Sven Co-op is really annoying.
Recently my girlfriend and I have been bitten by the co-op gaming bug. We’ve been playing everything from Lord of the rings online(Quaint and lovely with a great community) and Diablo 2(Addictive single player experience ruined in co-op as its repetitive nature becomes more apparent for reasons that I don’t actually understand) to Rise of nations(We were actually fighting against each other which was boring because my girlfriend takes too much time doing anything and it ended up with me taking out her peasants and knights with tanks, fighter jets and tactical nukes) and now on to the original Half life using the legendary mod, Sven Co-op.
That well known bit in Half Life.
Legendary is not the word I would use to describe it.
Although we are actually having a good time playing through it, its so frigging buggy and frustrating thats its actually doing my head right the fuck in. Sometimes level changes don’t work so you have to start typing shit into the console to find out what level you are on and what the next one is which breaks the immersion completely. Major scripted sequences don’t work properly such as that big tentacle monster in the silo. It was a part I was really looking forward to as I knew my girlfriend(Lets just use her name from now on shall we) Clare would think it was really cool. So I let her go into the control room first and instead of the tentacle thing smashing through the window and dragging the scientist out, the whole sequence played out without the tentacle monster! So the Scientist just levitated out of the window by himself, yeah proper cool. Then, you know that really tense bit as you are trying to get past the tentacle without making too much noise? There was no tentacle! it only appeared on our way back to the control room to kill it.
Its embarrassing. I’m going on to Clare about Half life being one of the greatest games ever made and in Sven Co-op its a right shoddy affair. I understand there has to be certain modifications with co-op mods for single player games but thats a bit unacceptable. This is a mod that has been in constant development for over ten years.
Clare is crap at jumping in Half Life as well which doesn’t help matters. What also doesn’t help matters is being in a room that is hotter than the sun because its at the top of the house and its summer outside.
There’s a bit just before you get to Xen where you have to teleport to the top of some bloody machine, I don’t know what the fuck its supposed to be but its really annoying, it keeps teleporting you back to the bottom so you have to start again.
This might as well be a photograph of me at the time.
Tempers frayed, words were had and that section was skipped for the sanity of all concerned.
If you and a loved one are considering Half Life Sven-Co op then don’t bother, its fucking shit. I know I said we were having a good time with it back up there but its still shit.
Roll of Half Life 2 Co-op.
