I just started playing through Persona 3 FES with a friend and so I was wondering if anyone else here has been inspired by the ERs in the same way. Or maybe you did it before them.
Yes although I always feel really weird when someone is just sitting there watching. I always think they are bored and want to pass the controller or throw in something a little more local mp friendly.
Well actually right now Me and my Lady are playing through Castlevania:HD together, we just take turns playing our characters or go online with them or whatever.
My friend and I are way into old PS1-PS2 horror games, and since a lot of them have become hard to find, every time either one of us gets our hands on an old Silent Hill or Fatal Frame or Clock Tower (all of which have become hard to find) we always play them together. I find it a lot more fun than playing alone, really, since we both have a great appreciation for horror classics.
Whenever my brother comes over we usually play through a games campaign. Depending on the game we pass the controller every death or every chapter or whatever the game divides it up as. It's really fun. We play'd through Heavy Rain in one night. Passed every character switch. Then we move on to MP, either Battlefield Bad Company 2 or MW.
Back in the day I would go over my friend's house every weekend and we would beat Ocarina of Time at least once, alternating dungeons.
I don't know if this counts, but my brother watched me play through the entirety of the first Devil May Cry, while reading a faq to me to point out the blue stone/soul/orb pieces.
I played through the majority of Batman: Arkham Asylum in one sitting with my brother and a friend watching. It was great. I also once watched the same friend play through a few levels of Abe's Odyssey and we once spent an entire day playing Escape From Monkey Island.
My roomate doesn't play games, but he loves the God of War games for their mythology and epic scale, so when I got God of War III he watched me play through a large portion of the game.
I watched my college roommate play through Metal Gear Solid, and a bunch of my friends watched me go through MGS 2. Then there was the Persona 4 Endurance Run...
Oddly enough, it's something I do all the time. Did it with ME2, Dragon Age, Brutal Legend, Persona 3, ODST, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, etc etc. I'm usually the one watching though, making funny remarks along the way.
E.g. when my buddy got ME2, I took every chance I got to comment on how bad his choices were even if I secretly agreed with them. I also didn't let him live down/forget XO Presley's death at the beginning of the game
This was common in the past. My friends and I worked somewhat collectively to get through all of Goldeneye's difficulties and unlock all the cheats. In the end I was always a better gamer than them, though, so the hardest stuff usually came down to me finishing it up. In fact I could say that at least half of the Nintendo 64 games I beat were with friends because they owned the systems while I was unable to back then. I'd go over to their place and then we'd work through their games or we'd rent something. That was quite possibly the last system that I actively went back-and-forth with a friend to beat something as after that I got a job and was able to start buying my own games and they stopped gaming nearly as much as I always have.
I did have my roommate and other company all watch me play the last third of Heavy Rain as they all cheered on some of my decisions and really got into it. That's the next closest for anything recent but even then I can't say they were overly involved because I was going to make my choices in that game how I already had my mind set and any amount of cajoling on their part wasn't going to change anything.
Oh, wait. No. I accidentally put yes 'cause I was thinking of co-op (though I rarely do that either). Usually for some reason, someone like a friend or one of my brothers watches me go through a game if I buy or bought a new one.
I played though Bayonetta and Devil May Cry 4 in a night with my friend recently enough. We took turn going by chapter and if you died the other person switched. Really fun I want to try with an RPG next time.
Way back in the day, me and my friends would do that with RTS games. We'd take turns playing missions, figure out build orders, troop commands, etc. It was good to have someone around to talk with during the downtime in the game.
I'e gone through Tony Hawk Underground with more than one friend. It's a good game for renting one night and handing the controller back and forth to unlock levels and get used to the game before going into split screen multiplayer.
My roommate is going through FFXII now and I'm helping her since A. She has never played a Final Fantasy game before and B. I did everything in that game in my 300 hour playthrough. I don't need to play it again, she can keep the controller.
The game XIII on gamecube, guy just wanted me to play it while he watched, refused to switch per level or play multiplayer, he wanted to see the game but not play it xD
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