what was it like going to LANS? I cant imagine putting all that effort into just playing a game next to someone
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what was it like going to LANS? I cant imagine putting all that effort into just playing a game next to someone
It was fun, but nothing special. They're less fun than a fighting game weekly, since there's usually a little more down time to do other shit and socialize
it was a different time.
you suspect a guy of cheating?
just walk over to him and beat his ass.
Cheating usually involved looking into someone's monitor for that sweet insta gib.
doesnt matter what the reason was, really.
the magic of LAN is that any sort of buttholery can be immediately dealt with on the spot.
>looking into someone's monitor
Just bantz bro. Oh there you are.
never went to the big ones but remember fun weekends playing c&c, wc3, cs, l4d, etc with/against each other but we would also use internet ofc
LANs were comfy
Inviting two of my friends to set up their PCs in my room and get absolutely blind-drunk over the course of a week during school breaks was even better
>tfw they find your AMVs forlder
Post your ecchi AMV collection
Wish I knew these existed but it was fun having your friends help you carry your shit out of your car with a beer already in hand.
Frozen Throne custom maps and arsing around, trying dota for the first time, stomping some macro nerds in Tiberian Sun with cyborg rush, flatout, cs tournaments, shitposting to chins and getting the lanhouse/school iprange rangebanned for samegayging, quake Vs warsow homosexualry, flying missions in free space 2 and encountering Sathanas for the first time, sneaking in beers, sauna and arsing around.
Oh, and forgetting to limit windows sharing, and receiving weird hentai, horseporn and musicvideos for free from some weirdo.
>what was it like going to LANS?
Very smelly
Very warm
Back then it was pretty good for sharing games and all sorts of other shit, since broadband wasn't really anywhere near as common or fast as it is now. It was a bit of a hassle lugging everything around (especially if you had a CRT monitor), but I don't regret the few I'd been to.
It was the highpoint of the year for me. School was on break, my friends and I would drag our computers to one of our houses and play almost nonstop for 3 days. Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Unreal Tournament, Half-life mods, Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Titan Quest, Dawn of War, Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead the list goes on. Just friends having fun.
Now where are those friends anon
you never had friends like these
A few stayed here in my hometown, others moved away with varying success. It's mostly my fault for not keeping in touch due to some personal shit that went down.
Not that anon but my "friends" become wealth-obsessed family men. They're completely different people nowadays. I don't even know them anymore.
mine all spread out and went along different paths. A couple did like that hunting money having family. One is still in prison. Another divorced 2 times and just buries his head in work. 2 have died. Many moved to different states too. Many can't even hold a conversation on the phone anymore
there weren't any, this entire thread is a larp
Please, enough. I did not envision my or the world's future like this then.
I just remember I used to do this often. The sad part is, I barely remember any of it, only that I had fun.
>bring your own PC
nah frick that
>playing CS 1.6 in a 100 PC internet cafe
that was fun
Sharing entire game libraries / getting a whole batch of new games to play
Playing together, no mics needed
Free food and drinks, everyone ordering all night
Sharing downloaded movies, faster than downloading, even now
Conversations, laughs, human interaction is good for you btw
Totally worth it
Way better than playing online, there was some sense of "community" and we shared lots of things (mostly porn)
For us it was Age of Mythology and Unreal Tournament
shittalking your friends while you beat their asses is the best thing in the world, online doesnt compare in the slightest
imagine theres no internet, or only very slow internet
Lan parties were for sharing porn
It was pretty wild going to a hosted LAN in another city with 50-150 people and there were hundreds of gigabytes of porn and anime freely available back when you had <100gb hdd space.
a friend of ours was confronted with porn for his first time in life. His facial expressions were priceless. a mixture of shock, disgust and wonder. he couldnt imagine a woman doing porn of her own volition. fun times
It was fun
I was actually thinking about organizing an old man LAN where everyone brings a laptop, we won't be playing anything from after 2005 anyway.
>Starcraft BW
>CoD2
>AVP1/2
what games did you play via LAN bros?
half life
counter strike
wc3
Unreal Tournament
C&C Renegade
age of empires
UT 99 or 04
DoDS
Q3TA
CoD(UO)
AoE2
Swat 4
and of course there were always some sweaties playing nothing but CS
severance: blade of darkness
killing floor back when it was a mod was our favorite
>i am weldin this door!
>[insult zeds]
we would always end up barricading and getting overrun in the end
It was great. Getting together with your bros, staying up late, eating too much pizza, drinking too much Bawls, breathing in each other's farts. Yep it was a different time. Now everything is online and soulless.
I still organize lan parties with my lads with broodwar, diablo 2 and warcraft 3 in our houses. My old laptop is perfect for that job
LAN parties were like Netcafes in a sense.
But very different in a sense.
Going to the Netcafe with your bros while you're all poorgays and swapping the hotseat was something else. When you played a game at that time all your bros were behind you cheering you on, or telling you you sucked, KEK.
When you were at the Netcafe and everybody could afford their own seat, that was really cool during Unreal Tournament / Quake age. The topics you talked about were completely differnet that what you would say to strangers online, it was just very different.
LAN parties were sort of, almost like this. But still different, especially if you were alone and didn't bring friends.
Netcafes were the true OG of comfy.
what game are they playing?
I hate recognizing that it is lol
isn't lol's minimap in the bottom right though?
you can change it to bottom left
yeah but each client has it that way in this image.. Anyways I'm impressed you could tell, I can't see it from these images, it looks more like HoN to me given the glossy look
I thought it was obvious from the spawn stairs and nexus on the pc second from the right
maybe the picture is reversed
that's a great point, because all the mice are on the left too. you solved it
damn now I want a numpad on the left
>Going to the Netcafe with your bros while you're all poorgays
you weren't a poorgay homosexual
private lans with friends are great
public or semi public ones are kinda terrible. I went to a school organized one and shit barely worked. plus everyone just played crappy games
>public or semi public ones are kinda terrible. I went to a school organized one and shit barely worked.
My pre-college school hosted one of these. I don't even remember what the hell we did. I think we played 1 game of Red Alert 2, I lost that game unfortunately, but remember it to this day.
Oh yea I got tried of the all-nighter and used 3 of the office chairs to fall asleep on. The funny part was the following day, it was actually an nopen-school public event the day after the LAN party,and the other students and their parents could just walk into the computer room and see me sleep like a pig belly down on your chairs.
i remember going to a lan on the day of og modern warfare releasing
everyone installed that shit in the first hour and we had a blast for the whole weekend
best part of lans back then was the sharing of warez tho
zoomies will never know
It was fun, I had a bunch of computers set up in my garage and we'd play UT, BF1942, and Day of Defeat after school. Sometimes we opened up the garage door and skated in the driveway until the sun went down. Different era, hard vibe to explain to a gen z.
We actually liked our friends. I've noticed this trend among early-20s and below people where they see hanging out with friends as some sort of obligation and are quick to go back home once they've stuck around for an appropriate amount of time, as if it were a family holiday or work thing. My friends and I stayed together as long as we feasibly could which made dragging all our shit over worth it
There's no feeling like popping a headshot on someone in Quake and seeing them immediately reacting to it across the room. I miss it, no amount of text/vc can replace that.
Hate to shill for a game unwarranted but i think a lot of you may appreciate it, seeing as many of you are missing this IRL feeling and this game is built around that.... called Couch Party Game Night on Steam. It's a splitscreen multiplayer that feels like GoldenEye but woth modern fixes to gameplay to keep it fresh.
You'd be surprised how people light up after contacting them after years like "yo man you wanna get together and play some oldschool games and catch up?"
Everyone misses these days.
I'll check it out.
Luckily though, there's an arcade expo near me every year that sets up old computers to play Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake, and Unreal in LAN so I do get a steady experience of it.
That's awesome. I think that kind of thing would be way more popular if it was advertised more.
There was one near me that I only found out about after it was over. I was so bummed.
Playing against other people with minimum lag and not having to play over modem was a fricking event my man. Things we take for granted today weren't a thing back in the 90s.
It was a social event, anon. I met my wife during a LAN party. When we had a break, we ate pizza together and were introduced by a mutual friend. Afterwards she would sit next to me, while I played. She would touch my shoulders and back, which sent shivers down my spine. I also got like 10GBs worth of games from someone‘s USB-stick.
yelling across the room "hah you suck" when something funny happens is great
>kill someone with a lucky or cheap shot
>hear them yell "what the frick?!" across the room
is that a man bean
i scared
is that monster from outer space
>having that one dude who gets angrier and angrier the more often he dies so everyone gangs up on him just to frag him and have him go ballistic
Back when internet was slow/capped/expensive this would be the time to get everything you wanted for 'FREE'. This alone made it worth the effort.
And everything you didn't know you wanted. So many games, shows, anime and porn were shared you were bound to find new favorites.
I got VtmB at a LAN party and played through half of Santa Monica in the very same night
Back then it was peak fun but honestly not a whole lot diferent from spending hours in vc with your mates, the main diference being able to occassionally get up and scream Black person to someone's face.
>all that effort
You lazy frick
My computer at the time never actually went online, so the only way that it got files was either transferring them from the family computer that did go online, or when I took it to LAN parties.
Really fricking weird to think about now, where a computer seems almost useless without an internet connection at all times.
in my country we had gaming zones where you can pay money usually 100rs which is like 3rd of a dollar now, for 1.5 hours, we mostly played wc3 dota cs1.6 and later dota 2, when dota 2 was new it was really fun we would all gather almost every week and play on gaming zones, you usually had to book the whole place kind of, before hand, because the gaming zone we used to go to had about 12 or so pcs which we would fill
it was fun for the first hour then for the next 11 you kinda wondered "why did I want to hang out with these gays in person? I could be asleep in my bed right now" as everyone fractures and plays different games because some ppl wanna play WC3 custom games, some are solo playing WoW, and some are ordering pizza, while others are playing cs1.6
We still do it, sometimes.
It's fun to hang out with your friends and play games in the same room. You also typically have to carve out a decent chunk of time for it, so your friends aren't getting up to do laundry or go get groceries, or deal with girlfriend/wives in the middle of gaming, like they do when you play separately at home.
>tfw multiple day LAN party
>staying up late
>going out for snacks
>pizza & beer
>local friends go sleep at home then come back the next day
>out of towners crash in your spare room/couch/floor
>yelling at each other across the room for covering fire/flanking/etc
>switching from PC to old Consoles and playing party games from your youth
>new, inside jokes being developed in real time when something funny happens and everyone is there to see it
Honestly, peak gaming.
That sounds comfy as frick anon, I'm jelly
Only time I ever did something LAN related was maybe back in 2006 or 2007 where a friend had a birthday party at a net cafe and we all played Warcraft 3. I had never played it before and immediately bought a copy after the party from all the fun I had. Didn't know what the frick I was doing since it was an RTS and we were doing like 10v2 super strong CPUs but damn was it great. Wish I got to do a Mario Kart Double Dash LAN at some point though.
>playing double dash with bros
>pick peach and daisy one time
>one friend says the peach! I'm daisy! switching voices are annoying
>only pick them and spam it
aaah good times
You can still go to quakecon or dreamhack you know? moron?
We'd just play hotseat or go to computer cafe. Hauling desktops is indeed too much trouble.
>counter strike lan with friends
>about to go eat something
>hang back a bit
>when they leave i quickly move some files to their computers
>replace the knife with a pink dildo and the attack sound with a moan
>join them and act normal
>they freak out when we start playing
i miss being a teenager