The Co-Op Code: 10 Rules to Follow so Your Friends Don't Hate You

Don't rage quite your friends

None

Gaming can be a solitary act.

Spending hours perfecting the right kill or grinding your way through achievements. Even when gamers are blowing stuff up online the other players are distant. Co-op split-screen offers the kind of retro gaming experience that brings friends together to yell at each other about who sucks worse than the other. It can be one of the must fun ways to play or if you're unlucky enough not to know a few simple rules, a miserable experience. Because not everyone can play well with others.

Follow these ten simple rules of co-op gaming to keep the friends you have and get some social gaming time in. Partnering up in co-op can result in some of the best team action. But no rage-quitters allowed, and please stop throwing things. Here's 10 easy steps to the Co-Op Code so your friends don't end up hating you.

RELATED: The Most Anticipated Video Games of 2014

RELATED: 10 Things Microsoft and the Xbox One Need to Change ASAP

RELATED: The Troubled History of "RoboCop" Video Games

Don't Be a Lone Gunman

Know Your Role

Rage Quitting is Not an Option

Don't get Drunk and Gank

Loading Screens are for Planning

“Check out my new TV...that you're buying me”

View this video on YouTube

youtu.be

Back in the day I invited a friend over to play Super Smash Bros. and because he was new to the game I was taking it easy on him.

Of course, still stomping his ass but not embarrassingly so. The result ended up being he threw my TV across the room.

Back to the ragers! Gaming can be a very solitary act for some people, these people should acknowledge that; so if you're a closet rager try not to hurl anything at your friend's house. TV's, controllers, cats, grandma Edna's funeral urn, out the window. Oh and in case you forgot in your moment of rage, TVs are hella expensive.

Follow the House Rules

View this video on YouTube

youtu.be

If you're visiting a buddy's house, it may not be just his alone.

The surest way to get yourself banned from this real-life waiting room is to piss off the master of the house. Be it their parents or significant other, you need to know that you're a guest. Going to your friend's to bro-down could include a surprise visit.

But if you should encounter anything like in the video above, just run, run and never look back. That friend is dead to you now.

When in Rome

There is nothing wrong with the controls

Stop Talking, Sexy

View this video on YouTube

youtu.be

You can't judge a book by it's cover. And frankly some people just aren't cut out for co-op gaming.

When you get a perfectly normal friend, who doesn't seem like a scary creep, over to your place, only to learn that he's one of those solitary gaming weirdos, it's a surprise for all involved.

You know the kind; the guy who mumbles to himself while shooting dead players over and over. Or spends the better part of an afternoon talking sexy to virtual strippers in Grand Theft Auto Online. Put that shit away.

Latest in Pop Culture