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Topic Started: Feb 20 2017, 12:41 PM (76 Views)
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Reverend Crush
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A friend of mine held a pseudo-LAN party where we all brought our own TVs to play Fallout 4, but aside from that, I haven't even SEEN a LAN party since like 2003 or something.
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portnoyd
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I did these with my roommate from college for a few years after school.

We'd pile into his parents' house and had tons of fun with CS, Quake 3, UT99, BF1942 and later on, Soldier of Fortune 2, which was the best. That game is super fun for multi.

Nothing like hearing his Chris Farley clone brother screaming over and over again as he gets killed repeatedly. I rarely pull all nighters, but I always did for these.

Over time, I drifted from my roommate, primarily because he can be kind of a twat so that was really the end of LAN parties for me. It also didn't help that they kept hanging onto pirating games when Steam would have eliminated the wasted 1-2 hours we'd always spend installing, patching and band aiding pirated games into working not only together, but at all. My last one I specifically remember sitting out of Battlefield 2 because I was the only one with a legit Steam copy and everyone else had incompatible-with-my-legit-copy pirated copies that kept crashing.

It'd be nice to go to one now, knowing that you could just cherry pick titles from Steam, install them brainlessly and be locked and loaded as soon as you plug in your PC. To Crush's point, the last one I was at was probably 2006.

We did a Quake1 night in #cavern a few months ago, but it's a totally difference experience being in the same room.

But you know, Damien, myself, Spock and FM are fairly close to each other...
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After I helped network my college's computers together we had a LAN party where we played Doom deathmatch... it was fun. I sucked at it, but it was a blast to be in the same room with people blasting the hell out of each other.

I'd do it again if the opportunity presented itself, for sure. Honestly the only multiplayer gaming I get in person is with my wife and stepkids, and it's usually old NES/SNES games and the current Madden. One of my wife's friends has a few Mario Party games for the Wii that I always ask her to bring over since they're decent mindless fun when you have a room full of people, but she always "forgets" to bring them. Boo.

I think the only game I even play now that would be LAN-worthy is Team Fortress 2. Got shain into a game with me last night, he cow mangled me then we teamed up to destroy the other team. Good times. :D
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TF is always fun. I enjoyed playing last night FM although I was worthless today at work :D

LAN parties were an amazing thing. There's nothing quite like playing a shooter or whatever together and calling your friends faggots from across the room. More importantly if someone is being a faggot, there's always the threat of physical retaliation, even if it's never carried out.

We had a after-hours TF2 LAN party and it was a great way relieve stress by shootijg my idiot coworkers on the face.

i pine for the days when Bawls would sponsor your grandma if you asked nicely enough. It's a shame LAN parties went the way of the dodo.
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