I miss playing with friends on the couch

Remember when all of your friends came together, sat on the couch and played games? I miss that feeling. These days people rarely go over to there friends to play, its more like "Hey wanna play some Halo?" "Yea sure dude, Ill meet you online."

I also miss playing with my friends on the couch but in a somewhat different context.
*Returns to his lonely pillow-fortress*

Yeah I miss that, although I went to a friend's house the other day and six of us had a mini nhl 09 tournament.  GOOD TIMES

I still do stuff like that sometimes. I've been to LAN parties and when me and my friends hang out we play games a lot of the time. But a lot of multiplayer gaming has become online orientated. Online gaming does let me communicate with friends who don't live near by, so in that way it is good.

Yeah, I guess sort of. Especially since the vibe on XB Live is almost always ultra-competitive with people throwing insults and racial slurs left and right only because they don't have to answer to anyone face-to-face. Not only that but its nice to know who you're playing with, that way you don't get angry 12-year-olds screaming at you at the other end of the mic. Or worse, happy 12-year-olds that can't stop making "jokes".

Side note: if you have a 12-year-old son/daughter/spawn, they should in no way be allowed to ever come close to the game that is Gears of War 2, much less its online play.

"I also miss playing with my friends on the couch but in a somewhat different context.
*Returns to his lonely pillow-fortress*"

4 player WWF No Mercy on Saturday afternoons were some of the greatest times i've ever had. And, look, you've got me crying now.

I still usually play in the same room with friends or family when playing multiplayer. Most of my friends still don't even play online.

Even if local play was still popular, I havent had friends that like playing video games like I do in a looong time.

I think when you we're a kid, all your friends lived close, so you went to each other's house and played games. Now when your older, your friends are further away, so you play online. 

I remember right after the GameCube came out, me and my friends spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Super Monkey Ball in my basement. Mainly Monkey Target. We made up a house rule that it was perfectly legal to hit the other persons controller while they were in midair to close the ball, thus ruining their turn. So we basically had to be ultra-defensive while playing. Fond memories.

To be honest, I like ssplit-screen gaming far mkore than online gaming.  The feeling of just hanging out with your friends and playing some halo while eating popcorn is awesome.

"4 player WWF No Mercy on Saturday afternoons were some of the greatest times i've ever had. And, look, you've got me crying now."

"To be honest, I like ssplit-screen gaming far mkore than online gaming.  The feeling of just hanging out with your friends and playing some halo while eating popcorn is awesome."

I never recall doing that, but I would love to roll out a few TVs or projectors and play Halo or something. Never was able to experience awesome things like that. I'm not even a big fan of Halo, either, but the mediocrity of such games is compensated with the satisfying, and vicious shouting as you pummel your friend, or be pummeled.

In order for that stuff to work everyone would have to spend $200 on controllers after buying a system.

I hate the loss of splitscreen although I don't hate online I just wish they would it make it standard to include spitscreen modes in all gameplay situations.

I do miss local multiplayer like that, but that is why there is ROCK BAND.  It revitalized the whole "play with people actually next to you" mentality again.

Aah, the good old days, we used all get on the couch, load up the Playstation 2, start doing some Medal Of Honor:Rising Sun 2V2, that game had BRILLIANT co-op/multiplayer. It's a shame that series is dead.

The old Goldeneye match was where the men were separated from the boys. On many a couch in the late 90's, wee lads put hair on their chests by making preposterous fortresses of proximity mines. Today's youth know nothing of this, which is why they're full of balderdash and such.

"The old Goldeneye match was where the men were separated from the boys. On many a couch in the late 90's, wee lads put hair on their chests by making preposterous fortresses of proximity mines. Today's youth know nothing of this, which is why they're full of balderdash and such."

WE NEED A GOLDENEYE XBLA

PETITION, RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

"Sushbag said:

"The old Goldeneye match was where the men were separated from the boys. On many a couch in the late 90's, wee lads put hair on their chests by making preposterous fortresses of proximity mines. Today's youth know nothing of this, which is why they're full of balderdash and such."

/sigh

WE NEED A GOLDENEYE XBLA

PETITION, RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

"

I still play games with my friends on a couch... sometimes on individual chairs, sometimes I'll just sit on my bed while my friends sit on chairs... etc.

Okay, but I'll admit I don't do lan parties at my place anymore... Mainly because I used to do it when me and my friends were in high school, some were too cheap to get certain systems so we just linked up 3 xboxes and played Halo. Or playing Tekken with a bunch of friends as we just waited our turns, and definitely those Goldeneye days.

I miss "playing" with "friends" on the couch too.

I get that feeling too before I realize that I have the whole goddamn screen to myself.


Fighting games are ok with couch sharing.

Man playing tekken was so much fun with my friends.

do...do you not own a couch anymore?

"Man playing tekken was so much fun with my friends."

I like double entendres.  Anyway, i still do that, just less couch and more individual chairs with lots of food and sleep deprivation.

I still do occasionally play games with friends. The problem is less games are supporting local play.

I remember... Playing in the N64 was tons of fun.

Playiing on the couch is what made Golden Eye so much fun.  I dought any game can recreated the multiplayer expierence that golden eye gave.

I remember playing Street Fighter II when it first came out with a bunch of my friends, I was only 8 or 9 at the time, but I remember having a great time. Then when Street Fighter III came out we all had plans of joining some sort of tournament, but we sucked against the real competitors so we had our own little tournament.

I've lost touch with most of my friends, so I doubt there will be a repeat with Street Fighter IV, but hey I can enjoy that online against you guys!

you've sold your coach over a console? pity that.

I miss those days as well. Although, there was a point when I just got so good at games and my usual group of friends wouldn't play anymore.

The biggest TV in my house is 32" (16:9) so... split-screen can eat a huge dick.

"The biggest TV in my house is 32" (16:9) so... split-screen can eat a huge dick."

"Jayge said:

"The biggest TV in my house is 32" (16:9) so... split-screen can eat a huge dick."

This has made me think of something. When playing multiplayer, split screen was always a huge problem. Having a 14'' TV split into quarters made it so awkward to play a lot of times. That's probably why my fondest memories are of games like WWF No Mercy where everyone was on screen at once."

 Remembering all of the Tekken 3 and Worms: Armageddon  marathons I used to have brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.

*sniffle*

It's not just the couch console gaming I miss, I also miss having a friend bring over their PC and going null modem.  It made games like C&C and Warcraft much more enjoyable.  LAN parties were really fun too.

Not me, I still play many consoles with friends, on the sofa.   The Saturn and Dreamcast, and the Neo Geo, demand that you play that way. Retro consoles do .

Although I play a lot of games online, I still play a fair amount with family and friends.  Although split-screen is on a bit of a decline, games like Halo 3 still give me my fix.