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
Seriously.
I went to a party last year where we brought gaming laptops/steam decks to play online games together. It was really cool and recaptured the magic.
i had some lan parties a few years ago at my apartment. best time of my life, everyone would come over and play something
AVP2, nice. That’s one most people don’t mention.
I played that a few times with friends/cow-orkers late at night in an office where I used to work. I scared the hell out of one guy when I just walked over to his office when he was playing as a marine. He was so keyed up thinking about sneaky aliens and it was so dark that he didn’t see me coming. I wasn’t even trying to scare him, just walking over to talk to him.
Glory days of Halo Reach / (hot take) Halo 4 / (even hotter take) maybe even a little bit of Halo 5 (but we don’t speak of the early days of Master Chief Collection) were my favourite era of Xbox multiplayer.
Halo Infinite is pretty good as far as mechanics go, but the community aspects are a shadow of its former self, and I’m not sure 343i ever completely understood this.
(I’d probably say “I wish we had Bungie back” but as a Destiny player I’m pretty sure Bungie is slipping too.)
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.
“Get kids”…
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.
I stopped WoW in 2012. Last night I dreamt of Naxxramas.
I believe that’s called a “nightmare”
Only when the raid wipes right before downing the last boss of the 4th wing
Unreal Tournament was so much better than Halo
Nah , OpenArena is the GOAT
No need to pit the two together. They both hold a positive nostalgic memory
Thank you mister/sister!
Facing worlds
Sound tracks you can hear.
HEADSHOT
HEADSHOT- DOUBLEKILL
MULTIKILL
ULTRA KILL
…MMMMMMM MONSTER KILLL LLLLLL
UNSTOPPABLE
RAMPAGEEEEE
It was all good and well until my mate who was hosting the server kept using bots and was telefragging everyone.
But this game was amazing when it was first released
Joel Haver is always great
Yeah he is. I haven’t watched his movies recently but I should
The feature length stop motion film he did recently is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. Big recommend
Nice. I will check it out. I know that he wants to be a director. Hopefully it works out for him before Folding Ideas has to write him a love letter.
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.
QuakeCon was just last week and it def hits those feelings to me.
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.
We did this with Resident Evil and Silent Hill. One dude was playing, the others watched it like an interactive movie, giving hints and suggestions. It was so great.
I’m sure you got great memories from that. Awesome game choices ❤️
We did something similar, it’s how we saved all people in Dead Rising. We used to do this for so many single player games, it was such always such a laugh, and we got to finish games I probably wouldn’t play by myself.
My friends and I did the same thing except with the Marathon series
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
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.
Who’s cutting onions?
(Except for me it was Marathon and Descent)
Man, we only got coop Descent going with my family. Would have been nuts playing with more people.
I used to play by dialing directly to my friend’s computer via modem. He only had a 66MHz processor, and I had 100MHz. So if I came at him blasting away with the plasma cannon his machine couldn’t render the frames fast enough, and he’d die. So he’d creep around the map with charged fusion cannons to one-shot me.
Peak strategy based on unfair circumstances, that’s funny
The cool part was that it both leveled the playing field - because he knew the maps better - and made it really fun game of cat and mouse.
I am being physically attacked.
deedeedeedeedeedeedeedee
HEADSHOT
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.
