Have you ever been to a LAN party, Yea Forums? How was it? What did you play?
Have you ever been to a LAN party, Yea Forums? How was it? What did you play?
Isaac Howard
Noah Hill
I've been to several and they're always great fun. Mostly played these:
Counterstrike
UT2k4 (+ mods like Alien Swarm and Air Buccaneers)
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
Jedi Knight 2
Left 4 Dead 1
Dungeon Siege 1 & 2
Aiden Wood
Quake and Counterstrike. I killed everyone on quake but sucked in cs. I really hate not rocket jumping on an FPS.
Asher Stewart
Used to do 3 day LAN events, comfy fun
Hudson Lee
woops forgot pic
used to play CS, warcraft, enemy territory, armagetron, worms etc
Eli Watson
even earlier event
I have no idea how old this image is, probably 2005 or so.
Connor Murphy
I guess Yea Forums never goes outside
Owen Peterson
That looks really comfy! Was it just your local group of gamers or...?
Noah Gonzalez
Yeah, we all hung out on the same local IRC network and had a £10 entry fee to pay for the hall every other month.
It only happens twice a year now, with work/life getting in the way for a lot of us (late 20s now)
Caleb Garcia
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How many still come? Me and a few friends wanna host a lil LAN party but none of us actually did something like that before, we usually play online (early 20s btw)
Angel Wilson
>Unreal tournament
>AoE 2
>Warcraft 2 and 3
>CS
>Quake
And I would drag my PC back out again if I had to. Shit man.
David Perry
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Samuel Reed
>cs 1.6
>vanilla wow
>GW2 beta
Ryan Bailey
We used to get about 20 people every other month, now it's down to between 10-15 (some people only go for the saturday etc)
We're actually having one next month with a load of friends we made from the UK, so that should be comfy.
Oliver Russell
>implying my parents bought me a pc/laptop
>implying I had friends to play with
>implying it is possible to make new friends when you are over 25
Xavier Richardson
Supreme Commander
Joshua King
Just go to Dreamhack and bring your local flag, you'll end the event with more friends than you can handle.
Hunter Reyes
You one of the organizers? If so, got any tips on hosting one?
I heard of LAN parties that turned into drunkfests where people played each other more than the vidya...
Charles Scott
Not one of the organizers, but been involved with it for over a decade now. As far as tips go, make sure you have at least one person who knows how to setup a network properly.
>I heard of LAN parties that turned into drunkfests
Jesus christ this is the worst part of the whole thing, eventually we got into a system where we forced everyone into a single MP game, otherwise they'd just get drunk and take eternal smoke breaks.
If you're renting a space for the event make sure people pay on the door or have some other system, collecting cash from people was a nightmare.
Adam Young
>yfw you will never have a lan party with AVGN, Ed Boon, Andy McKee and Geoff Keighley
Kayden Peterson
Been to one of these. Needless to say, it was NUTS
Jaxon Miller
I can smell this image
Isaac Cruz
Hell yeah son.
UT2003, Blur, Killing Floor, Condition Zero, Crysis, and motherfucking Doom.
Damn, miss those days
Kevin Richardson
11 years ago, middle school, Armagetron LAN party in the computer lab.
Robert Cook
>otherwise they'd just get drunk
Was considering limiting the booze to beer-only.
>collecting cash from people was a nightmare
Ouch yeah I believe that. Did you guys ever go neg when people would come and then smokebomb when it came time to pay?
Lucas Thompson
>dungeon siege 2
ma' nigga
Xavier White
This shit sounds incredibly comfy
Adam Gomez
avp2
Carson Lopez
>Did you guys ever go neg when people would come and then smokebomb when it came time to pay?
Nah, admins and regulars normally just paid out of pocket if people flaked
IIRC it used to cost the admins a couple of hundred quid a year even if everyone paid on time, they just enjoyed doing it.
The only restrictions we had was no drinking before sundown and nothing stronger than weed (we often had underage people joining for the daylight periods)
Sebastian Miller
around 2003/4. about 20 kids and we would get endless pizza and pop, and mostly play counter strike/day of defeat
someones dad would even bring a big tv and we'd set up a console. pretty comfy. i was friends with a couple boy scouts and they would invite me. adults arranged it at the lodge and provided the food and kinda lazily chaperoned.
Carson Davis
I lied, this is the oldest image I have of a LAN I attended
Cooper Torres
man I miss day of defeat
James Cox
>Ut2k4
>Not superior ut99
Really?
Benjamin Cox
>beige cases with phat monitors
Ah yes, the best timeline
Aaron Roberts
Hey user, you're late, we almost started without you!
Hunter Nguyen
what is wrong with that guys legs
Nicholas Wood
Adam Bell
only 3 of those are me tho
Jack Allen
We played UT99 but appart from that, ON POINT! 100% around my age.
Anthony Davis
I don't have pics from that era but we (group of around 6 to 8) used to love doing these as a sort of mini parties of nerdiness.
Regulars were
Cs 1.6
Warcraft 3
Dungeon Siege
Worms
Stronghold Crusader
Lineage 2 back when it was a thing
Some sort of shit game where we just clubbed each other to death, can't remember the name.
Never went to a large scale one though and I imagine the atmosphere is greatly different but I have been to long nights of gaming which basically turned into exactly that, a lan party.
GREAT TIMES!
We should bring this back as a generation thing, damn.
Tyler Brown
Realised it doesn't make sense afterwards, long nights of gaming in internet cafes*