@The_Picard_Maneuver I'm still chasing the high playing Goldeneye on the N64. We played for hours everyday ::nostalgia::

Honestly its not too hard to get an xbox emulator running, and you can find a match fairly quickly. I think the main community night is Thursday, but you can find a game most nights.

Those were great days.

You can play all of the Master Chief collection in VR now. It's fantastic!

Xbox 360s are not expensive. The high never has to die!

What!!!!!!!!

VR mods have been going crazy lately. I'm getting some serious FOMO.

I also saw Mount and Blade: Lord of the Rings, Diablo 2, and a bunch of cool AR games.

How the fuck does diablo 2 work in vr?

Check it out. I was so impressed by this.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MJyb_2X3kTs

Why not just play the PC version?

I had a couple lan parties a while ago. That shit is so fun. Soldat was really popular.

Last year i had my cousins kids over for a tiny lan with them, me and my sis. We played UT99 for ages and they loved it.

The point isn't the game. It is being carefree with few responsibilities and having friends to share the time with. If the point is finding a multiplayer game, there are plenty of options.

Can still have it. I have semi regular Mario Kart and Smash Bros nights. Loads of fun, always stay up until way too late. Finish off with a dumb movie.

You're only chasing that high because you don't embrace whimsy

Same except for quake 3 arena

That's fucking awesome

Pretty much me, except it was Halo 2 and probably 2006. We schlepped a heavy ass tube TV over from someone else's house a few blocks away.

Tbh I was thinking of 2 as thats my home Halo. I guess for 1 yeah yu could just play PC

I know there is the MCC version of 2, but it doesn't feel the same.

I'm looking forward to going through Titanfall 2 in VR. All reviews I've seen say it's like a AAA native VR game.

The rapid release of VR mods is making it really difficult to completely hate AI, but I do keep trying.

Yup.

Holy shit wow

The point is also to be chilling in the same space between matches and gut punching people if they started shit talking too much.

I think the dividing line for me is: when it's speeding up work on tedious things or accomplishing tasks that we haven't been able to - vs - when it's being used sloppily for a product that's worse than the old way.

Halo 2 was also released for PC when it first came out.

This and Counter Strike 1.X, and some Diablo 2 when we needed a change of pace

You can do split screen like this in Minecraft on the Xbox. That's why I turn on PVP damage while my kids are distracted.

Did you see the comment below showing the Diablo 2 in vr? Looks awesome.

It actually wasn't when it first came out, the PC port wasn't until 2007 (same year as halo 3) and wasn't well received

I think the xbox version is used because modded xboxs can play online with PC users with emulators.

Fair enough, I forgot that they waited a couple years and made it Vista exclusive.

Like Project Zomboid does? So glad a buddy showed me pzvr. I can actually survive in VR where I die in flat

Split screen Goldeneye my antediluvian friends.

Having 4 or 5 PCs in different rooms at a LAN party is a whole different vibe than multiplayer, shouts coming from all the bedrooms, stuff like that.

Having old PCs splattered all over the house is a whole different vibe, nothing quite like it.

Have you seen Agent 64: spies never die kinda hits that spot.

This sounds both incredible and vomit inducing due to the fast traversal.

That's why we switched to smash Bros. Not everyone has a laptop or desktop they want to bring but I can pull out a bunch of controllers. It's so much fun actually seeing someone groan when they miss a super smash.

We all bring our favorite snack and pass bowls around. Case of whatever beers. We're debating setting up a running leaderboard.

AoE 1 lan party.

Wololo

My back still hurts from the hauling CRT!

UT99 - best choice! <3

Noooo, not my babyprez army T.T

UT99 is the goat. Ahh, the times where we'd play it on the school PCs during recess as kids until the teachers came and kicked us out of the library. Good times.

I feel like there is a whole generation of millennials who has this feeling about MMOs - always chasing the high they felt playing WoW back in 2004, always on the lookout for the next up-and-coming MMO thinking this surely will be the one, never realising that they're longing for a moment in time that can never be recaptured, a version of themselves and a place in their life they'll never re-experience.

Is it worth playing now or should I wait for the jank to be ironed out?

Are you telling me that WoW Forever isn't going to do the trick for me in a couple of weeks?

For me its smashbros and Mario kart. Just about 6 of us.

Peak for me was modded Minecraft around… what. 1.7.10?

I found this whitelist Resonant Rise server that was just the right size; big, but not too populated. I made a community workshop close to spawn to help people start out.

Haven’t found that experience since, in any game.

It is worth trying, I find the jank tolerable. Sometimes you don't get the interaction popups, but they come back, I also lost 95% of my audio for a while, then it came back. Installation is all by workshop so quite easy to get running even on linux, mp in VR is not so easy

I've spent thousands on gaming and home theater equipment to realize I don't love TV/movies/gaming, I loved hanging out with my friends.

I stopped chasing it and now I just get baked every weekend after the kids go to bed then sit and cry in my beanbag chair while eating oreos out of a cup of milk with a spoon

this is also the title of my isekai manga.