@realkilla: Oh. I haven't played Gears 2 online competitively so I wasn't sure. Plus I totally misread your post. Whoops! :)

@Jody: I believe we've also done Battlefield Bad Company and CoD 4. The only reason I suggested Gears out of the whole mess is that non-competitive types can still play Horde mode together and it's hard to actually play GoW2 online. Too many glitches / exploits. At least with CGN we can weed most of that out. That said I'm pretty open to changing that if someone else gets a better idea or one that's not been done before.

Here's my little story from Game Night. I'll have at least video up before tomorrow, hopefully the rest before the weekend as well.

I was hoping to get into some Versus mode games with my friend on split-screen but what instead happened was a whole lot better. The first game I got into was a co-op game with Chris Wattersand Soulreavercross. It wasa little hectic at times since we weren't always the most coordinated but it was a whole lot of fun. Let me just say one thing for Chris, he might be a grizzled old war veteran but he is ridiculously accurate. Even while leading most of the charges with an auto-shotty he still managed to get more kills than me.

But the finale to this campaign was freaking epic even for Normal difficulty. First Louis gets dragged off the top of the safe room leading me to rush into the zombies to kill the smoker holding him. Once he was free I retreated a bit only to hear him get pounced so I quickly made my way over, killed the Hunter and then beat off the zombies before reviving him. Almost immediately after getting him up ANOTHER Hunter took him right off a ladder and incapacitated him while Bill was boomer biled. Shortly after defeating this horde we were attacked by a Tank and ANOTHER FREAKING Hunter. Of course the Hunter made a beeline for Louis but the Tank pimp smacked the Hunter off and started to kill Louis. We all pitched in to save him and retreated to fight off the final wave of the fight. Heck we even got the Tank stuck in a window for an easy kill. However the real trick was the very final part as we waited for the choppa.

While we were standing there pipe bombs were thrown to distract the horde and Louis threw down a molotov to keep the rest at bay. However a Boomer snuck up behind us and, when he died, knocked me off the helipad. It took a quick dash past zombies, both on fire and not, through some flames and back onto the pad all while covered in Boomer bile to escape the level alive. Desperately ignoring the Tank I could hear just behind me might I add. Really good times.

The second game with Chris and CodingGenius this time went a lot better. Death Toll is a much easier level than No Mercy I'm beginning to notice once you get past the wide open areas. That and the sewer level can be a bit rough. But we handled it well. Except for the fact that every single Hunter we came across, especially later on, wanted to eat my face. I was an early warning system for them since they all pounced on me as soon as they saw us.

I had a heck of a time and am definitely looking to participate in more of these. Go GameSpot go!

Actually this was my first community game night as well. Also SBNa who played with me, Chris, SRC and CG is my girlfriend. We were playing same couch co-op and she doesn't have a GS username. But she's a huge L4D fan who wanted to participate.

When playing the Hunter nobody ever tells you that you need to use the crouch command to charge up the pounce. Neither does the instruction manual for that matter. They also don't tell you do more initial damage the bigger your leap is so pouncing from rooftops is a really good idea.

As an aside the thread confused me for a moment because it says 86, not 68.

For the first week I would suggest Bomberman over the others. It's a really fun game and SSBB has already been done and I think Mario Kart might get a little heated in a bad way (snaking, bikes vs. carts, blue shells... yeah... bad times online).

For weeks 2 and 3 I would definitely suggest not doing Unreal Tournament 3 since it's been done before. Killzone 2, BF2142 and Dawn of War 2 haven't had a game night yet. So I'm inclined to go with the newer stuff than the old stuff. For Week 4 since it's all repeats I'll vote for the one I could participate in, so Gears of War 2.

In the end I'd happily change my vote to whatever game more people actually own.

Oh and for May my thoughts are:

Week 1: Wii dedicated game - No Clue
Week 2: PS3 dedicated game - Killzone 2
Week 3: PC dedicated game - Dawn of War 2
Week 4: Xbox 360 dedicated game - This might sound a bit out there but why not get together some sort of Horde mode thing for Gears of War 2. Just a thought.

Uhm... well I only got into PC gaming in the past few years. Before that the only games I'd played online was Warcraft 2, AVP 2, Diablo and Team Fortress. Other than that the only other games I played were local co-op. When I got my own PC I started playing Diablo 2, Baldurs Gate 1/2 and Neverwinter Nights.

Speaking of I need to pick up Neverwinter Nights 2.

I can definitely record for the 360 as well as writing up some pre and / or post-game stuff. If somebody gets me the post-game recordings I can do my best with what I'm given. I'm willing to do my best with this.

Maybe we can like split up into Xbox parties and host mini-tournaments? Like say that one person hosts an eight man tournament party with group A while a second hosts with group B then the winners of the two could square off for the title of game night MVP on that platform? It's just an idea. Since nobody can spectator to record the matches this might make for an interesting way to keep up with what's going on and acknowledge peoples' fighting skills.

So yeah consider me volunteering to host for at least an hour and a half, record footage and do write ups.