Beating games with a friend by your side

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

There are some things in gaming you never forget.

One of mine was making it all the way to the top of Mount Silver and facing Red with my friend by my side.

We had been playing Pokemon Crystal for nearly a month by that point, tackling it for a few hours after school every day and not even caring whether it rained or snowed (in fact, we kind of prayed for small-scale natural catastrophes to fuel our gaming fever).

Oh, it was a toughie indeed — I think we first got decimated by Espeon and Pikachu, but we just kept coming at it, eager to see if the dude we'd played as in the previous generation would say something, anything, to us after we'd bested him... but no, the douche only gave us a "..." reply. That was infuriating xD

This was around the peak of our shared fandom, too. And, needless to say, we enjoyed seeing the fruit of our labor (and conflicting play styles) immensely.

I normally play games alone, never having bought into the whole online gaming thing, so sharing such a moment with my lifelong partner in crime felt like the crowning achievement of something that — conversely — had just gotten started.

 

[ZEGA ZONICZEGA ZONIC's icon]

I only play solo. I don't have friends IRL.

 

[Sheepy765]

My friends are all busy with their own stuff, we don't get to hang out anymore.

 

[Anim8rDude Anim8rDude]

I know I already mentioned this somewhere on RGT, but there was this one time where my bro was playing pokemon, and then he goes "Wouldn't it be cool if I got a shiny Unown?". And then the VERY next encounter he goes "Yo bro, come here, I got a shiny Unown, I'm not kidding!"
And I know he wasn't lying because I was listening to him play the game at full volume when he got the next encounter. Will never forget that for the rest of my life!

The only other thing I'll never forget is that not once, but twice with two different friends (when I was a kid mind you!), I ran off mid-movie to my friends' rooms in order to play Smash Bros instead. Guess I wasn't the most loyal friend lol

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

My and my friends tried to complete the final chapter of l4d2 but... Hehe
We never took the game seriously so we just kill the moon friend, wasting all bombs, blowing up the gas tanks... Dude the best Friday night...
(We didn't beat that chapter lol)

With my cousins I beat Crash bandicoot 4 (the PS2 one) and metal slug 6 and 3 and with some friends in discord I used to play Monster Hunter in PPSSPP

 

[Vardalis]

My friends are all busy with their own stuff, we don't get to hang out anymore.

Same for the most part. I noticed the other day I hadn't spoken to one on mic for close to a year, and another in close to two. Not for lack of wanting to, but because we all tend to just do our own stuff these days.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Same for the most part. I noticed the other day I hadn't spoken to one on mic for close to a year, and another in close to two. Not for lack of wanting to, but because we all tend to just do our own stuff these days.

That's the bitter price of adulthood.

 

[Majora Fi]

"Beating games with a friend by your side"

My friend by my side: — Beat it!