Chilloutman Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 Half Life, CS 1.6, Unreal tournament, WC3 Dota, FlatOut were the most played games on my LAN events I had either organized or attended to. We did some D2 as well but not that much 2 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
Malcador Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 Only game I ever played on LAN was Quake. Until the lab got closed when someone printed about 4000 pages of porn. Friends all lived far from each other so using Kali/Hamachi/IP worked much better Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
ShadySands Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 StarCraft was the only LAN game I ever played Free games updated 3/4/21
Gromnir Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 13 minutes ago, ShadySands said: StarCraft was the only LAN game I ever played for us it were x-wing v. tie-fighter. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Azdeus Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 We played plenty of different LAN games, but for some reason the only one we really have fond memories of was playing Aliens vs Predator. Goddamn that was fun in MP, especially as the Alien 1 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Chilloutman Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 yeah AvP was the ...... 1 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
Azdeus Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 11 minutes ago, Chilloutman said: yeah AvP was the ...... Stalking people, looking for patterns, luring the marine players into shooting at shadows, their players screaming and practically messing theirselves when they see something in the edge of their flashlights... *Chefs kiss* 5 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
LadyCrimson Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 *reads thread* ---Diablo4, no Offline at all is a big reason I may not ever look at D4 even on a rainy day. I would not call it an MMO (yet) even if it wants to add world events/battlepasses because, live-service. It's still way more Path of Exile than WoW. Although they might go full blown MMO by Diablo 4.5 after five years of patches/expansions to slowly sneak things in. >.> ---I finished D2 Hell (self found, solo) many times with (softcore) Sorceress (Static/Nova/Orb, Metor/Orb, a few other combos), Necro (summons and golems) and Assassin (trap focused) without much specific gear. You'd find a few pieces along the way usually but most item hunting/grind came afterwards just for faster boss-killing/MF'ing/lvl 99-ing. Didn't get the others past early-mid Hell, mostly because I found them dull, but I do recall the Paladin being the toughest solo even in Nightmare. In the old days. I don't know what changes any new version/re-do might have. ---never had LAN parties, just with hubby. Meaning Doom, all Borderlands, Diablo2 (so he says, I honestly don't remember, must've been only for a hot minute...), and Dungeon Keeper (IPX). 2 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Keyrock Posted December 14, 2022 Author Posted December 14, 2022 PnP tabletop role playing - The original LAN party. 2 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
LadyCrimson Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 ^ It wasn't thematic roleplaying but I'd consider almost any group table board game the same. Monoply, Life, RISK, Scrabble, etc. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Keyrock Posted December 14, 2022 Author Posted December 14, 2022 ^ Fireball Island was awesome. I had everybody coming over when I got that game. 1 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Azdeus Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 18 minutes ago, Keyrock said: PnP tabletop role playing - The original LAN party. Our group has made a pact to never attempt to count how many hours we've put into roleplaying, or how much money we've spent on rpgs. It's scary when one remembers that we usually play every free day we have. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Gorth Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 We held a monthly Lan party night at my old workplace back in Denmark. It was fun. Usually games like Delta Force (it could handle up to 32 players), Re-volt (a hilarious little RC controlled car racing game) or Unreal (the original Unreal, not to be confused with Unreal Tournament). When playing Delta Force, we would sometimes invite the IT department of the local city council to join and we would team up against each other (city council vs. my company). Delta Force had both LAN and Online Multiplayer mode and my company had the oversized servers to host it 3 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Humanoid Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 In hindsight, having a company name their motherboard the "LANparty" seems so absurd now, but that's what DFI were doing not much more than a decade ago, complete with bright orange highlights. 3 L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G
ShadySands Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 14 hours ago, Keyrock said: PnP tabletop role playing - The original LAN party. Never did that either 1 2 Free games updated 3/4/21
Keyrock Posted December 14, 2022 Author Posted December 14, 2022 Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty will be a day 1 GamePass release. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Wormerine Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 Last patch for Baldur's Gate3 before it's August scheduled release has dropped. It comes with a Paladin class, revamp of reaction system, which seems to allow both to enable window popus (like in Solasta) or more controlled automation (smite on crit was a thing shown). Eder was announced as Minsc (Matt Mercer is voicing Minsc, and the boy seems to be capable of anything). Ah, and level5. Finally. 2
Chilloutman Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) yeah BG3 seems to be coming along nicely. edit -holy mother of god, patch for it is 60 gigs Edited December 14, 2022 by Chilloutman 1 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
LadyCrimson Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Chilloutman said: holy mother of god, patch for it is 60 gigs Ever since FFXV's 150ish (w/the 60GB 4k pack), the occasional game/patch download is about the only reason I ended up caring about more than 50-100mbps net speeds. Well, that and sometimes Bokishi's screenshots. In another 10-12 years all mid-to-high budget/market game downloads will be 75GB and large content patches 20-30GB, minimum. It's outta control. 1 2 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
majestic Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 *rummages around his brain* Uh, we played a couple of things over network way back when. Command & Conquer, Duke3D, Quake, Worms and GTA were the most popular ones by far and large. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Bokishi Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 At my old job we did UT2004 and StarCraft on LAN, during work hours 2 Current 3DMark
Gromnir Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 9 hours ago, ShadySands said: Never did that either am gonna suggest an alternative. in battleship you were typical competing with another player w/o being able to see their moves, which were as often as not the common lan dynamic. is also far more likely, given our guestimates o' shady approximate age that he at least once played battleship. additional, you could play battleship w/o pizza. lan and pnp role-play almost always involved pizza. original table-top wargaming actual discouraged pizza as it involved extreme valuable maps and/or models as well as precise ruler measurements which didn't necessarily mesh well with greasy fingered nerdlings. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Wormerine Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 4 hours ago, Chilloutman said: yeah BG3 seems to be coming along nicely. edit -holy mother of god, patch for it is 60 gigs Fellow GOG I presume. If I remember correctly from PoE2 days, GOG patches tend to be bigger - something about inability to download modifications for files, and a lot of content needs to be re downloaded and replaced entirely. I hope they will manage to clean BG3 a lot in those months left. I has a lot of potential, but is also so very messy. Played for a bit and am a bit disappointed with current implementation of reactions - mainly because it applies to enemy selected skills. As a feature it works well - allowing for both control and automation. But at least for now reactions that don’t consume per rest resource are kept as they were, and I am not sure, if it is intended to stay that way, or just a transition phase. 1
Malcador Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-is-delisting-almost-every-unreal-game-but-making-unreal-tournament-3-free/ "Epic is apparently bringing back Unreal Tournament 3, originally released in 2007, as Unreal Tournament 3 X, fully free and cross-platform between Steam, EGS, and GOG" Well that's something. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Chilloutman Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Malcador said: https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-is-delisting-almost-every-unreal-game-but-making-unreal-tournament-3-free/ "Epic is apparently bringing back Unreal Tournament 3, originally released in 2007, as Unreal Tournament 3 X, fully free and cross-platform between Steam, EGS, and GOG" Well that's something. well, cross-platform as long as you have epic launcher xD I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
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