Do you LAN? Will you LAN 5 years from now?
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My best gaming experiences have been during a LAN party. I miss them. I have hardware now that I would have killed for back in the day. Like a laptop that can run high-end games.
Wish I still had enough gamer friends to get one of these together again. Relocating always causes problems though, doesn't it?
Wish I still had enough gamer friends to get one of these together again. Relocating always causes problems though, doesn't it?
I LAN occasionally with my friends (still in high-school) but with prep for university/college, I just have as much time as I used to. But I have a tradition with 6-7 friends from WAY back to LAN at least once every 2 weeks or so; partly for the comraderie, partly for the game, but mostly just a chance to hang out with old friends.
5 years ago I attended LAN events with friends (probably 400 people or so at the biggest one I went to).
Today I am an administrator in a community LAN group who hosts LAN events during school holidays (probably 30-50 attendees).
In the future, I hope to be expanding this community LAN with other groups and forming much larger events. I've always found LAN events fun and don't wish to see a time when I no longer do.
Today I am an administrator in a community LAN group who hosts LAN events during school holidays (probably 30-50 attendees).
In the future, I hope to be expanding this community LAN with other groups and forming much larger events. I've always found LAN events fun and don't wish to see a time when I no longer do.
We were lucky, there was a place near our house called Tech War. Was a business with like... fifty desktops. You'd go in there and game. That's what my brother and his buds would do. He's your generation, 25. About five years ago they replaced it with something else, but I remember walking in there to take him back home when it was getting late. It was actually kind of fun.Owyn_Merrilin said:
I never had the opportunity to do LAN. My brother worked, so he had the money to spend on it, otherwise, we were pretty poor. We haven't added anything to a desktop we bought about ten years ago.
x3.
obviously, lan > broken networking
if you have a serious game to play the only way is lan, and that will never change until we all have quantum entanglement state communications arrays in our pc's
i like the name '10.3g' i hope it sticks.
which may happen, eventually but for the moment it still takes 1-2 seconds to communicate messages through servers and always will, even with unlimited bandwidth
if you have a serious game to play the only way is lan, and that will never change until we all have quantum entanglement state communications arrays in our pc's
i like the name '10.3g' i hope it sticks.
which may happen, eventually but for the moment it still takes 1-2 seconds to communicate messages through servers and always will, even with unlimited bandwidth
I still LAN. There's something about sitting with your friends that beats playing with them online. I'll actually be at rAge from 30 September - 2 October later this year.
I'm with you there chief. Not many people LAN much these days, but I still recall it fondly as the best gaming experiences in my life. And that's almost 20 years of gaming. I still bust out the LAN every now and then, but never more than 3 of us at a time, usually 2. Hardly any games support a proper LAN connection anyways, every new game coming out seems to require some BS online server. So we mainly play L4D2 (I own it, but I cracked it to use the LAN thru console), Rainbow 6 Vegases, and some old school Battlefield.Irridium said:
So wish I could actually LAN (not WAN with someone sitting next to me, which is idiotic) something like MW2 special ops challenges....but yeah, it looks like LAN, as well as opening a freshly boxed game and playing it straight away are one of the things to disappear in (pc) gaming.
Lan is so much better than online. Something about sitting with a group of mates, eating shit that shouldn't be digested in such quantities and telling one of your closest mates that he can suck your cock because he just got ***** slapped.
No, it's a pain in the arse. Maybe if I had a decent laptop but it's just too much hassle to lug my entire pc around.
That and the last time I had a LAN my cousin managed to pull off a ridiculously lucky shot with my airsoft m4 (important thing to note, he pointed it at the monitor and, miraculously, completely missed it) that took my right earpiece off and removed the insert, delete and backspace keys from my keyboard.
That and the last time I had a LAN my cousin managed to pull off a ridiculously lucky shot with my airsoft m4 (important thing to note, he pointed it at the monitor and, miraculously, completely missed it) that took my right earpiece off and removed the insert, delete and backspace keys from my keyboard.
