My gf is looking for a podcast about historical myths, spooky legends, or creepy potentially real monsters. I haven’t kept up with the series too much lately but would love to rec something to her from the past two years. Any recent favorite non-serial killer, or anything too “real”, episodes?
In a world where we went from split screen Goldeneye and LAN parties to the internet age where everything moved online, I believe we’re moving into a third generation of gaming lead by millennials who grew up on N64 and early gaming consoles. These people (my people) are now living in a post-covid world, where we strive for connection in the face of things like online work and young children.
Sitting with my girlfriend yesterday in a rare free weekend, we decided to look for a new couch co-op game to play on my XBox. We’ve played split fiction and it takes two, Reanimal, overcooked. I’ve played a few of the Supermassive games (The Quarry, The Devil in Me) with an ex (they’re cool concepts but I’m not a huge fan of the interactive story genre). My girlfriend isn’t a huge gamer but she’s down to kill some zombies, or steal some cars in GTA. She’d be down for something like Baldur’s Gate but we generally don’t have time to sink into something so involved.
Why is it that, after an hour of searching, the best game we could find was A Way Out, a nearly decade old game that’s closer to an interactive story? Runner ups I wanted to try were some of the later co-op entries from Resident Evil - again, OVER a decade old with no planned remakes or more recent co-op games from the series. Looking at Reddit threads from the last 10 years is telling - so many of the suggestions are the same, despite there being an eight year gap in some of these discussions.
It Takes Two released a bit over 5 years ago to critical acclaim, 27 million sales to day. The studio has over 50 million total sales as of last week.
There’s clearly an enormous market for this product. Where are the new titles, the remasters, or the re-imagining of older games with couch co-op in mind?
(Disclaimer - I know there’s a lot of smaller games, and a couple of bigger ones I didn’t mention - I know these games exist, I’m wondering why there aren’t a LOT more of them)