Super awesome mega epic gaming night

Or something to that effect, I forget what I have called it other times.

My friend (Hugo) and me once, a couple of years ago, played Gears of War 2 in co-op in its entirety in one sitting. That was not the original plan at the time. He was just going to bring his Xbox to my house, we would rent a game and we would play for a while, and that's it. But we were having so much fun, and time was passing so fast, that the sunrise came and we were still playing. We were so far into the story that we didn't want to leave it like that, so naturally, we finished it. It was like 9am.

Some time later, over a year ago, we tried to recreate it with another game. We wanted an action-packed game that had a co-op option. We decided to go for Army of Two: The 40th Day. It would be again in my house, so he brought his Xbox and we went to rent the game. Now the plan WAS to pass it all in one sitting, no matter what time we finished...however, God did not smile on us that day (sarcasm, atheist :D). His Xbox died that night, we couldn't even start the game. We tried a quick search for ways to fix it, but we couldn't. After some mourning, we just played Rock Band 2 for a little while and we called it a night (when he left the sun had already come out, so we must have spent a lot of time mourning).

Tonight (or last night?), after more than a year, the next attempt was scheduled. He had just bought a new Xbox, a 32" HDTV and Gears of War 3. This time, his house would be the seat of this SAMEGN (abbreviation of the name I literally just made up) session. We did start the game, it looked awesome, we had fun, the whole package. Alas, we did not finish it. We played 'til 6am, and I don't know how long the game is, but I'm pretty sure we were at least at 80% of the campaign. Good thing is he actually owns the game, it's not a rental, so we can easily just pick up where we left off.

All in all, it was pretty awesome :)