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What's the most fun you've ever had playing a video game.

In most recent memory, was on Christmas Eve night 4 months ago, on GTA V with my best friend on Xbox LIVE. The snow addition they added added so much beauty, AND hilarity, and it was just amazingly hilarious and fun. Running away from the cops with 4 stars, with snow falling, AND at night (which with the white snow, made it near impossible to see), man, there was nothing like it.
However, Halo 3 custom games were the absolute bomb. Every night ended in laughs playing custom games with friends.

Also, Super Mario Sunshine as a child was extremely fun. Put a lot of days into that game.
 
I used to live in a house with three other guys. We played Mario Kart, GoldenEye, and Saturn Bomberman almost nightly.

Now I don't know a single person who plays games. :(
 
Splitscreen with my friends awhile back, couldn't really pinpoint a single game. So many amazing moments in Mario Kart, Mario Party, Timesplitters 2, Goldenye, Perfect Dark, etc.

Single Player wise, probably my first time through RE4.
 
Lego City Undercover.
Destroying things in an open world city? Check.
Hijacking civilian vehicles under the guise of a Police Mission? Check.
Free falling from space trying to save your friends? Check.
Riding a Lego T-Rex skelleton around and terrorizing civilians while you evade the police you're working with? Check.
 
Tribes, I also could have included this in the "Games ahead of their time thread".

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The Shadow Broker dlc for Mass Effect 2. Loved the music, the banter, and the two boss fights. After you finish it you can access all sorts of files and vids about people in the ME universe. Grunt's extranet search history was glorious.
 
Mario 64
GTA3-San Andreas
Local multiplayer Twisted Metal 2
Lan setup for Diablo II
Local multiplayer Burnout 3
Local multiplayer Mario Kart 64 and Mario Party 3
Arcades with Street Fighter II
Arcades with Point Blank and Time Crisis
First ever online fighter with Street Fighter II HD Remix
Uncharted 2 online multiplayer Beta
 
Ultima Online
RTCW
Puzzle Quest
Picross 3D
Flashback
Super Mario World
Street Fighter 2
ISS 98
Goldeneye 64 in multi
Mario Kart Wii
the glory days of DOS: Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis/Day of the Tentacle/Maniac Mansion/Monkey Island 2/Sherlock Holmes and the case of the serrated scalpel
 
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - was the first PS3 game I got, and I was the first of my friends to own a PS3. A mate came over and together we played through the whole game over a couple days amazed at the graphics. We had this runningn joke that Sully was secretly gay for Drake and we'd make our own wise cracks in his voice with no so subtle undertones.
 
Every GTA has a special place in my heart, but overall it's GTAV, no doubt about it. Driving around the city literally never gets old, I can spend hours just cruising around doing nothing but sightseeing and enjoying the scenery. Put well over 100 hours into the game and it still amazes me every single time, everytime I play I see something new, overhear a new conversation from some random NPC. Even writing this makes me want to play it right now, haha.

Monumental achievement on both artistic and technical level.


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Probably Warhawk for the first month or so. The first time I was really into a online multiplayer game. The slower pace of the game let me go around and appreciate the smaller details in the levels, and the large scope let me feel like I could do what I wanted to contribute to the team.
 
Mario Kart 64 multiplayer was awesome.
Rainbow 6 multiplayer (a time before party chat killed smacktalk).
When I discovered Final Fantasy NES (my first RPG outside of Might & Magic at the time)

Edit: Almost forgot Halo!
 
Mugatu said:
COD4 on the Xbox 360.

I had stopped playing multiplayer since BF1942 and i met so many good friends playing that game. For over a year my Xbox was nothing but a modern warfare machine.
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I don't know where to start but there were a ton with games like Mario, Contra, Age Of Empires, Counter Strike etc but the most recent ones for me is COD4.

As you said, I've met so many people, who became friends and some happen to be good friends of mine through COD4. The fun I had with that game and the people I met through it, I dont regret one bit. Yes, my 360 was nothing more than a COD4 machine even after release of COD5, MW2 and I slowly stopped playing it after Black Ops 2 came out.
 
About a decade ago at college, we'd have tons of people over to play Fifa on the Gamecube before going out for the night, or we'd play before Champion's League games and at half-time. Shit was fucking magical. Every so often we'd break out some Melee or hook up the N64 for Mario Kart. We had Double Dash, but no one wanted to play that garbage.

I disagree that fun is the most important thing, though. All of my most treasured gaming memories have much more to do with immersion or overcoming a challenge.
 
It was a fantastic summer of a certain herb and weeks of playing Last Blade 2 on my relatively new Sega Dreamcast. I've never had so much fun ever since.
 
The most fun I've had was learning to play fighting games properly while staying at my friend's house for a whole month with some more friends doing nothing other than eating, smoking, playing FGs, going out during weekends and stuff, that was about 3 or 4 years ago when I could afford to do that during vacations, now I got a job and am close to finishing college so time is scarce :(

Also going to a classmate's house every Friday after school just to stay till late playing Smash 64, Pokemon Stadium, TCGs and stuff, those years will never come back :'(
 
Diablo 2. Cow level farming for days.

I also had a lot of fun in WoW farming the Abyssal Council with a couple of friends late at night. Oh silithus, how worthless you have become.
 
The first time I played Alien vs. Predator in an arcade. I was a kid at the time but I had so much fun playing that and it's still one of my all-time favorite games.
 
Overall, I probably couldn't narrow it down to a single moment. However it is almost certainly at an arcade somewhere. My video gaming top 50 would probably consist entirely of trips to the arcade, and one slot for Phantasy Star Online.
 
Halo 16 player LAN party with 4 TVs and 4 Xboxes. We played games of 8v8 CTF on Hang Em High with no shield and sniper rifles that lasted for hours. Having the teams separated by rooms was brilliant since any trash talking had to be either shouted or delivered by means of dropping your controller and walking into the other room.
 
Mineshaft_Gap said:
They really need to bring back local multi-player. I feel bad for kids these days who don't get to share in the same experiences just because they're not playing with their actual friends most of the time, and if they are often times they aren't even in the same building.
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PLAY TOWERFALL. Preferably with 3 good friends. I think you'll like it.
 
probably the most fun i've had was with FFXI (my first MMO) because it was the only game i was legitimately addicted to

runner up would probably be multiplayer secret of mana. my childhood friends and i sink hours into it to this day. goldeneye multi was a blast as well
 
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