Nostalgia: whats your best game with your friends

Of course playing games with friends is the best thing ever and undoubtedly trumps any other gaming experience. playing mario party one of the worse games can quickly become one of the most competitive and hilarious games ever.

For me the best game with friends is halo. My first real exposure to games was halo:ce 8 years ago and i fell in love. That soon expanded to the half-life series, cs, team fortress, starcraft, command and conquer and i fell in love with games. However nothing could compare to when halo 2 came out and system link was the best thing i have ever done. There is something about crowding around a tv during mornings, lunch, and afternoons in a classroom at a school. Having slumber parties often to have 16 people linked up to four tv's for a night of halo. being able to spend hours talking about what happened, planning the next party and anticipating our turn to play. The competitive banter about whos better, and how "lucky" the other person is. Halo 3 was also awesome and i spent many days oinline with my friends, but gone were the days of sytem link which still holds a special place in my heart lol. So no matter what people say i love and will always love halo b/c of these moments with my friends.

So what about you guys, what was your favorite game with friends that you really enjoyed? post your stories here

Top Gear, SNES

I thought you were talking about the ds game.

Nothing beats playing a game of DOTA with 9 other friends on LAN. The sound of getting First Blood or achieving beyond Godlike or perhaps a Triple Kill against your buddies is one of the best feelings ever. It's not fun if you're on the receiving end though :P

Counterstrike. Me and my friends used to hit the cyber cafes every weekend to play.

All the cyber cafes in my area all went out of business after it's popularity diminished and gave way to other FPSs. No joke.

Phantasy Star Online.

Halo: CE. Best local multiplayer I ever had.

Next would be Super Mario Kart with my friend and his brother.

Then would be Killer Instinct with the same two people.

Phantasy Star Online.

tehpiecemaker

I've got some fond memories of playing Mario Kart and SSB with my friends and SFII with my brother. To this day I still have fun playing Pokemon and SFIV, but a large aspect of that is because I pretty much destroy them every time.

Which reminds of a good idea for a thread I once had...

GoldenEye (N64)

Goldeneye.

dweedle you are a total downer.

for me its tekken tag tournament, always had 3 or 4 people taking turns at my house (including my girlfriend who i only could beat most of the time) of coarse, smoked a few doobies before always.

After i got a got ps3 it was soul calibur 4 all day every day.

This is a pretty sad thread. It shows how distant developers have made playing with friends locally. Nostalgia eh? It's been that long since a good local game?

Halo is the king of entertaining split screen FPS.

Resistance comes close for my PS3, but I want Halo :(

LBP is great fun though, so fun to play with friends. Back in my PS2 days, Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 and Smackdown Here Comes The Pain ruled as the party game. Wrestling games (and wrestling) just arent the same anymore.

super monkey ball for the gamecube or halo 1 or 2 on the original xbox..good times

Smackdown 5 : Here Comes The Pain :D

Easily Mario Kart 64. I went through two eras with that game. One when it was first released with my junior high friends, and another when someone brought out an old N64 into the common room of my first-year residence in college. I think it was more fun in college because alcohol and money became involved. :P

Easily Mario Kart 64. I went through two eras with that game. One when it was first released with my junior high friends, and another when someone brought out an old N64 into the common room of my first-year residence in college. I think it was more fun in college because alcohol and money became involved. :P

-Tretiak

"Even with all its bells and whistles, Mario Kart 64 is very likely to disappoint you after about a week." Silly gamespot.

Of course playing games with friends is the best thing ever and undoubtedly trumps any other gaming experience. playing mario party one of the worse games can quickly become one of the most competitive and hilarious games ever.

For me the best game with friends is halo. My first real exposure to games was halo:ce 8 years ago and i fell in love. That soon expanded to the half-life series, cs, team fortress, starcraft, command and conquer and i fell in love with games. However nothing could compare to when halo 2 came out and system link was the best thing i have ever done. There is something about crowding around a tv during mornings, lunch, and afternoons in a classroom at a school. Having slumber parties often to have 16 people linked up to four tv's for a night of halo. being able to spend hours talking about what happened, planning the next party and anticipating our turn to play. The competitive banter about whos better, and how "lucky" the other person is. Halo 3 was also awesome and i spent many days oinline with my friends, but gone were the days of sytem link which still holds a special place in my heart lol. So no matter what people say i love and will always love halo b/c of these moments with my friends.

So what about you guys, what was your favorite game with friends that you really enjoyed? post your stories here

tutt3r

You stolled my ideaz? Anyways, remember playing blood gulch with system link? Good times...

Battlefield 2 lan partys were fun but also Goldeneye both back in the day and recently.

Streets of Rage 2 and Street Fighter 2

i used to play with my brother a lot back them

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i play it with my friends a lot in high school

cs1.3+ in cyber cafes

well some examples :- Contra, Sensible Soccer, SF2, Dragon Ninja, Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Mortal Kombat 1 - Trilogy &Ninja Turtles

smack down: here comes the pain, me and my friend were over doing it on that one

Super Smash Bros. the ultimate party game.

halo 1, smash bros, and starcraft come to mind

Perfect Dark 64

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Mario Party 4/5

Gundam Seed: Federation vs. Z.A.F.T 2 Plus

Bleach: Blade Battlers (1 & 2)

We still play Mario Party though and maybe Melee.

This is a pretty sad thread. It shows how distant developers have made playing with friends locally. Nostalgia eh? It's been that long since a good local game?

Halo is the king of entertaining split screen FPS.

Resistance comes close for my PS3, but I want Halo :(

LBP is great fun though, so fun to play with friends. Back in my PS2 days, Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 and Smackdown Here Comes The Pain ruled as the party game. Wrestling games (and wrestling) just arent the same anymore.

Alpha-Male22

Get an Xbox, they're practically giving them away.

I have fond memories of playing the old conflict games back on the PS1/PS2. So much fun.

Halo is my current favorite though.

Edit: How could i forget Here comes the pain? Golberg AND Lesner ... ON ONE GAME???

Nothing quite like some Madden smack talk with friends. Still think it's the best party game ever.

None. Multiplayer is a limited experiance.Dweedleking5000

But only to people without friends :P

Anyway, for me i would say Conker on the N64, we used to had a blast playing all the modes, the original SSB was great too and melee, also Mario Kart 64, WWF Attitude, ISSS64, etc.

This gen, without a doubt Brawl, once in a while some Fifa or Mario KArt Wii, but overall, Brawl.

[QUOTE="-Tretiak"]

Easily Mario Kart 64. I went through two eras with that game. One when it was first released with my junior high friends, and another when someone brought out an old N64 into the common room of my first-year residence in college. I think it was more fun in college because alcohol and money became involved. :P

topgunmv

"Even with all its bells and whistles, Mario Kart 64 is very likely to disappoint you after about a week." Silly gamespot.

One of the worst lines for a review EVER. We would be still playing it if i still had 4 good N64 controllers.

From what I can think of, 007: Nightfire. I used to play this game a lot with one of my friends, and we really had a blast with the multiplayer.

Timesplitters. so much fun

PowerStone 1&2. This game was the best when it came to local multiplayer IMO...

Perfect Dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXl5gzKNNc

Used to do that all the time, so much fun. Bots didn't know how to detonate remote mines so there'd be a ton of them all over the place resulting in huge explosions when they went off. :D

Absolute chaos with 4 players.