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

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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This so much.

Secret of Mana, toejam and earl, Guardian heroes (fuck yeah), Bubble Bobble, importing the n64 smash bros a year earlier. All this shit made being a teenager go by so much better.
 
Online Motorstorm Pacific Rift.
It's the only racing game that I have played online where people weren't complete twats, and didn't take the game too seriously. It was a good laugh and races were always very close at the front and towards the back.
 
Local 4-player Mario Kart on Gamecube. I still remember those moments to this day. I hope I can relive those moments when I have kids of my own next gen.
 
30 years old here, have played every type of game under the sun. From a purely "fun" aspect without frustration or anything like that probably Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction was the most pure fun I've had playing a game. Not my favorite game by any means but definitely the most fun. That I can remember at this moment anyways lol.
 
My runner up is playing Four Swords Adventures back in the day. Yeah, I had four GBA link cables. So fuckin what, they were absolutely worth it for this game. Nintendo's messed with the whole "competitive-cooperative" thing plenty of times, but they never quite hit it like this game did. So much potential for dickishness. So much teamwork actually required to progress.

I would go out and buy two more 3DSes is they announced a new Wii U FSA that used 3DSes as the controller. The whole every player has a hidden screen thing on top of a shared screen really made that game something special and something that hasn't quite been duplicated since.
 
All night clan battles until 7am in socom 2 one night. A really singular experiemce from an era of gaming i feel is gone now. Ill always rememo
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I take my pick back. I would say Super Mario Bros. 3.

My cousins got it for Christmas, and the whole family was visiting. We played in the basement with everyone gathered around in awe. It truly felt next generation at that time.
 
All of the best video game related memories that I have are local multiplayer. I had a lot of fun playing free for alls with Bomberman 64 and Starcraft during lunch times when I was still in school. I don't know what I would classify as "the most fun" overall, but the most special to me would probably be the games that I used to play with my older cousins before they moved out. It wasn't even so much the games, even though Secret of Mana and Mario Kart are amazing games, but it was the time spent with my relatives.

Also 3 player hotseat Empire Deluxe with my dad and my uncle.
 
So many hours wasted, but enjoyed them all

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KillGore said:
So many hours wasted, but enjoyed them all
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I had a dedicated group of friends my freshman-sophomore year of high school that played this after school every day. So many great times. I only hope something similar blows up this gen. I miss music games back when they were as fresh as Guitar Hero.

DDR for the first time was probably my favorite once it "clicked". Also, rock band drums is a personal favorite. I still bring out the kit here and there after many years of competitive play.
 
Hundreds of hours playing Perfect Dark and Goldeneye with my roomate and friends. Then hundreds of hours in Everquest. Hundreds of hours in Wow.
 
DukeBobby said:
Probably TimeSplitters 2's co-op and multiplayer.

One of my favourite games ever.
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ConvenientBox said:
Easily mario kart 64 with friends and halo 2 over live.
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The Beta Max said:
FALLOUT 3.

Done deal
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Enter The 36 Chambers said:
Halo 2 on Xbox live. The GOAT
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Kyne said:
Halo 1 campaign.
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All of these! Whenever I feel a lot joy and fun in games. It is usually when I get a group of people online or local and play together :).
 
When I was kid coming home after school I would always look forward to facing my friends in Mario Party 2 and Super Smash Bros, followed by the mandatory daily episode of DBZ :-P
 
Probably Mario Kart 64 and Smash Bros Melee. Both made for some very fun multiplayer, and still playable to this day.
 
Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat Mod. Until today, there hasn't been an FPS game that replicated that experience. I remember all the drama we stirred up at the internet cafe we played. Taking down that B52 bomber was one of the most intense dogfighting thrills I've ever got to experience in a video game. Bar none. Nevermind the fact that it doubled as a player spawn camp which means tons and tons of kills. I believe it took me and my friend 30 minutes of constant ammo refill to finally put a stop to it.

And dat helicopter controls. WHY CAN'T BATTLEFIELD USE THE SAME CONTROL SCHEME?
 
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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First post nails it.

PS1/2, 2 multitaps, ISS/Pro Evo, 8 mates and lots of pizza.

GOAT.
 
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Those damn coin pusher games. It's my drug! Fun and easily addictive for me.

Edit: it's not a "video" game, but it's a game so please let it count :D
 
I don't know what the most ever was, I was probably pretty young and I'm tempted to guess Star Fox 64.

But I can absolutely pin the last point in a decade.

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Civ V when playing with friends.
Spelunky.

If we're talking about long ago, then N64 games like Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, WCW/NWO Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania 2000, and Jet Force Gemini with friends.
 
I feel like some of the most fun has always been when I've participated in local multiplayer games.

Some of my fondest memories have been playing Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart with my brothers growing up.
 
Super Smash Bros. (64 and Melee) and WoW with friends were probably some of the best times of my life, seriously. Halo 2 and Battlefield 2 days were a blast as well. I think it was a combination of me being in middle school / high school so I had all the free time in the world, plus the fact that these are all groundbreaking, phenomenal multiplayer games.

More recently, as in within the past couple years, playing Nintendoland and Battleblock Theater's basketball area game with others was incredibly run. On the singleplayer front, I think Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Portal 2 take the cake in terms of pure concentrated joy.

If I had to pick just one or two out of all these, it would be Super Smash 64 or Melee, can't decide between them.
 
Not an fps player but honestly playing local coop on halo 1 when we got to the first flood level. Yelling " Run run don't stop!" at each other and moving through the level one person facing forward and the other facing behind. Good times.
 
Street Fighter II in the arcade circa 91-92. Played it every day until I became what I considered to be the best player in my local area.

Oddly enough... I played it so much, and I had fun with it nonstop every time I played it, until one day, all at once, I thought "I don't want to play this anymore." And I basically stopped.
 
Playing Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. I saved up money to buy the import because I could NOT wait any longer to play it. It's the only time I've ever bought an import game. I think I paid over $100 for it... Which is a lot of money to save when you're a kid without of steady job. But it was easily worth it. My friends and I played the hell out of it.
 
It'll always be GTA III for me. I don't know- the first time I put the disc in, I stayed up forever messing around in traffic and walking in the city. Not even wreaking havoc, just completely astounded by the freedom of exploring such a digitized city. I listened to Flashback FM and reveled in a taste of open world bliss.

Nothing has ever come close to that feeling. I still probably go back to old save files a couple times a year.
 
Smash Bros. for N64 when I was younger, Halo 3 multiplayer with friends when I was older.

A special nod to Pokemon Blue for keeping me mellow and happy through my unpopular young life.

KillGore said:
So many hours wasted, but enjoyed them all
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Oh damn, that too - Rock Band 2. The first didn't take as well, the third didn't have staying power.
Rock Band 2 on the other hand I've probably done my 10,000 hours. I hope we get something like it on PS4/Xbone.
 
Quake Team Fortress on Mplayer. A combination of the online social interaction, being 11, and just playing things that were all a complete revelation to me at the time (FPS, online play, hardware accelerated visuals) combined to something that will always be cherished and never topped.

General playing at the arcade comes at a close second.
 
By myself was playing Catherine. Nothing was better than getting stuck, figuring out what I did wrong, and getting to that bell. By far one of the most satisfyingly fun games I've ever played.

Multiplayer, kind of a tossup between playing Smash Bros with three other people at a friend's house back in high school, and playing Just Dance with a few college friends, with everyone making idiots of themselves.
 
I first thought of all these recent games and experiences and then thought it was impossible to answer, and then for some reason immediately zeroed on to Ooga Booga for Dreamcast. I don't even know exactly why, but local multiplayer with neighborhood friends in that game was so fucking hilarious and awesome and unique, I have never felt anything quite like it. It had a real style to it that just clicked. I can just barely even remember what the gameplay was like, it was so unusual.

You can play as Abraham Lincoln in that game. If he gets lit on fire, he says, very matter-of-factly, "I'm on fire. Ow."

edit: Just out of curiosity I looked up what exists of this relic. Look what a tiny Wiki page it gets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooga_Booga just casually at the end it's like, oh yeah btw, IGN gave this game a fucking 9.6
 
UO. Pretty much just the entirety of it, pre-AoS, at least. Faction wars on Siege Perilous was particularly good. I must consider my sins.

Being a -10.0 Vagabond pilot in EVE prior to the nanonerf/agility/speed normalization.

And I don't know, but I've never again been sucked into a single player game like STALKER got me.
 
playing elder scrolls and fallout games. I play those WWWAAAAYYYYY too much. which is why im excited for the elder scrolls online regardless of what anyone says about the game.
 
Diablo 2!!!! Fun Every single day of my high school years. SO GOOD! Diablo 3 on the other hand... it's better now, but I just don't see that fun factor anymore.
 
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