Over the past few decades, we've seemed to have advanced in many aspects of gaming. Online functionality, Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, Systems. But one thing that I feel about us going backwards on is cooperative gaming. What I mean by that is 4 people playing splitscreen on one system. I usually have about 2-3 people over randomly for gaming nights, and playing MW2 or Halo3 over and over gets kinda boring. When I had xboxlive, we would be able to play 4 player online in halo. But that got boring for everyone because they wanted to level up their characters and they called me an asshole for being the only one able to

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So today I went into Ebgames and looked to buy splitscreen games that would either be us facing each other or going through on missions [I usually dont buy games lol but they had a sale; 3 for 50, 2 for 30, buy one get 2nd half, buy 2 get 1 free etc etc.] . So I ask the lady at the counter if there are such games for the 360 that enable 4 player coop playability. She said that game companies dont make those kinds of games anymore because it would take away from the graphics. Not believing here, I searched through a lot of 360 games. Surprisingly, a lot of them DID have coop 2-4, but ONLY online through live. wtf wtf. You'd think as gaming progressed, more features would be added rather than taken out. Hell even MW2 will not let you system link splitscreen. You can only connect ONE person through ONE xbox in a lan, which is complete bullshit.
So I searched and searched, and found only sport games and one war game (GRAW2) that had coop 4 playability on the same system [or ][/or]. The only splitscreen games I found aside from that were random war games (Op Flashpoint, Brother in Arms etc). I dont want these when I have MW2 it would defeat the whole purpose of finding new games to play.
I walked out of Ebgames empty handed and kind of disappointed in gaming. What happened to Gauntlet? Fuzion Frenzy? Hunter The Reckoning? Black Steel? Those types of games on the older generation of systems that immersed four people simultaneously on the same system. It pisses me off more than it should.
And now I ask the people of GamingW. I doubt any of you will answer back with X360 titles, but now I ask, can you recommend me 4 player coop/party games that are out there? Or even splitscreen (good) games. I am willing to switch consoles to play them. Listing Original Xbox games is an asset but not necessarily the only thing. Also your opinion on this matter could be posted for further reading. Thank you.
Games I already own/play/played
Gauntlet Legends
Hunter The Reckoning
Black Steel
Mario Party Series
Turok Series
Golden Eye
Conkers Bad Fur Day
Perfect Dark (the x360 one sucked balls split screen)
Smash Tv
Vigilante 8
Halo Series
Unreal Tournament/Championship
Power Stone Series
Cell Damage
Borderlands
Also minirant; left 4 dead, only 2 players offline. why the fuck would you call a game left 4 dead and have 4 playable characters and not have 4 fucking splitscreens. this game pissed me off a lot. Wasnt even that great online either.