StaceyPowers Posted January 7, 2022 Posted January 7, 2022 How long has it been since your last LAN party? For me I’m guessing like 15+ years. kingpotato and DC 1 1
m76 Posted January 7, 2022 Posted January 7, 2022 2004-06-29 / 30 So 17 years, 6 months, and 9 days ago. DC 1
DC Posted January 7, 2022 Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, StaceyPowers said: How long has it been since your last LAN party? For me I’m guessing like 15+ years. Easily 15+ years for me as well. Pretty nostalgic .
Shagger Posted January 7, 2022 Posted January 7, 2022 I've never actually been to one, and likely never will and LAN parties don't really make sense anymore. 15-20 years ago my friends and family all gamed on consoles, so LAN parties were never really a "thing" for me. I do remember getting really annoyed by people claiming that LAN parties were "local multiplayer" for PC like what was available on consoles and no, it just isn't. It's network play between separate systems all running and separately purchased copy of a game, it was not the same thing as as for people with thier own controller playing Goldeneye on N64 on the same console. Just because that network is not a WAN (Wide Area Network, like the world wide web) an instead an LAN (Local Area Network, literally what LAN stands for) doesn't make it the same as local multiplayer that existed on consoles at the time. I know it's pointless to bring that up now and everything is different these days, but that really irked me when people claimed "Local Multiplayer does exist on PC because of LAN", it was so stupid.
kingpotato Posted January 8, 2022 Posted January 8, 2022 About 10 years now, back in highschool during free time we used to play halo ce at the old computer room, some times we played age of empires but mostly it was just halo ce multiplayer, it was quick to install and set up back then
Kane99 Posted January 8, 2022 Posted January 8, 2022 Well last time was when I was in high-school. I'm 32 now, I'd say maybe 12-14 years ago. Played counterstrike source I think. Or it might have been halo 2. I forget.
m76 Posted January 8, 2022 Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, kingpotato said: About 10 years now, back in highschool during free time we used to play halo ce at the old computer room, some times we played age of empires but mostly it was just halo ce multiplayer, it was quick to install and set up back then A LAN party is traditionally an event you take your own computer and peripherals to. I'd not consider playing some games at a school or workplace a LAN party. It doesn't have the same festivity to it, when you just run some games on the already pre-arranged network of computers. A LAN party has its own atmosphere whether it is held in a private home a garage or a concert hall. Edited January 8, 2022 by m76
kingpotato Posted January 8, 2022 Posted January 8, 2022 6 hours ago, m76 said: A LAN party is traditionally an event you take your own computer and peripherals to. I'd not consider playing some games at a school or workplace a LAN party. It doesn't have the same festivity to it, when you just run some games on the already pre-arranged network of computers. A LAN party has its own atmosphere whether it is held in a private home a garage or a concert hall. Well I guess I was too young back then for the actual LAN parties. We were already playing online through consoles by the time I was 14 and most of us didnt had a pc that we could use for gaming other than our parents pc which we couldnt take to another house or location to setup a LAN party, so we had to rely on what we had.
Boblee Posted January 8, 2022 Posted January 8, 2022 It should be at least 12 years now if my memory serves me correctly. I wouldn't miss out on the next one if I can help it.
