too young for FPS games unfortunately.

Battlefield Vietnam

StarCraft Brood war

Supreme commander

Unreal Tournament Edition

Counterstrike 1.6 (I think)
These were my 2001 lan party gaming experiences I wish I could reclaim.

For gaming in person try screencheat.
Like goldeneye multiplayer but everyone is invisible, so you have to look at their screen

We have two laptops and a desktop, and we have three kids, so they get a bit of a LAN party experience playing Mineclonia.

The desktop also has a big screen (34 inch ultra-wide I think) and 4 xbone controllers so we play 4 player games like Overcooked, Stardew Valley, Sackboy, Tux Cart.

Generally we don't have screens on when their friends come over but perhaps when they are a bit older they might still have a chance for that gaming with friends experience.

Oh damn! I had forgotten about Perfect Dark!

Joanna Dark was my first video game crush!

Sounds like lots of fun!

Imagine how insane this statement would sound with no context to a time traveler from like 2001

For me it was Mario Kart Wii...

Half Life with my stepson and his friends was our jam. One night those fuckers ambushed me with 3 Powder Puff girls as avatars. I was laughing so hard I got murdered over and over again.

Er, I was talking about the other thing...?

How the hell do you take turns with Morrowind?

I've got an OG xbox on a CRT in the loungeroom. There's servers for it and a few people playing. It's wasted on me really, was never super big on halo its OK. I prefer to play Fusion Frenzy when people come round drunk twisted towers is my shit.

I was an IT guy, had loads of crappy PCs I could scrap together. If you remember Half Life, it would play on a toaster. :) This conversation got me thinking I should setup my kids when I get them for Thanksgiving.

The "Aww" at the end got me. Thats great.

get two Wii's with GoldenEye and a crossover cable

Gone forever....

you'll grow into it eventually

I'd be excited about there being more Toy Story movies that allegedly have good messages!

DoD LET FUCKING GOOO. I still play DoDS every now and then.

I would kill for it to get the CS2 treatment. Source 2 baby! Altho I'd be sad if they fucked with avalanche too much. Won't happen, but damn would it be cool.

#SteamAccounts #OldEnough #ToDrink

Tribes 2 was a staple for mine.

Over here on the other side, I minmax'd "buddies" over "home theater equipment" so now whenever I have someone over to watch a movie it's on my fucking laptop lmao.

Some local hero installed Quake 3 on every terminal in my high school hahaha

I was thinking more get on the pirate sites (steamrip) after finding out "best split screen PC games"... And there's some pretty cheap overhead projectors these days. The HAPPRUN H1 for instance is extremely cheap, but still quite bright.

Thanks to Asheron's Call, Everquest, and Dark Age of Camelot I was already jaded about MMORPGs by the time WoW came out.

But yes. In this way for me the winter of 99-00 was a magical time.

Smash bros with 4 controllers in rotation was very much an after school experience.

Or grab Halo CE portable from somewhere on the seas. We did that one so much

Slappers only, license to kill.

House rule: no Oddjob, he's too short!

Because you said "It's easy, just start a LAN party" as if you were assuming everyone already has friends to start a LAN party with?

The thread is about nostalgia, not whimsy. You introduced the latter, and you did so as if it's predicated upon having friends, and as if someone with no friends is really just failing to embrace whimsy, which frames it as a personal failure and not one that depends on the participation of other beings.

For me it was Quake II on the Nintendo 64. Didn't even have a LAN, just a big-ass TV split into quads. It was a skill to watch your own screen but also everybody else's so you knew where they were in the arena. My buddies always went for the BFG which was effective of course but pretty crude. I secretly spent months playing the single-player campaign and practicing like crazy with the rail gun, which could also take people out with one shot but was very difficult to get a hit with. I got so accurate with it that my buddies accused me of cheating somehow -- the ultimate compliment.

And this was around 2003 - 2004, almost a decade after the N64's heyday. You just don't need the latest shit to have fun. Give me a stick and a hoop and I'll be happy.

FWIW in my personal experience stoners make by far the best parents. And that's without even contrasting them to the boozing and cigarette-smoking parents. I have no personal experience with the fentanyl and meth parents, but I don't imagine they're strong contenders.

Doom, head-to-head, while talking on the phone.

Dude, you're defending a nostalgia bait "back in my day" post. Yes I called it out. Maybe instead of sitting around here complaining about having no friends you do some introspection and recognize that why you are being called out here for complaining about no friends and being called out in other threads for complaining about not being allowed to approach women have something in common, you.

Now, I set up another LAN party tonight and we're gonna have fun. We're going to experience that high the original post is complaining about chasing. You can stew on some response to this post by yourself, or redirect the energy to making friends and go have fun yourself. ciao

It's clearly shitpost-oriented. Not a genuine "back in my day." You can't handle a little bit of self-deprecation so you had to be condescending instead. That's not embracing whimsy.

And the irony is not lost on me that although you came here preaching about whimsy, you completely failed to recognize the whimsy inherent in posting a fucking spongebob meme as an act of self-deprecating humor. That's not "complaining about having no friends," that's just whimsy; the exact thing you came here preaching about.

But since you clearly felt so strongly about it that you felt the need to stalk my profile to prove a point (i.e., by condescending), I can only infer that you have a habit of making yourself feel better about yourself by putting other people down. Is that whimsy?

And if your interpretation of that other thread was me "complaining about not being allowed to approach women" then you're completely misreading it based on pre-conceived notions that you walked into it with. I was clearly saying "Yeah, women have expressed that they don't want to be approached, so the right thing to do is to not approach." And making self-deprecating jokes in a thread with other guys in the same boat is called "emotional support," which is exactly what people say men need to start doing for each other. So if you really want to shame people about that, then you're part of the fucking problem.

Enjoy your LAN party, where I'm sure you'll spend a significant portion of your time talking down about people who aren't there to defend themselves, because that's how you manage to feel good about yourself in a world where suffering is the norm and empathy the exception rather than the rule.

You play fifteen minutes, complete a dungeon or whatever, swap. Fuck. How do you manage to wipe your ass with that level of creative thinking? Like, if poo ever splatters on your ass cheeks from a particularly quaking bout of diarrhea, how is someone of your capabilities able to formulate the neural algorithms capable of maneuvering your hand with paper across the deleterious parts of your derriere? Or are you just a partially sentient Borg creature that uses a bidet?

Prose

Clacking keys as it b WASD

On knees - friend sucks me

Polygons freeze - we swap

I be more plzed than I fap!

We'd just have games running constantly with the 3rd and 4th ranked players handing off to whoever was next in rotation.

thats so much fun. We used to have the winner always switch out to make it fair.

We should have a fucking Fediverse game night somewhere.

Uhm, not Halo.

The peak moments were Friday nights with the gang; pizza ordered; Goldeneye, pyramid level, slaps only, no Oddjob; an ongoing Lego collaboration being worked on for the ones who there weren't enough controllers for in that round (you'd cycle out that spot); and first-gen Super Smash Brothers waiting on the side.

Ours was people bringing over their desktops to one person's house and we played Aliens vs predator on a LAN.
When we were done we played risk for the rest of the night.

Was much fun.

Ha. I worked at a place in thr 90s where lunch time was Engineering office Quake party.

Or they'll get the cops called on them for doing normal kid shit like exploring the woods or even just playing outside, because suburbanites are actually terrified of children doing children things and have been conditioned to hate and fear this.

Nobody plays RTCW anymore..

AvP was a fun LAN game!

For me it was all that you said, plus Halo.

AvP when you were the only one who could easily deal with the alien doing ceiling shenanigans was hilarious. Just dropping out of the sky from great heights. This, Using the hitscan heavy machine gun in Soldier of Fortune as a sniper rifle, leaving a grid of the little nuclear bomb trucks in "allies" bases in Red Alert 2 who you knew were gonna backstab you and being an absolute terror with ripper headshots in Unreal Tournament - just absolute golden good times.

Well. For me anyway. Not sure others enjoyed it quite as much.

It was super fun to be a marine with the smart gun backed into a corner.
I'd blow through all my ammo killing everything then a predator would kill me the second I was empty.

For me it was Unreal Tournament. Have been playing several different fps games in the last day or so, and none of them scratch the itch I have, though UT itself (via OldUnreal) comes the closest.

I don't think the game I want exists, because I want features that exist in multiple separate games.

Oh and one of the ones I tried out was Halo MCC. Didn't last very long because not only were there long wait times for matchmaking, but I stood absolutely no chance against anyone in those matches. It was embarrassing.

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