The social environment is transforming way too fast.
When I was growing up, there was one past time for insane people like me, that I could theoretically use once per year to invite friends, and have a good time. But, when I was thinking about this, the entire concept of lan "party" is now DEAD. Completely dead. I doubt, I will be able to get 3 people to bring their PCs, and grab beers with me, when Discord and online lobies exist instead.
What a fucking joke. No wonder people these days "lack social skills", when the social oportunities literally transformed world wide out of nowhere.
@xianc78
I had AVP 2 lan party, as well as one Age of empires 2.
The AVP one was absolutely perfect 😭
@LukeAlmighty I'm trying to think if I ever had one. I have played games over LAN before but it was always with one other person and I was living with said person at the time.
I've heard of people having "underground LAN parties" at schools when the teacher wasn't looking (or if you had a teacher that didn't care). My brother told me that he played N64 ROMs through a network supported emulator with friends all the time during high school, but I never got the chance because by the time I was in HS, they installed Active Directory on all of the computers.
... but I remember even in 2012 there were still cyber cafes if you wanted to game on one of the super high end machines and talk to other random gamers.
... It wasn't even that long ago.
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@djsumdog @LukeAlmighty one of my friends and his family do halo Lan parties every now and then and he invites me. Like twice a year. But he's moving to the Midwest :(
There are still cybercafes and probably even LAN parties in some parts of the world. Minor catch is that you'll need to learn Spanish. I'm too old for such things now though...
@LukeAlmighty dude I Hella miss local co-op. In person ANYTHING is better than online gaming. That's part of what has distanced me from my irl friends... They never wanna play games in person.
@LukeAlmighty I keep trying to get them to play some Mario kart, rock band, anything, but it's always either "I'm too tired" or "x person is online so I'm playing with him instead"
@beardalaxy
Yeah....
I'm sorry to hear that.
god i miss those guys
@LukeAlmighty I never had the experience. I always wanted to try a LAN match with Mario Kart: Double Dash but the network adapters for the GameCube were rare, especially after someone found an exploit with them.