Why would people do this?
>>51676365
Dunno man, LAN parties are fun as fuck.
>>51676365
why wouldn't you?
Have you ever participated in one? Tons of fun if the layout of your LAN area was well thought out. We would have 2 small parallel rows of computers just small enough to allow a cart of food to move through the aisle back and forth. The person who wanted a break from gaming would serve food and refill the cart
>>51676365
if you're under 30, you probably won't understand
>>51676365
So you can beat the fuck out of the noob railgun camper instead of just screaming at him through your mic.
>tfw I have enough computers and desk space to do this but no people to occupy those computers
it is a horrible feeling
>>51676365
>dem CRTs
how old is this pic
>>51676482
this
Fun
>>51676998
Well, Mountain Dew hasn't used a yellow cap since 1998. So it has to be before then, unless they were hoarding the yellow cap Dews.
>>51676365
because its fucking fun fuccboi
>>51676472
im 25 and i understand, though admittedly it was because of xbox and halo 2.
still some fun lans though
>not meeting up with your buddies to exchange files and play gaems
>>51677215
I'm also 25 and my and my m8/cousins still get together every now an then...
We play WC3, openarena, halo, supreme commander, etc
We feel bad for the kids that will never know this fun....
>>51677252
> not mocking your buddies when they leave open windows shares full of embarrassing pornography
>>51677183
negro they are playing quake III. The earliest this picture could be taken is the release date of the Q3 Test which was April 24 1999. The full retail release was December 2 1999.
>>51676472
I am 30, and I understand.
Good times ;_;
>>51676365
Because the internet used to be too slow for online gaming so we had too congregate in meat space and huddle around hubs and switches
>>51676472
I'm 19 and did this all through high school. Small LAN parties are still a thing, or maybe I'm just lucky
>>51677305
Shit. I was caught. I have no idea when the yellow caps were used. Just hadn't seen one in awhile.
>>51677297
>not copying them anyways
>>51677332
This.
Then again, also share a good time with your best bros. Eat junk food, prank each other, get drunk, etc.
Why do people gather? Sometimes to have fun.
>>51676365
These days LANs are easier than ever, no giant CRT's to lug around, availability of WiFi, less cables to worry about. And yet with the advent of online multiplayer many people shrug their shoulders with a "What's the point?"
But I'll tell you what the point is. Getting packed into a room of people who share your hobbies and interests. being able to see and interact with them. Having a friend grab you a beer or baking a pizza together. Throwing popcorn at the guy who just domed you, seeing the smiles on everyone's faces as they throw their heads back and laugh.
That's the magic that we lost with online gaming. That's the magic that we gave up for matchmaking.
Was it worth it? Sure, maybe it was for the convenience of it all. But to be able to capture that again...
>space maps
>intothetrashitgoes.jpg
>>51676472
I'm 19 and started doing LAN parties at 5.
bitch.
>>51677656
You can still go to LANs, if you like. But when you are out of college, where do you find the time? And your friends are all geographically far apart...
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>>51677847
I'm pretty sure OP was referring to wearing headphones over hats...INDOORS
>>51676365
Why not?
>>51677903
I'm not sure that's quite the same thing.
>>51677901
Most underrated post
>>51677901
So the headband doesn't mess up their hair, duh.
>open bag of chips
>having fucking chip residue on your keyboard
>>51676365
I'msecretly extremely jealous of people who went to lan parties a lot as kids and teenagers, and I'm even more jealous of people who do it now. When I was into video games, I had no friends to play with. Now I'm not into gaming and still have no friends even though now it would be even easier to set up a lan party.
its amazing what people will do to avoid lag right?
>56k had horrendous ping and upload
>>51677332
At 5KBps, it would take 10.2 hours to download 180MB
http://www.dslreports.com/calculator?sz=180MB&time=&c2=Calc&speed=5+KBps
>>51677901
2bh I'm 31 and I don't understand why anyone would do that
>>51676365
Why are they wearing hats playing the computer?
>>51678684
Can I be your friend?
>started playing CS back in 2001
>used to be huge in the national gaming scene
>retired 3 years ago
>skills somehow DO NOT get rusty at all
>at casual lanparties my inner autist gives his all and destroys my friends
Man, I'm surprised they're having fun getting destroyed every time we decide to do Lan Parties with Counter-Strike.
We often decide that I shouldn't use Kevlar and nades, or just going pistol in order for them to have a "slight" chance.
I have way more fun in our Red Alert Lans.
>>51676998
>quake 3
>CRTs
early 2000s
those CRTs are better for gaming than most of the shitty 'gaming' monitors these days
>>51677656
>the guy who just domed you
Supreme Commander lans were the best
>>51676365
Do you realize you just said you're underage?
>>51676365
Might just try to set up some LAN gaming in the next couple months. Unreal Tournament '99, Homeworld, classic stuff. Thanks OP, you've inspired me.
Back in the days people would meet at lan parties or cafes for team games as there wasn't anything like group chat back in those days.
Anything to get the edge over the other team.
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>>51676365
they're bald and they've made hats part of their identity and self-esteem
>>51677656
Look, if some other 20 year old was immature enough to fucking throw food at me because they're shit at playing a videogame then I would just leave. Not to mention there's Skype and other voice chat programs.
>>51676365
>Q3
Quake 2 best Quake. Atleast for multiplayer.
Also
>that one time on gamers gathering 1999 when the dude next to me was smoking crack under the table. it was a fucking 1200 people party mate.
>>51676365
because you cant do much over a dialup modem
>>51680755
You are just a fucking casual gamer.
>>51676365
Because they have taste. God i'm a sucker for lan parties, they're the absolute best.
Name one way you can have more fun with a computer than a lan party.
You cant
>>51676365
>tfw never had friends while growing up
>tfw never played any multiplayer game except Minecraft in college final year with my younger cousin
Man I need to socialize more
>>51680957
>You cant
b-but what about porn?
>>51676365
It's interesting as fuck to see how demographics change.
In the early 2000s, the average online game player was most probably a late 20s to early 30s guy who was also employed in the computing industry somewhere.
Now the average online game player is maybe a 9 to 25 at most year old.
>>51676365
Social Gaming(TM)
>>51677901
>not wearing a hat all the time
>not wearing headphones over your hat
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>>51677402
Nigga, I live in Germany because of the army.
My best friends live back home in California.
On the weekends I stay up late on redbull and sailor jerry and we all play videogames drunk.
Stay 100 my friend.
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>>51680569
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyudS87cVg0
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Xccpdiu0o
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80D_WrzP-a8
i used to play H1, H2 and CS 1.6 good times.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s
>>51681218
>daily reminder that there are retarded youngfags here that didn't enjoy lan-parties.
>daily reminder that lan parties were considered cool once at that grills somtimes attended them
>tfw I hooked up with a reasonable cute girl who I met at a friends lan party
>tfw the closest thing modern gamers have to this experience is watching cam-girls play video games.
Oh god I feel superior to these morons. I bet they probably think the internet has made life better, too.
LAN party thread?
Post LAN party music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs9QUtWc3M&app=desktop
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc
>>51677656
>no giants CRT's to lug around
This isn't a good thing though.
Would you need any modifications to the wiring in a house to have that many PCs running at once?
>>51680755
Look at this no fun allowed autist. He can't handle the banter.
>>51681314
Correct band, wrong song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6HBbyJR34
>>51677656
>tfw friends still organize semi-regular lans and we have fun
>>51676365
what? do you mean hang out with friends and play viya?
It made sense back in the day when everyone didn't have:
>Voice and video comms making every day gaming feel like a LAN
>100mbps+ internet in every home, no need to share stuff between you
>much more stuff connected to your pc, at least 2 monitors and good cable management (Making moving a pain and makes lan parties just feel poor)
>All games are internet these days, lan gaming isn't a thing any more
>>51681111
checked
not much farther to go to circlejerking
>>51680690
UT'99 is such a classic
>>51681358
just run some extension cords everywhere nigga
you should be able to fit 2-3 desktops on 1 15A circuit
>>51681394
it's still more fun to be in the same room as your friends
it's even easier now, with laptops that can have a gpu equivalent to a desktop
>>51676365
>twich shooter
>over dialup
good
luck
with
that
>>51681445
it was the best most people had back then tho, so it was the standard famalam
I've flown to Quakecon 3 times, 2010, 11, and 13. First two were great fun, win LAN setups that everyone could see everyone else on.
2013, and the setup was changed to fiber connection to the net, and only 6 people at a table could see each other. Combine that with the fact that over half the people were playing LoL or DOTA, and there was zero reason to go anymore.
2010 had a very open network as well, and filesharing was rampant. 2011 they clamped down on it (no CC++), but there ways around it. 2013 had zero.
Now that Carmack is gone, and Bethesda is still trying to sue him/Oculus, I have reason never to return.
>>51681458
>it was the best most people had back then tho
no, the best was to get everyone together and play on a lan
y'know, like in ops' picture
also, "best we had" still didn't make 500ms latency any more playable with quake 3
you either play a 'slower' game like diablo or ultima or some shit on-line, or you get a lan party together
>>51681420
Well we still do it sometimes. but it makes a lot less sense today.
>>51681475
Gotta say, large LANs, at least dreamhack pretty much suck.
>>51680650
> mfw spend entire lan playing one long ass supcom match
That match went places, and the slowdowns were ludicrous.
>>51681475
Pretty much this, it's really fucking sad. I've ran the helpdesk at the 400 person LAN party which takes place every year at PAX Prime, and while it's good fun playing with friends near you, most other people are playing LoL/DOTA. Very few people playing CS, UT, Quake, or any RTSs.
>Tfw no friends to LAN with
;_;
>>51681726
wtf man? are you a neckbeard? that's just pathetic
>>51681314
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJncWndUB8
>>51681726
>tfw friends to lanparty with
>tfw all they play is KeK
>>51680592
No they're not shut the fuck up
CRTs are horribly low res, heavy, small screen but take still take too much space.
>>51681822
>implying a 21" 1600x1200 screen is small or low res
>>51681160
And the modern late 20s early 30s who works in video games/tech doesn't have interest in those two at all
its quite sad to be honest :(
>>51681562
Or vanilla sins of a solar empire. I once attended a lan where we played a 3 sun map of sins for the whole party, like 6pm to 8am....
>>51681822
>implying small
>implying low res
>implying not higher res
>implying not truer colors
>implying not blacker blacks
>implying not higher refresh rates
>implying not faster response times
>implying not having literally no input lag
>implying not a variable native resolution allowing for ultimate flexibility
>implying not having better motion than LCD's stutter bullshit
M-muh heavy! I need to move my monitor everyday instead of keeping it on a desk where it belongs!
>>51677656
Most of my friends have shitty internet because our country is fucking terrible. But this one rich friend of mine has great internet, so every saturday we all invade his house to play games and just dick around in general.
Only thing keeping me sane at this point haha, even though I'm not really one of them it still feels nice.
>>51681394
its still more fun tho
i dont know how old are you but playing games like C&C Generals and CS on lan like OPs pic is such a fun thing its unrepeatable.
>>51681751
Not him but i work at a tech related company and i doubt any of these "normies" i work with know what UT99 is.
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>>51681852
Im running one as my second monitor at 1050 and its not that good
>>51681726
Wanna be my waifu senpai?
>>51681987
n desu
>>51681852
true. It really sucks that they don't make and work on CRTs anymore.
>>51681751
None of my friends game. My two best friends are all "muh edm producing" and my girlfriend doesn't give two shits about anything digital but her own Facebook page (she literally sits there with her own profile open on her laptop and just browses her own pics, hardly even looks at the fucking feed). And now I'm out of school I don't meet anyone with similar interests at all except remotely.
>>51677373
I love the decor of a classic 80s/90s home. It seems so much more comfortable and less tryhard than modern design.
Anyone feel it?
>>51681160
>26
>tfw divorced online games last year
Well color me a nigger
>>51681989
:')
>>51681475
PCXL was the best!
https://archive.org/stream/PCXL03Nov1998/PCXL_03_Nov_1998#page/n0/mode/2up
>>51681475
>Bethesda is still trying to sue him/Oculus
WHOA WHAT
a friend and i used to do drugs and go to an internet cafe to play pc games, anything from runescape to minecraft to world of tanks
it was a blast until they couldn't afford to keep it open
i miss it every day
>>51676365
>my college hosts COW A DUTY tourny
oh boy
>head on down for free pizza
>see 32 computers hooked up and sitting on the COD2 menu (blops literally just came out the night before)
OH SHIT BOYS ITS ABOUT TO GO DOWN
>since you guys are literally the only ones who wanted to play (30 of us)
>too lazy to setup the tourny
>first to 200 kills win
do you know how much adrenaline rushes through your blood when you and your asshole friend both have 199 kills?
a fucking lot, and i won, shit was so cash.
i got a warm and thick as fuck hoodie from the school (that they sold for $80 lolol)
was an amazing 2 hours.
lan is fun as shit dude
you can actually bitchslap the fucker next to you when he camps spawn points
>>51677656
My friends and I spent our prom at my friends house having a LAN party.
Fuck those normies at prom.
There's going to become a day when some of my friends and I move apart and it'll become impossible to do them.
We should make the most of them while we still can?
>>51682425
the answer is in the question
>>51677901
mybe the're Jews? My grandma used to say"take off that hat, are u a Jew?"
>>51677656
You forgot to mention the fact that a lot of developers just don't implement LAN support anymore.
More or less on purpose.
>>51681475
>>51682356
Yes, more info on this?
>>51677656
>Throwing popcorn at the guy who just domed you, seeing the smiles on everyone's faces as they throw their heads back and laugh.
>That's the magic that we lost with online gaming. That's the magic that we gave up for matchmaking.
the most autistic le wrong generation gaymur shit i've ever read
>>51682642
you're upset.
I like that.
>>51677339
Same, I'm 18 and I hosted these all though highschool. I'm hoping to host again when everyone is home for the winter.
>>51682028
yeah man i love it, seems a lot comfier
>>51680569
What team did you play for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJlErJJxvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSF06wct5gs
csgo just isn't the same
>>51681852
CRT fags are the vinyl fags of technology.
Starcraft, Age Of Empires, Warcraft 2 and its shitty max 32mb ram limit. LANs were awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX9hbbA-WP4
who /jimjamflimflam/ here?
>>51676472
ah, the age meme
>>51676472
I'm 20 and actively participate almost every weekend with my buddies. LAN parties are life over here.
>>51680957
Install gentoo
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>>51682750
>All these kids posting on muh /g/
Reeeee
>>51677353
Do you always pretend to know stuff?
>>51681314
Jesus what kind of gay ass parties did you go to?
https://youtu.be/psCf0oK9dvg
>>51678684
I started gaming on a LAN party, I didn't even know what the internet was back then. Damn I miss my childhood, now I'm just like you.
>>51677373
I RECOGNIZE SCENE EQUIPMENT WHEN I SEE IT
I miss my LAN party days. Metal brick 10Base-T hub, game port joysticks and sharing a 56K connection via proxy. Eating junk food and playing X-Wing Alliance.
>>51677656
Well you know, to be enjoying those kind of activities with friends one requires two things, a computer and friends. I have neither.
I used to frequent a popular south Florida lan center in the mid 2000s, so even though I'm a youngfag compared to PC gamers in the 90s, I got to experience the tail end and death of an era and it was fucking great. It was sad seeing it die and whittle away, eventually becoming a drug operation and then shutting down for good, but thankfully a regular from the time made bank and opened a huge lan center in the same county, making even more bank on smash tournaments and streams.
It's unbelievable that a lan center is making money in 2015.
>>51681837
The things I would do to have a giant Sins of a Solar Empire lan. All my friends hate it though so it will never happen.
Split screen is better than LAN desu senpai.
>inb4 back to >>>/v/
>>51676365
LAN parties are fun.
Quake is GOAT.
Why wouldn't they?
>>51681314
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
>>51681111
I would rather have a lan party then jerk off, without second though.
Think about how often you can do a lan party and how often you can jerk off if you want. The rarity of the even itself makes it better
just need a name for the /g/ lan party
>>51688143
Quake 3, Unreal and what else?
>implying modarn gaems have lan support
Foolish goyim, stop clinging on to your old deprecated standards and buy Xbox One with Xbox Live today!
>>51676365
are those sony mdr v500s
i had a pair of those back in the day
>>51681643
>Pretty much this, it's really fucking sad. I've ran the helpdesk at the 400 person LAN party which takes place every year at PAX Prime, and while it's good fun playing with friends near you, most other people are playing LoL/DOTA. Very few people playing CS, UT, Quake, or any RTSs.
>>51681475
>2013, and the setup was changed to fiber connection to the net, and only 6 people at a table could see each other. Combine that with the fact that over half the people were playing LoL or DOTA, and there was zero reason to go anymore.
Dota, lol, heartstone, tf2, world of tanks and any other kind of massively played online game should be outright banned at lan parties. There should be a big sign with 'we offer no Internet connection here, fuck your online games' at every lan party
I swear to God those shit games take over 60% of the playerbase at every lan i've been and they're not even particularly fun to play at a lan. They're games designed specifically to be enjoyed over the Internet, so bringing them to a lan doesnt improve the experience at all. Plus they always look so fucking bored when they play LoL/DOTA it pisses me off
>>51688143
notsuicidemeet 2011+4
>>51688449
v300
>>51682483
kek
>>51676365
Helps them think, maybe? Keep them from going bald? I need to get a Watch Cap or something for use with headphones, so my hair doesn't get even worse.
>>51681726
>no friends
get a load of this normie
kill yourself
>>51682328
>TF2
anyone remember how different it was back then?
>>51677656
Man in Lebanon we have what I think Westerners would call internet cafes, only they are only used for LAN gaming: we call them networks.
Basically you get together with your friends and play generals or CS or even LoL, Dota and what have you, WoW back in the day too. And there are tons of them and rivalries between networks, competitions etc. You pay by the hour and its something like 60 cents if no internet is used and a dollar if you used internet. you also can get drinks and snacks and can even order food delivery. Everyone calls you with your username and the vibe is chill as fuck, you can ask anyone if they want to play with agaisnt you, challenges etc, you build a relationship with everyone and you just go there to relax and play your game, and if your good at it people will ask you for advice, and if your a noob no worries everyone is here to support you. it's actually where I spend almost all my free time... no girls there though, or if there are everyone is drooling
