LAN parties were great. We're living like shit without them.
Source: have wife and kid, still miss it
Man... Same.
Couch co-op is still rad. Don't know how old your kids are but we play Little Big Planet as a family and it rules
I haven't played that for ages but I should get it out. My 10yo and myself have plenty of games on the go but it's not nearly the same as a LAN.
Come over to mine. Bring the gaming rig (I have the monitor and KB+M). Bring the Mrs and kids too....they can chat/play too.
The bigger problem is having time and finding adult friends with similar interests locally. LAN parties can still happen, but finding friends and aligning their calendars is impossible. We've moved on from the days of college where time was infinite and responsibilities were low. I do look for "dad gamers" Discord channels (to find peers rather than shouty 19year olds), but have had little luck.
Sent you a message, sounds like my vibe
We miss the games the most. Just like with Web1 when the games and websites were built for fun and not engineered to just push us to spend money all the time or keep playing as long as possible by any means necessary.
Come on, those games still exist. They might be overshadowed by a layer of slop but they are still there.
There's an era of gaming that is disappearing. It's the late XP to early 7 era, a lot of games, even ones that came on discs, don't work anymore because the servers that handled the DRM are shut down. There are things you can't go do anymore.
Oh, maybe I should clarify what I meant: we still get cool, enjoyable new games nowadays that are every bit as good as the classics we played and loved then. If not better.
I think my biggest tip would be to stay away from pretty much anything labeled AAA.
Problem is most of those games aren’t terribly mainstream and also you have no one who has the time to play them with you.
Yeah, I'm mostly a single player kind of guy, so I enjoy my games like Return of the Obra Dinn, Dredge, Balatro, Dave the Diver, etc.
From what I hear, some older multiplayer titles can be made to run using cracks and some kind of VPN.
I looked up Miniclip.com again just now. It now just talks about the mobile games it develops. You’re correct that much of it still exists but they’re right that it’s just not the same.
Remember when Bloons was available in a browser from reputable and popular website? Or that game with the little bubble game that you shot missiles at?
Why do people think having kids will solve problems for themselves/others 😂
I mean, if you have kids you can have LAN parties with them. 🤷🏻♂️
If you go directly for a partner who games you can skip the kids and save the time and money needed for gaming. ;-)
It’ll solve your problems by giving you more important problems to distract you from them until your memory of who you miss being fades.
They can live vicariously through their kids and to try and make them into the person they never got to be? I don’t actually know.
Little did Anon realize that in 10 years time he would still be posting on 4Chan, but now all his posts would be about how gaming just isn't as good as it used to be back in back in 2018 and that the internet "sucks now"
Also he will constantly bitch about how 4Chan just isn't the same since it was purchased by Amazon and incorporated into Meta
Truly dark times ahead
man lan parties were awesome but I do not miss lugging my 19" crt anywhere. and the reason they existed is now moot - we can lanparty from our homes.
Yea, I spend several hours once a week with my bestfriend a city over. We’d play together in person but mostly we do other stuff that we can’t do online when we hangout in person. That’s not to say that I don’t believe in a certain magic of a LAN party but it’s not like I can’t play 110hrs of Baldur’s Gate unless he’s in same the room.
People act like the only online games are Fortnite and CoD but it’s like, bud, it’s just that your friends are busy and find it hard to set aside time like that.
Oh also many PCs have glass sides and are risky to transport. Ain’t no way I’m risking my Fractal North unless I’m moving. MiniATX though I totally would, all the time.
Lan parties still happen.
OP just doesn't have friends
The games suck now. I stopped going because it shifted from arena shooters that could actually be played on LAN to "modern military shooters" played by gamers more interested in their army dude RP then game mechanics. These people do not have interesting enough personalities to hang out with otherwise.
I did hear that MAG Fest has a whole room dedicated to Quake3, so I might be making trip next year.
Hah, I don't miss LAN parties because I never had anyone to LAN party with.
Says the loser on 4chan who supposed to have wife and children...
This picture is literally how men behave together
Greentexts, memes, everything 4chan.
