Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646
Yes - all these games look totally awesome - HOWEVER - these days its rare to get one of these games that have a solid coop mode. Most of them are multi-player death match.
The days of games like JO where you have so much freedom in making maps for coop are pretty much gone. Because of the detail of items in a map you need to have any new maps on your system. JO maps are tiny and can get loaded over the internet - new game maps tend to be massive - as in 25-100 MEG in size.
Yes there are coop mods out there, but they are mods that someone else develops for the game and dont always work well.
And the server? You need a damn good machine to host these new games for lots of players, and hosting for coop is even worse.
The trend is shifting bc developers want to get the lucrative console market - too bad.