The way me and my friends just turned into apes whilst playing games in the same room together is a feeling I miss.
We all still play online occasionally and still have fun but having the whole room drop laughing when someone hits a bullshit headshot is a hoot.
I have only gotten the apes feeling playing Helldivers II when I'm with 4 other people who pull through the entire missions with me, regardless of we win or lose on the extreme difficulty.
It's the sudden bullshit that catches you off guard that has your sides hurting. A few days ago, we were holding off bugs, the transport started countdown "bro, get on the ship!" "It's too late for me" "Bro you got 14 seconds!" "There's no other way" just as a 500kg crushes his body and blows up the charger a step behind him . "Bro, you had to sprint 3 meters!" "It was the only way" "Guys poor one out for liberty."
Board games have been a pretty effective way to recapture that feeling for me. When a single dice roll or card flip wrecks everyone's plans and the whole table erupts at once, that's a good time.
Video games, especially online, feel a little too disjointed these days -- like our consciousness isn't synced up the same way as it is when we all know we're looking at the same thing at the same time and holding our breath.
Got my kids into halo LAN.
The only thing missing is enough players for a good infection or pirates. Just a big gutted my oldest is into mountain dew.
I feel like we all independently invented the absolute LAN party classic of halo system link:
Hang em high with rocket launchers & plasma grenades only.
Nearly as iconic as blood gulch IMO
Halo CE Hang ‘em High on the original Xbox with Rockets and Grenades (we didn’t specify… frags were game too) will always be one of my favorites.
That, and Sidewinder CTF. Those were some of the most intense hours of my young adulthood in college.
What is preventing you from organising that again?
I'm still having LAN parties at +30. The only thing that changed is the frequency and the games.
We are really into Pummel Party at the moment.
Friends don't want to, making new friends isn't easy for some of us
Yep, two on second shift. Another on regular but everyone got families and kids with little time.
Rare is the day when we get everyone together and it mostly just ends up drinking and doing some bullshit like who's the most similar to each character on The Man From Earth but can't decide so have to assign an alt for everyone.
After a couple games of Um, Actually.
And even then, that was only 3 people out of the old group of ~10. Lost half of them to republicans and their dumb shit from being young turning into dumb shit as adults lol.
It’s just not the same…
GoldenEye split screen.
Maybe I had weird friends but for us it was Colin McRae Rally 2
I miss LAN parties... Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, CS, Diablo, Alien vs Predator 2, Quake and the successors of those games. Good times. Online is nice and all, but nothing compares to playing the night away with friends in one room
Well this hits home for me.
My first experience playing Halo was checking it out at a friend’s place in college in 2001 and proceeding to play several hours of split screen co-op all night. It was awesome.
My most recent experience playing Halo was earlier this evening, playing split screen co-op with my son. We ran around the island in The Silent Cartographer just blasting the shit out of covenant, our fellow soldiers, and each other. Though admittedly a lot of the latter was me running around like an idiot while the kid blasted my corpse high into the sky. It was also awesome.
I am being physically attacked.
UT99 for me. Diablo II for others.
I stopped WoW in 2012. Last night I dreamt of Naxxramas.
I believe that's called a "nightmare"
Who's cutting onions?
(Except for me it was Marathon and Descent)
It was halo 3 custom games and race tracks for me. Halo just is 't the same anymore.
Mongoose death races in forge on Sandtrap using lots of plasma coils…
Get kids and play halo and other old games with them. I bet the feeling will be similar, yet different. Sharing the games you played in your youth, reliving the moments and creating new ones.
Plus you can kick their asses if you don't tell them about the game's secrets. I used to play Mario Kart with my young niece and nephew on my brother's old SNES. They loved it but they had no idea about the power-sliding so I could beat them at will. They also never grasped that when you're leading the race the players behind you get better pickups.
I'm not a monster - I would sometimes let them win when the crying got too annoying.
My friends and I used to hold sleepovers a play games, usually single player. We had roles: Player, guide reader, peanut gallery. And we would just rotate, stepping in if we knew one was better at this than the other. I played Kingdom Hearts with them like that, and Fatal Frame now tbat I think about it. Dang.
Let's see:
Everyone either has kids now or travels too much or just isn't interested in playing anymore. It's sad those days are probably forever over for me now. Maybe once we're all in nursing homes there will be a resurgence in lan parties, instead of bingo for our generation.
Humpf…. Kids. 1996 at the university’s computer lab, playing Duke Nukem and Descent. The situation became so bad that we entered an agreement with the direction. If someone needed a computer to study, someone had to leave the game. And it worked. Everybody was happy.
I hosted a lot of LAN parties around that time. More for UT99/Diablo/Starcraft but yeah those were good times.
In high school, took a networking class, the teacher of said class was the district's IT specialist. Somehow our school accounts in that class has admin access to the entire network, which allowed me to do shit like install Counter-Strike across every machine on the network. There was always a gane going after that, and even some teachers were joining in. One of them asked me to get Diablo installed too but unfortunately, that game actually checked the CD-Key even for LAN so it couldn't be played the same way as CS and I wasn't going to use mine for it lol.
The last time I ever enjoyed online gaming with others was Halo 3. At the time, my siblings, cousins and I who were all close, had moved to different places, were in our 20s and didn't have kids. We would call each other and all go on halo 3 as a group. Then we started getting married, having kids, nobody had time to game at the same time. We mostly all drifted away and don't keep up as much as we did in those days.
I was at Full Sail in 2003-2004. Say what you want, but the point here is that people there LOVED games. We'd set up 2 TVs in the living room, and 2 in the bedroom, and go crazy for hours. A single game of single flag assault on Blood Gulch could last hours. Then we'd play FFA to pick leaders, then go again. After 2-3 games the hype would dwindle, some would leave, and we'd go to Munchkin. Then occasionally poker. Then Denny's for breakfast because it was early in the morning and class was in a couple of hours on Monday.
Talk about a feeling of belonging. Definitely chasing that feeling still, and not ashamed of it.
Our friends dad was a network guy and hooked us up with a switch and about 200' of cable. I had a pickup truck, so I was in charge of gathering the extra tvs. We'd have 20 people in my buddy's basement having a blast.
I've never been to a lan party..some of my friends used to go to lan houses (I don't know the English name for it but maybe cybercafes) to play Counter Strike, but not me..my favorite memory while playing games was when I finally realized I was above average on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Me and my friends used to skateboard and we played THPS just to watch the character's movie after completing all the levels. I was finally good at something, never had been good at videogames, that felt amazing! Completing some levels in one ride and being praised by it, oh the good old days.
Crying!
I do not remember the year. But i think we played dune and command and conquer. using null modem serial port links, and long homemade cables. I had a machine with 3 serial ports. A few years later we upgraded to a thin lan nic using coax and a hub with a coax port. For those with cat cable nic.
Played Red alert, red alert2 then a decade stright of playing CnC renegade and wolfenstein ET on the internet. Then the battlefields series ehile that was fun. Nowdays Helldivers 2 almost scratches that itch. It just needs a 32 player rush mode ;)
Literally me getting all my friends around with laptops to play halo CE at 15fps, the one friend even powered through using only a trackpad. Legend.
For me it was team fortress and counter strike at my first office job.
Second. Sniping that damn scout midair as he concjumps the moat in 2fort.
My very first job was working for an airline reservation company. The company was on the East Coast, but we were in Denver, so we stopped getting many calls after 7 or 8PM. So we did what any reasonable group of people would do in that situation. We installed Warcraft 2 on our computers and got paid to LAN. The game even had a pause function, which we had to use on the off chance we got a phone call.
And now the times are changin',
Look at everything that's come and gone,
Sometimes when I play that old six-string,
I think about you, wonder what went wrong
I get this feeling when thinking about playing Starsiege: Tribes back in the day. I spent hours and hours playing that game.
I vividly remember being over at a friend of mine, who for the first time had a members account on RuneScape and then we started doing level 1 clue scrolls on his account. We loved that game and from the point of becoming member the possibilities seemed so endless. Wasted far too much time on it ever since. Glad I don't anymore. occasionally watch Limpwurt, a dutch youtuber, do incredible things with that game.
One Friday, we had a beamer/projector as a loaner, we had friends staying over and an extra xbox was in the house already as XBMC client, and we could do 4v4. That was so crazy, all of us in the same room. It was almost impossible not to get swept up in the intensity. 'that high', no ragrets.
HALO LAN in the barracks back in ‘01 and ‘02 brings back some nostalgia
I just had a similar enough experience this sunday, playing boardgames with my gf and her friends (because my own friends were busy)
Before that, the highest high I got was around 2016, getting the gang back together for a lan party at my apartment. 5 dudes playing a couple of games and then finishing with Counter Strike 1.6. One of my friends was a hypercompetitive asshole and kept getting angrier the more he lost, which was fucking gold. Everyone else was simply laughing at how "serious" he was taking it
Unreal Tournament was so much better than Halo
No need to pit the two together. They both hold a positive nostalgic memory
Facing worlds
It blew my mind back in the mid 90s the first time I played Doom in lan with a couple buddies. His dad had some sort of tech job and set up a couple desktops in the basement for us.
MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER IN A HOUSE?!
Best sleepover ever.
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