Myself and a friend are interested in duking it out playing a variety of multiplayer games and see who's the better overall gamer.

We need suggestions on what games we should have our skills tested on.

They have to be competitive 1v1 games.

Starcraft is the obvious one but are there any other definite games?

EDIT: I thought I'd add that the platforms we have available are PC, PS3, Wii and XBOX360, that's it unfortunately

GenesisX

Canada4267 Posts

July 05 2010 20:31 GMT

Mirrors edge speedracing! :D

textbook

Korea (North)129 Posts

July 05 2010 20:33 GMT

Age of Empires 2 for sure, and pong???

Pokemon

-All generation 4 games allowed.
-No hacking.
-No need to train, use auto lvl 100 (still EV train though...)
-Pokewalker and generation 3 help allowed.
-Each get the game for 1 month.
-Then play a best of 5 with:
1x Uber battle
2x OU
1x UU
1x NU

Depends on how lucky you get with breeding IVs a little bit, but the better gamer should win.
O yeah, Jirachi available on wifi right now.

DrDerive

Austria78 Posts

July 05 2010 20:34 GMT

UT 99'
Age Of Empires II
CS 1.6 (some aim map)
Quake CPMA / Quake Live
Achtung die Kurve

TitleRug

United States651 Posts

July 05 2010 20:35 GMT

super mario kart

MiniRoman

Canada3953 Posts

July 05 2010 20:37 GMT

Unreal Tournament original
Mutant League Hockey (SEGA)
SF2
Golden Eye 64
Road Rash
Reversi (MSN)
Mario Tennis

GO

MiniRoman

Canada3953 Posts

July 05 2010 20:37 GMT

fuck it play minesweeper too

Ideas

United States8082 Posts

July 05 2010 20:40 GMT

all you REALLY need is brood war though

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

July 05 2010 20:41 GMT

You need representation across genres, so here are some options:

2D Fighting -- Super Street Fighter 4, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
3D Fighting -- Tekken 6, Virtua Fighter 5
Versus 2D shooter -- Twinkle Star Sprites, Senko no Ronde (not sure if you should separate versus Gundam and Virtual On from these...)
Versus puzzle -- Magical Drop 3, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
Racing -- Super Mario Kart
"sports" game -- Windjammers, Super Tennis

I'm not going to comment on a 1v1 FPS, but I'm sure someone else has better ideas.

myopia

United States2928 Posts

July 05 2010 20:41 GMT

#10

have a Dwarf Fortress endurance run - first one to lose... uh, loses.

PhailSoBaller

United States281 Posts

July 05 2010 20:42 GMT

#11

need games from like every genre. That way you will get a better idea on whose better all around.
Fighting game : tekken, streetfighter, mortal kombat, smash bros etc
Racing game: Gran tourismo, Burnout, mario kart, etc
Puzzle game: tetris, super puzzle fighters, puyo pop etc
FPS game: Quake, CoD, cough halo cough, etc
if you guys got time i would suggest a speed run
who can beat mario, sonic, kirby the fastest type thing.

textbook

Korea (North)129 Posts

July 05 2010 20:42 GMT

#12

O shit, i meant to edit, but quoted by accident

Baksteen

Netherlands438 Posts

July 05 2010 20:44 GMT

#13

On July 06 2010 05:35 TitleRug wrote:
super mario kart

Gogo blue shields!

Killersting

United States24 Posts

July 05 2010 20:45 GMT

#14

You should definitely play Quake Live.

FyRe_DragOn

Canada2056 Posts

July 05 2010 20:48 GMT

#15

super smash bros melee

Muff2n

United Kingdom250 Posts

July 05 2010 20:56 GMT

#16

Just check your list

RTS
FPS
fighter
tennis
racing

are the big genres for me. I would recommend

SC
CS
SmashBros
Virtual tennis
Motor storm (unbalanced though, plenty of other games if you want a fair test)

Atom Cannister

Germany380 Posts

July 05 2010 20:59 GMT

#17

On July 06 2010 05:56 Muff2n wrote:
Just check your list

RTS
FPS
fighter
tennis
racing

are the big genres for me. I would recommend

SC
CS
SmashBros
Virtual tennis
Motor storm (unbalanced though, plenty of other games if you want a fair test)

You say tennis but what about a football game too?

praetor.at

Austria92 Posts

July 05 2010 21:01 GMT

#18

you should absolutely do different input types too, like games with wiimote and old games that have to be played with a joystick. its an entirely different skill to be good with shitty controls.

Groslouser

France337 Posts

July 05 2010 21:03 GMT

#19

You've got at ps3, so you might like to go for soul calibur 4
Or ninja gaiden (available on xbox 360 and ps3), while its not a 1v1 game, you can compete by trying to makes the best scores during the missions

Also quake 3 / unreal tournament are great for 1v1

Antifate

United States415 Posts

July 05 2010 21:04 GMT

#20

Tetris endurance, definitely!

Definitely a racing game, I find Super Mario Kart is a little bit too luck based, unless you do the solo mode and compare times. I think Gran Tourismo would be good.

Quake for sure.