Remember LANs

Remember LANs.

good times, 30 naked men playing cs 1.6 while drunk as fug

>ywn play cs 1.6 iceworld at LANs again
>ywn play rainbow six at LANs again
>ywn eat pizza and play DoD at LANs again.

hold me...

Me and my friends still organize LANs about once a year, good times.

>five guys stuck in a 2.5x3 room
>summer and no air conditioning with five PCs working at full power

As much as I loved it back in the day, there's no way I'd ever go back to it.

>played Warcraft LAN with my buddies for bachelor party

Shit brought me back yo.

I've been going over to my one friends house for 6 years now, every month or so. (except when college was in gear). He confirmed that they pretty much see me as family now. Feels good man

>tfw falling asleep on your keyboard after 30 hours of gaming
>tfw getting ramen in the morning with key marks all over your forehead

>LAN games are the most fun experiences I've taste on vidya
>games today rarely has lan
WHERE DID IT ALL GO SO WRONG BROS

>Fall asleep sitting at my computer after being awake 40 hours
>Local newspaper is there and takes a picture of me to go with their article

I miss LANs. I'm the only one who still plays PC now. Do modern consoles even have LAN play?

Internet and online gaming is leagues better nowadays that 56k modes aren't a standard anymore. Also, convenience.

Modern consoles games rarely have couch coop anymore, like Halo 5

No I won't do what you tell me!

>tfw you became last resort friend with your best friend of ten years
fuck that loser

Pokken Tournament had LAN play iirc.

Go to bed Tom.

>use to lan quite often
>People grew up and moved away
>some grew up into assholes you don't want to hang out with anyway.
Oh well, next best thing is being on a teamspeak group that's up until 7 am gaming regularly at all the odd hours since a lot of them are euros and shit.

>playing avp and cod uo in lan
>you will never play good games like this in lan

>tfw you will never play soggy biscuit with your bros
>tfw you will never fagbag the last 2 losers in the competitive games
>tfw you will never force the bro that performed poorly in the raid to wear girly clothes and underwear
I miss the good old days

Friends and I still do LANs every half a year or so

>All those nights spent playing CoD2
>No one lives forever 1/2
>Dawn of War
>Supreme Commander
>quake

..I want to go back

But that's a gay orgie

that's one sad fucking bachelor party

>used to bring PC to friend's place to play in LAN
>we would play the fuck out of Half Life Deathmatch with mods and skins for hours
>sometimes starcraft or mess up with their messenger contacts
>modern games have no LAN and we have to deal with delay/ping/bottlenecking
>only a very limited number of games let you LAN nowadays
At least we can play RoR and Civ5

Somehow, someway, my baller as fuck HS computer teacher convinced three separate principals over four years to let us have regular LAN parties in the computer rooms. We'd normally have one per semester, either overnight Friday or all day Saturday.

Fun times.

>never had lan parties where the losers have to suck cocks and getting pounded on the boipussy
You gay son?

This thread just reminds me of how the industry is just not as good as it use to be. LANs use to be some of the best times as far as gaming wen't. Someone hold me

Xbox hueg's were the best for this.
16 people on 4 boxes was grand.

>bachelor party has to be booze, strippers and CUHRAYZEE TIMES a la Bigdick Chad style instead of doing something comfy you enjoy doing

What does even constitute as a LAN anymore, I mean we meat up almost every month with between 5-10 people sometimes with computers, sometimes just FIFA/Tekken/party games on a big screen.

Hell they always have an extra laptop so I don't even have to bring my pc, played gang beasts with 6-8 local about a month ago and we were laughing our ass off, and it was with 1 pc hooked up to a TV.

Are LAN's really that rare? We have like 10 of them a year where everyone brings their PC and we Blur/Rainbow six vegas 2/strategy game/assfaggot/Csgo.

meet*, just woke up an hour ago

>like half of the modern games take portforwarding to play on private servers, something I absolutely hate doing.
If someone else feels me, try Evolve, it's full of dumb social network gimmicks but it has a feature where you just add your friend, choose the game ur playing from the list, press play and ur portforwarded through their own port

OK manchild

>>Dawn of War
>>Supreme Commander
>>quake
Mein nigga.

OK normie, get off my anime picture board

>we meat up
dat Freudian slip

A LAN to me is everyone bringing there computers over to one room, and the banter. There must be a lot of banter.

It's time to meat it up

Shit was the cashest shit ever.

Because pirates can play multiplayer with lan+hamachi/tunngle so publishers doesn't want that, they get rid of. For all the shits it got, Borderlands games are among the rare games where it does have lan.

>not enjoying booze and strippers

>commander under attack

Sigh, there will always be Forged alliance forever, r-right?

Booze is fine, but why waste the one time all the old pals are back together on something CUHRAYZEE that you feel obligated to do because stereotypical bachelor parties do it?
Why not do a throwback to the good old times, one last ride

>five PCs

nigga we had 10v10 lan parties

I still go to LAN's, but nearly all of them are damn competitions, i dunno almost like the concept of playing for fun is just gone

Yes

Halo LAN's
Counter Strike LAN's
Gary's Mod LAN's

That shit was so cash.

Why the hell there's no coop for PC's Halo? Fuck Gearbox

Well everyone bringing their computer isn't always that convenient, especially if it's just for like 2 days orso, I personally hate having to unplug every cable, hope I don't forget shit, and when I come home like 2-3 days later at 10am and still want to browse Sup Forums a bit I have to hook everything up and place my cables.

I fucking hated hamachi/tunngle/gameranger/predator or whatever since it was always one person that couldn't connect and we had to figure out why, starting with the obvious, and then having to find some obscure fix 30 mins later.

This shit only happens when i'm still groggy from waking up, I sometimes even make your/you're mistakes when I don't even know fucking how.

Supreme commander was the shit, but very annoying to play at LAN when there were people that needed a full explanation, so you had to hold back the whole time.

>that huge ass map with the road in the middle.
>3 hour fights in the middle of the map with someone going "here comes my fucking experiment tier 90999 titan"

because getting smashed and fucking prostitutes is a bit more difficult than hosting a lan party after you're married

>tfw still have LANs every couple of months

Not him, but I don't know man. LANs had something going that online multiplayer simply can't compete with.
Maybe it was being in a group of likeminded people just doing what you love.

I used to bag all my shit up in an adidas duffel bag, and carry my monitor ontop of it.

worked out really well man, I'd pack it up every other weekend, so I got pretty quick.

>lan will never come back because of Jews
>bots will never come back because of Jews
>forever cursed to play bittersweet online with people you don't know or care about
>have to pay for this shit
There is no excuse not to code a local server for any given game. It's bullshit not being able to host your own games.

Steam and consoles gaymin
Also blame normals too

The getting drunk shit isn't really that impressive, and having to pay hookers isn't really alpha if you haven't noticed.

Personally there would be nothing more beta than someone telling me he got blackout drunk in a strip club at his bachelor party like it's impressive/special, that costs like 500$ tops

Stop responding to it.

>tfw daisy-chaining power bars and putting aluminum foil in the fuses
>tfw 15 systems with CRTs in a tiny garage
>tfw the power bars start smoking
>tfw Dragostea Din Tei plays for the 25th time and it's not even midnight
>tfw neighbors threaten to call the police because of the noise

Good times.

>Also blame normals too
Lan parties is LITERALLY THE MOST NORMAL ACTIVITIES ON THIS ASOCIAL HOBBY

Anyone here remember rat maps?

Fuck consoles aswell, I have a cfw ps3, and I took it to most lans a couple of years ago, but holy shit there are almost no interesting games to play with 4 people on one screen. Hell I even checked that co-optimus prime site, and went through every single one, nowadays we only play fifa/tekken/DBZ Budokai on it.

You mean de_rats?

Nope, also because of the internet people have become social and emotional retards

>reactionimage with le funny meme

You're not exactly better are you?

In our case, the host had like 2 pc's and a gamecube.
Others would bring over gamecubes, tv's, ps2's and shit and play for 24 hours straight.
I miss it.

they are kids they dont get shit just ignore them

I remember there being a fuck ton of them

Fuck I love that map, especially if you have zombie mode it takes the fun to extreme level.

I loved it and hated it. CS, AoEII and UT was amazing. There's nothing as masculine as lan parties.

You can't really blame consoles, xbox lans with Halo was the shit.

>friend invites me to "LAN" at his Uni
>it's just online games with everyone in the same room
>most of them are playing MOBAs or CSGO
>friend and I play EYE and old school RS while eating the free food

I blame modern consoles.

I mainly only played de_rats, with a dash of de_rats2.

Good times.

>fucking two hot bitches at the same time in some east european high-end bordello is beta
okay mate

Don't forget rats3 too

Never really clicked with me

I remember back then we are having fun with DOTA maps

That trampoline thing in rats3 really novel to me.

What made 1 and 2 better in your opinion?

Different strokes I guess, recently lan parties consist of some college guys getting drunk, being shit at casual games and like 5 girls just there to watch and get some attention.

We play assfaggots/csgo on LAN's aswell, but the csgo part usually ends in either trolling/ making eachother rage.

It is beta, paying for it certainly is.
It's just as impressive as the fat dude that buys the same couple an hour earlier.

You'd never had a shot with both of them if you didn't pay, and that's it.

Does anyone remember that 3v3v3 naruto ninpou map, that was the shit. I remember one of my friends taking Hidan, that had a passive that made him invincible for 35 seconds with a 50 second cooldown, and he kept saying "kill me in the cooldown time" while he was hiding every time, and we had to ban several characters.

>lan back then
>bunch of average dudes fooling around
>lan now
>bunch of morbidly obese dudes with obese girlfriends with neon hair wanting to play hearthstone in the same room as other obese dudes

time travel WHEN

>infecting your soon to be wife with every STD this side of the universe
Bachelor parties should be fun.
And if you find gaming fun, why not?

Rats1 is the best for zombie mod

>tfw you and your main men get together to play the third closed beta of ArcheAge and have the time of your lives pillagin', plunderin' and tradin' with a 30-something guildmates from Britain and Russia

shame the game became p2w incarnate upon release. how a game can stoop so low from such a fun beta I have no idea.

I don't even remember. I just know I preferred the the first one the absolute most.

This desu

Lol, I played it once and never played it again, I don't like animu back then and still to this day

I hear about more and more bachelor parties that are more along the lines of a weekend getaway rather than doing wild shit.
The bachelor party should be what the bachelor wants to do. Also if strippers are really that valuable to you, marriage might not be the best move.

>not booze, strippers, and warcraft
step up your game son, its embarrassing

FUCKING SHITS DONT KNOW ABOUT 3 A.M. DWANGO5

NOTHING WILL TOP IT

NOTHING WILL SURPASS IT

except maybe 4 a.m. dwango5. That was pretty fun too

We were all familiar with the show, and seeing as they don't suddenly make multiplayer strategy games for most series, it was pretty good.

We played HoN mostly, but if you think league of fags is bad at the passive agressiveness, Heroes of newerth made you want to stab eachother and bring up horrible shit that happened 5 years ago.

>Remember LANs

I still go to quakecon. The BYOC might have more and more normies playing league of legends on their alienware laptops every year but there are still plenty of people who remember that it's a giant LAN and game together

Best LAN co-op game back in the day

you pay women for sex one way or another, nothing is free in this world and certainly not from women
so there is literally nothing beta in paying for sex, seriously, just think of all the sailors, soldiers, warriors over the course of history, they all paid for sex with money

...

Man I miss when pirating games was a bit more annoying/hard, and we had a hash or whatever the fk it was called sharing server, and only shared with people that had something to share aswell. There were probably tens of TB's pirated games/movies/songs transferred that lan, with nerds that tried to rat us out, having one of the volunteers that tried to get us thrown out, untill we laughed at his retarded face. This was in the time that 80-160gb hard drives were still used, and core 2 duo was the shit.

t.permavirgin

The good old days of lagless environments, weed smoke, and the sweet sounds of warcraft 3.

>Have regular LANs during high school + after with ~6 ppl, playing cs all night
>Try out some of the big LANs
>One at a uni that had about 500 ppl, most people played TF2/LoL, bad experience. Gave up.
>Years later, look at the current state of LANs.
>"You have to be out of the building by 2am, power is shut off at 1am"
Is this shit real? I only have 1 LAN where I live that goes all night.

This is probably bait but:

Those people couldn't get a family/settle down because of their hazardous working conditions.

Not to be confused with the beta that thinks paying a broken english speaking girl that handles 10 customers a day is noteworthy/something to be proud of.

Every hooker knows that only the most pathetic/beta of men come to them for a false sense of companionship, and if they were free to choose a male, you would be one of the last.