Remember LANs.
good times, 30 naked men playing cs 1.6 while drunk as fug
>>342229724
>ywn play cs 1.6 iceworld at LANs again
>ywn play rainbow six at LANs again
>ywn eat pizza and play DoD at LANs again.
hold me...
>>342229724
Me and my friends still organize LANs about once a year, good times.
>>342229724
>five guys stuck in a 2.5x3 room
>summer and no air conditioning with five PCs working at full power
As much as I loved it back in the day, there's no way I'd ever go back to it.
>played Warcraft LAN with my buddies for bachelor party
Shit brought me back yo.
I've been going over to my one friends house for 6 years now, every month or so. (except when college was in gear). He confirmed that they pretty much see me as family now. Feels good man
>>342229724
>tfw falling asleep on your keyboard after 30 hours of gaming
>tfw getting ramen in the morning with key marks all over your forehead
>LAN games are the most fun experiences I've taste on vidya
>games today rarely has lan
WHERE DID IT ALL GO SO WRONG BROS
>Fall asleep sitting at my computer after being awake 40 hours
>Local newspaper is there and takes a picture of me to go with their article
>>342229724
I miss LANs. I'm the only one who still plays PC now. Do modern consoles even have LAN play?
>>342231116
Internet and online gaming is leagues better nowadays that 56k modes aren't a standard anymore. Also, convenience.
>>342231204
Modern consoles games rarely have couch coop anymore, like Halo 5
>>342229724
No I won't do what you tell me!
>>342230862
>tfw you became last resort friend with your best friend of ten yearsfuck that loser
>>342231204
Pokken Tournament had LAN play iirc.
>>342230862
Go to bed Tom.
>use to lan quite often
>People grew up and moved away
>some grew up into assholes you don't want to hang out with anyway.
Oh well, next best thing is being on a teamspeak group that's up until 7 am gaming regularly at all the odd hours since a lot of them are euros and shit.
>playing avp and cod uo in lan
>you will never play good games like this in lan
>>342229724
>tfw you will never play soggy biscuit with your bros
>tfw you will never fagbag the last 2 losers in the competitive games
>tfw you will never force the bro that performed poorly in the raid to wear girly clothes and underwear
I miss the good old days
>>342229724
Friends and I still do LANs every half a year or so
>>342229724
>All those nights spent playing CoD2
>No one lives forever 1/2
>Dawn of War
>Supreme Commander
>quake
..I want to go back
>>342229724
But that's a gay orgie
>>342230852
that's one sad fucking bachelor party
>>342229724
>used to bring PC to friend's place to play in LAN
>we would play the fuck out of Half Life Deathmatch with mods and skins for hours
>sometimes starcraft or mess up with their messenger contacts
>modern games have no LAN and we have to deal with delay/ping/bottlenecking
>only a very limited number of games let you LAN nowadays
At least we can play RoR and Civ5
>>342229724
Somehow, someway, my baller as fuck HS computer teacher convinced three separate principals over four years to let us have regular LAN parties in the computer rooms. We'd normally have one per semester, either overnight Friday or all day Saturday.
Fun times.
>>342231615
>never had lan parties where the losers have to suck cocks and getting pounded on the boipussy
You gay son?
>>342229724
This thread just reminds me of how the industry is just not as good as it use to be. LANs use to be some of the best times as far as gaming wen't. Someone hold me
>>342229724
Xbox hueg's were the best for this.
16 people on 4 boxes was grand.
>>342231619
>bachelor party has to be booze, strippers and CUHRAYZEE TIMES a la Bigdick Chad style instead of doing something comfy you enjoy doing
What does even constitute as a LAN anymore, I mean we meat up almost every month with between 5-10 people sometimes with computers, sometimes just FIFA/Tekken/party games on a big screen.
Hell they always have an extra laptop so I don't even have to bring my pc, played gang beasts with 6-8 local about a month ago and we were laughing our ass off, and it was with 1 pc hooked up to a TV.
Are LAN's really that rare? We have like 10 of them a year where everyone brings their PC and we Blur/Rainbow six vegas 2/strategy game/assfaggot/Csgo.
>>342231772
meet*, just woke up an hour ago
>>342231670
>like half of the modern games take portforwarding to play on private servers, something I absolutely hate doing.
If someone else feels me, try Evolve, it's full of dumb social network gimmicks but it has a feature where you just add your friend, choose the game ur playing from the list, press play and ur portforwarded through their own port
>>342231736
OK manchild
>>342231581
>>Dawn of War
>>Supreme Commander
>>quake
Mein nigga.
>>342231961
OK normie, get off my anime picture board
>>342231772
>we meat updat Freudian slip
>>342231772
A LAN to me is everyone bringing there computers over to one room, and the banter. There must be a lot of banter.
>>342231772
It's time to meat it up
Shit was the cashest shit ever.
>>342231772
Because pirates can play multiplayer with lan+hamachi/tunngle so publishers doesn't want that, they get rid of. For all the shits it got, Borderlands games are among the rare games where it does have lan.
>>342231736
>not enjoying booze and strippers
>>342231972
>commander under attack
Sigh, there will always be Forged alliance forever, r-right?
>>342232087
Booze is fine, but why waste the one time all the old pals are back together on something CUHRAYZEE that you feel obligated to do because stereotypical bachelor parties do it?
Why not do a throwback to the good old times, one last ride
>>342230759
>five PCs
nigga we had 10v10 lan parties
I still go to LAN's, but nearly all of them are damn competitions, i dunno almost like the concept of playing for fun is just gone
Yes
Halo LAN's
Counter Strike LAN's
Gary's Mod LAN's
That shit was so cash.
>>342232408
Why the hell there's no coop for PC's Halo? Fuck Gearbox
>>342232024
Well everyone bringing their computer isn't always that convenient, especially if it's just for like 2 days orso, I personally hate having to unplug every cable, hope I don't forget shit, and when I come home like 2-3 days later at 10am and still want to browse /v/ a bit I have to hook everything up and place my cables.
>>342232078
I fucking hated hamachi/tunngle/gameranger/predator or whatever since it was always one person that couldn't connect and we had to figure out why, starting with the obvious, and then having to find some obscure fix 30 mins later.
>>342231996
>>342232057
This shit only happens when i'm still groggy from waking up, I sometimes even make your/you're mistakes when I don't even know fucking how.
>>342231972
Supreme commander was the shit, but very annoying to play at LAN when there were people that needed a full explanation, so you had to hold back the whole time.
>that huge ass map with the road in the middle.
>3 hour fights in the middle of the map with someone going "here comes my fucking experiment tier 90999 titan"
>>342232282
because getting smashed and fucking prostitutes is a bit more difficult than hosting a lan party after you're married
>>342229724
>tfw still have LANs every couple of months
>>342231228
Not him, but I don't know man. LANs had something going that online multiplayer simply can't compete with.
Maybe it was being in a group of likeminded people just doing what you love.
I used to bag all my shit up in an adidas duffel bag, and carry my monitor ontop of it.
worked out really well man, I'd pack it up every other weekend, so I got pretty quick.
>lan will never come back because of Jews
>bots will never come back because of Jews
>forever cursed to play bittersweet online with people you don't know or care about
>have to pay for this shit
There is no excuse not to code a local server for any given game. It's bullshit not being able to host your own games.
>>342231116
Steam and consoles gaymin
Also blame normals too
>>342232647
The getting drunk shit isn't really that impressive, and having to pay hookers isn't really alpha if you haven't noticed.
Personally there would be nothing more beta than someone telling me he got blackout drunk in a strip club at his bachelor party like it's impressive/special, that costs like 500$ tops
>>342232929
Stop responding to it.
>tfw daisy-chaining power bars and putting aluminum foil in the fuses
>tfw 15 systems with CRTs in a tiny garage
>tfw the power bars start smoking
>tfw Dragostea Din Tei plays for the 25th time and it's not even midnight
>tfw neighbors threaten to call the police because of the noise
Good times.
>>342232890
>Also blame normals too
Lan parties is LITERALLY THE MOST NORMAL ACTIVITIES ON THIS ASOCIAL HOBBY
Anyone here remember rat maps?
>>342232890
Fuck consoles aswell, I have a cfw ps3, and I took it to most lans a couple of years ago, but holy shit there are almost no interesting games to play with 4 people on one screen. Hell I even checked that co-optimus prime site, and went through every single one, nowadays we only play fifa/tekken/DBZ Budokai on it.
>>342233056
You mean de_rats?
>>342231228
Nope, also because of the internet people have become social and emotional retards
>>342232984
>reactionimage with le funny meme
You're not exactly better are you?
>>342231727
In our case, the host had like 2 pc's and a gamecube.
Others would bring over gamecubes, tv's, ps2's and shit and play for 24 hours straight.
I miss it.
>>342232929
they are kids they dont get shit just ignore them
>>342233126
I remember there being a fuck ton of them
>>342233126
Fuck I love that map, especially if you have zombie mode it takes the fun to extreme level.
I loved it and hated it. CS, AoEII and UT was amazing. There's nothing as masculine as lan parties.
>>342232890
You can't really blame consoles, xbox lans with Halo was the shit.
>friend invites me to "LAN" at his Uni
>it's just online games with everyone in the same room
>most of them are playing MOBAs or CSGO
>friend and I play EYE and old school RS while eating the free food
>>342233278
I blame modern consoles.
>>342233198
I mainly only played de_rats, with a dash of de_rats2.
Good times.
>>342232929
>fucking two hot bitches at the same time in some east european high-end bordello is beta
okay mate
>>342233382
Don't forget rats3 too
>>342233484Never really clicked with me
>>342233313
I remember back then we are having fun with DOTA maps
>>342233553
That trampoline thing in rats3 really novel to me.
>>342233553
What made 1 and 2 better in your opinion?
>>342233313
Different strokes I guess, recently lan parties consist of some college guys getting drunk, being shit at casual games and like 5 girls just there to watch and get some attention.
We play assfaggots/csgo on LAN's aswell, but the csgo part usually ends in either trolling/ making eachother rage.
>>342233436
It is beta, paying for it certainly is.
It's just as impressive as the fat dude that buys the same couple an hour earlier.
You'd never had a shot with both of them if you didn't pay, and that's it.
>>342233571
Does anyone remember that 3v3v3 naruto ninpou map, that was the shit. I remember one of my friends taking Hidan, that had a passive that made him invincible for 35 seconds with a 50 second cooldown, and he kept saying "kill me in the cooldown time" while he was hiding every time, and we had to ban several characters.
>lan back then
>bunch of average dudes fooling around
>lan now
>bunch of morbidly obese dudes with obese girlfriends with neon hair wanting to play hearthstone in the same room as other obese dudes
time travel WHEN
>>342233436
>infecting your soon to be wife with every STD this side of the universe
Bachelor parties should be fun.
And if you find gaming fun, why not?
>>342233672
Rats1 is the best for zombie mod
>tfw you and your main men get together to play the third closed beta of ArcheAge and have the time of your lives pillagin', plunderin' and tradin' with a 30-something guildmates from Britain and Russia
shame the game became p2w incarnate upon release. how a game can stoop so low from such a fun beta I have no idea.
>>342233672
I don't even remember. I just know I preferred the the first one the absolute most.
>>342233163
This desu
>>342233709
Lol, I played it once and never played it again, I don't like animu back then and still to this day
>>342231619
>>342231961
>>342232647
I hear about more and more bachelor parties that are more along the lines of a weekend getaway rather than doing wild shit.
The bachelor party should be what the bachelor wants to do. Also if strippers are really that valuable to you, marriage might not be the best move.
>>342232087
>not booze, strippers, and warcraft
step up your game son, its embarrassing
FUCKING SHITS DONT KNOW ABOUT 3 A.M. DWANGO5
NOTHING WILL TOP IT
NOTHING WILL SURPASS IT
except maybe 4 a.m. dwango5. That was pretty fun too
>>342233909
We were all familiar with the show, and seeing as they don't suddenly make multiplayer strategy games for most series, it was pretty good.
We played HoN mostly, but if you think league of fags is bad at the passive agressiveness, Heroes of newerth made you want to stab eachother and bring up horrible shit that happened 5 years ago.
>Remember LANs
I still go to quakecon. The BYOC might have more and more normies playing league of legends on their alienware laptops every year but there are still plenty of people who remember that it's a giant LAN and game together
Best LAN co-op game back in the day
>>342233709
you pay women for sex one way or another, nothing is free in this world and certainly not from women
so there is literally nothing beta in paying for sex, seriously, just think of all the sailors, soldiers, warriors over the course of history, they all paid for sex with money
>>342234173
Man I miss when pirating games was a bit more annoying/hard, and we had a hash or whatever the fk it was called sharing server, and only shared with people that had something to share aswell. There were probably tens of TB's pirated games/movies/songs transferred that lan, with nerds that tried to rat us out, having one of the volunteers that tried to get us thrown out, untill we laughed at his retarded face. This was in the time that 80-160gb hard drives were still used, and core 2 duo was the shit.
>>342234446
t.permavirgin
The good old days of lagless environments, weed smoke, and the sweet sounds of warcraft 3.
>Have regular LANs during high school + after with ~6 ppl, playing cs all night
>Try out some of the big LANs
>One at a uni that had about 500 ppl, most people played TF2/LoL, bad experience. Gave up.
>Years later, look at the current state of LANs.
>"You have to be out of the building by 2am, power is shut off at 1am"
Is this shit real? I only have 1 LAN where I live that goes all night.
>>342234446
This is probably bait but:
Those people couldn't get a family/settle down because of their hazardous working conditions.
Not to be confused with the beta that thinks paying a broken english speaking girl that handles 10 customers a day is noteworthy/something to be proud of.
Every hooker knows that only the most pathetic/beta of men come to them for a false sense of companionship, and if they were free to choose a male, you would be one of the last.
>>342234446
What about throughout high school and college? Girls were practically rapists back then.
>>342234837
>lagless
Lmao, one person watching youtube/downloading music/movies/streaming fucked over the whole lan making people rage while trying to find out who's causing it.
>>342234463
Never realized how old cod4 actually looked until now :(
>>342234980
>LAN
>L A N
>lag
You're doing it fucking wrong, anon.
>>342234980
>watching youtube/downloading music/movies/streaming
Clearly we come from different eras.
>tfw never had any friends to LAN with
>>342234574
I remember going to a LAN once and some guy was sharing something like 500GB of porn which was fucking insane considering that 120GB HDDs and SATA were brand new things.
>>342235065
You can make it look pretty beautiful with a movie cfg.
>>342234872
you sound like someone too afraid to fuck a prostitute and then you come with excsuses like "o-only betas fuck prostitutes, false sense of companionship"
the oldest fucking business in the world mate, but maybe that's a different thing in america, people around here fuck girls for money to have some fun and relax and not treat their fucked up psychosis like the one you seem to have
Every month me and my bros meet up to play melee or 5v5 cs 1.6 lan. Shit is de _ cache
>>342235118
In the background you dumbass, as in 2-3 people watching whatever youtube or google videos or came before it, limewire or kazoo or some shit. We had people playing online games then aswell, and if those lagged everyone started arguing
>>342235163
They had a shitload of porn, but I didn't want to seem like the virgin that goes browsing through it, or get caught with it since shit like that sticks as a joke.
>>342234463
COD4 had good grafix back then
>>342235405
>I didn't want to seem like the virgin that goes browsing through it, or get caught with it since shit like that sticks as a joke.
We had a really pure kind of christian guy that got caught downloading porn from another guy since you can see all transfers. We had some fun with him for a minute but ultimately everyone was cool with it.
Don't think it was ever brought up again past that.
>>342235405
Again you're clearly much younger than me if you were streaming youtube and whatnot at lan parties. Talking as far back as 99.
>>342235405
>or get caught with it since shit like that sticks as a joke.
We had the inverse mentality, whoever had no porn was laughed at for being a prude.
>>342231902
my isp doesn't alow port forwarding i truly feel you but evolve is pretty much dead but its good if u have friends. i want to use gameranger but it requires port forwarding . thank god fightcade doesnt need port forwarding
>>342235920
I didn't have my own computer around that time, and asking my dad to take his computer (quite expensive and kind of the family computer) to a LAN would have been a no-go. Hell around 99 I was still playing outside 90% of the day.
>>342235897
Let's just say we don't let shit go easily since we fuck with eachother at every single chance we get.
Hell there's still shit that happened to us 17 years ago that we're jabbing eachother about.
>>342236063
Depends on the friend group I guess, then again there are apparently enough people on here that used to watch it together with like 5 dudes, which is incredibly awkward/cringy for me.
>>342233436
>beeing that ugly, that you have to pay for sex
wew lad
>>342236104
Gameranger doesn't need port forwarding, I mostly use it to play stronghold crusader
I live in the land of Internet cafes. LAN is pretty much still the norm. Nothing will ever beat lan. The fact that you interact face to face is better than chat and online voice mics.
I also live in a land where, well, arcades are still a thing. I pity americans. I really do.
>>342232647
>getting married
>fuck prositutes
pick one, don't do both you fucking asshole.
The other anons are correct, bachelor parties should be whatever you like to do with your best friends, if you're into whores you shouldn't be getting married in the first place
>>342235580
Just that no one used those because you had to maintain atleast 250fps for movement.
>>342236721
It's usually these guys that get cucked/cheated on multiple times and "get their heart broken", even though they'd visit hookers twice a week if they wouldn't get caught.
Then again I fucking hate this generation, especially niggers, for the whole "hide my phone/when she finds the other texts/when you leave your phone unlocked meme's.
>Not having the left over hardware from a bankrupt office company.
>Not having half a dozens pcs setup in you house 24/7
>Not having friends over constantly.
>Not enjoying nonstop rainbow 6, RA1, AOE2 and god every source mod under sun plus lots of other games
My childhood was basically one big lan. Not that I ever grew out of that shit, wish everyone else in the UK wasn't so fucking casual.
>>342234980
You guys had no idea how to LAN then.
>>342232203
>sigh
back to r3ddit with you
>>342236690
I stopped going to internet cafés as soon as my computer was atleast 3 times more powerful than the ones at an internet café where you had to be quiet during hype matches, having to pay 2-3€'s an hour for something you can play at the leisure of your own home.
>>342237087
As I said, this is anno '03-'04 where we didn't all have a computer/were spoiled. We had consoles and shit and had sleepovers gaming on that all night, but computers in that era weren't that cheap, especially when people saw it as "all that violence is bad, he's on the computer all day".
Untill 12-14 my main pastime was actually going outside 8-10 hours a day having fun with friends.
>>342237087
This, if people played single player/online against randoms at a lan they were beaten and put on the desk made from cardboard boxes at our lans.
>>342229724
Man I miss the good ol COD4 LAN party on my internet cafe
Everyday is a Cod day and over 40 people on the LAN match
>>342237258
Hell I even remember having to type "connect" or "netconnect" or some stuff in console to connect faster in cs, but I was mostly playing flash games/ emulators in that era.
>>342237258
>Untill 12-14 my main pastime was actually going outside 8-10 hours a day having fun with friends.
Pretty sure that's everyone. You don't seem to grasp that some people are just older than you. If you were youtubing at 12, you're only what - 19?
>>342236952
you sound jealous
>>342237445
>everyday
kill yourself.
I've never been to a LAN because I'm a socially awkward little shit
>>342229724
I still do them.But they are not that naked.
>>342237568
The internet cafe host a cod4 lan match everyday, and everyone in there play cod4 for 3 years
>>342230518
Same here bro. We have one on next weekend.
>Never got to go to any LAN parties when I was younger because I didn't have any friends
>Got invited to one back in 2011 or so
>It was in a different country and I wasn't able to go
;_;
>>342237679
No, dammit. Learn English.
everyday ≠ every day
http://grammarist.com/usage/everyday-every-day/
This is the new mass fuckup like "there, their, they're" or "your, you're" or "should OF".
>>342229724
>We used to do 8 men lans with my nerdy friends, playing WC3 and CSS 3 days straight without sleeping
>Watching shitty horrors movies between sessions and cooking some atrocious pasta recipes
>In the everyday life we were socially akward nerds but during LANs we were like brothers
Now they all moved on with their life and I'm a lonely 25 years old kissless neet.
I miss those days. I miss them so much.
>>342234463
This is can't be running on high right ? I remember it looking a lot better than this.
>>342231736
>not having booze and strippers at the lan
???
ugh never been to one, even though i've really wanted to
i'm just so self-conscious about how boring i am, my presence would just make people uncomfortable probably
bleh
>tfw no one to play The Hidden in LAN with
>>342229724
I remember when I went to PC cafes to play Counter Strike with friends.
Good times.
>>342232647
>because getting smashed and fucking prostitutes is a bit more difficult than hosting a lan party after you're married
no it's not
source: my ex-wife
>>342237917
Calm down that autisimo, bucko
Try not to be that autisticeveryday
>>342233436
Degenerate as fuck. And if youre having a bachelor party youve probably settled on a women. Why would you mess with biohazard sluts?
Honest to god alpha men who love their wives and their country go bowling and have a few beers for their bachelors party
>>342237993
Koalas need to learn how to adapt
>>342237917
You do realise that this is day time in Europe and that 4chan is browsed by people comming from all around the globe right ?
English isn't the birth language for all of us here.
>bring PC over to bud's house every couple weeks
>LAN with him and his brothers, and his brothers friends
>play AoE2
>brothers + friends get mad when any combat before late, late imperial age
>play diablo 2
>throw shitfits about loot
>play any grandstrat
>start as countries as far from each other as possible and basically play single player
>play DnD
>devolves into their characters trying their hardest to literally rape each other, and any NPC
>>342238009
Of course not, but no one played on high.
>>342238047
Not at all. I'm boring as fuck and socially awkward and had a great time at the few times I went.
As long as you can play video games you will be fine.
>>342238157
Does anybody even play The Hidden anymore?
Every time I start it up there are no servers.
>>342229724
Of course I remember, OP.
It's still attend LANs.it's more of a tradition than anything, by this point.
>>342238769
No.
Same for Dystopia, Eternal Silence and all those other great Source mods.
>>342238225
I do that for my birthday and drink whisky.
>>342237482
3 months from 25, I'm only using the reference points that I remember most clearly, outside of playing AOE2/Doom/Freddy fish/jazz jackrabbit/C&C Tiberian sun/Total annihilation there are a lot of gray zones in my memory.
>playing CS 1.6 everyday after school with my highschool buddies
it was best experience ever.
some times our team fought aganist other classes in school it was God tier gaming experience which i will never have , cause all my friends abondoned me in college.
FUCK ME REEE FEELS
>>342238225
you wouldn't know what an alpha is when I shat on your face
>>342239723
I wish I understood the appeal of CS.
Didn't enjoy CS 1.6 back then, don't enjoy CS:GO now.
Maybe it's just because I suck at realistic shooters.
I still play fighting games in person with a bunch of people like twice a week, including going to in person tournaments. There's still plenty of in person gaming going on, you're just being lazy.
Anyone got the LAN pic where one dude is duct taped to the ceiling playing?
>>342240184
That's not a lan party you anime goober.
>Hell Run Diablo II for three hours
>Sneak out a wank while everyone's out to smoke/piss
>Fuck around in Dungeon Siege until 4am
>sleep on the floor
>wake up with face covered in gummy bears
It was like sleepovers, but for weirdos
>>342230324
Literally came from a LAN where we played Halo, Diablo and AoE 2 days straight. Literally all of us are 23+years old students or honest working guys. Nothing is stopping you from the good old glory days.
>>342240572
>Nothing is stopping you from the good old glory days.
Yes it is, and it's called self awareness and dignity.
>>342240416
The whole point of Lan parties is playing in person, though. Doesn't really matter the medium.
>>342229724
This is some early cringe of myself - I wish it didn't have the text. I miss LANs.
>>342240073
it is easiest game to play on shooter market, doesnt have anything other then using bomb and defusing it.
literally grab mouse and keyboard WASD moving and shooting.
thats it you can even auto buy weapons
in other games killstreaks, challanges ,prestiges,stupid ass shits
it also helps CS games have better look and plain graphics which helps you to play.
i mean some of my friends never played any video game then CS 1.6 , we some times tried to play COD 4 but it had too much graphic effects that cause disinterest in some gamers.
>>342240519
ayo hol up how did this dude piss?
>>342233913
Bachelor party should be about somethings the poor sod won't be allowed to do anymore. Getting wasted and blowing coke of of the pubic bone of puertorican whore is somethings a happily married husband shouldn't do.
>>342240572
You just cant bring together everyone to play some Counter Strike or Diablo these days. I mean i barely see my friends , let alone bringing a lot friends to play LAN.
people move out from gaming , unlike us. They played when they were meant to play (aka high school college years)
truth but sad.
>>342240928
>Getting wasted and blowing coke of of the pubic bone of puertorican whore is somethings a happily married husband shouldn't do
says who
>>342240928
Poor sod indeed.
Why even get married, other than for financial reasons. And having kids are just going to drain 18+ years worth of time and money.
Sounds horrible if you ask me.
>>342240713
So it's true, /v/ doesn't play videogames, it's just a hive of bitter old men who think playing videogames is bellow them while they post memes on 4chan and watch anime.
>>342240767
Dude, you ignorant weeb filth. Scumbag. LAN literally is an acronym for Local Area Network. It's a computer thing, you subhuman. You nigger. Playing a co-op 2-player game is not a LAN party, you literal ape.
Anime Nigger.
We used to do 4~6 men lan parties.It usually devolved into sex afterwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91dp82jbH8
>tfw I was there
I don't have the motivation to go to LANs anymore because there really is no reason left.
Fuck this gay earth
>>342241336
This
>>342240767
...You seriously don't know what LAN means do you? Can't say I'm surprised a weeb is stupid.
>not organizing LAN place vs LAN place in Battlefield 1942 all night long
We could never field full 32v32, but usually 20-ish or so per team.
>>342241667
Dude, even if you're a>woman, that's pretty gay
>>342234574
THIS. I remember how amazed I was when browsing those massive file-servers at LANs. All that stuff. Porn, movies, games etc. Copied all I could. And when I got home I tried all the new games I had copied.
Man I miss that time.
>>342241336
This indeed.
>>342241967
You think so? What if I told you thatI was the one that took most of the dicks, huh?
>>342241956
How did you manage to get 2 houses connected? Hamachi? Or was it some college network?
Having a LAN this week, post games that I can try and convince people to play. Toaster friendly is always a plus.
So far I'm pushing R6 Vegas 2 and Ace of Spades 0.75
>>342242141
Command and conquer is always a good time. Unless one of your buddies is Korean.
>>342241984
>that one guy whose CP collection is set to share but he is oblivious
It's weird to hear people talking about their LAN games.
>be southern Slav
>one half of our local LAN place was always playing PES and Gran Turismo
>other half was playing Heroes 3, Homeworld and Starcraft
>on weekends you would get people rocking CS and CoD all day long
That place was raking in the money for like 10+ years.
>>342242141
Counter Strike 1.6/Source, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft 2 or 3, Diablo II, Starcraft, Day of Defeat, Quake, Starsiege, Tribes
>>342242335
>keeping porn of any kind on your local disks
You hung out with some real weirdos, man.
>>342242346
slavs had great taste in games before dota killed entire scenes except counter strike. it was like it happened overnight.
I only got into PC gaming in 2011, never had the chance to experience any lans
>>342242587
There was a time when external HD's weren't a thing yet anon.
>still have my two best friends left to have LAN parties with
>met them in first grade elementary school
Friendship is a beautiful thing.Too bad I have no idea how to make new ones.
>>342230324
>>ywn
wot senpai
>>342242854
>Met my best friend literally before I can even remember, we hung out together in preschool
>Still play vidya and hang out to this day
I like friends.
>>342242845
During that time, you burned them onto CDRs. Before that, floppy disks. Not an excuse.
>>342242854
I grew up in a small town. I have a group of 15 people who all have known each other since we were 5-8 years old and we still all hang out with each other on the regular. We've all been close friends now for 18 - 21 years, it's great.
>>342243076
>met best friend in middle school
>is the only friend I'm still in contact with
>is becoming more and more distant because of college, living out of state, and his gf
>>342243087
>That one guy with literal towers upon towers upon stacks of CDRs with every imaginable game/music album/movie etc. on them.
>>342229724
>going to the arcades back then
>playing street fighter every day there
>arcades die but we still play street fighter there
>play most of the guys there for almost 20 years
NorCal anyone?
>>342229724
No, but I remember Hot Seats
>>342243296
I'm pretty sure that I'll be fine cause we both plan on going to the same college, but I worry about that too, anon. It'll be okay.
>>342243076
>all of my friends are busy with work or ignoring me because they don't want anybody to help with their mental problems
What type of person tells me that they self harmed themselves pretty badly but won't accept any help and then continue to ignore me when I try to help them.
>>342242971
We did this a grand total of maybe 5 times before going back to PC.
>>342243701
People like attention, even if it's negative. That's the kind of person I tell to fuck off.
>>342231619
>>342231961
>>342232087
NORMALFAGS GET OUT
>>342232874
what did the jews do to ian? i hope he's okay
>>342243701
I've found in my experience that if a person really doesn't want you to help them with their issues, that they do want to take care of themselves, they aren't going to even mention it. If they keep going "oh I have mental issues but don't help me" or whatever, you might want to consider not talking to them for a bit.
Although, you shouldn't try to force yourself on others, either. Some people even find help from friends to be annoying.
>>342241372
>>342241817
Again, completely misses the entire point.
>>342231619
fucking dumb normie
>not doing what you want for your party
>>342244767
Fight games are splitscreen, not LAN.
I bet you play skullgirls dumb weeb
>>342234463
I never knew, what the fuck was promod?
>>342244767
Full retard.
Once upon a time some friends and I are sitting in a 3 car garage playing a board game Risk. After the first time we play my friends and I take drastically different approaches with each other on the 2nd run. After the second time playing we take some weeks off, everyone looks for this game at their house.
A month or so later we are sitting in this garage, we have 8 boards of Risk set up across some tables to make the game more interesting .
Now, if anyone has played Star wars Battlefront 2, we made a similar adjustment to our galactic conquest experience where we split the group up, split those teams up across fleets, then kept track of if someone opted to stay on a planet to defend it, get picked up by the other fleet, we had certain move restrictions to make the game advance differently than just steam rolling with 1 fleet.
Now we maybe play Civ every few months. :/
>>342231619
>guys play warcraft at bachelor party
>women including the bride to be gang bang strippers at bachelorette parties
>>342240883
there's clearly a break in tape at his crotch
he may have had help
So tell me anons, and be honest, how many times did your LANs end up involving your dicks
There's an all night LAN (6pm - 8am) at the single cyber cafe in my city coming up. You don't have to bring a computer or anything and they have a bunch of games there. It's $35 though, does that seem like an appropriate price? Anyone here ever been to something like that that can share their experience?
>>342231703
One of my teachers let my class play Mario Kart on the last day of HS
We used to have LAN parties exactly like this back in the day, some of the best times in my life.
Console babby here but my two friends and I have "lan" parties all the time.
Everyone bring ms their console and monitor, we set up in the same room, direct connect to modem, and play competetive team games and co-op games. We've played through tons of games this way and it's always a blast. We have handhelds for smash bros, monster hunter, and whatever else when we go out for our big meal before we get back to gaming. Life is great.
>>342246578
Are you fucking shitting me??? 35$ is what we pay for 3 days here.
That's full scam, even with all you can eat and drink. I hate when internet café do this and act that they're doing it for the community. It's usually some sleazy owner that thinks he can bring in 10-20 nerds and earn 750$ during one night, more profit than staying open a week for 7 days.
>>342231961
>stating this on 4chan's /v/ board
No too young, wasn't a teenager or adult at the time.Increase online internet speed made them less common nowadays but there's still a social dynamic to hold itself to today,now it's get a LAN of friends and go PUB stomp online....
>tfw have one friend who never wants to play anything unless I'm super hyped for it, another who only plays mainstream hames, and even then for like a week before stopping, another is depressed and will only do something if everyone else is doing it and it sounds like it'll be fun enough to make him forget about his depression, one friend who will actually do it.
>Really want to plan but no one to lan with
What do anons, I'm sick of never being able to do the things I enjoy.
>>342247389
they have events throughout the night and prizes and shit, but yeah the price seemed steep.
>>342248837
The one I used to go had 3 days, many compos, funcompo's, lots of prizes and huge console corner. Just go to that internet café an hour before it closes when it's dark, and just imagine that it'll be the exact same thing but with people acting like they're having so much fun.
Lan stories? Lan stories.
>Lan party with friends
>Fell asleep while sitting
>Wake up due to laughter from my friends
>>342232087
Fuck off Chad Thundercunt
>>342249732
It's not a regular internet cafe, it's specifically for gaming. It has gaming pcs and consoles and junk.
>tfw going to LANs 3 times a year
>live in Russia
>somewhere around very, very early 2000
>things like "computer clubs" are very popular here (think internet/gaming cafe in US)
>over time a form of dedicated residents formed
>admins let us play for free some times
>slow middleweek, no one is aorund
>we gather for a match of original Serious Sam 1 multiplayer on insane difficulty and max possible monster\
>hours if PURE UNTAINTED FUN
I miss these days
>Have a lan party in a friend's house
>friend's big brother comes home
>He buys us booze
>Friend of mine invites girls
>>342234173
>quakecon
Fawk yeah, I'm in row B34 or something this year. Super pumped, this year is actually going to be a focused on a new Quake game.
>>342250163
wtf would the girls do?? sounds v boring for them and awkward for the rest
>>342250491
My friends got drunk and called girls to come over.
It was a shitty lan party. I wanted to play video games instead
>>342250491
>that guy who always wanted to bring his gf
>despite no one else being allowed to
>always wound up leaving after 30-40 minutes
>... to go be with his girl
I don't know why we ever invited this soft nigger chink to anything.
Just had a Warcraft LAN party with some old friends. Went to see the movie next day.
>>342229724
why do you do this to me
>>342231228
Absolute nonsense, the internet was good enough in the early 2000's
Broadband Internet was pretty much standard, I had a 1,5mbit ADSL connection in 2002 with a ping of 0 - 5ms on most European servers... I lived next to a Knotenpunkt (I don't know the english name for it or if it even exist)
I hated how uncomfortable it always was
Other than that it was nice
>>342229724
First LAN party was playing GTA with 3 other friends. Then we got Quake on the go and after a couple of weeks had 9 guys. Good times
>>342232697
>tfw still have LANs every Saturday.
Really unfortunate that a lot of games don't have LAN anymore. If there's like 10 guys and the net isn't good you're not gonna play anything without some lag.
>>342229724
I only ever went to one LAN party back when they were a big thing. I remember us chilling and fucking around more than the vidya we played. It was great.
>>342250001
What the fuck do you suppose an internet café is nowadays? Facebook/Skype simulator?
How are internet café not geared for gaming in this day and age, they still have core 2 duo's with winxp and 2gb ram?
I'm telling you it's a scam, if you want to go, you'll end up playing assfaggots and shit for 5 hours before you realize you're looking at the clock constantly when it's over. I've been to like 5-6 of these 8 years ago, and it was always the same bs, just sitting in an internet café like you usually would, but this time it's dark outside.
>>342250964
FUCK THAT FUCKING SHIT!!
>Host LAN party every month
>12 people
>3 hosts with 3 Xboxes
>One host wants to bring his new girlfriend
>Tell him it's a guy only thing
>Always has been always will be
>He brings her anyways
>Teams thrown off balance
>He lets her play and she sucks total fucking asshole
>Teams unbalanced as fuck now
>She rages because she sucks at Halo
>Tells the guy if they don't leave the LAN she's going to dump him
>The motherfucker packs up his Xbox and LEAVES
>11 people with only 2 Xboxes
>LAN ruined
Never invited that fucking faggot again.
>>342240184
>>342240767
>>342244767
weebs, everyone
>>342250964
Girls nearly always ruins lan parties.
Girlfriends ruin it worse.
Either sitting in a corner on their shitty laptop being bored and complaining.
Trying their best to get as much attention on themselves instead of games.
If they do play a game they'll be really shit at the game, like worse than all my casual friends who are 90% shit anyway.
>>342251789
It's always females that use the "you're choosing them over me" card, as if they are your everything.
If you turn the situation around they try and threaten with the same shit, leaving you, making you the one that loses in both situations.
Never forget why women are usually irrational, even the ones at higher positions still let their emotions/prejudice decide most, yet they feel like they're always having a hard time.
They could fire a single father of 4 kids, and complain that it was emotionally heavy for her to fire him, putting the focal point on her pain.
