Friends and good times on the X360/PS3/Wii

[abrader]

In this thread - tell us about good/bad times you had playing games on your consoles in your house with friends/guests over (no you dont have to have a Wii to play games with the house guests).

Perhaps your experiences/experiments will help give others ideas of games to play when they have game guests over...

I will kick it off;

Tonight our friend Can was over. He prefers FPS games and always just wants to play split screen R6 Vegas co-op.

I ran us thru the following;

* PSOne - Raiden Project - I have alot of 2D shooters and I love pulling them out when guests come over. My friend had never heard of Raiden. After we played some co-op Raiden and Raiden II, he will definately know whats up when someone mentions Raiden in the future. Its amazing to me how well these shooters hold up. I think every playstation library needs Raiden Project. The sub-par console versions that rolled out befoee this collection of coin-op perfect R and R2 on the playstation arent even worth mentioning.

* PS2 - Raiden III - I was really let down by this when it came out, and really only got it out because my friend wanted to try it after loving R and R2. The game is alot more fun co-op than the times before I had played it solo. Ill likely reserve future plays to times when guests are over.

* PS2 - Quake III: REVOLUTION - I loved the fukk out of this game - still to this day. Reminds me of playing QIII Areena on the Dreamcast. We played deathmatch rounds...The characters in this game let you put together the ultimate ID fanservice battles....We had the Doom marine Vs. the Phobos Marine team deathmatch round.....and strogg vs strogg with a "Nightmare" difficulty Tank Jr. bot fraggin the hell out of us...My friend hated the way it moved so fast and really found it to be frustrating...I blasted many a fool with my rockets Im not sure if my friend had fun playing Quake III Revolution, but I loved dominating every round (except the round with the nightmare difficulty Tank Jr. bot)

After the fanservice QIII matches we wanted to play Quake 4 campaign on X360 co-op...

Sadly Q4 for X360 doesnt support split screen co-op...only system link or online.....

After the Quake 4 buzzkill we broke up the game session....

[The Sceneman]

I dont really have that many multiplayer games  As a result pretty much the only games I bust out when I have friends over are Timesplitters and Metal Slug Anthology

[abrader]

I dont really have that many multiplayer games  As a result pretty much the only games I bust out when I have friends over are Timesplitters and Metal Slug Anthology

I have played the Metal Slug Anthology with guests - its good times.

I have never played a Timesplitters game single, co-op or anything.....is it fun co-op/Vs via splitscreen?

[The Sceneman]

Yeah its pretty cool, I play virtually no FPS'es these days so Im not really sure how it stacks up to the competition, but yeah two player deathmatch with bots is always a blast. I like the customisation options, and the game has a unique quirky sense of humor with some pretty zany characters. Story mode in Timesplitters Future Perfect is excellent single player also. So yeah definately worth checking out IMO, game is cheap as chips these days. FPS is actually a genre I really enjoy but and I'll probably get back into it once I take the plunge and buy a next-gen console, but as far as I can tell theres a real lack of quality titles on GC and PS2. (I dont own an Xbox) Was thinking about COD3 for Wii when it gets cheap, but Im just pumped up MP3 really.

[AdmiralViscen]

360 sucks shit when it comes to single-box gaming. Next gen blows.

I've done a little bit of Gears co op on it, and that's about it.

Wii Sports gets tons of play when people come over.

[The Sceneman]

Bitches fannies gets wet for Wii Sports

[The Sceneman]

Oh Capcom vs. SNK 2 is another 2 player hit, and Ikaruga is always good

[Mr. Gundam]

My wife and I play Katamari and Smash Bros. Melee together, and when friends come over, and we break out the Dance Dance Revolution. The rest of my gaming is done by myself or over the intarwebs.

[brawndolicious]

other than ssb/ssbm, there was really no other game that people would immediately want to play for hours unless it was on SNES.  I got a wii though and now we actually play that for hours.  It's not like other games where you start to learn controls after a while, all of the controls are very obvious and having somebody work against you trying to beat you makes you shit yourself AND have fun.  It's really amazing.

EDF2017 is also awesome.  It's only 2 player co-op but you can easily play that for an hour but that's only if you're already pretty far in the game and have a healthy selection of weapons.  Don't make somebody play with you right when you got the game.  It'll still be fun if you only have a few weapons but you need to know how to take out the different enemies and how you do that with each weapon.

[Fragamemnon]

The only console multiplayer experience I had of note is drunken Saturn Bomberman and Death Tank Zwei.

In college, we stuffed a room with six PCs regularly and played all sorts of shit over a LAN, ranging from Age of Empires to UT99. Action Quake 2 and what not were the bomb in that setting and it was in those LAN parties that I adopted my wonderfully awesome online moniker. We'd play all night and then sleep until 2PM, everyone would head back to their place to clean up, then we would reconvene that night again for more LAN action, and everyone usually packed up their shit and went home at 5AM or so Sunday morning.