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Jesus Christ this hits home. We used to link 4 xbox, from the basement to the 2nd story. My parents, extatic that I was interacting with other people, would order bottomless pizza and soda, and kids WAY outside of my social tier would show up and be nice to me. Then, on Monday, I’d just go back to being the weirdo nerd again…
The 90’s was 30 years ago
What did I do to deserve this!
You tea bagged that grandma after a triple frag kill and laughed about it
I didn’t think anyone saw!
Jesus did
Oh fuck off!
Not all of it
Old people residences will become fun as the LAN generations enter them!
For me it was warcraft. I just bought and assembled my NZXT Vulcan rig and I think that LAN party was the peak of my existence.
I want a machine with a handle on top that looks awesome
16 guys in a 10x15 room with two TVs and two consoles. The four highest ranked players swap out so the cannon fodder can improve their skills. Whoever throws a controller first has to buy beer for the rest, and the best player gets shackled with the MadCats controller
For me it was a little known game called ThinkTanks. It was created as a demo for a companies game engine and never got much support. It was a silly little catoon tank game with basic 3D.
The community figured out how to bypass the demo restrictions on the game engine. The game was modded to an insane degree. Thousands of new maps, new game types and objects. I dabbled with it at the time and created around 70 maps personally.
Last I check the original game was someone like 8mb of space. The full mod pack with all of the maps was 2GB
Wow you have just unlocked a hidden memory for me. My dad had this game on his Mac G5, and I would play (vanilla) all the time. Back then I thought the internet was small, so when I saw someone online with the name “Will” and thought it was one of my friends from school.
I wonder if there is anyone still playing.
Nothing will ever match the feelings when you were young and things were new. It’s easier to accept that than face the constant disappointment trying to recapture it.
Replace Halo with Unreal Tournament and that’s me.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein for me, but UT is up there for awesome nostalgia shooters.
I love how they are called “boomer shooters” but it was Gen-X and Millenials that played that shit.
In my mind boomer shooter is more doom, blood, and quake, while UT and halo started the genre of more modernish arena shooters (though quake is probably more like a stepping stone between boomer and arena shooters so I consider it kind of both). and yeah the people who played those games in the early to mid 90s are at the very least in their mid 30s right now which is definitely boomer age by current internet definition of the word (nobody can ever even agree what age is technically what generation). Hell im in my early 20s and pretty sure kids born in 2010s would call me a boomer.
Hexen/heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, those are original boomershooters.
RCTW, UT, Q3A are much later games. I specifically named RCTW and Red Faction because they released basically at the same time as Halo
Pretty sure boomer refers to the shotgun
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Also I really miss how most people would like trim the settings right the way down for the best performance, and the funky little twist in your bunny hops to get to the front line.
GMod LAN parties. To be fair, I’m sure I could have the same fun now. Only everyone’s schedules are different and we can’t get together for a good 24 hours of intermittent sleep, play, and loud music.
The fuck happened to us?
Responsibility Isa bitch. Her stripper name is adulthood.
I would give anything to have one weekend of pure gaming with the boys without feeling like I’m neglecting something important.
Slavery mandated by the rich
:,)
I understand this man. Good times at lan parties.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Diablo 2, Red Alert 2 (YR?), Stronghold, Red Faction…
Man 2001 was an awesome year.
Red Alert 2 (YR?)
“There will be no more free will. Only my will.”
Ah yes, a flitting glimpse of happiness
It was quake3 but I get the feeling.
we need to set up new lan parties and create our own fun
