Thread 715188849

Isn't it just online coop?

Can you recommend any of these games?

Who cares, post some girlfriendkino instead.

>>715188849 (OP)
Although it's closer to discordslop

>>715188849 (OP)
Yeah but the newest friendslop is PEAK I think

>>715188849 (OP)
daily reminder that these guys made the most sovlfvl twin stick shooter before selling out with this shit

>>715189398
>sell outs
I bet they are crying themselves to sleep in those million-dollar mansions.

>>715188849 (OP)
REPO is good. Somehow put a hundred hours into it.
PEAK is pretty good too but it's kinda short.
Schedule I is kinda whatever and not really worth the price.
You're honesty better off emulating arcade/console games over netplay.

>>715188849 (OP)
I usually call it "Streamerbait" because the games only, and I mean ONLY, sell even one single copy until the dev hands keys to streamers and the streamers then join up and play together, screaming their asses off and making stupid jokes while usually playing badly, so any dev with two braincells to rub together will freely hand out fuckloads of keys to streamers and get a ton of free sales out of it.
Doesn't matter how bad the game is, doesn't matter if the devs ever update it again, as long as the game's got solid online play, doesn't break Youtube/Twitch ToS, and a bunch of streamers have keys, the game will go viral, at least for a while.

>>715188989
playing this using discord voice chat defeats the purpose of the game

>>715188849 (OP)
It's mostly "kinda low effort assetflippy indie slop" made with an art asset budget of about $7 dollars and a 24 pack of cheap hipster beer, completion time like 2-4 hours after purchase, and pretty much zero replayability due to being mid afThink shit like >>715189857, human fall flat, and chained together.

The tier above that I wouldn't call friendslop because it's substantially higher effort of overcooked, heave-ho, ultimate chicken horse, portal 2, and it takes two are pretty fun if you want co-op-y games that actually got some love by the devs

>>715188975
Outrun

>>715191524
I see what you did there, but not what I meant.

>>715188849 (OP)
I've played a lot of them with my friends
- Lethal Company is fun but with no actual end goal it's a knowing exercise in futility.
- REPO is kind of fun but the levels drag on way longer which make the game really tedious when you get sloppy.
These games just need a few mods to tweak them and it's a great time.
- I would check in on Pilgrim in 100 years when it gets enough meaningful updates.
- Phasmophobia is a total laugh and can actually have some richer gameplay, but I feel like someone could build a very similar game a lot more competently where the ghost is more interactive.

Deep Rock, Darktide, Vermintide, Risk of Rain 2 are all solid combat co-op titles with different elements but Deep Rock is the friendliest of the bunch by far

>>715189857
>You're honesty better off emulating arcade/console games over netplay.
Wait... Would it be possible to emulate ps2/1 games and play with 2 other triends over the net? Or are most ps2 games 2 controllers max (I only had single player growing up)

>>715188849 (OP)
Friendslop is an obvious term that everyone understands. People I know regularly use it, even though they play and enjoy friendslop games themselves.
Only mega autists have a problem with it.

>>715189993
Giving streamers keys isn't a guarantee that they'll actually play it.
These days the proper route is to pay streamers to play it, usually via a publisher. A lot of these deals are done under the table.

>>715188849 (OP)
Phasmophobia is pretty fun. Eventually any fear goes away and it just turns into a detective game.

>>715192663
I don't know any games off the top of my head, but they made accessories for both to allow 4 controllers so there has to be.

>>715188849 (OP)
Yes, play Dandy World

>>715189398
>twin stick shooter
it was just a nuclear throne clone
art was nice but felt bloated, they dropped the price to half of REPO because they made enough money to be set for life, which is nice.

repo is too "omfffg silly lolz" for me, it feels like its for kids who think le epic killer duck is funny. same with content warning. lethal company is good though.
peak is good but im also getting sick of it quickly.
phasmo is just shit
sched 1 isnt focused enough, people just run off and dont play together
theres just a lack of good shit out there imo

>>715201831
See: >>715198341

>>715198341
Everyone I play with either dies before floor 10 or leaves while in the elevator for no reason.

>>715198341
looks stupid as fuck, sorry

>>715194415
>Only mega autists have a problem with it.
but its an accurate term, not everyone has friends, leaving them unable to play the game

>>715189748
Would you be a househusband for a whore wife who earns millions on onlyfans?

>>715194415
The term itself is kinda silly because it's not really a good description for the type of games its talking about, it makes it sound more like the issue is playing with friends which is just sad
The type of games its talking about does exist obviously though and since there's no other term for it "friendslop" is the best we have for now

>>715188849 (OP)
>Is friendslop a thing?
Yes.

For years I've see people point out that "fun with friends" isn't much of a compliment since most things will be fun if you're doing it with your friends. The idea that game devs would use that as a crutch when making a game knowing it'll automatically be fun if it's played with friends is very believable.

>>715189398
Consider how many soulful games they can develop with the money they made from REPO.

>>715189748
Yes anon... being a sell out does mean they've made money. Well done.

>>715201831
Peak's issue is that it's too mechanically narrow, it would feel samey even if the devs added new mountains.

>>715194415
Yeah. Though I do think "friendslop" should only truly apply to the tsunami of copycat games that popped up after Lethal Company's success. The pve/coop genre as a whole doesn't deserve the slop title.

>>715205196
I meant a problem with the term.
>>715205828
"Cheap disposable titles that exist to play with your friends" is a more important descriptor than the actual genre of those games though. You're not playing REPO or Lethal Company because the form of gameplay is so unique and engaging, it's because they're fun with friends as well as simple, easy and *there*.

"friendslop" is what incels call any game they can't fully enjoy because they don't have 1-3+ friends to play with them

>>715192072
What about peak? I don't have friends to play wit but if I did.

>>715207627
Speaking of PEAK
>Ascent 5 solo
Is this even possible? I feel like by this point it's up to good pathing and RNG to get you lanterns, scorchberries, and heat packs to reach the summit.

>>715194415
>He's still seething from being called out days ago
>>714868019
Let it go you massive sperg holy shit, how many meltdowns do you plan on having?

>>715208661
Don't think you get to call someone a sperg while being convinced only one person on an anonymous website can have a given opinion over multiple days.

>>715208661
>That whole exchange
This is just sad

>>715188849 (OP)
I wish I had more dedicated CO-OP campaign friend slop.

I've already been through
>RE5 + 6
>Elden Ring Seamless
>Dark Souls 3 Seamless
>A Way Out
>It Takes Two
>Split Fiction
>All PC Halo campaigns, except Infinite
>Dead Space 3
>Portal 2
>Left 4 Deads

I just need more co-op campaign madness with my friend. Any suggestions?

>>715188849 (OP)
REPO is good, unironically played almost 80 hours somehow
PEAK is the definition of asset flip tho

>>715209807
If you play any TF2 you can try machine attacks which is a campaign with story that spans across 15 maps.

How the fuck do I make friends in 2025?
It seems like people either ignore me or show barely any interest when I interact with them.

>Friendslop

Why not call it Twitch games ?

>>715209807
Baldurs Gate 3
System Shock 2 remaster that just came out
Gears of War
Super Mario 3D World
Divinity Original Sin 2
Cuphead
Cult of the Lamb

>>715210470
Same way you get a job in 2025. Use the shotgun approach and interact with as many people as you can, and hope one of them reciprocates.

>>715188975
it takes two and whatever his other friendslop game is
minecraft
uhh
hoi4
idk i don't have a gf (￣▽￣;)

>>715188975
I seen couples playing
Stardew Valley
REPO
Mabinogi

>>715207820
And I just answered my own question by clearing Ascent 5. Only Wolf and Goat left. Wolf is the hard one, Goat is a gimmie. And holy hell Alpine sucks on 5+.

>>715188849 (OP)
>friendslop
It's artificial friendslop because it's streamer bait for streamers to play with other streamers (who aren't their friends) who's viewers think they are their friends (they aren't).

>>715188849 (OP)
>so utterly incomplete it doesn’t even have a placeholder ending
>90% of the content is thanks to mods including simply customizing your robot
>spawn variation so poor there’s no replay value at all
>mid round shop is terrible
I have a really hard time believing this wasn’t shat out in a couple months considering how empty it is. The sorry incomplete state left such a sour taste i think it deserves to be called friendslop despite the term being friendless retard bait. I don’t think the core concept is bad but the game itself is. If it weren’t for the investor driven destruction of competent studios games like this would be copied and improved in short order. It’s like watching a retard dangle a gold watch over a sewer drain

>>715188849 (OP)
co op ONLY game, rather than game with co op

>>715190947
>completion time like 2-4 hours after purchase, and pretty much zero replayability due to being mid af
Much of my friends have over 100 hours in REPO and a few dozen hours in PEAK at this point. I don't understand it, and they don't understand why I don't want to play either of those games. I suggest some actual co-op style games with a sense of progression and more than a few hours of varied gameplay, and I get crickets, so I just go back to single player stuff.
Literally any game, even the shittiest one is "fun with friends", I just feel like I'm wasting my time playing some low effort indie streamerbait that I'll get tired of - meaning I'll have to buy the next FOTM game next month to continue.
>>715192072
>Deep Rock, Darktide, Vermintide, Risk of Rain 2
All good, even when played solo which I think is a mark of an enjoyable game since I'm a firm believer in >>715206082 holding true.

>>715214715
stupid bait image
nobody is playing co-op without vc
NOBODY is playing drg solo unless they're turboautistic
>says the same thing on both sides, but bothers to mention it anyway
fuck off

>>715216217
You can play any of the gamez on thr right using just text chat or none at all, l4d for example can be played easily since its literally stick togwther and fend off specials from your teamates.
DRG isnt optimal to play solo, but they give you bosco so the devs did put in an effort to make it enjoyable for solo play and you can even do haz 5 runs in pubs where no one talks over mic

>>715215619
I am not joking with this, our BG3 run that we waited 3-4 years for after finishing a DOS2 Tactician run was ended halfway through the final act because they kept playing phasmaphobia and lethal company and its been almost 2 years since we last played.

>>715188849 (OP)
The respawn system in this game is a huge turn off. Feels like you'll die then spend a good half hour watching your friends fumble about,

>>715188975
Invisible Strain

>>715188849 (OP)
multiplayer isn't the problem, the real issue with indie games is jankslop
>oh you can't control anything and you fall and flail around, isn't that so funny?
fuckin 2 decades of this shit

/v/ is like:
>fun with friends? what a crutch! slop!

>>715214715
Half of the points on the right are just benefits for social autists. If you were unironically too afraid to voip with people in L4D2, Swat4, Killing floor, or Deeprock, there is 0 hope for you. Nonoe of those games are "perfectly fine to play single player" either. If someone told me they played L4D by themselves I would think that was sad.

>>715219207
Yeah I notice most of them are just colorful stick figures with ragdoll physics.

>friendslop
>look inside its just Streamerbait

>>715219843
SWAT 4 has a dedicated singleplayer campaign, l4d2 is still playable with the AI teamates, with people doing true solo runs on expert
Killing floor 1 can also be played solo as the game actively balances the match based on player count (scaling zed count and hp)
Deep rock has a bosco system as a standin for a co op player which isnt optimal but still useful
Pretty sure the voip comment is saying 80% of the enjoyment of the game doesnt need to come from people screaming and laughing at everything in game.

My friend is always looking for meh co-op games to play.
>>715210680
Grabbing this next.

>>715188849 (OP)
Magicka is unironically the most fun I've had playing a video game with three other retards

This fucking multiplayer elitism created recently in this board is so fucking pathetic.
Feels like half of the retards complaining here are jaded millenials who never got over their oldass mp games
>hurr why do my "friends" want to play REPO/Peak/LC? Don't they know those are just friendslop?? It's streamerbait and rely too much on playing together and having silly fun instead of catering to my stale gameplay preferences!! Why do they refuse to nolife TF2, L4D or DRG with me?!??

Well this is a surprise. Saw that RimWorld was in Top Seller because some new DLC came out and it peaked again at 68k. This is a game I don't think I've ever seen discounted more than 30% at it's almost 7 years old after its release.

>>715188849 (OP)
Friendslop is a game where you need friends to play with. There's no quickplay, no server browsers for these games, or at least nobody's using them.

>>715188849 (OP)
They're basically all good but i'll take a chance to shill a lesser known one in the headliners
>>715188975
snipperclips

Slopday, slopmonth, slopyear, sloptime, slophouse, slopcity, slopstate, slopcountry, slopworld, friendslop, videoslop, slopslop, slopgalaxy.

It's all fucking slop

>>715227282
I played a bit of the headliners. I don't know if the maps get bigger as you go on, but the ones I played on were really tiny

>>715224768
Spot on anon. Millenials on 4chan are allergic to short burst fun games that anyone can play and instead only want to play shit that takes dozens of hours to be mildly okay at it.

man, i miss the voip prox chat of arma 2-3. so many fun situations.
>mfw the mexican standoff goes for so long we start just chatting and discussing movies with the enemy team outside
>20 dudes with lmg's and assault rifles just one doorway apart telling dick jokes
>mid joke the call goes out and suddenly everyone piles in and in 15 seconds half of both teams are dead
>....
>....
>"anyone still alive in there?"
>...
>"yeah"
>"FUCK. come out, please? weve got candy..."

>>715210609
because I don't use twitch and I play video games with friends

>>715216217
>list perfectly accurate facts
>bait
You don't have to be outraged by everything just because it's posted on /v/.

>>715216217
i do and im not autistic.

>>715214715
what? you cant just post that and expect us to do all the work of figuring out which games go into which category, get fucked. you finish it.

>>715218969
skill issue. punishing the player for playing shit is preferred. the more time possibly lost, the better

>>715219305
yeah, pretty much. got the perfect example of slop in the image as well.

>>715188849 (OP)
friendslop is any PvE game that is only fun because you're playing it with friends

there's a simple test: just imagine playing it with randoms
fun? not friendslop
not fun? friendslop

>>715205567
>"Whore" wife
>Millions want to bang her but I'm the only one who gets to
>AND she spoils me
Hell yeah lmao

>>715230215
at risk of derailing the hypothetical, what reason does she have to be faithful to you? or keep you around for that matter

>>715188849 (OP)
the difference is whether the game is fun at all alone

>coop games
left 4 dead
grounded
bloons
abiotic factor
risk of rain

>friendslop
world of warcraft
repo
deep rock galactic
counter strike
diablo 2

i'll give lethal company some slack because its a completely different experience solo. atmospherically it is a very unique game

>>715208661
lol YIKES

>>715230215
>but I'm the only one who gets to
heh. they always think this

>>715230564
Is TF2 friendslop? Is Mario Party friendslop? Street Fighter or any fighting game?

>friendslop
so we just throwing slop onto any word and pretending its a thing now, yeah. sick of this buzzwordslop

>>715231451
yes
yes
yes

>>715231451
>tf2
no
>mario party
yes
>street fighter
no
i appreciate being able to give you my enlightened opinion

maybe the real slop was the friends we made along the way

>"hey anon there's this new game that's getting pretty popular, we tried it out and had a blast, you should join us!"
>buy game because I want to play with others
>actually get pretty into it with them, looking up strategies and learning mechanics
>play solo so I'm better prepared the next time we play it
>nobody is interested in playing it again when I bring it up
>"hey anon there's this new game that's getting pretty popular, we tried it out and had a blast, you should join us!"

>>715192663
Yes You can play online emulated games. Search for Budokai Tenkaichi 3 online.

>>715232281
>Sure, let me know the next time you guys are going to play
>Buy the game when they contact you.
Is that so hard?

>>715232492
the problem I have is I buy it, have fun one or two or three times, then they move on too quickly when I still want to play

>>715232281
i have unironically started ghosting people because of this shit. im thankful my job is enough of a social outlet that i am not so negatively effected by refusing to play multiplayer games with my friends.

>>715188849 (OP)
Just call it what it is, streamerbait. No one with friends is randomly stumbling across and paying for shitty looking games, it's all streamer culture garbage. Good games that you can play with friends are exactly that, good games. They enjoy the game and it has a multiplayer element so they invite their friends. Streamerbait games are discovered and popularized by streamers and their viewers.

>>715232281
>play solo so I'm better prepared the next time we play it
My autism gets trigged by this unfortunately. It's like I can only play a game if everyone's going into it blind as well.
Tried playing Lethal Company with some friends. We fucked up a lot at first but still had fun. Few days later and one of my friends had already learned everything about the game and just tard-wrangled us around.
We had fun too but I dunno...
feels better when everyone is finding shit out together instead of just dumping everything you saw from a YT video at once.

>>715230351
Dude you’re the one who asked if I’d be her house husband, why is her being unfaithful or the issues of me being a househusband relevant to the question
>erm you would be a househusband? But why would she let you?

>>715188849 (OP)
None of them can capture the charm of Lethal Company.

>>715234134
what charm

>>715189398
You're so gay.

>>715234537
yeah, i even run my fingers under the toilet bowl seat to get every little bit of sweat and hair for the old classic taste test, but whats that got to do with anything? im very, very good at detecting faggotry, and this one just lights up like a playstation portable owned by a 15 year old under a blacklight, my dude.

>>715188975
Adventures of Cookie and Cream