it can't be that hard to develop a co-op mode, it's basically the same as single player campaign except that you can give units to each other. Co-op is so underrated!

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

May 30 2008 17:11 GMT

#40

Only if they let you co-op with the person online instead of having to do it through a lan or some shit. Wait what am I saying we all have hamachi...