I am currently helplessly addicted to the Borderlands games (yes, the ones with the bad movie adaptation... wait! Don't scroll away!). Playing co-op lit the spark, the more I play, the more I get hooked, I played once with a friend, then right after I started another playthrough with another friend, and today we started "The Pre-Sequel" all together.

Better yet, friend #1 was a bit hesitant at the beginning. He didn't really give a damn... but by the end, he was asking questions about the lore, laughing at the jokes with me and getting invested in the characters. (Hard not to love Mordecai and Brick)

These games have the engaging sense of long-term progression of RPGs mixed with the frantic moment to moment action of shooters, you see big numbers go up, find hoards of randomly generated loot that constantly gives you new ways to make things explode and there is also a deadass slot machine in the hub if everything else didn't scratch the reward centers of your brain hard enough.