The first 20 hours of Ghost of Tsushima. This game is absolutely amazing on all fronts. It’s just way too long with not enough variation. 9/10
I’m glad to hear someone else say this. I’m currently on a push to finish the game after having it on hiatus for over a year and I have to mentally force myself to keep going.
It’s strange because it’s a beautiful game and the combat is satisfying enough, but something about the story and the pacing just wore me out somewhere in the third act
I started playing it again recently and it's as good and fun as ever. If they start up the development again I hope they don't make it worse, I don't want hots2 with the same 'blizzard overwatch 2' mindset.
Well funny thing is, HOTS used to work like Overwatch 2, but they changed it to work more like OW1 in an update called “HOTS 2.0”, which was very well received.
Personally I get you though, Battle Passes and other FOMO nonsense are cancer and I don’t want it in games
Oh yeah I played both before and after hots 2.0, I just don't want battle passes and overpriced skins. I always thought the gold, gem and shard prices were pretty fair and accessible in hots, which made me actually spend money on it more than any other game at the time... but apparently it wasn't designed in a way to draw the whales in so it didn't make as much money off them.
Oh it definitely drew the whales in (I used to whale for it, bought Blizzcon tickets just for the HOTS mounts and flags), but Bobby Kotick had the mindset of “If we can’t build an eSport brand around it, it’s useless!”
That’s why Overwatch PVE and HOTS went out the window
Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2. It’s not on the switch, but I’m guessing it should run fine on your old laptop since D:OS1 came out in 2014. My wife and I love these games since she isn’t very good with fast action, and these are turn based fighting so she can take her time figuring out what to do to whom.
Yep, my partner also did not enjoy the “misses” on his list, but we had a blast playing divinity original sins 1 & 2. Now we are 100 hours into Baldurs gate 3. I highly recommend these games for couples.
Surprisingly, though, while more fast paced, she did also really enjoy It Takes Two. It is a game that does try to be a bit accessible for the new player.
I think this is gonna have the same problem as mario kart, so I probably need to wait until they have some more game experience. Last year when I had my last smash phase they enjoyed the music being on in the background though.
I have a Wii U in storage at my parent’s house, I might see about us checking some games out when we visit for the holidays in a couple weeks. I don’t want to overwhelm them too much though.
My time at sand rock is kind of like stardew, but 3d and I liked it better. I haven’t tried the multiplayer , but the single player was fun.
Baldur’s gate 3 is a huge game of the year smash hit. Good coop. Turn based combat. Local split screen. Probably turn the difficulty down if you don’t care for DND rules and just have fun.
Audio surf I believe has co-op. It’s a fun little toy of a game, but not very deep. You steer a car over a track generated from your music
To add to this, I’d also like to recommend dos.zone - tons of cool, old school DOS games, playable right in your browser - and some of them even have mobile/touch controls, and even multiplayer support (like Doom, Warcraft etc)!
We Were Here and its sequels seem like the perfect slowish paced coop puzzle games for you guys.
Operation Tango and Escape Simulator are similar and also great.
A Way Out is similar to It Takes Two, with a more serious story.
Monster Prom/Monster Camp and The Yahwg are co-op visual novels.
Clandestine is a Co-op stealth game where one player plays as a spy, fps style, while the other plays as a hacker providing overwatch by controlling cameras and doors, giving directions, etc.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is another asymmetrical co-op game where one person is trying to defuse a bomb by solving puzzles and the other is trying to help by reading the manual. The defuser has to tell the other person what’s going on so they can give the right instructions, much sillier than it sounds.
Conclave sounds like it might work. Good story played in chapters. Runs in a browser. I bought a license when they first came out of beta and played through in an afternoon.
If you can get the Chromebooks to install Linux software, then you can install Lutris. Then you can pop in a USB drive with a Windows game install and run it from there. To make the USB drive you can set the game up on one Chromebook using a folder on the drive as the Wine prefix, then clone it.
Since we’re talking about your job here, only use games that are public domain or that you’ve gotten permission for use in a school setting (don’t bother trying with any of the big publishers). No abandonware or anything like that. There are some homebrew games out there that may work, but I don’t know how many of them have the kind of story you’re looking for.
In terms of coop games with cats in them: Aqua Kitty is an option. More of an underwater action game, could be too fast paced.
If you ever return to Overcooked, some versions of the game have a Practice Mode you can go into. You can’t progress levels with this, but you can serve out dishes at your own pace, which feels nicer.
An old top-down shooter I enjoy is Assault Android Cactus. Players can revive themselves if they die, the only cost being that dying makes it hard to keep up a certain rate of kills needed to clear the level without the Battery draining out.
At a long stretch, there are visual novels like Pizza Game that are much more fun with your own voice acting applied, largely due to the horrendous stupidity of the whole cast.
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