Top 5 Best Multiplayer Games - Retro Bird
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Multiplayer games create their own special kind of experience, far different from the single player experience. In this video, I talk about which type of games I find to have the most enjoy enjoyable multiplayer, as well as which games are in my top 5.
Top 5 Best Multiplayer Games - Retro Bird / Best Multiplayer Games to Play With Friends / Best 4-Player Multiplayer Games / Best Games to Play With a Group
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Enjoy your week until next time Retro Bird the banana man 🍌
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Same
Mine too! ❤
Dude same. Just makes me happy to see him happy haha
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Mine too
I get the logic on the top pick. MarioKart and Smash always seem like the skill gap between players is way more punishing to the fun at times, versus the team minigames and potential crazy turnarounds of mario party.
I'm still baffled this man is still so underrated. Every bit he does has me laughing
same
Not underrated in my "book"..
Dude same. Shits hilarious
@@JackB345 Honestly, no I did not. I did notice, however, that you have so much time on your hands to care about something so trivial. Small man.
I couldn't believe how accurately he described my Tuesday night.
Halo. 16 players in one apartment. Sidewinder. CTF. Amazing fun.
I'm blessed to have lived in a time where I got to experience Halo LAN parties. Halo 3 and Halo Reach will always have a special place in my heart for that reason.
I have fond memories of playing Star Fox Assault with my high school friends, and we had a blast jumping between arwing, landmaster and on-foot battling it out with each other. Metroid Prime 2 also had a cool multiplayer mode.
My favorite multiplayer game is Ultimate Chicken Horse. Easy enough that anyone can play and hectic enough that it always makes the whole room laugh
Hah, I like how they're the Super Nintendo button colors on the shirts in the thumbnail.
I have some very fond memories from playing 3 or 4-player multiplayer games on a single keyboard in my high school art room at lunch. Our go to was Smash 64, Hyrule Castle stage. Great video, RetroBird!
Playing on a single keyboard. That's dedication!
Super Bomberman 2 OR Bomberman '93 for me! So many great memories! Another winner, RB! :)
Freaky how you describe my Tuesday almost perfectly.
@RetroBird just wanted to let you know I just beat Rocket Knight Adventures!! Played it on my 27” Trinitron CRT. Was amazing. Wouldn’t have ever played it if it wasn’t for you!
That's really cool to hear! Hope you enjoyed it :)
"Kept doing pump fakes"
😂😂😂
(Hahaha, awesome monologue!!!)
Dude you are hilarious! lmao I love your dialogue, editing and all the shots of your face! It's priceless and unique, no one else has the style you have
Thank you for all the entertainment you bring us. Peace!-)
Thank you for watching!
I really enjoy your sense of humor. Keep up the steady supply of banana enthusiast jokes, please!
Thanks! Will do!
I love multiplayer games!
Now if only I had friends 😔
dang I also don't rly have any (btw my cousin shows up on weekends so that's a w)
Tank Wars on DOS! Who remembers that game? I used to absolutely love it. Then the sequel, Scorched Earth...💙
Scorched Earth! I loved that game!
"Remember the Alomo" MIRV rockets to the max!
It kinda got replaced with Worms, so, I always add another Worms game to the collection whenever I can. Saturn Worms is the latest addition.
Hello from Oxford England! You are on fire! This episode is one of my faves! Keep doing what you ate doing. I look forwards to fridays (Saturday mornings uk time) 😊
Thank you! Will do!
Glad to see some love for Chu Chu Rocket. I can't tell you how much fun my friends and I had with this game and Puzzle Fighter.
Great video. I miss the days of actually hanging out in person and playing games. Sports games are great with friends.
Mario Party is EXTREMELY entertaining... especially when you have cool ppl to play with!! SSOOOOOO MUCH FUN❤
Retro Bird.. you're a trailblazer, Sir! Keep up the entertaining/hilarious content we crave.
Thank you!
Wii Carnival Games was a really fun multiplayer game. It really took advantage of the motion controls in clever ways. The family-friendly and easy to understand concepts made it approachable for almost everybody.
Mario Party, the beginning and sometimes ending of friendships.
Chu Chu Rocket had some pretty decent coop too! Such a great forgotten title!
Yeah, it's a lot more dynamic than people give it credit for.
Absolutely agree that there's no substitute for having a room full of gamers playing some games together. It's where my name comes from, as friends & I used to get together every Tuesday after work/school starting in the mid 2000's & play games together.
We recently went up to a friend's cottage & brought projectors to play some PS1, Saturn & PS3 outside at night around a campfire.
Three Dirty Dwarves for the Saturn was the standout game for us, none had played it & it was a lot of fun.
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Some pretty solid selections! Smash Bros. and Mario Kart will always be my top go-to’s for multiplayer with friends in the room, although there were moments where the popular game to play with my friend group was other stuff like Wii Sports, and even DDR for a little while.
I remember when Wii Sports was everywhere. My uncle who never plays games even tried to get everyone to play it one time.
Some 3+ player (because 2 player is too easy) games I liked are:
the Gauntlet series
F-Zero GX
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2
Timeplitters 2
Hunter: The Reckoning
Smash TV
Most are from the Gamecube as that was the console I had that had native 4 player support.
Honorable mentions to the 4 player arcade beat 'em ups and hack 'n slash games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, X-Men, Gauntlet (again), Smash TV (again), etc.
Also, it feels like a retro game now, but Rockband 2 was crazy fun with someone on a different instrument.
Great list; especially Chu Chu Rocket, Saturn Bomberman & Mario Party 2
Great to see Nintendo world get some love, me and my family sunk many hours into it. As a teen it had to be the AKI Wrestling games for N64. Now a criminally overlooked game which we play and have a great laugh is Nippon Marathon on the Switch, it's so funny
always enjoy your videos! thank you!
While I don't think it deserves a spot on a top multiplayer game list, no honorable mentions? The game series I'm thinking of is Armored Core, no particular title. On the ps1 & ps2, all of the games supported the respective link cable for LAN play across two consoles & two TVs at the minimum. They started at the zenith of console multiplayer, that wasn't just couch coop on a single console. IIRC it was the Gran Turismo and Twisted Metal games that also used the link cables, there might've been a few others I'm forgetting. But still...
I played 4 player Chu Chu with my friends a few years ago. A couple of them did not have any idea what was going on but we had fun lol
I busted out neo turf masters once at a party full of intoxicated people who were mostly not gamers and quickly everyone was gathered around the TV making bets and cheering different people on for their shots and groaning when people would mess up
Neo Turf Masters is the only golf game I've ever truly loved.
I love these kinds of stories.
Always creating entertaining and relaxing videos ❤
Some time ago I sold my copy of Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures because I realized I would never play the game the way it was meant to be. No way I would ever get 3 other people with GBAs and link cables. Whoever bought it from me was so happy to get it and I am happy they will be able to appreciate it as it has sentimental value to this person when it didn't for me because I simply got it to add to my collection
I got the game and 4 cables but no GBA and not enough friends. Basically, it's just a thing in my collection.
With my 2 friends we often get into Star Wars Battlefront II on OG box, or WCW on N64, and recently we got into Secret of Mana on SNES.
It might not be ideal for everyone but with the way emulator have advanced, we can now experience titles like zelda four sword, phantasy star online 1&2, etc to the fullest with some matey
I still have to find a few gba handhelds and those crystal chronicle cords for the GameCube with a few extra link cables…
I had them when my sons were babies but they destroyed some things so I sold it to someone like you mentioned in your post 😅 hopefully they’re enjoying it.
My top pick for best Multi Player game would have to be the original Mario Party that came out on the N64 in 1998. We were over 21 and saw the title PARTY on it. So you know how we played the game. My gamer roommates and I played it so much we started missing work & eventually got kicked out in 1999 as we didn't have rent money as all our money went to 21 and over drinks. We were too dedicated to this multi player game and I highly not recommend to play it like we did back in the day. But makes for an epic story to tell & learn from.
Reminds me of when i had RL friends. Good times..
4 Retro Birds! I predict a worldwide shortage of bread clips...😅
Love your vids and humor bro!!!! The dog pump faking got me!!! Lmao. Good one . And u have some of the best funny facial expressions to go along with wht ur saying.
Couch Co-op! Real faces, real spaces. I play with my nieces and nephews regularly. Either retro games or board games.
Chuchu can still be played online too. Played it online just a few weeks ago. Did play Saturn Bomberman with 7 players at most.
I'd agree with any Mario Party game is great fun with friends. I have some fond memoires of playing GC with friends though. We played lots of MKDD, Smash Melee, and TimeSplitters 2.
My two all time favorite multi-player games have to be Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (PS3) and Poy Poy (PS1). Both can be up to 4 players and are brutal. I use to enjoy 1 on 2 fights with Tekken online. Locally my friends were excellent on their own, but being teammates kinda started actual fights. Same with Poy Poy. Nothing ruins a friendship like knocking everyone out with boulders.
I do agree that Bomberman is an awesome multi-player game, but I've never played the Saturn version. My experience was playing against my wife and brother in law on the Genesis. They were both new to the series and picked that game up super fast.
Great video - can definitely relate to wanting to play multiplayer at 11pm on a Tuesday night after doing the dishes 😂
Yellow shirt should have been to the forefront of the thumbnail! Consistency ruined!!! Arghh!! Great video, as always! :)
I put it on the far right where it always goes :). I did think about layering it over the next color, but it didn't quite work.
Mario Party 2 is peak Mario Party. Patrician taste as always, BirdMan.
Oh my goodness! I had four swords adventures and Nintendo land on my short list when Retrobird put out his community post earlier this week! If my math is right, that means I'm 2/5 as cool as Retrobird!
Lol you disconnected your own controller 😂 I feel that
My favorite multiplayer game would be Panel de Pon/Tetris Attack/Puzzle League. Any title is good for anyone to easily learn to play. The one on the Nintendo Puzzle Collection for the GameCube has a chaotic 4 player mode that everyone can have a blast playing
Great list! Loved to see a lot of games I didn't consider instead of the usual recommendations
Great & interesting list! One could argue that the perfect & somewhat complex conditions required to adequately experience some of these games could disqualify them from contention, but I enjoyed the list for its left field choices. Also, I'm sure the games are a hoot if said conditions were doable!
Mario Kart and Smash seem like obvious omissions but as another commenter wisely stated, sometimes the skill gap present in those games renders them very unenjoyable for a select few. Mario Party 2 is a stellar choice for #1, and my favorite game of the series hands down.
Great Video and solid games! Always a pleasure to see your funny reactions (2:42). I played a lot of multiplayer games when I was a child (I guess making a few friends at school has its perks). One of my favorite is Worms on the PS1 and surprisingly... wrestling games on the PS2. I'm really not into wrestling games but those were so fun to play in multiplayer!
nintendoland metroid & zelda co-op missions were awesome! definately overlooked game
Fond memories of playing International Superstar Soccer with friends. You could build tournaments up to 8 players..
Back when I was a kid it was marvel vs capcom 2 on Dreamcast. It was a tournament we me every kid that I was friends with and my brother and his friends would play it in the Dreamcast and whoever lost would past the arcade stick
I want to play Mario Kart with you 😂
nintendo land will always be my favorite by alot, though mario party is my second, i guess its because all my friends are bewildered and excited by the wii u gamepad. im also a teenager so i also love to shoe em ancient consoles like the n64
I always look forward to these videos!
Rogue Trip Vacation 2012 for the PS1 has been underrated multiplayer game and really fun back in the days.
I really miss the Sega Saturn ,N64 and Dreamcast from this era 😔😊but it's fine at least I have the good memories about it
I miss when my mom ran a daycare and I always had 10-15 kids to play N64 with. Good times, we will never have such peak local multiplayer as that. Gamecube was pretty good for it too (double dash anyone?) but by that point my mom no longer ran a daycare.
You are right with your #1
100%
I grew up with Four Swords Adventure and it was so amazing playing it with my brother. Honestly some of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had
I honestly agree on Mario party
The multiplayer arcade game Exvania from '92 would've been great to have on the Genesis and SNES back in the day. As far as I know it never received a console port. It's like a cross between Bomberman and Castlevania, and yes it is part of the Castlevania series but it's not very well known at least in the States. It was also curiously made by Namco instead of Konami.
For me it was wcw vs nwo on the n64. We would have big tournaments with friends. So good
That face 12 seconds in to funny, good point overall to
Well… the Nintendo land game is also one of my best moment ever playing video games.
So much fun!
The hardest part is making friends.
I've got LoZ 4 Swords but more as a video game collection item than a a game I'll ever play. I got the 4 cables but I don't own a single GBA.
The last time I played a 4 player game was this past New Years Eve where we somehow got a 4th person to join and they picked Mario Party 2. Great fun, even though one of the players was falling asleep during the game!
Yeah, somebody falling asleep can kill the vibe a bit.
@@RetroBirdGaming I was rooting for him to win but, of course he finished last!
Good list! I've heard Saturn Bomberman was the best Bomberman, but I have still yet to play it. I was going to get an actual copy, but prices on Saturn games are insane! The Mario Party games are some of my _favorite_ games to play locally with friends! It is always just pure chaos!
So my personal favorite multiplayer game that I've been playing with friends for years is *Itadaki Street Special* on the PS2. It basically plays like Monopoly meets Final Fantasy. The goal is to hit a target amount of cash by investing in properties. It sounds boring, but it has RPG elements where you can level up and gain skills that can range from simply gaining an extra dice roll to summoning a giant god beast to completely destroy an opponents' properties! The longer the game goes, the more crazy it gets!
Never really played a lot of multiplayer games growing up. My favourite couch co-op was Twisted Metal 2 for Playstation 1.
I’m getting my friends together to play Four Swords Adventures after watching this video 😄
Nice!
Listening to you talk about Bomberman's 10 player mode got me thinking. Nintendo just announced F-Zero 99, but what if we got Bomberman 99. Now, THAT would be chaotic!
Bomberman, Crash Team Racing, Goldeneye, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, Super Smash Bros.
Love your content retro bird man 🦅 I just wish you would have included some non puzzle like games in your list. I need some action in my multi. You do get a point for mentioning Saturn Bomberman as that experience is truly unique. I would have put
Smash melee, powerstone 2, poy poy, monkey ball?!? What the hey with the lack of monkey ball party games retro bird? Do I gotta take you to school?
While it's not retro, Shredder's Revenge allows up to 6 people for local play. It's as close as you can get to having a TMNT arcade cabinet in your house.
Is the 6 player local only on switch?
I considered this game as well! Especially since you could play it on a really big screen at home. That way everyone could see really well.
@@danbauer3669 6-player local is on Switch, Xbox, and even PC! Unfortunately, the PS4 apparently has a hard limit of 4 controllers.
@@3dmarth thanks!
Amiga classics: Sensible Soccer, Slamtilt.
You're right that hardest thing is to have other people on sesion+they need to be sober enough to play...
Urban Reign for PS2 is a great 4 player fighting game. Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate 3 are great for in depth RPGs to waste hours on. Banjo-Tooie has a fun assortment of mini games. Street Fighter X Tekken is good for button mashing with 4 people. Wario Ware is really cool for groups too. There's so many good multiplayer games I can't play because I have nobody to play with. It blows.
Can’t ever go wrong with Bomberman. An old NES favourite for 4-player is Super Spike V’Ball. Love getting that together.
Too bad Bomberman II is only 3 player but they nailed the formula with Super Bomberman.
I have that volleyball game but I cannot claim to have ever played it 4 player. Last 4 player NES game I had a 4 player session on was Gauntlet II, probably 4 or 5 years ago. We played as far as room 20.
Mario kart will always be my go to. It's simple enough even people who don't play videogames can get into it and win.
Playing Twisted Metal 3 or 4 with 4 players is a lot of fun
I love your videos, you always make you laugh. You get better every month. I like mario and zelda games as much as the next guy.
After watching for a while, I can't help but notice you never talk about halo. Quiet possibly, one of the best launch games of all time.
I still do LAN parties with my buddies with 4 xboxes hooked up playing snipers on blood gulch. No screen peaking 😂
I'd like to know your overall opinion on the early halos that bungie made. Why do you not mention halo very much? Maybe you could make a video on it.
I've talked about it a couple times. I just haven't talked about it for a while. Actually, one of my favorite gaming memories has to do with Halo. I share the story in this video: ruclips.net/video/MY1NM-MyrOs/видео.html
I know you focus on vintage games, but I'll throw out that Towerfall Ascension is an absolute blast to play with friends on a couch. Bomberman Live is pretty neat too. It has online multiplayer. It's not 2D like the Saturn version, but it's pretty satisfying anyway.
Bishi Bashi on the PS1 is a blast to play since it is a wacky party game filled with colorful characters. You should definitely play that game Retro Bird and you will definitely enjoy it.
Dark room Mario is the way to go. Best place to play it in is a abandon hospital basement. If you hear any ghost things tell them to bring their own controller.
I got ChuChu Rocket along with my Dreamcast, waaay back, but never really considered its multiplayer mode. Might need to give it a try next time I have friends here for a games night.
Would definitely recommend it!
Alt title: Best Dorm Room games if you share a bathroom with like 4 dudes.
Couch co-op/multiplayer is half the reason I love retro gaming. I played Mario Party 2 with just one friend earlier this years and it was a blast. I’m always surprised how well the N64 computer players hold up today.
My roommates freshman year of college would start “fiddy-spots” (50 turn N64 Mario Party games) at 2 am with others on the floor when I was getting back from doing homework. And then sometimes they’d start another at 4 am and get an hour of sleep before class. Somehow they made it through school. This was a good 15 years or so after the N64 launched so they were retro gamin before it was cool. I wish I had had the energy to join them more back then >.>
Great video! A few thoughts:
- You might think 4 Retro Birds is just more of a good thing, but think of the worldwide banana shortage it would cause! Some things should be left alone.
- The Dolphin emulator has made Four Swords Adventures way more accessible. All you need now is a half-decent PC and four controllers of any kind: Xbox 360, PS4, Switch, you name it. Mix and match, if you want!
- Smash Bros. has a reputation as a "party game", but I find that the learning curve is pretty steep for new players, and even SoulCalibur on Dreamcast can be a better choice.
- I've had a bunch of 20-somethings over for games before, and Streets of Rage 2 was a surprise hit. It warmed my heart! :)
Well that's one way to get me to picture you punching someone in the face while they're eating a banana 🤣
If I had to pick my top 5 multiplayer games, I'd choose:
5 PS3 - Pain (Pass the controller)
4 Xbox - Halo: Combat Evolved (4-player)
3 Dreamcast - PowerStone 2 (4-player)
2 Atari 2600 - Warlords (4-player)
1 PlayStation 1 - MicroMachines V3 (4-player)
Every play Lemmings on Super Nintendo? It was the only version with competitive multiplayer. Try it out sometime! ~ VR Game Dev and fan of the Retro Bird (especially the ending theme)
My fondest memories are with Goldeneye. I never got punched before until I started playing with my head down with proximity mines in the complex and kept winning. He broke my controller instead of my face that day. Needless to say, we changed over to Mario Part.y
Multiplayer games are our favorite way to game. The way we see it we didn't just build the game room for us. We built it to enjoy with everyone we love.
Love to seeing what your top five are. Hours tend to change all the time. However, one constant that stays in there always is new Super Mario Bros on the Wii. If you can't have fun annihilating your friends while trying to complete the mission, what's the point of having friends? 😂😂
haha Nintendo's comeback mechanics... haha I love Mario Party games. I've only had fun playing Mario Party with friends.
My go to used to be Mario Party for the DS, it's what I used to play with my sister and her ex fiance whenever we met up
Yeah man, a Dreamcast game HAD to be included here. My personal favourite was Sonic Shuffle. The game was basically Sega's version of Mario Party and we loved it back in the day.
Also when it came to Four Swords Adventure, having all those link cables and GBAs back in the day wasn't even a big deal cuz everybody would have theirs and bring them together to play, but it is a pain today.